The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-04-29

they arc able to weigh grafton or address
or sermon. If you say a silly thing, you
will never hear the end of it, and if you
say a wise thing it will go into perpetual
multiplication. There is no need of de-
crying that fact. Men whose influence
has been built by the printing press
spend the rest of their lives in denounc-
ing newspapers. The newspaper is the
pulpit on the wing. More preaching done
on Monday than on Suiday. The ON
nivorous, all eyed printing press is ever
vigilant.
Besides that, a Brooklyn pastorate is
always conspicuous in the fact that ev-
erybody comes here. Brooklyn is New
| York in its better mood. Strangers have
not seen New York until they have seen
Brooklyn. The East river is the chasm
in which our merchants drop their cares,
and their anxieties, 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
during the day, they come over to Brook
Ign to repent of them.
Everybody comes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the ferry gates on
Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock, or Sab
bath evening at z 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-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 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 a Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized by brevity. T be-
think myself Of but three ministers of
the gospel now preaching here who were
preaching when I 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 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 or three years and
told the people all they knew. Some
with holy speed did in short time work
which it takes a 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
ried them and lived on long enough to
L bury almost everybody but himself.
Glorious old pastorates they were. Some
of us remember them-Dr. Spring, Peter
Labaugh, Dominic Zabriskie, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey.
When the snow melted from their
foreheads, it revealed the flowers of an
unfading coronal. Pastorates of 80, 40,
so, 55 years continuance. Some of them
had to be helped into the pulpit or into
the carriage, they were 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,
l remark again, a 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
curse 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 inter1ningling of population the
universal dominant theory that man
can do as he pleases provided he doesn't
disturb anybody else.
A BRACING CLIMATE.
A delightful climate. While it is hard
on weak threats, for the most of us it is
bracing. 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 a society Of kind, genial, gener-
GUS, sympathetic people. How they fly
to you when you are in troubled How
they watch over you when you are sickl
How tender they are with you when you
have buried your deadl Brooklyn is a
good place to live in, a good place to die
| in a ooad p1ace t0 hA hI7ria1 in q oood