Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-05-05

Ter OF tine gospel DaptlZeu an infant, tnen re
ceive1 him into the church, after he had b.
come an adult married him, baptized hi
children, married them and lived on loni
enough TO hurry almost everybody but him
self. Glorious old pastorates they were
Some of us remember then-Dr. Snring
Peter Labaugh, Dominic Zlbriskie, DAME
Waldo, Abram Halsey.
When the snow melted from their fore
heads, it revealed the flowers OF en- un adm
coronal. Pastorates of 80 40, 81, 55 years
continuance. Some of them had - b,
helped into the pulpit or into the carriqgA
they were so Old AMI deccep,t, but When the
Lords chariots halted one day IN front Of
the old parsonage they stepped in vigorous
as an athlete, AMI as we saw the wheels Oi
fire whirling through the gates Of the sun
set we all cried out. "My father, my father,
the chariots OF Israel AMI the horsemen
thereofw
Iremark again, a Brooklyn pastorate l.
characterized by its happiness.
No city under the sun where people take
such good care Of their ministers In pro
portion as the world outside may curse a
congregation stands close up by the man
whom they believe in. Brooklyn society
has for its foundation two elenents-the
Puritanic, whici always means a quiet Sab
bath, and the Hollandish. which means a
worshipful op'e. On the top OF this an
admixture o' all nationalties brawny
SCOT, the solid English, the viva 'ious Irish,
the polite French, tle uhiloSoplic German
and in all this intermingling OF population
the universal dominant theory that mln
can do as he pleises proviiei he doesn't dis
turb any body else.
A delightful climate. While it is hari on
weak throats, for the most OF US it is
bracing. Not an atmosphere made 10 OF
the discharged gases OF chemical factories or
the miasns OF swamps, but coming painting
right Off 5000 miles OF Atlantic O.eln be-
fore anybody else has hal chance to
breathe it'll All throu n the city a society
OF kind, genial, generous sympathetic
people. How they fly TO you when you are
In troubled How they watch over you when
you are sick How tender they are with
you when you have buried your dead,
Brooklyn is good place to live in, good
place to die in, gooi pllce TO be buried in,
COOL place from which to rise in the
beautiful resurrection.
In such city have been permitted to
have "a years Of pastorate. During these
years how many heartbreakS how many
losses how manY bereAvenentsi Hardly u
family OF the church that has not been
struck with sorrow. But Col has sustained
you in the past oni He " II sustain you in
the future. | exnort you to be OF goot
cheer, Oh thou OF ie broken heart. "Weep-
ing may endure for night, but joy con .ta
in the morning | wish over every door OF
this church We might have written ths
word mpathy"-sympathy for all the
young.
We must crowd them in here by thon-
sands AMI propose a ra liant gospel that
they will take on the spot. We must make
this place 50 attractive for the young that a
young man will come here on Sabbath morn
ing, put down his hat, brush his hair back
from his forehead, unbItton his ovtrc)at
and look around won ieriny il he has not by
mistake got into heaven. He will see in the
facss of the Old people not the gioo n which
some people take for religion but the SUI
shine of celestial peace, and hs will say,
why, | wonder II that isn't the same peace
that shone out on the face OF my father AMI
mother when they lay dyingy'
And ths there will Co ne Il dampless in
his eyes through which he can harily sea
and he will close his eyes to impriaon the
emotion, but the hot tear will break throu n
the fringes of eyelasdes aud drop upol the
coat sleeve. He will put his head on the
back OF the pew in front an1 sob. "L1rd
God OF the old people, help me' W. ought
10 lay plot here TO the religious capture
OF all the young people in Brooklyn.
Yes. sympathy for the Old. They have
their aches and pains ant distresses. They
cannot hear or walk o.. see as well as they
used TO. We must b. reverential in their
presence. On dark days We must help them
through the aisle aud help them find the
place in the hymn BOOK. Somo Sabbath
morning we shall miss them fro n their place,
aui we shall Sar, Nv lere is Father So-ani-
SO to-iayy' al JIe answer will be: "What.
haven't you I.lrlt Tle Kings wagons
huy IaE i 40 IA II tn IN N
Joseph Is yet alive
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 u rescle for all these
martyrs of traffic, foretaste of ths land
where they have no rents to pay, and there
are no business rivalries, AMI where riches,
instead of taxing wings to hy away, brood
over other riches.
sympathy for the fallen, remembering
that they ought - be pitied as much as a
man run over with rail train. The fact is
that in the temptations and misfortunes OF
life they get run over. You and l in the
same circumstances would have done as
badly. We should have done wor'a perhaps.
II you aud ha the same evil surroundings
an the same evil parentago that they had
and the same native born proclivites to evil
that they had, you AMI | should have been
in the penitentlary or outcasts OF society.
mo" says some self righteous man, ~
couldn't have been overthrown i'll that way"
You old hypocrite, you would have been the
first TO fall
We want in this church TO have sympathy
for the worst man, remembering he is
brother; sympathy for the worst woman,
remembering she is a sister. Ii 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 tho household which erst re-
sounded with merry voices and pattering
feet now awfuly still-broad-winged sym.
pathy, like the feathers or the Almighty
warm -bloode1 sympathy, everlasting SYM
pathy; sympathy which shows itself IN the
grasp of the hau1, in the glittsring tear of
the eye, In the consoling word OF the
mouth; sympathy Of blankets for the cold,
Of bread for the hungry, oil meiicine for the
sick, Of rescue for the lost. Sympathy
Let 1t thrill In every sermon. Let 1t
tremble In every song. Lett CLEAN in every
tear and in every light. Sympathy Men
and women are signing for sympathy,
groaning for sympathy, dying for sym.
pathy, tumbling off into uncleaniinesS and
crime and periiton for LACK of sympathy.
with it from step to step. Let the sweep Of
these galleries su ggest its enc ,rcling arms.
Fill all the house with 1t, from door to
door. and from door to ceiling, until there
Is no more room for it, and it shall overflow
into the street. and passersoy on foot and in
carriage shall feel the throb OF Its magnih-
cent benediction.
Let that be our new departure as a
church. Let that be my new departure as a
pastor. Sympathy Gratitute to Goi de-
mands that this morning l mention the
fact that during all these 81 years have
missed but one service through sickness.
When entered the ministry l was so deli
cate did not think would preach three
months, but preaching has agreed with ME,
and l think the he,lthiest thing In all the
earth is the religion Of Jesus Christi Bless
the Lord. o my soul! Wnat insrates We
are in regard to our healthi
must in gratitu lie to Col, also mention
the multitudes to whom have been per-
mitted to preach 1t is simply miraculous,
the attendance morning by morning, night