The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-12-20
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: SUNDAY SERMON


A Scholarly Discourse By
Bish op G. G. MoCsbe

Oapc preacheu al tue hanson Place
M. E. Church Sunday morning. The
Rev. Charles IL. Locke, the pastor, con-
Quoted the. service. Bishop McCabe
chose for his subject Gods Little
Ones" and preached from the text
Isaiah lx:22: "And a little one shall
become thousand and a small one
strong nation. 1, the Lord. hath said
1t, In his time" He said:
There are two thoughts that claim
our attention as we study this text
One Is the kind of workers God chooses
to do His greatest work In this world
the little ones; and, second, the possible
rapidity with which Gods work may
go forward In this world God
chooses the lowly TO do His great work
The history of the world never yet
has been fairly written. We know
what the great have done. we know
what kings and emper0rs and generals
and philosophers and poets and inven-
tors have done, but the Macauley has
not yet arisen TO trace out In history
what Gods little ones have done, yet
the history Of the world cannot be fair
ly written without telling the story
OF their lives, because they have done
30 much for the world. and what 9TH
ers have done would have been in
vain had 1t not been for what Gods
little ones have accomplished. He
chose the lowly. "God hath respect
unto the lowly, but the proud He
knoweth afar off," He loves the lowly
heart that trusts In Him. What an
lmpediment to Christian work is pridel
We cannot build up strong Chris
tian character without humility. Hu-
mility comes from the Latin word "hu-
mus" which means "the ground" -
the ground on which to build d strong
Christian character. Its corner stone
and foundation stone must be humility.
and If the chal @cter lack that grace.
1t will not stand the test of time and
temptation; but. with humility, the
Christian character may be built up
with a symmetry and universalness
that will endure through life and eter-
nifty. What do you think Of this pas
sage? II. the high and lofty one that
inhabiteth eternity, will dwell In the
high and holy places with him also
that is of cOntrite and humble spir-
It." God chooses as His associates the
humble and the contrite
Our Lord carried on His work after
the same plan. He chose the humble
and lowly workers and sent them out
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they came back to Him surprised and
delighted with their experience, and
they said: Master, even the devils
are subject to us in Thy name" and
It is written that at that time Jesus
rejoiced In spirit and said: Father. /
thank Thee because Thou hast hidden
these things from the wise and pru-
dent and hast revealed them unto
babes. Even So Father. for so 1t
seemeth good In Thy sight" Paul un-
derstood this well when he wrote to
the Corinthians: Not may wise men
after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble are called; but God hath
chosen the foolish things Of the world
to fconfOund the wise, and God hath
chosen the weak things Of the world
to confound the things which are
mighty and the base things of the
world and things which are despised
hath God chosen; yea, and things
which are not to bring to naught
things that are, that no flesh should
glory In His presence" How low He
gets 1t down! That has always been
Gods plan, even before the time when
the babe came to the manger In Beth
lehem. Jesus born in Bethlehem in
Judea--that little, lowly one was Gods
answer to the worlds cry for help
and light. 1t was little added weak
ness to that we had already, poverty
added to the poverty we had already;
1t was an infants wall added to what
Paul calls the "groan OF creation"
That was Gods way of answering
man.
will just call your attention to the
possible rapidly with which the king
dom Of God can grow in this world, "a
little one becoming a thousand" That
Is tremendous rate of gain: It seems
as IL it could not be so. We say
Isaiah was poet; mystical man and
exaggerated sometimes. but this Is no
exageration. 1t has often been the
case. Yea, small one has become a
nation in the history of the onward
march of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ,
our Lord. 1 believe that God wants
His kingdom to grow rapidly and
think that was the spirit of Jesus
when He told His disciples the para
Bile of the talents. On another occa-
sion He gave them another parable Of
the rich man who before going away
gave each of his servant pound and
on his return required his own with
usury. One man said: Lord, Thy
udtn Bdlutu ten nut
was a big percentage of interest. And
another said Lord, Thy pound hath
gained five pounds" That was good
percentage, and Jesus said: "The
kingdom of heaven is like that" That
Is the way invested lives may grow;
that is the way life, no matter how
humble, may grow; that Is consecra-
ton. That is the teaching of these two
parallels.
Now these are commercial figures.
Let us take them into the light and
try to understand them. In the para
BILE the master speaks OF three rates
of gain. When the man who had five
talents brought five more he was
worth 100 per cent to his master, and
he who had two and brought two
more was also worth 100 per cent to
his master, but when the man who had
only one pound brought five pounds
more he was worth 500 per cent. to
his master, and the man whose one
pound had gained ten pounds was
worth 1000 per cent. to his master; and
Jesus said: '"rhe kingdom of heaven
Is like that" All those rates Of gain
are possible in the kingdom of heaven
We cannot receive 1t right OF. Let us
try to comprehend the Masters mean
ing. Six per cent.-we know all about
that-will do wonders IL we will only
give 1t little time.
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