The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-20
BISHOPS SERMON
AND LOVE FEAST
At FIRST CHURCH
FILLED TO OVERLOOKING AT
EACH SERvICE-MANY
FRAN A DISTANCE.
Bishop Flags Modern Social Practice.
-Infideity gets Rap and the Dis
course Filled With Numerous
Flights of Eloquence.

The love feast at the First Metho.
dist church Sunday morning began
promptly at 9 o'clock. Immediately
following the administration of the
sacrament the ushers were instructed
to allow no person in the aisles dur
ing the time of hearing the testimo
malls.
That venerable minister, Rev. j. w.
Cullum presided over the meeting
and was the first to speak in testimo
ny for the Master. He was followed
by DR.. Dinwiddie, S. M. Cherry, John
A. McFerrin and number of others
who have spent larger portion OF
their lives in the ministry of the
Methodist church. Many of those
who spoke were feeble in frame anG
weak in voice, yet declaring them
SELVES strong in the faith that upheld
them in the work, expressed grave
doubts of ever being able to attend
another Tennessee Conference
Among those who were heard were
Mabry and Felix Coleman, of Win
chester, and Evangelist Joe Ramsey
all of whom were blind. One who
had been in the ministry forty-siX
years doubted that he would ever at
tend another conference, but said
that he had mo greater JOY than to
know that my children walk in truth
DR.. Haggard gave a testimony OF
his appreciation of the help he had
received from DR.. Dinwiddie.
The meeting closed by Rev, j. w
Cullum singing 81 Want to Go There,
Don't You?" The congregation Join
ed in the chorus. And as his voice
trembling with age, though mellowed
with love for the Savior, carried the
words of the song clear and distinct
to the audience, it created an intensi-
fed yearning in the heart of almost
every individual in that great throng
The great crowd that assembled to
hear the Bishops sermon expected
much and it was In no wise disap-
pointed.
The scripture reading was the first
Psalm and from the first chapter OF
St. John, and the text was the first
four verses of the third chapter OF
Colossians. The theme for the dis
course was discovered in the last
clause of the third verse OF the text
"Your life is hid with Christ in Cod"
The Bishop first gave his attention
to the attempts Of infidelity to decry
and belittle the risen Christ. And
yet" said he, "infidels appeal to Gods
handiwork to disprove his existence.
Infidelity has never been lacking in
conceit, and in no case has that con-
ceit been more brazen than in the as
sumption of q universal knowledge
of the universe. / deny that they
have such universal knowledge, ana
unless they have they have no right
to deny the divinity Of Christ They
assert q fxedness Of nature, and ! 90
ny It. I have had my shoes shiAsd
By electricity and then the God OF
Homer became my bootblack. f1sxi
hility. adjustability and not fxedness
Is the law Of nature. We have been
able to hammer the ore from the
earth into great engines and to ami
hilats distance: We have been able to
put our hands into the mouth OF the
blazing storm and pluck therefrom
the power OF transportation, ana
transmitted 1t az . flaming light IN
the dark places; We have gathered
all the harmonies of the skies ana
translated them into the melody OF
song"
Speaking of the Savior he said'
"He came unto his own and they
knew him not. There was never
more severe arraignment OF ,snor-
cnce. Nature knew its Master and
the waters became adamant at HIS
touch and He walked thereon; dis
ease knew His presence and vanished
at His touch. But he was transng-
ured without setting the hills on nre'
He hung on the cross and made his
last word record of His fidelity 10
the Father"
Referring to the gospel he saih IL
vas miraculous because the eartn
was planned on the scale of the NIL
raculous, and that miracle Is NOT
an imposition on nature but an expo
.,t,on Of nature Our gospel is not
the gospel of d God, but the Cos
bel Of a living cod l am more con-
Tinced that the Fior made inc
lrrection and ascension tnan ain vi