The Globe-republican., 1893-06-02

Brooklyn and seeing them burn down,
until felt could endure the strain no
longer and I had written my resigna-
ton as pastor and had appointed to
read it two Saba tbs ago and close my
work in Brooklyn forever. felt that
my chief work was yet to be done, but
that could not do it with the Alps on
one shoulder and the Himalayas on the
other. But God has interferedand the
way is clear, and am here and expect
to be here until my work on earth Is
done.
WHY should I want to 60 away from
Brooklyn? have no sympathy with
the popular sentiment which defames
our beloved city. Some people make
it part of their religion to excoriate
and belittle the place of their residence,
and there has been more damage, d.
nancial and moral, done to our city by
this hypercriticism than can ever be es-
timated. The course of our city has
been onward and upward. We have q
citizenship made up of hundreds OF
thousands of as good men and women
as inhabit the earth, and feel honored
in being q citizen of Brooklyn, and pro
pose to stay here until join the popu-
lation in the Silent City out yonder, now
all abloom with spring fowers-sweet
types of resurrection!
NV thanks must be first to God and
then to all who have contributed by
large gift or small to this emancipation.
Thanks to the men, women and chill.
dren who have helped, and sometimes
helped with self sacrifices that l know
must have wen the applause of the
heavens. If you could only read with
me few of the thousands of letters
that have come to my desk in The
Christian Herald Office, you would know
how deep their sympathy, how large
their sacrifice has been. Il have sold
my bicycle and now send you the mon
ey." is the language of one noble
young man who wrote to The Christian
Herald. This is no dead sons gift to
me. and l have been led to send it to
you," writes mother in Rhode Island.
4 blind octogenarian invalid in York.
Pa. sends his mite and his prayer.
Thanks to all the newspaper press.
Have YOU noticed how kind and sympa-
thetic all'the secular newspapers have
been, and of course all the religious
newspapers, with two or three nasty
exceptions? You say that sometimes
newspapers get things wrong. Yes,
but which of us does not sometimes get
things wrong? If you want to find a
man who has never made a mistake, do
not waste your time by looking in this
pulpit. Thanks to the editors and re-
porters and publishers. Gentlemen
of the Brooklyn and New York print
ing press, if you never report any
thing else that l say, please to report
that. Yes, see you are getting it all
down.
AS a church we from this day make
new departure. We will preach more
instructive sermons. We will offer
more faithful prayers. We will do bet
ter work in all departments. We will
in the autumn resume our lay college.
We will fill all the rooms of this mag
nificent pile with work for God and
suffering humanity. More prayers have
| been offered for this church. and on
both sides of the sea, than for any
church that has ever existed, and all
those prayers will be answered. Clear
| the track for the Brooklyn tabernacle!
"Sing We to the Lord. for He hath tri-
umphed gloriously: the horse and his
/ rider hath He thrown into the sea-"
But do you not now really think that
Miriam of my text rejoiced too soon?
Do you not think she ought to have
waited till the Israelitish host got clear
over to Canaan before she struck her
knucAles against the timbrel or tam
BOURNE? Miriam! You do well to have
the tambourine ready. but wait little
before you play it. You are not yet
through the journey from Egypt to the
Promised Land. You will yet have to
drink out of the bitter water of Marah,
and many of your army will eat SC
heartily of the fallen quails that they
will die of collie, and you will at the
foot OF Sinai be scared with the thun-
der. and there will be fiery serpents in
the way and many battles to fight, and
last of all the muddy Jordan to cross
Miriam. l have 10 objections to the
tambourine. but do not jingle its bells
or thurnp its tightened parchment until
you are all through.
All. my friends. Miriam was right. Il
we never shouted victory till we got
clear through the struggles of this life
we would never shout at all. Copy thu
habit of Miriam and Moses. The mo
ment you get victory celebrate it
The time and place to hold a jubilee TO
the safe crossing of the Red sea is on it
beach and before you leave. 1t is aw
full, the delayed hosannahs, the helatet
hallelujahs, the postponed doxologies
the trains of thanksgiving coming in s.
long after they are due.
1t is said, do not rejoice over a reviv
al too soon: the new members nigh
not hold out. Do not thank God TO
the money you made to-day. for to
morrow you may lose 1t all and more
Do not be too grateful for your goo
health to-day, for tomorrow You ma
get the grip. Do not be too glad abou
your conversion, for you might fal
from grace. Do not rejoice too 500
over church's deliverance, becaus
%hcr, vv,;rh< ~, diSa Sf,rS vet IN come