The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-03
ONE Days Great RECORD
Elm Park Church Gives $500 to
the Missionary Society.
CHAPLAIN M'CABE CAUSED 1T
Sustained His Reputation as . Successful
pieadcr-Nis Hearers Could Not With.
stand Ills Famed Persistent Ap.
pcals His Evening Sermon.

Chaplain McCabe. who individually
has raised more money for domestic
and foreign missions and other pur-
poses of the Methodist Episcopal
church than any other three or four,
and maybe more, men, collectively, was
in Scranton yesterday. He succeeded
in securing cash and pledges to the
amount of s.. 800 from Elm Park church
| members and organizations and
preached two very interesting sermons
in that edifice. This sum Is believed to
be the largest ever raised In one day in
a Scranton church for such an object.
The money will go into the general
fund of the Missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church, for which
association Cha plain McCabe is the ia
nous solicitor of money. He has made
several visits to Elm Park church. The
first time he obtained $500. Ii Is esti-
mated that the congregation today is
three times as large and three times as
influential as when Chaplain McCabe
first personally solicited their aid, so
the S.. 800 he secured yesterday does not
indicate that his peculiar fitness for
getting money has in any way di-
minished.
In the afternoon Chaplain McCabe
was greeted by a large congregation in
the Simpson Methodist Episcopal
church, on the West Side.
Cash and Pledges Received
At the close of the morning service
I'm Elm Park church Chaplain McCabe
secured cash and pledges to the
amount Of $3.50. the Sunday school sub
sciibed $500 and during the day enough
other pledges Were received to make Il
total Of $2.O5O when began the evening
service and during which the remain
ing $3.50 of the 1900 was obtained.
The chaplain's evening sermon was
one of his many attractive discourses
which suggest to his auditors the bless
ing of giving and it quite properly led
up to the plea, at its conclusion. for
aid. His remarks were upon the text.
BLESSED be the Lord God, the God of
Israel. who only doeth wOndrous
things" and And blessed be his glori-
Gus name forever; and let the whole
earth be filed with his glory: amen.
and amen" Psalms, lXXii:lS and 10.
He emphasized the truth that Gods
works only are wonderful. and that
what is commonly described as the
greatness of man really consists only
i'm mans discovery of Gods natural
powers and their application. Watts.
who first studied steam power. and
Stevenson. who applied the power. F,di-
son and Morse displayed their inven-
tive greatness in discovering and ap-
plying Gods natural powers rather
than by creating any power Of their
own.
God Is WOudorOus
God is just as wondrous in history
Webster and Clay each was thought
to have been an Ulysses and when they
died political chaos was predicted but
God had provided for the emergency
by having had in training a tanner at
Galena. Ind. and an obscure attorney
at Springfield. ILL.,, who were unheard
of and unknown until the time came
for God to put them into the breach and
preserve the nation. In the religious
world. too, God Is doing "wondrous
things" He has brought about the
conversion of 100000 Jews I'm recent
years; He even made Use of the dis
solute Catherine of Russia In her own
act Of importing scores of German
Lutherans into her domains to teach
her peasants farming but who also
were powerful agents in inculcating
Christian religious principles.
After reference to the progress Of
missionary work In Asiatic, African
and Pacific island station, Chaplain
McCabe scored editors generally for
attempting to create the impression
that the only Mohammedan. Buddhist.
Pagan and like converts were those
who were paid to play converts and for
writing that missionaries deserved to
be butcheIed II they Willingly accepted
their precarious work. Editors he said.
will today forget when writing the word
Monday" that on this day their ances-
tors once worshipped the moon and that
they worsipped visionary gods on other
days of the week.
Great Work Of Missionaries.
The Discourse concluded with COM
ment upon the fact that the civilized
world has been brought to it's present
attainment and perfection through the
work of ancien. missionaries who Slif-
fered more than do their modern
brethren.
In the Simpson church in the after
noon Chaplain McCabe's audience filled
the beautiful auditorium. He delivered
an effective plea for the missionary
cause. Much enthusiasm was engen-
dered in the audience and the Offering