Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON 81
OR. C. l.. COCDELL
Subject: "The Carpenters Son.

New York City.-Calvary Methodls'
Episcopal Church OF Harlem, througn
the effectiveness of the pastor Tue
Rev. DR.. Charles Il. Goodel1, is grow
ing in an unparalleled way. Last
February, as the result of revival ser
vices for the month OF January. ne
broke all city church records ny au-
hitting 500 members. sunday morn
ing more than $50 were -:celved INTO
the church. and these, Ode TO the
fifty taken in at the January COM
munion, make . total OF more IMAM
400 admissions as a result OF TOUR
weeks OF revival services. Dr. GOode!l
gave this as the reason OF the great
ingathering: There is no secret to 1t;
any church can be stirred as ours has
been il it is willing to pay the price.
The nrice? 1t is conservation, prayer
and bard work. All three are needed
in about equal parts. Our magnifcent
COR oraoo3i0n has been moved by
nravor and in turn has moved others"
The reception of members II this
church sunday was q joyful event for
the m listers and members, for it
nIaced calvary Church at the head of
MetE05 sn n Point of membership.
JalV3lN nov Has ii 1S" "oAS 'ho
o4Oo members on it's roll. Since DR..
Goodell has been at Calvary, twenty
one n,0nths. Their, has been a Let gain
of 1000 members, OF about seventy
five We cent. Of these new members
more ,Aan 600 came on probation.
The clrnrcn seats 22O0 AID every Sun
day ui@ht all seats are filled early. AT
some OF the special services many
chairs bad to be brought in and the al
tar space filled, and then scores could
not til,I seats. Sunday there were fiji
teen denominations represented BY
those VINO came by letter.
About 1900 persons took communion
in the morning, Bishop L. G.. Andrews,
of Brooklyn: the Rev. DR.. Frank Ma
son North, of the City Mission, and
Tract Society of New York City, and
MI. Williams. the assistant pastor, and
officers of the church assisting. In the
afternoon about 500 more were COM
muned. In the evening DR.. Goodcll
preached on The Carpenters Son
The text was from Matthew xiii:3o:
SIS this not the carpenters SOM" He
said:
O4lt Of the doorvays Of the poor
come the men who make the World rich
and God walks oftener in the narrow
rooms and on the creaking stairs OF
the little cottages than in the wide.
sounding halls of the rich with armor
and pictures looking down. You have
seen the home of Burns and ShakS-
peare; picture to yourself something
as much poorer as these are meaner
than the homes of the newly rich and
you may call that the home of a car
penter in Nazareth. They will show
you the place With yotive offerings
and gewgaws in it. but you Will say.
$50" and walk out. Find a place
where a carpenter is now making an
OK bow or a poor mans table and il
wiIf be like what He knew. for the
mel of Nazareth are like all their kin
in the East; they change not in a thou
sand years. 1 like to think that for
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
ways OF a laborer.
His trade lie piled, a carpenter, and built
Doors. where folks come and 60, unto this
hour,
Not voting how the hands which wrought
their doors
Unbarred Deaths gate by Loves high
SdcIl1lCS-
Tables whereon folks set their meat, and
Needless Of Who was Bread Of Life" and
Such food that whose eateth hungereth not
And, in those little lanes of Nazareth,
Each morn His holy feet would come and &C
While He bore planks and beams, whose
back must bear
The cruel cross. And, then, at evening
fall,
Resting from labor, with those patient feet
Deep in white wood dust, and the long
curled shreds
shorn by His rlane-He would turn limo.
cent eyes
Gazing far past the sunset to that world
He came from, and must so to; nigh tc
Nigh unto US, albeit we see it not,
Whereof Life is the curtain, and mute
Death
Herald and Doorkeeper.
Nazareth was q town in which to
talk with God. The great plain before
it had felt His thunderous foot. There
was Carmel, where Elijah talked with
God. in plain sight. There was Jezree.
OF AIab and Jezebel. There was Eu'
dor and Saul and the witch. There
wa Tabor, lone and majestic, near al
HAND. and Iermon far to the north,
c.ou&-aapped and snow-peaked, while
10 the East, hidden behind a dozen
TiIe~ Of hill and dale, was the sea OF
taIu e-mother Of sermon and Of mir
a'lc- In Nazareth He found the il
stations which make SO large a part
~ lis sermons. There was a great
.E Of MOL and toll before Him, and
:"la in the cool OF the morning He
a'lst store up the reserve that will
le Him on to awful noon at Jerusa'
n. 1t takes a great soul to bide his
ne-to get ready for 4 great act and
; patient with the training and the
Yow step Of the years. To live with
God and in Him is the main thing after
all. He walked those cliffs with nc
one to look at Him or to wonder al
Him-prayerful, masterful, patient
Was there ever a better example fol
ordinary people. 1t is good for the
burning fever Of life to look at Him
The world is too much with us soo1
and late. Our home life is low and
sordid. We fret under it. There are
too many little things to do. Too much
Of Oh ne and too little Of outlook
What are we saying? Look at Him
Poverty? Yes. Toll? Yes. Did they
who saw Him appreciate Him? We
Shall see; who was it said: SIS moi
THIS the arpenter's SOM" and how