The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-18
BISHOP CANDLER MAKES PLEA x
 FOR HELP FOR TWO COLLEGES
Need of Endowment For Conference Colleges al Greensboro and Tuskegee Strongly Emphasized
 by Bishop in Two Sermons Yesterday.

At the Court Street Methodist Church yesterday morning Bishop Warren A. Candier of Atlanta preached to a coI- gregation that filled the main auditorium and the galleries, sermon remarkable for eloquence, strength and force, All gomery gathered at Court Street Church yesterday morning in a grand rally as a fitting conclusion to the successful ses. sions of the Montgomery District Con- ference which had been in session for three days at the Forest Avenue Church. Occupying the pulpit with Bishop Can dler were the other Methodist ministers of Montgomery, with Dr. s. M. Hosmef of the Greensboro University and Presid- ing Elder J. S. Frazer.
 The music by the choir was especially fine, having been specially arranged for
 Bishop Candler took his text from St. Luke K. 2s-36. y.
 He began his sermon by saying that if all that Jesus Christ had said while here on this earth had been recorded, the world could not contain the books, and yet nothing that Jesus ever said was without a special value
 The subject of his sermon was the transfiguration of Christ. but he said: ''To understand fully the wonderful story of the transiguration, one must look back to the week preceding, to what had tranSplreo Tn those Qays, ana, SilSuiur enough, there is no recorded word or deed of the Saviour during those days.
 There seemed to have fallen upon Him during that week." said the Bishop, "a holy silence"
 His sermon dealt with the latter part of the Lords ministry. He told of how, at first. the great people of that time begun to listen and to take to- Jesus. and how the common people at all times clung to Him. Then there came a day when those who were with Him demand ed that He set up His kingdom-that he take possession of the world, and, sur rounded by angels, set up for Himself the Messiah's Kingdom and reign fin this world on His throne as David never did and as Solomon never dreamed of. Jesus answered them just as he answered Sa- tan ~on the mount when tempted. Get thee behind me, Satan" and from that day there were many who walked no more with Him. The Bishop said that His twelve disciples were shocked and He asked of them, Will ye also go away?' and impulsive Simon replied, Lord, to whom shall we go?" and Jesus said, 'tIf any man come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and fol- low me"
 The Bishop especially emphasized the division of opinion at that time among the people as to who tho Lord Jesus really was. He said they were AS badly divid- ed as to the personality of Christ as the critics of this day are as to what the Bible really is." st-
 Some; said he was John the Baptist, others He is Elias" and others. He is Jeremiah the Prophet yet he was neither, nor like unto either. Jesus then said to His disciples, Whom do ye say that I am?' and the answer came, "We believe that Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God" Jesus acknowledged to His disciples that He was the Christ, the Son of God. The Bishop brought out forcibly the thought in this connection that Jesus realized the cruelty and the agnominy of the death He should die-and yet 1t was not because He could not help Himself, but becauseSHe was going to save the world thereby. He was misun- derstood by everybody. aHe was rejected by His own and they could not under; stand that He was a suffering Messiah. The Bishop spoke of the week preceding the crucif1xion, as the loneliest time in His life. but as being the best for time and the best for eternity He was human, yet there was no human heart to respond to the cry of His own.
 The Bishop spoke of the inner. circle" of the twelve disciples, as being Peter, James and John, those disciples whom Jesus specially loved, those three who seemed to be the most sympathetic of the twelve. Of the time when His own sorrow and suffering became so intense that he needs must go to heaven for sympathy and strength, so He took~the three disciples apart, on the mountain and it was there that the incidents of the lesson occurred. It was there that He was transfigured. It was there that Elijah, the chiefest of the Prophets, and Moses the law giver, came from heaven to sympathize and to strengthen Him for the ordeal before Him. It was there that a great light shone about them. Flight never seen on land or sea-" and 1. was there that the Lord spoke out of the cloud Hear Ye Him." meaning" said the Bishop, that what He said could be relied upon" and that Heaven approved a suffering Messiah.
 Bishop Candler brought out in his ser- mon the thought that the need of pardon is felt in the soul of every human being and with the conviction of the need is the desire. in every human heart for an atonement, and. that atonement can only be made through sacrifice, and the sacrifice can only be made through the shedding of blood He illustrated this