The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-08

SeTI iie insurance companies, or your
biggest storehouses, or your biggest
banks. or your biggest newspaper estab-
hshments aud let them have to build
three times on the same foundation, and
IL would cost them a struggle, If not de.
molL'on. My text speaks of the Red
sea once crossed, but one Red sea
would not lave 80 much overcome us.
IT, was with us Red sea after Red sea.
Three Rcd seas! Yet today, thanks he
10 God, we stand on the shore, and with
organ and cOrnCt iu abs cnco Ot a TIM
Irel we chant: Slug yc unto the Lord,
tor he hath ,rimnphed %lnrlouslv. The
horse and his ride hath he thrown into
| the sea-"
But why the great expense OF tins
| structure? My answer is, the immen-
sity Of il and The lirmness Of it. 1t cost
over $3l 900 ,o dig the cellar, before
one stone was lud, reaching as the
foundation does from street To street,
and thea the building Of the h0us, was
constructed IN Il way, We arc told by cX-
pcricEced builders Mho hnL nothing to
do with ii, for durability of foundation
| ana wall such as Chaructcrizes hardly
amy ether bulidlnH OF This cl;y. To the
day "l Your death aud mine, aud for
our children and grandchildren after us,
il will stand here house of God and n
gatc OF heaven.
For me personally this is time of
Sladness more than tongue or pen or
type can ever tell. For 81 years l had
been building churches in Brooklyn and
seeing chem burn down, until felt
could endure The strain no longer, and |
had written my resignation az pastor
and had appointed to read 1t two Sab.
baths ago and close my wolk in Brook
lyn forever. | felt that my chief work
WAS yet to ba done, hut that | could not
90 IL with the a ps on one shoulder and
the ll)malayas on the other. But God
has intcriered, and the way is clear, and
/ am here aud expect to he here until
my work on earth is done.
Why should | want to go away from
| Brooklyn? | have no sympathy with
the popular sentiment which deiam4s
our beloved city. Some people make il
II part of their religion to cXcoratc and
belittle the place OF their residence, and
there has been more damage, financial
and moral, done to our city by this hv-
pcrcrlticsm than can ever be estimated.
The course of our city las been onward
made up OF hundreds of thousands Of as
good men and women as lnhablL the
earth, and feel hOnorcd in being citi-
zen Of Brooklyn and propose to stay
mere until JOIN the population in the
Silent City out yonder, now all abloom
with spring ilowcrs--sWect types OF
resurrection!
My thanks must be first TO God and
then TO all who have contributed by
large gift or small to this emancipation.
Thanks TO the men, women and chill.
dren who have helpeI and sometimes
helped with sell sacrifices that | know
must have won the applause oi the
heavens. If you could only read with
mo few OF the thous lnds OF letters
that have come to my desk in Tie
Christian Ieared Office. you would
know how deep their sympathy, how
large their sacrifice has been. II have
sold my bicycle and now send you the
money!" is the language of one noble
young man who wrote to The Christian
lleald. ''This is my dead son's,gilt to
me, and have been led to send it to
YOU" writes n mother in Rhode Island.
A blind octoGenarian invalid in York,
| Pa, sends his mite and his prayer.
Thanks to all the newspaper press.
Have you noticed how kind and SYM
pathetic all the secular newspaper have
been, and Of course all the religious
newspapers, with two or three nasty cX-
ceptions? You say that newspapers
sometimes gets things wrong. Yes,
but which OF us does not sometimes get
Things wrong. III yOu want to lind Il
man who has never made mistake, do
not waste your time by looking m this
pulpit. Thanks to the editors and re-
porters and publishers. Gentleman Of
the BrOoklyn and New York printing
press, llyou never report anything else
that say, please 20 report that. Yes,
see you are getting 1t all down.
AS church We from this day mako |
new departure. We will preach more
instructive sermons. We will offer |
more faithful prayers. We will do bet
ter work in all departments. We will |
in the autumn resume our lay college.
We will fill all the rooms of this mag.
nlllcent pile with work for God and suf-
icrlng humanity. More prayers have
been offered tor this church and on both
sides the sea than for any church that has
ever existed, AMI all those prayers will
w t'iS"CiCN. tlCuf Jlc Cruck lOf Inc
brooklyn Tabernacle! "Sng We to tue
ord for he hath triumphed glorously.
the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea-"
But do you not now really think that
The Miriam OF my text reloiccd too
soon? DO you not think she ought to
have waited till the Isrealiish host got
lear over to Canaan before she struck
her Enuckles against the timbrcl or
.ambournc? Miriam! You do well to
nave the tambourine ready, but wait
little before you play it. You are not
yet through the journey from Egypt to
he Promised Land. You will have to
rink ont OF the bitter water of Marah,
md many of your army will eat so
leartIly OF the fallen quails that they
WI die ot cole, and you will, at the foot
u SINAI, be scared with thunder, and
here will be fiery serpents in the way
ma many battles to fight, and last of all ,
he muddy Jordan to cross. Miriam! |
lave no objections to the tambourino,
.ut DO not jingle its bells or thump it's 9
IIghtened parchment until you are all 9
Trough.