New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-30
BAPTISM OF FIRE,
What DR.. Talmage Says About the Old
Tabernacle, and New One that
is to be Grander and Better.

BROOKLYN N. Y, Special.-The Rev. T.
De Witt Talmags preached his first sermon
since the obstruction of the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle by fire at the Academy of Music.
His audience was of vast size, and public in
1erest was extraordinary. The opening
hymn was:
GOD moves in mysterious way
his wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
DIR. Talmages subject was s'The Baptism
Fire. and he took as his text Acts Xxx, "a,
None OF these things move me-" He said:
but Paul, have younot enough affection to
move you? Are you not an exile from your
native land? With the most genial and low
ing nature have you not, in order to be free
for missionary journeys, given yourself to
cehbacy? Have you not turned away from
the magnificent worldly successes that would
have crowned your illustrious genius? Have
you not endured the sharp and singing neu-
ralgias, like thorn in the flesh? Have you
not been mobbed on the land and ship
wrecked on the sea; the sanhedrm against
you, the Roman government against you
all the world and all hell against you?
What of that?" says Paul, 'sNone of these
things move me?" 1t was not because he
was hard nature. Gentlest woman was
never more easily dissolved into tears. He
could not even bear to see any one cry, for
IN the midst of his sermon when he saw some
one weeping her sobs aloud, "What mean We
10 weep and to break mine heart? for [ am
ready not to be bound only, but also to die
at Jerusalem 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 beeu called by any and all
the universities and calamities"
think this morning express not only my
own feelings, but those of every man, WON
an and little child belonging to Brooklyn
tabernacle, or that was converted there
or comforted there. or blessed there, when
look toward the blackened ruins of the dear
and consecrated spot, and with an aroused
faith in loving God cry OUT 'tNone OF
these things move me-
When say that, do not mean that we
have no feeling about it. Instead of stand
ing 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
words OF David: IF forget thee, O Jerusa-
! lem, let my right hand forget her cunning
Why, let me say to the strangers here today
in explanation of the deep emotion of my
flock, we had there in that building 16 years
OF religious 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 baptized, and at those
affairs our young men and maidens took the
marriage vow, and out of those gates we
! n11r f,o,,, no oof
house last Sunday morning at 3 O'Clock 1
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 house
hold" 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 clam bering all over the ruins, and could
kiss the ashes that mark the place where it
once stood. Why, now that l think of it,
cannot think OF it as an inanimate pile, but
as q soul, mighty SOUL an indestructible
| soul. l am sure that majestic organ had
soul, for we have often heard it speak
and sing and shout and wall and when
the soul of that organ entered heaven
think Handel, and Hayn, and Mo-
Fart, and Mendelssohn, and Beethoven were
at the gates to welcome it. So did not
use the words ofmy textin a heartless way,
but in the sense that we must not and will
not be diverted from our work by the ap-
paling disasters which have befallen us. We
will not turn aside one inch from our de-
termination 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 l looked out through the 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 associa ton
with this city, where have been more than
20 years glad in all its properties and sad
in all it's misfortunes? And a still small
voice came to me, a Voice that is no longer
still or small but most emphatic and com
handing, through pressure ofhand and news
, contributions. saying: go forward"
have made and now make appeal to all
Chrstendom to help us. We want all Christ
endom to help, and | will acknowledge the
receipt of every contribution, great or small,
with my own hand. We want to build larg-
| in which people of all creeds and all nations
may find q home. The contributions already
sent in make d small-hearted church forever
impossible. Would not be a sorry specta-
Gle for angels and men if, in a church built by
Israelites and Catholics, as we'll as all the
styles OF people commonly called evangelical,
should instead OF the banner of the Lord
| God Almighty raise a futtering rag of small
| sectarianism? FIVE had 100000 we would
put them all in one great monument to the
mercy of God. People ask on all sides about
| what we shall build. l answer, it depends
on the contributions sent in from here and
| from all the ends OF the earth. I say now to
| all the Baptists, that we shall have in
! it baFtistery. say to all Episcopalians,
we shall have in our services as heretofore at
| our commune on table portions o! the liturgy
/ say to the Catholics, ne shall have cross
/ over the pulpit and probably on the tower.
I say to the Methodists, We mean to sing
there like the voices OF mighty thunderings.
say to all denominations we mean to
/ preach religion us wide as heaven and as
good as God. We have said we had 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 the fact as typical that
| we are to be in communion with all Christen-
dom. 81 believe in thecommunion of saints!''
think, if all the Brooklyn fremen and all
insurance companies should search among
I thoso r11ins on Soharuoarhorn thov