Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-04-27

Newfoundland Every sorg sung, every
prayer offered, every sermon preached in
New York and Br0Jklyn, and all along
this sea coast, in some shape goes all round
the world. A Brooklyn pasf sforate is az the
greatest altitude OF eonsDiciIity.
Again remark tnat n B;ooslyn pastor
ate is characterized 10y breyity. bethink
myself Of but three minlsse-s-of the gospel
now preaching here who wee preaching
when / came to Brooklyn. Mos, of the
pulpits around me have eha-gol seven or
eight times since my arrival
Sometimes the pastorate has bseE brief
for ons 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 came
with great blare of trumpets, proposing to
carry everything before them, and got ex-
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 Brook
lyn pastorate is characterized by brevity,
not much of the old plan by which 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 hut him
self Glorious old pastorates they were.
Some of us remember them-Dr. Spring,
Peter Labaugh, Dominic Zabrislrie, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey. When the snow
melted from their foreheads, it revealed the
flowers of an unfading coronal PnStorates
of 80, 40, 80, 55 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 cid parson-
age they stepped in vigorous az Sn athlete,
and as we saw the wheels of fire whirling
through the gates of the sunset we all cried
out MY father, my father. the cbariots OF
Israel and the horsemen thereof"
Iremark 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, a
congregation stands close mp by the man
whom they believe in. Prooklyn society
has for its foundation two clements-the
Puritanic, which always means a quiet
| Sabbath, and the Hollaudish, which means
worshipful people. On the top of this an
admixture of all nationalit;es-the brawny
| Scot, the solid English, the vivacious Irish
the polite French, the philosophic German
ord in oil tbiS ipt ,1iy,,, oe ioY
| the universal dominant theory that mar
can do as he pleases, provided he doesn't
disturb anybody else.
| A delightful climate. While it is hare
on weak throats, for the most of US it il
bracing Not an atmosphere made up O
| the discharged gases of chemical factories
or the miasms of swamps, but coming
painting right off 5000 miles of Atlanti,
ocean before anybody else has had chanc
to breathe it'll All through the city so
ciety of kind, genial, generous, sympathetic
people How they fly to you when you ar
in troubled How they watch over yol
when you are sick! How tender they ar
with you when you have buried your dead
Brooklyn is good place to live in, goot
place to die in, a good place to be buried in
good place from which to rise in beau
tiful resurrection.
In such city 1 have been permitted t.
have "a years of pastorate. During thes
| years how many heartbreaks, how man,
losses, how many bereavementsl Hardly
family of the church that has not beel
struck with sorrow, but God has sustainet
you in the past, and he will sustain you il
the future. exhort you to be of goo'
cheer, o thou of the broken heart. "WeeI
ing may endure for night, but joy comet
in the morning" I wish over every doc
of this church we might have written tn
word "Sympathy"-sympathy for all tn
young.
We must crowd them In here by thou
sands and propose a radiant gospel tina
they will take on the spot. Wemust max
this place so attractive for the young tina
Young man will come here on Sabbatl
morning, put down his hat, brush his hal
back from his forehead, unbutton his over
coat and look around wondering if he ha
not by mistake got into heaven. He will
see in the faces of the old people not tn
gloom which some people take for religion
but the sunshine of celestial peace, and
will say, why, wonder if that isn't th
same peace that shone out on the face O
my father and mother when they lay dy
ing9"
And then there will come dampness i
his eyes through which he can hardly sex
and he will close his eyes to imprison tn
emotion, but the hot tear will break throug
the fringes of eyelashes and drop upon'th
coat sleeve. He will put his head on th
back of the pew in front and sob, "Lor
God of the old people, help me!' Weough
to lay plot here for the religious captur
of all the young people in Brooklyn.
THE sYMPATHIES OF BROOKLYN
Yes, sympathy for the old They hav
their aches and pains and distresses. The
cannot hear or walk or see as well as the
used to. We must be reverential in thei
presence. On dark days we must hel
them through the aisle and help them fin
the place in the hymnbook. Some Sal
bath morning we shall miss them fror
their place, and we shall say, Where
Father So-and-so today?" and the answe
will be: what, haven't you heard? Th
Kings wagons have taken Jacob up to th
palace where his Joseph is yet alive"
Sympathy for business men, Twenty
four years of commercial life in New Yor
and Brooklyn are enough to tear one
nerves to pieces. We want to make ou
Sabbath service here rescue for all thes
, martyrs of traffic, a foretaste of that Ian
where they have no rents to pay, and ther
. are no business rivalries, and where richie!
, instead of taking wings to fly away, broo
over other riches.
, Sympathy for the fallen, rememberin
, that they ought to be pitied as much as
man run over with rail train. The fact
, that in the temptations and misfortunes {
; life they get run over. You and in th
J same circumstances would have done 9
, badly; we should have done worse perhap
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