The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-05-10

cation. There is no need of decrying
that fact. Men whose influence has
been built by the printing press spend
the rest of their lives in denouncing
newspapers. The newspaper is the pull
pit on the wing. More preaching done
on Monday than on Sunday. The ON
nivorous, alleged printing press is ever
vigilant.
Besides that, Brooklyn pastorate is
always conspicuous in the fact that
everybody comes here. Brooklyn is
New York in its better mood Strangers
have not seen New York until they
have seen Brooklyn. The East river is
the chasm in which our merchants drop
their cares and their anXieties and their
business troubles, and by the time they
have greeted their families in. the home
circle they have forgotten all about
Wall street and Broadway and the
shambles. If they commit business
sins in New York during the day, they
come over to Brooklyn to repent of
them.
Everybody comes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the ferry gates
on Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock, or
Sabbath evening at o'clock, and you
see north, south, east, west-Europe,
Asia, Africa, New Zealand, Australia
coming to Brooklyn to spend the Sab
bath, or part of it in the persons of
their representatives. Some of them
fresh from the sea. They have just
landed, and they want to seek the
house of God publicly to thank the
Lord for their deliverance from cyclone
and fog banks off Newfoundland.
Every song sung, every prayer offered,
every sermon preached in New York
and Brooklyn and ali along this sea-
coast, in some shape goes all around
the world. A Brooklyn pastorate is at
the greatest altitude of conspicuity.
Again l remark that Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized by brevity. l
bethink myself of but three ministers
of the Gospel now preaching here who
} were preaching when came to Brook
Ign. Most of the pulpits around me
have changed seven or eight times since
my arrival
Sometimes the pastorate has been
!, brief for one reason and sometimes for
!, another reason. Sometimes the minis
tiers of the Gospel have been too good
for this world and Heaven has trans
, planted them. Sometimes they changed
) places by the decree of their nominal
ton. Sometimes they came with great
| blare of trumpets, proposing to carry
everything before them, and got ex-
tinguished before they were distin.
guished Some got preached out in two
or three years and told the people all
they knew. Some with holy speed did
in a short time work which it takes d
great many years to do.
Whether for good or bad reasons, a
, Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by
, brevity; not so much OF the old plan by
; which a minister of the Gospel baptized
) an infant, then received him into the
} church, after he had become an adult
married man, baptized his children
married them, and lived on long enough
to bury almost everybody but himself
, Glorious old pastorates they were
Some of us remember them-Dr
| Spring, Peter Labaugh, Dominic
5 Zabrisllle, Daniel Waldo, Abram
| Halsey. When the snow melted from
: their foreheads it revealed the flower.
: of an unfading coronal Pastorates O
= thirty, forty, fifty, fifty-fve years con
| tinuance. Some of them had to b,
helped into the pulpit or into tn,
carriage. they We're so old and decrepit
r but when the Lords chariots halted
1 one day in front of the old parsonage
, they stepped in vigorous as an athlete
: and as we saw the wheels of fire whirl
, ing through the gates of the sunset W,
/ cried out, "My father, my father! tn,
chariots of Israel and the horsemcl
thereof.
/ remark again: a Brooklyn pastorat'
is characterized by its happiness.
a No city under the sun where the PEG
t pie take such good care of their minis
a ters In proportion as the world out
1 side may curse, congregation stand
= close up by the man whom they believ,
= in. Brooklyn society has for its foun
o which always means quiet Sabbath
l. and the Hollandish, which Away
n mean worshipful people. o the to-
h of an admiXture of all nationalities-
n the brawny Scot, the solid English, tn
d vivacious Irish, the polite French, tn
l. philosophic German; and, in all this in
h termipgling of population, the univer
sal dominant theory that man can d
n as he pleases, provided he doesn't dis
: turb anybody else.
Y delightful climate. While it
S hard on weak Threats, for the most o
a us it is bracing. Not an atmospher
d made up of the discharged gases O
:, chemical factories, or the miasmas O
e swamps, bat coming painting right OF
v 5000 miles of Atlantic ocean befor
: anybody else has had chance +
: breathe it. All through the city a SC
e ciety of kind, genial, generous, sympa
;. thetic people. How they fly to yo
e when you are in trouble. How the
I watch over you when you are sick
t How tender they are with you whe
d you have buried your dead. Brookly,
It is good place to live in, good plac
= to die in, good place to be buried in,
e good place from which to rise in tn
e beautiful resurrection.
e In such city have been permitte
Y to have twenty-four years of pastoratt
a During these years how many heart
If breaks, how many losses, no,
o many bereavements. Hardly fan
n lily of the church that has nc
=, been struck with sorrow. But Go