The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31
TO PURCHASE LOT
 FOR NEW CHURCH
FIVE POINTS METHoDISTS DE- cIDE TO BUY THE CALDWELL LOT FOR $14ooo-ENTHuSlASTIC CONFERENCE HELD.

The members of the Five Points Meth odist church held a conference yesterday morning and decided to purchase the lot owned by John M. Caldwell fronting on the Five Points circle. The consideration is $14,oOO, all of which has been sub scribed.
 The meeting was presided over by the pastor the Rev Dr. J. H. Mccoy. N. l.. Miller and Captain Plosser acted as secretaries Dr. John S. Gillespy, E. K. Campbell T. H. Motion, H. H. Mayberry' R. A. Lewis and other members Of the congregation made short talks and much enthusiasm was stirred up.
 The lot was formerly occupied by Glass's dairy, and fronts fifty feet on Twentieth street, running back 200 feet on Magnolia and Eleventh avenues. The site is considered an ideal one Tor a church. An option has been secured and the transfer will probably be made Tues day.
 The church has had A remarkable growth, and it's next step will be to erect a handsome edifice.
 God was a sovereign before man was an agent.
 When we come to state what 'the greater works are, then we lind our ldea of greatness and the works do not at all correspond. The great parable or the "good Samaritan has its power In that it shows a man who did not feel for an- other-but who felt with another In all their afflictions he was afflicted. Becom- ing the other man, that Is Christianity. Seeing with his eyes, feeling with his sensiblites, subject to his limitations, ob- noxious to his exposures. A mere Ylslt may show this. The machinery Of the Kingdom is very simple and very silent, and the most silent parts do most. l heard a gentleman say that the best fn- vestment he ever made was when he had great difficulty in getting little money and that he invested that little ina man and as he saw him rise from despair to hope and then to usefulness, he knew why Christ had founded His kingdom in the affections of mems hearts rather than in the powers of the world
 To see Jesus make bread and feed multitude is dazzling, but 1t only shows divine power over mother. To see men, joined to the Son of God by faith, feed the hungry and clothe the naked, is splen- did, because it shows the power of God over human hearts and human wills.
 Unobtrusive Earnestness.
 Christianity then is not life of periodic observences, or of occasional fervers, or even of splendid acts of heroism and self devotion, but of quiet, constant, unob- trusive earnestness, amid the common place work of the world. This is the life to which Christ calls us There is noth- ing in 1t to dazzle, much in it's hardness and plainness to deter. In maintaining spirit of cheerfulness and contentment- in the unambitious routine of humble duties, in the perpetual reference to lofty enus amid lowly toils-there may be evinced a faith as strong as that of the man who dies with the song of martyr dom on his lips. ''The greater works are concerned, not with miracle, but with love- joy, kindness, charity, self-sacrifice work
 We are not to lose sight of the fraction in getting at the whole in the growth of the kingdom. It is very difficult to make a million dollars in a lump, and do it honestly. The principle of figuring on fractions, and small ones at that, is exact ly the method of modern business and trade. The fraction of good that each individual contributes to the world Is what is bringing the Kingdom of God without observation Great men and great events stand thousands of years apart, but common wants and ordinary workers which build the base of life, stand close together. The kingdom that claims the world must. somehow, have all people in t join hands. If a few men would con- tribute all the money necessary for the growth of the kingdom of God, 1t would not grow nearly so fast as when the widows mite is cast in.
 We are living in the day of great works. The place to begin work Is in your own home and among your own kindred and among your neighbors and