The sun., 1901-03-25
At
GRACE CHURCH
Service Was Opened With a Love
Feast
BY REV. T. E. MARTINDALE
Bishop Goodsell Spoke Of the Ways
Of Children and How We Should
Observe and Profit by
Their Actions.
~ REV. T. E. MARTINDALE

| Notwithstanding the lnclemenl weather
| fully 1900 persons turned out yesterday
morning to hear an eloquent and i'll
structiye sermon preached by Bishop
Daniel A. Goodsell in Grace Nj. d..
Church. 1t was the largest congregation
that has been seen in Grace Church for
long time. Both the auditorium and
gallery We're crowded long before 1880
o'clock, the hour announced for Bishop
Goodsell to preach.
All the available chairs in the church
were put in the aisles and even then a
large number of persons were compelled
to stand.
The service was opened with love
feast which was conducted by Presiding
Elder Thomas Il Martindale of the Sails
bury district.
Bishop Goodsell preached on childish-
ness and child's likeness. He took for
his text the eleventh verse of the thir-
tenth chapter of the First Corinthians:
when / was a child spoke as a
| child, understood as child, | though
as child; but when became a man, l
put away childish things"
Bishop Goodsell talked in very dis
tinct tone and every word of his sermon
could be distinctly heard in any part of
the large auditorium. His expression
alone, while preaching, not only thrilled
the immense congregation but also drew
the closest attention from every person
in it.
He said in part:
1T would have TO be such master of
rhetoric as Paul, one whose experience
| is so deep, to write such a sentence when
he did, and where he did. He has been
engaged in the preceding verses in un-
folding til sides of Christian love. At
once you see he has referred to the
maturity of Christian life and he is
| ooking back to the maturity Of Christ
an life. He is determined to become
complete by putting away the things
which are behind. You viii observe that
childhood in the New Testament is al
ways spoken of with reverence. How
strangely it must have seemed for the
,SlfStern to say to them. unless you be-
| Kingdom of Heaven"
In continuing Bishop Goodsell said
Not one of you desire childishness but
very one of you desire child's likeness
First of all in the course of childishness
we know that children have no proper
tense of the value of time. One day
| lfter another comes to Il child without
nv note, All the life the child knows
$ for the moment. Then again, is it no,
rue that children are creatures OF I'M
oulse. rathr than any so.tled purpose
It is for you to bring them mp to see thai
they do not give way to their impulses
if this be not true | only have to cal
.our mind to what difficulty you have II
| ,old them to their studies. 1t is one o.
he greatest delights in this life tt
watch the creatures of impulse grow t.
hildren Of purpose.
ITO you people who are neglectlni
;od and who are not following Christ
| il is the message Of this text, so long a
hese motives are yours you VIII neve
grow up. 1t is one of the mightles
, acts in life for MS to see that characte
is built up slowly.
"First of all the child is full OF love
, rhe richest reward the mother can hav
| $ the dawning of the hour which make
place of safety for that child. Th
a ouch of the little finger to her is NOR
] | han the touch of a king. All throug
the child's life it is this love which is th
1 .hief reward for the father and mothe
q Ont of this love comes the trust an
o 'aith which endears them to us. Ii yo
] hould ask the child to 20 out alone Q
dark night he would culver wit
= fright but place his hand in yours an
. he will go through fire and flame und'
iour protection. !,
"One of the characteristics of I'll
.hild is its inquisitiveness. Some peop
meet these questions crossways, Gt
II -orbid them if they do. Now becau
.e they have this humble spirit, becau
l. hey know that they don't know it a
le because they know you know more ths
ID them that they ask these questions.
j. "Children are also forgiven, it is v
II. ,lder people who don't forgive. Lo
u ing. trusting and forgiving, those are t
90 ,ualities which belong to childhood.
believe in perfect love filling every pa
,f oui. being. see the efforts of vario
organizations trying to bring about I'll
:, love between man and man by legis
ik ton and other ways. That Great G
~ we can know him not by the measu
te ment Of the tape line, but the lovi
VI heart. We will go through life if we Q
- his, with an open mind. The most n
,e- ture man will be willing to know mt
,e ue Of God by the child if the child kno
ne more of him."
The congregation was dismissed af
the benediction was pronounced
Bishop Goodsell.
eet The various other pulpits We're fill
we by the preachers as assigned on Sat
m day.