Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-23
GRACE M. E. CHURCH DEDICATED

 A Notable Day and Occasion-Brilliant
 Discourses by pr. Buckley, Bishop
 GoodselI and Rev. MT. Ives-Large
 Audiences-Over $1O,OOO Subscribed
 Yesterday Toward the Fund For Pay-
 mont of the Cost of the New and
 Beautiful EdiAce.
 The dedication services of the Grace M. E.
 church were held yesterday. Services were
 The church at the morning service was filled,
 the doors into the Sunday school being
 thrown open, SO that the full capacity of the
 house was tested. At 10:30, as the organ
 voluntary was commenced, Bishop Goodsell,
 followed by Rev. J. M. Buckley editor of the
 Christian Advocate, Rev. Dr. B. l. Ives of
 Auburn, Rev. MT. Ford, former pastor of
 the George street Methodist church, and Rev.
 James Coote, the present pastor, appeared
 from the pastors study and took seats in the
 pulpit. In the congregation were Rev. MT.
 Abbott, Rev. James Baird, former pastor,
 and Rev. William H. Barton of Patchogue,
 Long Island.
 Bishop Goodsell preached. After he had
 read soriptural lesson Rev. MT. Ives offered
 prayer. The choir, which was composed of
 Miss Lulu Ainsworth, Miss Pease and Messrs.
 Broze and Blakeslee, rendered @ selection.
 F. w. Canada presided at the organ.
 The programme stated that Rev. MT.
 Buckley would preach the sermon, but in-
 stead 1t was preached by Rev. MT. Ives.
 He took for his text the first verse of the twentieth chapter of Romans: 'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
 He spoke about the physical strength of man being an adjunct to a true christian spirit. The violation of the laws of nature against God without it's being felt by the body. Physical strength has to do with a | long life and peace of mind. Some may re- member a man in New York who was a mon- strosity. He knew nothing of conscience. He is now serving a ten years' sentence in the Auburn prison. He was all head and no body. God wants us to devote our physical strength to him as we'll as the affections of the heart. He gave us our hands to work for him; he gave us everything we have. A man with nothing but heart comes far short of arriving at the altar of God. There is a moral grandeur and glory in the heart and physical strength combined. God gave his only son as living sacrifice for mankind. We should convert ourselves to God while life is in us; life before us, while we have blood in us and physical strength to use. It can hardly be called a living sacrifice if our vitality has been used up in the service of the world, and when infirmity and old age comes, then to turn and give ourselves to God. That may be called dying sacrifice. Take the history of the church and the world and you will find that whenever God wants to put man in posi- tion of trust he puts man of honor there. He says if any man serve him we'll him will his father honor. It makes no difference what avocation a man may take up, he should live to glorify God and give himself up wholly to him. A man has no more right to stop making money because he has com potency than @ minister has to stop preach- ing. If ever we are to have this world dedi. cated to Christ we must have preaching else where than in the church.
 The speaker led up to the point that the Grace M. E. church had cost $43, ,000, and there was yet a debt of $25, ,00O. He desired that $15, 900 be raised at this service. There is nothing so reasonable but that man should glorify God in heart and soul. God will hold every man responsible to him. Every man can look at it as high privilege to do something for God.
 About $10,000 was subscribed, the princi- pal ones being: Captain Manson $1,000, the Grace M. E. church Sunday school S1,00O, Andrew H. Moorehead $1,000, Young Peo- ple's Society of Christian Endeavor $1 ,000, John T. Manson $500, F. B. Root $500, Mrs William Armstrong $500, Nehemiah Bough- ton $500, E. A. Cowles $500, friend, name
 not given, $500, Lorenzo Armstrong s2O0.