The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-05-05

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will never hear the end of it, and if you
say wise thing it will go into per-
| petual multiplication. There is nc
need of decrying that fact Men whose
influence has been built by the printing
press spend the rest of their lives in de-
nouncing newspapers. The newspaper
| is the pulpit on the wing. More preach
ing done on Monday than on Sunday.
The omnivorous, alleged printing
press is ever vigilant.
Besides that, Brooklyn pastorate is
always conspicuous in the fact that
everybody comes here. Brooklyn is
New York in its better moodl Strang-
ers have not seen New York until they
they have seen Brooklyn. The East
river is the chasm in which our mer-
cants drop their cares and their anxi-
cites and their business troubles, and
by the time they have greeted their
| families IN the home circle, they have
forgotten all about Wall street and
Broadway and the shambles- If they
commit business sins in New York dur
ing the day they come over to Brooklyn
to repent of theml
Everybody comes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the ferry gates on
| Sabbath morning at ten o'clock, or
Sabbath evening at seven o clock, and
you see north, south, east, west-Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa, New Zealand, Aus
| tralia-coming to Brooklyn to spend
the Sabbath, or part of it in the per-
sons of their representatives. Some of
them fresh from the sea. They have
just landed, and they want to seek the
house of God publicly to thank the
Lord for their deliverance from cyclone
and fog-banks off Newfoundland. Ev-
cry song sung, every prayer offered,
every sermon preached in New York
and Brooklyn, and all along this sea-
coast, in some shape goes all round the
world. Brooklyn pastorate is at the
| greatest altitude of conspicuity.
Again l remark, that Brooklyn pas
torate in characterized by brevity.
bethink myself of but three ministers
of the Gospel now preaching here.
who were preaching when 1 came to
Brooklyn. Most of the pulpits around
me have changed seven or eight times
since my arrival.
Sometimes the pastorate has been
brief for one reason, and sometimes for
another reason. Sometimes the minis
ters of the Gospel have been too good
for this world, and Heaven has trans
planted them. Sometimes they changed
| places by the decree of their denomina-
tion. Sometimes they came with great
blare of trumpets, proposing to carry
everything before them, and got ex-
tinguished before they were extin-
guished! Some got preached out in
two or three years: and told the people
all they knew! Some with holy speed
did in short time work which it takes
a greet many years to do.
Whether for good or bad reasons, a
Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by
brevity; not much of the old plan by
which a minister of the Gospel bap-
tized an infant, then received him into
the church, after he had become an
adult married him, baptized his chill
| dren, married them, and lived on long
enough to bury almost everybody but
himself. Glorious old pastorates they
were. Some of us remember them
DIR. Spring, Peter Labaugh, Dominic
Zabrislzie, Daniel Waldo, Abram Hal
sey. When the snow melted from their
foreheads it revealed the flowers of an
unfading coronal. Pastorates of thirty,
forty, ffty-five years continuance.
Some of them had to be helped into
the pulpit or into the carriage, they
were so old and decrept; but when the
Lords charitos halted one day in front
of the old parsonage, they stepped in
vigorous as an athlete, and as we saw
the wheels of fire whirling through the
gates of the sunset we all cried out:
my Father, my Father! the chariots
of Israel and the horsemen thereof"
/ remark again: Brooklyn pastor
ate 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, a 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 quiet Sabbath; and the
Hollandish, which means a worshipful
people On the top of this an admixt-
ure 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 throats, for the most of
us it is bra eing. Not an atmosphere
made up of the discharged gases of
chemical factories, or the miasms of
swamps, but coming painting right off
three thousand miles of Atlantic ocean
before ANYBODY else has had chance
to breate itl All through the city so
ciety of kind, genial, generous, sympa-
thetic people. Row they fly to you
when you are in trouble. 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, a good place
to die in, good place to be buried in,
| a good place from which to rise in the
beautiful resurrection.
In such city have been permitted
to have twenty-four years of pastorate.
During these years how many heart
breaks, how many losses, how many be-
reavementsl Hardly family of the
church that has not struck with sor-
row! But God has sustained you in the
past and He will sustain you in the fu-
ture. exhort you to be of good cheer,
/ o thou of the broken heart. '.Weep-
ing may endure for night, but joy
cometh in the morning" / 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
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