Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-27

cover our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry
with mulitudiuous aeclamation until the place
rings ana the heavens listen 20 King! 1--we ior-
eve:r'
Do YOU know that there is not a single de-
nomination Of Christians in Brooklyn that has
not contributed something toward the building
of this house: And if ever, standing in this
place, there shall be a man who shall try oy
anything he says, to stir up bitterness D6tween
different denominations of Christians. may his
tongue falter and his cheek blanch. and ms
heart stopl My friends, If there is any church
on earth where there IS mingling oil all de-
nominations, it is our church just wish that
John Calvin and Arminius if they were not too
busy. would come out on the battlements and
see US.
The Millennial Church.
/ heard Baptist minister once say that he
thought in :he millennium it would be all one
great Baptist Church; and heard a Methodist
minister say that he thought in the great
millennial day it would be all one great Meth
odist Church; and have known Presbyterian
minister who thought that in the millennial
day it would he all one great Presbyterian
Church. Now, think they are all mistaken.
think the millennial church will be composite
church; and Just as you may take the best parts
of five or six tunes, and under the s.llltul
hands of Handel, Mozart or Beethoven, en-
twine them into one grand and overpowering
symphony, SO, suppose. in the latter days OF
the world, God will take the best parts OF all
into one great ecclesiastical harmony, broad as
the earth, and high as the heavens, and that
will be the church of the future.
Still further you mean by these stones the
salvation of the people. We did not build
this church for mere worldly reforms, or for an
educational institution, or as platform on
which 10 read essays and philosophical dIsqul.
sitions; but place for the tremendous work OF
soul-saving. All churches are in two classes,
all communities in two classes, all the race In
two classes-bellevers and unbelievers. 10
augment the number OF the one and subtract
from the number of the other, we built TINS
church; and toward that supreme and eternal
idea we dedicate all our sermons. all our songs,
all our prayers. all our Sabbath hand-shakings.
We want to threw detection into the enemy's
ranks. We want to make them surrender un-
oonditionally to Christ or else fly in rout, scat.
terinc the way with canteens, blankets and
knapsacks. We want to popuarize Christ.
We really believe in this place Christ will
enact the same scenes that were enacted by
him when he landed in the Orient; and there
will be such an opening of blind eyes, and un-
stopping of deaf ears and casting out of I'M
clean spirits-such silencing bestormed Gcnne-
sarets as shall make this house memorable 5OO
years after you and l are dead and forgotten.
On. my friends. we want but one revival in this
church, that beginning now and running on to
the day when the chisel of time. that brings
down even ST. Paurs and the Pyramids, shall
bring this house into the dust.
His Concluding Words.
Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected |
again. We came here tonight not to dedicate |
it. That was done this morning. Tonight we |
dedicate ourselves. In the Episcopal and |
Methodist Churches they have a railing around |
the altar, and the people come and kneel down !
at that railing and get the sacramental bless i
ing. Well, my friends, it would take more than |
a night to gather you in circles around this |
altar. Then, just bow where you are for the |
blessing. Aged men, this is the last church |
that you will ever dedicate. May the God |
who comforted Jacob the Patriarch, and |
Paul the aged, mako this house to |
You the gate of heaven; and when, in |
your old days. you put on your spectacles to |
read the hymn OF the Scripture lesson. may you |
get preparation for that land where you shall |
no more see through glass darkly May the |
warm sunshine of heaven thaw the snow off |
your foreheads! Men in mid-life, do you know
that this is the place where you are going to
get your fatigues rested, and your sorrows ap-
peased, and your souls savedf Do you know
that at this altar your sons and daughters will !
take upon themselves the VOWS OF the Chris
tian. and from this place you will carry out,
some of you, your precious dead? Between
this baptismal font and this communion table
you will have some of the tenderest of lIfe's
experiences.
God bless you old, and young and middle
aged. The money you have given to this church
to-day will be, hope, the best financial invest
ment you have ever made. Your worldly in
vestments may depend upon the whims of the
ciates; but the money you have given to the
house of the Lord shall yield YOU large per-
centage, and declare eternal dividends long |
after the noon-day sun shall have gone out like
A spa from q smitten anvil. and all the stars
Ire dead.