Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-29
TIMBREIl OF JUBILEE.
MOSES AID MIRIAM ON THE BANKS
CT TIE RED SEA.

A Day of Rejuicingat the Brooklyn Taber-
nacIe-Dr TaIlnage's Eloquent and In
spring Seumon-A New Departure by
the TlaaIII1fuI Pastor.
BROOKLYN, May 2S.-This was eone Of
The greatest days in the historysof the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. The music, ia
strumental and congregational, was of
the most joyens type; the hymns, the
prayers and the sermon were celebrative
of the entire extinguishment ofithe float
ing debt of $4,000, accumulated from
the disasters which required the build
ing of three immense churches. Text,
Exodus XIV, 90. 81: ''And Miriam, the
prophecies, the sister Of Aaron, took
timbrel in her hand. and all the women
went out after her with timbrels and
with dances. And Miriam answered
them, Sing veto the Lord, for he hath
triumphed gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the. sea-"
Sermonizers are naturally so busy, in
getting the Israelites safely through the
parted Red sea and the Egyptians sub
merged in the returning waters that but
little time is ordinarily given to what
the Lords people did after they got well
up high and dry ON the beach That
was the beach of the Red sea, which is
at its greatest width 200 miles and at its
least width 10 miles. Why is the ad-
jective ''red' used in describing this
water? It is called the Red sea because
the mountains on its western coast look
as thoEgh sprinkled with brick dust, and
Al ,c
and has red zoophyte and red coral.
This sea was cut by the keels of Egyp-
tan, Phnnician and Arabic shipping. It
was no insignificant pond or puddle on
the zach Of which my text calls us to
stand | hear upon it the sound Of a
tam bourine, for which the timbrel was
only another name-an instrument of
music made out of a circular hoop, with
pieces of metal fixed in the sides of it,
which made a jingling sound, and over
which hoop a piece of parchment was
distended, and this was beaten by the
knuckles of the performer.
The IsraeliteS, standing on the beach
of the Red sea, were making music on
their deliverance from the pursuing
Egyytians, and hear the Israelitish men
with their deep bass voices, and [ hear
the timbrel of Miriam as she leads the
women in their jubilee. Rather lively
instruments, you say, for religious serv-
ice, the timbrel or tambourine. But |
think God sanctioned it. And / rather
think we will have to put little more
of the festive into our religious services
and drive out the dolorous and funereal,
and the day may come when the tinbrel
will resume its place in the sanctuary.
But that which occupied the attention
of all the men and womenof that Israel
itish host was the celebration of their
victory They had crossed. They had
triumphed. They were free.
More wonderful was this victory and
defeat than when the hosts of, Richard
overcame the hosts of Saladin at Azotus,
than when at Bannockburn Scotland
was set free, than when the Earl CT
Northumberland was driven back al
Branham Moor, than when at the battle
of Wakefield York was slain, than when
at BoswOrth Field Richard was left
dead, than when the Athenians under
Miltiades at Marathon put the Persians
to fight, for this victory of my text was
gained without sword or catapult or
spear The weapon was a lifted and
FRUSTRATED sea. And Miriam, the proph-
etess. the sister of Aaron, took timbrel
in her hand, and all the women went out
after her with timbrelS and with dances.
And Miriam answered them, Sing We to
the Lord. for he hath triUmphed glori-
ously; the horse and his rider hath he
thrown into the sea-
4 GLORIOUS TRIUMPH.
Brooklyn Tabernacle today feels much
as Moses and Miriam did when they
stood on the banks of the Red sea after
their safe emergence from the waters.
By the help of God and the generosity of
our friends here and elsewhere our $780,
600 of floating church debt is forever
gone, and this house, which, with the
ground upon which it stands, represents
$40, 900, this day reconsecrate to God
the Father, God the Son and God the
Holy Ghost. A stranger might ask how
could this church get into debt to an
amount that would build several large
churches? My answer is, Waves of de-
struction, stout as any that ever rolled
across the Red sea of my text.
Examine all the pages of church his
tory and all the pages Of the worlds his
bory and show me an organization, sa-
cred or secular, that ever had to build
three great structures, two of them de-
stroyed by fire. Take any Of your big
gest life insurance companies, or your
biggest storehouses, or your biggest
banks, or your biggest newspaper estab-
hshments and let them have to build
three times on the same foundation, and
it would cost them struggle if not
demolition. My text speaks of the Red
sea once crossed, but one Red sea would
not have SO much overcome US. Tt was
with US Red sea after Red sea. Three
Red seas! Yet today, thanks be to
God, we stand on the shore, and with
organ and cornet in absence of q timbrel