The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-24

In6Y nave IOfEOJteQ all ABOUT wall oLftel
and Broadway and the shambles. If they
commit business sins in New York dur
ing the day, they come over to Brooklyn
to repent of them,
Everybody comes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the ferry gates on
Sabbath morning at ten o'clock, or Sab
bath evening at seven o clOck, and you see
north. south, east, weSt-Europe, Asa,
Africa. New Zealand, Australia-COmlng
to Brooklyn to spend the Sabbath, or part
of it in the persons Of.their representa-
tives Some of them fresh from the sea.
They have Just landed and they want 10
seek the house of God publicly TO thank
the Lord for their deliverance from
cyclone and fog banks of Newfoundland
Every song sung, every prayer offered,
every sermon preached in New York and
Brooklyn. and all along this seacoast, in
some shape goes all round the world. A
Brooklyn pastorate is at the greatest alti-
tude of COnspicuity
Again remark, that a Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized by brevitY.
/ bethink myself of but three ministers
of the gospel now preaching here, who
were preaching when l came to Brooklyn.
Most of the pulpits around me have
changed seven or eight times since my ar
rival.
Sometimes the pastorate has been brief
for one reason, and sometimes for another
reason. Sometimes the ministers of the
gospel have been too good for this world,
and heaven has transplanted them. Some
times they changed places by the decree
of their denomination. Sometimes they
came with great blare of trumpetS, pro
posing to carry everything before them,
and got extinguiShed before they were
distinguished Some got preached out in
two or three years, and told the people all
they knew Some with holy speed did in
a short time work which it takes great
many years to do.
Whether for good or bad reasons, a
Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by
brevity: not much of the old plan by
which a 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
ried them, and lived on long enough to
bury almost everybody but himself
Glorious old pastOrates they were. Some
of US remember them-Dr. Spring, Peter
Labaugh, Dominic Zabriske, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey When the snow
melted from their foreheads it revealed
the flowers of an unfading CorOnal Pas
torates of thirty, forty, fifty, tifty-tive
years continuance Some of them had to
be helped into the pulpit or into the car
rage, they were so old and decrepit; but
when the Lords chariot halted one day
in vigorous as an athlete, and as we saw
the wheels of fire whirling through the
gates of the sunset we all cried out, My
father, my father the chariots of Israel
and the horsemen thereof"
remark again; Brooklyn pastorate
is characterized by its happiness.
NO city under the sun where people
take such good care of their ministers, in
proportion as the world outside may
curse, a congregation stands close up by
the man whom they believe in. Brooklyn
society has for its foundation two ele-
ments-the PuritaniC, which always
means a quiet Sabbath; and the Holland
ish, which means a worshipful people
On the top of this an admiXture of all
nationalities-the brawny Scot, the solid
English, the VivaCOus Irish, the polite
French the philosophic German, and, in
all this intermingling of population, the
universal dominant theory that man
can do as he pleases, provided he doesn't
disturb anybody else
A delightful climate While it is hard
on weak throats for the most of us it is
bracing. Not an atmosphere made up of
the discharged gases of chemical faCtO-
ries, or the miasms Of swamps, but com
ing painting right off three thousand miles
of Atlantic ocean before anybody else has
had a chance to breathe it! All through
the city society of kind, genial, generous,
sympathetic people How they fly to YOU
when you are in trouble. How they watch
over you when you are sick. How tender
they are with you when you have buried
your dead. Brooklyn is a good place to
live in, good place to die in, good place
to be buried in, good place from which
to rise III the beautiful resurrection.
In such city l have been permitted to
have twenty-four years Of pastorate. Dur
ing these years how many heartbreaks.
how many losses, how many bereave-
mentsl Hardly a family of the church
that has not been struck with sorrow.
But God has sustained you in the past,
and he will sustain you in the future |
eXhort you to be of good cheer, O thou of
the broken heart weeping may endure
for night, but JOY cometh in the morn
Ing" | wish over every door of this
church we might have written the word
"sympathy." Sympathy for all the
young
We must crowd them in here by thou
sands, and propose radiant gospel that
they will take on the spot We must
make this place so attractive for the
young that young man will come here on
Sabbath morning, put down his hat, brush
his hair back from his forehead, mbut-
ton his overcoat, and look around wonder
ing if he has not 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 sunshine of celestial
peace, and he will say, "Why, | wonder
1f that isn't the same peace that shone
out on the face of my father and mother
when they lay dying2" And then there
will come dampness in his eyes through
which he can hardly see, and he win 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 mel" We ought to 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.
dhey cannot hear or walk or see as well
as they used to. We must be reverential
In their presence. On dark days we must
help them through the aisle, and helr
them find the place in the hymn book
Some Sabbath morning we shall miss
them from their place, and we shall saw
''Where is Father So-and-so to-day2n and
the answer viii be: what, haven't YOU
heard The kings wagons have taken
Jacob up to the palace, where his Joseph
Is yet alive
Sympathy for business men. Twenty.
four years of commercialifein New York
and Brooklyn are enough to tear ones
nerves to pieces. We want TO make om
Sabbath service here a rescue for a these
martyrs of traffic, foretaste of that land