Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-03-15
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y A Scholarly Discourse By r
y DR.. Charles L. Gooden.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

= Dr.. Charles L. Goodell. =
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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-
hitting 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 a result Of four
weeks of revival services. DR.. Goodell
gave this as the reason Of the great
lngathering: "There Is no secret to II;
any church can be stirred as ours mas
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. 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 or
Methodism IN POINT Of membership.
Calvary now has a few more than
24OO members on 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
dve Ter cent. OF these new members
more than COO came on probation.
The church seats 22OO aid every Sun
day 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
not find seats. Sunday there were mr.
teen denominations represented by
those who came by letter.
About 1900 persons took communion
In the morning, Bishop b. 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 500 more were COM
muned. In the evening DR.. Goodell
preached on 1.-THE Carpenters Son."
The text was from Matthew xiii:35:
lis 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 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.
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 car
penter in Nazareth. They will show
you the place with votive offerings
and gewgaws in it, but you will say,
"So!' and walk out. Find a place
where q carpenter is now making an
OK bow or 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 thou
sand years. like to think that for
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
ways of laborer.
His trade He piled, a carpenter, and built
Doors, where folks come and co. unto this
hour,
Not voting how the hands which wrought
their doors
Unbarred Deaths gate by Loves high
sacrifice
Tables wherein 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
Deep in white wood dust, and the long
curled shreds
shorn by His plane-He would turn limo,
cent eyes
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 town in which to
talk with God. The great plain before
1t had felt His thunderous 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
ppilac ~ hill ond dola fhn nf
Galilee-nother of sermon and Of mir.
acles. In Nazareth He found the Il.
Illustrations which make so large 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 great soul to bide his
ume-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 al
Him-prayerful, masterful. patient
Was there ever 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 on me 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 1t said: rs moi
this the carpenters son?" and how
did they say it? 1t was a taunt and
q 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 He had
built were ready to stone Him to
death. 1t has often been so. The men