Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-04-27

...SsiaIe education and large culture, anu
thev are able to weigh grafton or address
or sermon. If you say a silly hing, you
will never hear the end of it, and if you
say a wise thing it viii go Into perpetual
multiplication. There is no need OF de-
CRYING that fact. Men whose influence
has been built by the printing press
spend the rest of their lives in denounc-
ing newspapers. The newspaper IS the
pulpit on the wing. More preaching done
on Monday than on Sunday. The ON
nivorous, all eyed printing press is ever
vgilant.
Besides that, a Brooklyn pastorate Is
alwavs conspicuous in the fact that ev-
ervbody comes here. Brooklyn is New
York in its better mood. Strangers have
not seen New York until they have seen
BROOKLYN. The East river is the chasm
in which our merchants drop their cares,
and their anxieties, and their business
troubles, and by the time they have
greeted their families in the home circle
they have forgotten all about Wall street
and Broadway and the shambles. II
they commit business sins in New ork
during the day, they come over to Brook
lyn to repent of them.
Everybody comes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the ferry gates on
Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock, OF Sab
bath evening at 2 o'clock and you see
north, south, east, west-Europe, Asia,
Africa, New Zealand, Australia--com-
ing to Brooklyn to spend the Sabbath, OF
part of it in the persons of their repre-
sentatives-some of them fresh from the
sea. They have just landed, ano they
want to seek the house OF God publicly to
thank the Lord for their deliverance
from cyclone and fog banks off New
foundland. Every song sung, every
PRAYER offered, every sermon preached
in New York and Brooklyn and all along
this sea coast in some shape goes all
round the world. a Brooklyn pastorate
is ct the greatest altitude of conspicuity.
A PLACE FOR SHORT PASToRATEs.
Again I remark JLas Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized by brevity. Ibe-
think 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
arrival.
Sometimes the pastorate has been brief
for one reason and sometimes for an
other reason. Sometimes the ministers
Of the gospel have been too good for this
world. and heaven has transplanted them.
Sometimes they changed places by the
decree of their denomination. Some
times they came with great blare OF
trumpets, proposing 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
brevitv, not much of the old plan by
which a minister of the gospel baptized
an infant, then received him into the
church, after ne had become an adult
married him, baptized his children, mar
RED them and lived On long enough to
bury almost every ody but himself.
Glorious old pastorates they we-e. Some
of US remember them-Dr. Spring, Peter
Labaugh, Dominic Zabriskie, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey.
When the snow melted from their
foreheads, it revealed the flowers Of an
unfading coronal. PaStorates of 80, 40
so. SIS wears continuance. Some Of them
had to be helped into the pulpit or into
the carriage, they were so old and de
crepit, but when the Lords chariots halt
ed one day in front of the old parsonage
they stepped in vigorous as an athlete,
and as we saw the wheels Of fire whlrlirs
through the gates Of the sunset we all
cried out, my father, my father, the
chariots of Israel and the horsemen there-
off,
remark again, Brooklyn pastorate Is
characterized by its happiness.
Nc city under the sun where peopis
take such good care Of their ministers. In
nronortion rs she world outside ma"
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 alma.
tionalities-the brawny Scot, the solid
English, the vivacious Irish, the polite
French. the philosophic German-and II
all this intermingling Of population the
universal dominant theory that mar
can do as he pleases provided ne doesn
disturb anybody else.
A BRAcISG CLIMATE.
A delightful climate. While 1t Is hard
on weak throats. for the most of us 1t Is
bracing. Not an atmosphere made np
Of the discharged gases of chemical ...c-
tories or the miasins OF swamps, ou.
coming painting right of 5000 miles OF
Atlantic ocean before anybody else has
had chance to breathe it! AL through
the city society of kind, genial, gener-
Gus, 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 in the beautiful
resurrection.
In such city I have been permitted
to have "a years of pastorate. During
these years how many heartbreaks, how
many losses. how many bereavements.
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
10 be of good cheer, o thou of The broken
heart. Weeping may endure for night,
but loy cometh in the morning" wish
over every door of this church we might
have written the word Sympathy
sympathy for all the young.
We must crowd them in mere 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 her
on Sabbath morning, put down his hat.
brush his hair back from his forehead,
unbutton his overcoat and Look around
wondering if he mas not by mistake got
,nIo heaven. He will see in the faces of
the old people not the gloom which some
nao,,la +ol,a for rali0ion h,1t the sunshine