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????? ???? , THE-PULPIT * ????~ > AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY !. 'B'SHOP C. McOABE. I"* . ;7_ * Sultfeet: God's Little Oftcs.Brooklyn, N. Y.?Bishop C. C. Mc| Cabe preached in the Hanson Place ' M. E. Church Sunday morning. The -Bey. Charles E. Locke, the pastor, conducted the service. Bishop McCabe i chose for his subject "God's Little f v*Qnes," and preached from the text Isaiah kr:22: "And a little one shall became a thousand and a small one a "Strong nation., I, the Lord, hath saidv4t, in bis time." He said: >'-V There are two thoughts that claim Vdur attention as we study this text ..One is the kind of workers God chooses j do His greatest work in this world? little ones; and. second, the possible < rapidity with which- God's work may > go" forward in this ?world. * God ^fchoesas the lowly to tto His great work. b&tery: of the Vprld 'never' yet; ; jfiasi been-t fairly written. * We know /what the great have done, we know f&hat kings and emperors and generals 'and philosophers and poets and inven'^tors hare done, but the Macauley has t*?ot yet arisen to trace out in history j Vhat God's little ones haTe done, yet J; Hie history of the world cannot be falrT [!-)y written without telling the story fcf their lives, because tbey have done '^jso much for the world, and what othhave done would, have"; been in 'ffain had ;it not hcen for; what God's c&ttle ones have accomplished. He "wl 8ath< respect "ftynto the Jowly, hut the proud He ^^noweth afar off." He loves the lowly Vheart that trusts in Him. What an impediment to Christian work is pride! We cannot build up a strong Chrisj. tjan character without humility. Humility comes from the Latin word "hummus,". which means. "the ground" ? . the ground on which to build a strong ' /.Christian character. Its corner stone 'lind foundation stone must be humility, /and if the chai-cter lack that grace. < It will not stand the test of time and temptation; but, with humility, the ^Christian character may be built up 'with a symmetry and universalness .that will endure through life and eter: nlty. What do you think of this pas' sage? "I, the high and lofty one that 4nhabiteth eternity, I will dwell in the - high and holy places with him also f that Is of a contrite and humble spiri it" God chooses as His associates the i humble and the contrite. , ' Our ixird carried on His work after the same plan. He chose the humbje and lowly workers and sent them out * /.to preach His gospel. And one day "they came back to Him surprised and doiicrhtod with thpir prnerienee. and r , they said: - "Master, even the devils tire sdbject to us in Thy name," and .?> it is written, that at that time Jesus |: ' .rejoiced in'spirit and said: "Father, I thank Thee because Thou hast hidden these things, from the wise and pruv dent and hast revealed them unto C babes. Even so. Father, for so it ^ ' . neemeth good in Thy sight." Paul unit. - dersfood this well when he wrote to the Corinthians: "Xot may wise men after the fleysh.. not many mighty, not . many noble are called; hut God hath ?? chosen the foolish J things of the world if s to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world - to confound the things which are ) . mighty, and the base things of the f world and things which are despised V-: hath God chosen; yea, and things - which are not to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should .glory in His presence." How low He gets it Gown: 'in at nas ax ways oeen God's plan, even before the time when r tiie babe etope ta.the manger in Beth. > Jehem. Jeans bom. in Bethlehem in .y, , Judea?that little, lowly one was God's answer <io the world's cry for help r and light It was a little added weak* * : . nessto that we had already, poverty added to the poverty we had already; ; it was an infant's wail added to what ' Paul calls the "groan of creation." That was God's way of answering man. I will jest call yonr attention to the possible rapldty with which the king* \ dom of God can grow in this world, "a v little one becoming a thousand." That is a tremendous rate of gain; it seems as if it could net be so. We say y" ' Isaiah was a poet; a mystical 'man and 4 exaggerated sometimes, but this is no a; exageration. It has often been the ' . case. Yea, a small one has become a nation in the history of the onward * march of the. kingdom of Jesus Christ, our Lord. I believe that God wants . vHis kingdom to grow rapidly, and I ' think* that was the spirit of Jesus , when He told His disciples the para* ble of tbq talents. On another occasion He gave them anothfr parable of the rich man who before going away gave each of his servant a pound and on his return required his own with usury. One man said; "Lord, Thy pound hath gained ten pounds." That was a big percentage of Interest And another said: "Lord, Thy pound hath gained five pounds.". That was a good percentage, and Jesus said: "The kingdom of heaven is like that" That is the way invested lives may grow; that is the way life, no matter how humble, may grow; -that is consecration. That is the teaching of these two parable's. Now these are commercial figures. Trfki- nil take them into the licrht and try to understand them. In the parable the master speaks of three rates of gain. When the man who had five talents brought five more he was worth 100 per cent, to his master, and he who had two and brought two more was also worth 100 per cent, to his master, but when the man who had only one pound brought five pounds more he was worth 500 per cent, to his master, and the man whose one pound had gained ten pounds was worth 1000 per cent, to his master; and Jesus said: "The kingdom of heaven is like that." All those rates of gain are possible in the kingdom of heaven. We cannot receive it right off. Let us try to comprehend the Master's meaning. Six per cent.?we know all about ! < that?will do wonders if we will only give. it a little time. In 162Q the island of Manhattan was bought by the white man from the In?4ians for $24, which is an insignifi-; cant sum. Yes, but put it out at inter- i est at six per cent and add interest! to interest and let it grow for 2S5 ; years and how much would you have j then? The $24 would then Lave in-1 creased to $192,000,000. and that is the \ ^way .tb& kingdom of heaven ought to grow. And If you keep that money out at interest for 450 years it will be able to buy Manhattan Island with; all there is on It, and then there will' be-enough left to buy every State in the Union, and then there will still be enough left to buy Great Britain. And If left out at interest for 500 years; there would be enough to buy the United States, England and Germany. And the Master said: "The kingdom of heaven is like that" and that is the way it ought to grow, and that is the way it would grow if we would simply keep the idea of the power and compound spiritual interest of the church of God. If you kept out the S24 with interest added to interest for 600 years +-V?/v trni-ld Sir HPT* it nvuiu wicvn. un: ?>vi>u, ~? r ? cent! That is ent-Irely too small a rate of gain to suit my soul. What does it mean? It means this: That here is the church of 100 members instrumental in the conversion of six souls to Christ in a year. I would not be satisfied .with that rate at all. One hundred per cent is the least rate of . gain j that any Christian church pught to think worthy of the kingdom of God. The bells of the millennium would be ringing before we cued if we only would keep our soul winning for a few i years. It is not difficult to win a soul, j I have been trying to work out this | problem for years?trying to "be worth s something for Jesus. One night I arrived at New Haven, Conn., and took a hack at midnight to the bouse w lie re I was to stay. When the hackman asked for his fare I dropped a quarter I into his hand, and, grasping* it, said: "Good night, sir! I hope to meet you in glory sofne day." He jumped on the box, whirled his horse around, and was gone. I did hot expect to see him again. Away after midnight-my host knocked at my chamber door and said: "A hackman Js here, acting queerly. He says he wants to see you and ias. got to see you to-night." I said: "Let him come in." I arose and threw a shawl over me, and in came a great stalwart hackman with his whip in his hand and tears running down his | cheeks and.he said: "If I meet you in glory I have got to turn around, for I Am not going that way. I have come to ask you to pray for me. I could not keep away." What a joy it was to pray for that man! He went out comforted by God's holy spirit, and I believe, I was worth 100 per cent to my Master that night The ;mssible growth of the kingdom is what I am talking about In 1865. when the war was over, I was on a train going from Lancaster, Ohio, and saw a drunken soldier sitting by himself. Nobody would sit by a drunken soldier, but that is the very kind of? man I like to sit by. I sat down by him and by and by stole my arm gently around his neck and whispered to him: "Comrade, when are you going, to give your heart to Jesus Christ and be a Christian?" He looked embarrassed and got up and went to. another part of the train. I thought11 had offended him. I went that night to preach in the little town of Putnam, where I once was pastor, and there sat that man and his sister beside him. We had a glorious meeting that, night. I did not 6ee him again for thirty-five'years, but one night I was auout to speak to the Grand Army in the old Dutch Church on Fifth avenue. There were 1800 soldiers there. A splendid looking man came down the aisle and I said to a gentleman: "Who is that man?" and he said: "That is Coionel Hadley, the head of the St Bartholomew Mission. He has been instrumental in planting fifty-four fescue missions in this.country." I"went down, and said: "Brother Hadley, I am glad to see you. I have heard about your work, but I never saw you before." "Oh, yes' you have," he replied. "Thirty-five years ago I was sitting on a train ana you came and sat down by me and wanted to know when I was going to be a Christian and give my heart to God. I never got over that question. You have seen me before." I believe it Is possible for every Christian to gain over 100 per cent for our blessed Lord every year. There are souls that are worth a thousand per cent. There was that noble woman in the Epworth Rectory with her nineteen children. Do you know she adopted five orphans besides?twenty-four altogether?and her husband was a preacher. (Laughter). Surely the invested life of Susanna Wesley was worth more than 1000 per cent The bishop then reviewed at some length the progress of Methodism since the first conference in 1773, particularly in Ohio. He then spoke of the work in'Russia, where there are now 2,000,000 converts, and liberty to worship according to conscience, and then said: There will come a time when God Himself will get in a hurry and when He will say, "The earth has wept long enough. There has been enough war, enough trouble," and when He will hasten on the kingdom and bring it quickly. I think He will hasten when we hasten. Oh, brothers, let us hurry thii (TAenetl I ' tTAUi UA& ^VOj/V*? After an urgent appeal for Increased subscriptions to missionary work. Bishop McCabe concluded bis sermon as folldws: Brothers, your children will see this world converted. In a great meeting the other day we sent this message to Theodore Roosevelt: "We are looking to you to bring about a movement for universal arbitration." -I find twenty-one nations have asked him to take the initiative, and your children will live to see the day when war will be no more, and when that happens we. who have believed it all the time, will say, "I told you so." There are two kinds of raith, one that believes before a thing happens, and the other after. What ~md have you? I thank God 1 believe it now before it happens. I believe the whole earth going to be converted. The time is coming when no man will have to say to his neighbor, "Know the Lord." And the time is coming when "the glory of the Lord shall fill the earth as the waters cover the sea." May He hasten it in Hh time. All Light. The difference between receiving the Spirit and being filled with the Spirit is a difference not of a kind, but of a degree. In one case the light of " 1 1 rifh\ en lias teavjueu ujc uaia cuaiuuci, disturbing night, but leaving some deep shadows. In the other, that light has filled the whole chamber and made every corner light.?William Arthur DUBBED "SPECULATORS" Southern Cotton Growers Attackea By Lovering?Protest Made Against Bureau Estimates. Mr. Lovering of Massachusetts, who is said to be the largest buyer, or. cotton for manufacture in the country, is preparing to resist the efforts 01 southerners to prevent adoption of his resolution calling for a new estimate of this season's cotton crop. He talked with Chairman Wadsworui of the committee on agriculture, Wednesday, with a view to securing an early hearing for his measure. "I believe that the whole system 01 government estimates is bad," he saiu Wednesday night." "It Is bad lor the manufacturer, who is the legitimate purchase^ of cotton, and in Mew England it isTespoclaily bad for the operatives whose wage scald- is based on the margin between the market price f raw cottcto. and the selling price 01 prints. J . \ "Following the December estimate -of the department of agriculture, tixtoe was a jump in the price'of cotton 'which entirely wiped out this .margin and the mill operatives are direct sufferers. As I have pointed but in my- resolution, the subsequent report of cotton actually ginned to De cember 1 showed larger totals dor several of the important cotton states than the 'entire estimates lor those states issued by Secretary Wilson s department, and this in spite ol tne fact that in all of those states December is a good month for ginning, and the reports from those states show considerable cotton not yet ginned. .. ... "These census bureau figures unquestionably show the department 01 agriculture's estimate to have been an underestimate. ' "I believe it to be the first duty of the* government to protect thfe legitimate buyer, not the speculator. "To a very great extent tn'e opposition of the southern growers may be attributed to the fact that they, or most of them, are speculators in cotton; the cotton manufacturers ol flew England are buyers for legitimate uses, not for speculation.* Representative Lovering's resolution introduced in the house has called forth a number of protests from southern members. The Charlotte, N. C., cotton exchange board of trade sent the fol lowing communication to Represents tive Webb of North Carolina: ' "We wish to protest against an? further estimates by the argriculturaJ bureau this season, as they tend to upset business conditions, and ash that you use your influence to defeat any resolution introduced for thk purpose." The Charlotte Bonded Warehouse company sent Mr. Webb this telegram: \ "Note proposed new department eotton estimate January 10, estimates of Miss Giles, Times-Democrat and department ran together. Census not yet proved them incorrect. Business has been blocked .all season by reports and resulting fluctuations. 11 neiw estimate by department is ordered all business will be held up until the now report and its effect is over." _ David Clark of Raleigh, N. C.; R. M. Miller, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C., and other cotton manufacturers also have protested to North Carolina members of congress. STRIKERS GET CONCESSIONS. Engineers and Firemen Return ito Work on A. & B. Railroad. The engineers' and firemen's strike on the Atlantic and Birmingham railroad was called off Wednesday night and all the striking engineers and firemen will take their former places at once. George D. Wadley, vice president and general manager, offered to make certain concessions and the engineers also made concessions from their original claims. The advance in pay for the engineers is from $3.50 to $4 a day. The firemen, who have been getting $1.50, are to receive $2. BLOODY RIOTS IN RIGA. til Collisions Between Workmen and Troops Machine Guns Are Used. Latest advices from Russia stati that it seems to be beyond question that bloody collisions have occurred "ictwecn troops and the united peasantry and workmen in the streets cf Riga (luring which machine gnnswere used. Ihe situation is most serious in the country, which is practically abandoned to the revolutionary bands, owing to concentration of the troops in ci^ Vss and towns. TYPOTHETAE WINS DECISION. Court Protects Richmond Printing Firms from Molestation. The supreme court of appeals of Virginia lias allowed an appeal in the case of the Typothetae, or employing printers of Richmond against the striking job printers. 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