The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-10
BISHOP DUNCAN TALKS
 OF DUTIES OF MINISTER'S

f patience of his congregation for be- cause of his feebleness he questioned the wisdom of attempting to preach, as. at that time, he was suffering with his throat.
 Bishop Duncan took as his text Mat thew, xx, 20, ~"Then came to Him the mother of zebedee's children" In part the Bishop said:
 The plans and purposes of the am bilious mother of James and John are misunderstood by many people She was not actuated wholly by ambition, or aetuated wholly by carnal things. of thinking entirely of the temporal condition of her boys. Blessed are the boys who have such a mother; blessed are the young men who have such a mother to make intercession for them"
 The mother of the disciples of Jesus asked for the best places for her boys in the kingdom--she asked for the sec ond and third place and the good wo- man has been unjustly criticised No one has the right to say that she was wrong. Her course was justified by the control. by the history of those boys in the days that followed when they proved by their faithfulness their right for much intercession. She want cd the best that Christ could give and was willing that to obtain that best that her boys should follow the Mas ter even to tho death.
 She wanted the best that Christ could give. She wanted her boys to be near to Him in the Kingdom; wanted them to be where they could feel Christs hand upon them.
 l ninsist upon it--it was a holy ann bition which, actuated this good mo- ther and her sons. and they were to be commended for their ambition and their plans to obtain it.
 would to God all mothers would plan and purpose for the best places and the best in everything and not be willing to accept secondary place in anything. There are places prepar- ed in the Kingdom of our Lord for all men--Not all of the places are conspic- uous and prominent. and such places are not always given to those who seek prominence among men.
 The great places prepared by God are won by sacrifice and suffering, but any place prepared of the Lord Is great have no sympathy or toler- anee for the man who whnes or com plains because according to the human standard. lis place is mol as high as his neighbors or his brothers. If the man Is not ready for the place, he deserves no place or no con-
 
 he must become the servant To me the grandest scene pictured in the life Of our Savior was not when he stood in the ship as 1t rolled and tossed, with the mighty swell of the .tempestuouE sen, and held out his hands saving. Peace be sttll'; itswas not when at the tomb of Lazarus he stood with the weeping sisters and demanded the dead te come forth, but when, 5ins that ups l .I,nYn t.t - he girded himself about with towel and sat down and served them.
 Only God who could make a world could afford to give such an example, an example which has converted and reYolvA AioniEed a world. He was great eEpugh to do the humbiest thing, yet, by reason of ability, assumed power and supremacy over all things. Now, nay brethren. what ever place God ap- points. take 1t and if it be not glo- rious epoughein your estimation, make It great and glorious enough for an angel te occupy. .s~ 59a
 pfg Big Places UnnIIed.
 Many men are sent to big places and never fill them---they simply "rattle around" make a great noise, let the Newspapers talk about them, and then die where they ought never to have | lived
 Just before Conference a certain preacher wrote me a long letter, sever al pages, saying, "give me such and such place, and so and so much