New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-27
DEDICATING THE TABERNA Gle
THOUSANDS IN DIR. TALMAGE'S NEW HOME.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's PASTOR COMES FROM
WASHINGTON TO PREACH THE SERMON
CONGRATULATIONS SERVICE IN
THE AFTERNOoN-THE PASTOR


WASHINGTON TO PREACH THE SERMON
A CONGRATULATIONS SERVICE IN
THE AFTERNOON-THE PASTOR
IN THE EVENING.
The seating capacity Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
was taxed to its utmost yesterday morning when the
dedication of the building held. The large chapel
adjoining the auditorium also thrown open. and
hundreds Of people stood through the long services
on the platform with DR.. Talmage were the Rev. Dr.
Thomas Hastings, the president of the Union TheOlogi
cal Seminary, who offered the invocation, the Rev.
Dr. Wendell Prime, who offered the dcdicatOry prayer.
the Rev. DR.. 7. s. IIamln, Of the Church Of the
Covenant, Of Washington, and the Rev. Dr. Ives, who
conducted the collection OF money to pay off the
floating debt Of the church at the close Of the
sermon. The platform also held a huge floral bank,
with the inscription Resurrection surrounded by
rows of roses. The services were impressive, the
audiences unusually large even for DR.. Tamages
church, the occasion and circumstances long to be
remembered.
Dr. Hamlin's subject was The Building and the
Builders" and in his sermon, which worthy Of
the OCCASION, he referred to the beautiful edfce
"a glory and crown even in this city OF stately
churches" lie gave tribute to the pastor of the
church. "whose fascinating eloquence has given it
and him international renown," and closed with an
earnest appeal that those who had not accepted
pardon through the atoning blood Of Jesus Christ
should do so.
80 p m when platform service over which DR..
TalmaGe presided held. On the platform with
him were a score Of ministers representing half q
dozen different denominations. Those who spoke were
DR.. a. b. Kendg, of the Hanson Place Methodist
Episcopal Church. Dr. Talbot w. Chambers, of the
Collegiate Reformed Church New-YOrli: DR.. John d.
Wells, of the South Third Street Presbyterian Church;
Dr. Charles F. Deems, of the Church Of the strangers
NewYOrh; DR.. Henry NJ. Field, of The Evangelist;
DR.. E. b. Ingersoll, of the Puritan Congregational
Church; Dr.. A. C. Dixon, of the Hanson Place Baptist
Church; DR.. William Hayes Ward, of "The indie
pendent" and Dr. John Hunpstone Of the Emmanuel
Baptist Church. reference BY the latter to Mr..
Beecher was loudly applauded
Many persons were turned away from the doors at
the evening service, when Dr. Talmage preached. He
made special reference to the stones in the wall of the
church which he brought from Mount Sinai Calvary,
and Mars Hill last year. 1t was announced that
800 900 had been raised at the morning service, and
further subscriptions were sought to pay of the
floating debt of $4,000.
WHAT MEAN THESE sToNES7
DR.. Talmage chose for his text in the evening
"What mean these stones7" and after explaining the
historical incident from the book of Joshua, he said, in
referring TO his church building:
go all around abOut this great house to-mgn.'
erected by your prayers, and sympathes ana w.
and cry out in the words Of my text What t mean 6o zee
by these sonesl7 II is outrage to Dulld ilou i
like this. so vast and magnificent unless there be
friends pursue you tonight with the question OF my
text and demand of these trustees and OF t thee
elders and of all who have contributed in the build Guild
ing Of this structure, What mean ye by these
stones 2" But before / get your answer 70 my ques
ton you point to the memorial wall at the SIDE OF
this pulpit, and say TO me, Explain that unusual
group Of memorials. What mean You by those stones
BY visited d. the Si Gsnd and having in mind
by day and night during my absence this rising mouse
make that place significant and elorous2' on the
morning of December we were at me f2 %6, OF
Calvary. There is no more doubt Of the locality
bluff of this mountain which is the exact shape Of
the human skull, and so called in the Isbie The
There saw stone so suggestive ! rolled 1t aQW T
the hill and transported It, IT Is at the top OF ms
t Tal IT. the White typical Of purity the crimson
suggestive of the blood that paid the price OF oar
wall for above all in this church for all time, in
sermon, and sOng and prayer, shall be the Sacrifice
one of the rocks rent at the Crtcifxon. That
heard nc cry, at IS finished" Was any church on
earth honored with such memorial
Beneath it are two tables Of stone which I had
brought from Mount Sinai, where the Law was given
fetch them when al Cairo Egypt, proposed to the
Christian Arab that he bring one stone from Mount
one for we must balance them the back Of the
camel and / did not think until the day Of their
becouse tle Law was written two tables of stone.
Those stones marked with the words Mount sinai
felt he earthquake that shook the mountains when the
Mars Hill the place where Paul stood when he
human race. declaring. God hath made Of blood
ali nations since Lord Flgin took the famous
statuary from the AcropOs the hill adjoining Mars
m the Greek Government makes il imposs bic to trans
mort IN other lands Grecan antiquities and armed
soidierv euar not only the AcrOpOS. but Mars Hin.
That stone obtained by special permission from the
0neen Of Greece most gracious and brillant woman,
ysb0 received us as though had been old acquant-
onces and through Mr. Tricoups. the Prime Minister
80 Greece and Mr. Snowden, American Minister
Plennotentiary and Or. Manatt, our American Consul
rock on which Paul preached Now Won understand
ThV We have marked il. "The Gospel" Long after
NV uns shall utter in this church Their last message
bosn Inns NJ stone will tell the Law. and the Sacri
fcc and the G6spel This day present them 10 this
n1,rcb and 10 all who shall gaze upon them. Thus
WON have nv answer TO The question, What mean yon
by these stOncS?' ,. ..o t.o,. A. ,,,o-4so, -
Tho fcvt As first put it. have INTERPRETED these
t, memorials on my right hand, but Their, are
hWmdrads ~ stones in these surrounding walls and
ndorncatb ms In the foundations and rS ne above US
~ tbn tHyrerc The Quarrics OF TINS ana trlnSatahuc
IN w t tbo cau OF cr0wbar and chisel have con
fIn. .d tvard ms structure. "What mean We by
these stones ?" - -,-. L. , -. .-..-
T,r To,mare thus explained the meaning TO be among
other tbiprs. an earthly residence for Christ ana
salvation for the people
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