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

TIE BROOKLYN DIF1NES sun
DAY SERMON,

TEXT: "1n1 round about ts4 throne ,rere
four and trentu se~t-. and upon the seats
JsnU fo1sr rp~ f4enty NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
w.. 4.
This text ! choose chiefly for the numerals
Ct mentions-namely, four and twenty. That
was the numbar IF elders seated around the
throne ~ Col, but that is the. rtniber Of
years seated around nv Brooklyn ministry.
ard every pulpit is throne Of blessing or
blasting. a throne ~ good or evil. And r.
day in this my t~wenty-fourth Anniversary
sermon - wears come and sC around me.
AMI THE; eTaak pat .n n raminiscence Of
cladness an te.Fs. Twenty-four years ac5
! arrived IL this city to shcphai -r1h a iock
a. m'sat come, AMI that ~ j carried in on
my arms The infant On who in two weeks
from to.dav ! will help oriain 10 the gospel
ministry, hoping thst he will be preaching
son1 aft my poor work is done.
We have received into our membership
ovcr1DD souls. hut they. THINK, ara only a
small rortlon Of the rnn,titn les who. con-
ingf from al parts Of the Garth, have il tir
hous: o. Col been blessed and saved.
Although we have a achurcn raised s., lO}.-
tp for reH-f Is purpose. yet W. are in tn.
stranea position o. nol knowing whether
IN i"n or tire" months W. shall have any
churci II all. and with al iiencas of 500 or
100 pc2ple crowded INTO this recrA at taa
adjoining rooms We arc confronted with
the question vtlcthet ! shall 70 on with my
""rk here cr g, - som otner field. What
an hHl"l necessity that we should nave
non ohhgel to build tire, immense
churches, two of them I~c:troyc tbv fire.
\ mi>apprehension'i abroad that the
i%.nanctat cxigency o. this church Is past.
Through journalistic and rer.o4al friends a
hreathln< ep@t has been 1ff ,ri~lu< :, but be-
lore u Yet ale tinancial obligations which
must promptly be met, or specify this house
OF Vol VIII 70 into " ri4lr u-.s and become
a 4FtT or - .Ir1 -. Et- a' ~ ~ aEaA
ra,Sei cannot cancel q floating ,labt of
$1,000. Through thr Kin inaSs Of those to
whom ~ are irt.hte 10000 would set rs
forever free. ! an 4ia to say that the case
i not hopeless. We are daily in receipt of
touc ainG evidences Of practical sympathy
from all classes or tnc community an | from
al sections OF the country, and it was but
yesterday that by my hand | sent for
contributions gratefully rec lived nearly -
Acknowledgements east, west, north and
south.
Our trust is i'll the Lori who divided the
Pe!Sct AMI INA lie tn mountains skip like
lamb-.' With this paragraph | dismiss the
financial suffice. and return to the spiritual.
ms morning the greatness of COTS kind
mes Gbtlteratese everything. ann if | wanted
to build a groan | 10 not know in what for
est won!d hew the timber, or from what
quarry would DIG the Foundation stone, or
WHO would construct for me an organ with
+. - ~ 'tAiS ~ tAI4 ~ lltS
mornlnG | occupy my time in building one
great, massive, high, deep, broai, heaven
piercing halleluiah. In the review of the
last Il years 1 think it may b. useful to
consider some of the characteristic; Of a
Brooklyn pastOrate.
In the first place | remark that a Brook
Iyn pastorate IS always a difficult pastorate.
No city under the sun has a grander array
of pulpit talent than Brooklyn. The Metho-
dist, the Baptist, the Congrecntionalist, the
Episcopalians, a. the denominations send
their brightest lights here. He who stands
in any pulpit III Brooklyn preaching may
know that he stands within fifteen minutes
walk OF sermons which a Saurin, and a
Bourlalone, and a John NJ. Mason and a
George Whiteiield would not be ashamed of.
No city under the sun where a poor sermon
Is such a drug on the market.
For forty years Brooklyn has been sur
charged with homiletics, an electricity Of
elo4uencc that struck every time it flashed
from the old puipits which quaked with the
powers of n Bethune, and a Cox. and a
Spencer, AMI a Spear, and a VintoD, n a
Farley, and a Beecher, not mentioning the
magnificent ms now manning the BROOKLYN
pulpits. So durin, all the time there has
been something to appeal to every mans
taste and to gratlty every mans preference.
Now. let me~say to all ministers of the
gospel who are ambitious for a Brooklyn
pulpit that 1t Is always a difficult pastorate.
III a man shall come and stand before any
audience in almost any church in Brooklyn
be VIII find before him men who nave heard
the mightieSt themes discussed in the
lnightiest way. N0u will have before YOU.
II you fail In an argument, fifty logicians in
n tidget. If YOU make a slip in the use of a
colnmerciai figure of speech, there will be
$40 merchants who Will notice it. If you
throw out an anchor or furl a sail in the
wrohS way, there viii be ship captains right
OF who VIII wonder il you are as ignorant
OF theology a. you are Of navigatiOnt So
it VIII he n pace of hard study. Ii you
are gong 10 maintain yourself. you will
lind n Brooklyn pastorate q diff cult pas.
torate.
lremark still further, a Brooklyn pasto-
rate Is always a conspicuous pastorate. The
printing press OF the country has no greater
force than on the scacoaSt. Every pulpit
word. good or bal. visa or Ignorant, kind
or mean, Is watched. The reportorial corp.
of these cities l. an organized army. Many
of them have collegiate education and largt
culture, and they are able to weigh ORATOR
CrpaidreSs or sermon. Ii you say a silly
thhg, You VIII never neoC the end of If, and
If YOU say a WIS., tlin5 i. VIII 90 into per
petuai multiplication. There is no neei O
deCrylng that fact. Men whose influeuc
has been huilt by the printing press sp4n
the rest o. their lives in denouncing news,
papers. The newspaper Is the pulpit On the
WING. More preaching done on Monday
than On sunday. The onnlvorous, all eye
printing press is ever vi-llant.
Besides that, a Brooklyn pastorate i
always conspicuous Ia ta- fact that every
body comes here. Brooklyn Is New Yorl
in its better moot. Strangers have not seer
New York until toey nave seen Brooklyn
The East Rlv W IS the chasm in which gu
merchants drop their cares, and theil
anxletle>. and their business troubles an
by the time they have greeted their familie
in the home circle they have forgotten al
about Wall street an. Broadway and tn
shamtle>. II they commit business sins il
New York during the day, they come owe
10 Brooklyn IL repent Of them.
Everybody cpmes here. Stand at tn
bridge entrance or AT the ferry gates o
Sabbath morning at l0oo'clock. or Sabbat
evening ut : o'clock AMI you Sc north
south. east. west-Europe, Asia, Africa
New Zealand, notwithstanding to Broos
lyn 70 spend the sabbath, or part Of it in tn
persons Of their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Q
them fresh from the >ea. Tney have ju:
landed, ami they want 10 seek the housa {
Col publicly TO thank the Lord for the
deliverance from cyclones and fo- banks q
Newfoundland. Every son. sung, ever
prayer ciferti, every sermon preached
New Eora ami BROOKLYN and all along th
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