Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-04-27
NENTY-FOUR YEARS
DR. TALMAGE's ELOQUENT ANNIvER-
SARY SERMON.

DR. TALMAGE'S ElOOUtNi ANNiV6h-
sARY SERMON.
Brooklyn Pre-eminently an Intellectual
Center-How Those Shrewd and Talent
cd Newspaper oIen Spread the Gospel
Even While Aiming at Their Own AGer
BROOKLYN, April 23.-Rev. Dr.. Tai
mage today preached his twenty-fourth
anniversary sermon. Subject, "A Brook
lyn Pastorate. The occasion was an
unusually interesting one, and the great
audience was visibly impressed during
the services. Over the pulpit in flowers
were the figures 1889 and 1888" The
tex, was Revelation iv, 4, "And round
about the throne were four and twenty
seats. and upon the seats saw four and
twenty elders"
This text I choose chiefly for the nu-
marals 1t mertions-name.y, four and
twenty. That was the number Of elders
seated around the throne of God, but
that is the number of years seated
around nv Brooklyn ministry. and ev-
cry pulpit is throne Of blessing or blast
ing. a throne OF good or evil. And today
in this my twenty-fourtb anniversary
sermon 24 years come and sit around
me. and they speak out in reminiscence
of gladneSs and tears. Twenty-four
wears ago l arrived in this city to shep-
herd such flock as might come, and
that day carried in on my arms the IN
fant son who in two weeks from today
will help ordain TO the gospel ministry,
hoping that he will be preaching long
after my poor work is done.
A MARVELLOUS WORK.
We have received into our membership
over 5000 souls. but they, think. are
only small portion Of the multitudes
who, corning from all parts Of the earth.
havein our house of God been blessed and
saved. Alt'.oogh We have as church
raised 81. 10000 for religious purp ses,
vet we az in the strange position of not
knowing whether l., two or three months
weshall have any church at all, and with
audiences of 6.000 o- 1000 people crowd
ed into this room and the adjoining
rooms we are confronted with the ques-
ton whether shall go on with my work
here or go to some other field Whara an
awful necessity that we should have been
obliged to build three immense churches,
two Of them destroyed by fire.
A misapprehension is abroad that the
financial eaigency of this cit'trch as past.
Through Journalistic and personal
friends q breathing spell has been :ford
ed as, bo,t before us get are financial OBJ
legations ,cl,ich must promptly be met, or
speedily this ;.oetSs of God arau go into
srorldly uses and become q Meater or c
concert hall. Tie 900 raised canaot
cancel floating debt Of $4,000
Through the kindaess of those to 1rhom
9re are indebted $50, 600 acould set ats for,
erer free. lam glad to sag that the cos2
is not hopeless We are daily an receipt
Of touching eridences Of practical sympo-
thy from aNclasSes Of thecommunity and
from oil sections of the country, ana II
acqs Jut yesterdop that by n'y o't7' land Z
sent for contributions gratefully rece'red
zeqrly 80 acknowledgements east, eceSt,
north and south. ;,
Our trust is IL the Lord VINO olvlded
the Red sea and "Inade the mountains
skip ike lambs" With this paragraph
dismiss the financial subject and return
20 the spiritual. This morning the great
ness of Gods kindness obliterates every
thing, and if wanted to.build q groan
l do not know in what forest would
hew the timber. or from what quarry
would Dig the foundation stone, or who
would construct for me ar organ with a
tremolo for the only stop. And SO this
morning occupy n-y time IN building
one great. massive, high, deep, broad,
heaven piercing halleluiah- In the re-
view of the last "a years think it may
be useful 70 consider some Of the char
acteristics of Brooklyn pastorate.
DEMANDS OF A BROOKLYN PAsToRATE.
In the first place remark that a
Brooklyn pastorate is always difficult
pastorate. No city under the sun has a
grander array of pulpit talent than
Brooklyn. The Methodists, the Bap-
fists. the Congregationalists, the Epis-
copalians. all the denominations send
their brightest lights here. He who
stands in any pulpit in Brooklyn preach
ing NAV know that he stands within 10
minutes walk Of sermons which Sau-
rin. and Bourdaloue, and John NJ.
Mason, and George Whitefeld would
not be ashamed of. No city under the
sun where poor sermon is such drug
on the market.
For forty years Brooklyn has been sur
charged with hoIniletics, an electricity
Of eloquence that struck every time it
flashed from the old pulpits which
quaked with the powers Of Bethune
and Cox, and Spencer. and Spear,
and Vinton, and a Farley, and Beech
er, not mentioning the namesof the mag
niicent men now manning the Brooklyn
pulpits. So during all the time there
has been something to appeal to every
mans taste and to crafty every mans
preference.
Now, let me say to all ministers of the
gospel who are ambitious for Brooklyn
III DIT that it is always difficult pas
to- lte. If a man shall come and stand
before any audience in almost any church
in Brooklyn, hewill find before him men
who have heard the mightiest themes
discussed in the mightiest way. "
will have before you, if you fail in an ar
gument, so logicians in fdset. If you
make slip in the use of commercial
figure of speech, there will be 500 mer-
chants who will notice it. If you throw
out an anchor or furl sail in the wrong
way, there will be ship captains right off
who viii wonder if you are as ignorant
of theology as you are of navigation! So
It will be place Of hard study. i you
5 are going to maintain yours If, you will
ind Brooklyn pastorate difficult pas
torate.
THOSE TALENTED JOURNALISTS.
remark still further, Brooklyn pas
torate is always q conspicuous pastorate.
The printing press of the country has no
greater force than that on the seacoast.
every pulpit wc-d, good or bad, wise OF
ignorant, kind or mean, is watched. The
reportor;sl CORDS of these cities Is ~