The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-05-04
AT THE TABERNACLE.
OR TALMAGE CELEBRATES HIS TwEN-
TY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY THERE.

Is Spread Abroad.
BROOKLYN, April 23.-Rcv. DR..
Talmage today preached his twenty,
fourth anniversary sermon. Subject,
IA Brooklyn Pastorate.' Tho occa-
sion was an unusually interesting one,
and the great audience was vlsbly i'm
during the services. Over the
pulpit in flowers were the figures "1SG9"
and 'l893." The text was Revelation
iv, 4, "And arounA, ahout the throne
were four and twenty seats, and upon
ttffffefleatssST ttffffe leaaatssST saw four and twenty cl0crs."
This text choose chiefly for the nu-
merals 1t mention ohs-namClN, four and
twenty. That was the number OF elders
seated around the throne Of God, l'ut
that Is the number Of years seated
around my Brooklyn ministry, and eve.
ry pulpit is throne Of bcsSiu"Or blast.
ing, throne Of GOOD or evil. And to-day.
in this nv twCnty-iourth anniversary
sermon. - years come anHslt around
me, and they speak ouI i'll Il rcmmls-
encc of gladnoss and tears. Twenty
four years ago arrived III this city to
shepherd such q lIock rs mi@ht come,
and that day carried IL on my arms the
infant son who in two weeks from today
| will help Orda!n to The yOsCcl minis.
try, hoping that he VIII be preaching
long after my poor work IS done.
We have received into our member
ship ovcr5 eco souls, but they, | think,
are only small portion of the multi
tudes who, comm" from all parts Of the
earth, have in our house of God been
best and saved. Although We have as
a church raised $l.IOO, 900 for religious
purposes, yet We are in the strange no.
sltion ofnOt knowing whether in two or
three months we shall have any church
at all, and with audiences OF G,UU0 W
1000 people crowded into this room and
the adi dining rooms we are confronted
with the question whether ! shall 30 on
with my work here or 20 to some other
field. What an awful necessity that We
should have been Obliged to build three
immense churches, two OF them de-
stroyed by tire.
A misapprehcnsion is abroad that the
financial eXigcncy OF tins church is pa> t.
Through journalistic and personal
friends a breathing spell has been afford,
ed us, but before us yet arc financial oh.
legations which must promptly he met, t,
or speedily this house of God will go in
to worldly uses and become a tNcatcr Oh
concert hall. The $l2,O raised can
not cancel Il boating debt Of $l4O,0OO
Through the kindness Of those to whom
we are Indebted 500. 600 would SET u,
forever free. am Glad TO saw that tho
case Is not hopeless. We are daily il
receipt OF touching evidences OF pracli
cal sympathy from al! sections OF In
country, and IL was hut yesterday thu
ny nv own hand seat, for contribution
gratefully received, nearly 80 aclnowi
edgmcntS east, west. north and suuth
Our trust Is in :hC Lord, who divide,
the Red sea and "madc the mountain
skip like lambS." With this p0rayrap
L dismiss tic financial subject and rctur
TO the spiritual. This morning In
greatness of Gods kindness ohliicra'c
everything, and il wanted to build
Sfoan do not know in what forest
would hcw the timber, or from wha
qatIrry ! would dig the foundation stone
or who would construct lOrmC an OrWul
with trcmOlO Tor the only stop. nld :,
this morning | occupy my time IN build,
my one great, massive, high. deep,
broad heaven piercing halclu,ah. In
the review OF the last y years think
1t may be useful to consider some OF the
characteristics ota Brooklyn postoratc
In the first place, | remark That Il
brooklyn pastOratc IS always dinrult
pastorate. No city underline sun has Il
grander army OF pulpit talent than
brooklyn. The Mcthodlsts, the Blp.
tlStS, the COnUrpWuiiOOo1iSis thr Enis.