Authorized and authentic life and works of TDe Witt Talmage . THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. Painted By W. A. ao^guereau. Wben he arose, Ue took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt.—Matt, il-14. Painted By B. Plockhorst. Suffer little children, and forbia inem not to cnmo unto me BURNING OF BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. 145 turning aside criticism with his usual skill. If they had started a GrantMemorial church or cathedral, the money would have been all subscribedlong ago, and he was right. But the feehngs of his parishioners werespared, and money was obtained without having to sa


Authorized and authentic life and works of TDe Witt Talmage . THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. Painted By W. A. ao^guereau. Wben he arose, Ue took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt.—Matt, il-14. Painted By B. Plockhorst. Suffer little children, and forbia inem not to cnmo unto me BURNING OF BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. 145 turning aside criticism with his usual skill. If they had started a GrantMemorial church or cathedral, the money would have been all subscribedlong ago, and he was right. But the feehngs of his parishioners werespared, and money was obtained without having to saddle the Tabernaclewith the names of the departed relatives of millionaires. FASHION OPPOSES THE TABEilNACLE ^RABBLE. When it was proposed to build a new Tabernacle on The Hill, one ofthe fashionable residence quarters of Brooklyn, there was a wild protestfrom property owners, who went to extremes in their opposition, and turnedpopular sympathy against them by alluding publicly to those who attendedthe Talmage services as the Tabernacle rabble. Nothing that ever hap-pened in the City of Churches, excepting perhaps the Beecher case, aroused^more feeHng than this attack. The leaders of the Tabernacle were high


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