Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-03-22
THE LIFE OF SERVICE
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
A Vigorous Discourse Touching Mans
Highest Duties and the Rewards Of
Right Living.

New York City.-Calvary Methodist
Episcopal Church of Harlem. through
the effectiveness of the pastor. the
Rev. DR.. Charles l.. Gooden. 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 ceived into
the church. and these, added to the
fifty taken in at the January COM
muniOn, make {: total of more than
400 admissions as result OF four
weeks of revival services. DR.. Goodeil
gave this as the reason OF the great
ingathering: "There is no secret to 1t:
any church can be stirred as ours has
been if it is willing to pay the price.
The price: 1t is conservation. prayer
and hard work. Al! three are needed
in about equal parts. Our magnificent
congregation has been moved by
prayer and in turn has moved others.
; The reception Of members into this
church Sunday was joyful event for
| the ministers and members. for 1t
| placed Calvary Church at the head Of
! Methodism III I"int Of membership.
Calvary now has few more than
24OO members on its roll. Since DIR.
| Goode,l has been at Calvary. twenty
! one months, ther las been a net gain
of 1000 members, or about seventy
(! FIVE .er cent. OF these new members
more than 600 came on probation.
/ Tie churcn seats 200 ID every Sun
t.:v night all seats are filled early. At
some Of the special services many
! chairs had to be brought in and the al
| tar space filled, and then scores could
I! 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 b. 6. 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 500 more were com.
nTuned. In the evening DR.. Goodeil
preache on 1.-THE Carpenters Son. .
The text was from Matthew xiii:S5:
us 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
seem the home Of Burns and Shaks
peare; picture to yourself something
as much poorer as these are meanel
than the homes Of the newly rich ane
you may call that the home of car
!. penter in Nazareth. They will show
you the place with votive offering'
and gewgaws in it. but you will say
so" and walk out. Find q place
: where carpenter Is now making al
OK bow or q poor mans table and !
) will be like what He knew, for th'
men Of Nazareth are like all their xii
, in the East; they change not in thou
. sand years. / like to think that TO
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
| ways Of a laborer.
His trade He piled, carpenter, and bull
Doors. where folks come and go, unto thl
j hour,
Not voting. how the hands which wrough
{ Unbarred Deaths gate by Loves hig
). Tables whereon folks set their meat, an
Needless OF Who was tsBread of Life'' an
J 4 81 gave
Such food thatwh eateth hungereth no
+. | And, in those little lanes of Nazareth.
8 Each morn His holy feet would come and g
q While He bore planks and beams, who's
4 back must bear
The cruel cross. And, then, at evening
l. fall,
Resting from labor, with those patient fes
Deep in white wood dust, and the lon
curied shreds -.
+ Shorn by His plane-He would turn inn
4 cent eyes
:. Gazing far past the sunset to that world
He came from, and must 60 to; nigh
Hin
!. Nigh unto us, albeit we see it not,
= Whereof Life is the curtain. and mn
y Death
II Herald and Doorkeeper.
Nazareth was a town in which
talk with God. The great plain befol