The free press., 1893-05-11

| ter OF tD1 UOSDel D1pLiZ-l I'LL
| cejve him into the church, after he ha1 o.
| come an a. iult married him, baptize1 MS
| children. married them and lived on long
enou gh to bury almost everybody puO nun :
! self. Glorious old pastorates tney were
Some of US remember then-Dr. oprih2'
| Peter Labaugh, Dominic Zabriskie, Daniel
! Waldo, Abram Halsey.
When the snow meltel from their tore,
heads it revealed the flowers ut an uu aiding
coronal. Pastorates of 80, 40, 50, 50 years
continuance Some of them had to be
helped into the plloit or into ths carriage,
they were so old an decreoit but when the
Lords chariots ate on9 dav in front OF
the old parso1age thev steppet III vigorous
as an thlete, an as we saw the wheeis OF
fire whirling through the gates OF the sun
set we all criei out. my father, my father,
the ,,hariots of Israel AMI thu horsemen
thereofm
remark again, n Brooklyn pastoraoe Is
characteriz ID by its happiness.
No city under the sun where people taRe
such good care of their ministers. In pro-
norton as the world outside may curse
con greeation stands close up by the man
whom they believe in. Brooklyn society
has for its foundation two elements-tne
Puritanic which always means quieu oao-
bath. and the Hollandish, which means
worshipful D sople On the top OF thls an
admixture o. all nationaitieS-tha ora"ny
Scos TIE solid Eaglish, the vivarlous lrIsh'
the polite French, the philosoplic German
and in all this intermin cling OF population
the universal do niuant theory that man
can do as he pleases provife1 he doesn't dis
turb any body else.
A delightful climate. While it is hard on
weak throats, for the most OF us IL IS
hracing. Not an atmosphere made no OF
the discharge gases of chemical factories or
the miasns of swamps but comn9 painting
right off 5000 miles of Atlantic Ocean be-
fore ANYBODY else has had chance to
breathe it, All throu n the city society
of kind, genial generous, sympathetic
people. How they fly to you when you are
in trouble! How they watch over you when
YOU ara sick! How tender they are with
YOU when you have buried your dead!
BROOKLYN is a good place to live In, good
place to die in, a good place to be buried IN,
COOL place from which to rise in the
beautiful resurrection.
In such a city 1 have been permitted to
have "a years of pastorate. During these
years how many heartbreaks, how many
losses, how manv bereavements! Hardly
family of the church that has not been
struck with sorrow But God has sustained
you in the past, and He will sustain you in
the future. l exhort you to be OF good
cheer Ga thou of the broken heart. Nv eep-
ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh
in the morning" l wish over every door OF
this church We might have written the
word mpathy"-sympathy for all the
young.
We must crowd them in here by thou
sands aud propose radiant gospel that
they will take on the spot. We must make
this plaza so attractive for the young that
Young man will come here on Sabbath morn
ing, put down his hat, brush his hair back
from his forehead, unbuttcn his overcoat
and look around wondering If he has not by
mistake got into heaven. He will see in the
faces of the Old peoole not the gloo II which
some people take for religion, but the sun-
shine of celestial peace, and he Will say
"Why, | wonder il that isn't the same peace
that shone out on the face OF my father and
mother. when they lay dyiDg|
And then there will co ne dampaesS IN
his eyes through which he can hardly sea,
and he viii close his eyes to lmprison the
emotion, but the hot tear will break through
the fringes of eyeglasses aud drop upon the
coat sleeve. He will put his head on the
back OF the pew in front and sob: Lord
God of the old people, help me' We ought
10 lay plot here 70 the religious capture
OF ALI the young people in Brooklyn.
Yes sympathy for the old. They have
their aches and pains an 1 dlstresses. Iney'
cannot hear or walk o. see as well as they
used to. We must b. reverential in taer
presence. Ga dark days we must help them
place in the hymn book. Some Sabbath
morning we shall miss them fro thsr place,
ami we shall say, "W lere is Father So-an1-
so to- 1ay?o and the answer will be: what,
haven't you heard? Tns Kings wagons
have taken JAG Do up to the palace where has
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 d rescue for all theSs
martyrs OF traffic, a ioretaste OF tbs land
where they have no rents to pay, aud there
are no business rivairies, AMI where riches
instead OF taIlng wings to ny away, brood
over other riches.
Sympathy for the fallen, remembering
that they ought to be pltied as mucn as a
man run over with u rail train. The fact is
that i'll the temptations and mlstortunes OF
life they get run over. You and III the
same circumstances would have done as
badly. We should have done worse perhaps.
If you and ha the same evil surroundings
an the same evil parentags that they had
and the same native born proclivities to evil
that they had, you an l should have been
in the penitentisry or outcasts or society.
NO" says some SELF righteous man, II
couldn't have been overthrown in that way"
You old hypocrite, you would have been the
first to fall
for the worst man, remembering he Is
brother; sympathy for the worst woman,
remembering she is a sister. If that is no5
the gospel, | do not know what the gospel
is. All, yes sympathy for all the troubled,
Tor the orphans in their exposure, for
widowhood with its weak arm ii ghting for
bread, for the housenold whicn ers6 re.
| sounded wit merry voices and patterlng
feet now awfuly still-broa i-wngel sym.
pathy, like the feathers OF the AlmlGnty
warm-bloodei sympathy, everlasting sym
| pathy; sympathy whicl shows itself IN the
| grasp OF the hau /, in the gittering tear Of
| the eve, in the consoling word of the
mouth; sympathy Of blankets for the cold,
of bread for the hungry, OF meiicine for the
| sick, of rescue for the lost. sympathy!
Let it thrill in every sermon. Let it
tremble in every song. Lstit CLEAN in every
| tear and in every light. sympathy Men
AMI women are signing for sympathy,
| groaning for symoath-', dying for sym,
| pathy, tumbling Off into uncleaninesI anl
crime and perdition for Iaci OF symp lthy.
May Go give it to US! Fill all this pulpit
with it from step to step. Let the sweep OF
| these galleries suggest its ncrcling arms.
| Fill all the house with it, from door to
| door. and from floor to ceiling, until there
is no more room for it, and it shall OVERT ow
| into the street. and passersoy On foot ami in