The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-03-23
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON 81
Or. c. L. COSDELL.
Subject: "The Carpenters Son."

Subject: "The Carpenters Son."
New York City.-CalvGry Methodist
Episcopal Church of Harlem. through
the effectiveness of the pastor. the
Rev. DR.. Charles l.. Goodell. is grow
ing in an unparalleled way. Last
February. as the result OF revival SER
vices for the month OF January. he
broke all city church records by adj
mitting 365 members. Sunday morn
ing more than $50 were ceiyed into
the church. and these. added 10 the
fifty taken in at the January COM
muniOn. make /? total of more than
400 admissions as a result OF four
weeks OF revival services. DR.. Goodell
gave this as the reason OF the great
ingathering: There is no secret TO it;
any church can be stirred as ours has
been If il is willing TO pay the price.
The price? 1t is consecra ton, prayer
and hard work All three are needed
in about equal parts. O1r magnificent
congregation has been moved by
prayer and in turn has moved others
The reception of members into this
church Sunday was a joyful event for
the ministers and members. for Ii
placed Calvary Church at the head OF
Methodism n POINT OF membership.
Calvary now has n few more than
2iO0 members on its roll. Since DR..
Goode,l has been at Calvary, twenty
one months, ther has been net gain
of 1000 mem bers, or about seventy
five rer cent. OF these new members
more than 600 came on probation.
The churcn seats 1900 ID every Sun
day night all seats are filled early. At
some of the special services many
chairs had 10 be brought in and the al
tar space filed, and then scores could
not find seats. Sunday there were fif-
teen denominations represented by
those who 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
Mr.. Williams, the assistant pastor, and
officers Of the church assisting. In the
afternoon about 800 more were COM
muned. In the evening DR.. GoOdell
preached on The Carpenters Son"
The text was from Matthew Xiii:35:
"lS this not the carpenters son" he
said:
out Of the dOorways 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 rs these are meaner
than the homes of the newly rich and
hnt t1. nf plr
penter in Nazareth They will show
you the place with votive offerings
and gewgaws in it. but you will say,
$50" and walk out. Find place
where a carpenter is now making an
OK bow or poor mans table and it
will be like what He knew, for the
men of Nazareth ara.ake all their kin
in the East; they change not in thou
sand years. | like to think that for
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
ways of a laborer.
His trade He piled. carpenter, and built
Doors. where folks come and go, unto this
hour,
their doors
Unbarred Deaths gate by Loves high
sacrifice
Tables whereon folks set their meat, and
eat,
Needless of Who was Bread of Life" and
gave
Such food that whose eateth hungereth not.
And, in those little lanes of Nazareth.
Each morn His holy feet would come and go
While He bore planks and beams, whose
back must bear
The cruel cross. And, then, at evenings
fall,
Resting from labor. with those patient feet
hi 70
curied shreds
Shorn by His plane-He would turn inno-
cent eyes
Gazing far past he sunset to that world
He came from, and must go to; nigh to
Him
Nigh unto us. albeit we see it not
Whereof Life is the curtain. and mute
Death
Herald and Doorkeeper.
Nazareth was a town in which to
talk with God. The great plain before
it had felt His thufiderous foot. There
was Carmel where Elijah talked with
God. in plain sight. There was Jezreel
of Ahab and Jezebel. There was Eu-
dor and Saul and the witch. There
was Tabor, lone and majestic. near at
hand. and Hermon far to the north,
cloud-capped and snow peaked, while
TO the East, hidden behind dozen
miles of mill and dale. was the sea of
Galilee-mother Of sermon and Of mir
acles. In Nazareth He found the IL
lustratlons which make so large a part
OF His sermons. There was great
day OF moil and toll before Him. and
here in the cool of the morning He
must store up the reserve that will
take Him on to awful noon at Jerusa-
lem. 1t takes a great soul to bide his
time--to get ready for a great act and
be patient with the training and the
slow step Of the years. To live with
God and in Him is the main thing after
all. He walked those cliffs with no
one 10 look at Him or To wonder at
Him-prayerful. masterful. patient.
Was there ever a better example for