Brooklyn Tabernacle Destroyed by Fire by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 41.

Brooklyn Tabernacle Destroyed by Fire

By Editor

The famous Brooklyn Tabernacle, of which Rev. T. De Witt Talmage is pastor, was destroyed by fire early on the morning of October 13. The old tabernacle was burned seventeen years ago. It is thought that the fire originated from lightning entering the building on electric light wires during a thunder-storm. Had this been a railroad accident it would no doubt have been pointed to as a divine visitation, because of Sunday desecration, but being the church of an earnest advocate of Sunday sacredness and of Sunday laws, some other explanation must be given. We leave our Sunday friends to suggest one free from difficulties.