Year: 1879

and travel OF hundreds OF miles that they might
ruin you and your family and your church. you
paying 50. 500 cash by meeting note made 70 help
the paper, paying it after you had ceased to be
editor. That MAS my condition. Put your.
self in my place. Suppose that. having passed
the most of your ministry in large cities,
YOU were sometimes almost frantic with the fact
that our great populations are travelling on toward
the grave and the INDIGNANT without being reached
by the Gospel. and You lad planned church on a
large scale, with fine architecture and gracious
music and industrious preaching reach the multi
tudes and that 10 get this accomplished you had
signed salary of 81 O0O having other resource at
that time but the promise of God and suppose that
afterward pour church had offered you 10000 year
salary il you would return to the old pew rental
out of your principle you had endured the carica-
ture not only of the world but of other churches.
principle that had worked well and .riumphed
you should be arraigned before q church
court because OF what this elder happened
to do or that trustee happened to think ,hs entire
testimony on the subject by men Who had got mad
and gone OF: Put yourself in my place. Suppose
you had misunderstanding with some man and it
had been settled, completely settled gone out OF
mind and you had nothing against him and he
that Misunderstanding and set it up on the COM
munion table to be looked at and that again you and
the Church. again laid the ghost. and still Presby-
tors kept it going. although the two once at diver
gence had shaken hands and dined together. That
was nv condition. Put yourself in my place.


THAT BALTIMORE TELEGRAM


Suppose there were debt on your church because
by lire you had lost one building and the next
reared in midst financial panic that to get rid
OF that church debt you had teegraphed OF your
own family requesting him to help you in the un-
being suflciently explicit-for in teegraphng
not apt to be very ful-and that having given your
ment of the church debt you offered to give thou
sands of dollars in addition IL necessary that
teepram in this regard were brought into Presby
terry and looked at through quizzing glasses and
turned upside down and twisted and mauled to mean
everything contemplate and wicked. when, with
vour wife in solemn prayer, you had before God
asked him help you in the selfdenial. That is
my condition. Put yourself in my place. My mo-
tives were SO pure in the matter that would this
moment be willing to meet my God in judg-
ment with that .,hs Baltimore more teiegram wide
pastor of church large enough to overwheim one
gurating move meut for the enlsing the laity in
more effective service. two and three hundred stu
dents It's a,sG
capacity; issuing one or two books year. doing
your full share Of work in the lyceums of the Cities
responding far possible to the calls that
the platforms of charitable institutions make
on man in this day-your every public word,
house q broadway from sevcn a. NJ to ten P. NJ,
YOUR physician and your family constantly warning
you that. there is such thing as limit to human
endurance, and while you are under that pressure
you found few men with time enough to spare to
come into your life with square and rule and
compare these That was my condition. Put
yourself in my place. Feeling that all will
be well, i now leave my case In your hands.
BY that do not mean to say that it is for
you to decide whether or not shall preach. Soon
after giving my heart to God gave myself to the
shall keep it till resign it into His hands, have
done much hard work. and am ready for more.
ton ton Of OF many souls. Life is short and
want to quadrupe my energies. Christ has
been 80 precious TO me during all this
people. This trial will do me good. 1t win make
me more sympathetic with the abused. never
easy thing to sit still and for nine months be called
liar. Do the justice that have stood it pretty
well. Two little speeches OF ten minutes each have
of contumely. l make no complaint. | have
not had to bear thousandth part as
better. 1t is through much tribulaton enter the
kingdom OF God. do not forget that we all nine
months nearer than when this trial began to that
greater trial higher than all synods and general
semblies, the day when the falling of Che mountains
and the flaming Of the seas w,i pe among the m Least
ment your part which you expect when God rises
mp review what all your life you have been doing
Lord God of my children. grant to thine unworthy
servant another vindication Of his innocence.


There probably never occurred u more dramatic
scene before an ecclesiastical body. The delivery
and manner Of the speaker were solemn ana impress
sive to degree. He spoke low; and at times almost
with startling effect. The silence in tho church
was painful. and during his pauses the audience
seemed to hold its breath. as if to breathe would
dispel the scene. The latter part OF his
address given with . dramatic effect simply
indescribable. When he had finished he turned
abruptly on his heel and walked to his seat There
he buried his face for q moment in his hands.


REMARKS OF PREsBYTERs.


The Moderator then called on other members of
the Presbytery for remarks


Tho Rev. Charles J. Jones said the facts against
from it. lie was the victim Of his friends.


Rev. J. A. Baldwin thought that the evidence was
not sufficient to prove DR.. ramrge liar:


j. NJ. Green said he did not want to be thought
an enemy OF DR.. Talmage, but he felt deeply the
false position in which he had been placed with the
other complainants. He had been wounded to the
quick by being called an arch enemy OF DR.. Talmage.
He said he was convinced that DIR. Talmage lied and
lied again after the trial. The speaker was very
earnest in his appeal against the acquittal Of DIR.


Rev S. P. Halsey said he could not say what
he wanted to i'll ten minutes. He had said
on the floor of the Presbytery that in his opinion tho
prosecution bad dwindled to u persecution. 1t was
hoped that the brothers would pray to God He
might hear them il they did He did not want the
Synod to uphold the secular press aud trample
the religious press. The secular press was hlled
with the latest murder and last divorce case. He
trusted that the Synod would not trample Jesus


Rev A. Mcclellan (the blind preacher) explained
his position on the committee which investigated
DIR. Talmage and hoped that tho verdict Of acquttal
would not be sustained.


Rev. 4. q. Benedict said he loved the truth; he
voted every time against the prosecution he felt It
wrong to commence 1t and to continue it, for 1t
has damaged the Church OF Jesus Christ more than
any tongue utter any heart conceive.


Or. U. Butlcr Salu ne maze an appeal TO the In
telligence of the Synod. not to their feelings aud
sympathies. but to the facts. He was very i'm
pressive in his structures on DIR. Talmage.


Rev. T. A. Nelson said he voted to sustain some of
the specifications and saw why he should
change his mind


A LITTLE BRErzE.


DR.. j. nj. Sherwood then rose to speak, and said
that no would not have noticed the unfair aud un-
manly and dishonest manner" in which Brother s.
r. Halsey had referred to him. When he had he'd
this point Mr.. Halsey. who had gone to the gallery
IN tho extreme end OF tho church. Ia his place
and cried out excitcdly:-


III want that stopped. call for point OF order.
He has use to say that was unmanly. 1t is not
within the rules OF tho house." Much confusion
all the church: cries of sorder. order" in
which DR.. Sherwood continued


II made use OF the word aivisedly and am re-
sponsiblc for my statements. l am thereby aware
or the responsibility and am willing to accept it,"


The MoDERAIoR-'Dr. Sher VIZ cd IL in order and
he will continue with the courtesy OF the synod"
The speaker then continued and handled Mr.. Halscy
without gloves.


Dr. Van Dyke said that there was a little latter Of
which he wanted to mako u personal explanation.
He had beon accused OF attempting to influence tho
m uf in Synod I