Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-29

sermon. IL you say silly thing you
will never hear the end of II, and II you
say wise thing it will go into per-
petual multiplication.
Besides that, Brooklyn passionate 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.
Again remark, that Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized by brevity. /
bethink myself of but three ministers
of the gospel now preaching here, who
were preaching when / came to Brook
Ign. Most of the pulpits around me
have changed seven or eight times since
my arrival.
Sometimes the passionate has been
brief for one reason, and sometimes for
another reason. Sometimes the minis
tiers 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 eXtin-
guished before they were distinguished!
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 everyone but himself.
Glorious old pastorates they were.
Iremark again. n Brooklyn passionate
is characterized by its happiness,
No city under the sun where people
take such good care of their ministers.
In proportion rs the world outside may
curse. u congregation stands close up
by the man whom they believe in.
Brooklyn society has for its foundation
two elements-the Puritanic which al
ways means quiet Sabbath, and the
Hollandsh, which means II worshipful
people. On the top of this an admiX-
ture of all nationalities-t 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 man can do as he pleases,
provided he doesn't disturb anybody
else.
A delightful climate. While it is
hard ON weak throats, 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. All through the city So
ciety of kind, genial, generous, sympa-
thetic people.
In such city have been permitted
to have twenty-four years of passionate.
During these years how many heart
breaks, how many losses. how many
bereavements! Hardly n 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. l eXhort you to be of good
cheer, oh thou of the broken heart
Weeping may endure for Il night. but
JOY 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 here by
thousands, 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
here on Sabbath morning, put down
his hat, brush his hair back from his
forehead, unbutton his overcoat, and
look around wondering if he has not by
mistake got into Heaven.
Yes, sympathy for the old. They
have their aches and pains and dis
tresses. They cannot hear or walk or
see as well as 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 hymn-book.
Sympathy for business men. Twenty
four years of commercial life in New
York and Brooklyn are enough to tear
ones nerves to pieces. We want to
make our Sabbath service here rescue
for all these martyrs of traffic, fore
taste 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, remember
ing that they ought to be pitied as
much as a man run over with rail-
train. The fact is that, in the tempta-
tations and misfortunes of life, they
get run over. You and /, in the same
circumstances, would have done as bad
"; we should have done worse, per-
haps.
We want in this church to have SYM
rathv for the worst man, remembering