The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-05

married him, baptized his children,
married them and lived on long enough
TO bury almost everyone but himself.
Glorious old pastorates they were.
remark again, Brooklyn passionate
is characterized by its happiness.
No city under the sun where people
take such good care of their ministers.
In proportion as the world outside may
curse, congregation stands close up
by the man whom they believe in.
Brooklyn society has for its foundation
two elements-the Puritanic which al
ways means a quiet Sabbath, and the
Hollandish, which means a worshipful
people. On the top of this an admix-
ture of all nationalities-the brawny
Scot, the solid English, the vivacious
Irish, the polite French, the philosophic
German: and, in all this intermingling
of population, the universal dominant
theory that man can do as he pleases,
provided he doesn't disturb anybody
else.
A delightful climate. While it is
hard on weak Threats, for the most of
us it is bracing. Not an atmosphere
made up of the discharged gases of
chemical factories, or the miasms of
swamps, but coming painting right off
5000 miles of Atlantic ocean before
anybody else has had a chance to
breathe it! All through the city so
ciety of kind, genial, generous, sympa-
thetic people.
In such city l have been permitted
to have twenty-four years of pastorate.
During these years how many heart
breaks, how many losses, how many
bereavements! Hardly a family of the
church that has not been struck with
sorrow! But God has sustained you in
the past and he will sustain you in the
future. L exhort you to be of good
cheer, oh thou of the broken heart.
weeping may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning." l wish
over every door of this church we might
have written the word sympathy"
Sympathy for all the young.
We must crowd them in here by
thousands, and propose a radiant gospel
that they will take on the spot. We
must make this place so attractive for
the young that a young man will come
here on Sabbath morning. put down
his hat, brush his hair back from his
forehead, unbutton his overcoat, and
look around wondering if he has not by
mistake got into Heaven.
Yes, sympathy for the old. They
have their aches and pains and dis
tresses. They cannot hear or walk or
see as well as they used to. We must
be reverential in their presence. On
dark days we must help them through
the aisle, and help them find the place
in the hymn-bOol.
Sympathy for business men. Twenty
four years of commercial life in New
York and Brooklyn are enough to tear
ones nerves to pieces We want to
make our Sabbath service here Il rescue
for all these martyrs of traffic, fore
taste of that land where they have no
rents to pay, and there are no business
rivalries, and where riches, instead of
taking wings to fly away, brood over
other riches.
Sympathy for the fallen, remember
ing that they ought to be pitied as
much as man run over with n rail
train. The fact is that, in the tempta-
tations and misfortunes of life, they
get run over. You and |. in the same
circumstances. would have done as bad
ly; we should have done worse, per-
haps.
We want in this church to have SYM
pathy for the worst man, remembering
he is a brother, sympathy for the worst
woman, remembering she is a sister
If that is not the gospel, do not know
what the gospel is. All! yes: sympathy
for all the troubled; for the orphans in
their exposure; for widowhood with its
weak arm fighting for bread: for the
household which erst resounded with
merry voices and pattering feet, now
awfully still-broad-winged sympathy,
like the feathers of the Almighty
sympathy. everlasting
mpathy-sympathy which shows it
self in the grasp of the hand, in the
glittering tear of the eye, in the consol-
ing word of the mouth-sympathy of
blankets for the cold, of bread for the
hungry, of medicine for the sick, of
Let it thrill in every sermon. Let it
tremble in every song. Let it CLEAN in
every tear and in every light. Sympa-
thy. Men and women are signing for
sympathy. groaning for sympathy, dy-
ing for sympathy, tumbling off into I'M
and crime and perdition for
lack of sympathy. May God give it to
us! Fill all this pulpit with it, from
step to step. Let the sweep of these
galleries suggest it's encircling arms
Fill all the house with it, from door to |
door, and from floor to ceiling, until |
there is no more room for it. and it shall |
overflow into the street, and passers-by |
On foot and in carriage shall feel the |
throb of its magnificent benediction. |
Let that be our new departure as a
church. Let that be my new departure |
IS pastor. Sympathy. Gratitude to |
God demands that this morning men
ton the fact that during all these TWEEN
5y-four years L have missed but one |
service through sickness.
/ must, in gratitude to God, also |
mention the multitudes to whom have
been permitted to preach. 1t is simply |
the attendance morning
oy morning night by night. and
-ear by year, and long after it has
got to be an old story. l know some
people are dainty and exclusive in their
astes. As for myself, l like big
,rowd. l would like to see an audience
arge enough to scare me! If this gos-
,el is good, the more that get it the
better.
Profting by the mistakes of the past,
must do better work for you and bet
er work for God. Lest might, through
ome sudden illness or casualty, be