The Forrest City times., 1892-04-08
DIR. TALMAGE REPLIES
THE ATTACKS ON HIS CHURCH
 BY ENEMIES.
He Reviews the Twenty-Three Years sf His Pastoratc of the Brooklyn Tab ernacle-A Sensational Sermon Rebuke to His Critics.

| bhOOhIYN. N. Y, Arrl ', loSS.-lH HIS ID !" | festival day at the Tabernacle. Dr. Talmase is celebrating the twenty-third anniversary of his settlement in Brooklyn. In white mowers embedded in green at the back of the pGrp,' p, stood the inscription. "is69 and lsss pr iAi Tar mage's subject was, "The Three Taberhaeles'
 story of trials and triumphs' ana ms @ ,eA,
 Lukes; sS Let us make three taoerha0Ae0
 Our Arab ponies were almost dead
 with fatigue, as, in December, lse9' we rode near the foot of Mount Hermon ln
 the Holy Land. Peter and James anu
 John were on that mountain top wl'h Jesus, when, suddenly, Christ's face took on the glow of the noon-day suh' and Moses and Elijah, who had been dead for centuries, came ont from the
 heavenly world and talked with our Saviour. What an overwhelming three' Moses, representing the law,
 Elijah, representing the prophets anu | Christ, representing all worlds. Inn
 petuous Peter was so wrought upon py the presence of this wondrous three
 that, without waiting for time to con sider how preposterous was the propost | ton, he cried out: ''Let us make three | taberpacles; one for thee, one Tor Moses and one for Elijah. Where would they get the material for build | ing one tabernacle, much less the ma terial enough to build two tabernacles' | and, still less, how would they get the material for building three? Where
 would they get the hammers? W here | the gold, where the silver? Where the | curtains? Where the costly adorn- | ments?
 We have been unjustly criticised by | people who did not know the facts' | sometimes for putting so much money | in church buildings, and sometimes Tor not giving as much as we ought to thls or that denominational project, and no explanation has yet been made. Be fore get through with the delivery Of this sermon and its publication and distribution, I shall show that no 1 church on earth has ever done more magnificently and that no church ever conquered more trials, and that no mem bership ever had in it more heroes | and heroines than this Brooklyn | Tabernacle, and l mean to have 1t known that any individual or religious | newspaper or secular newspaper that ] hereafter casts any reflection on this | church's fidelity and generosity, IS guilty of wicl5edness for which God | will hold him or it responsible. One year | it was sent ont through syndicate Of new wspapers that this church was doing nothing in the way of liberality, when we had that year raised S94 900 in hard cash for religious uses. There has been persistent and hemispheric lying against this church. We have raised during my pastorate, for church build ] ing and church purposes, S99S,000 or practically million dollars. Not an Irish famine, or a Charleston earth quake, or an Ohio freshet, or a Chicago confiagration, but our church was among the first to help. We have given free seats in the morning and evening services to 240,0 ,000 strangers year, | and that, in twenty years,
 would amount to 4,sO0, 900 auditors. | We have received into our membership 1 5, 357 members, and that is only a small portion of the number of those who | have here been converted to 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 go 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 a few days ago that my printed ser mons every week, in this and other lands, go into the hands of 25,oo0, 900 people. During the last year, am authoritatively informed,
 were added to the list of those who make this publication. And yet there are ministers of the gospel and religious newspapers that systematically and in dustriously and continuously charge
 this church with idleness and selfish
 ness and parsimony. call the atten-
 ton of the whole earth to this outrage that has been heaped upon the Brook lyn Tabernacle though more con | secrated, benevolent and splendid con vocation of men and women were never gathered together outside of heaven.
 l have never before responded to these injustices, and probably will never refer to them again, but l wish the people of this country and other countries to know that what they read concerning the selfishness and in- dolence and lack of benevolence and
 lack of missionary spirit on the part of
 this church, is, from top to bottom and 1 from stem to stern, alsehood-dastard- ly falsehood - diabolical falsehood.
 What is said against myself has no
 effect, except, like that of coarse | Turkish towel, the rubbing down by
 which improves circulation and pro
 duces good health. But this continu-
 ous misrepresentation of my beloved | church, in the name of Almighty God,
 denounce, while l appeal
 the fair mind ed men and women to
 see that justice is done this people, WI ho.
 within few years, have gone through a
 struggle that no other church in any
 land or any age has been called to en-
 dure, and I pray God that no other
 church may ever be called to endure, | viz:-the building of three tabernaeles.
 ask the friends of the Brooklyn taber-
 nacle to cut out this sermon from the
 newspapers and put it in their pocket
 books, so that they can intelligently an
 swer our falsifiers. whether clerical or l lay. And with these you may put that