The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-04-26

perpetual multiplication. There is no
need of decrying that fact Men whose
influence has been built by the print
ing press spend the rest of their lives
denouncing newspapers. The newspa-
per is the pulpit on the wing. More
preaching done on Monday than on
Sunday. The omnivorous, alleged
printing press is ever vigilant.
Besides that, Brooklyn pastorate is
always conspicuous in the fact that
everybody comes here. Brooklyn is
New York in its better mood Stran-
gers have not seen New York until
they have seen Brooklyn. The East
river is the chasm in which our mer-
chants drop their cares and their anxi-
eties and their business troubles, and
by the stime they have greeted their
families in the home circle, they have
forgotten all about Wall street and
Broadway and the shambles. If they
commit business sins in New York dur
ing 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, or
Sabbath evening at o'clock, and you
see north, south, east, west-Europe,
Asia, Africa, New Zealand, Australia
coming to Brooklyn to spend the Sab
bath, or part of it, in the persons Of
their representatives Some of them
fresh from the sea. They have just
landed and they want TO seek the house
Of God publicly to thank the Lord for
their deliverance from cyclone and fog
banks off Newfoundland. Every song
sung, every prayer offered, every ser
mon preached in New York and Brook
lyn, and all along this sea coast, in some
shape goes all around the world. A
Brooklyn pastorate Is at the greatest
altitude Of conspicuity.
Again remark that a Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized By brevity. !
bethink myself of but three ministers
of the gospel now preaching here who
were preaching when i came to Brook
lyn. 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
another reason. Sometimes the minis
ters of the gospel have been too good
for this world, and Heaven has trans
planted them. Sometimes they changed
places by the decree Of their denomina-
ton. Sometimes they came with great
blare of trumpets, proposing to carry
everything before them, and got ex-
tinguished before they were distin'
guishedl Some got preached out IN
two or three years, and told the people
all they knew. Some with holy speed
did in short time work which it takes
a great many years TO do. +,
Whether for good or bad reasons, a
Brooklyn pastorate is characterized by
brevity; not much of the old plan by
which minister 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 himself
Glorious old pastorates they were
Some Of us remember them-Dr. Spring
Peter Labaugh, Dominic Zabrislsie
Daniel Waldo, Abraham Halsey. Wher
the snow melted from their forehead'
it revealed the flowers of an unfadinp
'coronal, Pastorates of thirty, forty
fifty, fifty-five years continuance
Some Of them had to be helped into tn,
pulpit OF into the carriage, they wer'
so old and decrepit; but when tn,
Lords chariots halted one day in from
of the old parsonage, they stepped II
vigorous as an athlete, and as we saw
the wheels of fire whirling through tn,
gates Of the sunset we all cried out
"My father, my father! the ehariots o
Israel and the horsemen thereof"
Iremark again: A Brooklyn pastorat'
is characterized by its happiness.
No city under the sun where people
take such good care of their ministers
In proportion as the world outside may
curse, a congregation stands close NJ
by the man whom they believe in
Brooklyn society has for ils foundation
two elements-the Puritanic, which al
ways means quiet Sabbath; and the
Hollandish, which means worshipful
people. O. +op Of this is an admixtur,
of all ma '.ies-the brawny Scot
the solid gi2h, the vivacious Irish
the polite French, the philosophic Ger
man; and, in all this intermingling o.
population, the universal dominant
theory that n man can do as he pleases
provided he doesn't disturb anybody
else.
A delightful climate. While IL is hare
on weak throats, for the most of us 4
is bracing. Not an atmosphere mad,
up of the discharged gases Of chemica
factories, or the miasms Of swamps, bu
coming painting right of three thou
sand miles of Atlantic ocean befor,
anybody else has had chance Il
breathe it! All through the city a so
ciety of kind, genial, sympathetic peo
pie. How they fly toyou when you arr
in trouble. How they watch over yor
when you are sick. How tender they
are with ycu when you have buriet
your dead. Brooklyn is agood place Il
live in, good place to die in, a goot
place TO be buried in, good place from
which to rise in the beautiful resurrec
ton.