The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-14
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SUNDAY SERMON

a Scholarly Discourse By
DR.. Charles l.. Coodell.
Observation-Disclosures

New York City. Calvary 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 ad-
mtting 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 q result OF four
weeks Of revival services. DR.. Goode!l
gave this as the reason of the great
lngathering: There is no secret to 1t;
any church can be stirred as ours has
been IL it is willing 20 pay the price.
The price? 1t Is conservation. 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 n Joyful event for
the ministers and me'Ibers. for IL
placed Calvary Church ut the head OF
MethOdism n L"int OF membership.
Calvary now has Il few more than
G., ode,l has been at Calvary, twenty
onl months, ther fas been a net gain
of 1000 mem berS, or about seventy
Eve .er cent. OF these new members
more thar 600 came on probation.
The churcn seats 300 ID every sun
day night all seats are filed early. At
some Of the special services many
chairs had to be brought in and the al
tar space filed, and then scores could
not find seats. Sunday there were tif-
teen denominations represented by
those who came by letter.
About 1900 persons took communion
IN the morning. Bishop +. 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
phicers Of the church assisting. In the
afternoon about 500 more were COM
muned. In the evening Or. Goodeil
preached on The Carpenters Son"
Tie text was from Matthew Xiii:3j:
as this not the carpenters SOM" He
said
out Of the doorways of the poor
come the men who make the world rich
and God walks oftener in the Iarrow
:Ooms and on the creakiug 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-
Oeare; 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 Il car
penter N Nazareth. They will show
you the place with yotive offerings
and gewgaws in it, but you will say,
"Sow and walk out. Find Il place
where q carpenter is now making an
OK bow or q poor mans table and it
will be like what He knew, for the
men of Nazareth are like all their kin
In the East; they change not in n thou
sand years. l like to think that for
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
ways of a laborer.
His trade He Piled, a carpenter, and built
Doors. where folks come and go, unto this
hour
Not voting how the hands which wrought
their doors
Unbarred Deaths gate by loves high
sacrifice
Tables whereon folks set their meat, and
Heed'ess of Who was "Rread 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
Deep in white wood dust, and the long
curied shreds
Shorn by His plane-He would turn inno-
Gazing lar past the sunset to that world
He came from, and must 90 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. Tie great plain before
It had felt His thuuderous foot There
was Carmel where Elijah talked with
God, in plain sight There was Jezreel
of Ahab and Jezebe There was Eu-
dor and Saul and the witch There
was Tabor, lone and majestic. near at
hand. and HermOn far 10 the north
clOud-capped and SnOw-peaked, while
TO the East, hidden behind dozen
miles Of nil ana dale, was the sea OF
Galilee-uOther OF sermon ANA Of mir
acles. In Nazareth lie found the IL
lustrauons which make so large a part
of His sermons. There was a 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 10 awful noon at Jerusa-
lem. lt takes a great soul to hide his
tme-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 to look at Him or TO wonder at
Him-prayerful, masterful. patient.
Was there ever a better example for
ordinary people. 1t is good for the
burning fever OF life to look at Him.
The world is too much with us soon
and late. Our home life is low and
sordid. We fret under It. There are
too many little things 10 do Too much
of o" ne and too little Of outlook.
What are we saying? Look at Him.
Poverty? Yes. Toll? Yes. Did they
who saw Him appreciate HimY We
shall see who was it said: rs not
this the arpenter's son" and how
did they say itI 1t was taunt and
a sneer. You know now Low He came
to say. "A prophet Is not without
honor save In his own country"
The very men whose houses He had
built We're ready TO stone Him to
death. 1t has often been so. The men
WHO have built the houses that the
worlds thought lives in to-day were
most Of them buried IN ignominlous