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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: Prospects of the Church of England - a sermon - - -Author: Charles John Vaughan - - - -Release Date: November 14, 2020 [eBook #63763] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH OF -ENGLAND*** - - -Transcribed from the 1868 Bell and Daldy edition by David Price. - - - - - - _PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND_. - - - A SERMON - - PREACHED IN THE - - PARISH CHURCH OF DONCASTER, - - ON SUNDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1868, - - ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST OFFERTORY IN - LIEU OF A CHURCH-RATE. - - * * * * * - - BY - - C. J. VAUGHAN, D.D. - - VICAR OF DONCASTER. - - * * * * * - - _Published by Request_. - - * * * * * - - LONDON: - BELL AND DALDY, YORK STREET, - COVENT GARDEN. - 1868. - - - - -PREFACE. - - -THIS Sermon was preached in the common course of the Sunday Services, and -without any idea of its being noticed beyond the circle of its hearers. -As, however, the interest of the subject, far more, certainly, than -anything in its treatment, has called some attention to the Sermon since -its delivery, I have thought it right to comply with the request of some -respected members of the Congregation, and commit it to the chances of -publication. In so doing, I have made no attempt to supply its many -deficiencies, nor have I even removed from its opening sentences an -allusion to other Sermons of which it formed the continuation. - -DONCASTER, - _September_ 4, 1868. - - - - - - -A SERMON. - - - Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? - - 2 _Kings_ xii. 7. - -THE House is the Temple. We have travelled, therefore, from the north to -the south of Palestine, from the capital of Israel to the capital of -Judah. As soon as the two great prophets, Elijah and Elisha, are no -more, the interest of the story centres no longer in the kingdom of the -ten tribes: it reverts to the stock of David, and finds its latest gleam -of beauty and glory in the national reformations and personal pieties of -Hezekiah and Josiah. - -Elisha is not yet dead: but he has ceased to occupy the sacred page after -the anointing of Jehu, until he appears once more, and finally, in the -striking incidents of his death-bed and his grave. - -Meanwhile that Baal-worship which Jehu has extirpated in the north, has -found refuge in the southern realm, under the fostering patronage of a -daughter of the house of Ahab. Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, had married -a second Jezebel, in the person of her daughter Athaliah. Jehoram -reigned eight years, and was succeeded by his son Ahaziah, who perished, -as we read last Sunday, with his uncle Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of -Israel, under the hand of the avenging Jehu, the scourge of God. - -Then Athaliah, seeing that her son was dead, determined to reign for -herself. She was one of those masculine spirits, one of those heroines -of pride and crime, who can brook no puny, infant sovereigns; she could -not live to be ruled by a grandchild; and so she took the decisive step -of _destroying all the seed royal_, after which, it is said, _Athaliah_, -late the queen-mother, _did reign over the land_. - -But it is seldom, on this earth—which is still God’s, however much, at -certain times, the devil may claim it for his own—it is seldom, I say, -that crime is quite prosperous, quite thorough: something is forgotten in -every murder, which rises at last into a testimony; and some one, some -little babe perhaps, is overlooked in every massacre; there is a sister, -it may be, or an aunt—as it was here—whose heart yearns over that little -cradle, and who contrives to rescue its unconscious occupant to be the -heir of the throne and the avenger of the family. - -Such was King Joash; rescued by his aunt Jehosheba from her own mother’s -fury, and by her hidden, during six years of earliest childhood, in one -of the chambers of the Temple—for she was the wife of Jehoiada, the High -Priest. - -In his seventh year, there was a conspiracy, a revolution, and a -coronation. The little King was _shown_ to the people in the -temple-court, the crown was put upon him, the testimony (or book of the -law) was given him, he was made and he was anointed, and all the people -_clapped their hands_, _and said_, _God save the king_. And when the -usurping grandmother, attracted by the tumult, came upon the scene, with -the cry, _Treason_, _treason_! the High Priest _had her forth without the -ranges_; she was allowed to pass unmolested through the crowd and through -the guard, till she was outside the consecrated ground; and there she was -slain. - -This was the curious, memorable entrance of the little King Joash upon a -reign of forty years in Jerusalem. You can imagine how that scene must -have printed itself on his memory. It must have given a strange, a -solemn importance to the house of God, and all its belongings. The -recollection of that sudden command, given by the High Priest, his uncle, -preserver, and king-maker, _Have her forth without the ranges_, must have -written upon his heart an indelible impression of the sacredness of that -spot which could thus arrest revolution and make the most righteous doom -impious. You will not wonder, therefore, if his young thoughts were -first turned, as a Sovereign, to the wretched, the dilapidated state of -the Temple itself. It appears that, on the one hand, there were long, -careless arrears of temple income: people had grown indifferent to the -payment of their most unquestionable dues to the Altar and the -Priesthood: on the other hand, there was a positive as well as a negative -defalcation; for on that sacred height of Mount Zion there had arisen, -side by side with God’s Temple, a rival shrine of Baal; and the -idolatress Athaliah, with her creatures, seems to have taken from the one -to build the other: in short, the very foundation and wall-stones of the -Holy House had been gradually pillaged and carted away, and the House -itself stood a monument at once of modern shame and ancestral glory, -needing the builder’s hand to restore it to decency and even to safety. - -As for the vessels of the House—all those costly priceless treasures with -which the wealth and piety of king Solomon had filled it—they had gone, -bit by bit, to buy off the annoyances of powerful neighbours: King -Rehoboam, at the very outset of the schism, had given Shishak Solomon’s -shields of gold, and replaced them with pitiful shameful shields of -brass: it was too late, or too soon, to think of ornament—the present -question was one entirely of use and substantial repair. - -It seems that even the efforts and injunctions of the young King were for -many years ineffectual. In the twenty-third year of his reign the old -breaches were still unrepaired. It is astonishing—men would not believe -till they had tried it—how long it takes to re-awaken one slumbering -conscience, or indeed to make one desired work of reparation, be it never -so small—we see it ourselves at this moment in a side-chapel of this -Church—a fact accomplished. And so King Joash, stung to the soul by the -disappointment of his own good intentions, summons before him Jehoiada -the Priest, his own uncle and benefactor, and expostulates with him and -his brother-priests in the words of the text, _Why repair ye not the -breaches of the House_? - -And the result of it is, that, instead of leaving the money received for -this purpose in the unaccountable hands of the Priests, they have a chest -made, with a hole bored in the lid of it, and set beside the altar; and -the Priests are to put all the money which they receive into this chest; -and then they have a civil auditor, the King’s scribe, a sort of -Secretary of State, to act with the High Priest in counting and applying -the sums thus accumulated, and so it passes direct into the hands of the -carpenters and builders, and the work is done. - -My brethren, you will all perceive why I chose this text this evening, -when we are making our first collection, under altered circumstances, for -the more substantial part of our annual expenditure upon this Church. It -is true, this House of Prayer is not in all respects like Solomon’s -Temple: I mean that, in Christian times, it is not the fabric, it is the -Congregation, which is the Temple or House of God. Nevertheless, without -a fabric a congregation is a rope of sand: there must be a place if there -is to be a worship: and therefore the distinction, though true, may be -overstrained; and I am not afraid to apply to this Church, the building I -mean, the expostulation of King Joash with Jehoiada and the Priests, _Why -repair ye not the breaches of the House_? - -I have not, indeed, one moment’s anxiety as to your response. You love -_the place_, this place at least, _where God’s honour dwelleth_. I -believe that your periodical offerings on this monthly occasion will be -almost, or perhaps quite, equal to those which you make for any work of -piety or charity: and I may remind you that there is an especial reason -why your offerings should be large at the outset, inasmuch as already -four months are gone by of the current year, and we have to supply in -eight months the resources (as they hereafter will be) of twelve. - -But on this point I feel an entire security. You will never allow those -who undertake the office of your Churchwardens to incur any -responsibility but such as you cheerfully guarantee to them. I will -rather take the opportunity of saying one word upon the more general -question. - -We have never in this place—certainly not for many years past—laid a -compulsory church-rate. We have always allowed those who would to refuse -payment. Even when the law was clearly with us, we have never taken -advantage of it. So far, we might, if we would, have regarded the new -Act as confirming and stereotyping our own local custom. - -But there were these two differences. We could no longer carry with us -the influence, the persuasion, of an unenforced compulsion. We could no -longer say, as heretofore, He _that may command_, _entreats_. Henceforth -it was lawful to refuse. - -Again, we could no longer extend our payments over the whole Town; and, -with whatever abatements from caprice or principle, hope to enlist, in -the work of reparation or maintenance, the sympathies of an entire -population. - -It became necessary, therefore, that we should look to the Congregation -alone; and, in one form or in another, ask those to support, who really -love and use, this House of God. - -Hence our appeal to you this evening. And if on future occasions the -appeal is commonly made to you in silence, without special enforcement -from this place, yet let me hope that you will all register it in your -minds as a just claim, and not suffer these periodical gatherings to lose -their interest or to fail in their amount. - -_Why repair ye not the breaches of the House_? The subject expands -itself before us, and we read the remonstrance as applying no longer to -the fabric, but rather to these three larger and more sacred topics, the -Congregation, the Church, the soul. - -1. That anxiety which we do not feel about the fabric, for we are sure -that you will attend to it, we cannot stifle as regards the Congregation. - -For indeed it is this which makes the House. The building is only -valuable, only significant, for the sake of the inmates. When it is -asked of us, _Why repair ye not the bleaches of the House_? we may look -up indeed at our broken pinnacles, our not watertight roof, our falling -flowers, our patchwork pomegranates, and think that these too require -attention or deserve reproach; but, after all, these are not the real -things; these altogether make not the House; the House, the Temple, now, -in these days of spirit and Gospel, is the community, the congregation, -the living body within. How is it with this? Are there no breaches -here, visible not to an eye of flesh, but to One who seeth in secret? - -For example, my brethren, is there not too great a disproportion here -between the real and the nominal worshippers? Is it not lamentable, is -it not even discreditable, that so many should be present at one Service -once on the Lord’s Day, and so few at any other Service either on this -Holy Day or on any other? that so many should come together here this -evening to listen to music or preaching, so few to pray and to praise, so -few to break the Holy Bread, or to drink the Sacred Wine? Is not this -one of the _breaches of the House_, the spiritual house, which wants -_repairing_ amongst us? - -2. But this carries me on to a somewhat wider field, which I have called -not the Congregation, but the Church. And here, as is natural indeed in -these eventful, these quickly moving times, my thoughts are upon our own -Church, that communion which is the congregation of congregations; that -communion which we have heretofore known as the Church of England by law -established. - -So rapid has been the course of events in late years—I might single out -the last ten, or the last five, or (quite by exception) the last year of -all—that Church-people must prepare themselves, I feel sure, for a -speedy, a scarcely gradual, demolition of all that has been distinctive, -all that has been exceptionally advantageous, in their position. An -eminent man and excellent Bishop, who was laid in his grave last Friday, -was wont to say, _If I live ten years_, _I shall be the last Bishop of -Peterborough_. It is more than probable that some of my younger hearers -this evening may live not only to see what we call the Church of England -thrown altogether upon voluntary offerings for its maintenance—in which -case some of them may remember in old age the first collection made in -the Parish Church of Doncaster for the repairs of its fabric and the -expences of its services—but also to find it at least an open, perhaps a -very doubtful, question, to whom shall belong the Churches themselves and -the glebe-houses—whether indeed there shall be left to the old Church of -England, as we still fondly call it, any vestige of that legal standing -which has made her hitherto the calm shelter of her children, the -admiring wonder of foreigners, and the mark of obloquy or envy (as the -case might be) to thousands of her domestic enemies. - -I am far from regarding this prospect—be it far off or near—with unmixed -alarm or dismay. I never believed that the Establishment, as such, was -Christ’s Church in England, or that the withdrawal of the favour of the -State would be the putting out in our communion of the Divine Shechinah. -It is not so much for the Church that I fear: for I firmly believe -Christ’s words, _Lo_, _I am with you alway_, and doubt not that the old, -the everlasting benediction is able to repeat itself in many new, many -diverse forms. I do fear something for the State, when it ceases to have -a religion. I do fear something for the average tone of religion in our -cottages and in our palaces, when there is no longer one form of worship -which has upon it the stamp of pedigree and of custom; when it is an -evenly balanced question with every man and with every family, _Whither -shall I go this day for God’s worship_? _whither_, _or whether any -whither_? I do fear that there will be more and more in many houses of a -cold indifferent scepticism, a Christless education and a Godless life. -I do fear that more and more may reach old age ignorant of a Saviour, and -go to their graves without any sure and certain hope of a resurrection to -eternal life. - -For the Church itself I fear not. In so far as the Church of England (so -called) has had Christ in her and God with her, she is indestructible and -immortal. In so far as she has trusted in outward advantage, and -suffered herself, in her priests or in her people, to become sluggish, -lukewarm, contemptuous, or persecuting—in so far let a change into -adversity—God grant it—reform her. The great question for all of us, in -our several stations, more especially in the days which are now coming, -or almost come, upon our Church, must be this one of the text, _Why -repair ye not the breaches of the House_? - -Let the Priests of the Temple ask it—ask it of themselves—Are they -trusting at all in the advantages of an Establishment, and negligent, in -the same degree, of that personal industry, of that individual -self-sacrifice, which alone can justify their endowment, maintain their -honour, or do their work? If the Established Church of England, as such, -be swept away, then, along with it, will go all idle, inconsistent, -scandalous Ministers: those who are to serve at God’s Altar afterwards -must be only such as are respected by their people: let it not have to be -said that England would gain as much as she loses by ceasing to have an -endowed, an established Ministry, inasmuch as, quite as often as not, the -Parish Minister was an indolent, an unworthy, or an inefficient man! -This is the way in which the Priests must set themselves to repair the -Temple-breaches. - -Then for the People. To what end does a Church exist amongst us? To -what purpose this costly, this almost magnificent apparatus of vestment -and ritual, of Cathedral Church and elaborate minstrelsy? Does it mean -anything, or nothing? If it represents to the country, in symbol and -form, the wants of man’s soul, and the absolute necessity of a Divine -communion, then prove it by the using! Do not talk of the duty of the -State, of the rights of the Church, of Apostolical Succession and an -authorized Ministry—and never use any! When the Church of England -ceases, with our will or without it, to be an established, privileged, or -favoured Church at all; then, how many of you will be found to come -forward in its maintenance? How many of you will worship here, when -there is no longer any traditional or conventional propriety in doing so? -How many will accept their position, in reference to man, as only one out -of fifty or a hundred denominations—treat with all respect and charity -others who follow not with them—and yet, for themselves, become but the -more earnest and devout Churchmen, in proportion as State aid and legal -endowment become things of the past—things, it may be, of remote and -almost forgotten history? - -And, meanwhile, let me ask this of the Churchmen here assembled this -evening, Are we half as liberal—I ask it advisedly—in giving for the -maintenance of our Church, as are many bodies of Nonconformists in their -offerings for theirs? You know that we are not. Let us look about us in -this matter. Let us rise to the emergency. Show that you value your -Church, by giving bountifully in her behalf. If the Church is what you -profess it to be, surely it is worth something, something even of -self-sacrifice, to maintain it in its efficiency. You know that there -are many amongst us to whom the Church costs nothing. On one pretext and -another, they evade all her burdens. They grudge the very rents of their -sittings; and if those rents were exchanged to-morrow (as I would they -were) for Offertories, still they would give nothing. My brethren, these -things ought not so to be. By this grudging, this ungenerous spirit, we -are drawing down upon ourselves, as a judgment, the sentence of -disestablishment and disendowment. Be it not so amongst us! Count no -money better spent than that which is given for the repairing of the -breaches of this House; meaning now by the House, not only or chiefly the -fabric, but rather the purpose for which the fabric stands—the -edification and salvation of human souls. Above all, see that you -rightly, earnestly, industriously use the means of grace herein afforded -you. What would not they give, who are gone from us this last week by -disease or accident, unrepentant, unredeemed, for one such feast of love -as was accepted this morning by but six and twenty souls—for one such -opportunity as we have enjoyed this evening of drawing nigh to the Throne -of Grace through our one Divine Lord? - -3. Thus, then, we pass naturally, in conclusion, to that House, or -Temple of God, which is of all the most intimate, the most sacred, the -most inaccessible; yet in which, if anywhere, the true fire burns of an -acceptable sacrifice—the real altar is built of lively, living, devoted -stones. That House is the soul; and it, too, has its _breaches_. Yes, -we know it. That Temple—which ought to _lie four-square_, which ought to -have everything in its place, which ought to be gleaming with the fire of -the Holy Ghost, and adorned with the precious stones of a meek and quiet -and pure and Godward spirit—that Temple, of which the light ought to be -shining through into the life, and making every act and word and thought -gracious and beneficent and God-recalling—that Temple is all jagged and -disordered and spotted and sin-stained—that Temple lets its altar-fire go -out every half-hour, and suffers _a darkness that may be felt_ to settle -down upon its chambers—making unbelievers at last say, _If that be -faith_, _give me reason_; _if that be piety_, _give me conscience_; _if -that indeed be religion_, _let me know only the heathen’s revelation_—_of -good sense_, _good nature_, _and an elevated self-love_! - -_Why repair ye not the breaches of the House_? - -Do we answer, _I cannot_? It is a reproach, it is a calumny, upon the -Gospel of Divine grace. That is the very revelation of the Gospel—_God -giveth more grace_: more, as we need more; more, as we ask more; more, as -we look and wait and make room for more. I _cannot_? No; but God can. -_Ask_, _and ye shall have_. - -Or do we answer, _I need not_? _I am well enough as I am_—_God is very -merciful_—_He knows our frame_, _and whatever deficiencies He sees in -me_, _Christ will make them up_? Alas! it is too often the evangelical -reply—if not with the lips, then in the heart! Christ died to make sin -less sinful, to make sin less dangerous, by substituting a figment of -justification for a reality of holiness, watchfulness, and self-control! -Thus even the Blessed Lord Himself is made _a minister of sin_, and man -turns the very table of his blessing into a new occasion of falling! - -Or do we answer, finally, _I will not_? _I love the breaches of my -soul’s house_; _I do not wish that the gusts of passion should be fenced -out_; _I do not wish that there should be no crack or cranny through -which I may peep out on the world’s vanities_, _nor any secret neglected -postern through which some delicious delirious lust may creep in to -intoxicate me_? Oh! worst of all, most hopeless, this last answer—the -answer of many consciences, will they but speak, in this great -Congregation; the answer which not only virtually denies, but wilfully -refuses, the Gospel; which makes the Cross an offence, and Christ to have -died in vain! - -May it please God, by some one of His thousand, His myriad agencies, to -make us feel! to bring us to our knees in hearty repentance before Him; -and then, even as it is written, _humbling ourselves_ first _under His -mighty hand_, at last to _exalt us in due time_! - - - - -_RECENT WORKS BY DR. C. J. VAUGHAN_. - - -THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST DAYS. Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles. I. -THE CHURCH OF JERUSALEM, SECOND EDITION. II. THE CHURCH OF THE -GENTILES. SECOND EDITION. III. THE CHURCH OF THE WORLD. SECOND -EDITION. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, price 4_s._ 6_d._ each. - -LECTURES ON THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN. SECOND EDITION. Two Vols. crown -8vo, price 15_s._ - -WORDS FROM THE GOSPELS. 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