The Penn's Grove record., 1906-03-16
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY StRMoN 81
DR.. c. l.. CoODELL.
Subject: "The Carpenters Son."

New York City.-Calv&ry 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 adj
hitting 365 members. Sunday norm
ing more than $50 were : ceived into
the church, and these, added to the
fifty taken in at the January com
munion, make 3 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
ingathering: 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. Our 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 it
placed Calvary Church at the head of
Methodism N Point of membership.
Calvary now has a few more than
2400 members on its roll. Since DR..
Goodell 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 600 came on probation.
The churcn seats 2200 a ID every Sun
day night all seats are filed 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 fif-
teen denominations represented by
those who came by letter.
About 1900 persons took communion
in the morning, Bishop L. G. Andrews,
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 "The Carpenters Son."
The text was from Matthew xiii:35:
SIS 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-
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,
"So!' and walk out. Find a place
where a carpenter is now making an
OK bow or a poor mans table and it
will be. like what He knew, for the
men of Nazareth are like all their kin
in the East; they change not in a thou
sand years. / like to think that for
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
ways of a laborer.
His trade He piled, a carpenter, and built
Doors, where folks come and go, unto this
hour,
Not voting how the hands which wrought
their doors
Unbarred Deaths gate by Loves high
Tables whereon 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 60
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 tc
Him
Nigh unto us, albeit we see it not,
Whereof Life is the curtain, n mute
Death
Herald and Doorkeeper.
Nazareth was a town in which t.
talk with God. The great plain before
it had felt His thunderous foot. There
was Carmel. where Elijah talked with
God, in plain sight. There was Jezree
of Ahab and Jezebel. There was Eu'
dor and Saul and the witch. There
was Tabor, lone and majestic, near a
hand, and Hermon far to the north
J handicapped and snow-peaked, while
/ to the East, hidden behind a doZeI
miles of hill and dale, vas the sea o.
Galilee-mother of sermon and of mir
acles. In Nazareth He found the il
Illustrations which make so large a par
of His sermons. There was q grea'
day of moil and toll before Film, ant
here in the cool of the morning HI
must store up the reserve that viii
take Him on to awful noon at Jerusa
lem. 1t takes a great soul to bide hi:
time-to get ready for a great act ant
be patient with the training and the
slow step of the years. To live will
God and in Him is the main thing aftel
all. He walked those cliffs with NJ
one to look at Him or to wonder a
Him-prayerful, masterful, patient
Was there eve a better example TO
ordinary people. 1t is good for The
burning fever of life to look at Him
The world is too much with US sooI
and late. Our home life is low an(
sordid. We fret under it. There arr
too many little things to do. Too mucl
of on ne and too little of outlook
What are we saying? Look at Him
Poverty? Yes. Toll? Yes. Did the!
who saw Him appreciate Him? w,
shall see; who was it said: rs no
this the arpenter's SOM" and how
did they say it? 1t was a taunt ant
a sheer. You know now low He cam,
to say, "A prophet is not withou
honor save in his own country"
The very men whose houses He haC
built were ready to stone Him t.
death. 1t has often been so. The mel
who have built the houses that tn,
worlds thought lives in to-day were
most of them buried in ignOminiou'
graves. Very likely the men you serv'
may throw stones at you from tht
vintage ground where you put them
but it will be no new thing, so keel
sweet about it. He could afford t
wait. His carpenter bench would We
be holy because He worked at it, ant
the tools He handled would be hell
at The price Of a kings ransom.
His is the gospel Ct the mechanic
He fitted Himself at a carpenter
bench to say, Come unto Me all y,
that labor and are heavy laden and
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