The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-11-01
THE BURNED TEMPLE.
DR.. Talmage on the Destruction Of
tho Tabernacle.
lessons Learned From the Late Fire-The
Power of the Lord ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
solatiOns of ReIigion-An Appeal
to All Men.

of the BROOKLYN Tabernacle, Rev. T. De.
Witt Talmage preached at the Academy
of Music in that city. mis- subject being
The BAPTISM of Fire" and he took as his
text Acts XXX, "a, None of these things
move me.S He said:
But Paul. have you not enough fiji .ction
to move you? Are you not an exile from
your native land? With the most genial
and loving nature, have you not in order
to be free for missionary journeys, given
yourself to celibacy? Have you not turned
away from the magnificent worldly sue.
cesses that would have crowned your
i,lustrious genius: Have you not endured
the sharp ana singing neuralgias, like
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 your
"What of that?" says Paul "None of
these things move mep' 1t was not be-
cause he was hard nature. Gentlest
woman was never more easily dissolved
into tears. 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: "Wbat mean We to weep and
to break mine heart? for / am ready not
to be bound only, but 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 have been called by any
and all the universities and calamities"
think this morning l express not my
own feeling, but that of every man, wom-
an and little child belonging to Brooklyn
Tabernacle, or that was converted there,
when l 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 1 say that, do not mean that we
have no feeling about it Instead of
standing here to-day in this brilliant
auditorium, it would be more consonant
with my feelings 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. / believe that 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
there bapfised. and at those affairs our
young mel and maidens took 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 l saw
our church in flames, | said: THAT is the
last of the building from which we buried
our De Witt on that 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 US
to give up ours Why, like the beautiful
vines that still cover some of the fallen
walls, our affections are clambering all
over the ruins, and could kiss the ashes
that mark the place where it once stood
Why, now that / think of it / can not
think of it as an inanimate pile, but as q
soul, a mighty soul, an indestructible
soul. l am sure that majestic organ had
a 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 do not use
the words of nv text in a heartless way,
but in the sense that we must not and will
not be diverted from our work by the ap-
palling disasters which have 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 looked out through the dismal
rain from the roof of my house and saw
the church crumbling brick by brick. and
timber by timber, i said to myself: 'Does
this mean that my work in Brooklyn is
ended? Does this terminate my associa-
ton with this city, where / have oeen
more than twenty years glad in all its
properties and sad in all its misfor-
tunes:" And still small voice came to
me- a voice that is no longer still or small,
but most emphatic and commanding,
through pressure of hand and newspaper
column and telegram and letter contribu-
tons, saying, go forward"
/ have made and ! now make an appeal
to all Christendom 10 help US. We want
all Christendom to help. and l will ac-
knowledge the receipt of every contribu-
ton, great or small, with my own hand
We want to build larger and better. We
want it a National church, in which peo-
pie of all creeds and all nations find a
home. The contributions already sent in
make a small hearted church forever i'm
possible. Would not l be sorry specta-
Gle for angels and men if, in a church
built by lsraelites and Catholics, as we'll
as all the styles of people commonly called
evangelical, should instead of the BAN
ner of the Lord God Almighty. raise a
huttering rag of small sectarianism: II
We had s3a0, 900 we would put them all in
ca
People ask on all sides about what we
shall build / answer, it all depends on
the contributions sent in from here and
from the ends of the earth. say now to
ali the Baptists that we shall have in it a
baptistry. / say to all Episcopalians, we
shall have in our services as heretofore at
our communion table portions Of the Lit
urgy. / say to the Catholics we shall
have a cross over the pulpit and probably
on the tower. 1 say to the Methodists, we
mean to sing like the voices Of mighty
thunderings say to all denominations,
we mean to preach religion as wide as
Heaven and as good as God. We have
said we had a 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 ! take that fact as typical that we are
to be in communion with all Christendom.
81 believe in the communion of saints"
think if all the Brooklyn firemen and
all the insurance companies should search
among those ruins on Schermerhorn street
they Guild not find splinter large as the
tip end of The little finger marked with
bigotry. And as it is said that the ex-
humed bricks of the walls of Babylon
have on them The letter n, standing for
Nebuchadnezzar. l declare 10 you that if
we ever get a new church the letter we
should like to have on every stone and