Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-24
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAeE CELEBRATES HIS
path ANNIVERSARY THERE.
he Feels Like Offering Long and Loud
Haneluiah, for the Taisat Of the
world Centers at brooklyn.

BROOKLYN, April 28.-Rcv. DR.. Taimape
today preached his twenty-fourth anniver-
sary sermon. Subject, "a BROOKLYN Pas
torate." 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 '1s6gn
and 1888" The text was Revelation ~, 4.
And round about the throne were four and
twenty seats, and upon the seats l saw four
and twenty elders."
This text choose chiefly for the numer-
ais II mentions-namely, four and twenty.
That was the number Of elders seated
around the throne Of God. But That is the
number Of years seated around my Brook
Ign ministry, and every pulpit Is a throne
OF blessing or blasting, throne Of good or
evil. And today, IN this my twenty fourth
anniversary sermon, "a years come and sit
around mo, and. they speak out In q remins-
cence Of glndness and tgara Tweuty-four
yoars ago / arrived In this city 60 shepherd
such flock az might como, and TINT day
carried in ON my arms tho infant son who
In two weeks from today win help ordain
20 the gospel ministry, hoping that he will
DO preaching long after my poor work Is
done.
We have received into our membership
over 5000 souls, but they, think, arc only
n small portion OF tho multitudes who
coming from all parts OF the earth, have
| in our house OF God been blest and saved
/ Although we have "a a church raised
! si,l00,0OO Tor religious purposes, yet we are
/ in the strange position OF not knowing
whether Ia two or three months W. shall
have any church at all, and with audiences
OF COCO or 1900 people crowded into this
room and tho adjoining rooms we are con
| fronted with the question whether shall
| 10 on with my work here or 20 10 some
other field What an awful necessity that
we should have been Obliged 10 build three
! immense churches, two Of them destroyed
BY fircl
4 Interpretation II abroad that thC
financial crigopcU Of ms church Is past.
Through journalistic and personal
friends a breathing spcu has been afford
cd as, bat before tts yet arc financial Oh.
legations tDhich must promptly DC met, on
speedily this house Of God tCiu 90 into
1CorldlU uses aud become hcdtcr or a
concert hall. Tho $1,000 raised cunuOt
cancel q floating debt Of Si4OO 900. Through
nc kinducss Of those % WhOm tpc are iu
dcbtcd 10000 tCOttld sec us foTcUcr free
am glad 10 SAP that dc case Is not hope
less We arc daily Ia receipt NJ touching
evidences Of practical sympathy from al
classes Of nc community and from al
sections Of tho country. and 10 1Cds bt
yesterday that bg mn olDn hand sent
for contributions gratefully received
nearly 90 acknowledgment east, tccS
north aud s0iith.
A DAY FOR HALLELutAH.
Our trust Is In tho Lord, who divided th,
Rcd sea and made the mountains ski
like lambs" With this paragraph l dis
miss the financial subject and return 90 th
spiritual. This morning the greatness o
Gods kindness obliteratos everything an,
II / wanted 4 build groan l do not know
IN what forest would hew the timber, o
from what quarry would dig the foundH
ton stone, OF who would construct for m
an organ wit trcmolo for tho only stop
and so this morning occupy my time II
building one great, massive, high, deep
broad. heaven piercing hRlleluiah. In th
review OF the last "a years / think II ma!
be useful 20 consider some Of tho character
istica Of a Brooklyn pastornte.
IN the first place, remark that Brook
lyn pastorate Is always Rdillcult pastorato
No city under the sun has grandcr ARA.
I
odists. tho Baptists, the Conregationalists
the Episcopalians, all the denomination
send their brightest lights here He VIII
stands ia Anypulpit ia brooklyn preaching
may know that he stands within 10 minutes
walk Of sermons which a Saurln, and
Bourdalouo, and a John NJ Mason, and
George Whiteleld would not be aAhamo
OF No city under tho sun whore a poor ser
mon Is such drug on the market
For 80 years Brooklyn has been SUI
charged with homiletics, an electricity o
eloquenco that struck every time II laahe
m tho old pulpits which quaked Wit
the powers OF n Bothune and a Cox, and
Spencer, and Spear, and NintOn, and
Farley, aud a Beecher not Mentioning IA
names OF the magnificent men now mar
ming the Brooklyn pulpits. So during al
the time there has been something TO AZ
peal 70 every mans taste and 10 gratif
every mana preference.
Now, let me say 10 all ministers OF th
gospel who arc ambitious for Brookly
pulpit that u 80 always difficult pastor
ate Ifa man shall come and stand befor
any audience in almost any church 4
BROOKLYN, he will find before him men VIII
have heard Tho rllghtiest themes disousse
, I'm the mightlest way. You will have b
fore you, II you fail IN an argument {
logiolans in a fldget. If you make a slip !
tho use OF a commercial figure OF speecf
there Will be 500 merchants who will motto
IL. II you throw out an anchor or furl
sail In the wrong way, there viii be shi
captains right of who will woodcr II 20
are as ignorant Of theology as you arc
navigadonl So It will be n place Of har
D study. II yen ara going 70 maintain you
self, Won will find Brooklyn pastorate
difficult pastoratn,
A PROMINENT PULPIT.
J. I remark still further, brooklyn pa
torate Is always a conspicuous pastorat
The printing press Of the country has n
!, greater force than that on the seaooas
Every pulpit word, good OF bad, wise {
ignorant, kind or mean, h watched III
!, reportorial corps Of these cities Is an orpli
ired army. Many Of them have ooilegial
education and large culture, and they az
able 10 weigh Grafton or address or serrnoi
. II you say silly thing, you will never he'
a the end OF Il, and II you say wise thlng
Win 10 into peEpetual multiplication The
is no need Of deerying that fact hen WHO
influence has been built by the printiI
o press spend tho rest Of their lives In q