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AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
!. 'B'SHOP C. McOABE.
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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. The effect of the
supeisedeas is to make operative the
Injunctiou first granted by Judge Grinnan,
restraining the strikers from talking
to men coming to the city with a
view of inducing theni to quit work
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