Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-04-04
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
TwENTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE.

NHNANAk
Of the History Of the Three Taber
naoies That Have Been the Home o
fhe Doctors Church.
BROOKLYN, April 3.-This is a festiva
day at the Tabernacle. DIR. Talmage /
celebrating the twenty-third anniversary
Of his settlement in Brooklyn. In whit,
flowers embedded in green at the bacl
Of the pulpit stood the inscription, 1855
aud 1892" DR.. Talmage's subject wa
THE Three Tabcrnacles, Story d
Trials and Triumphs," and his text, Luke
TX, 98. "Let us make three tabernacles.
Our Arab ponies were almost dead
with fatigue, as, in December 1880, We
rode near the foot of Mount Hermon IN
the Holy Land, the mountain called by
one "a mountain Of ices" by another, "a
glittering breastplate of ice;" by another,
''the Mont Blanc Of Palestine" Its top
has an almost unearthly blilliance. But
what must it have been in the time 70
which my text refersl Peter and James
and John were ON that mountain top
with Jesus, when suddenly Christ's face
took ON the glow of the MONDAY snn,
and Moses and Elijah, who had been
dead for centuries, came out from tie
heavenly world and talked with Our
Saviour. What an overwhelming three
Moses, representing the law; Elijah.
representing the prophets, and Christ,
representing all worlds
Impptuous Peter was SO wrought up m
by 20 presence of this wondrous three
that, without waiting for time to con-
filer how preposterous was the proposi-
sion he cried out, 'Let us make three
tabernacles: one for thee, one for Moses
and one for Elijah" Where would they
get the material for building one taber-
nacle. much less material enough TO
build two tabernacles, and, still less,
how would they get the material for
buiiding three? Where would they got
tho hammers? Where the gold2 Where
the silver? Where the curtains? Where
the costly adornments? Hermon is o
barren peak, and to build one tabernacle
in such place would have been an un-
dertaking beyond human achievement
and Peter was propounding the impossi-
BILE when he cried out in enthusiasm
Let us build three tabernacles,"
And yet that il what this congrega-
tion have been called TO do and have
done. The first Brooklyn Tabernacle
was dedicated in 1870 and destroyed Ly
fire In 1879. The second Brooklyn Tabel-
nacle was dedicated in 1874 and do.
stroyed by fire in 1889. The third Brook.
lyn Tabernacle was dedicated in April
1891, and In that we are worshiping to-
day. What sounded absurd for Peter
to propose, when he said on Mount Her
mon, in the words OF my text, "Let us
build three tabernacles, we have not
only done, but in the mysterious provi-
dence OF God were compelled to do.
We have been unjustly criticised by
people who did not know the facts,
sometimes for putting 80 much money
ia church buildings, and sometimes for
not giving as much as we ought to this
or that denominational project. and no
explanation has yet been made. Before
| get through with the delivery of this
sermon and It's publication and distribu-
ton, | shall show that no church on
earth has ever done more magnifcently,
and that no church ever conquered
more trials. and that no membership
ever had in II more heroes and heroines
than this Brooklyn Tabernacle, and
mean to have it known that any individ-
ual or religious newspaper or secular
newspaper that hereafter casts any re-
Election ON this churchs fidelity and gen
erosity, is guilty of wickedness for
4..l. 1s,.l. ..ttIl hglA At...
sible.
One year it was sent out through a
syndicate Of newspapers that this church
was doing nothing in the way of liberal
ity, when we had that year raised $94,-
600 In hard cash for religious uses,
There has been persistent and hemi-
spheric lying against this church. We
have raised during my pastorate, for
church building and church purposes,
&e06, 900, or practically n million dol.
lara Not an Irish famine, or Charles
ton earthquake, or an Ohio freshet, or a
Chicago conHagration, but our church
was among the first 10 help We have
given free seats IN the morning and
evening services 10 240,0 strangers a
year. and that in twenty years would
amout 10 a,600,000 auditors. We have
received into our membership 5,857
members, and that Is only small por-
tion Of the number of those who have
here been converted 10 God from all
parts Of this land and from other lands,
Under the blessing Of God and through
the kindness of the printing press my
sermons now 80 every week into every
neighborhood In Christendom, and are
regularly translated into nearly all the
great languages Of Europe and Asia
The syndicates having charge Of this
sermonic publication informed me few
days ago that my printed sermons every
wook, Ia this aud other lands, go into
the hands OF 25,0O0.00O people. During
the last year, am anthoritatively in
formed, over 1900 different periodicals
We're added 10 tho list OF those who
make this publication, and yet there are
ministers OF the Gospel aud religious
newspapers that systematically and In.
dustriously and continuously charge
this church with idleness and selhshness
and parSimony.
call the attention Of the whole earth
70 this outrage that has been heaped
upon the Brooklyn Tabernacle, though
q moro consecrated, benevolent and
splendid convocation OF men and women
were never gathered together outside OF
heaven. have never before responded
10 these iniustioes aud probably viii
never refer 10 them again, bat | wish
the people OF this country and other
aountries 10 know that what they read
the selfishness and indolenoe
nd lack OF beneT,lence and lack of