The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-14


ton as pastor and had appointed to
read it two Sabbaths ago and close my
work in brooklyn forever. | felt that
my chief work was yet to be done, but
that | could not do it with the Alps on
one shoulder and the Himalayas on the
other. But God has interfered and the
way is clear, and am here and expect
to be here until my work on earth is
done.
Why should want to go away from
Brooklyn? have no sympathy with
the popular sentiment which defames
our beloved city, Some people make
it part of their religion to excoriate
and belittle the place of their residence,
and there has been more damage, fl
nancial and moral, done to our city by
this hypercriticism than can ever be es-
timated. The course of our city has
been onward and upward. We have a
citizenship made up of hundreds of
thousands of as good men and women
as inhab bit the earth, and feel honored
in being citizen of Brooklyn. and pro-
pose to stay here until join the popu-
lation in the Silent City out yonder, now
all abloom with spring fowers-sweet
types of resurrection!
My thanks must be first to God and
then to all who have contributed by
large gift or small to this emancipation.
Thanks to the men, women and chill
dren who have helped, and sometimes
helped with self sacrifices that | know
must have won the applause of the
heavens. If you could only read with
me few of the thousands of letters
that have come to my desk in The
how deep their sympathy, how large
their sacrifice has been. Il have sold
my bicycle and now send you the mon
ey," is the language of one noble
young man who wrote to The Christian
Herald. This is no dead sons gift to
ne, and | have been led to send it to
you," writes mother in Rhode Island.
A blind octogenarian invalid in York.
Pa, sends his mite and his prayer
Thanks to all the newspaper press
Have you noticed how kind and sympa-
thetic all the secular newspapers have
been, and of course all the religious
newspapers, with two or three nasty
exceptions? You say that sometimes
newspapers 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 and re-
porters and publishers. Gentlemen
of the Brooklyn and New York print
ing press if you never report any
thing else that | say, please to report
that. Yes, l see you are getting IL 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 bet
ter work III all departments We will
III the autumn resume our lay college.
We will fill all the rooms of this mag
nifcent pile with work for God and
suffering humanity. More prayers have
been offered for this church, and on
both sides of the sea, than for any
church that has ever existed, and all
those prayers will be answered. Clear
the track for the Brooklyn tabernacle.
Sing We to the Lord, for He hath tri-
umphed gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath He thrown into the sea"
But do you not now really think that
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
llnuckles against the timbrel or tam
BOURNE? Miriam! You do well to have
the tambourine ready, but wait little
before you play it. You are not yet
through the journey from Egypt to the
Promised Land. You will yet have tc
drink out of the bitter water of Marah
and many of your army will eat sc
heartily Of the fallen quails that they
will die of collie, and you will at the
foot of Sinai he 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 parchment unit
you are all through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. Il
we never shouted victory till we got
clear through the struggles of this lif,
we would never shout at all. Copy The
habit of Miriam and Moses. The mo
ment you get victory celebrate it
The time and place to hold a jubilee fo
the safe crossing of the Red sea is on it
beach and before you leave, 1t is aw
full, the delayed hosannahs, the belateC
hallelujahs, the postponed doXologies
the trains of thanksgiving coming in S,
long after they are due.
1t is said, do not rejoice over reviv
al too soon; the new members nigh
not hold out Do not thank God fo
the money you made to-day, for to
morrow you may lose 1t all and more
Do not be too grateful for your goot
health to-day, for tomorrow you ma,
get the grip. Do not be too glad abou
your conversion, for you might fal
| from grace. Do not rejoice too 500
over church's deliverance, becaus
, there might be disasters yet to come
Oh, let us have no more adjourned graf
, itude!
The time to thank God for a rescu
from temptation is the moment afte
YOU have broken the wine flask TIL
, time to thank God for your salvation
, the moment after the first flash of pal