Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-05-05


cot wa all cried out. ''My father, my father,
tba chariots Of Israel and the horsemen
thereofm
remark again, Brooklyn pas1oraVe Is
characterized by it's happiness.
No city under the sun where people take
e,,ch good care of their ministers. In pro-
norton as the world outside may curse
congregation stands close up by the man
whom they believe in. Brooklyn society
has for it's foundation two elements-the
Puritanic. which always means quiet Sab
bath and the Hollandish, which means
worshipful people. On the top OF this an
admixture Of all nationalities-the brawny
Scot the solid English, the vivacious Irish,
the polite Frenci, the philosopaic German
and in all this intermingling Of population
the universal dominant theory that man
can do as he pleases provided be doesn't dis
turb anybody else.
A delightful climate. While it Is hard on
weak throats, for the most OF us IL Is
bracing. Not an atmosphere made up or
the discharged gases Of chemical factories or
| the miasns of swamps, but coming painting
RIGHT off 5000 miles Of Atlantic Ocean BE-
fore ANYBODY else has had chance TO
breathe it All throu IN tle city society
of kind, genial, generous, sympatneIlc
people. How they fly to you when you are
| in troubled How they watch over you when
YOU ara sick How tender they are WHO
YOU when you have buried your deao
| Brooklyn is good place to live In, goou
place to die in, good place to be buried IN,
a cool place from which to rise In tne
beautiful resurrection.
In such a city 1 have been permitted to
have % years OF pastorate. During these
wears how many heartbreaks, how many
losses how many bereavementsl Hardly a
family of the church that has not been
| srruck with sorrow. But God has sustained
Won in the past. and He will sustain you In
Inc future. | exhort you to be OF good
rheer On thou Of the broken heart. weep
Ing may endure for night, but joy oometn
In the morning" wish over every door OF
this church we might have written. the
word 'Sympathy"-sympathy Tor all 'ne
Young.
We must crowd them in here by thou.
sands AMI propose radiant gospel tnaI'
they will take on the spot. We must MAKE
this place so attractive for the young that
Young man will come here on Sabbath morn
inc. put down his hat, brush his hair back
from his forehead unbutton his overcoa5
and look around wondering il he has not bV
n1sraKe goU INTO heaven. He Will see In the
faces of the old people not the gloon which
some PEG pie take for religion, but the sun
shine Of celestial peace, and he Will say,
"Why, | wonder if that isn't the same psacs
that shone out on the face OF my father ana
mother. when they lay dyingT
And then there will come a dampness in
his eyes through which he can hardly see,
and no will close his eyes to imprison the
emotion. but the hot tear will break through
the fringes Of eyeashes and drop upon the
coat sleeve. He will put his head on the
back of the pew in front aud sob, lord
God Of the old people, help meP We ough5
10 lay plot here fof the religious capture
of all the young people in Brooklyn.
Yes. sympathy for the old. They nave
their aches and pains AMI distresses. They
cannot hear or walk Or see as we'll as tney
used to. We must be reverential In tneIr
presence. On dark days we must help them
through the aisle and help them tini the
Mace in the hymn book. Some Sabbath
morning we shall miss them from their place
ami we shall say, "Where is Father So-and-
so to-dayY and the answer will be: wv nau
haven't YOU heard9 TIE Kings wagons
have taken Jacob up to the palace where MS
Joseph is yet alive" r..,
sympathy for business men, twenty
four wears of commercial life in New YORK
and Brooklyn are enough to tear ones
nerves to pieces We want to MAKE our
Sabbath service here a rescue for all tneS9
| 1OANS~SS~ -
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, remembering
that thew ought to be pitied as much as a
man run over with rail train. The fact IS
that in the temptations and mlSLortunes OF
life they get run over. You and IN tne
as me. circumstances would have done as
W. ebO,,l6 "a tYo dOna VOrSo Dprl ans,
If YOU and had the same evil surroundings
an, / the same evil parentage that they mad
and the same native born proclivitles TO evil
that they had, you AMI should have been
in the peuitentiary or outcasts or society.
WNon saws some self righteous man, u
conldn't have been overthrown IN that way.
You old hypocrite. you would have been tne
first to fall
for tho worst man, remembering he Is a
brother: sympathy for the worst woman,
remembering She is a sister. Ii that IS not
the posnel. I do not know what the gospel
is, Ah, YES, sympathy for all the troubled
for the orohans in their exposure, Tor
widowhood with its weak arm fighting for
bread. for the household which erss re-
sounded with merry voices and pattering
feet now awfully still-broad-wnge1 sym
pathy. like the feathers or the Almighty
warm blooded sympathy, everlasting sym
nathv: sympathy which shows itself n tne
Pras1 of the hand, in the gittering tear OF
fhe eve. in the consoling word OF the
, mouth; sympathy Of blankets for the cold
of bread for the hungry, OF msdiclne for tne
, sicS, of rescue for the lost. Sympathy! >.
Let it thrill in every sermon. Let 1t
tremble in every song. Letitgleam in every
tear and in every light. Sympathy Men
and women are signing for sympathy,
grooming for sympathy, dying for SYM
nathv tunbling of into uncleanliness and
crime and perition for lac'l OF synp1thy.
NAV Col give it to usl Fill all this pulpIt
with it from step to step. Let tae sweep OF
these galleries suggest It's encrcllhG arms -
Fiji ali the house with it, from door tc
door. and from floor to ceiling, until tnsr'
/, is no more room for it, and it shall overhCV
into the street, and passers5y on foot an II
, carriaoe shall feel the throb OF its magnln
cent benediction.
Let that be our new departure as
church Let that be my new departure as
pastor SYMPATHY Gratitude to Col dc
mands that this morning mention IN
] fact that during all these 2l years ! nav
missed but one service through SICKNESS
, When l entered the ministry was SO del
cate | did not think l would preach thre
, months. but preaching has agreed with mi
and l think the healthiest thing in all tn
, earl earth is the religion of Jesus Christi Ble'
| the Lord, o my SOUL WHAT ingrates W
i are in regard to our health =,
must, in gratitude to God, also mentio
the multitudes to whom have been pc
: .mitted to preach. 1t is simply miraculous
q the attendance morning by morning, mgr
Dy b ag got to @u BE- an old story know SON
neople are dainty and exclusive in the
: tastes. AS for myself, like a big crow