The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-15

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My first Sabbath in R,oklyn was q
sad day, for l did not .alize how far
the church was down uIil then, and on
the evening of that day yown brother,
through whose pocketI entered the
ministry, died, and tt tidings Of his
decease reached me It six o'clock in
the evening, as 1 wasI preach at half
past seven. But firm that day the
blessing of God was d us, and in three
months we began II enlargement of
the building. Befor the close of that
year we resolved to opstruct the first
tabernacle. 1t was onbe a temporary
structure, and the-orS we called it a
tabernacle instead temple.
We expected t. pay for the new
church by the salof the old building.
| The old one had len sold, but just at
the time we mus have the money the
purchasers backl put and we had two
churches and ncmoney. BY the help
of God and the idomitable and unpar-
alleled energy our trustees, We got
the building lady for conservation,
and on SeptemHr %, 1870, morning and
evening dedicaory services were held,
and in the afternoon the children with
sweet and nltitudinous voices, on
eoexated the place to God. Twenty
thousand dOSrs were raised that day
to paw a fioang debt. In the nurning
old DR.. Stepen H. Tying, the glory Of
the Episcop church and the chrysos-
tom of the merican pulpit, preached
sermon, wlch fingered in its grScious
effects aslog as the building stood. He
read enoua out of the Episcopal prayer
book to kip himself from being repn-
manded his bishop for preaching At
at a norpiscopal service; and We, al
though longing to another dencmina-
ton, reponded with heartin& s., as
though We were used to the liturgy,
Good BIRD, deliver u.s."
Duris the short time we occupied
that blding we had a constant DOWN
pour { religious awakening Hosan-
nah! Zen million years in Heaven will
have o power to dim my memofy Of the
glorius times we had in that fi6t taber-
nacl, which, because of its ingasion of
the sual style of church architecture,
wasalled by some ''Talmagfs Hippo
drcae," by others, Church Of the Holy
Cirrus" and by other mirthfui nomen-
cl.ure. But it was a building perfect
fo acoustics, and stood long enough to
hive its imitation in all the large cities
c America and to completely revolu-
nnize church architecture
On Sunday morning, in december.
S72, the thermometer nearE down to
zero, l was on my way to chtrch. There
vas an excitement in the street and
much smoke in the air. Fire engines
past. But my minS a on the
l was about to Iftach, until
someone rushed up and ID; me that
our church was going up IN the same
Kind of chariot that Elijah took from
The banks of the Jordan.
We were, as a churchs obliterated.
But arise and build" said many voices.
But how to raise the monty for such an
expensive undertaking vas the ques-
tion-expensive not because of any
'enseless adornment proposed, but ex-
because of the Immense size of
he building needed to HID our congre-
It was at that time when for
years our entire countrytyas suffering,
not from q financial pAhic, but from
hat long continued finau.ial depression
which all business mel remember, as
the cloud hung heavy year after year
md commercial estabE shments with
put number went down. Through
what struggles we passsd, the eternal
God and some brave FOULS to-day re-
member. Many a time would 1 have
accepted calls to some other
ields, but 1 could not Lave the flock in
he wilderness. At Last after, in the
nterregnum, having rosshipped in our
beautiful Academy ct Music on the
morning of February y, 1874, the ami
7ersary Of the Wa0 ington who con
Iuered impossibiliti& and on the Sab
oath that always cet brates the resur-
,ection, DR.. Byron So 1derland, chaplain
If the United States senate, thrilled us
though and throu9 with a d~edieatory
,ermon from Haggs. ii. 9: 1.-The glory
# this house shall b. greater than that
# the former, saith ahe Lord of Hosts"
That second Aoernacle. What a
"reminiscences! But if the Peter of my
ext had known WHAT an undertaking
lis to build two As.begnacles he would
lot have proposed wo. to say nothing of
.hree.
Meanwhile all things had become easy
n the Brooklyn 4 bernacle. On a Sab
,ath in October, 1859, 1 announced to
ny congregation that l would in a few
weeks visit the Holy Land, and that the
Ulcers of the church had consented to
nv going, and the wish of a lifetime
vas about to be fulfilled. The next
sabbath mornipy, shout two o'clock or
nst after mid right, a member of my
household awakened me by saying that
here was a strange light in the sky. A
had left the air full of
electricity, ana from horizon to horizon
seemed to blaze. But that
lid not disturbar6e until al observation
aiken from tbeseapola of my house, de-
Jared that ths second tabernacle vas
on htPvings. 1 secuted the
dea and turneq over on my pillow
or another; deep, but a num-
,er of Sx1ted voices called
- nd T wont nm and Savv