The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-04-14
TABERNACLE PULPIT,
rWeN1 VI t!IRD ANNIVERSARY seq
MON PREACHED BY DR.. TALMAGE.

Tabcrnaclcs.a u Story OF Trials and Tri-
umphs"--Roviow of the History OF tho
Doctors Church.
BROOKLYN, April 3.-This is q lcs-
tlval day at the Tabernacle. DR.. Tai
mage is celebrating the twcnty.third an
niversary of his settlement in BrooKlyn.
In white flowers embedded in green at
tho back of the pulpit stood The inscrip-
ton, 1850 and 1902" DR.. Talmagc's
subject was, "Thc Th;ca Tabernacles,
Story Of Trials and Trumphs," and
ms text, Luke tx, 33, LET us make
th' ee tabclnaclcs."
Our Arab ponies were almost dead
with fatigue, rs, in December, 1889, we
rode near the foot of Mount Hermon in
,he Holy Land, the mountain called by
one "a mountain of icc," by another "a
gllttering breastplaie Of icc," by yanother
1.-THE Mont Blanc of Palcstinc." It's
top has an almost unearthly brilliancc.
But what must it 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
IA c took on tie glow OF the MONDAY
sun, and Moses and Elijah Mho had
been dead for centuries, came out from
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.
lmpctu 1us Peter was so wrought
upon by the presence of this wondrous
thlce, that, without waiting for time TO
consider how prcpOstcrour was the pro-
position, he cried out, LET us make
three tahcrnaclcs-onc for thee, one for
Moses and for Elijah" Where would
they get the material for building one
tabernacle, much less material enough
TO build two tabCrnaclcs, and still less,
how would they get the material for
bu ldnS three Where would they get
the hammers Where the gold? Where
the silver? Where the curtains? Where
the costly adornmcnt:? lIcrmon is q
harrCn peak, and to build one tabernacle
III such a place would have been an un-
'icrtaking beyond human achievement,
AMI Peter was propoundnG the impossi-
Dle when he cried out in enthusiasm,
LET us build three tabcrnaces.O
And yet that is what this conGrCga-
ton has been called to do and has done.
The first brooklyn Tabcrnclc waa de-
dlcatCd in 1870, and destroyed by fire in
1872. The second Brooklyn Tabernacle
was dedicated in 1874, and destroyed by
thc in 1889. The third Brooklyn Tabcr-
nacle was dedicated in Alril, 1891. and
i'll that we arc worshipinG today. What
sounded absurd for Peter to propose,
when he said on Mount llcrmon. in the
words Of my text, "l.rt us build three
tabcrnacles,' we have not only done,
but in the mysterious province OF God
were compelled to DO.
One year il was sent out through q
syndicate of newspapers that this church
was doing nothing il the way OF libcrali-
ty, when we had that year raised - 900
~ lard cash Tor religious uses. There
as ECen persistent and hemisphere
lying against tins chnrch. We have
raised during my pastorate, for church
building and church purposes, $99S, 900,
oi practically million dollars. Not an
ll;sh famine. CT q Charleston earth
quake, CT an OHIO trcshct, or a Chicago
couila;ratiOn, but our church WAS among
the first to help. We have gwen Tree
seats III the morning and evening SER
vices to 2lO,0 strangers year, and
That III twenty years would amount to
4,SoV,O00 auditors. We have received
INTO our membership 5,3s7 members,
and that ls only IL small portion of the
number OF those who hayo here been
converted to God from all parts OF this
land and from other lands.
Under the blcsalny Of God and through
tGc kindness OF the printing press my
sclmons now go every week into every
neiShborhOod in Chlstcndom, and are
regularly translated into nearly all the
great languages of Europe and Asia.
Tie syndicatcs having charge OF this
sermonic publication informed me few
days ago that my printed sermons every
week, III this and other lands, so into
the hands Of 25,00o,000 people. Dur
lng the last year, l am authoritativcly
informed, over ,, 200 0dilercntpcriodical
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
Guatrlously and continuously charge tins
church with idlcncss and sclfshness and
parsimOny.
but this continuous misrepresentation
OF my beloved church, III the name of
Almighty God, | dcnOuncc, while | ap-
peal to the fair minded men and women
10 see that justice is done this people,
who within few years have gone
through struggle that no other church
in any land Or any age has been called
to endure, and pray God that no other
church may ever be called to endure,
VIZ, the building Of three tabernacles.
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 intclligcntly an.
swer our talsiilcrs, whether clerical or
lay.
And with these YOU may put that
other statement, which recently went
through the country, and which | saw in
Detroit, which said that the BROOKLYN
Tabernacle had hard iinoncial struggle,
because it had all along been paying
{ ich enormous salaries to Its pastor,
Dl. Talmage, when the fact is that at
tel ou: last disaster and for two years |
gave all my salary to the church build
ing fund, and received &c, 900 less than
nothing; in other words, in addition to
servll this church gratutously for two
IA hnu e.