Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-04-07

puipiC- loo9 ana "lS92"-for
dates bound what raptures wbOt ~.
what struggles, what triumnhs,
ton it as a matter of gratjtudo
that in these twenty-three years
missed but one Sabbath throupb II
indisposition, and but three in tha IN 4!
six years of my ministry Az
having reached this twenty.tb hia
stone, l start anew. [ harn
memorandum books ANALYSES ..
sermons than I have ever preach
1 have preached, as near as 7 cna
about three thousand, three ~ %n
and eighty. DO
During these past years have H.
two or three things. Among ot1
have learned that "all things WI WI
gether for good" My positive W." W.
preaching has sometimes seemod
the hostilities of all earth ana
Feeling called upon fifteen years
explore underground New York al.
that | might report the evils to h.
batted, | took with me two eIdar0
church and a New York Police O.,
sioner and a policeman, and ev'
and reported the horrors that nood,
moval, and the allurements that
gered our young men. There
upon me an outburst of assumed
nation that frightened almost evorI
but myself. That exploration nv
my church AiEsy Or forty news
correspondents, from north, sonth
and west, which opened for mo
avenues in which to preach the a
that otherwise would never have
opened.
Years passed on and l preached,
of sermons on Amusements. and
report OF what [ did say-and one j
sermons said to have been preachN
me was not mine in Single wi
reused violence that threatena
with poison and dirk and pistol
other forms of extinguishment, nntH
chief Of Brooklyn police, without
suggestion from me, took possess
the church with twenty-four polio
to see that no harm was done.
excitement opened many doors, WI
entered for preaching the Gospel.
After awhile came an eccIesla
trial in which [ was arraigned by n
who did not like the way | did ii
and although | was acquitted of al
charges, the contest shook the And
church. The battle made me
friends than anything that ever
pened and gave me Christendom|
more than Christendom for my VI
audience. On the demolition Of
church we got q better and
church, and not a disaster, not a c,
ture, not a persecution, not an as!
during all these twenty-three year
turned out for our advantage, and
l not to believe that "all things VOL
gether for good?" Hosannah.
Another lesson I have learned d
these twentY-three years is that it
necessary to preach error or pick
in the old Bible in oroer to get an
ence; the old Book without any txi
is good enough for me, and higher
cism, as it is called, means lowd
ligion. Higher criticism is another
of infidelity, and it's disciples wi
lleve less and less, until many of
will land in Nowhere, and becon
worshipers of All eternal "What is
The most of these higher critics SCI
be seeking notoriety by pitching
the Bible. II is such a brave thi
strike your grandmother. The old
pei put in modern phrase, and wi
any Of the conventionalites and adj
to all the wants and woes OF huma
l have found the mightiest magnet
we have never lacked an audience
Next to the blessing Of my own
I account the blessing that | ha
ways had a great multitude of peO
preach to. That old Gospel |
preached to you these twenty
years of my Brooklyn pastorate,
that old Gospel l will preach till
and charge my son, who IS on the y
the ministry, to preach it after me
l remember Paul'S thunderbolt,
man preach any other Gospel, let
accursed.' And now, as | STANG
on my twenty-third anniversary
two audiences. The one is made
all those who have Worship with
the past. but have been transla
higher realms.
What groups of children-too ia
too sweet and too lovely for earth
tie Lord took them, but they
present to-day. The Group has go4
of the swollen throat, and the
from the cheek, and they have on
the health and radiance OF nc
Hail, groups of glorified children
glad | am to have you come TO Us
And here sit those aged ones VIII
parted this life leaving an aWl1
cancy in home and church Nher
your Stats, and where are your
locks, and where your stooplns,
ders, We blessed old folks? "on,
say, 1--WE are all young again. al
bath in the river from uhoe
throne has made us agile ana ooul
In the place from which we com1
use no stats, but scepters!
fathers and mothers in lSraei
glad we are to have you come Va
greet US!
But the other audience ] see IN
nation is made up OF all those w
we have had opportunity as VI
directly or indirectly, OF repIes
L. III INV \
to come back to-day. The people
first charge in Belleville' N. q.
people of my second charge IN 1y
N. Y. The people of my thru
in Philadelphia. And the peope
these three Brooklyn Tabernacles,
at them, and all those whom thlot
printing press we have lnvl'eu
and Heaven now seeming 10 Nv
leries-hfty galleries, 100 galiei''''