Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-11-01

H., academy or MUSIC his first sermon
'l' The destruction of the BROOKLYN
e. l. W., by fire. His audience was Of
I'VE size, and public interest was extra
,;narv. The opening hymn was:
cod moves in n mysterious way
vs. wonders to perform;
iis' plants his footsteps in the sea,
AM And rides upon the storm.
H. Talmases subject was "The Ban.
" W Of Fire. and he took as his text
NV, q. None of these things move
He said:
mi. Paul. have you not enough afflic-
10 move you? Are you not an exile
y, vour native land? With the most
R.;aj and loving nature, have you not. in
arto be free for missionary JOURNEYS.
sn Yourself to celibacy? Have Won
rJlly successes that would have
rued your illustrious genius? Have
not endured the sharp and stinging
,mlsias, like q thorn in the flesh?
w YOU not been mobbed on the land.
sblpwrecked on the sea; the sanhe-
NJ against you, the Roman govern
NJ AGAINST you, all the world and all
against you?
what of that?' says Paul. None of
s. things novel" 1t was not because
was hard nature. Gentlest woman
suever more easily dissolved into
rs. He could not even bear to see
EJody cry. for in the midst of his SER
when he saw some one weeping
sobs aloud, Whit mean We to weep
Ito break mine heart? for 1 am ready.
to be bound only, but also to die at
rsalem for the name of the Lord Je-
What then did Paul mean when
said None OF these things move me?"
meant. Il will not divert from the
rk to which l have been called by any
ali the universities and calamities. u
think this morning I express not
Y ny own feelings but that of every
i. woman, and little child belonging
brooklyn Tabernacle, or that was
yerted there, or comforted there, or
SGD there, when 1 look toward the
cSened ruins OF the dear and conse-
eI spot and with an aroused faith in
wing God. cry out: None of these
US move me.
zen say that, I do not mean that
4lye 40 feeling about it. Instead of
ding here to-day i'll this brilliant
torium. it would be more consonant
bay feelings to sit down among the
Is aid weep at the words of David:
lorget thee, o Jerusalem, let my
1t Aand forget her cunning" Why.
ne say to the strangers here to-day
Iglanation of the deep emotion of
Agck, we had there in that building
q. Years OF religious revival. / be-
e that q hundred thousand souls
e born there. They came from all
Is of the earth and We shall never see
sA again until the books are opened.
y, slrs. our children We're there bap-
ID. and at those affairs our young men
maidens took the marriage vow, and
Of those gates we carried our dead.
en- from the roof of my house last
h5ay morning at O'clock saw our
rch in flames, said: That is the last
tue building from which we buried
De Witt on that cold December day
en it seemed all Brooklyn wept with
household" And it was Just as hard
YOU to give up your loved ones as for
10 give up ours. Why, like the beau
b vines that still cover some of the
len walls. our affections are Chamber
all over the ruins, and could kiss
ashes that mark the place where it
. stood. Why, now that think of
cannot think of it as an inanimate
e. but as soul, mighty soul, an in
E!uctible soul. l am sure that ma jes-
organ had soul, for we have often
ard 1t speak and sing and shout and
i. and when the soul of that organ
tered Heaven l think Handel, and
ydn. and Mozart. and Mendelssohn,
Beethoven were at the gates to well
ne 1t. So do not use the words of
text in heartless way, but in the
use that we must not and will not be
Ft1ted from our work by the appallin g
Easters which have befallen US. We
not turn aside one inch from our
tslmination to do all We can for the
tsent and everlasting happiness of all
people whom we may be able to
FA None of these things move me.
NE OF these things move you" Go
r@ari," ..
hen [ looked out through the dis
RAIN from the ROOF of my house and
the church crumbling brick by brick
timber by timber, said to myself:
pes this mean that my work in Brook
Is ended? Does this terminate my
socation with this city, where have
en- more than twenty years glad in all
pfosperltles, and sad in all its mis-
s'anes? And a still small voice came
me- a voice that is no longer still OF
all hut most emphatic and command
y through pressure of hand, and
sspaper column, and telegram and
as ;,, contributions, saying: go for
a have made and now make appeal to
eoihrlstendom to help us. We want
llrlstendom to help, and I will &C
rs;Eledse the receipt Of every contri-
lion, great or small, with my own
M. We want to build larger and
Yer. We want it national church,
which people of all creeds and all
!oAs may find home. The contri-
+ons already sent in make small
E.sted church forever impossible.
s WI; not 1 be sorry spectacle fol
E:g gus and men if, in church built by
T ante. and Catholics, as we'll as al!
styles of people commonly called
'.lseical, I should, instead of the
.ss a. of the Lord God Almighty, raise
.ssuerng flag of small sectarianism:
We mad three hundred thousand dol
awe would put them all in one great
. .uH1n to the mercy of God. PEG:
SSsA ON all sides about what we shall
sa answer, it all depends on the
an n.y.! sent in from here ano
MI I lie ends of the earth. say now
W. , 'he Baptists. that we shall have
Ina oaptistery. I say to all Episco-
asAs' We shall have in our services as
Ssolore at our communion table por'
l. T. o. ol the Liturgy. say to the Cath
s awe Shall have a cross over the pull