The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-05-04

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come over to Brooklyn t) repent OF
them!
Everybody comes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the terry gates on
Sabbath morning at 10 O'Clock, or Sab.
bath evening at 7 O'Clock, and you sec
north, south, east, west--Europc, Asia,
Africa, New Zealand, Australia-com.
ing to Brooklyn to spend the Sabbath,
o. part OF 1t, in the persons of their rep
resentatlves. 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 of their de-
nvcrauce from cyclone and 70" banks
OIL Newfoundland. Every song sung,
every prayer offered. every sermon
preached in New York and Brooklyn,
and all alo9U this sea coast, in some
shape goes all round the world. n
| Brooklyn pastorate is at the greatest alLi.
tudc OF cOnsplcuity.
Again remark that a BROOKLYN pas.
| toratc is characterized by brevity. Il
! bcthiHk myself of but three ministers OF
! the gospel now preaching here who were
| preaching when I came to BROOKLYN.
| Most OF the pulplts around me have
changed seven or eight times since my
arrival.
Sometimes the pastoratc has been
brlel Tor one reason and sometimes for
| another reason. Sometimes The minis
ters OF the gospel have been too good for
this world, and Heaven has transplantcd
| them. Sometimes they changed places
by the decree Of their denomination.
Sometimes they came with great blarc
OF trumDets, proposing ID carry every
thing before them, and got eXtnguishcd
before they were distinguished. Some
cot preached on! in two or three years
aud told the people all they knew
Some with holy speed did in short
time work which it takes great many
years TO do.
Whether for good or bad reasons a
brooklyn partorate is charac terizcd by
brcvity, 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
rCd them and lived on long enough to
bury almost everybody but himself.
Glorious old pastoratcs they were. Some
of us remember thcm-Dr. Spring,
Peter I.abaugh, Dominic Iabriskic,
Daniel Waldo, Abram llalsay. When
the snow melted from their iorehcaIs,
- it revealed the tl)wers Of an untadlng
: corOnal. PastO.ates OF 80. 40, 80, j5
years. continuance.
Some of them had to be helped into
the pulpit or into the carriage, they were
SO old and decrep't, but when the .ord'S
=, Gharlots halted one day in front OF tho
- parsonage they stepped in vigorous II:
. an athlete, and as we saw the wheels o
, fire whirlinG through tho gates OF tn,
= sunset we all cried out, "My father, M
, father! my father! the charoiots OF Israc
~, and the hOrscmcn thereof"
~ | remark AGAIN, Il Brooklyn pastoral,
10 is characterized by its happiness.
no city under the sun where pcopl,
i take such good care of their ministers
.s In proportion as the wOrl outside ma,
y curse, a congregation stands close up b,
n the man whom the believe in. Brook
% lyu society has tor its foundation lw
~ clcmcnts-thc Pnrltanic, which alway
:, means Il quiet Sabbath, and the llol
I landish, which means Il worS rShipiul pco
!, l'lc. On the top of t.Ils an admiXturG o
q all natiOnalitics- brawny scott, The
, solid Engiish, the vivaciOus Irish. thC
, polite French, the philosophic German
and N all this intcrminglny OF pOpua
ton the universal dominant theory that
a man can do as he plcascs, provided he
doesn't disturb anybody else.
y delightful climate. while |. is hard
on weak throats, for the most OF US it is
braclnG. Not an atmosphere made up
OF the discharged gases of chemical fac
tories or the mlaSmS O. SWa nps. but
coming painting right Off 5000 miles OF
Atlantic ocean before anybody else has
hat chance to breathe ii! All through
the city "A society OF kind, genial Tcncr.
OuS, sympathetic people. How they fly
to yen when You arc in trouble. How
they watch over YOU when you alc sick.
How tender they are with YOU when YOU
have buried You dead! BROOKLYN is a
good place to live in, a good place to
die in good place to be buried IN, Il
Good place from which to rise IN beau
THU resurrection.
In such city have been permitted
10 have 81 years Of pastOratc. During
these years how many hcartbrcaks, how
many losses, how many bereavemcnts!
Hardly family Of the church that has
not been struck with sorrow, but God
has sustained you IN the past, and he
VII! sustain vou in the future. | cXhOrt
You to DC OF good cheer, O thou of the
broken heart. "Wccping u1ay cadmc
tot night, but JOY comcth in the morn
n.y." | wish over every door of this
church we might have written the word
''NYmpalhY"-sympathy for all the
! young.
We must crowd them in here by
thousands and propose radiant gospel
that they will take on the spot. We
must make this place so attractive Tor
! the young that young man will come
here on Sabbath morning, put down his
hat, bush his halr back from his fore
head, unbutton his overboat and look
around wondering if he has not by mis-
take cot into heaven. He will see in
the faces OF the old people not the gloom
which some people take for religion, but
the sunshine of celestial peace, and he
will say, "Why, l wonder if that isn't
thc same peace that shone out on the
iacc OF my father aud mother when they
lay dying?"
And then there will come q damnness