The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-26

greatest altitude or cOnSplculJy.
Again remark that Brooklyn pastor
ate 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 arrival
Sometimes the pastoraee 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 cune
with great blare of trumpets, proposing to
carry everything before them, and got tex
tinguished 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 n Brook
lyn pastorate is characterized by brevity,
not much of the old plan by which a min
lister Of the gospel baptized an infant, then
received him into the church, after he had
become an adult married him, baptized his
children, married them and lived on long
enough TO bury almost everybody but him
self Glorious old pastorates they were.
Some of Us remember them-Dr. Spring,
Peter Labaugh, Dominic Zabriskie, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey. When the snow
melted from their foreheads, it revealed tine
flowers of an unfading coronaI. Pastorates
of 80, 40, 50. % years continuance.
Some of them had TO be helped into the
pulpit or into the carriage, they were so old
and decrepit but when the Lords chariots
halted one day in front of the old parson-
age they stepped 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 fatherl the chariOts of
Israel and the horsemen thereof"
/ remark again, Brooklyn pastOrate is
characterized by its happiness.
BROOKLYN a PLACE FOR HAPPINESS.
No city under the sun where people take
such good care of their ministers. In pro-
portion as the world outside may curse, n
congregation stands close up by the man
whom they believe in. Brooklyn society
has for its foundation two elements-the
Puritanic, which always means a quiet
Sabbath, and the Hollandish, which means
worshipfui people On the top of this an
admixture of all nationalities-the brawny
Scot, the solid English, the vivacious Irish,
the polite French, the philOsophic German,
and in all this intermingling of population
the universal dominant theory that a man
can do as he pleases, provided he doesn't
disturb anybody else.
delightful climate. While it is hard
on weak Threats, for the most of us it is
bracing Not an atmosphere made up of
the discharged gases of chemical factories
or the miasms of swamps, but coming
painting right off 5000 miles of Atlantic
ocean before anybody else has had chance
to breathe It'll All through the city so
cety of kind, genial. generous, sympathetic
people How they fly to you when you are
IL troubled How they watch over you
when you are sick! How tender they are
with you when you have buried your dead.
Brooklyn is good place to live in, good
place to die in. good place to be buried in,
q good place from which to rise in a beau
tiful resurrection.
In such city have been permitted to
have q years of pastorate. During these
years how many heartbreaks, how many
losses, how many bereavementsl Hardlya
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, q thou of the broken heart. Weep
ing may endure for q night, but Joy cometh
in the morning" ] wish over every door
Of this church we might have written the
word ympathy''-sympathy for all the
young
We must crowd them in here by thou
sands and propose a radiant gospel that
they will take on the spot. We must make
this place so attractive for the young that
a young man will come here on Sabbath
morning, put down his hat, brush his hair
back from his forehead, unbutton his over
coat and look around wondering if he has
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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 if that isn't the
same peace that shOne out on the face Of
my father and mother when they lay dy-
ingl'
And then there vii come a dampness in
his eyes through which he can hardly see.
and he will 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 plot here for the religious capture
of all the young people in Brooklyn.
THE sYMPATHIEs OF BROOKLYN.
Yes, sympathy for the old They have
their aches and pains and distresses. They
used to. We must be reverential in their
presence. On dark days we must help
them through the aisle and help them find
the place in the hymnboOk. Some Sab
bath morning we shall miss them from
their place, and we shall say, Where is
Father SO-and-so todayF and the answer
will be: What, haven't you heardi The
Kings wagons have taken Jacob up to the
palace where his Joseph is yet alive"
Sympathy for business men. Twenty
four years of commercial life in New Yorl,
and Brooklyn are enough to tear ones
nerves to pieces. We want TO make our
Sabbath service here a rescue for all these
martyrs of traffic foretaste of that land
where they have no rents to pay, and there
are no business rivalries, and where riches,
instead of taking wings to fly away, brood
over other riches
Sympathy for the fallen, remembering
that they ought to be pitied as much as a
man run over with rail train. The fact is
that in the temptations and misfortunes of
life they get run over. You and I'm the
came circumstances would have done as
badly; we should have done worse perhaps.
If you and had the same evil surround
ings and the same evil parentage that they
had and the same native born proclivities
to evil that they had, you and should have
keen in the penitentiary or outcasts Of soci-
ETY.. NO" says some self righteous man,
~ couldn't have been overthrow in tlat
way" You old hypocrite, you would have
been the first to fall!