The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-06

Heard by Large Crowds at the Eden
ton Street Church.


Bishop w. w. Duncan, of Spartan
burg, $. C., preached two great sermons
ut Edenton Street church Sunday-the
one at the morning service the other at
night.
\ finer face than Bishop Duncan's
You will not see unless you go to hear
Joe jefferson play Rip Van Wrinkle.
| They are not alike. and as the old negro
said both are ut the top of the pot
someWheres.' He breaches practical
sermons ana You can't sleep or think Of
| YOUR business when he is preaching.
He has the power to compel attention.
! Why? Because he says something that
interests You whether YOU agree with
! his conclusions or not. | will never for
| get his sermon at the dedication of
EdCnton Street church twelve years ago.
1t was great effort, more than meeting
! public expectations. Some think his
| Sunday sermons We're better | don't
believe tho Bishop or anybody else
will beat that dedicatory sermon. though
The wives are 50 grateful for his exec
ration of husbands who stay at the
club and about the hotels ut night that
they all voted the Sunday morning ser
mon his best effort.
Love" was the subject of his morn
ing discourse. which was founded on
Matthew 1921 and 3S: He that loveth
| father or mother more than Me is not
worthy of Me; and he that loveth son
or daughter more than Me is not worthy
of Me. And he that takcth not his
cross and followeth Ne is not worthy of
Me-
Among other things. the Bishop said
in the course of his sermon:
There have been not Il few unfriend-
ly criticisms concerning this utterance
of Christ 1t has been said that He had
no sympathy with human loves and af-
fcctions; that he demanded of his disci-
pies that they cruelty these tender senti-
ments | do not hesitate to declare that
no man was ever more alive to this hui
man love and ties of blood ana friend
ship We find Him in the last hour COM
hitting his mother to the care of John.
We find Him in the home, restoring to
life sons and daughters to health. men
and women. In Il thousand ways he
shows that he is fully alive To what we
call the natural affection. But He real
lied ana taught that the 'loye which
passes all other love is not Il natural
love"
The Bishop here ana!yaled and de-
fined love, and pointed out the difference
between human love and the love of the
lower animals.
''IIere is Il man who says he loves his
Wife and yet he spends his evenings at
the clubs instead of at homr. lie Tolls
in the lobby Of hotel in>tca of being
with her and the sick baby, it may ta.
He tells her he's making fFienls at these
places that will help him in his business.
add to his social grade or give him power
and influence. In this he lies and he
| knows it and she knows it: and though
she may say nothing she has deep down
in her heart either supreme Contempt
or Il great pity because She Knows lie
simply has not the mauiinC~S To tell her
the truth-that he spends his evenings
elsewhere simply because he 'oves his
club or the miserable hotel lobby better
than he does her and his child.
You must love me moro, cot Your
wife and child. father and mother less,
says the Lord The mora you 1--we them
the more you love God.
There is no great movement in the
world that has not its foundation III
love You must love your business, your
cause, better than all else, else You will
not succeed. DO you love your country?
Yes. Then take your musket and 20 to
the front But my wife and child: The
better YOU love them the more ready YOU
will be to 90 and defend thenl--give life
for them if necessary. For that which
he loves man will give all that he has.
AN engineer stands at his throttle.
He sees the danger ahead. But he
stands there thinking only of the crowd
ed cars behind His engine goes down
and tomorrow they take him out, torn
and mangled. He valued duty more
than wife and children, more than life
itself.
'rhe alarm bell rings. The sky S
alight with leaping flames. The fire
men rush to the scene. Up there with
tongues of flame licking out after her
stands woman and child. That fire
man has never seen her or that house
maybe before. But duty calls and up
he goes through smoke and flame and
heat--to death perhaps, but he heSltates
not for its duty sthat pipes him there.
Never has there been Il man that at
tanned eminence in any profession or
calling in life that did not first have to
deny himself and take up his cross. Tic
great men Of the world are those that
have begun humby, denying themselves
and toiling up the sleeps of Calvary with
his cross. He who does not c0ns@cratC
to his profession the best that he has
in him-his entire time and talent-ought
to fail and he will fail.
But more than these you must love
God-more than you love land and coun-
try more than father and mother, Wlte
and child He who loves God thereby
loveth better his family and his profess
sion.
INSTEAD of sitting down and writing
like fools about expansion and anti-eN-
pansion and the annexation Of Cuba and
the Philippines. go and try to save those
dying millions.
Last summer when the Government
was bringing soldiers clear across the
continent and putting them in camp III
the South | was wondering why it was
doing it, Then some miserable little tel-
low said it was the corporations having
it done that the railroads were max
ing money out Of it. Now ! believe the