The Globe-republican., 1893-04-28
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
tiers 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 denonina-
tlon. Sometimes they came with great
blare OF trumpetS. proposing to carry
everything before them. and got eXtin
gui>hed before they We're distinguished.
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 baptized
an infant. then received him into the
church. after he had become an adult
married him. baptized his children.
married them and lived on long enough
to bury almost everyone but himself.
Glorious old pastorates they were.
Iremark again. Brooklyn pastorate
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
| 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 wOrshipful
people. On the top of this an admiX-
ture 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 a 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 bracing. Not an atmosphere
made up of the discharged gases of
| chemical factories. or the miasms of
swamps, but coming painting right off
5000 miles of Atlantic ocean before
any body else has had chance to
breathe it! All through the city a so
ciety of kind. genial, generous, sympa-
thetic people.
| 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
bereavements. Hardly a family of the
| church that has not been struck with
sorrow. But God has sustained You in
the past and he will sustain yOn in the
| future. | eXhort You to be of good
cheer. oh thou of the broken heart.
Weeping may endure for Il night. but
Joy eometh 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
thousands. and propose a radiant gospel
that they will take on the spot. We
the young that young man will come
here on Sabbath morning. put down
his hat. brush his hair back from his
forehead, unbutton his Overcoat, and
look around wondering if he has not by
mistake got into Heaven.
Yes. sympathy for the old. They
have their aches and pains and dis
tresses. They cannot hear or walk OF
see as well as they used to. We must
be reverential in their presence. Or
dark days we must help them through
the aisle, and help them find the place
in the hymn-bOok.
sympathy for business men. Twenty
four years of commercial life in New
York and Brooklyn are enough to teal
ones nerves to pieces. We want tC
make our Sabbath service here rescue
for all these martyrs of traffic. a fore
taste of that land where they have nc
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. remember
ing that they ought to be pitied as
much as a man run over with rail
train. The fact is that, in the tempta
tations and misfortunes of life. they
get run over. You and /. in the same
circumstances. would have done as bad
lv: we should have done worse, per
haps.
We want in this church to have sym
pathy for the worst man. remembering
he is a brother. sympathy for the wOrs,
woman. remembering she is a sister
If that is not the gospel. do not know
what the gospel is. All. yes: sympathy
for all the troubled: for the orphans il
their exposure: for widowhOOd with it:
weak arm fighting for bread: for the
. household which erst resounded with
merry voices and pattering feet. now
awfully till-broad-winged sympathy
like the feathers of the Almighty
warm-blooded sympathy. everlasting
sympathy-sympathy which shows it
, self in.t the grasp of the hand. in the
. glittering tear of the eye, in the consol
, ing word of the mouth-sympathy o
blankets for the cold, of bread for the
. hungry. of medicine for the sick, o
rescue for the lost. Sympathy.
Let it thrill in every sermon. Let i
/ tremble in every song. Let it CLEAN il
every tear and in every light. Sympa
thy! Men and women are signing fo
| sympathy. groaning for sympathy. dy
ing for sympathy. tumbling off into un
cleanliness and crime and perdition fol
lack of sympathy. May God give it t.
us. Fill all this pulpit with it. from
: step to step. Let the sweep OF thes'
galleries suppest its encircling arms