Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-09
THREE TABERNACLEs.
y Dr.. Talmage breaches His Twenty
third Anniversary Sermon.
"A Story Of TriaiS and Triumphs Eloquentiy
Portrayed : Misrepresentation Severely
Dcnounced-All Things Work To-
gether For Good.

In preaching his twenty-third ami
'vcrsary sermon Mt Brooklyn Rev. I. De-
Witt Talmage took for his subject
1.-THE Three Tabernacles; Story of
Trials and Triumphs, and his text was
from Luke tx. S3: "Lct us make three
,tabernacles." He said:
Our Arab ponies were almost dead
with fatigue and in December, 1889, we
rode near the foot of Mount Hermon in
the Holy Lond, the mountain called by
one "a mountain of ice:.' by another "a
,glittering breastplate of ice;'' by another
1.-THE Mount Blanc of Palestine" Its
top has an almost unearthly brilliance.
But what must 1t have been in the time
TO which my text refers. Peter and
james and John were on that mountain
top with Jesus when, suddenly, Christ's
face took on the glow of the MONDAY
sun, and Moses and Elijah, who had
the heavenly world and talked with our
Saviour. What an overwhelming three!
Moses, representing the law; Elijah,
representing the prophets, and Christ,
representing all worlds. lmpetuous
Peter was so wrought upon by the
presence of this wondrous three, that,
without waiting for time to consider
how preposterous was the proposition,
he cried out: LET us make three taber-
nacles; one for Thee, one for Moses and
one for Elijah" Where would they get
the material for building one tabernacle,
much less to build two tabernacles, and,
still less, how would they get the ma
terial for building three? Where would
they get the hammers? Where the gold?
where the silver? Where the curtains?
Where the costly adornments? Hermon
is barren peak, and to build one taber-
nacle in such n place would have been
an undertaking beyond human achieve
ment, and Peter was propounding the
impossible when he cried out in en-
thusiasm: LET us build three taber-
nacles." And, yet, that is what this
congregation has been called to do and
have done. The first Brooklyn taber-
nacle was dedicated in 1870 and de-
stroyed by fire in 1872. The second
Brooklyn tabernacle was dedicated in
1874 and destroyed by fire in 1889. The
third Brooklyn tabernacle was dedicat-
ed in April, 1891, and in that we are
worshiping to-day. What sounded alb
.surd for Peter to propose, when he said
ON Mount Hermon, in the words of my
text: Let us build three tabernacles,"
we have not only done, but, in the mys-
terious providence of God, were COM
PEELED to do.
We have been unjustly criticised by
people who do not know the facts, some
times for putting SO much money in
church buildings and sometimes for not
giving as much as we ought to this or
that UNCONVENTIONAL project, and no ex-
PLANTATION has yet been made. Before 1
get through with the delivery Of this
sermon and its publication and distri-
button shall show that no church on
earth has ever done more magnificently
and that no church ever conquered more
trials and that no membership ever had
in it more heroes and heroines than this
Brooklyn tabernacle, and l mean to
have it known that any individual or
religious newspaper or secular new
paper that hereafter casts any reflec-
lions on this church's fidelity and gen.
crosby is guilty of wickedness for
which God will hold him BRIT responsible.
One wear it was sent out through syn
dictate of newspapers that this church
was doing nothing in the way OF liber-
atty, when we had that year raised
s94, 900 in hard cash for religious uses.
There has been persistent and hemis-
.-pheric lying against this church. We
have raised during my pastorate for
church building and religious purposes
&99s, 900, or practically S1,OOO,OOO. Not
an Irish famine, or Charleston earth
quake, or an Ohio freshet, or a Chicago
,.confagration, but our church was among
the first to help. We have given free
seats in the morning and evening ser
vices to 24O,O 900 strangers year, and
that, in twenty years, would amount to
4,SOO, 900 auditors. We have received
into our membership 5,357 mem
bers, and that is only small
portion of the number of those who
have been converted to God from all
PARTS of this land and from other lands.
And vet there are ministers of the gos-
pel and religious newspapers that
Systematically and industriously and
continuously charge this church with
idleness and seIfshness and parsimony.
1 call the attention of the whole earth
to this outrage that has been heaped
upon the Brooklyn tabernacle, though
n more consecrated, benevolent, and
splendid convocation of men and women
were never gathered together outside OF
Heaven.
But this continuous misreprepresenta-
ton of my beloved church, in the name
of Almighty God, Idenounce, while ap-
peal to the fair-minded men and women
tesee that justice is done this people, who
within few years have gone through
. .4,.,,c,,,la that no other church in any