The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-04-28

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say wise thing it will go into perpetual
multiplication. There is no need Of de
crying that fact. Men whose influence
has been built by the printing press
spend the rest Of their lives in denounc
ing newspapers. The newspaper is the
pulpit on the wing. More preaching done
on Monday than on Sunday. The ON
nivorous, all eyed printing press is ever
vigilant.
Besides that, a Brooklyn pastorate is
always conspicuous in the fact that ev.
erybody comes here. Brooklyn is New
York in it's better mood. Strangers have
not seen New York until they have seen
Brooklyn. The East river is the chasm
In which our merchants drop their cares,
and their anXieties, and their business
troubles, and by the time they have
greeted their families in the home circle
they have forgotten all about Wall street
and Broadway and the shambles. If
they commit business sins in New York
during the day, they come over to Brook
Ign to repent of them.
Everybody comes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the ferry gates ON
Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock, or Sab
bath evening at z o'clock and you see
north, south, east, west-Europe, Asia,
Africa, New Zealand, Australia--com-
ing to Brooklyn to spend the Sabbath, or
part of it in the persons of their repre-
sentatives-some of them fresh from the
sea. They have just landed, and they
want to seek the house of God publicly to
thank the Lord for their deliverance
from cyclone and fog banks off New
| foundland. Every song sung, every
prayer offered, every sermon preached
in New York and Brooklyn and all along
this sea coast in some shape goes all
round the world. A Brooklyn pastorate
is at the greatest altitude of conspicuity.
PLACE FOR SHORT PASToRATES.
Again l remark that Brooklyn pas
torate is characterized by brevity. 1 be-
think myself of but three ministers of
the gospel now preaching here who were
preaching when l came to Brooklyn.
Most of the pulpits around me have
changed seven or eight times since my
arrival.
Sometimes the pastorate has been brief
for one reason and sometimes for an
other reason. Sometimes the ministers
of the gospel have been too good for this
world, and heaven has transplanted them.
Sometimes they changed places by the
decree of their denomination. Some
times they came with great blare Of
trumpets, proposing to carry everything
before them, and got extinguished 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 short time work
which it takes great many years to do.
Whether for good or bad reasons a
pastorate is characterized by
brevity, not much of the old plan by
which a minister of the gospel baptized
an infant, then received him into the
church, after he had become an adult
married him, baptized his children, mar
ried them and lived on long enough to
bury almost everybody but himself.
Glorious old pastorates they were. Some
Of us remember them-Dr. Spring, Peter
Dominic Zabriskie, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey.
When the snow melted from their
foreheads, it revealed the flowers Of an
coronal. Pastorates of 80, 40,
80, IS years continuance. Some of them
had to be helped into the pulpit or into
the carriage, they were so old and de-
,repit, but when the Lords chariots halt
ID one day in front of the old parsonage
they stepped in vigorous as an 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 |
,hariots of Israel and the horsemen there
ofr'
l remark again, Brooklyn pastorate is |
by its happiness.
No city under the sun where people |
AXE such good care of their ministers. In |
proportion as the world outside may |
curse a congregation stands close up by |
he man whom they believe in. Brooklyn
society has for its foundation two ele-
nents-the Puritanic, which always
means quiet Sabbath, and the Holland
sh, which means a worshipful people.
IN the top of this an admixture of alma
brawny Scot, the solid
English, the vivacious Irish, the polite
French, the philosophic German-and in
vi this intermingling of population the
dominant theory that a man
an do as he pleases provided he doesn't
listurb anybody else.
A BRACING CLIMATE.
A delightful climate. While it is hard
IN weak Threats, for the most of us it is
,racing. Not an atmosphere made up
# the discharged gases of chemical fac
cries or the miasms of swamps, but
coming painting right off 5000 miles of
Atlantic ocean before anybody else has
lad a chance to breathe It'll All through
he city a society Of kind, genial, gener-
us, sympathetic people. How they fly
o you when you are in trouble! How
hey watch over you when you are sickl
low tender they are with you when you
ave buried your deadl Brooklyn is
God place to live in, good place to die
a, a good place to be buried in. good
lace from which to rise in the beautiful
In such a city / have been permitted
D have "a years of pastorate. During