THE NEW TABERNACLE.
-DR. TALMAGE'S GRAPHIC REVIEW OF
THE BUILDING AND ITS PURPOSES.
' ot Joidu by the Israelite.
Ttra Mny Discouragement in Huildine
tte New Structure Stones from Slual
mmtl Athens A Church for All.
Brooklyn, April 26. Sermon of Rev. T.
-De Witt Talniage in the new Brooklyn
Tabernacle on Clinton avenue this even
ing, the building having been dedicated in
'the morning at 10:30. A great union meet
4njc in which clergymen of all denomina
taons of Christians participated, was taeld
te the afternoon. Six thousand persona
""were present at each of the services, and
many thousands were turned away. Text,
'"What mean ye by these stones?" (Joshua
,).
The Jordan, like the Mississippi, has
fluffs on the one side and flats on the
ther. Here and there a sycamore shad
mma it. Here and there a willow dips into
it. It was only a little over waist deep' in
December as I waded through it, but in the
'nooths of April and May the snows on
Mount Lebanon thaw and flow down into
Abe valley, and then the Jordan overflows
its banks. Then it is wide, deep, raging
ad impetuous. At this season of the
year I bear the tramp of forty thousand
'mnl men coming down to cross the river.
You say, why do they not go up nearer the
rHe of the river at the old camel ford? Ah!
Boy friends, it is because it is not safe to go
wound when the Lord tells us to go ahead.
The Israelites had been goiug around forty
'tears, and they had enongh of it. I do not
now how it is with you, my brethren, but
J have always got into trouble when I went
-around, but always got into safety when I
" 4weot ahead.
There spreads out the Jordan, a raging
torrent, much of it snow water just come
down from the mountain top; and I see
sane of the Israelites shiveriog at the idea
of plunging in, and one soldier says to his
-comrade, "Joseph, can you swim?"' And
another says: "If we get across the stream
will get there with wet clothes and
with damaged ..armor, and the Caoaanites
mill slash um to pieces with their swords
before we get up the other bank." But it
-in bo time to halt. The great host marches
The priests carrying the ark go ahead,
The people follow. I hear the tramp of the
rreat multitude. The priests hnve now
wne within a stone's throw of the water.
Vet still there is no abatement of the flood.
-JJw they have come within four or five
-Seet of the stream; but there is no abate
ment of the flood. Bad prospect! It seems
aa If these Israelites that crossed the desert
ore now going to be drowned in sight of
'Canaan. But "Forward!" is the cry. The
command rings all along the line of the
"Forward!" Now the priests have
within one' step of the river. This
; time they lift their feet from the solid
- .ground auj pul them down into the rag
4n stream. No sooner are their feet there
than Jordan flies.
. On the right hand God piles op a great
-mountain of floods; on the left, the water
lows off toward the sea. The great river
for hoars fctlts and rears. The back
"waters, not being able to flow over the pass
lag Israelites, piie wave on wave until per
aaps a sea bird would find some difficulty
ia scaling the water cliff. Now the priests
and all the people have gone over on dry
land. The water on the left hand side by
thin time has reached the sen; and now
taat the miraculous passage baa been made,
atand back and see this stupendous pile of
waters leap. God takes bis hand from
hat wall of floods, and like a hundred cat
mcta they plunge and roar in thunderous
triumph to the sea.
TBI MONPMKNT AT JORDAK.
How are they to celebrate this passage?
"Shall it be with music? I suppose the
trumpet and cymbals were all worn out
-.before this. Shall it be with banners wav-
Ta? Oh. no; they are all faded and torn.
-Joshua cries out, "I will tell you how to
celebrate this build a monument here to
commemorate the event;" and every priest
puts a heavy stone on his . shoulder and
marches out, and drops that stone in the
divinely appointed place. I see the pile
growing in he'gbt, in breadth, in signifi
cance; and, in after years, men went by
that spot and saw this monument, and
-cried out one to another, in fulfillment of
the prophecy of the text, "What meant ye
By these stones?"
Blessed be God, he did not leave our
church in the wilderness! We have been
wandering about for a year and a half
"worshiping i-i the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn, anc the Academy of Music, New
York. And ime thong it we would never
ranch the promised Ihd.1. Some said we
had better tale this route and others that.
Some said we had better go back, and some
aaid there were sous of Anak in the way
that would tat us up and before the
smoke bad cleared aw;.y 'rora the sky after
oar tabernacle had been consumed, people
-stood on the very site of .,be place and said,
"This church will never again be built."
We came down to the bank of Jordan; we
-looked off upon the waters. Some of the
sympathy that was expressed turaed out
to be snow water melted from the top of
I.sbaQon. Some said, "You had better not
go in; you will get your feet wet." But
we waded in, pastor and people, farther
and farther, and in some way, the Lord
only knows Low, we got through; and to
night I go all around about this great
house, erected by your prayers and sympa
thies and sacrifices, and cry out in the
words of my text, "What mean ye by these
a stones?"
It is an outrage to build a house like this,
so vast and so magnificent, unless there
be some tremendous reasons for doing it;
and so, my friends, I pursue you to-night
with the question of my text, and I de
mand of these trustees and of these elders
and of all who have- contributed in the
building of this structure, "WhrX mean ye
by these stones?" But before J get your
answer to my question you interrupt me
and point to the memorial wall at the side
of this pulpit, and say, "Explain that un
usual group of memorials, What mean you
by those stones?" By permission of the
people of my beloved charge I recently
visited the Holy Lands, and having in
mind by day and night during my absence
this rising house of prayer, I bethought
-myself, "What can I dn to make that place
significant and glorious."
On the morning of December the 3d
"we were at the foot of the most sacred
mountain of all the earth, Mouut Calvary.
" There is no more doubt of the locality
- -than of Mount Washington or Mont Blanc
On the bluff of this mountain, which is
" the shape of the human skull, and so
called in the Bible, "The place of a skull,"
there is room or three crosses. There 1
-saw a stone so suggestive I rolled it down
the hill and transported at. It is at the
top of this wall, a white stone, with crim
son veins running through it the white
typical of purity, the crimson suggestive
of the blood that paid the price of our re
demption. We place it at the top of the
I memorial waii, for above all id this chareb
, for all time, inaertaon and song and prayer.
shall be the saennce of Mount Calvary.
Look at it. That etone was one of the
rocks rent at the crucifixion. That heard
the cry, "It is finished." Was ever any
church on earth honored 'with such a me
morial? TUE MEMORIAL OF SIN AL
Beneath it are two tables of stone, which
I had brought from Mount Siuai where
the law was given. Three camels were
three weeks crossing the desert to fetch
them. When at Cairo, Kgypt, I proposed
to the Christian Arab that he bring one
stone from Mount Sinai, he said,. "We c-in
easier bring two rocks than one, for one
must balance them on the back of the
camel," and I did not think until the ) iv
of their arrival how much more suggestive
would be the two, because the law was
written on two tables of stone. Those
stones marked with the words "Mount
Sinai" felt the earthquake that shook t.ie
mountains when the law was given. The
lower stone of the wall is from Mars Hill,
the place where Paul stood when he
preached that famous sermon on the broth
erhood of the human race, declaring, "God
bath made of one blood all nations."
Since Lord Elgin took the famous statu
ary from the Acropolis, the hill adjoining
Mars Hill, the Greek government makes it
impossible to transport to other lands any
antiquities, and armed soldiery gunrd
not only the Acropolis but Mars Hill.
That stone I obtained by special per
mission from the queen of Greece, a
most gracious and brilliant woman, w bo
received us as though we had been old ac
quaintances, and through Mr. Triooupis,
the prime minister of Greece, and Mr.
Snowden, our American minister plenipo
tentiary, and Dr. Manatt, our American
consul, that suggestive tablet 'was sawed
from the pulpit of rock on which Paul
preached. . Now you understand why we
have marked it "The Gospel." Long after
my lips shall utter in this church their
last message, these lips of stone will tell of
the Law, and the Sacrifice, and the Gospel.
This day I present them to this church
and to till who shall gaze upon them.
Thus you have my answer to the question,
"What mean you by these stones?"
But you cannot divert me from the ques
tion of the text as I first put it. I have in
terpreted these four memorials on my
right hand, but there are hundreds of
stones in these surrounding walls and un
derneath us, in the foundations, and rising
above us in the towers. The quarries of
thin and transatlantic countries at the call
of crowbar and chisel have contributed
toward this structure. "What mean ye by
these stones?"
Vou mean among other things that they
shall be an earthly residence for Christ.
Christ did not have much of a home when
he was here. Who and where is that child
crying? It is Jesus, born in an outhouse.
Where is that hard breathing? It is Jesus,
asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back
part of the fishing smack, with a sailor's
rough overcoat thrown over him? It is
Jesus the worn out voyager. O Jesus! is
it not time that thou hadst a house? We
give thee this. Thou didst give it to us
first, bat we give it back to thee. It is too
good for us, but not half good enough for
thee. Oh! come in and take the best seat
here. Walk up and down all these aisles.
Speak through these organ pipes. Throw
thine arm over ns in these arches. In the
flaming of these brackets of fire speak to
us, saying, "I am the light of the world."
0 King! make this thine audience cham
ber. Here proclaim righteousness and
make treaties. We clap our bands, we un
cover our heads, we lift our ensigns, we
cry with multitudinous acclamation until
the place rings and the heavens listen, "O
King! live forever!"
Is it not time that he who was born in a
stranger's bouse and buried in a stranger's
grave should have an earthly house? Come
in, O Jesasl not the corpse of a buried
Christ, but a radiant and triumphant Je
sus, conqueror of earth and heaven and
hell.
He lives, all glory to his name.
He Uvea, my Jesos, still the same.
Oh, the sweet Joy this sentence gives
I know that my Redeemer lives.
BVBBT DENOMINATION HAS CONTRIBUTED.
Blessed be bis glorious name forever!
Again, if any one asks the question of the
text. "What mean ye by these stones?" the
reply is we mean the communion of
saints. Do you know that there is not a
single denomination of Christians in Brook
lyn that has notscontributed something to
ward the building of this bouse? And if
ever, standing in this place, there shall be
a man who shall try by anything he snys
ro stir up bitterness between different de
nominations of Christians, may his tongue
falter, and his cheek blanch, and his heart
stop! My friends, if there is any church
on earth where there is a mingling of all
denominations it is our church. I just
wish that John Calvin and Armnius, if
they were not too busy, would come out on
the battlements and see us.
Sometimes iu our prayer meetings I have
heard brethren use the phrases of a beau
tiful liturgy, and we know where they
come from; and in the same . prayer meet
ings I have heard brethren make audible
ejaculation, "Amen!" "Praise ye the Lord!"
and we did not have to guess twice where
they came from. When a man knocks at
our church door, if he comes from a sect
where they will not give him a certificate,
we say: "Come in by confession of faith."
While Adnniram Judson the Baptist, and
John Wesley the Methodist, and John
Knox the glorious old Scotch Presbyte-
rian are shaking hands in heaven, all'
churches on earth can afford to come into
close communication: "One Lord, one
faith, one baptism." Oh, my brethren,
we have had enough of Big Bethel fights
the Fourteenth New York regiment fight
ing the Fifteenth Massachusetts regiment.
Now, let all those who are for Christ and
stand on the same side go shoulder to
shoulder, and this church, instead of hav
ing a sprinkling of the divine blessing, go
clear under the wave in one glorious im
mersion in the name of the Father and of
the Son and ef the Holy Ghost.
I saw a little child once, in its dying
hour, put one arm around its father's
neck and the other arm around its moth
er's neck and bring them close down to its
dying lips and give a last kiss. Oh, I said,
those two persons will stand very near to
each other always after such an interlock
ing. The dying Christ puts one arm
around this denomination of Christians,
and the other arm around that denomina
tion of Christians, and he brings them
down to his dying lips while he gives them
this parting kiss: "My peace I leave with
you. My peace I give unto you."
How swift the heavenly coarse they ran,
- Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one.
HEAVEN WILL BB TROLT CATHOLIC
I heard a Baptist minister once say that
he thought in tjje millennium it would be
all one great Baptist church; and I heard
a Methodist minister say that he thoaght
in the great millennial day it would be all
one great Methodist church; and I have
known a Presbyterian minister who
thoaght that in the millennial day it would
be all one great Presbyterian church. Now
1 think they are all mistaken. 1 think the
millennial church will be a composite
church; and just as yon may take the best
parts of five or six tunes, and under the
skillful hands of a Handel, Mozart or
Beethoven entwine them into one grand
ancl overpowering symphony, so, lsnppose,
in the latter days of the world, God will
take the beet parts of all denominations
of Christians, and weave them into
one great ecclesiastical harmony, broad
as the earth and high as the
heavens, and thai will be the church of
the future. Or, as mosaic is made up of
jasper and agate and. many precious
stones cemented together mosaic a thous
and feet square in St. Mark's, or mosaic
hoisted in colossal seraphim in St. Sophia
so I suppose God will make, after awhile,
one great blending of all creeds, and all
faiths, and all Christian sentiments, the
amethyst, and the jasper, and the chalce
dony of all different experiences and be
lief, cemented side by side in the great
mosaic of the ages; and while the nations
look upon the columns and architraves of
that stupendous' church of the future, and
cry out, "What mean ye by these stones?"
there shall be innumerable voices to re
spond, "We mean the Lord God omnipo
tent reigneth."
Still further, you mean by these stones
the salvation of the people. We did not
build this church for mere worldly reforms,
or for an educational institution, or as a
platform on which to read essays and philo
sophical disquisitions, but a place for the
tremendous work of soul saving. Oh, I
had rather be the means in this church of
having one soul prepared for a joyful eter
nity thau five thousand souls prepared for
mere worldly success. All churches are in
two classes, all communities in two classes,
all the race in two classes believers and
unbelievers. To augment the number of
the one and subtract from the number of
the other we built this church, and toward
that supreme and eternal idea we dedicate
all our sermons, all our songs, all our
prayers, all our Sabbath handshakings.
We want to throw defection into the ene
my's ranks. We want to make them either
surrender unconditionally to Christ or else
fly in rout, scattering the way with
canteens, blankets and knapsacks. We
want to popularise Christ. We would
like to tell the story of his love
here until men would feel that they
had rather die than live another hour
without his sympathy and love and mercy.
We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for
him greater than was felt for Nathaniel
Lyon when he rode along the ranks;
greater than was exhibited for Wellington
when be came back from Waterloo; great
er than was expressed for Napoleon when
he stepped ashore from Elba. We really
believe in this place Christ will enact the
same scenes that were enacted by him
when he landed ia the orient, and there
will be such an opening of blind eyes and
unstopping of deaf ears and casting oat of
unclean spirits such silencing bestormed
Gennesarets as shall make this house
memorable five hundred years after you
and I are dead and forgotten. Oh, my
friends, we want but one revival in this
church, that beginning now and running
on to the day when the chUel of time, that
brings down even St. Paul's and the Pyra
mids, shall bring this house into the dust.
TRET BfJILT, BUT ENTERED NOT.
Oh, that this day of dedication might be
the day of emancipation of all imprisoned
soals. My friends, do not make the blan
der of the ship carpenters in Noah's time,
who helped to build the ark, bat did not
get into it. God forbid that you who have
been so generous in building this church
should not get under its saving influence.
"Come thou and all thy house into the
ark." Do you think a man is safe out of
Christ? Not one day, not one hoar, not
one minute, not one second. Three or four
years ago, you remember, a rail train broke
down a bridge on the way to Albany, and
after the catastrophe they were looking
around among the timbers of the crashed
bridge and the fallen train and found the
conductor. He was dying, and bad only
strength to say one thing, and that was,
"Hoist the flag for the next train." So
there come to us tonight, from the eternal
word, voices of God, voices of angels, voices
of departed spirits, crying: "Lift the warn
ing. Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm.
Hoist the flag for the next train."
Oh, that tonight my Ixrd Jesus would
sweep his arm around this great audience
and take you all to his holy heart. You
will never see so good a time for personal
consecration as now. "What mean ye by
these stones?" We mean your redemption
from sin and death and bell by the power
of an omnipotent gospel.
Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected
again. We came here tonight not to ded
icate it. That was done this, morning. To
night we dedicate ourselves. In the Epis
copal and Methodist churches they have
a railing around the altar, and tho people
come 'and kneel down at that railing and
get the sacramental blessing. Well, my
friends, it would take more than a night
to gather you in circles around this altar.
Then just bow where you are for the bless
ing. Aged men, this is the last church
that you will ever dedicate. May the God
who comforted Jacob the Patriarch, and
Paul the aged, make this house to you the
gate of heaven; and when, in your old
days, you put on your spectacles to read
the hymn or the Scripture lesson, may you
get preparation for that land where you
shall no more see "through a glass darkly.
May the warm sunshine of heaven thaw
the snow off your foreheads!
Men in midlife, do you know that this is
the place where you are going to get your
fatigues rested and your sorrows appeased
and your souls saved? Do you know that
at this altar your sons and daughters will
take upon themselves the vows of the Chris
tian, and from this place you will carry
out, some of you, your precious dead? Be
tween this baptismal font and this com
munion table you will have some of the
tenderest of life's experiences. God bless
you, old and young and middle aged.
The money you have given to this church
today will be, I hope; the best financial in
vestment you have ever made. Your
wordly investments may depend npon the
whims of the money market, or the hon
esty of business associates, but the money
you have given to the house of the Lord
shall yield you large percentage, and de
clare eternal dividends long after the
noonday sun shall have gone out like a
spark from a smitten anvil and all the
stars are dead.
Highly Unnatural. '
Walker I had a most unilateral dream
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Fadman Unnatural! Why, that's Binks
all overl
Walker Yes, bat I went on dreaming
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The Grate ' City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
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ITS TERRITORY.
It is the. supply city for an extensive and rich agri
cultural an '. grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over twe
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
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ITS PRODUCTS.
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The products of the beautiful Klickital valley find
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