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V THE TULT1T. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON B'i DR. C. L. COODELL. Subject: " The Carpenter's Son.'* New Tork City.?Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church of Harlem, through the effectiveness of the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Charles l,. Goodell. is growing in an unparalleled way. Last February, as the result of revival services for the month of January, he broke all city church records by admitting 365 members. Sunday morn* ing more than 350 were ;: ceived into the church, and these, added to the fifty taken in at the January communion, make a total of more than 400 admissions as a result of four weeks of revival services. Dr. Goodell gave this a? 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? It is consecration, prayer and hard work. All three are needed in about equal parts. Or.r 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 in point of membership. Calvary now has a few more than 2400 members on its roll. Since Dr. Goodell has been at Calvary, twentyone months, ther. has been a net gain of 1000 members, or about seventyfive :*er cent. Of these new members mere than 600 came on probation. The churcn seats 2200 a ;d every Sunday night all seats are filled early. At some of the special services many chairs had to be brought in and the altar space filled, and then scores could not find seats. Sunday there were fifteen denominations represented by those who came by letter. About 1500 persons took communion in the morning. Bishop L. G. Andrews, * of Brooklyn; the Rev. Dr. Frank Mason North, of the City Mission, and Tract Society of New York City, and e Mr, Williams, the assistaut pastor, and officers of the church assisting. In the afternoon about 500 more were communed. In the evening Dr. Goodell preached on "The Carpenter's Son." The text was from Matthew xiii:35: "Is this not the carpenter's son?" 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 Shakspeare; 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 carpenter 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* ox bow or a poor man's table and it will be like what He knew, for the men of Nazareth are like all their kin Jn the East; they change not in a thousand years. I like to think that for > thirty years Jesus knew the narrow Tways or a laoorer. i His trade He plied, a carpenter, and built - Doors, where tolks come and go, unto this hour, Not wotting how the hands which wrought their doors - Unbarred Death's gate by Love's high "a sacrifice? Tables whereon folks set their meat, and ? eati Heedless'- of Who was "Bread of Life" and gave Such food that whoso eateth hungereth not. And, in those little lanes of Nazareth, Each morn His holy feet would come and go While He bore planks and beams, whose back must bear The cruel cross. And, then, at evening's fall, Resting from labor, with those patient feet Deep m white wood dust, and the long curled shreds Shorn by His plane?He would turn innot cent eyes Gazing far past the sunset to that world He came from, and must go to; nigh to Him? Nigh unto us, albeit we see it not, Whereof Life is the curtain, and mute Death TT 1 J I T\ 1 neraiU duu x?uui Kccpci. Nazareth was a town in which to 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 Jezreel of Ahab and Jezebel. There was Eu- ( dor and Saul and the witch. There was Tabor, lone and majestic, near at hand, and Herinon far to the north, cloud-capped and snow-peaked, while to the East, hidden behind a dozen , miles of .nill and dale, was the sea of # Galilee?mother of sermon and of miracles. In Nazareth He found the illustrations which make so large a part of His sermons. There was a great day of moil and toil before Him, and here in the cool of the morning He must store up the reserve that will take Him on to awful noon at Jerusalem. It takes a sreat soul to bide his : time?to get ready for a great act and j be patient with the training and the ; slow step of the years. To live with God and in Him is the main thing after all. He walked those cliffs with no one to look at Him or to wonder at Him?prayerful, masterful, patient. . Was there ever a better example for . ordinary people. It is good for the ; burning fever of life to look at Him. The world is too much Avith us soon . and late. Our home life is Ioav and ; sordid. We fret under it. There are | .too many little things to do. Too much of on ne and too little of outlook, j What are Ave saying? Look at Him. Poverty? Yes. Toil? l'es. Did they ' ,who saw Him appreciate Him? Wc 1 shall see; Avho was it said: "Is not . this the varpenter's sou?" and how did they say it? It was a taunt and ' a sneer. You know now liow He came to say. "A prophet is not without honor save in his oAvn country." The A-ery men whose houses He had ; hnilt -vvpi-p rp.-ulv to stone Him to death. It has often been so. The men ' who have built the houses that the ; world's thought lives in to-day were : most of them buried in ignominious ! graves. Very likely the men you serve ' may throw stones at you from the : vintage ground where you put them, but it will be no new thing, so keep sweet anout lr. lie eou.d :iuoru to wait. His carpenter ber.ti; would yet : be because lie worked at it, and ' * the tools He handled "would he lieia ar iLe price cf a king's ransom. His is the gospel cf the mechanic. He fitted Himself at a carpenter's bench to say, "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and 1 will give you rest." He had no sympathy either with the man who wants more work than he pays for or the man who warns mo:^ pay than he works for. I want you to see from this lire that great deeds should go along with common life, making it sublime. When you read of the great economies that had to be practiced in the homes of such men as Phelps and Alcott. Hawthorne and Emerson, ycu realize the flrtrnntasre of nlnin living and high thinking. There is too much, high liviug and meagre thinking. The struggle after a more sumptuous life than we can afford takes the strength out of us. and if we get it it takes the nerve for toil and self-denial, which are only other names for victory, away from us. Our impatience takes away our capacity and love for toil, and we are miserable and useless. Be happy in a humble home. You will never have to live so cheaply as did Jesus. Then make up your miud to work. Jesus the Carpenter taught us the dignitv of toll. He made the saw and the plane as truly the ensign of a noble life as the fasces or the toga of the Roman. There is an evangel of toil. The shuttle and the hoe, the saw and the reaper have a message which the world must hear. The workers make life glorious, the shirkers make it detestable. "My father worketh hitherto and I work" was the challenge of the Christ to every indolent and careless soul. Virgil sings of men and arms, but the song of to-day is a song of men and tools. I have a Saviour who wrought the hot day through. I can taik with Him of quivering palm and throbbing limbs and a fainting heart and He will know. You cannot imagine Him as making a poor joint or allowing a bad knot in an important place. To meet your ideal, and that an ideal which He has founded by His own character, you will take nothing less than a honest attempt at a perfect product. The desire to slight one's work will lead to a compromise of character, and that will lead to the loss of the soul. It is not the work but the spirit you put into it which makes the task ignoble or sublime. I would have every man step to his work to-morrow without dread or envy. I would have him feel that Jesus the Carpenter was the great model, and that if He could fit Himself for the conquest cf the world at a carpenter's bench any laborer may feel himself surrounded with glorious hopes and his dingy little shop become the habitat of angels. Paul stitching tents thought out those wonderful chapters of spiritual logic which move the world. Carey, the shoemaker, thought out the plan of giving the Bible to the Hindoos. Morrison, the last-maker, gave the gospel to China. Burrett, the blacksmith, became the most learned workman of his day. Daily humble life lived on high levels?this is the happy possibility of common men. What high discourse there must have been in that humble home when the day's work was over; what acts of affection, what mutual confidences and holv trust! But He who made lintels for the doors of Nazareth set up also the gates of the eternal city of God. He who made humble houses for the common people of His native town was the Artificer of* the eternal home of the soul. It was not a figure of His imagination when He pictures the unsafe foundation and the awful ruin of that unsecure house. He had seen the torrent rush down the chalk cliffs of Nazareth and sweep away the houses of His fellow craftsmen. Small wonder that He looked upon that ruin from the standpoint of a careful builder. AAttrtArtfot* i>UL ?Jitrii iliej uiu>c we laipcuiu from His bench at Nazareth He went out to build for eternity. I "want to ask you to give your contract for an eternal mansion to Jesus the Carpenter. As a wise master builder. He asks you to count the cost. Are you ready to build? Are you willing to pay for a good foundation and will the superstructure you rear be a sacred one? He will not countenance the ornamentations that hide the lack of solid worth. He will have no part in the consummate fraud of a life that is built on the sand. He will not build with hay and stubble. If it were a house to sell it might be out of your sight, but he r me when I say it is the house you are to live in forever. If taere is a flaw in :t you will find it out. If when the winds blow and the floods come it falls you will go down in the ruin. Yes.erday a man gaspin.. for breath said "I am almost ashamed,to ask God to have mercy ou me when I ignored Him for three score years," and you will feel the same. To leave ycu in old age to the mercy of the wintry blasts would be cruel,-but the man who shirks in the building of his soul's tabernacle does that for himself. Only Jesus knows how to build for eternity. The old Romans were great builders, of roads and bridges, and the old Egyptians were great builders of pyramids, but I want somebody who can build a house for the soul that will outlast pyramids and stars. No man savf Jesus can have my contract. Poirer of Sacrifice. John Henry, while a divinity student, went through a tempest that most oaring seamen c._ not dare face, and brought ashore seven sailors from a wrecked boat. The strain was such that, though he lived to finish his studies, he tad scarcely taken up the work :>f a parish when death summmoned him c ay. The crowds tnat came to bis funeral were so large that the window of the church was removed and a platform erected whu-e those within the church and the masses of humanity without could hear the words of Lord Chalmers. Kneel in your closet ami say. "O God! I have not known Thee: deign to reveal Thyself to me; Teach me to love and obey Thee; by all Thy goodness, ob. forgive my wanderings, and let me feel the tranquillity of a life hid in Thy blessedness." Such petitions will not he unheard, nor fail to bring down answers of growing fulfilment.?William Alger. I It takes as much grace to make a fninf /lilt r\ f 1 Ol"! l'ivca -1 C ir itftllS fn * 11 i i_i L VUl V*. ?* * iiin i--y v *?"J ? IV I make one cut of a publican I Ssmitic Worship. Professor Flinders-Petrie, the famous English archaeologist, tells cf his recent discoveries at Sinai where Egyptian sculptures older than any in Egypt have been discovered and temples found, shewing that the Egyptians adopted the Semitic form of worship. "We see," he says, "that the Egyptians here had adopted the Semitic worship in many points that we can trace?the burnt sacrifices cn the high place, the courts of ablutions in the temple, the altars of incense in the shrine, ami the pilgrim stones, or Bethels, recording visits to the goddess, with the later provision of artificial caves for would-be dreamers at the shrine?all these show how careful the Egyptian was here to worship after the manner of the god of the country." "And this has its further value to us as the oldest example of the SySfmm nt Qamitip n-nreViin far fllir VTA. ly>VmAtAV ?T v?? <-m* y w knowledge of that has rested on allusions in the Old Testament, many of which we could not infer to be general to Semites at an early date, and also the stray references to Arab customs in "the time of the ignorance" before Mohammed. 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