Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-05-13

which it takes a great many years to do.
Whether for good or bat reasons a Brook
lvn pastorate is characterized by brevltv.
not much Of the old plan by which a minis
ter Of the gospel teptiied An infant, then re-
c~isHi hsn into the church, after be had be-
come an adult married him, b~aptlzsi his
children, married them and lived on long
enough to bury almost everybody but him.
self. Glorious cid pastorares they were.
SINE of Us remember Spring,
Peter fLabauGh, Dominic Zabrisste, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Haisey.
When the snow ,neitef from their fore
heads, it revealed the flowers Of an unsadiug
coronal. Pastorates OF 80, a, ~, 55 years
continuance. Some Of them had to bs
helped into the pulpit or into the carriage
they were 50 old ani decrepit. bat when the
Lords chariots haltei one day in front of
the old parsonage they stepped IN vigorous
a. Cd athlete, an as we saw the wheels OF
ire whirling through the gates Of the sun.
set we all cried ont MY father, my father,
the charsct5 Of Israel and thu ho-senen
thereof"
remari, again. a Brooklyn pastorate is
characterize by its happiness.
No city under the sun where people take
such good care OF their ministers. In pro-
,ortion as the word outside NAV curse a
congregation stands close up by the man
whom they believe ii. rrochlyr s1ciety
FaS 1fT rs IOHliatiCu tEo e-etItItS-tHo
Puritanie, which always means a quiet. Sab
bath. and the Hollandisn. which means a
worshipful p -op,e. On the top o. this an
ainisture Of all ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS brawny
Scot. the solid English, the vivaciouS Irish,
the polite French, the philosophic Garnar
and u ell tits interm1ngllng OF population
the universal dominant theory that a man
eau do as be pleaSes pr0vIiet he doesn't dis
turb anybody else.
A delightful climate. While it is hari on
weak throats, for the most o. us it IS
hracing. Not an atmosphere made uD CT
The discharged gasesof chemical factories or
the miasrns Of swan1ps, but coming painting
right off 1000 miles of atlantic Ocean be-
tore ANYBODY else has had n chance to
breathe it All through the city a society
OF kind, genial, generous. sympathetic
people. How they hy to you when YOU are
IN troubles How they watch over you when
you are sick, How tender they are with
You when you have buried your deadl
Brooklyn is a good place to live in, n good
place to die il, a cool place to be buried in,
n good place from which to rise in the
beautiful resurrection.
In such a city | have been permitted to
have "A years of paStOrate. During these
years how many heartbreaks, how many
losses, how many ~hereavement>! Hardly q
family of the church that has not been
struck with sorrow. But God has sustained
YOU in the past, AMI He Will sustain you in
the future. / exhort you to be of good
cheer, Oh thou of the broken heart. "Weep.
ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh
in the morning" | wish over every door Of
this church we might have written the
word 'Sympathy"-sympathy for all tho
young.
We must crowd them in hero by thou
sands and propose a radiant gospel that
they will take on the spot. We must make
this place so attractive for the young that a
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 hassnot 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 sun
shine of celestial peace, aud he will say,
"Why, | wonder if that isn't the same peace
that shone out on the face Of my father and
mother. when they lay dying"
And then there will come a dampness in
bis eyes through which he can hardly see,
and he will close his eyes to imprison the
emotion, but the hot tear will break through
the fringes of eyelashes and 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 a plot here for the religious capture
of all the young people In Brooklyn.
Yes. sympathy for the old. They have
their aches and pains and distresses. They
cannot hear or walk or see as we'll as they
used to. We must BE- reverential in their
presence. On dark days We must help them
through the aisle and 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 today" and the answer will be: "What,
haven't you heard? The Kings wagons
have taken Jacob up to the palace where bis
Joseph is yet alive"
Sympathy for business men. Twenty
four years of commercial life in New Yorl
and Brooklyn are enough to tear ones
nerves to pieces. We want to make our
Sabbath service here e. rescue for ell these
martyrs of traffic, q foretaste OF ths t laud
where they have no rents to pay, and there
are no business rIvalrles, and where riches,
instead of taking wings to fly away, brood
over other riches.
sympathy for the fallen, remembering
that they ought to be pitied as much as
man run over with a rail train. The fact i
that in the temptations and ml>fOrtunes o.
life they get run over. You and | in tn,
same circumstances would have lone a:
badly. We should have done worse perhaps
If you and | hal the same evil surrounding
ana the same evil parentage that they hac
and the same native born prociivities to evi
that they had, you and l should have beer
III the penltentlary or outcasts Of society
No." says some self righteous man, s.
couldn't have been overthrown In that way.
You old hypocrite. you would have been tn
first to fall
We want in this church to have svmpath,
for the worst man. remembering he is
brother; sympathy for the worst woman
remembering she is a sister. Ii that is moi
the gospel, + do not know what the gospe
is. All, yes, sympathy for all the troubled,
for the orphans in their exposure, fol
w%idowhood with its weak arm + fighting fol
bread, for the household which erst re
sounded with merry voices and patterins
feet now awfully still-broad-wingei sym
pathy, like the feathers or the Almighty
1Sarm-blooded sympathy, everlasting sym
pathy; sympathy which shows itself IN tn,
grasp of the hand, in the glittering tear O
the eye, in the consoling word of tn
mouth; sympathy of blankets for the cold
OF bread for the hungry. OF medicine for tn
sick, of rescue for the lost. Sympathy.
Let 1t thrill in every sermon. Let
tremble in every song. Let it CLEAN in ever
tear and IN every lignt. sympathy, Me-
and women ara si-hin- for sympathy
gToaninG for sympathy DYING for sym
patny, tunlpHng of into uncleanIlness and
crime AMI periition for lack Of sympathy,
May Col give it Il US Fill all this pulpi.
with 1t from step II step. Let the sweep o,
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