The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-10

rooney and will transfer and come | to you" I didn't take him l Go to the place, my brother, Whieh | Goa provides for you and if 1t DC small. magnify and dIgnify 1t by your | presence.
 | Fer seventy years I have been no- | tfctng men and I have always noticed | that q man full of himself has no place ! for humanity or the great work or the | savior, A man always plotting ana planning and working for his own suc- | cess, as a minister, or in saving money | for the accumulation of a little for- | tune--that man as a preacher. is not
 worth. his weight in the phosphate in one Of your eld hills of Alabama. The l man who is concerned alone for the ! success Of the cause of his Lord--he it I is who will do something. | The bishop spoke of Gods especial | goodness to himself, and of the sue | cess of his own work for the 1hster. | and of tho perfect health which he ilstd l enjoyed through so many gears. Hs | smoke of the time when only 19i years \ oid. he had been a city missionary at | Richmond. Virginia. In those days he said, he had not known the baptism of | fire and blood in the service of the
 Master.
 | I went to work in those days deter mined to do all Of Christs, WorS ana ts to
 do it at once and I have never since
 hesitated. who complain--Let the flood come let the fire rage, take the bitterness and the agony of soul, 1t is the place appointed by God and you ought to fill lit.
 1 gro the young men who are here to [ In Hrlna mt
 I say count the cost first and then go
 at 1t asy cheerfully and as cordially as | if if were to Court Street Church | (smiles,) You go cheerfully and hope tfulIy and bravely. There was no bun comb about the expression of the old
 fathers concerning the going cheer ! fully and bTavely."
 | Don't 20 to your appointment like a whipped spaniel saying to the world T
 have hard time" The world looks on the going of missionaries to Brazil China and Japan as a great sacrifice
 but they go, in the interest of the king dom of mammon--they are after fu- every home comfort for the sake of man and accommodating future
 Can't we do this much for the Lord Jesus Christ and the establishment of His Kingdom? Men perish in Alaska for, the sake of fortune. shall we do less for Christ? We want revival of the heroic in men, willing to sacri- flee every thing for the sake of the Kingdom of Christ
 I am not talking this morning, just for the sake of talking-Fd much rath- CT be lying down some where.
 Work now, while there Is work to do and if you are prepared the rest will come in Gods own good time.
 To come to second consideration Of our text. Some of the disciples com plained and found fault with the mother of the days and said what arc you and who are you that yOA should ask the best places of the master"
 They were jealous, envious and show ed k in that way I can't measure my words when 1 give expression to my feelings of the utter deteslation of tho conduct of those disciples,
 The Bishop stopped in his discourse to make a practical application of this thought to the spirit shown by some of his preachers. He spoke of the spirit of men to never give justice to the oth- CT man-yet, he is a good preacher, hut Yes he is a fine man, but'-al- ways the insinuacy. the damaging but" always discounting mans work by comparisons.
 If there is anything I detest on earth, 1t is that jealous, enVious spirit in my fellow man. and I am sorry to see 1t in any of my preachers" The man with such Nspirit. like Judas of old. ought to go out and hang him self
 "Oh. be brave, be honest, be generous and above board, and Nou will be as happy in Buck Creek circuit as at Court Street
 My admonition to you brothers, is to long for and prepare for the best places. God will give them to you when He is ready You must not eX- pect the Lord to qualify you, prepare the place for you and put you in 1t un- less you are capable and willing to he qualified and prepared.
 What SO ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" Is as true of you brothers as of anS old sinner, who drink liauor. l have seen men highly endowed with every opening and flne prospects utterly fail because of hard headiness and waiting to have their own way. Let me caution you on that point. make up your mind that you are going to take care of yourself and God will let you alone. Sometimes a man does this by locating himself .sonetimes by transfering-som by becoming secular. God is patient. long suffering. He lets you do these things and suffer the consequeEces.
 The Bishop closed his sermon with a beautiful touching tribute to the mothers who for the sake of her boys whom she loved better than herself dared to ask of God the very best that He had to give. even to the frs. pla"e on his right hand and the first place on his left hand in the Kingdom a Heaven.
 At the conclusion of the sermon the names of Chester F. Johnson, stone wall J Gibson. Frances NJ Lowry Fe- lix M. Wood. Caleb T. Martin, Charles C. WtlkersOn, were called and at tho Gcontinued on Page Ei~htA