Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-04-27
AL THE TABERNACLE,
DR.. TALMAGE CELEBRATES HIS TWEN-
TY-FOuRTA ANNIVERSARY THERE.

Is Spread Abroad
BROOKLYN, April 23.-Rev Dr. Talmage
Today preached hls twenty-fourth anniver-
tarv sermon. Subject, "a BROOKLYN Pas
torlte" The occasion was an unusually
Interesting one, and the great audience was
risiby impressed during the services Over
thepupit in flowers were the figures "1S69"
rud "lo93.' The text was Revelation iv, 4,
"And round about the throne were four and
twenty seats, and upon the seats | saw four
and twenty elders"
This text choose chiefly for the numer-
MS it mcntions-na namely, four and twenty
That was the number of elders seated
around the throne of God But that is the
number of years seated around my Brook
Ign ministry, and every pulpit is "a throne
of blessing or blasting, n throne of good or
evil. And today, in this my twenty-fourth
anniversary sermon. - years come and sit
around me, and.t they speak out in reminis-
cence of gladuesS and tears. Invent y-four
wears ago | arrived in this city to shepherd
such flock as might come, and that day
carried in on my arms the infant son who
in two weeks from today will help ordain
to the gospel ministry, hoping that he will
be preaching long after my poor work is
done.
We have received into our membership
over 5000 souls but they, | think, are only
a small portion of the multitudes who,
coming from all parts of the earth, have
in our house of God been blcst and saved.
Although we have as Il church raised
SllOO,OOO for religious purposes, yet we are
IN the strange position of not knowing
whether in two or three months we shall
have any church at all, and with audiences
Of 5000 or 1000 people crowded into this
room and the adjoining rooms we are con-
/ /. Izl..1
go on with my work here or go to some
other field What an awful necessity that
we should have been obliged to build three
immense churches two of them DESTROYED
bv fire!
4 qnisqpDrchcnSion Is obrood thai: N.
financial criqcnci of this church is l,avS
gHy0u0h iOlunuIjStjc ANA q1crsonol
1rienGS q bl,athin1 spcu has bccil oaor,l-
I'd as. but before as net are f},nnciI1 oh.
7iGqti0uS 7lLich must l)ro,nDfIu he met m,
SbccdUJ mis- house Of God qrjll no into
qrorld1u7iS,s oud bccoJnc n tbe1fcr or u
concert han. Thc $12.OOO 1GiscI co,not
cancel n GonfjD11cJ,t ofs1A0O oo y,bro,,o1,
the kindncsy Of those TO ,rLo,o are are in.
debtcd 100000 1r0atd set as forcrcr free
lam o'0d ~ s0lJ,tgt fJe casa, is mat hone
less We are aim, il, rcccjnt If to,,cbjno
c,,idcuces Of lrcctjc1J s,o,,5iofI,, from oil
ci0sqes of me commandment fro,n ou
scctjouS of tine co,ot,,, ,uJ II ,roo 1,,t
o,eStcrt30lJ mat b,, ,,,,,oIru hama ! scnt
Tor cont,ib,,tjogs Gr0trf,II,, rccejrc5
qenrIy 30 ,cI1o1rlcI11DC,its cast Arrest
nor md so1,tb.
ADAy ropu,11rrr1Au
Ourtrust * in the ord who divida1 tho
Ped so,, and ..n,ado tbn mountains etir
like Ianbsn With This naraoranb dil.
miss the financial suhiect and RETURN totbe
spiritual This morning the greatness of
Gods kindness. o3litoratrs evcrvtt,ing and
if | wanted To build a rroan do NOT know
in what forest 7 would hew the timber Or
from what quarry would di, the founda-
ton stone. or who would construct for me
an organ with q tremolo for the only sion
and so this morning occupv my time in
buildiur one GREAT. massive. bioh deem
broad. heaven niercing hallcluiah. In the
review of the last ~ Years | thinl, it may
be useful to consider some of the cbaractcr-
istics of BROOKLYN pastorute
In the first place. remark that a Brook
lvn nastorateis ALWAYS = diffcult nastorate
30 CITY under the sun has = prander array
of nulDit talent than Brooklvn The Meth
odists the Bantists. the Conl,rerationalists
the EnisconpIigns nh The denon,in,tions
send their brichtc.t LIGHTS here lie who
stands in anvuuluit in BrooI;lyn nreachinn
ynav know that he stands thin \ minutasi
walk Of sermons which "A Saurin. and a
Bourlalo,le. and a John NJ Mason and n
George Whitefeld would not be ashamed
of No civ under the SIM where y moor .er-
mon is such n rue, ON the n,arke.
For 40 years ProoLlvn has beon CIR
CHARGED with homilrtics. an electricity of
oloqucuce that struck every time il flashed
from the Old puluits which ouaked With
the powers of Il Befhune and a Gov and n
Spencer, and Il Spear and Vjnton. and q
Farley, and Beccher. not mcntion;rr, +ba
names Of the magnificent men now man
ming the Brooklyn pulpits. So during all
the time there has been something 10 an.
peal to every mans taste and to pratifv
every man ; preference.
Now, let me say to all ministers of the
gospel who are ambitious for a BROOKLYN
pulpit that it is always difficult pastor.
ate Ifaman shall come and stand before
auv audience in almost anv chnrch in
ErooL l,u he will Gul L,.f,r, So, -. -.