The Red Cloud chief., 1889-10-25
THE BURNED TEMPLE,
d.. Talma9e or the Destruction Of
the Tabernacle.
Lessons Learned From the Late Flre-The
Power Of the Lord Acknowledged-COn-
solutions Of R~eliEiOn-An Appeal
to All Men.

OF Music IN that city. his subject being
The Baptism Of Fire, !" and he took rs his
text Acts TX. q. None of these things
move me-" He said:
But. Paul. have you not enough , fi ction
to move you: Are you not an exile from
your native land? With the most genial
aud loving nature, rave you not, in order
to be free for missionary j,urneys, given
yourself to celibacy! Have you not turned
away from the magnificent worldly sue
cesses that would have crowned your
illustrious genius: Have you not endured
the sharp and singing neuralgias. Ike a
thorn in the flesh? Have you not been
mobbed on the land and shipwrecked on
the sea; the Sanhedrim against you, the
Roman Government against you, all the
world and all hell against you:
"What of that!" says Paul "None Of
these things move met" 1. was not be.
cause be was q hard nature. Genilest
woman was never more easily dissolved
into ears. He could not even bear to see
any body cry, for in the midst Of his ser.
mon when he saw some one weeping her
sObs aloud: "What mean ye to weep and
to break mine heart: for / am ready not
to BE- bound only, Lut also to die at Jeru.
salem for the name of the Lord Jesus"
What then did Paul mean when he said:
'None of these things move me!" He
meant: Il will not be diverted from the
work TO which l have been called by any
and all the adversities and calamitiea"
think this morning l express not my
v feeling, but that Of every man. wOm-
an and little child belonging to Brooklyn
Tabernacle. or that was converted there,
when ! look toward the blackened ruins
OF the dear and consecrated spot and with
an aroused faith in a loving God cry out:
None of these things move me-"
When l say that, l do not mean that We
have no feeling about it Instead of
standing here to-day in this brilliant
auditorium. it would be more c%onsonant
with my fee inss to sit dOwn among the
ruins and weep at the word of David: 'If
l forget thee, o Jerusalem, let my right
forget her cunning" Why. let me say to
the strangers here To-day in explanation
of the deep emotion Of my flock, we had
there in that building sixteen years of re-
ligious revival. l believe that a hundred
thousand souls were born there. They
came from all parts of the earth and We
shall never see them again until the books
are opened. Why. sirs! our children were
SucI0 OoYtISCOs anu az tuOSO 0tSuAS OuA
young men and maidens too the marriage
VOW, and out of those gates we carried our
dead. When from the roof of my house
last Sunday morning at three O'Clock ! saw
our church in flames. l said: THAT is the
last Of the building from which we buried
III De Witt on hat cold December day
when it seemed all Brooklyn wept with my
household" And it was just as hard for
you to give up your loved ones as for rs
to give up ours. Why, like she beautiful
vines that still cover some Of the fallen
walls, our affections are clambering all
over the ruins, and l could kiss the ashes
that mark the place whore it once stood.
Why, now that l think of it, I can not
think Of it As IN inanimate pile, but - q
soul, q mighty soul, an in~destructible
soul. am sure that majestic organ had
q soul, for We have often heard it speak
and sing and shout and wall, and when
the soul Of that organ entered Heaven l
think Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart,
and Mendelssohn and Beethoven were at
the gates to welcome it SO l do not use
the words of my text in q heartless way,
but in the sense that we must not and will
not be diverted from our work by the ap-
pallinG disasters which rave befallen Us.
We will not turn aside one inch from our
determination to do all We can for the
present and everlasting happiness Of all
the people whom We may be able to meet
None OF these things move me. None Of
these things move you"
When I looked out through tho dismal
rain from the roof Of my house and saw
the church crumbling brick by brick. and
timber by timber, l said to myself: Does
this mean that my work in Brooklyn is
ended: Does this terminate my ass0cia.
tion with this city, where I have been
more than twenty years glad in all its
properties and sad in all its misfor.
tunes" And . still small voice came to
me-. q voice that is no longer still or small,
but most emphatic and commanding,
through pressure of hand and newspaper
column. aud telegram and letter contribu.
tons. saying. go forwardw
/ have made and l now make an appeal
to all Christendom to help US. We rant
all ChristendOm to help. and I will ac-
knowledge the receipt Of every c0ntribu.
ton. great or small, with my " hand.
We want to build larger and better. We
want 1t . National church, in which PEG
pie OF all creeds and ali nations find q
home. The c )ntributions already sent in
make q small. hearted church forever i'm
possible. Would not l be q sorry specta.
Gle for angels and men il, in a church
built by lsraelites and Catholics, as we'll
IS oil the styles Of people commonly called
evangelical I should instead Of the ban.
ner of the Lord God Almighty. raise q
fiuttering rag of small s~ectarianism? II
We had IS 1900 We would put them all in
one great monument to the mercy Of God.
People ask ON all sides about what We
shall build. answer. it all depends IN
the contributions sent in from here and
from the ends Of the earth. I say now to
all the Baptists that We shall have In il Q
baptistry. I say to all Episcopalians We
shall have in our services n heretofore ct
our communion table portions Of the Lit
urey. I say to the Catholics We shall
have q cross over the pulpit and probably
on the tower. say to the Methodists, We
mean to sing like the vo;cs Of mighty
thunderingx SAY to all denominations.
10 mean to preach religion a. wide as
Heaven and A. good a. God. We have
said We had o total loss. But there was
one exception. The only things We saved
were the silver communion chalices, for
they happened to be in another building.
and I take that fact as typical that We are
to be in communion with all C~hristendom.
Il believe in the communion Of saintsw
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