New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-28
DEDICATING THE TABERNA GLE
THOUSANDS IN DIR. TALMAGE'S NEW HOME.

THOUSANDS IN DIR. TALMAGEfS NEW HOME.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoNs PASTOR COMES FROM
WASHINGTON TO PREACH THE SERMON
A CONGRATULATIONS SERVICE IN
THE AFTERNOoN-THE PASTOR
IN THE EVENING.
The seating capacity OF the new Rrooklyn Tabernacle
taxed to It's 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 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 dedicatory prayer.
the Rev. DR.. T. S. llamlin, 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 huge floral bank,
with the inscription Resurrection" surrounded by
rows Of roses. The services we're impressive, the
audiences unusually large even for Dr. Talmages
church, the occasion and circumstances long to be
| remembered.
Dr. Hamlins subject "The Building and the
Builders" and in his sermon, which worthy Of
the OCCASION, he referred to the beautiful edice
glory and crown in this city of stately
churches" lie gave tribute to the pastor of the
church "whOse fascinating clOquence has given it
and him international rcnown" and closed with an
earnest appeal that those who had not accepted
pardon through the atOning blood Of Jesus Christ
should do
The spacious building filed in every part at
8 80 p. m, when a platform service over which Dr..
| Talmage presided was held. On the platform with
him were score of ministers representing half a
dozen different denominations Those who spoke were
DE-. \. l.. Kendig, of the Hanson Place Methodist
Episcopal Church; DR.. Talbot w. Chambers. Of the
Collegiate Reformed Church, New-YOrlS; Dr. John d.
Wells of the South Third Street Presbyterian Church
/ np Of 4bp Clupch If fba
NewYOrk; DR.. Henry NJ. Field, of "The Evangelist"
DR.. E. L. 1ngersol, of the Puritan Congregational
Church Dr. A. c. Dixon, of the Hanson Place Baptist
| Church; DR.. William Hayes Ward of "The hide
pendent" and DR.. John Humpsone, of the Emmanuel
| Baptist Church. y reference by the latter to Mr..
| Beecher 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
S22O 900 had been raised at the morning service, and
further subscriptions were sought to pay off the
floating debt of $4,000.
WHAT MEAN THESE STONES?
Dr. Talmage chose for his text in the evening
what mean these stones - and after explaining the
historical incident from the book of Joshua he sad
referring 10 his church building:
80 all around about this great house toh asn
erected by your prayers and sympathes and saercV
and cry out in the words of my text, What mean ye
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like this, vast and magnificent unless there be
some tremendous reasons 10 rdoing IL ana So my
text and I demand of these trustees and OF these
elders and OF all who have copioued tn T I Ibasc
stones ?" But before get your answer to my CUES
ton you point to the memorial wall at the SIDE OF
s Po Of SaG Say what So Os S
~ yeS Of A1 5 8P sn H a sTns in
by day and night during my absence this rising house
'of prayer bethought myself, What can l 40 TO
morning o &C of December 8 we we're at the foot Of
the most sacred mountain Of all the earth, Mount
an Of Mdnt Washington or Mont Blanc On the
bluff of this sn6 s %h tsed the Ss ee tho
place OF skull" there is room for three crosses
There saw stone SO suggestive rolled 20 1t 81 d4T Ta
wall. white stone with crimson veins running
through it, the white typical OF purity, the crimson
redemption We place it at the top Of the memorial
WALL for above all in this church for all ume, In
Of 5fF Mount t& calvary any Look at It. That stone
one Of the rocks rent at the CrucifXion That
heard The cry 1T Is finished was any church on
Beneath it are TIVE tables Of stone o which aad
Three camels were three weeks crossing the desert to
fetch them. When at Cairo, Egypt proposed to the
Christian Arab that he bring one stone from Mount
sinai he said eve can easier bring two rocks than
one for must balance them on the back OF the
camel,' and / did not think until the day Of their
arrival how much more suggestive would be the two
because the Law written on two tables Of stone
Those stones marked with the words Mount Snal,
felt the cart Quake that shook the mountains when the
Law was given The lower stone of the wall Is from
Mars Hill the place where Paul stood when he
human race declaring GOOD hath made Of blood
all nations" Since Lord Flgin took the famous
s;atuary from the AcropOlS, the hill adjoining Mars
Hill the Greek Government makes IL mpoSS bic 10 trans
port 10 other lands any Grecian antiquities and armed
sodierv guard not only the AcrOpOlis, but Mars Hill
That stone I obtained by special permission from the
Oueen of Greece a most gracious and brilliant woman,
who received us as though had been old acQnalnt-
ances and through Mr.. TTcOupis, the Prime Minister
of Greece and Mr.. SnOwden, our American Minister
PIenipotenary, and Dr. Manatt, our American Consul
that suggestive tablet sawed from the pnpit OF
rock on which Paul preached. Now you understand
Iyhv we have marked it. The Gospel" Long after
my Inns shall utter in this church their last message,
these Ips Of stone will tell the Law and the Sac-
fee and the Gospel. This day present them TO ms
church and TO all who shall gaze upon them. ThuS
Won have my TO the question, What mean you
bv these stOneS7" =, ,. ,
~ mt Won must not divert from the question Of
tho text as first put il. I have Interpreted these
f0Ir memorials on my right hand but there are
bnndreds Of stones in these surrounding walls and
underneath us in the foundations, and rs ng above MS
in tbe towers The quarres Of this and transatlantic
countries at the call of crwbar and chise nave con
tyiluted toward this structure. "What mean We by
these stOncS1'
DR. Tamage thus explained the meaning 10 be among
other things. an earthly residence for Christ and
salvation for the people.
SEEMINGLY An INCENDIARY's WORK.
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