The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-28

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bath evening at o'clock and you see
north, south, east, west-Europe, Asia,
Africa, New Zealand, Australia--com-
ing to Brooklyn to spend the Sabbath, or
part of it In the persons of their repre-
sentatives- 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 New
foundland Every 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, A Brooklyn pastorate
is at the greatest altitude of conspicuity.
PLACE FOR SHORT PAsToRATEs.
Again remark that Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized by brevity. be-
think myself of but three ministers of
the gospel now preaching here who were
preaching when | came to Brooklyn.
Most of the pulpits around me have
changed sevon or eight times since my
arrival.
Sometimes the pastorate has been brief
for one reason and sometimes for an
other reason. Sometimes the ministers
of the gospel have been too good for this
world, and heaven has transplanted them.
Sometimes they changed places by the
decree of their denomination. Some
times they came with great blare of
trumpets, proposing to carry everything
before them, and got extinguished before
they were distinguished. Some got
preached out in two OF three years and
told the people all they knew. Some
with holy speed did in a short time work
which it takes great 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 minister of the gospel baptized
an infant, then received him into the
church, after he had become an adult
married him. baptized his children, mar
riel them and lived ON long enough to
bury almost everybody but himself.
Glorious old pastorates they were. Some
Of us remember them-Dr. Spring, Peter
Labaugh, Dominic Zabrisl1ie, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey.
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foreheads, it revealed the flowers of an
unfading coronal Pastoratcs of 30, 40,
so, So years continuance. Some ofthem
had to be helped into the pulpit or into
the carriage, they We're SO old and de-
crepit, but when the Lords chariots halt
ed 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 there
off,
remark again, a Brooklyn pastoratei 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 ele-
ments-the Puritanic, which always
means quiet Sabbath, and the Holland
ish, which means a worshipful people.
On the top of this an admixture of all ma
tionalities-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 BRACINa CLIMATE.
A delightful climate. While it is hard
IN weak throats for the most of us it is
braclng. Not an atmosphere made up
Of the discharged gases Of chemical fac
tories or the miasms of swamps, but
coming painting right off 5000 miles of
Atlantic ocean before anybody else has
had chance to breathe it! All through
the city society of kind, genial, gener-
Gus, sympathetic people. How they fly
to you when you are in trouble! How
they watch over you wien you are 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, good
place from which to rise in the beautiful
resurrection.
In such city have been permitted
to have "A years of pastorate. During
these years how many heartbrealss, how
many losses, how many 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 exhort you
to be of good cheer, o thou of the broken
heart. weeping 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 thou
sands and propose radiant gospel that
they will take on the spot. We must
make this place so attractive for 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. He will see in the faces Of
the old people not the gloom which some
people take for religion, but the sunshine
of celestial peace, and he will say, "Why
wonder if that isn't the same peace that
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mother when they lay dying"
And then there will come dampnes;
in his eyes through which he can hardly
see, and he will close his eyes to imprisor
the emotion, but the hot tear will break
through the fringes of eyelashes and droI
upon the coat sleeve He will put hi;
! head on the back of the pew in front and
sob, "Lord God of the old people, helI
mel" We ought to lay plot here fol
the religious capture of all the young
people in Brooklyn.
A CITY OF DEEP sYMPATHIES.
Yes, sympathy for the old. They have
their aches end pains and distresses
They cannot hear or walk or see as wei
as they used to. We must be reverentia
, in their presence. On dark days VIZ
must help them through the aisle an(
help them find the place in the hymn
, book. Some Sabbath morning we shall
: miss them from their place, and we shall
say, "Where is Father So-and-so todayr
| and the answer will be: "What, haven