Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-24
TWENT'Y-FOUR YEARS
DR.. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT -ANNrvER-
=SAPY SERMON

Brooklyn Prominently intellectual
Center-How Those Shrewd and Talent
ed Newspaper Men Spread the Gospel
Even While Aiming at Their OwnAggr
BROOKLYN, April 23.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage today preached his twenty-fourth
anniversary sermon. Subject, ga Brook
1yn Passionate" The occasion was an
unusually interesting one, and the great
audience was visibly impressed during
the services. Over the pulpit in flowers
were the figures 1852 and 1888. The
text was Revelation iv, 4, 'sAnd round
about the throne were four and twenty
seats, and upon the seats / saw four and
twenty elders"
This text 4 choose chiefly for the nu-
meralss it mentions-namely, four, an.
twenty. That was the number of elders
seated around the throne of God, bat
that is the number of years seated
around my Brooklyn ministry, and eV-
cry pulpit is a throne of blessing or blast
ing, a throne of good or evil. And today
In this my twenty-fourth anniversary
sermon "a years come and sit around
me, and they speak out in a "Reminiscences
of gladness and tears. Twenty-four
years ago | arrived in this city to shep-
herd such flock as might come, and
that day carried in on my arms the in
FAINT son who in two weeks from today
will help ordain to the gospel ministry,
hoping that he will be preaching long
after my poor. work is done.
a MARVELLOUS WORK.
We have received into our membership
over 5000 souls, but they, think, are
only small portion of the multitudes
who, coming from all parts of the earth.
have in our houseOf God been blessed and
saved Although we have as church
raised 81 100000 for religious purposes,
yet we are in the strange position of not
knowing whether in two or three months
weshall have any church at all, and with
audiences of 5000 or 1000 people crowd
ed into this room and the adjoining
rooms we are confronted with the ques-
ton whether [ shall go on with my work
here or go to some other field. What an
awful necessity that we should have been
Obliged to build three immense churches,
two of them destroyed by fire.
A a1isdpprebenSi0n Is abroad that the
financial e.cigegcy Of this church as past.
friends breathing spell has been afford
ed as, but before as get are financial Oh
legations ac7tich must promptly be met, or
speedily THIS house Of God aUiU go into
s1orLdty asses and become q the0ter or
concert hall. The $12, 600 raised cannot
cancel floating debt Of $4,000.
Through the kindness Of those to aU1som
sUe are indebted $50, 600 aCOuld set as for
eUe1 free. I am glad to sag that the case
is not hopeless. We are daily IN receipt
of touching eUidences Of practical synepa-
thy from all classes of the community and
from all sections Of the country, and it
1Cus but yesterday that by nay oao1e hand I
sent for contributions gratefully received
nearly so Acknowledgements east, aUest,
north and south.
Our trust is in the Lord who divided
the Red sea and ''made the mountains
skip like lambs" With this paragraph I
dismiss the financial subject and return
to the spiritual. This morning the great
ness of Gods kindness Obliterates every
thing, and if / wanted to build groan
L do not know in what forest [ would
hew the timber, or from what quarry [
would dig the foundation stone, or who
would construct for me an organ with a
tremolo for the only stop. And SO this
morning occupy my time in building
one great, massive, high, deep, broad,
heaven piercing halleluiah. In the re-
view of the last "a years I think it may
be useful to consider some of the char
acteristics Of Brooklyn pastorate.
DEMANDS OF A BROOKLYN PASTORATE.
In the first place I remark that a
!: Il
pastorate. 10 city under the sun has a
.grander array of pulpit talent than
Brooklyn. The Methodists, the Bap-
lists, the Congregationalists, the Epis-
,copalians, all the denominations send
their brightest lights here. He who
stands in any pulpit in Brooklyn preach
ing may know that he stands within Is
minutes walk of sermons which q SaT1-
rim, and Bourdaloue, and John M
Mason, and a George Whitefield would
not be ashamed of. No city under the
sun where a poor sermon is such a drug
On the market.
For forty years Brooklyn has been sur
charged with homiletics, an electricity
of -eloquence that struck every time it
flashed from the old pulpits which
quaked with the powers of a Bethune,
md Cox, and a Spencer, and Spear,
and a Vinton, and q Farley, and. q Beech
er, not mentioning the namesof the mag
nifcent men now manning the Brooklyn
puipits. So during all the time there
has been something to appeal to every
mans taste and to crafty every mans
preference.
Now, let me say to all ministers of the
gospel who are ambitious for a Brooklyn
pulpit that it is always difficult pas
torate. If a man shall come and stand
before any audience in almost any church
In Brooklyn, hewill find before him men
who have heard the mightiest themes
discussed in the mightiest way. You