Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-05-09
THE PASSING THRONG
A GREAT DAY IN THE HISTORY OF
THE TABERNACLE.

quent, Appropriate Discourse-Preaebins
to Twenty-Five Million Souls.
BROOKLYN, Nay 6.-This was a great
day i'll the history of the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle. Tho figures in flowers. back Of
the platfolni-1SG9 and 1S94-indicat.
I'll Rev. DIR. Talmage's time of coming
to Brooklyn and the present celebration
and were Introductory to the great meet
ings in honor of DR.. Talmage's pastor
ate to take place on the following Thurs
day and Friday, presided over by the
mayor of the city and the ex-secretary of
the navy, General Tracy, and to be par
ticipated in by senators and governors
and prominent men from north. south
east and west. The subject of the SER
mon today was 1.-THE Generations, " the
text being Ecclesiastes i, 4, Zone gen
Grafton passeth away, and another gener-
alton cometh. "
According to the longevity of people
in their particular century has gener-
alton been called 100 years, or so years.
or 30 years. By common consent in our
nineteenth century generation is fixed
at % years.
The largest procession that ever NOV
ed is the procession of years, and the
greatest army that ever marched is the
army of generations. In each genera
tion there are about nine full regiments
of days. These 9, 1876 days in each gener-
alton march with wonderful precision.
They never break ranks. They never
ground arms. They never pitch tents.
They never halt. They are never off on
furlough. They came out of the eterni-
ty past, and they move ON toward the
eternity future. They cross rivers with
out any bridge or boats. The 600 i'm
mortals of the Crimea dashing into them
cause no confusion. They move as rap
idly at midnight as at midnoon. Their |
haversacks are full of good bread and |
bitter aloes, clusters of richest vintage |
and bottles of agonizing tears. With
regular tread that no order of "dou-
bic quick can hasten or obstacle can
slacken, their tramp is on and ON and
ON and ON while mountains crumble
and pyramids die. Zone generation
passeth, and another generation COM
eth. :"
A Generation.
This is my twenty fifth anniversary
and 1894 1t is 90 years
since assumed the Brooklyn pastorate
whele generation has passed. Three
we have known-that which
our own, that which is now at
the front, and the one coming ON. We
are at the heels of our predecessors, and
our successors are at our heels. What
generation it was that preceded usl We
Who are now in the front regiment are
he only ones competent to tell the new
generation just now coming in sight
Who our predecessors were. Biography
.annot tell it. Autobiography can
lot tell it. Biographies are generally
written by special friends of the depart
by wife or son or daughter
nd they only tell the good things. The 7
iographers of one of the first presi- c
ents of the United States make no rec
rd of the presidents account books, '
ow in the archives at the capitol,
yhich l have seen, telling how much ?
e lost or gained daily at the gaming II
able. The biographers of one of the q
arly secretaries of the United States n
ever described the scene that day wit D
essed when the secretary was carried
cad drunk from the state apartments 3
} his own home. Autobiography is o.
'ritten by the man himself, and no one
'ould record for future times his own
'eaknesses and moral deficits Those al
no keep diaries put down only things p
lat read well. No man or woman that III
Ter lived would dare to make full rec u
d Of all the thoughts and words of a OF
fetime. We who saw and heard much 1I
the generation marching just ahead III
us are far more able than any book ei
describe accurately to our successors I'll
no our predecessors were. Very much W
1e ourselves, thank you. Human ma cl
re i'll them very much like human ma ~
re in us. At our time of life they were 70
ry much like we now are. At the Vi
ne they were in their teens they were co
~ much like you are in your teens, IN
d at the time they were in their twen- th
s they were very much like you are eel
your twenties. Human nature got an dl
-fnl twist under fruit tree in Eden, te'
u lllt vi oOu tOtS
straighten things every new gener- er'
on has the, same twist, and the same er'
,rk of Strengthening ont has to be done !,
or again. VIZ
Twenty-Five Years Back. ".i
A mother in the country districts, ex- Gu
,ting the neighbors at her table ON oh'
ne gala night, had with her own hands VI
'anged everything in taste, and as she WI
S about to turn from it to receive her olt
ests saw her little child by accident 10
set a pitcher all over the white cloth M
4 soil everything, and the mother 9I 1I
led her hand to slap the child, but IN n
, suddenly remembered the time Aii
EN- little child herself, in her re-
hers house, where they had al AL
Us before been used to candles ON the ~
rchase Of lamp, which was mat GU
Of rarity and pride. she took it in W uii'
hands and dropped it, crashing into 'nt
ces, and looking up in her fathers soi