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s !► iSSING MULTITUDE.' » GREAT day in the history M OF THE TABERNACLE. The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Talmage's Brooklyn Pastorage—An Eloquent, Appropriate Sermon. BROOKLYN, May 6. —This was a great day in the history of the Brooklyn Tab ernacle. The figures in flowers back of the platform—18OH and 1894—indicat ed Rev. Dr. Talmage’s time of coming to Brooklyn and the present celebration and were Introductory to the great nmet- ings in honor of Dr. Talmage's pastor ate to take place on the following Thurs day and Friday, presided over by the mayor of th# city and the ex-secretary of the navy, General Tracy, and to be par ticipate in by senators and governors and prominent men from north, south, east and west. The subject of the ser mon today was ‘ ‘The Generations,' ’ the text being Ecclesiastes i, 4, “One gen eration paaseth away, and another gener ation cometh." According to the longevity of people in their particular century has a gener ation t»een called 100 years, or 50 years, or 80 years. By common consent in our nineteenth century a generation is fixed at 35 years. The largest procession that ever mov ed is the procession of years, and the greatest army that ever marched is the array of generations. In each genera tion there are about nine full regiments of days. These 9,125 days in each gener ation march with wonderful precision. They never break ranks. They never ground arms. They never pitch tents. They never halt. They are never off on furlough. They came out of the eterni ty past, and they move on toward the eternity future. They cross river® with out any bridge or boats. The 600 im mortals of the Crimea dashing into them cause no confusion. They move as rap idly at midnight as at midnoon. Their haversacks are full of good bread and bitter aloes, clusters of richest vintage and bottles of agonizing tears. With a regular tread that no order of “dou ble quick’ ’ can hasten or obstacle can slacken, their tramp is on and on and on and on while mountains crumble and pyramids die. “One generation passeth, and another generation com- eth.” A tieiirruHou. This is my twenty-fifth anniversary sermon—1869 and 1894. It is 25 years since I assumed the Brooklyn pastorate. A whole generation has passed. Three generations we have known—that which preceded our own, that which is now at the front, and the one coming on. W e are at the heels of our predecessors, and our successors are at our heels. What a generation it was that preceded us! We who are now in the front regiment are ®h« only ones oompeteut to tell the new generation just now coming in sight who our predecessors were. Biography cannot tell it. Autobiography can not tell it. Biographies are generally written by special friends of the depart ed—perhaps by wife or sou or daughter— and they only tell the good things. The biographers of one of the first presi dents of the United States make no rw- ord of the president’s account books, now in the archives at the eapitol, which I have soon, telling how much he lost or gained daily at the gaming table. The biographer® of one of the early secretaries of the Uuit»d States never deseril*ed the scene that day wit- nessed when the secretary was carried dead drunk from the state apartments to his own home. Autobiography is written by the man himself, and no one would mxird for future times his own weaknesses and moral deficits. Those who keep diari<“s put down only things that road well. No man or woman that ever lived would dare to make full rec ord of all the thoughts and words of a lifetime. We who saw and heard much of the generation marching just ahead of us are far more able than any book to describe accurately to our successors who our predecessors were. Very much like ourselves, thank you. Human na ture in them very much like human na ture in us. At our time of life they were very much like we now are. At the time they were in their teens they were very much like you are in your teens, and at the time they were in their twen ties they were very much like you are in your twenties. Human nature got an awihil twist under a fruit tree in Eden, and though the grace of God does much to straighten things every new gener ation has the same twist, and the same work of straightening out has to be done over again. Twenty-live Years Back. A mother in the country districts, ex pecting the neighbors at her table on some gala night, had with her own hands Arranged everything in taste, and as she was about to turn from it to receive her gnssts saw her little child by accident Apset a pitcher all over the white cloth and soil everything, and the mother lifted her hand to slap the child, but she suddenly remembered the time when a little child herself, in her father’s house, where they hsvd al ways before been used to candles on the purchase of a lamp, which was a mat ter of rarity and pride, she took it in her hands and dropped it, crashing into pieces, and looking up in her father’s face, expecting chastisement, heard only the word? , “It is a sad loss, but never mind; you did not mean to do it. ” History rejteats itself. Generations wonderfully alike. Among that gener ation that is past, as in our own, and as it will be in the generation follow ing us, those who succeeded became the target, shot at by those who did not succeed. In those times, as in ours, a man's bitterest enemies were those whom he had befriended and helped. Hates, jealousies and revenges were just as lively in 1869 as in 1894. Hypocrisy sniffled and looked solemn then as now. There was just us much avarice among the apple barrels as now among the cot ton bales and among the wheelbarrows as among the locomotives. The tallow candles saw the same sins that are now found under the electric lights. Ilume- apun was just as proud us is the mod ern fashion plate. Twenty-five years— yea, 35 centuries—have not changed human nature a particle. I say this for the encouragemeu ; of those who think that our times monopolize all the abom inations of the ages. One minute after Adam got outside of parvlise he was just like you, O an! Guv step rtter Ew left the gate sue was just nice you, G woman! ah the faults and vices are many times cen tenarians. Yea, the cities Sodom, Go morrah, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Heli opolis and ancient Memphis were as much worse than our modern cities as you might expect from the fact that the modem cities have bo mow hat yield ed to the restraints of Christianity, wmie those ancient cit ies w ere not lim ited in their abominations. Great Work* Accomplished. Yea, that generation which passed off within the last 25 years had their be reavements, their temptations, their struggles, their disappointments, their •accesses, their failures, their gladness es and their griefs, like these two gen erations now in sight, that in advance and that following. But the 25 years between 1869 and 1894—how much they saw! How much they discovered! How much they felt! Within that time have been performed the miracles of the telephone and the phonograph. From the observatories other worlds have been seen to heave in sight. Six presidents of the United States have been inaugurated. Transatlantic voyage abbreviated from 10 days to Chi cago and New York, once three days apart, now only 24 hours by the vesti bule limited. Two additional railroads have been built to the Pacific. France has passed from monarchy to republic anism. Many of the cities have nearly doubled their populations. During that generation the chief surviving heroes of the civil war have gone into the en campment of the grave. The chief phy sicians, attorneys, orators, merchants, hare passed off the earth or are in re tirement waiting for transition. Other men in editorial chairs, in pulpits, in governors’ mansions, in legislative, sen atorial and congressional halls. There are not 10 men or women on earth now prominent who were promi nent 25 years ago. The crew of this old ship of a world is all changed. Others at the helm, others on the “lookout,” others climbing the ratlines. Time is a doctor who, with potent anodyne, has put an entire generation into sound sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, has roughly prorogued parliament, '6^ with iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers except one queen from their high places. .So far as I observed that generation, for the most part they did their best. Ghastly exceptions, but so far as I knew them they did quite well, and many of them gloriously well. They were Ixirn at the right time, mid they died at the right time. They left the world better than they found it. We are indebted to them for the fact that they prepared the way for our coming. Eighteen hundred and ninety-four reverently and grate fully salutes 1869. “One generation passeth away, and another generation come tie ” There are fathers and mothers here whom I baptized in their infancy. There is not one person in this church’s board of session or trustees who was here when I came. Here and there in this vast assembly is one person who heard my opening sermon in Brooklyn, but not more than one person in every 500 now present, (if the IT persons who gave me a unanimous call when I eaine, only three, I believe, are living. The Major Key. But this sermon is not a dirge. It is an anthem. While this world is appro priate as a temporary stay, as an eter nal residence it would be a (lead IVil- ure. It would be a dreadful sentence if our race were d<x>med to remain here a thousand winters and a thousand sum mers. God keeps us here just long enough to give us an appetite for heav en. Hud we been born in celestial realms we would uot have been able to appre ciate the bliss. It needs a good many rough blasts in this world to qualify us to properly estimate the supe rb climate of that good laud where it is never too cold or too hot, too cloudy or too glar ing. Heaven will lx- mure to us than to those supernal beings who were never tempted or sick or bereaved or tried or disappointed. So you may well take my text out of the minor key and set it to some time in the major key. “One gen eration passeth away, and another gen eration cometh. ” Nothing can rob ns of the satisfaction that uncounted thousands of the gener ation just past wert? converted, comfort ed and harvested for heaven by this church, whether in the pr< sent building or the thr**- preceding buildings in which they worshiped. The two great organs of the previous churches went down in the memorable fires, but the multitudinous songs they led year aft er year were not recalled or injured. There is no power in earth or hell to kill a halleluiah. It is impossible to ar rest a hosanna. What a satisfaction to know that there are many thousands in glory on whose eternal welfare this church wrought mightily! Nothing can undo that work. They have ascended, the multitudcH who served God in that generation. That chapter is gloriously ended. But that generation has left its impression upon this generation. • A sailor was dying on shipboard, and he said to his mates: “My lads, I can only think of one passage of Scripture, ‘The soul that sinneth, it shall die, ’ and that keeps ringing in my ears. ‘The soul that sinneth, it shall die.’ Can’t you think of something else in the Bible to chocr me up?” Well, sailors are kind, and they tried to think of some other passage of Scripture with which to con sole their dying comrade, but they could not. One of them said: “Let ns call up the cabin boy. His mother was a Chris tian, and I guess he has a Bible. ” The cabin boy was called up, and the dying sailor asked him if he had a Bible. He said “Yes,” but he could not exactly find it, and the dying sailor scolded him and said, “Ain't you ashamed of your self not to read your Bible?’ ’ So the boy explored the bottom of his trunk and brought out the Bible, and his mother had marked a passage that just fitted the dying sailor’s case 1 , “The blood of Jesus Christ, fiis son, cleanseth from all sin. ” That helped the sailor to die in peace. So one generation helps another, and good things written or said or done are reproduced long afterward The World For an Audience. During the passing of the lust gener ation some peculiar events have unfold ed. One day while resting at Sharon Springs, N. Y., I think it was in 1870, tne year after my settlement in Brook lyu, auiu while walking in the park of that place, I found myself asking the question: “I wonder if there is any spe cial mission for me to execute in this worldthere is, may God show it to me!” Tupre soon came upon me a great desire to preach the gospel through the secular printing press. I realized that the vast majority of people, even in Christimi lands, never enter a ehuich, and that it would be an utmortmutv of usefulness infinite if that door of pub lication were opened. And so I recorded that prayer in a blank book and offered the prayer day in and day out until the answer came, though in a way different from that which I had expected, for it came through the misrepresentation and per secution of enemies, and I have to re cord it for the encouragement of all ministers of the gospel who are misrep resented, that if the misrepresentation be virulent enough and bitter enough and continuous enough there is noth ing that so widens one’s field of useful ness as hostile attack, if you are really doing the Lord’s work. The bigger the lie told alxmt me, the bigger the de mand to see and hear what I really was doing. From one stage of sermonic pub lication to another the work has gone on until week by week, and for about 23 yesirs, I have had the world for my audience, as no man ever had, and to day more so than at any other time. The syndicates inform me that my ser mons go now to about 25,000,000 of people in all lands. I mention this not in vain boast, but as a testimony to the fact that God answers prayer. Would God I had better occupied the field and been more consecrated to the work! May God forgive me for lack of service in the past and double and quadruple and quintuple my work in future In this my quarter century sermon I record the fact that side by side with the procession of blessings has gone a procession of disasters. I am preaching today in the fourth church building since I began in this city. My first ser mon was in the old church on Scher- merhorn street to an audience chiefly of empty seats, for the church was al most extinguished. That church filled and overflowing, we built a larger church, which after two or three years disappeared in flame. Then we built another church, which also in a line of fiery succession disappeared in the same way. Then we put up this building, and may it stand for many years, a fortress of righteousness and a lighthouse for the storm tossed, its gates crowded with vast issemblages long after we have ceased to frequent them! A Noble Work. We have raised in this church over ♦ 1,030,000 for church charitable pur poses during the present pastorate, while we have given, free of all expense, the gospel to hundreds of thousands of stran gers, year by year. I record with grat itude to God that during this genera tion of 25 years I remember but two Sabbaths that I have missed sendee through anything like physical indis positions. Almost a fanatic on the sub ject of physical exercise, I have made the parks with which our city is bless ed the means of good physical condi tion. A daily walk and run in the open air have kept me ready for work and in good humor with all the world. I say to all young ministers of the gospel, it is easier to kf*-p good health than to re gain it when once lost. The reas< n so many good men think the world is go ing to ruin is because their own physic al condition is on the down grade. No man ought to preach who has a diseased liver or an enlarged spleen. There are two things ahead of us that ought to keep us cheerful in our work—heaven and the millennium. And now, having come tip to the twenty-fifth milestone in my pastor ate, I wonder how many more miles I am to travel? Your company has b«‘en exceedingly pleasant, O my dear people, and I would like to march by your side until the generation with whom we are now moving abreast and step to step shall have stacked arms after the last battle. But the Lord knows best, and we ought to be willing to stay or go. A Summer Outing. Most of you are aware that I propose at this time, between the close of my twenty-fifth year of pastorate and be fore the beginning of my twenty-sixth year, to lx* absent for a few months in order to take a journey around the world. I expect to sail from San Fran cisco in the steamer Alameda May 81. My place here on Sabbaths will be fully occupied, while on Mondays and every Monday I will continue to speak through the printing press in this and other lands as heretofore. Why do I go? To make past >ral visitation among people whom I Iftvc, never seen, but to whom J have been permitted a long while to administer. I want to see them in their own cities, towns and neighborhoods. I want to know what are their prosperi ties, what their adversities and what their opportunities, and so enlarge my .work and get more adaptedness. Why do I go? For educational purposes. I want to freshen my mind and heart by new’ scenes, new faces, new man ners and customs. I want better to un derstand what are the wrongs to be righted and the waste places to be re claimed. I will put all I learn in ser mons to be preached to you when I re turn. I want to see the Sandwich Is lands, not so much In the light of mod ern politics as In the light of the goa- pel of Jesus Christ, which has trans form^ them, and Samoa, and those vast realms of New Zealand, and Aus tralia and Ceylon and India. I want to see what Christianity has accomplished. I want to see how the missionaries have been lied about as living in luxury and idleness. I want to know whether the heathen religions are really as tolerable and as commendable as they were represented by their adherents in the parliament of religious at Chicago. I want to see whether Mohammedanism and Bud dhism would be good tilings for trans plantation in America, as it has again and again been argued. I want to hear the Brahmans pray. I want to test whether the Pacific ocean treats its guests any better than does the Atlantic. I want to see the wondrous architecture of Li dia, and the Delhi audCawnpore where Christ was crucified in the massacre <if his modern disciples, and the disabled Juggernaut unwheeled by Christianity, and to see if the Taj which the Emperor Sha Jehan built in honor of his empress really means any more than the plain slab wc put above our dear departed. I want to see the fie his where Havelock and Sir Colin Campliell won the day against the sepoys. I want to see the world from all sides. How much of it is in darkness, how much of it is in light, what the Bible means by the “ends of the earth,” and get myself ready to appreciate the extent of the present to be made to Christ as spoken of in the Psalms, “Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine in heritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession," and so I shall be ready to celebrate in heaven the victories of Christ in more raptur ous song than I could have rendered had I never seen the heathen ubunjinuLoua beiore tney were conquered. Ana so x hope to come back refreshed, re-enforced and better equipped, and to do in 10 years more effectual work than I have done in the last 25. A Garland and a Palm. And now, in this twenty-fifth anni versary sermon, I propose to do two things—first, to put a garland on the grave of the generation that has Just passed off and then to put a palm branch in the hand of the generation just now coming on the field <ff action, for my text is true, “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.” Oh, how many we retrod and honored and loved in the last gen eration that quit the earth! Tears fell at the time of their going, and dirges were sounded, and signals of mourning were put on, but neither tears nor dirge nor somber veil told the half we felt Their going left a vacancy in our souls that has never been filled up. We never used to their absence. There are times when the sight of something writh which they were associated—a picture, or a book, or a garment, or a staff— breaks us down with emotion, but we bear it simply because we have to bear it. Oh, how snowy white their hair got, and how the wrinkles multiplied, and the sight grew more dim, and the hearing less alert, and the step more frail, and one day they were gone out of the chair by the fireside, and from the plate at the meal, and from the end of the church pew, where they worshiped with us. Oh, my soul, how we miss them! But let us console each other with the thought that we shall meet them again in the land of salutation and reunion. And now I twist a garland for that departed generation. It need not be cost ly perhaps, just a handful of clover blossoms from the field through which they used to walk, or as many violets as you could hold between the thumb and the forefinger, plucked out of the garden where they used to walk in the cool of the day. Put these old fashion ed flowers right down over the heart that never again will ache, and the feet that will never again be weary, and the arm that has forever ceased to toil. Peace, father! Peace, mother! Everlast ing peace! All that for the generation gone. The Mining Throng. But what shall we do with the palm branch? That we will put in the hand of the generation coming on. Yonrs is to be the generation for victories. The last and the present generation have been perfecting the steam power, and the electric light, and the electric forces. To these will be added transportation. It will be your mission to use all these forces. Everything is ready now for you to march right up and take this world for God and heaven. Get your heart right by rejtentance and the pardoning grace of the Lord Jesus, and your mind right by elevating books and pictures, and your body right by gymnasium and field exercise, and plenty of ozone and by looking as often as you can upon the face of mountain and of sea. Then start! Li God’s name, start! And h‘*rc is the palm branch. From conquest to con quest, move right on and right up. You will soon have the whole field for your self. Before another 26 years have gone, we will be out of the pulpits, and the offices, and the stores, and the factories, and the benevolent institutions, and you will be at the front. Forward into the battle! If God be for you, who can be against you? “He that spared not his own Sou, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” And, as for us who are now at the front, having put the garland on the grave of the last generation, and having put the palm branch in the hand of the coming generation, we will cheer each other in the remaining onsets and go in to the shining gate somewhere about the same time, and gr**eted by the gener ation that has preceded us we will have to wait only a little while to greet the generation that will come after us. And will not that be glorious? Three genera tions in heaven together—the grandfa ther, the son and the grandson; the grandmother, the daughter and the granddaughter. And so with wider range and keener faculty we shall real ize the full significance of the text, “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.” Church Calendar. The Gaffney Baptist Church—Rev. B. P. Robertson, Pastor; services every tSuiidaj at II a. in. ami 8.<X) p. in.; Sunday School ‘J:4. r > a. in.;. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 8:00; services at Factory second Sunday at 8 p. m. The Methodist Church—Rev. G. M. Boyd. Pastor; 1st Sabbath. Gaffney 11a. m.; Beulah, S p. in ; Gaffney, 7:30p. m.; 2nd Sabbath, Wilson’s Chapel, 11 a. in.; Gaffney, 7:30p. m; 3rd Sabbath, Gethsemane, 11a. in.; Factory 7 :30p. in.: 4th Asbury. 11a. m.; Gaffney, 7 :30 p. in. Episcopal Church—Services every fourth Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. and afternoon at 0 o’clock. LOCAL LEDGERITES. Items Which Are Too Short for a Head ing Bunched Together. Mr. S. L. Hopper Is having an ex tension built to his house. Mrs Geo. S. Turner died aj her home in Spartanburg Tuesday and was buried at Petty grave yard, three miles from the city on Wednesday. The merchants on the East side of Limestone street ore putting up awn ings to protect them from the sum mer’s sun. Messrs. J. N. Lipscomb and J. I. Sarratt arc the latest to erect them. Mrs. Catherine Cole, wife of Mr. Pink Cole, died at the residence of her son-in-law Mr. E. C. Ramsey in this city in the early part of this week. Her aged and worthy husband has the sympathy of their many friends. City Attorney Webster reports only twenty-one town tax delinquents on the list of property tax-payers. There are a few others, however, who have not paid their street tax and he says he will begin to push the delin quents. Southern Progress is now located in Augusta, Ga. It teems with the prosperity of the South, and its col umns offer special inducements for Gaffney to make herself conspicuous in the business world. We congratu late our friend, Mr. Frank P. Beard on his supposed good health, and thank him for kind remembrance in the way of welcome to .Southern Progress, of which Mr. Beard is the Managing Editor. Last Tuesday night some animal, Hupjxised to he a dog. raided Gaffney, and killed so many chickens that peo ple quit counting. The number is variously estimated, but it is certain that over two hundred were killed. All apparently were injured in the hack, and were left where they were killed. The beast dul not confine it self to any particular portion of the town, but went the rounds. It is re ported that fowls an- being similarly destroyed eight miles above here. A Picnic. About thirty young people went on a picnic to Cherokee Ford last Tues day. The day was spent in fishing, boat-riding, shooting, etc. In the afternoon a portion of the party went to Blarkshurg in tlieir turnouts while the remainder went to pictur esque Drayt onville. Every body had a good time and were benefited by the outing. 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GAFFNEYS. .. .... 5 00 Spartanburg... • • • 1 52 . .Greenville.... • • a • 10 15 p. At Junto. ATLANTA. | Arrive No. 12 P. M. P. M. 8 10 7 21 6 26 6 07 6 21 ..11 16 ..a. m. 9 50 Condensed Schedule, R. A D. R. R. SOCTH BOl’NI). No. 11 2.07 p. in 37. Vestibule ] 1.05 a m Ni UM'H IH»1'XI>. No. 12 6.07 p m 36, Flag - 1.03 a m 38. Vestibule 6.57 am (.TIAKLKSTON, COU’MBIA, SPAKTAKBl’RG AND ASHV1LLK DIVISION. [ Arrive No. 14 8 45 p. m. 1 00 p. m. 12 20 p. m. II 26 p. m. C*0 in. ILeuve Leave] No. 13 7 15 a. m. . - Charleston 10 00 p. m. • .Columbia. 5 50 p. m ■ .... Alssoni. 6 41 p. m ■ . .Carlisle. 8 10 p. m. .Spartamliur; J1 *2(1 n !*! A sbeville Arrive] 3-ffj Peaches in heavy syrup at I2.G- a can 3-16 Apples in heavy syrup at 10c a can. 18 !6s Granulated 8ugur for ♦1.00. 4$ lbs Rio Coffee for^l.00. 5 lbs Good Coffee for ♦1.00. Fresh Fruit, Jams and Preserves al 10c per pint. Choice Breakfast Strips at 1J<\ Armour’s Hams at 11c. Beef Hams at 10c. 100-lbs Choice Flour at ♦2.(jo. 100-lbs Good Flour at $1.75. New Cabbage and Potatoes. Bean? and Peas and everything kept in a First-class Grocery Store is to be found at DAVENPORT’S. J. E. WEBSTER. A 11oruejv- A. 1 - I w, Gaffney City, S. C. utn. Colkc* -and all kinds of- Building Materials. Plans and specifications for build ings made on short notice. J. H. McDonald’s Thoroughbred “Saddler, Jr,” Will stand at the Stables of J. G. Spencer, o:v Thursday’s and Friday’s Of Each Week. Guo. \V. Nichols Notary Public. Wm. M. Jonl- NICHOLS & JONES, A t t -I vik’vv* Uilice in rear of Nat^ o.., • \ /J