The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-14
HAS ACCEPTED THE CALL.
Rev. VIM. r. McCorkIe VIII Come to
savannah

Rev. VIM. P. McCorkle announced yes
terday his acceptance of the call to the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian
Church 1t will still be some time, how
ever, before he can take charge, as he
will have to apply to the Presbytery in
which his present church at Graham, n.
c., is located. and secure from it dis
solution of~the pastoral relation before he
can be installed in the First Church.
Rev Mr.. McCorkle has been in Savan-
nah since Wednesday, and during his stay
has conducted several services, among
them the prayer service Wednesday
night, a preparatory service Friday night
and morning and night services yesterday
During his stay he has gained the friend
ship of the entire congregation and his
permanent location is looked forward to
with complete satisfaction His sermon
last night was on the value of small
things The text was taken from Psalm
Xc:12 80 teach us to number our days
that we may apply our hearts unto wis
dom"
I'VE are too apt, Mr.. McCorkle said. to
underes innate the value of small things.
An example of this tendency may be seen
in the way we-except children-think OF
the alphabet; and yet 1t is the alphabet
that bridges the centuries links age TO
age and allows the centuries to speak to
man. Through IFS aid Homer still sings
of the exploit of Hector and Ulysses, and
of the fall of Troy; and by its aid Isaiah.
jeremiah, and Daniel prophesy for all the
ages.
Numbers too. we are apt to consider
not very important, and yet they are
like the alphabet, for without the table
of numerals there would be no advanced
sciences. The problem of human life is
a mathematical problem. God himself is
the first and greatest of mathematician.
"A writer has recently written two lit
tie books, Number in Nature and
Atheism and Arithmetic and in these
by number of curious illustrations, he
has brought out the fact that the universe
itself is built on matheme teal princi-
PIES"
To prove this proposition Mr.. McCorkle
cited the case of a sceptic who was con-
verted to faith in God by investigating
the undertaking uniformity of field of
Texas Stars" a little Western wild
flower. and calculating the possibility of
a variation of structure had they been
created merely by chance.
Continuing, he said 80, also, in the
realm of chemistry, is found Gods deal
ings in numbers, where every mineral
crystallizes according to fixed laws. So,
likewise, in the snowflake, and in the
feathers of birds Gods handiwork is
seen, and He, Himself has told us that
every hair of our heads is numbered.
at is the same in the spiritual world,
for if God shows calculation in the crea-
ton of pershable things, how much more
will He show in the creation of things
that are immortal. Every human life is
a plan of Gods, therefore, how careful
we should be that our days are well spent.
Count up your days to the allotted time
of three score and ten; multiply them
into hours, and again into minutes, and
into seconds and then remember that
you are responsible for every thought,
every word, that is said and every va
grant fancy of the heart.
These sins are wiped out only by the
multitude of Gods mercies, and if you are
saved it is only through divine grace"