The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-04
CAyALRYMAN OF THE CHURCH.
TALHAGE EXPLAINS HIS NEW MOVE
TO SAVE Souls.

New York Services That lie
Couldn't Get Near in His EeEuIaS
PuIpit-He Feels the Time Has
Into the Enemy-s Lincs-Hc There
fore Moves on 10 New Ground.
New York. March 3-PubHc interest in
the services at the Academy Of Music
is something phenomenal Although the
arrangement is an innovation in religious
methods in New York both ass TO time and
place. there is no church 30 the city 20
which so many people 50 or where SO
much eagcrness to secure admission is
displayed. The usual immense audience
was present this afternoon 90 hear the
famous preacher. Dr. Talmage's subject
was New Ground" and his text Rom
ans Is: %. Lest I should build upon an
other mans foundation"
After. with the help OF others. I had
built three churches i'm the same city. and
not feeling called upon to undertake the
stperhuman toll Of building "A fourth
church. Providence seemed to point 20 this
place as the field in which 1 could enlarge
my work. and I feel sense Of relief
amounting to exutation. Whereunto
this work will grow / cannot prophesy.
Il is inviting and promising beyond any
hing I have ever touched The churches
ere the grandest institutions this world
ever saw. and their pastors have no SUI
periors this side of heaven; but there is
2 work which must be done outside the
fl.fw.
for awhile. Lest build on another mans
Foundation"
The church is a fortress. diviucly built.
Now a fortress is for defense and for
drill and for storing ammunition. but an
army must sometimes be on the march
far outside the fortress In the campaign
OF conquering this world for Christ the
time has come for an advance movement,
for general engagement" for massing
the troops, for an invasion OF the enc
mics country. Confident that the forts
are Well-manned by the ablest ministry
that ever blest the church, propose. with
others. for awhile to join the cavalry.
and move out and on FOR service in the
open field.
In laying out the plan for his missionary
tour. Paul. with more brains than any
ar his contemporaries, or predecessors.
or successors, sought out towns and
cities which had not yet been preached to-
lie goes to Corinth, a city mentioned for
splendor and vice and Jerusalem where
the priesthood and Sanhedrim We're ready
10 leap with both feet upon the Christian
religion. He feels he has q special work
10 do and he means to do it. What was
the result? The grandest life Of useful
ness that man ever lived. We modern
Christian workers are not apt to initiate
Paul We build on other peoples fouu-
dations. If We erect a church We prefer
20 have il filled with families all of whom
have been pious. Do we gather a sun
day school class. we want good boys and
girls, hair combed, faces washed. man
ners attractive SO a church in this day
is apt TO be buAt out of other churches.
Some ministers spend all their time in
fishing in other peoples ponds. and they
throw the line into that church pond
and jerk out a Methodist, and throw the
line into another church pond and bring
out Presbyterian or there is n relig-
ious row in some neighborlng church. and
the whole school OF fish swim off from that
pond, and we take them all in with one
sweep of the net What is gained? Alb
solutely nothing for the general cause of
Christ. 1t is only as in an army. when a
regiment is transferred from one division
TO another or from the 18th regiment to
the 18th regiment What strengthens the
army is new recruits
The fact Is, this is big world. When
IN our schoolboy days we learned the
diameter and circumference of this planet
we did not learn half. 1t is the latitude
and longitude and diameter and circumfer-
ence of want and woe and sin that no fig
ures can calculate. This one spiritual
continent of wretchedness reaches across
all zones. ana If | were called to give its
geographical boundary I would say it is
bounded on the north and south and east
and west by the great heart OF Gods SYM
pathy and love Oh. it is a great world
Since O'Clock this morning at least $4,000
have been born and all these lnultiDlied
populations are 10 be reached of the gos-
pei. In England. or in Eastern American
cities. we are being much crowded. and an
acre of ground is Of great value but ont
west five HUNDRED acres is a small farm
and twenty thousand acres is no unusual
possession. There is a vast field here and
everywhere unoccupied. plenty of room
more, not building on another mans
foundation. We need as churches TO stop
hombarding the old irOn-clad sinners that
have been proof against thirty years OF
Christian assault, and aim for the saliva
ton of those who have never vet had
one warm-hearted and point-blanlk invita-
ton. There are churches whose buildings
might be worth 100000, who are not
averaging five new converts a year. and
doing less good than many a log-cabin
meeting house with tallow candles stuck
in wooden socket, and minister who has
never seen college or know the difference
between Greek and Choctaw We need
churches to get into sympathy with the
great outside world, and let them know
that none are so broken-hearted or hardly
bestead that they will not be well
coined NO! says some fastid-
ious Christian, Il don't like to be
crowded in church. Don't put any one i'm
my pew" My brother. what will you do
in heaven? When a great multitude that
no man can number assemblies they will
put fifty in your pew. What are the Sc
lect few to-day assembled in the Christian
churches compared with the mightier mill
ions outside of them? At least 5000, 600
people in this cluster of seaboard cities
and not more than 100000 in the churches
Many of the churches are like q hospital
that should advertise that its patients
must have nothing worse than toothache
or "run-arounds," but no broken heads. no
crushed ankles, no fractured thighs. Give
us for treatment moderate sinners, velvet
coated sinners, and sinners with gloss
on. it is as though man had farm Of
5000 acres and put all his work on one
acre He may raise never so large ears
Of corn, never so big heads Of wheat. he
would remain poor The Church on God