The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-20
GREAT SERMON BY
BISHOP GALL 0IVAY'
Great Congregations
Hear "a, Distinguished
Mississippidn.
GRACE OF GOD AND
WORK IN THE WORLD
This the Theme Ably Discussed
at the Morning Service;
Though More Than An
Hour Long, Preacher
Given Closest
Attention.

"a very large congregation assembled
yesterday morning at Centenary Church
hto hear the sermon OF Bishop Charles b.
Galloway, of Mississippi. The bishop was
at his best, and, although the delivery OF
the sermon occupied over; an hour, i /, one
grew weary. The text was taken from
Ezekiel. Xvii: .. The subject announced
was: THE Grace OF God Distributed
Through the World and It's Effect on the
Worlds Lfe."
A great congregation heard the bishop
with closest attention. The distinguished
/, speaker was at times pathetic, always
forceful, using simple illustrations with
great effect
Bishop Galloway preached also last
night to another congregation, which
taxed the capacity ofEthe church.
At the morning hour the Bishop said
III pnrt.
The text this morning is found In The
forty-seventh chapter Of the Prophecy of
Ezekiel. the latter clause OF the ninth
verse--.''And everything shall live whittier
the river cometh. ~
There are few subjects more interest
ing to55 study than the personal sss and
spiritual characteristicsEoft those # whom
God has chosen as Hts instruments in
the writing of.the worlds history. There
are peculiar gifts and endowments, such
as indicate His purpose, ias well as
the Divine call Itself. 4 For instance,
when the abominationgoft the Baal swor.
ship was to be destroyed and the tyran-.
nous rule Of Ahab broken, God needed
a prophet OF fire and of terror SO He
went into the noun tail,s of Gi1ead. found
Elijah. the Tishbite,r and clothed him
with majesty almost divine. But after
the destroyer. He wanted a builder; af...ers
the prophet OF fire and OF terror, He
wanted a comforter so He i threw the.
mantle over the shoulders of His gentle,
Elisha and sent him Quito comfort His
people And when fthe fulness Of time
had come. when immediate preparation
was to be made for the coming OF the
Great King, GOD needed not man
clothed in soft raiment mot reed
shaken in the WIND. Z, but AMMAN Of nerve,
and Of hard!hood, and OF high courage,
and of unblanched check; so He called
John the Baptist and sent him out as "a
voice crying In the Wilderness
And thus It is that, n3the economy
Of the Divine Providence, the man and
the hour are made to meet or. as some
one has said, when the ages call, the
heroes come
Among the later prophets there is no
nobler figure than Ezekiel, He did not
have the sustained majesty shown in
the visions of Isaiah; he lacked the
lyric, tenderness of nature that belonged
to jeremiah, nor did he have the martial
spirit OF Daniel. But he had a descrp-
tive power. a sort of weird genius, that
distinguished him from all the others
and gave him a place entirely his own in
that great band OF prophetic giants of
the earth.
Complex Prophecies.
The phoprecies Of Ezekiel are, some OF
them, exceedingly complex and so diff
that the rabbis on one occasion held
conference to decide whett erlthe prophe-
cles OF Ezekiel should not be excluded
from the sacred canon and an adverse
vote was about to be taken when one
of the rabbis interposeu and said that,
IL they would give him time and oppor-
tunlty, he would undertake to explain
the difficulties in the vision Of the Wheel
thnt wonderful prophecy Of Ezekle!
which Is the most difficult to under
stand They a"ceptet the proposition
tc be used while prosecuting his study
thus Indicating what. In their minds
were the difficulties before him.
The entire ministry Of Dzekhl was
spent in exile, ministry ofstwenty-two
years. He WAS called to the prophetic
Office when he was far away from the
land of his fathers. and his entire life
was spent in preaching TO people who
We're far away from home Yet, In all
of his prophecies, there Is no dole O
note. there is no minor key; there Is not
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