Evening journal., 1901-03-25
MANY HEARD
VISITORS PREACH
Bishop Addresses Vast Audi
enCe in Grace Church
ORDINATION EXERCISES HELD
Witnessed BY Many Yesterday Alter
noon Attendance Large in
Other Churches
ORDINATION EXERCISES Held

Standing room was at a premium in
NEST OF the Wilmington churches yes
ierday, and especially In Grace NJ. e. |
Church, where Bishop Goodsell preach |
ed There was a regular crush to hear
him and many people were disappo MT |
Cd at being unable to gain admission
to the edifce The pulpit was beaut- |
fully decorated In honor of the divine, |
who has so successfully managed and
pl6sidCl over the deliberations Of thel
,thlrty-thiIl annual meeting Of the VIII
lmington C3nfers nee which is now go
ing ON in this city.
Love feast was. the first ef The order
CT exercises, and was in charge OIL
Presiding Elder Thomas 70. Martin
daie. Of the Salisbury district
BISHOP GoODsELL1S ELOQUENT
WORDS
/ In opening his sermon the bishop
saida Il am moved this Morn ng TO
speak to you from the words; When
1 / was enild / spake as a child: / un-
ldgIs.oC1 as a child. / thought as al
child, but when [ became a man put
away childish things, found in the
eleventh verse of the thirteenth chap
ter Of the first Corinthians.
These words seem Ike an inco-
herant utterance injected into Paul's
wonderful hymn on charity The con
tinuity between the text and verses is
mot Instantly apparent But IL would
be impossible .tor such a man rhet-
lCrically as Paul to write such a sen
ltenca when lie did, and where he did
tion of thought He has been engaged
in previous verse in unfolding the
negative and the positive side Of Chris
titan love. He determined what the
thing before him Us by a process Of flnl-
ling what 10 is not At once you see
that he has referred TO the maturity Of
lChIisian life as it exists Lare bu
there is a higher and broader reference
TO life TO come. and that fulness that
lis at Christ's right hand. New lis
heart Is full with love of Christ, and
lhe looks back upont hings a child
Hooks back upon days. He Is deter
lmined TO be complete in the Lcid by
lputting away things behind him He
introduces the idea that a sinful life
is an immature life and that a life un-
ider Gods power is the only complete
life man can know.
DO we not see now. If we pursue the
analysis no further how these things
relate TO the maturities CT life Time
is granted us that out Of our Lstl1ncss
We may come into bigness; that out of
a satanic and besual state We may
come into the light of God God gives
JUS this life that we should have before
lus sense of relationship with God
lof being in contact with the spirits
that commune at his throne. You peO-
) pie who are not following Christ who
are taking your ideals according to the
clay Of the world, q Is the word this
incoming that SO long as this life is
lyouus, as these motives are yours. you
lcannOt grow up dn the maturity Of
IChrist. / do not underrate the mighty
Transformation God works in convert
ling a soul. The soul is turned about.
q new thing is born, but still there is
Ia spirit to grow up, to ba illum mated
i by the light Of God. All through the
ideal Christian life there is growth by
1.-THE accurate observation of events and
lof the mighty opportunities Of the gos-
lpel. GCd has permitted calamity tO
come upon us to lead us to think Of the
hardened way we ara going, Of the
s9phlstications Of our hearts. but we
lhave gone on regardless Of the warn
ing upon us. acting the childish part I'M
lallowing the opportunity to pass. / call
your attention to those qualities Of
lchildishness that Christ requires as
necessary in order to enter the king
dom of heaven. The child rs fun oil
love. The richest reward a mother
has is at the dawning Of that love and
confidence that makes her arms the re-
lpose for her little one The touch oil
the little ones finger IS more to her
than the scepter Of a king. All through
the childish life it is this love that is
the chief reward to the father and thaI
mcther. So when the Master took a
child and put him in the midst of theI
disciples 1t was to teach to all man
kind the value of love that is so con-
stant as II is instructive
That great God we can know not
by the fulness of his manifestation, but
as ho has enriched nature with his
glory and his presence. Night may
shut out the earthly friend. but mol
night shuts ont God no blindness OBJ /
lscures the sight OF Him. In the pres
enoe Of such an ideal cf childlikeness i
how petty our manifestations of tenn
lrCrament have been? SO we shall go
along, If we are his. with an open
mind rejoicing that tomorrow will |
bring more and stu more. When thel
soul is anxicns m it's relations to GCd
all that st requires in its hunger and .
horror is a soul that can lead it On
to Christ. o Lord, in thy mercy lift us
from childlfe into childlikeness, from
thine into eternity"
At the conclusion Of the sermon
many in the congregation shook hands
with Bishcp Coodsel.
Visiting preachers filed other local
lpulp,ts as announced in the Evening
journal. and ware greeted by large au-
diences.
RUSH TO SEE ORDINATION.
Again yesterday afternoon Grace