Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-02

beloved city. Some people make it
| part of their religion to excoriate and
Uelittle the place of their residence,
and there has been more damage,
financial and moral, done to our city
by this hypercriticism than can ever
be estimated. The course of our city
has been onward and upward. We
have a citizenship made up of hun
dreds of thousands of as good men and
women as inhabit the earth, and feel
honored in being citizen of Brook
Ign, and propose to stay here until |
join the population in that Silent City
out yonder, now all abloom with
spring tiowers-sweet types of resur-
rectionl
My thanks must be, first to God and
then TO all who have contributed by
large gift or SIN I'll to this emancipa-
ton. Thanks TO the men, women and
children, who have helped, and some
times helped with self acrifice that l
know msst have won the applause of
the heavens. If you could only read
with me few of the thousands of let
tiers that have come 10 my desk in the
Christian Herald Office, you would
know how deep their sympathy, how
large their sacrifice has been. II have
money" is the language of one noble
! young man who wrote to the Chris
tian Herald. This is my dead sons
gift to me, and have been led to send
it to you," writes mother in Rhode
! Island. A blind octogenarian invalid
| in York, Pa, sends ais mite and his
prayer. Thanks to all the newspaper
press. Have you noticed how kind
and sympathetic all the secular news
papers have been, and of course, all
the religious newspapers, with two or
three nasty exceptions? You say that
newspapers sometimes 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, reporters, and
publishers. Gentlemen of the Brook
Ign and New York printing-press, if
you never report anything else that
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
better work in all departments. We
will, in the autumn, resume our Lay
| College. We will fill all the rooms of
this magnificent pile with work of
God and suffering humanity More
| prayers have been offered fer this
church, and on both sides the sea, than
toI any church that has ever existed,
and all those prayers viii be answered.
! Clear the track for the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle! Sing We TO the Lord, for he
hath triumphed gloriously; the horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the
sea"
But do you not now really think
that the 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 knuckles against the
! timbrel or tambourine? Miriam! You
do well TO have the tambourine ready,
I but wait little before you
| 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 so
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! / have no objections
TO the tambourine, but do not jingle
its bells or thump its frightened parch-
ment until you are all through. All,
my friends, Miriam was right. If we
never shouted victory till we got clear
through the struggles of this life, we
would never shout at all. Copy the
habit of Miriam and Moses. The mo-
ment you. get a victory, celebrate it.
The time and place to hold a jubilee
| for the safe crossing of the Red Sea is
on its beach and before you leave it.
1t is awful, the DELAYED hosannahs!
The belated hallelujahs! The post
poned doxologies! The trains of
thanksgiving coming in so long
after they are due! 1t is said,
do not rejoice over a revival too
soon, for the new members might n OF
hold out. Do not thank God for the
money you made to-day, for tomorrow
you might lose it all and more. Do
not be too grateful for your good
health to-day, for tomorrow you may
| get the grippe. Do not be too glad
about your conversion, for you might
fall from grace. Do not rejoice too
soon over church deliverance, because
there might be disasters yet to come.
Oh, let us have no more adjourned
| gratitude. The time to thank God for
a rescue from temptation is the mo-
ment after you have broken the wine
| flask. The time TO thank God for your
salvation is the moment after the first
flash of pardon. The time to be CRATE
full for the comfort of your bereft soul
is the first moment of Christ's appear
ance at the mausoleum of Lazarus.
The time for Miriam's tambourine to
sound its most jubilant note is the mo-
ment the last lsraelite puts his foot on
the sand of the parted inland ocean.
Alas! that when Gods mercies have
such swift wings, our praises should
have such leaden feet.
Notice that Mriam's song in nv
text had for its burden the overthrown
cavalry. 1t was not so much the in
fantry or the men on foot over whose
defeat she rejoiced with ringing tim
| brel, but over the man on horseback
the mounted troopsl THE horse and
his rider hath he thrown into the sea-"
There is something terrible in a caval-
ry charge. You see it is not like a SOL
| der afoot thrustinp n bavonat IN.