Evening journal., 1908-03-23
BISHOP SPEAKS
TO GREAT CROWD
ASbury Church Never Held a
Larger Audience Than
Yesterday
breaches OF GODS CALL


larger crowd than yesterday morning,
when Bishop Daniel A. Goodaell
preached. While the auditorium and
every available foot OF space within
range Of the Bishops voice was oc-
cupied. and an overflow meeting that
nearly filed the Sunday school hall was
conducted IN the Sunday school room
by the Rev. DR. r. III. Adams and the
Rev II. A. G.. Westerheld. The event.
ful days services began with love-
feast at o'clock in charge Of the Rev.
r. y. Martindale, In which scores Of
persons gave Christian testimony In
order 70 obtain seatings persons came
long before o'clock and remained
until after 12 O'clock when the morn
ing services closed. The lovefeast con-
tinued until 1890 o'clock.
AS preliminary to the preaching
service the Asbury choir under the
direction of James I. Cooper. organist,
sang Gounoud's "Send out the Light
and Miss Helen Gilmore. OF Baltimore,
sang as the offertory "Noar the Great
White Throne"
Bishop Goodseil took his text from
the eighth verse Of the third chapter
Of Genesis, "And they heard the voice
Of the Lord God" The Bishop said his
use Of the text was inspired by an
article written by Robert Ingerson, to
the effect that the Bible was too human
and therefore too unworthy to be re-
garded as inspired.
81 Thought what difference the
standpoint from which this Is viewed
Il makes" commented the Bishop. IF
truth is 10 have any effect on the
/ human heart It must be put in an
understandable way. If l was to at
tempt TO define God by taking all the
theological adjectives and say He Is
/ ubiuitous. omnlscient, omnipresent.
and then add the definition of Matthew
/ Arnold. how many would understand
/ the meaning Of all the words. You
must use words all can understand.
preach the word In sincerity and with
simplicity TO get the fullest under
| standing.
IF one is spiritual he knows there
IS an inner voice that reaches the inner
ear. although there Is no sound TO the
outer ear. Every true, Christian min
lister has heard Christs voice calling
him to His work All through our lives
God does call us. The trouble is not
with tile divine call: the trouble is
with our ears that we have dulled by
sin and can't hear the voice of God
Evangelist Moody said all books Of
the Bible are joined together by the
thread of sacrifice. I want TO call
your attention to another thread rum
ning through the books-that Christ Is
continually calling to His children
God called TO Adam No sooner had
sin come than Christ called them back
And in the last chapter OF the Biol'
are the words and the Spirit says
come It begins with n call and ends
with n call The Bible is a history OF
Gods search after His lost children.
I'm a general way what we live with
writes itself upon our faces There is
no temperament / have over known. nd
disposition / have ever experienced
that IS not set forth I'm the Bible for
our Illustration that we may see our
selves as in n mirror which God has
provided I'm working out our salvation
Gods holy spirit Is forever playing
upon our personalities so that God
may call us to Himself and ally us to
His power" The Bishop drew lessons
from the achievements of Moses, Elijah
and David who answered the divine
call while living in the country "fou
ministers who have country charges
should remember that the great poets
philosophers, discoverers lived In the
country surrounded by evidences OF
Gods greatest and broadest powers
remarked the Bishop. "The poet ol
the city writes poems about miladi'
eyebrows; the poet Of the ecountrywrite'
Of the beauties Of Gods powers, OF
thunderstorms. Of the maiesties ~ ma
ture The city is a veritable Moloch
when God sees there is enough II
a man or woman 10 adapt them 20 His
work He calls after them in a way they
will understand. God does greal
things silently We do great things
with noise. II a man should contrac
to raise the great Brooklyn bridge two
inches, what would he do7 He wo'lt
gather thousands of men and with
great noise proceed 10 raise the bridge
Yet God every night sends the cool nii
that raises that bridge more than tw'
inches and in the day tiuo He sendi
III the Sulthilc lilhA Hsb'A ANf -t
bridge, silently aud without noise. Th'
force Of the Holy Spirit is silen
force in the human heart
when jeremiah received the com
mand Go and preach he replied =
am but n child Who mas not felt tha
! he was but child when commanded
. bv God 10 do great things. Who hal
{ ever tried to comprehend the gospe
. and preach il 20 men without harkinl
? back and saying who is sufficient e
preach these things AS children W.
are weak. but our strength is Of tn
, Lord
"There are evils so gigantic, lik'
those YOU hovr teen attacking here 10y
. your voices and your votes that tak
wears 10 overcome But they are gcinl
kbecause someone somewhere heard tn
voice Of God 10 go forward an'
! conquer them.
= THAT which God does by His cal
: TO individuals He also does for tribe
= and nationalitios The miracle is tha
t the Jews in the early times. surrounds
| ias they were by idolatry stood faithful
= to God. Around them were the wors
= forms Of idolatry that knew a. hundre
gods. but stood steadfast tie Jew
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