The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-27
PLAIN WILLIE CAMP MEETING
BISHOP GOODSELL PREACHED TO
A BIG UDIENCE.

spoke Last Evening Other Speakers -
To-day's Programme.
Plainville, Conn, July 26.-Notwith-
standing the rain 1t was necessary to
hold an overflow meeting at this after
moons service and Bishop D. A. Good
sell Of Chattanooga, Tenn, who is as
usual sojourning for che summer at his
cottage at Short Beach, was greeted
with a large audience.
The afternoon sermon was by Rev.
C. e, Pitblado of Windsor Locks and
the evening sermon was preached by
Rev. r. Il. McNicholl Of New Haven
Revs. e, C. Keller of Seymour and d.
N. Griffin Of New Haven spoke at the
overflow meetings.
Bishop Goodsell preached at 1890 to
large gathering, many of his hearers
being from this city. Owing to the diiE-
zling rain the services We're held in the
house Of the First society of Merlden.
This is equipped in it's lower story as
chapel, sea ing nearly 200. It's upper
story, the upper and lower piazzas, the
dining room and the houses of the First
society Of Hartford and the First So
ciety of New Haven We're crowded, and
a number of auditors occupied settees
in the groves. some sheltering them
selves under umbrellas, and other sit
ting exposed to the rain.
Bishop Goodsell used as his text, Co.
lossions I, q: ITO whom God would
make known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the gem
tiles, which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory"
The bishop prefaced his sermon with
a few interesting and apt remarks.
Standing on the piazza of the building
he referred with a smile to his sur
roundings.
ITO preach as I am preaching this
morning does not trouble me, he said.
| II have lived in the south and have
preached from stumps and dry goods
boxes, as well as from elegant pulpits.
There is certainly one desirable thing
this morning. There is no fence sepa-
rating me from my people"
There is ring In the word mystery"
he declared which has fascination.
1t fascnates the Imagination and often
| it fascinates the heart. Some myster-
les are for time, some for eternity.
Thus to-day we know that the United
States ship Maine was blown UP in Ha-
vana harbor To-day we know that an
explosion hurled several hundred sailors
to their DEATH but further we do not
know. The beyond is mystery but
not mystery of the kind of which st.
Paul speaks In this text
1t i4a human mystery, one that deals
with matters earthly. st. Paul writes
of a divine mystery. From His earliest
youth Christ was furthering his
scheme. The mystery of His birth was
a fitting beginning of His human ca
reer.
If ever the dignity of labor is proper
ly recognized it will be because of the
dignity with which Christ illuminated
it when He worked under the carpenter.
We see Him at labor In His early
youth and see Him also discoursing
in the temple and later we see Him do
ing His works OF mercy. We see Him
performing His works of mercy some
times in the shape Of miracles. These
mysteries are, we find, typical of spir-
itual deliverance in one way and anoth-
err Here the bishop anaylzed several
of the miracles.
II come to the scene upon Cavalry"
he said, continuing, 'tthe purest Man
hung between the vilest. / come to that
morning when He rises from the dead
the mystery of the resurrection. 1t Is
this Christ who is to live In our hearts,
poor, petty, miserable cabins for such a
wonderful guest. How Is this mystery
possible, the eternal life Of a mind in
others? Our minds have no new ideas
Any supposedly new idea existed 1900
or 1000 years ago or longer, perhaps"
A lank. hard, tle-browed, sour,
dyspeptic Scotchman wrote biography
of a German who died before the writer
lived. Another Scotchman wrote a life
of a Corsican. The first wrote with
love. The second wrote with the eye
Of disgust and the pen Of hate. And so
Thomas Carlyle's Frederick the Great
is immortal, and Walter SCOTS "Napo-
leon Bonaparte" lives only ON dusty
back shelves. Here we have the mys-
terry of love that nearest approach in
human hearts to love. Still more pow
erful, still more Transforming and in |
spring Is love for the Creator, the gen.
tie, yearning, loving Father of the |
world, that love which is the greatest
of the heart and the mind.
Isn't it possible for men, now as in |
the early first years when Christ walk |
ed in the Holy Land. to love Him, to
love the gentle Lamb who sacrificed for
them His life?
Eyes" said the ancient martyrs:
"yes," said long lines of sanity men
and women, down through the long CEN
turtles; yes" say missionaries dying in
China for their faith. And let us add
our "yes'' to theirs.
Ever present and with you always,
even to the end Of the world, He gives
his undylng hope to all who mourn, the
hope Of meeting those that have passed |
to their reward. Who has not watched
the breath leaving the gasping, pallid
lips Of a father, or mother, tried and
true relative or Il faithful comrade?
Who does not cling to the blessed hope
Of meeting them beyond the dark river
through that greatest mystery, immor-
tality? Christ's is the power that never
fails
II was in the harbor of Queenstown
when q mighty gale was sending crafts
scurrying into 1t as Il haven of refuge,
Feeling from the fury Of wind and sea
1t seemed that the ocean was pouring
Il from the stormy west. 1t was a wild