The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-20
THE METHODISTS
HAVE ADJOURNED
Education Practical and Theoretical the
Subject Yesterday.
THREE NEE TlNGS WERE HELD
Bishop Hendrix on HGod the
Yorker"
THE GREATEST WORKER OF ALL
Told of How Jesus Christ Was Noted
Far and Wide for His Dill
gence At the Carpenters
Bench.
THE GREATEST WORKER OF ALL

was the subject which was discussed at all
three of yesterdays meetings which were
held at the First Methodist church in the
interest of the great twentieth century
movement. This is the enterprise which
the Methodist churches of the world have
originated in behalf of the spiritual well
fare of their church and in behalf of their
schools colleges and other educational
work. Bishops Hendrix and Galloway
both had something to say at all three of
the meetings. and both of them again
made splendid Impressions. The meeting
came to close last night.
Dr. Newman, presiding elder of the Bir-
mingham district, opened the meeting yes
terday morning with a retrospective talk
on the work which the Methodist church
has done during the present century. and
of the work that it was doing during its
closing eighteen months.
ssGod, the Worker
AT 10 o'clock Bishop Hendrix began his
talk, taking for his subject that of "God,
the Worker From whatever standpoint
God is considered, the bishop argued He is
the greatest worker, as well as the greatest
thinker in the universe. He does not sit
their own destiny.
1.-The Son, too, was equally as great
worker as the Father. There was not an
idle hour in his whole life. He worked
most diligently at whatever was set before
Him, and He made such a reputation as
common carpenter that He was known
through all of the neghboring villages for
this fact alone. Later on in His life all OF
His miracles were performed with view
to accomplishing work. He always raised
from the dead the young; those that had
their lives before them for accomplishing
something. God, the Father, a worker,
Jesus, the Son, a worker, and the Holy
Ghost, a worker; who worship the
God-head without himself being a worker?
'The most Disconnected men in the world
are the unemployed, and they are the enc
mics of society that refuse to work. Such
a man has to apologize for himself, even
In his own eyes,
''This is not the best possible world. 1t is
a world of disease and pestilence, and was
originally wild and unconquered. This was
mans mission-to conquer it.-and during all
these centuries he has been employed con-
tinually at this great work. 1t is of the
greatest Importance that we know how to
work together with God. Because they
dition of unhappy China! Nearly every
plague we have starts in China; the fam
ines home is in China; the inhabitants of
that and other uncivilized parts of the earth
don't understand how to work with God,
and they make miserable failure as
consequence.
1.-THE sense of growing obligation to God
is what is making the great nations of the
world so much greater. No man can work
with God, however unless he is working in
a spirit of love-"
Here the bishop told the story of noted
theologan who had written an excellent
tract called "Come to Jesus" Somebody
criticised the pamphlet, and the author
wrote another pamphlet literally tearing
his critic to pieces and submitted 1t to a
friend for his opinion. The friend said
that it was good, and would demolish the
critic. "Then tell me a name for it," said
the author "a name?" replied the friend
''why, that's easy. Call 1t GO to the Devil
by the author of Come to Jesus" The
author threw his harsh manuscript in the
fire without reading it again.
God Needs Skilled Labor
"God has need of skilled labor. He had
TO work all of the centuries making math-
ematicians, engineers, physicuists, etc, be-
fore He could construct one line of railroad.
Henry M. Stanley says that the greatest
missionary the world has known was Liv-
ingstone, and the second greatest was AL
exander McKyle a Scotch surveyor, who
devoted all of his skilled labor and educa-
ton to laying off roads and doing other
engineering in one of the heather coun-
tries of Africa.
religion is of the intellect Religion
once lost the respect of the people of
France because religion lost it's hold on
their intellects The colleges and the uni
versities are the places for training skilled
laborers for the Lords work. In Gods
arithmetic two are ten times one: that is,
two men cooperating with one another can
sometimes accomplish together ten times
the work of one man alone.
I'VE must show enterprise in our work
for God. Plan great things. expect great
things and work for great things, and you
will get great things. That's what MARKS
a great man; his largeness of views
do you know that the shells which de-
stroyed Cervera's fleet at Santiago and
many of the shells used by Dewey at Ma
Mia were stil in the mines of this coun-
try when the Maine was blown up?
great part of the bullion and half dollars
which the Southern Methodist is to raise
for its educational fund are still in the
mines; that is, 1t is to come from those
who are as yet ignorant and who must be
walked up to the demands of the occasion"
Bishop Hendrix closed his address with
a plea for cooperation with God in ali
works.
Required Work to Realize Anticipations
DIR. j. d. Hammond, secretary of the
board of education of the Southern church,
was the next speaker. He called attention
to the fact that between bright anticipa-
lions and reaiiZations, there was a long
stretch of hard, and sometime bitter toll
in between. 1.-THE anticipations have been
placed In monetary terms at 81, 500 600, and I
think that this is such small amount that
1 shall be ashamed of ourselves If we do
not go far beyond that mark. That amount
calls for little less than one dollar from
each member of our church. We should
at least do as good work as Canada, and
get three dollars from every member.
He explained that the fund was to be a
thank offering given in return for the mer-
cies of God which the members have re-
ceived through the church. II one man,
he Id nffnra1 10 give the xvhaln Cd 1nA aAa