The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-15
DR.. TALMAGES PLUCK.
zou He Is TO BUILD A TABERNA-
CrErN PLACE OF ONE BURNED.


Insures His Life in Part Payment Of
the Sum.
F,rom the Philadelphia Press.
Nvw YORK, Sept. 9.-Talmage has got
-. money and the Brooklyn tabernacle
Ill be finished within six months. 1t has
len a vast deal of negotiation, many
Headings, and some downright begging TO
FEo,,,-a the great sum needed to erect the
1.-,,ss. tabernacle in the world. As last
-osorrce. the tabernacle trustees went to
prsseu Sage, and this afternoon he signed
an agreement by which he loans them
s125 900 for the period of one year at per
cent. interest.
Behind this simple statement lies a story
which deserves to be told in some detail
when the old tabernacle was burned last
fall the shock to DR.. Talmage was but mo-
Tnentary, although many of his congrega-
zion feared that 1t would be hard to recover
Srom the blow. The society represented
~ the tabernacle was not rich, although its
receipts were very large. But the expen-
ditures were enormous, being greater than
that of any other church in Brooklyn. and
exceeded only by one OF two In New York.
When TIE trustees got together they
agreed that they had one possession which
was sure to give them renewed financial
standing, provided only that they were
enre that this possession lasted; that was
DIR. Talmage himself, who Is estimated to
he good for $25, 900 or $4,000 a year for
a good many years to come, provided only
he lives that length of time. Besides this
incorporeal hereditanent the society pos
sessed nothing else than plat of ground
ON Schemerhorn street, not worth very
much. and the ruins of the old Tabernacle,
worth less,
DIR. TALMAGE TO THE FRONT.
They had, however, the splendid vitality
and exuberant enthusiasm of Talmage, and
he sounded the campaign cry just before he
left on his famous trip 20 the Holy Land
last fall. He said I'VE will build the
largest and finest edifice for the worship of
God in the world. We will make it a
priucely tabernacle. 1t shall cost great
sum of money, for when great fortunes are
spent in erecting theaters, shall ii be said
that those who worship God are to be out
done by their worldly-minded fellow
men Z"
The doctor proposed all manner of
schemes he was willing to turn in part
of his salary; to subscribe handsome sum
which he was to obtain from his lectures;
he was to appeal through his newspapers
to every Presbyterian and every christian
in the land to help; and he suggested other
schemes which it was thought would bring
fund of 100000. Business men rather
laughed at the doctor. They thought that
he might make good a subscription of $780,
OOU or 500, 900, b ut they thought 1t was pre-
posterous to sup pose that $500, 600 could be
raised within a year, and that was the
sum which was the minimum figure which
the doctor set for the purchase of land and
erection of the new tabernacle.
Dr. Talmage went to the Holy Land, and
his trustees went to work. The doctor found
in Jerusalem the rock upon which, accord
irg to tradition, st. Paul stood when preach
ing to the Jews, and he had good piece of
it hewn out, brought home. and it is to be
put in place as the cornerstone of the new
tabernacle. He did other things while he
was abroad which he said we're both for the
glory of God and TO bear witness through
all the land that the Brooklyn tabernacle was
erecting a new edifice in which the Almighty
might be worshiped.
WHAT THE TRUSTEES DID.
The trustees got together the dotsam and
jetsam Of the old tabernacle property. sold
it and the land on which the old building
stood, and, with this money and some sub
scriptions which they received, and some
returns from DR.. Talmages plaintiye plead
ings, they got together a sum sufficiently
large to buy plat of ground in the most
aristocraJic part Of Brooklyn.
They bought corner lot occupying an
entire block, fronting on Greene avenue,
between Clinton avenue and Waverly place.
1t is the center of Brooklyn fashionable life
and is beautiful location, being near Fort
Greene park, which is not only a pretty
place, but is interesting because of the ira
dtions of the revolutionar war cenueripg
there. They paid $105, 900 cash down for this
lot, and then began TO collect money for
the ediice. very beautiful design was
adopted. There is no church in New York
or Brooklyn Of such exquisite architectural
proportion as this. 1t suggests the famous
Holy Trinity church Of Boston, although it
is not an imitation Of that beautiful struct-
ture- 1t is to cost $350,00O, and, with the
new organ and other incidentals the cost of
the structure will reach about s4o0, 600; So
that, with the land, the new tabern acle
"a will represent the sum of 1906, 600
WANTED A LOAN OF $15O.OOO.
With subscriptions, voluntary and asked
for, with little contributions dribbled from
all over the land, will some $4,000 or
$4,000 received from the subscribers to DR..
Talmages paper, the truftees have been en-
abed to go ahead with tie building, while
DR.. Talmage is travelling here and there
working like beaver toraise more money.
1t was apparent, howevr, that not enough
money would be secure. TO complete the
church by May / neg unless somebody
lent a large sum- and te trustees decided
to attempt to get loa.
They wanted from shundred and TWENTY
five to hundred andifty thousand dollars.
but want for a who was their master.
They found that CAPITALISTS who had money
TO lend thought butittle of church property
as security. The were plenty of men
who would have pen willing to loan so per
cent. of the pricef the land on which the
tabernacle Is to and at a reasonable rate
St interest and 11s;y also also found plenty of
sum, but wand 10 or Is per cent for so
doing
AT last the went to MIR. A. L. soulard
6 the presidel OF the German-Amerlcan IT.
tie and Guantee Company, and he under
took to ra' the loan for them, knowing
that Mr.. 9s'an Sage, though hard bust
ness ma,Th3 insists upon his bond, had a
soft sd-or those who were Struggling to
put uplurch buildings. and knowinr fur ~
thsree mat NJ: Sage usually carried a
ba99t sat of 81, 100000 or 50, Mr.. Soul
al hff possible. ''''0 VIC i'an iroin
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