The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-28
TALMAGE WANTS MONEY.
THE WHOLE WORLD ASKED TO
LEND A HELPING HAND.

He Wants the New Tabernacle Large
Enough to Hold 5000 People, and
to be Out of Debt from the Start
His Text for the Day: GOD Shall
Wipe Away All Tears from Their
Eyes"
Brooklyn, Oct 27.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, ID. D., preached to an over
flowing congregation at the Academy of
Music to-day.
Before preaching he said that mistaken
notion was abroad that the insurance on his
destroyed church was enough to rebuild.
The repetition of disasters eft us in debt.
We have practically built three churches
since came to Brooklyn. First, the orig
lnal tabernacle. SoonAfter that we made
an enlargement that cost almost as
much as church. A few years after
It all burned. Then we put up
the building recently destroyed, aud
reared 1t Ill time when the whole country
was In its worst financial distress. 1t was
these repeated disasters that left us in debt.
MY congregation have done magnifcently.
but any church would be in debt after SO
many calamities. Now for the first time we
are out of debt. But we need at least one
hundred thousand dollars to build a church
large enough, and we call on people of all
creeds and all lands to belp. Before | helm
dedicate new church we must have every
dollar of it paid l will never again be
pastor OF church in debt 1t has crippled
US IN all our movements, and | shall
never again wear the shackles. | have for
the last sixteen years preached to about
2,OOO people sitting and standing, twice a
SABBATH, but everybody knows that we
need place that will hold 5000. [ shall
not De surprised If some man of wealth
shall say: Here are $100, 900 If you will
put up memorial structure, and call it
after the name of my departed father or
child, whose memory / want put before all
nations and for all time.n And 80 it would
bedone.
DR.. Talmage's text was: "God shall wine
away all tears from their eyesn Rev, vii,
IL. He said:
, Riding across western prairie, wild
Mowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel
ana while long distance from any shelter.
there came sudden shower, and while the
rain was falling in torrents, the sun was
shlnlngsas brightly as / ever saw it shine
ana thought, what beautiful spectacle
TINS Is! 80 the tears of the Bible are not
midnight storm, but rain on pansied prai-
rles In Gods sweet aud golden SUNLIGHT
labeled as containing tears, and Mary's
tears, and Paul's tears, and Christ's tears
ana the harvest of joy that is to spring from
the sowing OF tears. God mixes them. God
rounds them. God shows them where
to fall. God exhales them.
census is taken Of them, and there is a
record as to the moment when thev are
born, and as to the place OF their grave
Tears of bad men are not kept Alexander
IN his had "A hoi Ill,
horses and mules, and made a great ado
about his grief; but in all the vases of
heaven there is not one of Alexander's
Tears. speak OF the tears of the good
Alas! mel they are falling all the time.
In summer, you sometimes hear the provl-
ing thunder, and you see there is a storm
miles away; but you know from the drift
or the clouds. that it will not come any,
where near you. So, though it may be all
bright around about us, there is a shower of
trouble somewhere all the time. Tears
Tearsl
what Is the use of them anyhow? Whv
not substitute laughter? Why not make
this world where all the people are we'll
ana eternal strangers to pain and acbes2
what Is the use of an eastern storm when
we might have perpetual nor'wester?
why, when family is put together, not
have them all stay, or if they must be trans
planted to make other homes, then have
them all live. the family record telling a
story Of marriages and births, but of no
deaths. Why not have the barvests chase
each other without fatiguing toll? Why the
hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard strug-
gleF 1t Is easy enough to explain a smile.
or success, or q congratulation; but come
now, and bring all your dictionaries and
all your PHILOSOPHERS, and all your religions.
and help me explain tear. A chemist
will tell you that it is made up Of salt and
lime, and other component parts; but he
misses the chief ingredients-the acid of a
soured life, the viperine sting of bitter
memory, the fragments Of a broken heart.
will tell you what a tear is: it is agony in
solution.
Hear me, then, while discourse to Won
of the uses of trouble.
First, it is the design of trouble to keen
this world from being too attractive.
Something must be done to make us willing
to quit this existence. If it were not for
trouble this world would be good enough
heaven for me. You and | would be will
ing to take lease of this life for hundred
million years if there were no trouble.
The earth cushioned and upholstered and
pillared and chandeliered with such
expense, no story of other worlds
could enchant u.s. We would saw;
Let we'll enough alone. If you want
to die and have your body disintegrated in
the dust and your soul go out on a celestial
adventure, then you can go; but this world
is good enough for me-" You might as
well go to man who has just entered the
LouvIe at Paris, and tell him to hasten OFF
to the picture galleries of Venice or Flor
ence. "Why," he would say, "what is the
use of my going there2 There are Rem
brandts, and Rubens, and Raphaels here
that haven't looked at YETI
No man wants to go out of this world, or
out of any house, until he has a better
house. To cure this wish to stay here, God
must somehow create disgust for our sur
How shall he do it2 He cannot
afford to deface mis- horizon, or to tear off a
fiery panel from the sunset, or to subtract
an anther from the water lily, or to Danish
the pungent aroma from the mignonette.
or to drag the robes of the morning in
nire. You cannot expect q Christopher
Wren to mar his own st. Paul's cathedral
or a Michael Angelo to dash out his own
Last Judgme t. or a Handel to dlscord
his Israel in Egypt; and you cannot ex-
pect God to spoil the architecture and
music of his own Iworld. How then are we
10 be made willing to leave! Here is where
trouble comes in. After a man has had a
good deal Of trouble, he says: "Well. l am
ready TO 60. III there Is house somewhere
whose roof doesn't leak, would like to
live there. II there is an atmosphere some
where that does not distress the lungs, |
would like to breathe IT, III there is a So
ciety somewhere, where there Is no title |
tattle, l would like 20 live there. |
If there Is a home circle somewhere