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LIN E CHURCHES.
“And unto the angel of the church in
Smyrna, write these tilings.”—Revelation
ii., 8.
Smyrna was a great ancient city. It
was bounded on three sides by moun
tains. It was the great centre of the
Levantine trade. In that brilliant and
prosperous city, a Christian church
was established. After a while it was
rocked down by an earthquake. Then
it was rebuilt. Then it was destroyed
by a conflagration which swept down
the entire city. Church again rebuilt.
The fact was that church had in it a
living, active, Christian people. With
out that, all the splendor of architec
ture and all the beauty of surrounding
would have been only the ornaments of
death, the garlands on a coffin and the
plumes ol a hearse.
On this, the fourteenth anniversary
of my pastorate in this place, and look
ing into the friendly faces of this great'
audience, I propose to set forth what Ii
consider to be the characteristics of a '
live church. And in the first place, I
remark that a live church is prompt in 1
all its financial engagements. Every
religious institution has monetary rela
tions. The Rank of England ought to
be no more faithful in the discharge of
its obligations than ought the church
of Jesus Christ. If a church standing
in any community fails to pay' its
debts, it becomes an injury to the
place where it stands instead of a
blessing. All religious institutions
ought to be an example to the
world for faithfulness in the dis
charge of monetary obligations.
There are a thousand things that prayer
will not do. Prayer will not paint a
church, prayer will not purchase a win
ter’s coal, prayer will not pay an in
surance, prayer will not support the
institutions of religion. A prayer
never goes heaven-high unless it goes
pocket deep. All our supplication in
behalf of religions institutions amounts
to nothing unless we are willing so far
as God has prospered us to contribute
for their support. I had in my Western
church a man in favorable worldly cir
cumstances who used in prolonged
prayer to pray for his pastor until the
prolonged prayer almost became a
nuisance to the prayer meeting; for it
was a prayer without ceasing and a
prayer in which he asked that the pas
tor might be blessed in his basket and
in his store, while he, the petitioner,
never gave a cent of salary. All such
supplications as that amount to noth
ing. Members of a congregation
meeting their obligations inside, then
the church of Christ is able to meet its
obligations outside. I speak with no
embarrassment this morning, because
this church of God, although it has
come, in other years, through darkness
and storm, is standing to-day in a
large place and our temporal prosperi
ties go right beside our spiritual pros
perities. Thanks first to God, and
secondly to the generosity and prompt
ness of the people. I might at this
point say that there are many churches
of .Jesus Christ in our land that are
utterly failing in this direction. There_
are a great many ot the ministers of re~
ligion half starving to death. “Thank
you,” saida minister from the far
West when some friends from the East
sent him a few extra dollars; “thank
you, sir. Until that money came we
had no meat in our house for three
months, and our children this winter
have worn their summer clothes,”
There is no more ghastly suffering in
the United States to-day than is to be
found in some of the parsonages of this
country. You have with great munifi
cence provided for all my wants, and
so I can speak without any embarrass
ment on the subject while I denounce
the niggardliness of many of the chur
ches of Jesus Christ, keeping some
men who are very apostles for piety
and consecration in circumstances
where they are always apologetic and
have not that courage which they
would have could they stand in the
presence of people whom they knew
were faithful in the discharge of their
financial duties to the Christian
Church. Alas! for those men of whom
the world is not worthy. Do you
know the simple fact that in the Uni
ted States to-day the salary of the min
isters average less that .SOOO, and when
you consider that some of the salaries
are very large, you, as business men,
will immediately see to what great
straits many of God’s noblest servants
are this day reduced. A live church
will look after all its financial interest
and be as prompt in the meeting of
those obligations as any bank in the
cities.
A live chnreli will also be punctual
in its attendance, if in such a church
the services begin at half-past ten
o’clock in the morning, the people will
not come at a quarter of eleven. If in
such a church the services begtn at half
past seven in the evening, the people
will not come at a quarter of eight. In
many churches there is great tardiness.
The fact is some people are always
late. They were bom too late, and I
suppose they will die too late. It is
poor inspiration to a Christian minister
when in preliminary exercises half the
people seated in the pews are looking
around to see the other half come in.
It is very confusing to a minister of
religion when during the opening ex
ercises there is the rustling of dresses
through the aisle and the slamming of
doors at the entrance. I am glad to say
that this congregation are punctual and
prompt in their attendance. There
ought to be no opening, preliminary
exercises. There is a grand delusion
in the churches of Jesus Christ on this
subject. There must be no prelimina
ry exercises. The very first word of
the invocation is as important as any
thing that may come after. Scripture
lesson the voice of God-to man, while
a sermon may be only the voice of man
to man, and happy is that church
where all the worshippers are present
at the beginning of the services. I
know there is a difference in time-pie
ces, but a live church goes by railroad
time, and everybody in every commu
nity knows what that is. No man
goes to take the limited express train
to Washington at five minutes past
ten o’clock it the train started at ten.
In many of the households of Christen
dom every Sabbath morning the iami
ly will sing that old hymn—
Early my God, without delay,
I haste to seek Thy face.
I go further, and tell you that in ev
ery live church all the people take
part in the exercises. A stranger can
tell by the way the first hymn starts
whether it is a live church. It is a sad
thing when the music comes down in
cold drizzle from the organ loft and
freezes on the heads of the silent peo
ple beneath. It is an awful thing for
a hymn to start and then find itself
lonely and ' unbefriended, wandering
around about, after a while lost amid
the arches. That is not melody to the
Lord. In heaven they all sing, al
though some sing not half as well as
others. The Methodist Church has
sung its way around the earth. A
man on fire with the gospel as John
\Vesley preached it has taken his
place in the far West, and on Sab
bath morning has come out in front of
his log cabin and sung,
A charge to keep 1 have,
A God to glorify.
And they heard it on the otherside of
the forest, and they gathered around
the door-step, and after a while a church
grew up and they heard a great revival,
and all the wilderness heard the voice
of God. A church that can sing can
do anything that ought to\>e done. In
this battle for God let us take
the Bible in one hand and the hymn
book in the other. lam glad that this
church has made mighty advancement
in that direction, a prominent minister
of religion writing me yesterday, say
ing: “I would walk five miles to hear
your congregation sing
Jesus, lover of my soul,
as I heard them sing it the other Sun
day.” While wo have four voices to
chant the especial music, when the
regular hymn is given out there are five
thousand people who feel they belong
to the choir and whose voices are like
“the voice of many waters and the voice
of mighty thunderings.”
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
On the way to triumphs without end
and to pleasures that never die. Sing!
I remark again, that a live church
will have a nourishing Sabbath school.
It is too late in the history of the
church to argue the benefit of Sabbath
schools. A Sabbath school is not a
supplement to the church; it is its right
arm. “O!” you say, “there are stupid
churches that have Sabbath schools.”
Yes, and the Sabbath schools are stupid
too. It is a dead mother holding a dead
child. But where, Sabbath after Sab
bath, superintendent and teachers and
children come, their faces aglow wi’h
enthusiasm, entering with great heart
into the services, and then retiring at
home feeling that they have been on a
mount of transfiguration—that church
will be a live church. But while we
have the children of the refined and the
educated and the cultured in our
churches, l deplore the fact that there
are such vast multitudes who get none
of the benediction. What will become
of the 70,000 destitute children in New
York? It is a tremendous question.
What will become of the thousands of
destitute children in Brooklyn? If we
do not act upon them they will act up
on us. If wo do not Christianize them
they will heathenize us. It is a question
not more for every Christian than for
every patriot and every philanthropist
and every statesman. O! if we could
gather them all together, what a scene
of hunger and wretchedness and despair
and death. If you could see those lit
tle feet on the broal road to death,
which through Christian charity ought
to be passing the narrow path of life;
if you could hear those voices in blas
phemy, which ought to be singing the
praise of God; if you could see those
hearts, which at that age ought not to
be soiled with one impure thought,
already become the sewers of iniquity;
if you could see those little ones sacri
ficed on the altar of every iniquitous
passion and baptized with fire from the
lava of the pit, your soul would recoil,
crying, "Avaunt, thou dream of hell!”
They are coming up. They will not
always be boys and girls. They are
coming up to be the men and women of
this country. That spark of iniquity
that might be put out now with one
drop of the water of life will become a
conflagration destroying every green
thing that God ever planted in the soul.
That which ought to he the temple of
the Holy Ghost will become a scarred
and blasted ruin, every light quenched
and every altar in the dust. That
petty thief who yesterday slipped into
your store and took a piece of cloth from
the counter will become the highway
man of the forest, or the burglar at
midnight picking the lock of your
money safe and blowing up your store
to hide the villiany. A great army,
they come on with staggering step and
bloodshot eye and drunken hoot to take
the ballot-box and hurrah at the elec
tions. The rough-handled ruffians of
the country, if we do not lookout, will,
alter awhile, have more power than the
tender hand of sobriety. Men boasted
and with the signature of sin burned in
from the top of their foreheads to the
bottom of their chins, will look honest
men out of their countenance. Moral
corpses that ought to be buried a hun
dred feet deep to keep them from pois
oning the air, will rot in the face of the
sun at noonday. Industry in her plain
frock will be despised and thousands of
men unwilling to work will wander
about with their hands on their hips,
saying, “The world owes me a living,”
when it owes them the penitentiary.
0! what a power there is in iniquity
when, unrestrained and unblanched, it
goes on concentring and deepening and
widening, rolling ahead with a very
triumph of desolation, drowning like
surges, scorching like flame, crashing
like rocks. What are you going to do
with this vast multitude of children
marching up to take possession of this
land? “0!” you say, “its only a child,
its only a child.” Ah! that child has
covered up in the ashes of its bodv a
spark of immortality which will blaze
on with untold splendor long alter
yonder sun has died of old age, and all
the countless worlds that glitter at
night shall have been swept off by the
Almighty’s breath as the small dust of
a threshing floot. Yet you say it is
only a child. O! that God would come
down upon the Sabbath School of this
church and nyon all the friends of chil
dren, and instead of having 1,800 in
the Sabbath school we would have
three thousand, four thousand, five
thousand, six thousand every Sabbath
afternoon shouting hosanna in the tem
ple.
I remark again, that a live church
will have commodious and appropriate
architecture. A log church may do in
a place where people live in log cabins,
but in cities where people have commo
dious and beautiful apartments, a
church that is not commodious and is
not beautiful is a moral nuisance; it is
an insult to God and an insult to man.
So we said years ago, “We shall have
a large church and have it amphitheat
rical in shape; the seats shall rise above
each other, and when the minister of
the gospel stands up to preach the truth
he will be able to look every man full
in the face, and the acoustics shall be
perfect.” God granted our prayer. The
first tabernacle was built, and the Holy
Ghost came down with great power,
and the place became the gate of heaven
to a multitude. Then this building
was erected and God yamc here and
blessed us. But when we persisted in
this style of architecture, O! the scorn
and the caricature. Some of yon re
member it. They said it would be a
“hippodrome.” They said it would
be a “holy circus.” They called it
“Talmage’s theatre.” But the build
ing once completed, I never saw a man
that did not like it. Perfect in acous
tics; perfect in all its arrangements; a
great family circle, as every church
ought to be—the pulpit only the fire
place, all the family gathered around
the fireplace. An angular church
makes an angular theology. The most
uninteresting part of a man is the back
of his head. Arranged in an audience
like this, you either see the full face or
you see the side face, and hence the
great circle of sympathy. Sympathy
in the song, sympathy in the saluta
tion,sympathy in all the service. “How
amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of
Hosts!” A live church must have
commodious and appropriate architec
ture.
I remark again that a live church
must be a soul saving church. The
Gospel of Jesus Christ must be preach
ed in it. A church may be built
around one man who shall read an es
say, the church may be built around
one man who shall preach something
else than the Gospel, and there may be
a large congregation, but after a while
the man dies and the church dies. That
church has a very poor foundation that
is built on two human shoulders. I
could toll you of a church in the city
of Boston that was more largely atten
ded some thirty years ago than any
other church in that city. Where is it
to-day? Utterly gone out of existence.
A man stood there who preached every
thing but the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
He died and the church died. We
want a church built on the Rock of
Ages, Jesus Christ, the Lord. That
is the church that will go on decade
after decade, century after century
—a church standing like Rowland
Hill’s old church, meaning the Gospel
all the way through. I was at the
celebration of, I thiuk, the ninetieth
year of that church. The man who
founded it had long ago gone into the
skies. ‘ O!” say some, “the Gospel of
Jesus Christ allows such small oppor
tunity for man’s intellect.” Does it?
A man of that kind came to Rowland
Hill, of whom I just spoke, and said:
“Mr. Hill, I have quit the ministry,
because lam not willing to hide my
talents.” Mr. Hill said: “I have
known you a long while, my friend,
and I think the sooner you hide your
talents the better.” O! there is no
such field for a man’s intellect and a
man’s heart as the Gospel ministry.
Have you powers of analysis? Ex
haust them here. Have you irresisti
ble logic? Grapple with St. Paul’s
Epistle to the Romans. Have you
powers of pathos? Exhibit the love
of Jesus Christ. Have you great im
agination? Dwell upon the Psalms of
David, or John’s apocalyptic vision.
Are you disposed to bold thinking?
Follow Ezekiel’s wheel full of eyes,
and hear through his chapters the rush
of the wings of the seraphim. Olcome
and preach this Gospel; if not in pul
pits, in the store, in the factory, iri the
shop, in the street, in the banking
house—everywhere. Each of you call
ed to preach this Gospel somewhere, a
voice from the throne saying this day;
“Woe unto you if you preach not this
Gospel.” lam glad to know it has
been the ambition of this church, so
far as I can understand it, that this
shall be a soul-saving church. Par
don for all sin. Comfort for al! trou
ble. Eternal life for all the dead. And
we have never thrown out the net and
brought it back empty —at one commu
nion season gathering in a hundred
and eighty, at another gathering in
three hundred, at another gather
ing in four hundred, at other seasons
gathering in five or six hundred, and
the work only just begun; for some
day, perhaps after my lips arc closed
in death—but I hope not, I hope it is
not to be postponed until after that—
some day some man will stand here
preach this glorious Gospel and .1,000
souls will press into the kingdom. I
could tell you how God has made this
a soul-saving church; how at the foot
of the pulpit one Sabbath night a gen
tleman passed on, his face bronzed
with the sea. I saw he was just from
shipboard. He said, “I am an Eng
lishman.” He passed into the inquiry
room. The Holy Ghost wrought up
on him mightily and brought him out
into the light of the Gospel, and he
addressed those who stood around him
and told how he had found the Lord.
Then I said, “When did you arrive?”
He replied at 11 o’clock this morning
the steamer got in.” I asked: “How
long are you going to remain in the city
and the country?” “To-morrow morn
ing,” he said, “I go to Toronto and so
on to Halifax, where 1 have business,
and then will go back home to Eng
land.” I said: “I guess you came in
here to have your soul saved.” He
said: “l.really believe that is the rea
son 1 came.” So one Sabbath night
there were three persons who looked so
glad, so happy, I accosted them. 1
said to the gentleman: “Are you a
Christain?” He said, “Yes.” I said
“When did you become a Christian?”
He said, “To-night.” I said, “Is this
your wife?” “Yes.” “Wliendidyou
become a Christian?” I asked her.
She said, ‘To-night.” I said, “Is
this your daughter.” He said, “Yes.”
I asked the daughter, “Are yon a
Christian?” “Yes.” 1 said, “When
did you become a Christian?” She
said, “To-night.” I said, “How long
will you tarry in the city?” The gen
tleman said, “We go to-morrow; we
came yesterday; we live in Charleston,
South Carolina.” I have since heard
of him, as useful in the church of Je
sus Christ where he lives. O! how
many have been brought to Christ. It
is my ambition to-day, as I close one
chapter of my pastorate and open an
other—it is m v ambition that this he a
soul-saving church.
There is a sadness that comes over
me this morning, as I remember that
fourteen years of my pastorate have
gone by, and so many opportunities
when I might have struck a stouter
blow for Christ have gone by. I do
not suppose there are a dozen persons
hearing this fourteenth anniversary
sermon who heard my opening sermon.
Some of them have entered upon the
saints. Everlasting rest. I stood by
their deathbeds and got the testimony
as to what God does for a dying Chris
tiian. Your fathers, your mothers,
your companions, your sons, your
daughters, where are they?
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which no one can ever wake to weep.
Of the nineteen persons who gather
ed together—it was all that could he
mustered at that time—of the nineteen
persons who were gathered together to
give me a unanimous call, nearly all
are gone. Some in other fields are
serving Christ; in other cities, in other
lands, are lifting up the standard, and
I hope to meet them in that day when
we shall celebrate the great harvest
home. I thank God that I ever came
to Brooklyn. I thank God that I ever
knew you. I declare to you this morn
ing, in looking over the fourteen years
of my ministry in this place, I cannot
think of one complaint to make. 1
have had it too easy. I have never, as
other ministers, been visited by com
mittees asking mo to do this differently
and do that differently. I have never
had any thorn in my side, but the
heartiest co-operation all the way
through. When sickness came to my
house there has been no lack of watch
ers, and when death came I •remember
how tenderly you lifted the silent form
and carried it out to slumber in God’s
acre. I thank you for all your kind
ness during the fourteen years, for the
way in which you have borne with all
my infirmities, for tho manner in which
you have upheld me with your prayers.
Now we close the chapter and open an
notlier. I wish that this anniversary
day might be celebrated by the coming
of a great multitude to God. I this
morning asked the clerk of tho session
to give me the additions to the church
during my pastorate of fourteen years,
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NO. 58.
and lie says that 3,303 persons have
connected themselves with the church,
2,017 on profession of faith. We
thank God lor the sheaves that have
been gathered. But it is only an inti
mation, I believe, of what God is go
ing to do for us as a church. O! step
into the kingdom of Christ to-day.
The years speed on. Fourteen years!
How short a time, and yet the audience
entirely changed. The conductor ot a
railroad train was telling me how he
stood on the side of the track by his
crowded train; the train had been
switched off on a side track to let the
express go by unhindered. He said as
he stood there in the night by his
crowded train on the side track, he
heard the express train thunde’ing on
in the distance. In a few moments he
saw the flash of the headlight of the
locomotive, and as the train came near
by he saw that the switch had not been
attended to. The switchman, either
through intoxication or indifference,
had failed in his duty, and that train
in a minute more would rush on the
side track and crush his train and mas
sacre the passengers, if something were
not instantly done. He shouted, “Set
up that switch!” and instantly the
switch went to its place and the train
thundered on. The conductor told me
that the excitement of the moment was
so great, the nervous strain so great as
the train went by, lie was too weak to
put liis foot upon the step of his car.
Such an awful escape! O! men and wo
men immortal, speeding on toward a
great eternity swift as the years, swift
as the months, swift as the days, swift
as the minutes, swilt as the seconds—
on what track are you? Has sin
sw itched you off this side? or has Sa
tan switched you off the other side?
Are you sure you are on the right
track? Toward light, or toward dark
ness? Toward victory or toward de
feat? Toward heaven or toward hell?
Are you on the right track? “Now is
the day of salvation.”
llow to Answer “Masliers” Notes
There lives in St. Louis a very sen
sible old German named Muller, who
keeps a store, lie has a daughter
named Mina. Not long since she at
tracted the attention of one of those
unfortunate creatures called “mashers,”
so called because their nose needs mash
ing ten times a ciey. He found out
where she lived, and next day an un
kempt urchin brought Miss Muller a
personate note, marked “strictly con
fidential.” The contents of the note
were to the effect that he loved her for
herself alone. The following post
script was added:
‘‘l*. S.—That my darling may make
no mistake, remember that 1 will wear
a light pair of pants ana a dark
cutaway coat. In my light hand 1
.vil! carry a small cane, and in niv felt
a cigar. Yours forever,
“ADOLPItpS.”
As the urcli said lie was told to wait
for an answer, Miss Muller took the
note to her father, and requested him
to write an answer. The old man did
so, stating that his daughter would be
at the appointed place at. the time speci
fied by proxy, he, her father, having
authority to represent her at the pro
posed caucus. The postscript read as
follows: j
“P. S.—Dot my son may make no
mishdake, I vill pe dreshed in mine
shirt sleeves. I vill vear in my right
hand a glub; in mine left hand a-six
shooter, 45 calibre. You vill recognize
me py do vay I bats you on de head, a
goople dimes twict mit de glub. Vait
for me on de corner, as I have some
dings imbordant to inform you mit.
Your frent, Heinrich Muller.
For some unexplained reason,- Adol
phus was not on hand when he was
wanted, much to the grief of the old
man, who meant all that he wrote. —
Texas Siftings.
Don’t Waste Vital Energy.
The most vigorous persons do not
have too much vitality. People gener
ally inherit a lack of it or at least find
that much vital energy has been per
manently lost in their childhood or
youth through the ignorance or care
lessness of their parents. Often it is
impaired by wrong indulgences in.early
manhood. The endeavor with all per
sons should be to husband what is left,
be it much or little. Therefore:
1. Don’t do anything in a hurry.
2. Don’t work too many hours a
day, whether it be farm-work, shop
work, study work or house work.
3. Don’t abridge sleep. Get the
full 8 hours of it, and that, too, in a
ventilated, and sun-purified room.
4. Don’t eat what is indigestible,
nor too much of anything, and let good
cheer rule the hour.
5. Don’t fret at yourself or anybody
else; nor indulge in the blues, nor
burst into fits of passion.
G. Don’t be too much elated with
good luck nor disheartened by bad.
Positively—he self-controlled, calm
and brave. Let your brain have all
the rest it ryjpiis. Treat your stomach
right. Keep a good conscience, and
have a cheerful trust in God for all
things in both worlds.
By lack of open air exercise, and
the want of sufficient care in the mat
ter of diet, the whole physical mech
anism often becomes impaired during
the winter. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is
the proper remedy to take in the
spring of the year to purify the blood,
invigorate the system, excite the
liver to action, and restore the healthy
tone and vigor.