Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 May 1894 — Page 6

HOMELESS AGAIN. ■ Rev. Dr. Talmage'a Home Flock Again Burned Out. E a __________ ■ The Brooklyn Tabernacle anil Much Adg; Joining: Property a Heap of Kuius —The Fire Started in E the Monster Organ. Nkw York, May 14.—Fire seems to ■ be the Nemesis of Rev. T. DeVVitt Tal- ■ mage's congregation. Their beauti- ■ ful tabernacle at the corner of Clinton ■ an'j Greene avenues, Brooklyn, was de- ■ sstroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. iFlames broke out in the church edifice 3«st after those who attended the morning- service had left the building-. Uot only was the church destroyed, but the nearby hotel and a number of buildings were also ’greatly damaged. $iad the fire broken out one hour earlier, while thb building was filled with worshipers, it is almost certain -that a dreadful panic and loss of life -would have resulted. This is the third time that the Talmagc tabernacle had been destroyed by fire. By a singular coincidence each fire occurred on Sunday. - Everything in the tabernacle yesterday was destroyed with the building. Perhaps the loss which will grieve I)r. Talmage most is that of the memorial stones which lie brought from the east, and which were set in the wall at the right of the organ. They were four in number. The top block was from Mount Calvary and bore the word “Sacrifice.” The stone below from Mount Sinai, bearing on it “The Law.” ■The bottom stoue is from Mars’ hill and bears the inscription “Gospel.” The fourth stone was unmarked. V “A more unique collection never was gathered from one place,” I)r. Talmage says of them; The fire wds discovered shortly after 13 o’clock, just after the congregation bad been dismissed from the morning service. Dr. Talmage was in the church shaking hands with Mr. Leonard Mood3% \V. H. Adams, James H. Fergusou and their wives, when a small bo3r- rushed into the church through one of the open doors ami informed the sexton, James Da3’, that he bad aeen smoke coming out of the windows on the Wavefly avenue side of the church. Mr. Day, without speaking to Dr. Talmage, rushed down stairs to the •motor room and began making a thorough examination. After searching and not being able to find an3' indications of a fire he ran upstairs. As he entered the church he met Dr. Talmage with Mr. Moody. They had also smelled smoke. The boy who first entered the church and informed Mr. Day of the tire then volunteered to go up in the back of the organ •and see if it was there. He did so, •and a second later appeared before the 'three gentlemen who were waiting for hjm, with his face blaeked and almost suffocated frbm smoke. All he <coul(t sa3r was that he discovered the fire in the back of ^bhe organ. Dr. Talmage, Mr. Day and'Mr. Moody then started for the organ, but before they could get near it a gust of flame burst Urom the top. They then made a hur-j-ied exit v“

jn toe mcptime ex-supervisor Keen, "who was iu the Summerfield M. E. church, directly opposite, had also seen the smoke coming from the tabernacle window, and had sent in an jtiarm of fire. By the time the firemen arrived the flames were bursting1 from all the windows. Two extra alarms, and finally t& special call was sent in bringing all iof the engines in Brooklyn and Williamsburg to the fire. The flames spread with lightning rapidity and the sparks flew in all directions. The greatest excitement prevailed. The interior of the church was a seething, roaring mass of flames inside of three minutes after the fire was discovered, and by 1 o’clock the roof and the handsome steeple had fallen in. - wGrcat jets of flame shot across the ofteu space between the tabernacle and tie Hotel Regent, which is^iext to the church, on Clinton avenue, and in a snort space of time that portion of the hotel nearest the church was burning fiercely. The Regent is a family hotel. The guests fled in dismay. Some •of them stopped to throw their valuables and clothing from the windows, while others hurried to places of safety just as they happened to be apparelled when the panic struck them. -At the time of the fire there were eighty-five guests and ninety servants in the hotel, and many of them had narrow' escapes. The fire extended to the hotel between the first and second .floors. Before the employes gave thd=: alarm, they attempted to get it under— ■control. The fire soon spread up to .the third and fourth floors, however, :and the guests and servants rushed [pell mell into-the street. There were two ladies in the hotel nrlio lmd to be carried out. On the fifth floor Mrs. Loomis, of Savannah, ■was lying ill with her young baby, a ifew days old. She was carried safely :from the burning hotel and, with her child, was removed in an ambulance to * the Homeopathic hospital. > Miss Kean, the assistant housekeeper of the hotel, was also carried from the ftmilding. She had just passed through ' .a severe illness, but was convalescent. The flames spread rapidly through tthe hotel and it was soon afire from <©Ha.r to roof. The firemen then de- : ■voted their efforts to save surrounding ^property. A number of dwellings in ‘ e vicinity <?aught fire again and in, but the firemen each time flooded them with water and extinguished the flames. •/Tka ■The Summerfield M. E. church also light fire from flying sparks, but the mes vfere soon extinguished. The nutnerous^mall fires continued til 4 o’clock bywliich time th> firehad gotten the flames iu the rnacle and hotel under control. The tabernaele and Hotel Regent completely gutted. Nothing rebut the walls. At <1 o’clock porof the rear wall of the tabernacle The total loss is estimated at a over 11,000,000. The loss on the

Hotel Regent, including1 the building, paintings and guests’ household goods, will amount to about $600,000. The loss on the tabernacle is about <400,000, and the adjoining buildings are reported to be damaged to the extent of $50,000. It is said that the hotel was insured for $500,000. Four firemen were overcome bv heat during the progress of the flames and had to be removed from the scene. All subsequently recovered. It is supposed the fire was caused by a spark from one of the electric light wires behind the organ in the tabernacle. During the progress of the fire an immense crowd gathered and watched the flames. The intense heat of the fire, combined1 with that of the sun. caused several prostrations in the crowd of on-lookers. The victims were taken away by friends. Expressions of regret at the misfortune which had overtaken Dr. Talmage were heard on all sides. The reverend gentlemen stood with the crowd near the church and witnessed the destruction of the beautiful edifice. His expression was a sorrowful one, and he was nearly moved to tears. He was surrounded by a large gathering ot friends when the reporter approached him. “Thank God,” said the minister. “God’s mercy overtowers the disaster. It was all so sudden that I cannot explain it. Had the fire occurred half an hour sooner there would have been a terrible loss of life. The church was crowded, fully 6.000 people were there. A stampede would have occurred and many would have been crushed to death.” Rev. Talmage added that he was unable to tell whether the fire would interfere with his future plans. lie had intended leaving Brooklyn this evening on his summer trip to Europe. He did not knoiv if the disaster vvbuld delay him. The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon yesterday morning was “A Cheerful Church.” The text was Solomon’s song, chapter iv, first verse, “Behold, Thou Art Fair, My Love.” It was only on Thursday and Friday last that Rev. Dr. Talmage celebrated in the tabernacle the completion of the twenty-fifth year of his pastorate. The tabernacle occupied a lot of ground 300 feet by 118 feet in dimensions. The style of architecture was Romanesque, the material corsehil stone, and rainwashed brick in red mortar. The roof was covered with Spanish tiles. The main tower at Green and Clinton avenues stood 160 feet in height. The main entrance was at Clinton and Green avenues, a second was on Clinton avenue, and a third on Waverly avenue. The Green and Waverly-avenue entrances led to the Sunday-school hall as well as -to the main auditorium. The vast interior held seats for 5,500. The general slope was amphitheatrical. The lofty ceiling was domed and divided into panels, the material used being of a patent fire-proof wood, which,incidentally,was destroyed with the rest of the building.

The magnificent organ in the loft over which the fire appears to have originated was back of the rostrum, the woodwork incasing it being of ash, nicely planed and ornamented with carved columns? The glass used throughout the building was a combination of frosted crystal and various shades of yellow, giving a very mellow light. There were two galleries finished with stereo relief work. There was in the tabernacle a library and a kitchen and supper room to be used in connection with fairs. The tabernacle had a debt of $200,000, and recently Mr. Tal*. mage threatened to leave the pastorate, but financial aid was promised and Dr. Talmage then decided to stay. , The first fire which affected Dr. Talmage occurred in December, 1S71, at 1 o'clock in the morning. The church was then situated at Sackett and Schermerhorn streets. Another church was built on the same site and bn October 9, 18S9, was burned down at 3 o'clock in the morning. The congregation then moved up town to Greene and Clinton avenues, where fire for the third time overtook Dr. Talmage and burned his church down. The board of trustees of the taberna-t cle last night held a meeting in the house of Dr. Talmage, at which it was decided to rebuild the tabernacle. The trustees say that Dr. Talmage is to start on his trip around the world as at first intended. The statement given out^ by the trustees is that from the insurance receipts and money realized for the sale of land, they will pay ail debts. ; Within a year the work of rebuilding will begin. The tabernacle was insured for $130,000, in four companies, viz.: London and Liveraool, the Roval Insurance Cm, the Phoeriix of Hartford and Phoenix of Brooklyn. POPULAR CLAMOR rhoughout Germany for Reform In the Judiciary. ' Berlin, May 14.—The Brausewetter scandal has assumed national dimentions. ' Few persons hesitate to say that the judge disgraced the bench by usurping the functions of the prosecuting attorney in the trial of Prussian editors last week, and the newspapers throughout the empire agree as rarely before, admonishing the government to act quickly in response to public opinion. The popular condemnation has increased during the. last few days until it promises to raise the past political questions in the landtag and in the reichstag. Not only is 'a reform of judicial methods called for, but greater freedom from police restraint is demanded for the press as an immediate necessity. Saturday the Berlin association of solicitors and king’s counsels sent to the ministry of justice a memorial atfiming that both Brausewetter and the crown prosecutor violated the rules of professional etiquette by their conduct during the trial of the editors, most notably in treating tl>«* defend anta’ counsel with studied disrespect.

“A CHEERFUL CHUttCH.” _ O Rev. Dr. Talmage Lays Down Some Excellent Precepts Aa to How to Kwp the Church Cheerful and at the Same Time Preserve the Pear and Love of God —A Prayer for Mercy. The following' sermon was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage to a congregation that tilled every nook of the Brooklyn tabernacle, and which had barely been dismissed when fire once more deprived the ehurch of a house of worship. The subject was: "A Cheerful Church,” and the text: Behold thou art fair, my love.—Solomon's Sene. iv.. 1. “Higher criticism” says that this book of Solomon's Song is a love scene, a forlorn maiden sighing for her beau. If so, it is an unclean and debauched utterance inserted in the pure Word of God, and is not fit for common reading. My opinion is that it is an inspired ode, setting forth the feeling of Christ toward the Church and of the Church toward Christ. Christ is the bridegroom, and the Church is the bride. The same words we can utter to-day truthfully, whether in regard to ,the Church of God in general or this Church in particular: “Behold, tbou art fair, my love.” The past week has been one of prolonged congratulation for that we have for twenty-five years been permitted to associate with each other in the relation of pastor and people. When I came to Brooklyn I found a small band of Christian disciples who from various causes had become less and less, until they stood upon the ver3* verge of extinction as a church, and the question was being agitated from time to time whether it would be possible to maintain a church life longer. Indeed, had not those men and women been consecrated and earnest, they would have surrenderd to the adverse-circumstances. They marshaled a congregational meeting, and, gathering up all the forces possible, they cast 19 votes for a pastor, all of which lam happy to have received. It was not through any spirit of personal courage or reckless adventure that led me, from one of the warmest and most cengenial pastorates in Philadelphia that a man ever enjoyed, to this most uninviting field; but it was the feeling that God had called me to the work, and I was sure that He would see me through.

I have thought that it might be profitable to us to state briefly what kind of a qhurch we have been trying to establish. In the first place, I remark that we have been trying to build here a Christian church; distinctively such; in other words, a church where we should preach the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Mv theology is all gone into five letters—Jesus, Jesus, the pardon of all offenses. Jesus, the foundation of all structures. Jesus, the balm of all wounds. Jesus, the eyesalye for all blindness. Jesus, the guide through all perplexities. Jesus, the hope for all discuragements. Jesus, the reform for all worngs. I have faith to belive that there is more power in one drdp of the blood of Jesus Christ to cure the woes of the world than in an ocean full of human quackery. Jesus is the grandest note in any minstrelsy. He is the brightest gem in any crown. The center of every circumference. The circumference of every center. The pacifier of all turbulance. The umpire of all disputes. Jesus! Jesus! At His table all nations are to sit. Around this throne all worlds are to revolve. He is to be the irradiation of the universe. Jesus! Jesus! It is that truth that we have tried to preach in this tabernacle." , Do you ask more minutely what we believe? I can tell you. We have no dry, withered, jniceless theology. We believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and earth, the deliverer of the distressed, the home for the homeless, the friend for the friendless. We believe in Jesus Christ, able to save to the uttermost, pardoning the guilty, imputing the righteousness to the believer. We believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter, the sanctifier, cheering up the heart in life’s ills, and kindling bright lights in every dark landing place. We believe that1 the whole race is so sunken in sin that nothing but the omnipotent arm of God can ever lift it out. We believe in graee—free grace, sovereign grace, triumphant grace, eternal grace. We believe in a llible— authentic in its statements, immaculate in its teachings, glorious' in its promises. We believe in Heaven, the abode of the righteous; and in hell, the residence of those wliQ^are soulsuicides—of their own free choice refusing the divine mercy. We believe in the salvation of all men who accept Christ by faith, be they sprinkled or immersed, worship they in cathedral or in log cabin, believe they in Presbyterianism or Episcopacy, dwell they under Italian skies or in Siberian snow storms, be they Ethiopian of American. All one in Christ, one Lord, one faith. We built the tabernacle for the purpose of setting forth these great theories of the Gospel of the Son of God. Would that we had been more faithful in the pulpit! Would that we had been more faithful in the pew. I remark, further, that we have tried here to build a church distinctively unconventional. Instead of asking, as some people are disposed to do, how other people do it, we have asked the question how people do not do it Imperious custom has decided that churches shall be angular, cheerless, gloomy, unsympathetic; forgetting that what men call a pious gloom is impious, and that that church has the best architecture where the people are the most comfortable, and that that is the most efficient Christian service where the Deople are made most sick of sin, and most anxious after Christ and Heaven. Ar .1 so we called the architects together for one first church building and

said: “Give us an amphitheater”— that is, a large family circle gathered around a fireplace. For many years we had felt that an amphitheater was the only proper shape for an audience room. The prominent architects of the country said: “It can not be done. You need a ehurchly building.” And so we had plan after plan of ehurchly buildings presented; but in due time God sent a man who grasped our idea and executed it So far from being a failure, it satisfied our want, and all our three churches were built on the amphitheatrical plan, and scores of churches all over the country, have adopted the same plan. And, my brethren and sisters, we fail in our work just in proportion as we try to be like other churches, like every man, to be individual, gathering up all its peculiarities and idiosyncracies, and hurling them toward some good and grand object In other words, no two churches ought ever to be just | alike. Here is a church, for instance, whose object it is to prepare philosophers and artists and critics for Heaven. God speed them in the difficult work! Here is a church, ©n the other hand, that propose to bring only the poor into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ looking not after the rich. God speed such a church in its undertaking. But there is a larger idea that a church may take— bringing in the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant, the high and and the low; so that kneeling beside each dther shall be the man faring sumptuously every day, and the man who could not get his breakfast. God speed such a church. Oh! my friends, we need to break away from slavery to ecclesiastical customs. We dare not sing if anybody hear us. We dare not preach unless we have rounded off our sentences to suit the criticism of the world. We dare not dress for church until we have examined the'1 fash ion-plates, and we would rather stay at home than appear with a coat or hat not sanctioned by custom. When will the day of deliverance come to the church of God, when, instead of a dead religion, laid out in state of catafalque of pomp and insincerit}', we shall have a living, bounding, sympathetic, glowing Christianity? I remark, further, that we have tried here to build and to conduct a cheerful .church. While, as you know, we have noLheld back the terrors of the law and the sterner doctrines of the Gospel, we have tried in this house to present to this people the idea that the gladdest, brightest, happiest thing in the universe is the Christian religion. There is so much trouble in the world; business men have so many anxieties; toiling men have so many fatigues; orphans have so many desolations—for God’s sake, if there be any bright place on earth, show it to them. Let the church of Jesus Christ be the most cheerful spot on earth. Let me say that ! do not want anybody to come whining around me about the Christian religion. I have no faith in a religion made up of equal parts of wormwood, vinegar and red pepper. If the religion that is presented to us be a depression, we will get along better without it. If it be a joy, let it shine out from your face and from your conversation. If a man comes to my house to talk of religion with a lugubrious countenance and manner full of sniffle and dolorousness, I feel like sajung to my wife: “You had better lockup the silver before he steals something.” I have found it an invariable rule that men who profess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, priding themselves at the same time on their sanctimoniousness, always turn out badlj’. I never knew an exception. While those who are the most consistent, the most useful and the most consecrated have perfume in their conversation and Heaven in their face.

jl lit? iliippieab vuriMiaud uiat m. nave ever known have been persons from sixty to eighty years of age. By that time people get over the shams and pretenses of society, and have no longer any patience with anything like imposture in religion. 0 Christian! how dare you be gloomy? Is not God your Father? Is not Jesus Christ your Saviour? Has not your path all through life been strewn with mercies? Are you insensible to the fact that there are glories awaiting you in the better land—doxologies of celestial worship, eternal chorals, tearless eves,songs that resound under arches of strength and hosannas that clap their hands at the foot of the throne? Is it nothing to you that all the hills of Heaven are radiant with the faces of those who have gone up from' you, and who are waiting for your coming, ready to keep with j’ou eternal holiday? Is there nothing in songs that never cease, in hearts that never ache, in splendors that never die, to make you glad? Then take no more mercy at the hand of thy God! Give back the marriage ring of love that Jesus put on your finger in the day of your espousal! Plant no more of the flowers of Heaven where there ought to be nothing but nettles and nightshade! We try to make this church a cheerful church. A man. on Saturday afternoon, stands in his store and says: “How shall I meet these obligations? How can .1 endure this new disaster that is coming upon me?” He goes home. Sabbath morning finds him in the house of God. Through the song, through the sermon, through the prayer, the Lord Jesus Christ says to that man: “0 man! I have watched thee; I will see thee through; I will stand between thee and thy creditors. I will make up in Heavenly treasures what yon have lost in earthly treasures. Courage, man, courage! Angels of God, I command you to clear the track for that man; put your wings over his head; with your golden scepters strike for his defense; throw around him all the defenses of. eternity!” That business man is strengthening. He goes to the store next day feeling that God is with him and ready to deliver. That same Sunday there is a poor old woman in the church hearing the Gospel. Oh! Jiow shrunken she is!

She wears the same dress she wore twenty years ago. How faded it is, and now out of date! She sits and listens as well as she can. Her eyes are so dim she can not see half way across the church. Her ear is so. imperfect that she can only catch occasionally a note of the psalm or a word of the preacher. Someone sitting next to her gives her a book and .finds the place for her. She says: “Thank you, miss, thank you!” She holds the book close up to her eyes, and, with a voice all full of tremors, sings: Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to Thy bosom fly. While the billows near me roll, While the tempest still is hist' Hide me, 0. my Saviour hide. Till the storm of life is past. Safe into the haven guide— , Oh! receive my soul at last And Jesus says to her: “Mother, are you weary?” and she says: “Yes, Jesus, I am very tired.” Jesus says: “Mother, are you poor!” And she says: “Yes, I am very poor. I can not sew any more. I can not kbit any more. 1 am very poor.” Jesus says to her: “Mother, would you like to rest?” She saj's: “Yes, Lord, that is what I want —rest.” “Courage, mother,” says Jesus, “I will see thee through.” She goes home. The next morning, in the tenement house, some one dwelling on another floor comes to her room and knocks. No answer. The door is opened. Sl»e is dead! The night before the chariots of God halted at that pillow of straw, and Jesus kept His promise. He said that‘He would give her rest, and He has given her rest. Glory be to God for the height, the depth, the 'length, and the breadth of such Christian comfort! Oh! that we might have such, joy as that whieh inspired the men at the battle of Leuthen. They were singing a Christian song as they went into battle. A general said to the king: “Shall I stop those people singing?” “No,” said-the king; “men that can sibg like that can tight.” I would that we had a singing church? a joyful church, a jubilant church, a comforting church, for then we would have a triumphant Church. I remark, further, that we have here tried to build a church abreast of the times. It is all folly for us to try to do things the way they did fifty or a hundred years ago. We might as well be plowing with Elijah's crooked stick, or go into battle with Saul's armor, or prefer a canal boat to an express train, as to be clinging to old things. What we most need now is a wide-awake church. People who are out in the world all the week, jostled against this lightning-footed century, come into the church on the Sabbath,, and go right to sleep, unless they have a spirited service. Men engaged in literary callings all the week, reading pungent, sharp writings, can not be expected to come and hear our ecclesiastical humdrum. If a man stays at home on Sundays and reads the newspapers, it is because the newspapers are more interesting. We need, my brethren, to rouse up, and stop hunting with. blank cartridges. The church of God ought to be the leader, the interpreter, the ihspirer of the age. It is all folly for us to be discussing old issues—arraigning Nero, hanging Absalom, striking the Philistines with Shamgar’s ox-goad—when all around about us are iniquities to be

Did I say that the church ought to be abreast of the times? 1 take that back. The churchj of God ought to be ahead of the times-—as far in advance as the eross of Christ is ahead of all human invention. Paul was a thousand years ahead of the day in which he lived. The swift-footed years that have passed since Luther died have not yet come up to Luther’s grave. Give iniquity four thousand years the start, and the feet of Christianity are so nimble that if you will but give it full swing, it will catch up and pass it in two bounds. The church of God ought to be ahead of the times. I remark, further, that we have tried here, m the love and fear of God, to build a church that would be characterized by conversions. I have heard of very good people who could preach on for®fteen or twenty years, and see no conversions, but yet have faith, it takes a very good man to do that. I do not know how a man can keep his faith up if souls are ‘not brought to the Lord Jesus Christ. That church that does not bring men and women to the feet of the Saviour is a failure. I care not how fine the building or how sTveet the music, or how eloquent the preaching, or how elegant the surroundings—it is a failure. The church of God was made for just one thing— to get men out of the world into the kingdom of Heaven. The tendency in churches is to spend their time in giving fine touches to Christians already polished. We keep our religion too much indoors,and under shelter, when it ought to be climbing the rocks of hewing in the forests. Then it would be a stalwart religion, a robust religion, a religion able to digest the strong meat of the Word, instead of being kept pn the pap and gruel of spiritual invalidism. It is high time that we threw off the Sunday clothes of sickly sentimentality and put on the work-day dress of an earnest, active Christianity. I thank you for all your kindness, for all your sympathy, for all your prayers for me as pastor. It is a sorrow to me that I am to be absent, even for a few months. I have worked to the full extent of physical, mental and spiritual endurance for this church. My closing prayer this morning is that God.will have mercy on the dying population of our great eities, and that the whole earth will put on bridal array for the eoming of her Lord. Ride on! King of Jesus! Ride on! Blessed be the Lord Gid of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with His glory! Amen! and Amen! * —When God says “come,” He goes out to meet us; wjten He says “go.” He goes with us.—E. A. Lawrence. —The devil sets no *raps for the man who expects to go to Heaven by being religious a couple of hours a week.

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