New-York tribune., 1893-12-01
SERMONS OF THANKSGIVING.
Union SERVICES AT THE BRICK CHURCH.
THE REV. DRs. VAN DYKE AND MlLNAlNh
SPEAK OF THE APPROACHING UNION
OF THEIR CONGREGATIONS.

OF THEIR CONGREGATIONS.
,-,,or THANKSGIVING services OF the congrega-
,ions OF the Brick Presbyterian Church NO. alV
Esf,h-ave the Rev. Henry Dyke. pastor
,d the PRESBYTERIAN Church of the covenant
narpave and Thirty ty-hfth-st, the Rev. DR. j.
uau Mc,lvaine pastor, were held in the brlck
-hurch yesterday morning. in accordance WIN
,,e,r custom during many years, and proDaDN lor
,h last time as separate congregations thelr
.o,sodation now being nearly consummated
The Rev Dr. van Dyke. who has been absent
ica last June on account of Illness, conducted
,be services. and the Rev. DIR. McIvaine preached
rho sermon The body of the church and the
Galleries were comfortably filled. DR. van Dyke,
inst before the sermon. addressed the congrega-
,on at considerable length saying in part;
am thankful that am able again to be here
en %nean vears-of my life Ever since the first sun
Sv Of last June when 1 stopped preaching to be-
gin a long struggle, sort OF football game. az IL
was on one side and sometimes on the other. my
thoughts have continued here ana my nope mas mas
scored 20 to l. and there seems to be only short
inning TO win. l feel as If would like to wear
ali the colors of the rainbow to testify TO my
fhankfulness. Many have asked about my health:
! can only reply VERY well, thank you OF
NV health but / am sick OF talking about sick
The doctor will make some ONE, knd OF u STATE state
lust how i am. / would like TO preach next sun
SaK % make Ssi nG me sicR again SO I'm afraid that if
i should preach l would make you sick, too
MEDICINE WHICH HELPS a MINISTER
The best medicine a sick minister possibly
have is 10 know that his congregation are all
loyal and true to his church. l know you are
loyal to me, but the best way you can prove II Is
by loyalty to the church. You have made this
church what it has been for the last ten years;
and S wst tho to nex uhre s yen an"
am thankful that we have this united service
services have been among my happest and most
joyous experiences. 1t was only very few years
old and the school churches. am thankful
that it longer exists and that foolish hair-splt-
single layman in either of these two congregations
can explain the difference between natural and
moral inability, which really the only differ
ences between the old and the new schools. We
dr. se IN larger s WORK 70 for 0 COD in this section of our
city. We of the Brick Church are heartily glad to
TO feel that you also glad to come with
You are cTmng to a ehurGh that has n had M no aS6 &
and when you come the united church will be the
Some people may say to you "Oh, your church
has been extinguished." II so. and the persons
them if they extingushed when they got mar
ried. The fact is that our two churches are to be
become a great power for good. preaching good,
od-fashioned Christianity without sensationalism
/ am thankful that when DR.. McIlvane was called
to the Church Of the Covenant five years ago l
was called upon TO deliver the charge at his In,
as pastors of a union church Dr. Mcllvaine was
W look ok forward with hope and Confidence to the
time when we shall labor together here If / should
never be permitted again TO address you 1 bespeak
atty you have so generously shown to me-
PART OF WHAT DR. MILyAINE SAID.
The Rev. Dr. McIlvaine said
am glad to feel that the kindness and welcome
we now receive only a moiety of what We shall
receive in the future / must confess that we
feel a little nervous about this important change
and a glad to receive this assurance. We be-
lieve that the sacrifices of both churches will be
roatp hQn
earnest. Had it not been for the fact that the
pastor of the Brick Church and were friends in
college and friends now, l believe this union
would not have taken place.
Taking as the title of his discourse 1.-THE Hand
OF God in American History" the Rev. DR.. Nc
Ivaine, while preaching earnest conventional
Thanksgiving sermon. from the text In isaiah
xiii Z touched upon the recent election. saying. in
part:
gamblers Brooklyn governed by a gang OF
corrupt politicians and the State OF New-York
seemed to be hopelessly In the hands OF a strong
and INSCRIPTIONS political organization. With sin
the will Of the people. and played into the hands
of booksellers. In New-York State man was
nominated for Judge of the Court OF Appeals
who had been branded with dishonesty by his
associates at the bar. At Gravesend there was
disgraceful fraud and brutal opposition to the
laws. All this was too much for endurance The
an uprising Of popular indignation the political
condition Of both the States Of New;York and
New-Jersey was, In a measure, changed. Nothlhg
hopeful has happened in a long time than
in certain sections of our public life, the Nation
itself is not rotten. but is sound at the and
when wickedness goes too far 1t rises in its
wrath and rebukes 1t.