The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-10
THE PULPIT.
Az ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON 81
BISHOP C. c. M'cA6E.
susisct j. The Preaoher'a Commission.

bishop McCabe preached the Confer
snce sermon. Bishop McCabe preached
for nearly an hour. His sermon was a
typical, oId-style Methodist oration.
and evidently pleased his hearers i'm
menSely, for his. remarks were pune
tuated from start to finish with cries
IF Amen "Hallelujah!! Eyes, yes"
and frequent laughter.
Bishop McCabe's subject was "The
Preachers Commission" and he took
for his text the passage in Haggai:
rome" He said:
Haggai was one of the prophets who
went to the captive Israelites to help
to rebuild the walls of the ruined tenn
pie and of their destroyed city. Zech-
ariah wa the other one. They were
both men of vast hope and mighty
faith. and God gave them vision to
read the future, and, because they saw
the future, they We're optimistic men.
They did not believe that anything was
too good to be true. We need such
men. We have enough men who telEI
us how much better the past was than
the present, and who discourage US,
and we need men who ak hopefully;
men who. speak of the future with de-
light. because they know that the
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shall be done on earth as 1t is III
Heaven-wiIl some day be fulfilled.
These two prophets ven to the Israel
ties. to Jerusalem, and struggled to
rebuild the temple, and they We're
greatly needed. Cyrus, the King of
Persia, allowed them to go. Cyrus was
the conqueror of Babylon, and these
Jews had fallen into his hands and
he treated them finely. Cyrus was a
man who believed in religious liberty.
It is strange that $500 ears ago there
was a man in a high on earth POSITION
who believed that every a had q
right to worship God according to the
dictates of his conscience. l know
CYRUS believed in religious liberty be-
cause he was not a Jew, and yet ne
allowed these Jews to go n reDuild
their temple and ruined city. l think
God loved Cyrus on this account. l
know He did, because He sent him a
message by Isaiah, Il will go before
thee and make thy way straight before
thee" Cyrus would have made 4
great Car of Russia; there would be
no more massacreS of the Jews. And
what a great Sultan of Turkey he
would have made! There would be
NO more massacres of Armenians SIM
ply because they were Christians. L
trust in God that the time Will come
when a great man like Cyrus will &C.
cupy every throne on earth, and When
the idea that one man can control the
conscience of another shall pass'aWay
forever. 1 have myself seen $50 in
struments of torture which were used
by men and deyils-for / think the
devil inspired men to use such instru-
ments of tOrture-to make all men
think alike. 1 looked with amazed in
terest at the maid of Nuremberg" a
terrible instrument called by that
name. It consists of great. wide doors.
in which l counted Ill spikes, several
inches long. When the victim was
asked for the last time Twill you re-
pent?" if he said No" these doors
were slammed, and the victim culver
ing on these spikes would suffer moro
anguish than Jesus Christ did on the
cross. Men and women to-day woulC
rather die than give UP this old Bible
or surrender the right to worship Goo
according to the dictates OF Conscience
We enjoy liberty to-day because suci
men and women have lived in thu
world. Let us prize the boo which
they purchased with suffering al
blood.
These Israelites had been in captivity
for seven years; II 800 of them went tt
build the temple. Some were old anC
some young. The young men shouted
for joy, for they did moi remembel
Solomon's Temple. but the old men did
and they wept. They wept, first, be
cause of the contrast between tn
amount of money which David CAV,
Solomon to build the temple with ant
the sum they had now Secondly, be
cause of the contrast between tn
I~@, -4 ,~on 0nInronn lY06 On NM
and now there were but 42,360. Solo
mon had 36O0 overseers TO keep tn
people at work-yalking delegates.
YOU please. I wish all walking dele
gates were for that purpose. l Won
der If they ever had Il strike anon!
them. Iwonder if'16,000 Of these so
600 said to the other eighty-four pc
cent: "Unless you join U society yo
cannot work at ALL 1t would not hav
been allowed i'll SoIomon's time.
had a letter yesterday from a prom
nentsInan in this city, asking me if til
church was the friend OF labor.
want to state publicly the creed Of tn
NJ. z. Church. We are the friends o
labor; we are the friends of all labor
of every man and woman who has t
earn q living by the sweat OF the face
We are the friends, not only OF til
sixteen per cent, but of the SO,0OO;. {
100 per cent. of labor. and anybod
who is not a friend of 100 per cen
not a true friend of labor.> That is til
creed OF the NJ. E.. Church. and 1 stat
it for them because they do not seer
disposed to state it for themselye
And | believe 1 state The creed Of q
Protestant churches in this country.
Then, again, 1 think the old me
wept because of the contrast in I'll
plans Of the two temples.
1.-The Desire of All Nations" That
one of the names OF Christ. He la
over 800 different applications. Jaeo
called Him "Shiloh;" job. "Thc Dell
erer:' David, The Shepherd" Isaia
"Wonderful.' Counselor" "Mighi
God ''Everla sting Father III
prince of Peace" John the Baptis
1.-The Lamb of God;'' Paul, the For