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THE PULPIT,
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BI
DR.. c. L. COODELL
Subject: "The Carpenters Son."

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Episcopal Church Of Harlem, through
the effectiveness Of the pastor, the
Rev. DR.. Charles l.. GoodeE, 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 by ad-
hitting 3G5 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.. Goodell
gave this rs the reason Of the great
i%ngathering: There is no secret to it;
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. 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 1t
placed Calvary Church at the head OF
Methodisln n I":nt of membership.
Calvary now has 4 few more than
24OO members OH its roll. Since Dr.
Goode,l has been At Calvary. twenty
one months. Their las been a net gain
Of 1000 members, or about seventy
five .er cent. OF these new members
more than GOO came on PROBATION.
The cbnrcn seats 2200 aid every Sun
day light all seats are filed early. AT
some of the special services many
chairs had to he brought in and the al
tai. space filled, and then scores could
not find seats. Sunday there were NJ
teen denominations represented by
those who came by letter.
About 1900 persons took communion
In the morning. Bishop Ii. 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, ana
officers of the church assisting. In the
afternoon about 500 more were com.
muned. In: the evening DR.. Goodell
preached on 1.-THE Carpenters Son"
The text was from Matthew xiii:3o:
as 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 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 votiVe offerings
and gewgaws in it, but you will say,
"Sor' and walk out. Find a place
where a carpenter Is now making an
OK bow or q poor mans table and 1t
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. 1 like to think thai for
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
ways of a laborer.
His trade He piled, a carpenter, and built
Doors, where folks come and 60, unto this
hour, 49,. :.
Not voting how the hands which wrought
their doors 49,,
Unbarred Deaths gate by Loves high
sacrifice .
Tables wherein folks set their meat, and
eat, $500. ,
Needless of Who was BREAD of Life" and
Such food that whose eateth hungereth not.
And, in those little lanes of NNzareth.,
Each morn His holy feet would come and 90
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
o.. curled' shreds "
Shorn by His plane-He would turn inno-
Gazing far past the sunset.to that world
He came from, and must 60 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 t%hunderous 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.
handicapped and snow-peaked, while
to the East, hidden behind a dozen
miles of mill and dale, was the sea OF
Galilee-mother Of sermon and OF mir
acles. In Nazareth He found the IL
Illustrations which make so large a part
of His sermons. There was q great
day of MOL and toll before Him, and
here in the cool of the morning He
must store up the reserye that Will
take Him on to awful noon at Jerusa-
lem. It 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 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 to do. Too much
Of or 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: as not
this the ~arpenter's SON." and how
did they say it? It was a taunt and
a sheer. You know now low He came
to say, "A prophet is not without
honor save in his own country"
The very men whose houses BE had
built were ready to stone Him to
death. 1t has often been so. The mel