The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-25
BISHOP AT
GRACE CHURCH

| Notwithstanding the lnclcmcnt Wcathe
fully 1900 persons turned out ycsterda.
morning to hear an eloquent and in
structive sermon preached by Bishol
Daniel A. Goudscll in Grace NJ. +
Church. 1t was the largest congregation
that has been seen in Grace Church fo
a long time. Both the auditorium ant
| gallery were crowded long before 1873
| o'clock, the hour announced for Bishop
Goodsell to preach.
| All the available chairs in the churcl
were put in the aisIes and even then /;
large number of persons were compelled
i to stand.
The service was opened with a love
feast which was conducted by Presiding
Elder Thomas Martindale of the Sails
bury district.
Bishop GoodselI preached on childish
ness and childs likeness. He took for
his text the eleventh verse of the thir-
tenth chapter of the First Corinthians
"When l was a child | spoke as a
child, | understood as child, | though
as a child; but when became man,
put away childish things"
Bishop Goodsell talked in very dis
tnct 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:
at 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. lie has been
engaged in the preceding verses in un-
folding tn sides of Christian love. At
once you see he has referred to the
maturity of Christian life and he is
looking back to the maturity of Christ
ian life. He is determined to become
complete by putting away the things
which are behind. You vii observe that
childhood in the New Testament is al
ways spoken of with reverence. How
strangely it must have seemed for the
master to say to them, unless you be-
come like them you cannot enter the
Kingdom of Heaven
In continuing Bishop Goodsell said:
"Not one of you desire childishness but
every one Of you desire child's likeness
First of all in the course of childishness
we know that children have no proper
sense of the value of time. One day
after another comes to child without
any note. All the life the child knows
is for the moment Then again, is it not
true that children are creatures of i'm
pulse, ratlr than any settled purpose!
1t is for you to bring them up to see that
they do not give way to their impulses.
If this be not true only have to call
your mind to what difficulty you have to /
hold them to their studies. 1t is one of
the greatest delights in this life to
watch the creatures of impulse grow to |
children of purpose.
$40 you people who are neglccting
God and who are not following Christ,
it is the message of this text, so long as
these motives are yours you will never
grow up. 1t is one Of the mighticst
facts in life for us to see that character
is built up slowly.
First of all the child is full OF love.
The richest reward the mother can have
is the dawning of the hour which makes
a place of safety for that child. The
touch of the little finger to her is more
than the touch of king. All through
the child's life it is this love which is the
chief reward for the father and mother.
Out of this love comes the trust and
faith which endears them to us. If you
should ask the child to go out alone on
a dark night he would culver with
fright but place his hand in yours and
he will go through fire and flame under
your protection. /
Zone of the characteristics of the I
child is its innustivcness. Some people
meet these questions crosswayS. God 1
forbid them if they do. Now because
they have this humble spirit, because
they know that they don't know it all.
because they know you know more than
them that they ask these questions.
children are also forgiven. it is we
older people who don't forgive. Low
ng, trusting and forgiving, those are the
qualities which belong to childhood. II
believe in perfect love filling every part
If our being. | see the efforts of various
" Tying W blllS aI'pNl lHlS
owe between man and man by lcgisla
ion and other ways. That Great God
We can know him not by the measure
ncnt of the tape line. but the loving =,
leart We will go through life if we are u
lis, with an open mind. The most ma
urc man will be willing to know more o
If God by the child if the child knows
more of him. :
The congregation was dismissed after
he bcnediction was pronounced by
Bishop Goodscll.
The various other pulpits We're filled
" the preachers as assigned on Satur-
lay. II