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diff --git a/8731-8.txt b/8731-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e13939b --- /dev/null +++ b/8731-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2070 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Five Sermons, by H.B. Whipple + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Five Sermons + +Author: H.B. Whipple + +Posting Date: April 29, 2013 [EBook #8731] +Release Date: August, 2005 +First Posted: August 5, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIVE SERMONS *** + + + + +Produced by Jared Fuller + + + + + + + + +FIVE SERMONS + +BY THE RT. REV. H.B. WHIPPLE, D.D., LL.D. BISHOP OF MINNESOTA + +1890 + +PREFACE + +My only excuse for printing these sermons is the request of friends who +could not secure copies of them. They are printed as delivered, and the +repetition of incidents was a part of the historical statement. The +Third and Fifth Sermons were preached without notes and reported by a +stenographer. H.B.W. + + + +CONTENTS + +I. SERMON AT THE OPENING SERVICES OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION, + OCTOBER 1889 + +II. SERMON AT THE FARIBAULT CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL + OF THE INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1789-1889 + +III. SERMON AT THE SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MISSIONARY COUNCIL + IN WASHINGTON, D.C., NOVEMBER 1888 + +IV. ADDRESS IN LAMBETH CHAPEL, AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LAMBETH + CONFERENCE, JULY 3, 1888 + +V. SERMON AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF + ST. ANDREW, IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, SEPT. 29, 1889 + + + + +I. SERMON AT THE OPENING SERVICES OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION, + OCTOBER 2, 1889. + + +"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what +work Thou didst their days, in the times of old."--PSALM xliv. I. + + +Brethren: I shall take it for granted that there is a visible Church; +that it was founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, and has His promise that +the gates of hell shall never prevail against it. We believe that ours +is a pure branch of the apostolic Church; that it has a threefold +ministry; that its two sacraments--Baptism and the Supper of the Lord--are +of perpetual obligation, and are divine channels of grace; that the +faith once delivered to the saints is contained in the Catholic creeds, +and has the warrant of Holy Scripture which was written by inspiration +of God. On this centennial day I shall speak of the history and mission +of this branch of the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +It was a singular providence that this continent, laden with the bounty +of God, was unoccupied by civilization for thousands of years. America +was discovered by a devout son of the Latin Church, whose name-- +Christopher, Christ-bearer, and Columbus, the dove--ought to have been +the prophecy that he would bear the Gospel to the New World. It was at +a time when Savonarola, with the zeal of a prophet of God and the +eloquence of a Chrysostom, was laboring to awaken the Church to a new +life. No nation ever had a nobler mission than Spain. That mission was +forfeited by unholy greed and untold cruelty. It was lost forever. +Other nations claimed the continent for their own. In the providence of +God; this last of the nations was founded by the English-speaking race. +I reverently believe that it was because they recognize as no other +people the two truths which underlie the possibility of constitutional +government, i.e., the inalienable rights of the individual citizen, and +loyalty to government as a delegated trust from God, who alone has the +right to govern. These lessons are intertwined with two thousand years +of history. They reach back to the days when the savage Briton came in +contact with Roman civilization and Roman law, and have been deepened by +centuries of Christian influences which have changed our savage fathers +into truth-speaking, liberty-loving Christian men. + +More marvellous are the providences intertwined with the history of the +Church. It was planted by apostolic men, and numbered heroes like St. +Patrick and St. Alban before the missionary Augustine came to +Canterbury. Through all of its history it has been the Church of the +English-speaking race. The liturgy contains the purest English of any +book, except the English Bible, which was translated by her sons. The +ritual which Augustine found in England came from the East; and the +liturgy which he introduced was, by the advice of Gregory, taken from +many national Churches. The Venerable Hooker said: "Our liturgy was +must be acknowledged as the singular work of the providence of God." In +its services it represents the Church of the English-speaking race. The +exhortation to pray for the child to be baptized, the direction to put +pure water into the font at each baptism, the sign of the cross, the +words of the reception of the baptized, the joining of hands in holy +matrimony, the "dust to dust" of the burial,--are peculiar to the offices +of the English-speaking people. In the Holy Communion, the rubric found +in all western Churches, commanding the priest, after consecration, to +kneel and worship the elements, never found a place in any service-book +of the Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer has preserved for +us Catholic faith and Catholic worship. + + +The first English missionary priest in America of whose services we have +record was Master Wolfall, who celebrated the Holy Communion in 1578 for +the crews of Martin Forbisher on the shores of Hudson Bay, amid whose +solitudes Bishop Horden has won whole heathen tribes to Jesus Christ. +At about the same time the Rev. Martin Fletcher, the chaplain of Sir +Francis Drake, celebrated the Holy Communion in the bay of San +Francisco, a prophecy that these distant shores should become our +inheritance. A few years later (1583), divine service was held in the +bay of St. John's, Newfoundland, for Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and when his +ill-fated ship foundered at sea, the last words of the hero-admiral +were, "We are as near heaven by sea as by land." The mantle of Gilbert +fell on Sir Walter Raleigh, who was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to +bear the evangel of God's love to the New World. The faith behind the +adventures of these men is seen in a woodcut of Raleigh's vessels at +anchor; a pinnace, with a man at the mast-head bearing a cross, +approaching the shore with the message of the Gospel. To some of us +whose hearts have been touched with pity for the red men, its is a +beautiful incident that the first baptism on these shores was that of an +Indian chief, Mateo, on the banks of the Roanoke. In May, 1607, the +first services on the shore of New England were held by the Rev. Richard +Seymour. Missionary services in the wilderness were not unlike those of +our pioneer bishops. "We did hang an awning to the trees to shield us +from the sun, our walls were rails of wood, our seats unhewed trees, our +pulpit a bar of wood--this was our 'church.'" It was in this church that +the Rev. Robert Hunt celebrated the first communion in Virginia, June +21, 1607. The missionary spirit of the times is seen when Lord De la +Warr and his companions went in procession to the Temple Church in +London to receive the Holy Communion. The Rev. Richard Crashaw said in +his sermon: "Go forward in the strength of the Lord, look not for +wealth, look only for the things of the kingdom of God--you go to win the +heathen to the Gospel. Practise it yourselves. Make the name of Christ +honorable. What blessings any nation has had by Christ must be given to +all the nations of the earth." The first act of Governor De la Warr, on +landing in Virginia, was to kneel in silent prayer, and then, with the +whole people, they went to church, where the services were conducted by +the Rev. Richard Burke. In 1611 the saintly Alexander Whittaker +baptized Pocahontas. Disease and death often blighted the colonies, and +yet the old battle cry rang out--"God will found the State and build the +Church." The work was marred by immoral adventurers, and it was not +until these were repressed with a strong hand by Sir Thomas Dale that a +new life dawned in Virginia. + +The first elective assembly of the New World met in 1619. It was opened +by prayer. Its first enactment was to protect the Indians from +oppression. Its next was to found a university. In the first +legislative assembly which met in the choir of the Church in Jamestown, +more than one year before the Mayflower left the shores of England, was +the foundation of popular government in America. Time would fail me to +tell the story inwrought in the lives of men like Rev. William Clayton +of Philadelphia, the Rev. Atkin Williamson of South Carolina, and the +Rev. John Wesley and the Rev. George Whitefield, also sons of the Church +in Georgia. + + +The Church of England had no rights in the English colony of +Massachusetts. The Rev. William Blaxton, the Rev. Richard Gibson, and +the Rev. Robert Jordan endured privation and suffering, and were accused +"as addicted to the hierarchy of the Church of England," "guilty of +offence against the Commonwealth by baptizing children on the Lord's +Day," and "the more heinous sin of provoking the people to revolt by +questioning the divine right of the New England theocracy." An new life +dawned on the Church in America when, in 1701, there was organized in +England "The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign +Parts." It awakened a new missionary spirit. Princess Anne, afterward +Queen of England, became its lifelong patron. The blessed work among +the Mohawks was largely due to her, and when these Indians were removed +to Canada and left sheperdless, their chief, Joseph Brant, officiated as +lay reader for twenty years. The men sent out by the society--the Rev. +Samuel Thomas, the Rev. George Keith, the Rev. Patrick Gordon, the Rev. +John Talbot, and others--were Christian heroes. No fact in the history +of the colonial Church had so marked influence as the conversion of +Timothy Cutler, James Wetmore, Samuel Johnson, and Daniel Brown to the +Church. Puritans mourned that the "gold had become dim." Churchmen +rejoiced that some of the foremost scholars in Connecticut had returned +to the Church. I pass over the trials of the Church in the eighteenth +century, to the meeting of the Continental Congress in 1774. It was +proposed to open Congress with prayer. Objections were made on account +of the religious differences of the delegates. Old Samuel Adams arose, +with his white hair streaming on his shoulders,--the same earnest Puritan +who, in 1768, had written to England: "We hope in God that no such +establishment as the Protestant episcopate shall ever take place in +America,"--and said: "Gentlemen, shall it be said that it is possible +that there can be any religious differences which will prevent men from +crying to that God who alone can save them? I move that the Rev. Dr. +Duché, minister of Christ Church in this city, be asked to open this +Congress with prayer." John Adams, writing to his wife, said: "Never +can I forget that scene. There were twenty Quakers standing by my side, +and we were all bathed in tears." When the Psalms for the day were +read, it seemed as if Heaven was pleading for the oppressed: "O Lord, +fight thou against them that fight against me." "Lord, who is like Thee +to defend the poor and the needy?" "Avenge thou my cause, my Lord, my +God." On the 4th of July 1776, Congress published to the world that +these colonies were, and of right ought to be, free. We believe that a +majority of those who signed this declaration were sons of the Church. +The American colonists were not rebels; they were loyal, God-fearing +men. The first appeal that Congress made to the colonies was "for the +whole people to keep one and the same day as a day of fasting and prayer +for the restoration of the invaded rights of America, and reconciliation +with the parent State." They stood for their inalienable rights, +guaranteed to them by the Magna Charta, which nobles, headed by Bishop +Stephen Langton, had wrung from King John. The English clergy had at +ordination taken an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. Many who +sympathized with their oppressed country felt bound to pray for King +George until another government was permanently established. Others, +like Dr. Provost, retired to private life. For two hundred years an +Episcopal Church had no resident Bishop. No child of the Church +received confirmation. No one could take orders without crossing the +Atlantic, where one man in five lost his life by disease or shipwreck. +At one time the Rev. William White was the only clergyman of the Church +in Pennsylvania. Even after we had received the episcopate, the +outlook was so hopeless that one of her bishops said, "I am willing to +do all I can for the rest of my days, but there will be no such Church +when I am gone." When William Meade told Chief Justice Marshall that he +was to take orders in the Episcopal Church, the Chief Justice said, "I +thought that this Church had perished in the Revolution." Of the less +than two hundred clergy, many had returned to England or retired to +private life. In some of the colonies the endowments of the Church had +been confiscated. There was no discipline for clergy or laity, and it +did seem as if the vine of the Lord's planting was to perish out of the +land. + + +On the Feast of the Annunciation, 1783, ten of the clergy of Connecticut +met in the glebe house at Woodbury to elect a bishop. They met +privately, for the Church was under the ban of civil authority, and they +feared the revival of bitter opposition to an American episcopate which +might alarm the English bishops and defeat their efforts. They did not +come to make a creed, or frame a liturgy, or found a Church. They met +to secure that which was lacking for the complete organization of the +Church, and thus perpetuate for their country that ministry whose +continuity was witnessed through all the ages in a living body, which is +the body of Christ. I know of no greater heroism than that which sent +Samuel Seabury to ask of the bishops of the Church of England the +episcopate for the scattered flock of Christ. You remember the fourteen +months' weary waiting, and when his prayer was refused in England, God +led him to the persecuted Church of Scotland. Now go with me to +Aberdeen; it is an upper room, a congregation of clergy and laity are +present. The bishops and Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen, Arthur +Petrie, Bishop of Moray, and John Skinner, Coadjutor Bishop of Aberdeen, +who preached the sermon. The prayers were ended; Samuel Seabury, a +kingly man, kneels for the imposition of apostolic hands, and, according +to the godly usage of the Catholic Church, is consecrated bishop, and +made the first apostle for the New World. None can tell what, under +God, we owe to those venerable men. They signed a concordat binding +themselves and successors to use the Prayer of Invocation in the +Scottish Communion Office, which sets forth that truth which is +inwrought in all the teachings of our blessed Lord and His apostles, +that the communion of the Body and Blood of Christ is limited to the +worthy receiver of this blessed sacrament. The consecration of Seabury +touched the heart of the English Church. + +In 1783 the Church of England did not have one bishop beyond its shores. +There are to-day fifteen bishops in Africa, six in China and Japan, and +twenty-three in Australia and the Pacific Islands, ten in India, seven +in the West Indies, and eighty-five in British North America and the +United States. Every colony of the British Empire and every State and +Territory of the United States has its own bishop, except the Territory +of Alaska. + +On February 4th, 1787, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Provost, D.D., were +consecrated bishops in Lambeth Chapel, by John Moore, Archbishop of +Canterbury, William Markham, Archbishop of York, Charles Moss, Bishop of +Bath and Wells, and John Hinchcliffe, Bishop of Peterborough. The +sermon was preached by the chaplain of the primate. Our minister to +England, Hon. John Adams, urged the application of Drs. Provost and +White, and in after years wrote: "There is no part of my life I look +back with more satisfaction than the part I took--daring and hazardous as +it was to myself and mine--in the introduction of episcopacy to America." +Samuel Provost was a devoted patriot and one of the ripest scholars of +America. In the convention which elected him Bishop of New York were +John Jay, Washington's chief justice, Marinus Willet, one of +Washington's favorite generals, James Duane, John Alsop, R.R. +Livingston, and William Duer, members of the Continental Congress, and +David Brooks, commissary-general of the Revolution, and personal friend +of Washington. If less prominent in his episcopal administration, +Bishop Provost's name as a patriot was a tower of strength to the infant +Church. + +Of Bishop White we can say, as John Adams said of Roger Sherman, "He was +pure as an angel and firm as Mount Atlas." He was beloved and +reverenced by all Christian people. When Congress declared the colonies +independent States in 1776, he at once took the oath of allegiance to +the new government. When a friend warned him that he had put his neck +in a halter, he replied: "I know the danger; the cause is just; I have +put my faith in God." In 1777 he was elected chaplain of Congress, and +held the office (except when Congress met in New York) until the capital +was removed to Washington. Francis Hopkinson, a distinguished signer of +the Declaration of Independence, and other loyal sons of the country, +were among those who elected him Bishop of Pennsylvania. + +One hundred years ago today the representatives of the Church in the +different States met to adopt a constitution. There had been tentative +efforts to effect an organization and adopt a Book of Common Prayer, all +of which were overruled by the good providence of God. Many not of our +fold desired a liturgy. Benjamin Franklin published at his own expense +a revised copy of the English liturgy. The House of Bishops was +composed of Bishop Seabury and Bishop White. Bishop Provost was absent. +In the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies were the Rev. Abraham Jarvis, +the Rev. Robert Smith, and the Rev. Samuel Parker, who became bishops. +They met to show the world that the charter of the Church is perpetual, +and that the Church has the power to adapt herself to all the conditions +of human society. They met to consolidate the scattered fragments of +the Church in the thirteen colonies into a national Church, and secure +for themselves and children Catholic faith and worship in the Book of +Common Prayer. They builded wiser than they knew. They secured for the +Church self-government, free from all secular control. They preserved +the traditions of the past, and yet every feature of executive, +legislative, and judicial administration was in harmony with the +Constitution of the Republic. They gave the laity a voice in the +council of the Church; they provided that bishops and clergy should be +tried by their peers, and that the clergy and laity of each diocese +should elect their own bishop subject to the approval of the whole +Church. There was the most delightful fraternal intercourse between the +two bishops. In the words of our Presiding Bishop, "The blessed results +of that convention were due, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to +the steadfast gentleness of Bishop White and the gentle steadfast--of +Bishop Seabury." A century has passed. The Church which was then +everywhere spoken against is everywhere known and respected; the mantle +of Seabury, White, Hobart, Ravenscroft, Eliot, De Lancey, and Kemper has +fallen on others, and her sons are in the forefront of that mighty +movement which will people this land with millions of souls. While we +say with grateful hearts, "What hath God wrought!" we also say, "Not +unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy Nave give the praise." +Surely, an awful responsibility rests upon a Church whose history is so +full of the mercy of God. We are living in the great missionary age of +the Church. There is no nation on the earth to whom we may not carry +the Gospel. More than eight hundred millions of souls for whom Christ +died have not heard that there is a Saviour. One of the hinderances to +the speedy evangelization of the world is the division among +Christians,--alas! both within and without the Church. Our Saviour said: +"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love +one to another." Christians have been separated in hostile camps, and +often divisions have ripened into hatred. The saddest of all is that +the things which separate us are not necessary for salvation. The +truths in which we agree are part of the Catholic faith. In the words +of Dr. Dollinger, "we can say each to the other as baptized, we are on +either side, brothers and sisters in Christ. In the great garden of the +Lord, let us shake hands over these confessional hedges, and let us +break them down, so as to be able to embrace one another altogether. +These hedges are doctrinal divisions about which either we or you are in +error. If you are in the wrong, we do not hold you morally culpable; +for your education, surroundings, knowledge, and training made the +adherence to these doctrines excusable and even right. Let us examine, +compare, and investigate the matter together, and we shall discover the +precious pearl of peace and unity; and then let us join hands together +in cultivating and cleansing the garden of the Lord, which is overgrown +with weeds." There are blessed signs that the Holy Spirit is deepening +the spiritual life of widely separated brothers. Historical Churches +are feeling the pulsation of a new life from the Incarnate God. All +Christian folk see that the Holy Spirit has passed over these human +barriers and set His seal to the labors of separated brethren in Christ. +The ever-blessed Comforter is quickening in Christian hearts the divine +spirit of charity. Christians are learning more and more the theology +which centres in the person of Jesus Christ. It is this which worldwide +is creating a holy enthusiasm to stay the flood of intemperance, +impurity, and sin at home, and gather lost heathen folk into the fold of +Christ. In our age every branch of the Church can call over the roll of +its confessors and martyr, and so link its history to the purest ages of +the Church. We would not rob them of one sheaf they have gathered into +the garner of the Lord. We share in every victory and we rejoice in +every triumph. There is not one of that great company who have washed +their robes white in the blood of the Lamb, who is not our kinsman in +Christ. Brothers in Christ of every name, shall we not pray for the +healing of the wounds of the body of Christ, that the world may believe +in him? + +We are perplexed by the unbelief and sin of our time. The Christian +faith is assailed not only with scoffs of old as Celsus and Julian, but +also with the keenest intellectual criticism of Divine revelation, the +opposition of alleged scientific facts, and a Corinthian worldliness +whose motto is "Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." In many places +Christian homes are dying out. Crime and impurity are coming in as a +flood, and anarchy raises its hated form in a land where all men are +equal before the law. The lines between the Church and the world are +dim. Never did greater problems confront a council of the Church. An +Apostolic Church has a graver work than discussion about its name or the +amending of its canons and rubrics. I fear that some of this unbelief +is a revolt from a caricature of God. These mechanical ideas about the +universe are the outcome of a mechanical theology which has lost sight +of the Fatherhood of God. There is much honest unbelief. In these +yearnings of humanity, in its clubs, brotherhoods, and orders, in their +readiness to share all things with their brothers, I see unconscious +prophecies of the brotherhood of all men as the children of one God and +Father. Denunciation will not silence unbelief. The name infidel has +lost its terrors. There in only one remedy. It is in the spirit, the +power, and the love of Jesus Christ. Philosophy cannot touch the want. +It offers no hand to grasp, no Saviour to trust, no God to save. When +men see in us the hand, the heart, and the love of Christ, they will +believe in the brotherhood of men and the Fatherhood of God. + +There was nothing which impressed your bishops in the late visit to +England more than the service in the cathedral at Durham. The church, +with its thousand years of history was thronged. The chants were sung +by two thousand choristers in surplices. The sermon was preached by the +Bishop of Western New York. This grand service was to set apart some +Bible readers and lay-preachers to go into the collieries to tell these +toilers of the love of Jesus Christ. The same awful problems stare us +in the face,--the centralization of swarms of souls in the cities; the +wealth of the nation in fewer hands; competition making a life-and-death +struggle for bread; the poorest sinking into hopeless despair; and the +richest often forgetting that Lazarus at his gate is a child of the same +God and Father. We, too, must send our best men and women wherever +there is sin, sorrow, and death, to work and suffer, and, if need be, +die for Christ. + +We are living in the eventide of the world, when all things point toward +the second coming of our King. God has placed the English-speaking +people in the fore-part of the nations. They number one-tenth of the +human family, and I believe God calls them to do the work of the last +time. The wealth of the world is largely in Christian hands. There +never have been such opportunities for Christian work. Never such a +harvest awaited the husbandman. + + +You may tell me of difficulties and dangers. We have only one answer. +Sin, sorrow, and death are not the inventions of a Christian priest. +"There is only one Name under heaven whereby any man can be saved." We +have nothing to do with results. It is ours to work and pray, and pray +and work and die. So falls the seed into the earth, and so God gives +the harvest. When the Church sends out embassies commensurate with the +dignity of our King, it will be time to talk of failure. Is the kingdom +of Christ the only kingdom which has not the right to lay tribute on its +citizens? The only failure is the failure to do God's work. Was it +failure when Dr. Hill of blessed memory laid the foundation for that +Christian school which the wisest statesmen say is the chief factor in +the regeneration of Greece? Was it failure when James Lloyd Breck, our +apostle of the wilderness, carried the Gospel to the Indians? Did +Williams, Selwyn, and Patteson fail in Polynesia? Was it failure when +Hoffman and Auer died for Christ in Africa? Have your great-hearted +sons failed who have followed in the footsteps of the saintly Kemper, +and laid with tears and prayers foundations for Christian schools which +are the glory of the West? Has the Gospel failed in Japan, where a +nation is awakening into the life of Christian civilization? Never has +God given His Church more blessed rewards. The century which has passed +is only our school of preparation. The voice of God's Providence says: +"Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward." We have some +problems peculiar to ourselves. Twenty-five years ago four millions of +slaves received American citizenship. The nation owes them a debt of +gratitude. During all the horrors of our civil war they were the +protectors of Southern women and children. Knowing the failure of their +masters would be the guarantee of the freedom, there was not one act +that master or slave might wish to blot. We ought not to forget it, and +God will not. To-day there are eight millions. They are here to stay. +They will not be disfranchised. Through them Africa can be redeemed. +They ought to be our fellow-citizens in the kingdom of God. In a great +crisis of missions the Holy Ghost sent Philip on a long journey to +preach Christ to one man of Ethiopia. The same blessed Spirit of God +calls us in the love of Christ to carry the Gospel in the Church to the +millions of colored citizens of the United States. + +Brethren, the time is short. Since our last council nine of our noblest +bishops have died. Since I was consecrated, fifty-four bishops have +entered into the rest if the people of God. It is eventide. A little +more work, a few more toils and prayers, and we who have lived and loved +and worked together shall have a harvest in heaven. + + + + + +II. SERMON AT THE FARIBAULT CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE +INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1789-1889. + + +"Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called +the name of it Ebeneser, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."-- +1 SAMUEL vii. 12. + + +No words are more fitting on this Centennial day. One hundred years ago +George Washington was inaugurated the first President of the United +States. Words are powerless to express the grateful thoughts which +swell patriot hearts. Save that people whom God led out of Egypt with +His pillar of fire and His pillar of cloud, I know of no nation whose +history is so full of the bounty of God. This country was settled by +Englishmen. They were bound by ties of affection to the mother country. +They were not rebels, they were loyal, God-fearing men. The English +crown had violated rights which were guaranteed to them by the Magna +Charta, which brave barons, headed by Bishop Stephen Langton, had wrung +from King John and which under God has made English-speaking people the +representatives of constitutional government throughout the world. It +was not until every plea for justice had been spurned, their sacred +rights trampled upon, and the warnings of the wisest English statesmen +unheeded, that the American colonies resolved to be independent and +free. On the 5th of September, 1774, fifty-five delegates, from eleven +colonies, met in Smith's tavern, Philadelphia, and at the invitation of +the carpenters of that city adjourned to their hall. Questions arose as +to the numerical influence of the colonies. Patrick Henry voiced the +sentiment of Congress, "I am not a Virginian, I am an American." John +Jay, who represented the conservative element said, "We have not come to +make a constitution; the measure of arbitrary power is not full, it must +run over before we undertake to frame a government." It was proposed to +open Congress with prayer. Objections were made on account of the +religious differences of the delegates. Old Samuel Adams rose, with his +long white hair streaming on his shoulders (the same earnest Puritan who +in 1768 had written to England, "We hope in God that no such +establishment as the Protestant Episcopate shall ever take place in +America,") and said, "Gentlemen, shall it be said that it is possible +that there can be any religious difference which will prevent men from +crying to that God who alone can save them? Puritan as I am, I move +that the Rev. Dr. Duché, minister of Christ Church in the city, be +asked to open this Congress with prayer." John Adams, writhing to his +wife, said, "Never can I forget that scene. There were twenty Quakers +standing by my side and we were all bathed in tears. When Psalms for +the day were read, it seemed as if Heaven itself was pleading for the +oppressed: 'O Lord, fight thou against them that fight against me. +Lord, who is like unto Thee to defend the poor and needy. Avenge Thou +my cause, my Lord and my God.'" Although filled with indignation at the +blood which had been shed in Boston, Congress nevertheless issued an +appeal to the people of England: "You have been told that we are +impatient of government and desire independency. These are calumnies. +Permit us to be free as you are, and our union with you will be our +greatest glory. But if your ministers sport with human rights, if +neither the voice of justice, the principles of the constitution, nor +humanity will restrain them from shedding human blood in an impious +cause, 'we will never submit.' We ask peace, liberty and safety, and +for this we have laid our prayer at the feet of the king as a loving +father." The battles at Lexington, Concord and Ticonderoga preceded the +second meeting of Congress in May, 1775. Their plea for justice had +been spurned. The outlook was dark as midnight. These brave men +represented no government, they had no power to make laws, they had no +officers to execute them, they could not impose customs, they had no +army, they did not own a foot of land, they owed the use of their hall +to the courtesy of the artisans of Philadelphia. On the 12th of June +Congress made its first appeal to the people of twelve colonies, ( +Georgia was not represented). It was a solemn call for the whole people +to observe one and the same day as a day of fasting and prayer "for the +restoration of the invaded rights of America and reconciliation with the +parent state." They who sought the protection of God knew that under +God they must protect themselves. All hearts turned to George +Washington, a delegate from Virginia, and he was unanimously chosen to +be commander-in-chief. When Congress met in July, 1776, the people had +been branded as traitors; the slaves of Virginia had been incited to +insurrection, the torch and tomahawk of the savage had been let loose on +frontier settlements, an army of foreign mercenaries had landed on their +shores, their ports were blockaded, an the army under Washington for +their defence only numbered 6,749 men. On the second day of July, 1776, +without one dissenting colony, the representatives of the thirteen +colonies resolved that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to +be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all +allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection +between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally +dissolved." Two days later Benjamin Harrison, the great-grandfather of +our present president, the chairman of the committee of the whole, +reported to Congress the form in which that resolution was to be +published to the world, and the reasons by which it was to be justified. +It was the work of Thomas Jefferson, then aged thirty-three, and never +did graver responsibility rest on a young man than the preparation of +that immortal paper, and never was the duty more nobly fulfilled. In +the original draft of the declaration there was the allegation that the +king "had prostituted his negative by suppressing every legislative +attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce in human +beings." This was struck out, as Mr. Jefferson tells us, in +"complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, not without tenderness to +Northern Brethren who held slaves." Time forbids my calling over the +roll of these noble patriots who signed their names to our Magna Charta. +There is John Adams, of whom Jefferson said, "He was our Colossus on +that floor, and spoke with such power as to move us from our seats." +Benjamin Franklin, printer philosopher and statesman. Roger Sherman, of +whom John Adams said, "He is honest as an angel and firm as Mount +Atlas." Charles Carroll, who, when a member said, "Oh, Carroll, you +will get off, there are so many Carrolls," stepped back to the desk and +wrote after his name, "of Carrollton." John Hancock, who, when elected +speaker, Benjamin Harrison had playfully seated in the speaker's chair +and said, "We will show Mother Britain how little we care for her, by +making a Massachusetts man our president, whom she has by proclamation +excluded from pardon." A friend said to John Hancock, "You have signed +your name large." "Yes," he replied, "I wish John Bull to read it +without spectacles." Robert Morris, the financier and treasurer of the +Revolution. Elbridge Gerry, the youngest member, the friend of Gen. +Warren, to whom Warren had said the night before the battle of Bunker +Hill, "It is sweet to die for our country." What a roll of names! the +silver-tongued Rutledge, brave Stockton, wise Rush, Lee--fifty-five noble +names, not one of whom who did not know that, as one member said, "If we +do not hang together, we shall hang separately." It was not timidity +which made any of the delegates hesitate to take the irrevocable step. +All the associations of their lives, all the traditions and memories of +the past bound them by ties of kindred and affection to the mother +country. They were venturing on an unknown sea; there were no charts to +guide them, no precedents to follow. The truth was, as Jefferson so +tersely said, "The people wait for us to lead the way. The question is +not whether by a declaration of independence we shall make ourselves +what we are not, but whether we shall declare a fact which exists." So +also John Adams said, "The Revolution was effected before the war +commenced." + + +I cannot tell the story of the seven year's war. The articles of +confederation were sent to the States in 1778, but the last of the +thirteen States, Maryland, did not adopt them until March, 1781. +Congress under he confederacy dealt with the States and did not have the +confidence or the love of the people. It required nine States to pass +any measure of importance. During the war the confederacy was a +pitiable failure. It issued bills which no one would take, its +certificates of indebtedness and promises to pay were so worthless that +it gave rise to the proverb, "Not worth a continental." Robert Morris, +the financier, pleaded hopelessly for help. Alexander Hamilton +denounced the confederation as "neither fit for war nor peace." Even +Washington, always hopeful, wrote in 1781: "Our troops are fast +approaching nakedness; our hospitals are without medicine; our sick are +without meat; our public works are at a standstill; in a word, we are at +the end of our tether, and now or never deliverance must come." At last +victory came--thanks to the generous assistance of France, to the heroism +of leaders like Lafayette, Baron Steuben, and hosts of others, who gave +us their fortunes and hazarded their lives for America, the war was +ended by the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Victor Hugo said, "Napoleon +was not defeated at Waterloo by the allied forces. It was God who +conquered him." Who that remembers Trenton, Valley Forge, Saratoga and +Yorktown, will not say God fought for our Washington? In 1777 a Quaker +had occasion to pass through the woods near the headquarters of the +army; hearing a voice, he approached the spot, and saw Washington in +prayer. Returning home, he said to his wife: "All's well! All's well! +Washington will prevail. I have thought that no man can be a soldier +and a Christian. George Washington has convinced me of my mistake." +Peace was declared in 1783. I have a water-color of the building used +as the Department of State, in which the treaty of peace was signed--it +was a building 12 feet by 30. + + +In May,1787, delegates from all the States, except Rhode Island, met in +the state house in Philadelphia, with George Washington as president, to +draft a constitution for these United States. All the delegates were +convinced of the utter failure of the articles of confederation, all +were convinced of the need of a stronger government. Two parties +honestly differed and were determined to fight it out to the bitter end. +At one time it looked as if the convention must disband without +effecting its object. Franklin arose and said: "Mr. President, the +small progress we have made after five weeks is a melancholy proof of +the imperfection of human understanding--we have gone back to ancient +history for models of government--we have viewed modern states--we find +none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances--we are groping +in the dark to find political truth, and are scarcely able to +distinguish it when presented to us. How has it happened, sir, that we +have not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to +illumine our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with +Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this +room for Divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard and they were +graciously answered. All of us have observed frequent instances of a +superintending Providence in our favor. To that kind Providence we owe +this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means to establish +our nation. Have we forgotten our powerful Friend? Do we imagine that +we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time, and +the longer I live the more convinced I am that God governs in the +affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His +notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We are +told, sir in the sacred writings, that 'except the Lord build the house, +they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this, and I also +believe that without His aid we shall succeed in our political building +no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our +little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and +we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword to future ages. I +therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the +assistance of Heaven an its blessing on our deliberations be held in +this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one +or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate." When the +Constitution was adopted, Franklin rose, and pointing to the speaker's +chair, on which was carved a sun half-hid by the horizon, said: +"Gentlemen, I have long watched that sun and wondered whether it was a +rising or a setting sun--God has heard our prayers, it is a rising sun." +This convention adopted the famous ordinance of 1787, which guaranteed +that slavery should never enter the north-west territory, and this, +under God, saved the nation in the hour of trial. The Constitution was +ratified by eleven of the States in 1788, and the first Wednesday in +January, 1789, electors were chosen in all the ratifying States, except +New York, where a conflict between the senate and assembly prevented a +choice. In Rhode Island and North Carolina no election was held. The +person receiving the highest number of votes was to be president, the +man receiving the next highest number was to be vice-president. + +Washington received the whole number of votes, 69; John Adams received +34. They were elected the first president and vice-president of the +United States. + + + +The world has only one Washington. At sixteen he was county surveyor, +the support of his widowed mother; at nineteen he was military +inspector, with the rank of major; at twenty the governor of Virginia +sent him six hundred miles to ask the commander of the French forces "by +what authority he had invaded the king's dominions"; at twenty-two he +was colonel in command of a regiment under General Braddock, and in the +absence of a chaplain he read prayers daily himself. He saved the +remnant of that ill-fated army from annihilation, and fifteen years +after an aged Indian chief came to see the man at whom he had fired many +times and who was protected by the Great Spirit. At his entrance as a +member of the legislature of Virginia, the speaker greeted him with +thanks for his military services. Washington arose to reply and blushed +and stammered. The speaker said, "Mr. Washington, your modesty only +equals your valor." He was a member of the first Continental Congress +of whom Patrick Henry said, "Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is the +great orator, but for solid information and sound judgement Col. +Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor." When with +one voice Congress chose him to be the commander-in-chief, he said, "I +beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in this room, that I this +day declare with the utmost sincerity that I do not think myself equal +to the command I am honored with. No pecuniary consideration would +tempt me to accept this position. I will keep an exact account of my +expenses, those I doubt not you will discharge. I ask no more." The +nation applauded the prudence, the wisdom, the bravery and patriotism of +Washington. Frederick the Great said, "His achievements are the most +brilliant in military annals." Napoleon directed that the standard of +the French army should be hung with crape at his death. Fox said of him +in the British Parliament, "Illustrious man, it has been reserved for +him to run the race of glory without the smallest interruption to his +course." But the noblest eulogy ever uttered were the words of Gen. +Henry Lee: "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his +countrymen." He had hoped to retire to private life, and wrote to +Lafayette, "I am a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, under +the shadow of my own vine and fig tree. I have retired from all public +employment and tread the walks of private life with heartfelt +satisfaction." The country would not permit it. He had refused to be a +candidate for the office of president and accepted the nation's +unanimous call with a heavy heart. His last act before leaving for New +York was to visit his aged mother, then eighty-two, and in the last year +of her life. We can picture that tender farewell to one to whom he owed +under God that beautiful faith which shed glory on his life. The +journey to New York was one continued ovation. His Virginia neighbors +and friend gave him a God-speed and benediction. Baltimore outdid +itself in generous hospitality. Philadelphia crowned him with laurel, +the bells rang out their joyous peals, cannons thundered and the people +with one voice shouted "Long live the President." Marvellous as was the +enthusiasm of other cities, the people of Trenton, who remembered the +cruelties of the Hessian in 1776 and their deliverance by Washington, +outdid them all. On a triumphal arch was written "Dec. 26, 1776. The +hero who defended the mothers will defend the daughters." At Elizabeth +a committee of Congress met him, and Caesar never had so beautiful a +flotilla as that of the sea captains and pilots who bore him to New York +on the 23d of April. A week was spent in festivity. It is the 30th of +April. In all the churches of New York there have been prayers for the +new government and its chosen head. The streets swarm with people as +the hour of noon approaches. Every house-top and porch and window near +to Federal Hall is packed with a dense mass. The president has been +presented to the two houses of Congress. The procession is formed. +Washington follows the senators and representatives to the balcony. +Around and behind him are his staff and distinguished patriots of the +Revolution. Every eye is fixed on the stately, majestic man. A little +over six feet high, his form perfect in outline and figure, a florid +complexion, dark blue eyes deeply set, his rich brown hair now tinged +with gray, firm jaws and broad nostrils, lighted by a benignant +expression. Such was the Father of his Country. The brave soldier +trembles with emotion as the chancellor of the State of New York reads +the oath; the hand of Washington is on the open Bible. Was it a +providence that they rested on the words, "His hands were made strong by +the mighty God of Israel?" The secretary would have raised the sacred +book to the president's lips. Washington said solemnly, "I swear, so +help me God," and then bowed reverently kissed the book. He went to the +senate chamber, and with stammering words, for his heart was almost too +full for utterance, he delivered his inaugural address, and then turning +to his friends said, "We will go to St. Paul's Church for prayers." It +had been the habit of his life. His pastor, Rev. Lee Massey, said, "No +company ever withheld him from church."' His secretary, Harrison, said, +"Whenever the general could be spared from the camp on the Sabbath, he +never failed to ride to some neighboring church to join in the worship +of God." He claimed no praise for his matchless victories, but +reverently gave all the glory to the blessing and protection of God. He +knew, in the words of my friend Robert C. Winthrop, that "There can be +no independence of God." The poet will sing and the orator describe +eloquently the pageant of that day, but no incident will so touch the +Christian's heart as the first act of the president of the United +States, kneeling reverently with his fellow-citizens in the public +worship of God. The service which had been set forth and was this day +used in St. Paul's Church by Bishop Provost, also a patriot of the +Revolution, and one who had suffered for his country's sake, was +substantially the same used by us to-day. Washington assumed office in +the midst of dangers. Edmund Randolph, one of the foremost members of +the constitutional convention, wrote to Washington, "The Constitution +would never have been adopted but for the knowledge that you sanctioned +it, and the expectation that you would execute it. It is in state of +probation. You alone can give it stability." There was a stormy sea +before the new ship of state. The bitter hatreds between Federalist and +anti-Federalist were not healed. Two states had not ratified the +Constitution--there were tokens in more than one direction of rebellion. +Without on dollar in the treasury, we were eighty millions in debt. The +pirates of Morocco had destroyed our commerce in the Mediterranean, +Spain threatened the valley of the Mississippi. Our relations with +England were full of bitter memories; a country larger than Europe was +to be protected, and we had a standing army of only 600 men. Washington +called around him as advisers Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of Foreign +Affairs; Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury; Henry Knox, +Secretary of War; Edmund Randolph, Attorney-General, and John Jay, Chief +Justice, and by these men, under God, the crumbling confederacy was +cemented into one nation. Time forbids my reading you the words of +wisdom, "apples of gold in pictures of silver," of Washington's +inaugural and farewell addresses. I wish I had time to tell how, with a +prophet's eye, he saw the future of the West, and again and again urged +the opening of lines of commerce to bind East and West together. After +eight years of wise rule, such as befitted "the Father of our Country," +he retired to the shades of Mt. Vernon, to be, as he had been through +life, the helper of the helpless, the friend of the needy and the +almoner of God. On the 12th of December, 1799, he was exposed to a +storm of sleet and rain, the severest form of quinsy set in; two days +later, the 14th of December, he died. As friends stood weeping around +his death-bed, he said with a smile, "O don't, don't; I am dying, but +thank God I am not afraid to die." As the hour of his death drew near +he asked to be left alone. They all went out and left him with God. +There are lessons for our hearts to-day. Government is a delegated +trust from God, who alone has the right to govern. He gives to every +nation the right to say in what form this trust shall be clothed. No +man has the right to be his brother's master. Take away the truth that +government is a trust which comes from God, and you have left nothing +between man and man but cunning and brute force. Burke said, "this +sacred trust of government does not arise from our conventions and +compacts," but it gives our conventions and compacts all the force and +sanction which they have. I shall be told that the name of God is not +found in the Constitution of the United States; it did not need to be +when it was written on the people's hearts. + +While we commemorate the noble deeds of our fathers, which under God +were this day crowned with success, we gratefully remember that our +fathers' God has guided us through all dangers. What other nation has +come out of the horrors of civil war with victors and vanquished vieing +with each other in love for one common country? Where has the hand of +the assassin bowed the whole people by the leader's grave? This is no +day for boasting or to call over the roll of our great dead. + +We have sinned deeply, and deeply have we paid the penalty. No hand but +God's could have over-ruled our mistakes and given us our favored +position to-day. We must not forget that no nation has ever survived +the loss of its religion. The year which saw Washington inaugurated +president, saw in the fair land of Lafayette the beginnings of that +holocaust of murder which turned France into a hell. "The fear of the +Lord is the beginning of wisdom." No high-sounding words about freedom, +no Godless philosophy, no infidel creed, which robs men of homes here +and heaven hereafter, can save this nation. "Not unto us, but unto Thy +name be the praise," must be our song, as it was the song of our +fathers. + + +There are clouds and darkness on the horizon for the future. I see it +in the impatience of law, in the jealousies between class and class, in +the selfishness of the rich, and in the misery of the poor, in bribery +and corruption in high places, and in the turbulence of mobs. I see it +in the foul monster of intemperance and impurity which stalk unabashed +through the land. But I see the greatest danger in that insidious +teaching which robs humanity of an eternal standard of right, which +makes morality prudence or imprudence, which limits man's horizon by the +grave, and takes from hearts and homes God and Christ and heaven. Yet, +I reverently believe that God has set us in the forefront of the nations +to be, as our text says, "a beacon on the mountain-top," to lead on in +His work in the last time. It may be that for our sins we shall walk +again into the furnace, as we have walked and come out of it purified +and fitted for the Master's use. I sometimes lose faith in men, but I +will not lose faith in God. It is ours to work and bide our time; so +did our fathers, and so will God give the harvest. I should wrong my +heart and yours to-day, if I forgot the daughters of the Revolution. We +might have had no Washington but for the lessons he learned at that +mother's knee, that his duty to God was to believe in Him, to fear Him +and to love Him with all his heart, with all his mind, with all his soul +and with all his strength, to worship Him, to give Him thanks, to put +his whole trust in Him, to call on Him, to honor His holy name and His +word and to love Him truly all the days of his life; that his duty +towards his neighbor--was to love him as himself, and to do to all men as +he would have them do unto him, to love, honor and succor his father and +mother, to honor and obey the civil authority, to hurt nobody by word or +deed, to be true and just in all his dealings, to bear no malice or +hatred in his heart, to keep his hands from picking and stealing, and +his tongue from evil speaking, lying and slandering, to keep his body in +temperance, soberness and chastity. Not to covet or desire other men's +goods, but to learn and labor truly to get his own living and to do his +duty in that state of life unto which it should please God to call him. +We know this was the rule of his life. The Father of his Country found +his solace, inspiration and help, as many of us have found it, in the +love of a Christian wife. There are no fairer names in our country's +history than Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Schuyler +Hamilton, Sally Foster Otis, Alice DeLancy Izard, Jane Ketelas Beekman, +and many more, who made up the republican court of Washington; and we do +not forget humble names like Mollie Stark, whose lives were consecrated +to their country. Wives, mothers, daughters! none have places of +greater influence in shaping and moulding our country than you. Your +power is the power of a Christian mother, a Christian wife, a Christian +daughter. In the darkest hour look to God, believe that your mission is +a nobler one than to be a slave of fashion or the leader of a party. +Plant your feet on the rock of eternal truth--never speak with uncertain +voice of the verities of the Christian faith. For you St. Paul said: +"How knowest thou, O Woman, but thou mayest save thy husband and thy +child," and saving them a nation is saved. + + + + + +III. _SERMON AT THE SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MISSIONARY COUNCIL +IN WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 13, 1888_. + + +"_The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of +His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever_."--REVELATION xi. 15. + + +THESE words are God's surety that the prayers, the trials and the labors +of His Church shall be crowned with success. + +We are living in the great missionary age of the Church. Impenetrable +barriers have been broken down. Fast-closed doors have been opened. +There is no country where we may not carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ. +Divine Providence has been fusing the nations of the earth into one +common brotherhood. Man has created nothing. The lightening would run +its circuit in the Garden of Eden as well as when Morse made it man's +messenger. In the fullness of time God has lifted the veil from human +eyes to see the mysteries of His bounty, and so prepare a highway for +the coming of our King. + +I have no argument about the obligation of missions. It is eighteen +hundred years too late for this. + +I speak to you to-day of the progress of the Kingdom of Christ. Pray +for me that the story may lead us to the foot of the Cross to consecrate +all that we have to His blessed service. + + +At the close of the last century a thoughtful young Englishman asked the +governor of the East India Company to go to India to preach the Gospel. +The answer was: "The man that would go to India upon that errand is as +mad as a man who would put a torch to a powder magazine." + +A few years ago Chunder Sen, the great scholar of India, died. On his +death-bed a friend asked him what he thought were the prospects of +Christianity in India. He answered: "Jesus Christ has conquered the +heart of India." Not that great battles are not yet to be fought, much +weary work to be done, but with more than half a million of Christians +in India, which have been won in this century, we are certain that the +nation will be won to Christ. + +I turn to that dark continent which has had more of human sorrow bound +up in its history than any place on earth. Forty years ago in a cottage +in the highlands of Scotland an aged man said to his son: "David, you +will have family prayer to-day, for when we part we shall never meet +again until we meet before the great white throne." David Livingstone +read the thirty-fourth Psalm, the key-note of that wonderful life, and +then poured out his heart to God in prayer, threw his arms around his +father's neck and kissed him; they parted never to meet again in this +world, and so he went to Africa. He did a wonderful work in the +Bechuana country. He was a carpenter, blacksmith, teacher, laborer, +physician and minister to these poor souls, but the man's heart was in +the interior of Africa. One day, with about as much preparation as I +take when I go to the north woods of Minnesota, he left for the interior +of Africa. His route was along the path of slave traders, and every few +days he came to some place where a poor woman had fainted in the +chain-gang and had been strapped to a tree with her babe at her breast +and left to be stung to death by insects. No wonder that he wrote in +his Journal, and blotted it with tears: "Oh, God, when will the great +sore of the world be healed?" + +When you remember that the followers of the false prophet are the only +people engaged in this traffic in human flesh, and that to the poor +African it means slavery or death, you have the answer to the stories of +the progress of Mohammedanism in Africa. + +I cannot tell the story of his life. One day he was found dead on his +knees in prayer in an African hut. That life had so impressed itself +upon the heathen folk that they did what will always be a marvel of +history. They wrapped the body in leaves. They covered it with pitch. +They carried it nine months on their shoulders. They fought hostile +tribes. They swam swollen rivers. They cut their way through +impenetrable thickets, and at last stood at the door of a mission house +in Zanzibar, and said, "We have brought the man of God to be buried with +his people." And so David Livingstone sleeps in Westminster Abbey. + +Our Stanley took up Livingstone's work, and he laid Africa open to the +gaze of the world. He travelled nine hundred and ninety-nine days, and +the thousandth day reached the sea-coast. In all that journey he did +not meet a single, solitary soul who had heard that Jesus Christ had +come into the world. Stanley tells the reason why he went back to +Africa. He said: + + +"When I found Livingstone I cared no more for missions than the veriest +atheist in England. I had been a press reporter, and my business was to +follow armies and to describe battles; to attend conventions and report +speeches, but my heart had not been touched with sympathy for missions. +When I found this grand old man I asked: 'What is he here for? Is he +crazy? Is he cracked? I sat at his feet four months and I saw that a +power above his will had taken possession of his life, and given him a +hunger to lead poor heathen folk out of their darkness. + +"I have heard the same voice speaking to my heart, 'Follow me,' and I go +back to Africa to finish Livingstone's work." + +This was a few years ago. To-day there are fifteen Christian Bishops of +our communion in Africa. Eight were present at the Lambeth Conference. +One of them, Bishop Crowther, was captured when a boy ten years of age +on a slave ship, placed in a mission school, transferred to a high +school, then to the university, graduated with honors, and went back to +Africa as a Bishop. As I looked in the face of that black man and +thought of his wonderful history, I remembered another man from Africa +that carried the cross of my blessed Master up the hill to Calvary, and +that this aged servant of Christ was following in his blessed footsteps. + +Another of these Bishops was one of the manliest men that I ever looked +upon; Bishop Smythies, the picture of manly beauty, honored by his +university, beloved by friends, a face gentle and loving as that of St. +John. When I thought of this man going on foot in the interior of +Africa, perhaps to die for Christ, I could not keep back the tears, and +I went to him and said, "My good brother, I cannot tell you how my heart +goes out to you in loving sympathy." He smiled and said, "Bishop, when +the Church in Jerusalem had more work than it knew how to do, the Holy +Ghost sent one of its ministers upon a long journey to convert one +African. Surely it is not much for the Christians of Christian England +to send a Christian Bishop to millions who never heard there is a +Savior." + +And now I turn to the opposite quarter of the globe--Australasia, New +Zealand, and Polynesia. When I was a boy there was but one English +settlement, and that was known throughout the world as Botany Bay, the +abode of the most abandoned criminals of English civilization. There +are to-day twenty-one Bishops in those islands. I wish I could tell the +story inwrought in the lives of Selwyn, Patteson, Williams, and a host +of others, some of whom have laid down their lives for Christ. + +To-day cannibalism is a thing of the past. Human sacrifices, thank God, +are to be found nowhere on the earth. There is not one of those islands +without its Christian church, and in some of them the last vestige of +heathenism has passed away. They have thousands of Christian men and +women under their native pastors. Surely this is no time to talk about +the failure of Christian missions. + +Now I turn to Japan. Less than forty year ago one of our brave American +sailors, Commodore Perry, cast anchor on Sunday morning in the harbor of +Yeddo. He called his officers and crew together for public worship, and +they sang that old hymn of our fathers, "Old Hundred"; and the first +sound that this hermit nation heard from her younger sister of the West +was that grand old hymn. + + +Next year Japan will have a constitutional government. It has already +adopted the Christian calendar. There are more that a million of +children in their public schools. Many of these schools are under the +charge of Christian men and women, and it is only a question of a few +years when Japan will take her place beside other Christian nations. +This is more wonderful when we remember that until recently there was a +statute in Japan that, "if any Christian shall set his foot on the +Island of Japan, or if the Christian's God, Jesus, shall come, he shall +be beheaded." + +I turn to China. I wonder that its doors are open to Christian missions +when I remember that Christian nations at the mouth of the cannon have +forced upon that people that deadly drug which drags body and soul to +death, that their names have been by-words and hissing in Christian +lands. The secret is that God sent to China a young Englishman whose +life was hid with Christ in God. Chinese Gordon saved the nation of +China, and his name will be a household word forever. Surely a people +where the poorest laborer can become the first prince of the realm if he +becomes the first scholar, and if his son is a vagabond sinks to the +place from which his father came, surely such a people have the elements +to receive the Gospel of Christ. + +Time would fail me to tell the story of missions in North America; I +should begin at Hudson's Bay, where Bishop John Horden has lived +thirty-five years amid its solitudes and won every one of its Indian +tribes to Christianity. I should tell you of the Bishop of Athabasca, +whose home is within the Arctic circle, who could not attend the Lambeth +Conference because he could not go and return the same year. I should +tell of my young friend, the Bishop of Mackenzie River, when I knew that +he spent nine months each year travelling upon snowshoes and three months +in a birch-bark canoe; that the only way that he could carry to them the +Gospel was to follow them in the chase, hunt with them, fish with them, +lie down in their wigwams in his blanket and always have waiting upon +his lips the sweet story of the love of God, our Father. I told him I +wished he would give me his post-office address and I would send him +books and papers; he said: "Bishop, I am a thousand miles from a +post-office and only get one mail a year." + +I should tell you of another, the Bishop of Rupertsland, Dr. Macrae, the +only Bishop in Christendom who has a university made up of a Roman +Catholic college, a Presbyterian college, and a college of the Church of +England; so large-hearted that almost by one consent the people of +Manitoba have made him the president of their entire educational system. + + +If I turn to our own land, it would be to tell you that one hundred +years ago the Church was a feeble folk, scattered along the Atlantic +coast and known as a people that were everywhere spoken against. Thank +God, to-day her voice is heard in the miner's camp, in the schoolhouse +of the border, in the wigwam of the Indians, and sturdy heralds are in +the fore-front of that mighty movement which is peopling this land with +its millions of souls. Marvellous as is the progress of Christian +missions and the work which has been done in this century, it has +largely been committed to the English-speaking race. In the providence +of God races of men have been selected by Him to do His work. Two +hundred years ago the English-speaking people of Europe were less than +many of the nations of the Latin races. Spain outnumbered England two +to one. To-day there are one hundred and fifty millions of +English-speaking people in the world, one-tenth of the entire human +family. When we think of the future, that by the close of another century +more than five hundred millions will be speaking one language, it leads +us to ask, on bended knees, why has this commission been committed to +this English-speaking race, and what are the responsibilities that rest +upon our branch of the Church of God? I reverently believe that it is +because on its civil side it recognizes as no other race that government +is a delegated trust from God, who alone has the right to govern. It +represents constitutional government, and it has done so since Bishop +Stephen Langton, at the head of the nobles of England, wrung the _Magna +Charta_ from King John, and henceforth recognized the sacredness of the +citizen, who has been clothed with an individuality unlike any being who +lives or will live in all the ages of eternity. On its religious side +it recognizes the two truths which underlie the possibility of the +reunion of Christendom--the validity of all Christian Baptism in the name +of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and that the condition of +fellowship in the Church of God is faith in the incarnate Son of God as +contained in the Old Catholic creeds. Surely we may hold up the olive +branch of God's peace over all strife and divisions among the disciples +of Christ, and say "Ye are brethren." + +When we remember that in the providence of God the Greek tongue was +spoken throughout the civilized world to prepare a way for the coming of +His Son and the preaching of the blessed Gospel, we see in these facts +forerunning tokens of his preparation for the second coming of Jesus +Christ. + +If I had time to-day, I would love to tell you the story that is +inwrought in the history of our noble Missionary Bishops; men who have +hazarded their lives for the Lord Jesus. I wish I could tell you of +their ventures of faith, foundations for Christian schools which they +have laid with prayers and watered with tears, and with a prophet's eye +looked forward to a future when the land will swarm with millions of +souls, that so by Christian nurture and Christian training the Church +may fulfil the Master's words, "Feed my lambs." I wish I could tell you +of the work, dear to every Bishop's heart, of the daughters of the +Cross; yes, and I would like to bring to this Council some of the +tempest-tossed and weary souls who have been led out of their darkness +to the rest and peace and gladness of Christian faith. I wish I could +bring here some from the northern forests and the prairies of the West, +the men of the trembling eye and the wandering foot, that they might +thank you for having led them out of their heritage of anguish and +sorrow into the light of the children of God. + +I may not close without a word of tribute to those who have fallen +asleep. Since our last General Convention nine Bishops have crossed the +river and are waiting for us on the other shore. Unbidden tears come as +I remember the loving Elliot, our St. John; Welles, another holy +Herbert; Brown, with his Catholic heart that had room enough to take in +all the poor and the sorrowful of his diocese; Harris, every whit a +great leader in our Israel; Dunlop, the soldier on the outpost, often +debarred brotherly sympathy, who in loneliness and weariness bravely did +his work. Others who were patriarchs of the Church of God--Green, Lee, +Potter and Stevens--all men who were great leaders in the Church of God, +who bravely did their work, whose faces are upon every heart, and who +have entered into rest. + +Since I entered the House of Bishops, fifty-three Bishops have laid down +their shepherd's staves and entered into rest. + + +A word, and I have done. Surely in such a day as this it is no time to +discuss shibboleths. Its is a time for brotherly sympathy and +great-hearted work. With such responsibilities around us there must be +no divisions among those who love the same Saviour and look for the same +heavenly home. I remember that at a critical period in our missionary +work the venerable Doctor Dyer said to me with tears in his eyes, +"Strife is an awful price to pay for the best results, but strife among +the kinsmen of Christ in the presence of those for whom He died, and +when wandering souls are going down to death, is almost an unpardonable +sin." May I not ask you to-day, dear brothers and sisters, what have we +done to help on in the great work which is to be done in the eventide of +the world? What lonely missionary have we remembered in prayer during +the past week? What wanderer have we tried with love to lead to the +Saviour? Have we given the cost of the trimmings of a dress? Have we +made any sacrifices for Him who gave Himself for us? May I not ask you +to-day here beside God's altar to consecrate all you have and are to His +service? + +With some of us the eventide draws on. A little while, such a little +while, just time enough to do His work, and then the end shall come. +And when we reach that other home, next to seeing the Saviour, next to +having the old ties re-united, will be the comfort and the blessedness +of meeting some one whom we helped heavenward and home. + + + + + +IV. _ADDRESS IN LAMBETH CHAPEL, AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LAMBETH +CONFERENCE, JULY 3, 1888_. + + +Most reverend and right reverend brethren: No assembly is fraught with +such awful responsibility to God, as a council of the Bishops of His +Church. Since the Holy Spirit presided in the first council of +Jerusalem, faithful souls have looked with deep interest to the +deliberations of those whom Christ has made the shepherds of His flock, +and to whom he gave His promise, "Lo, I am with you always to the end of +the world." The responsibility is greater when division has marred the +beauty of the Lamb's Bride. Our words and acts will surely hasten or +(which God forbid) retard the reunion of Christendom. Feeling the grave +responsibility which is imposed on me to-day, my heart cries out as did +the prophet's, "I am a child and cannot speak." Pray for me, venerable +brethren, that God may help me to obey His word--"Whatsoever I command, +that shalt thou speak." I would kneel with you at our Master's feet and +pray that "the Holy Spirit may guide us into all truth." We meet as the +representatives of national Churches; each with its own peculiar +responsibility to God for the souls intrusted to its care; each with all +the rights of a national Church, to adapt itself to the varying +conditions of human society; and each bound to preserve the order, the +faith, the sacraments, and the worship of the Catholic Church, for which +it is a trustee. As we kneel by the table of our common Lord we +remember separated brothers. Division has multiplied division until +infidelity sneers at Christianity as an effete superstition, and the +modern Sadducee, more bold than his Jewish brother, denies the existence +of God. Millions for whom Christ died have not so much as heard that +there is a Saviour. It will heal no divisions to say, Who is at fault? +The sin of schism does not lie at one door. If one has sinned by +self-will, the other has sinned as deeply by lack of charity and love. +The way to reunion looks difficult. To man it is impossible. No human +_eirenicon_ can bridge the gulf of separation. There are unkind words to +be taken back, alienations to be healed, and heartburnings to be +forgiven. Where we are blind, God can make a way. When "the God of +Peace" rules in all Christian hearts, our Lord's prayer will be +answered--"That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in +Thee, that they all may be one in Us, that the world may believe that +Thou hast sent Me." No one branch of the Church is absolutely by itself +alone the Catholic Church; all branches need reunion in order to the +completeness of the Church. There are blessed signs that the Holy +Spirit is quickening Christian hearts to seek for unity. We all know +that this divided Christianity cannot conquer the world. At a time when +every form of error and sin is banded together to oppose the kingdom of +Christ, the world needs the witness of a united Church. Men must hear +again the voice which peals through the lapse of centuries bearing +witness to the "faith once delivered to the saints," or else for many +souls there will be only rationalism and unbelief--while this sad, weary +world, so full of sin and sorrow, is pleading for help, it is a wrong to +Christ and to the souls for whom He died that His children should be +separated in rival folds. As baptised into Christ we are brothers. +Notwithstanding the hedges of human opinions which men have builded in +the garden of the Lord, all who look for salvation alone through faith +in Jesus Christ do hold the great verities of Divine faith. The +opinions which separate us are not necessary to be believed in order to +salvation. The truths in which we agree are parts of the Catholic +faith. The Holy Spirit has passed over these human barriers, and set +his seal to the labors of separated brethren in Christ, and rewarded +them in the salvation of many precious souls. The grace of the Lord +Jesus Christ and the renewing and sanctifying influences of the Holy +Ghost are the same in the peasant in the cottage, and in the emperor on +the throne. They share with us in the long line of confessors and +martyrs for Christ. We would not rob them of one sheaf which they have +gathered in the garner of the Lord. We rejoice that Churches with a +like historic lineage with us are seeking reunion. Churches whose faith +has been dimmed by coldness or clouded by error are being quickened into +new life from the Incarnate Son of God. + +Our hearts go out in loving sympathy to the Old Catholics of Europe and +America, whose names always will be linked with Selwyn, Wilberforce, and +Wordsworth, Whittingham, Kerfoot, and Brown, in defence of the faith. +It is with deep sorrow that we remember that the Church of Rome has +separated herself from the teaching of the primitive Church by additions +to the faith once delivered to the saints, and by claiming for its +Bishop prerogatives which belong only to the Divine Head of the Church +While we honor the devotion and zeal of her missionary heroes, and +rejoice at the good works of multitudes of her children, we lament that +lack of charity which anathematizes disciples of Christ who have carried +the Gospel to the ends of the earth. + +We bless God's Holy Name for the fraternal work which has been carried +on under the guidance of the see of Canterbury, and which we trust will +lead ancient Churches to a deeper personal faith in Jesus Christ. + + +We are sad that some of our kinsmen in Christ, children of one mother, +have forsaken her ways. God can over-rule even this sorrow, so that it +shall fall out to the furtherance of the Gospel. They must take with +them precious memories of the love and the faith of the mother whom they +have forsaken, and of the liberty wherewith the truth in Christ has made +her children free--under God these may be a link in the chain of His +providence to the restoration of unity. It is a singular providence +that at this period of the world's history, when marvellous discoveries +have united the people of divers tongues in common interests, He has +placed the Anglo-Saxon race in the forefront of the nations. They are +carrying civilization to the ends of the earth. They are bringing +liberty to the oppressed, elevating the down-trodden, and are giving to +all these divers tongues and kindreds their customs, traditions, and +laws. I reverently believe that the Anglo-Saxon Church has been +preserved by God's Providence (if her children will accept this Mission) +to heal the divisions of Christendom, and lead on in His work to be done +in the eventide of the world. She holds the truths which underlie the +possibility of reunion, the validity of all Christian baptism in the +Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. She ministers the two +sacraments of Christ as of perpetual obligation, and makes faith in +Jesus Christ, as contained in the Catholic Creeds, a condition of +Christian fellowship. The Anglo-Saxon Church does not perplex men with +theories and shibboleths which many a poor Ephraimite cannot speak--she +believes in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in +Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, three Persons and one +God, but she does not weaken faith in the Triune God by human +speculations about the Trinity in Unity. She believes that the sacred +Scriptures were written by inspiration of God, but she has no theory +about inspiration. She holds up the Atonement of Christ as the only +hope of a lost world; but she has no philosophy about the Atonement. +She teaches that it is through the Holy Ghost that men are united to +Christ. She ministers the sacraments appointed by Christ as His +channels of grace; but she has no theory to explain the manner of +Christ's presence to penitent believing souls. She does not explain +what God has explained, but celebrates these Divine mysteries, as they +were held and celebrated for one thousand years after our Lord ascended +into heaven, before there was any East or West arrayed against each +other in the Church of God. Surely we may and ought to be first to hold +up the olive branch of peace over strife, and say, "Sirs, ye are +brethren." + +In so grave a matter as the restoration of organic unity, we may not +surrender anything which is of Divine authority, or accept terms of +communion which are contrary to God's Word. We cannot recognize any +usurpation of the rights and prerogatives of national Churches which +have a common ancestry, lest we heal "the hurt of the daughter of my +people slightly," and say "peace, where there is no peace;" but we do +say that all which is temporary and of human choice or preference we +will forego, from our love to our own kinsmen in Christ. + +The Church of the Reconciliation will be an historical and Catholic +Church in its ministry, its faith, and its sacraments. It will inherit +the promises of its Divine Lord. It will preserve all which is catholic +and Divine. It will adopt and use all instrumentalities of any existing +organization which will aid it in doing the Lord's work. It will put +away all which is individual, narrow, and sectarian. It will concede to +all who hold the faith all the liberty wherewith Christ hath made His +children free. + + +_Missions_.--In the presence of brethren who bear in their bodies the +marks of the Lord Jesus, I hardly know how to clothe in words my +thoughts as I speak of Missions. The providence of God has broken down +impenetrable barriers--the doors of hermit nations have been opened; +commerce has bound men in common interests, and so prepared "a highway +for our God"--Japan, India, China, Africa, Polynesia, amid the solitudes +of icy north, and in the lands of tropic suns, world-wide there are +signs of the coming of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. The veil which has +so long blinded the eyes of the ancient people, our Lord's kinsmen +according to the flesh, is being taken away. We bless God for the good +example of martyrs like Patteson, Mackenzie, Parker, Hannington, and +others, who have laid down their lives for the Lord Jesus. We rejoice +that our branch of the Church has been counted worthy to add to the +names of those who "came out of great tribulation, and have washed their +robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." "A great and +effectual door is opened." There is no country on the earth where we +may not carry the Gospel. The wealth of the world is largely in +Christian hands. The Church only needs faith to grasp the opportunity +to do the work. + +In the presence of fields so white for the harvest, we must ask, "Lord, +what wilt Thou have me to do?" + +1. There must be unceasing, prevailing intercessory prayer for those +whom we send out to heathen lands. The hearts of all Christian nations +were turned with anxious solicitude to that brave servant of God and His +country in Khartoum. Shall we feel less for the servants of Christ who +have given up home and country to suffer and it may be to die for Him? +Some of us remember that when Missions were destroyed, when clouds were +all around us, and the very ground drifting from under our feet, that we +were made brave to work and wait for the salvation of God by the prayers +which went up to God for us. When "prayers were made without ceasing of +the Church unto God," the fast-closed doors of the prison were opened +for the Apostles. It will be so again. + +2. There must be the entire consecration of all unto Christ. The wisdom +of Paul and the eloquence of Apollos may plant, but "God alone giveth +the increase." If success comes, if "the rod of the priesthood bud and +blossom and bear fruit," it must be "laid up in the ark of God." He +will not give His glory to another. The work is Christ's. "We are +ambassadors for Him." "I have chosen you and ordained you that ye +should go and bring forth fruit." + +3. They who would win souls must have a ripe knowledge of the sacred +Scriptures. "They were written by inspiration of God. . . . that the +man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." +Our orders may be unquestioned, our doctrine perfect in every line and +feature, but we shall not reach the hearts of men unless we preach +Christ out of an experimental knowledge of the truths of Divine +Revelation. There is but one Book which can bring light to homes of +sorrow, one light to scatter clouds and darkness, one message to lead +wandering folk unto God. This blessed Book will be to every soldier and +lonely missionary what it was to Livingstone dying alone in Africa, or +to Captain Gardiner dead on the desolate shores of Patagonia, whose +finger pointed to the words, "The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from +all sin." + +4. We must love all whom Christ loves. We may have the gift of +teaching, we may understand all mysteries, we may have all knowledge, we +may bestow all our goods to the poor, we may even give our bodies to be +burned, but without that love which comes alone from Christ, we shall be +"as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." With St. Paul we must say, +"Whereinsoever Christ is preached I do rejoice, and will rejoice." + +5. Above all gifts we need the baptism of the Holy Ghost. When this +consecration comes there will be no cry of an empty treasury. We shall +no longer be weary with the bleating of lost sheep, to whom we have to +say, I have no means and no shepherd to send you. + + + +_Christian Work_--We rejoice at every sign that Christians realize that +wealth is a sacred trust, for which they shall give an account. We +rejoice more that they are giving that personal service which is a law +of His kingdom. Men and women of culture and gentle birth are going +into the abodes of sickness and sorrow to comfort stricken homes and +lead sinful folk to the Saviour. Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods, and +deaconesses are multiplying. Never was there greater need for their +holy work. Many of our own baptized children have drifted away from all +faith. To thousands God is a name, the Bible a tradition, faith an +opinion, and heaven and hell fables. But that which gives us the +deepest sadness and makes all Christian work more difficult is that so +many of those to whom the people look for example have given up the +Bible, the Lord's Day, the house of God, and Christian faith. Alas! +they are telling these weary toilers whose lives are clouded by anxiety +and sorrow that there is no hereafter. "They know not what they do." +They are sowing to the wind and will reap the whirlwind. May God show +them the danger before if is too late! The loss of faith is the loss of +everything; without it morality becomes prudence or imprudence. When +the tie which binds man to God is broken all other ties snap asunder. +No nation has survived the loss of its religion. We are appalled at the +mad cry of anarchy which tramples all which we hold dear for time and +eternity under its feet. We cannot look into its face without seeing +the lineaments of that man of sin who "opposeth and exalteth himself +above all that is called God and worshipped." Antichrist is he who +usurps the place of Christ. "He is antichrist who denieth the Father +and the Son." Our hearts go out in pity for those whose mechanical +ideas of the universe may be a revolt from a mechanical theology which +has lost sight of the Fatherhood of God. We stand where two ways meet. +We shall take care of the people or the people will take care of us. +The people are the rulers; the power of the future is in their hands. +Limit their horizon to this life, let penury, sickness, and sorrow +change the man to a wolf, let him know no God and Father Who hears his +cry, no Saviour to help, no brother to bind up his wounds, let there be +on the one side wealth and luxury and wanton waste, and on the other +side poverty, misery, and despair, and there will be, as there has been, +a cry for blood. We wonder why men pass by the Church to found clubs +and brotherhoods and orders. They will have them, and they ought to +have them, until the Church is in its Divine love what its Founder +designed it to be--the brotherhood in Christ of the children of our God +and Father. What the world needs to-day is not alms, not hospitals, not +homes of mercy alone. It needs the spirit and the power of the love of +Christ. It needs the voice, the ear, the hand, and the heart of Christ +seen in and working in His children. No powers of government, no +_prestige_ of social position, no prerogatives of Churchly authority can +meet the issues of this hour; we have waited already too long. +Brotherhood men will have, and it will be the brotherhood of the +commune, or brotherhood in Christ as the children of our God and Father. +Infidelity answers no questions, heals no wounds, fulfils no hopes. The +Gospel will do, is doing, to-day what it has done through all the ages: +leading men out of sin and darkness and despair to the liberty of sons +of God. + + +In a day of division and unrest there will be many questions which +perplex earnest souls. Some will dwell on the subjective side of the +faith, others will think most of its manifestations in the life. These +questions will affect organization for Christian work, public worship, +and find expression in the ritual of the Church. There is no room for +differences if Christ be first, Christ be last, and Christ in +everything. The ritual of the Church must be the expression of her +life. It must symbolize her faith; it must be subject to her authority. +As the years go by worship will be more beautiful. The "garments of the +king's daughter may be of wrought gold," and she "clothed in raiment of +needlework," but "she will have a name that she liveth and is dead," +unless her "fine linen is the righteousness of the saints." Lastly, to +none is this council so dear as to those whose lives are spent in the +darkness of heathenism, or who have gone out to new lands to lay +foundations for the work of the Church of God. In loneliness, with +deferred hope, neglected by brethren, your only refuge to cry as a child +to God, it is a joy for you to feel the beating of a brother's heart, +and hear the music of a brother's voice, and kneel with brothers at the +dear old trysting-place, the table of our Lord. Let us consecrate all +we have and are to Him, let us remember loved ones far away, let us +gather all the work we have so long garnered in our hearts and lay it at +his feet. We shall not have met in vain if out of the love learned of +Him we give each to the other, and to all fellow-laborers for Him, a +brother's love, a brother's sympathy, and a brother's prayers. I do not +know how to clothe in words the thronging memories which cluster around +us in this holy place, what searchings of heart, what cries to God, what +communions with Christ, what consolations of the Holy Spirit have been +witnessed in this sacred place. I cannot call over the long roll of +saints, confessors, and martyrs, whose "name are written in the Lamb's +Book of Life." Two names will be remembered to-day by us all. One, +that gentle Archbishop Longley, who in the greatness of his love saw +with a prophet's eye the Mission of the Church and planned these +conferences that our hearts might beat as one in the battle of the last +time. The other, the wisest of counsellors and the most loving of +brethren, the great-hearted Archbishop Tait, whose dying legacy to his +brethren was "love one another." They have finished their course and +entered into rest. A little more work, a few more trials, and we, too, +shall finish our course. We are not two companies, the militant and +triumphant are one. We are the advance and rear of one host travelling +to the Canaan of God's rest. God grant that we, too, may so follow +Christ that we may have an abundant entrance to His eternal kingdom. + + + + + +V. _SERMON AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF +ST. ANDREW IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, SEPT. 29, 1889_. + + +"_God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that +whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting +life_."--ST. JOHN, iii. 16. + + +SIN, sorrow and death have not been invented by Christian priests. They +are world facts, they belong to every home, and are hid in every man's +heart. There can be no design without a designer, no law without a +lawgiver, no creation without a creator. So I say, with the leading +scientist of England, "God is a necessity of human thought." Is this +God an inexorable ruler, whose right is His infinite might? or is He an +eternal Father, whose might is His infinite right? And so the question +comes home to the heart: Does God care for us? The body is cared for. +Every invention of man ministers to the life that is between the cradle +and the grave. Man has created nothing. The lightning would run its +circuit in the Garden of Eden as well as when Morse made it man's +messenger. The veil has been lifted so that man can look into God's +storehouse and read laws as old as creation. But the body is not the +man. You ask me how do I know I have a soul? I know it as I know I +have a body--by self-consciousness. There is no place in this world +where men are not compelled by absolute necessity to recognize the act +and the will of a soul within, which directs the act. I ask again, does +God care for me? I say it reverently, brother, you cannot conceive of a +God who could create a world like this, if He can feel one throb of pity +for His children, unless you believe He has provided a remedy for sin, +sorrow, and death. The coming of God into the family of man is an +absolute necessity of the very being of God. The incarnation is the +outcome of the possibility that God can love. I turn then to this +record and I ask, is this Jesus the friend that the world has waited for +and looked for? No one that has walked this earth could use the words +which every day rested upon His lips: "I and the God you worship are +one." "I am the bread that is come down from heaven, and the bread I +shall give you is My flesh, and I give it for the life of the world." +"I am the resurrection and the life; if any man shall believe in Me, if +he were dead he shall live"--unless he were God incarnate. The miracles +of Jesus were not violations of the laws of nature; they were the divine +proofs that that God whose hand is behind every law of nature had come +into the world to help those who needed help. When He multiplied bread +in His hands, He did of His own will that which God does when He +multiplies the wheat in the harvest. When He created the wine of Cana, +He did that of His own will which He does when He distills the dewdrop +in the clusters of the vine. But that which unseals my heart, is the +divine compassion, is the tender pity, is the love that never turns from +the weary. If man had invented this Gospel, the story of Mary Magdalene +would never have been in the record. It is not in the wrecks strewn +along the path of life that men would find those they would lift to the +bosom of God. It is the Divine eye that pities, it is the Divine hand +that is reached out to save. I follow Him to the cross, I follow Him to +the grave, where we are going, where our loved ones are sleeping. The +third day He came back from the darkness; He showed men, by the marks of +the nails in His hands and by the print of the spear in His side, that +He was the very Jesus they parted with at the foot of the cross; and He +ascended to heaven to be the friend of any aching heart that needs a +friend at the right hand of God. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a +philosophy, it is not a dogma; it is the story of a Person, a real hand +to grasp, a real Saviour to love, a real God to save. Marvelous as is +this story that never can grow old and will be the burden of the songs +of the redeemed, more wonderful is the Christ of history. Men ask for +proof. You do not ask for proof of a sun when the world is bending low +with golden harvests The other day there was a gathering of great men, +scholars, philosophers. It so happened that one man who had lost his +faith, congratulated his fellows that superstition was dying out, that +the day was at hand when Christianity would be an effete thing of the +past. James Russell Lowell rose, the blood rushing to his cheeks, and +quietly said: "Show me twelve miles square in the world in which I live +where childhood is cared for, where womanhood is reverenced, where old +age is protected, where life and property are absolutely safe, where it +is possible for a decent man to live decently--where the Gospel of Jesus +Christ has not gone before and made that life possible; and then I will +listen to your revilings of my Master." Can I go nearer your heart? +There is a wide difference between men, but there is one side of human +nature that is the same; it is that we call the heart--that which loves, +that which fears, that which suffers, that which is the same in the +poorest laborer that ever handled the spade as in the greatest scholar +that ever graced a university. If we can get the rubbish from the +heart, the good news of God sounds the same to all. + + +When Sir Walter Scott was dying, in suffering and agony he turned to +Lockhart and said, "Read to me; I am in such agony." He said, "What +book, Sir Walter?" "What book? There is but one book for a dying man; +it is the story of the One that passed this way before me, of Jesus the +Saviour." I stood the other day by the death-bed of one who, when I +first met him was a savage warrior. He looked up in my face and said, +"The Great Spirit has called me. I am going on the last journey. I am +not afraid, for Jesus is going with me and I shan't be lonesome on the +road." Brothers, it is to tell this story that you have banded +yourselves together in the service of Him who redeemed you with His +precious blood. Your motto must be the words of that sainted apostle +whose honored name you bear: "We have found Christ." For it is only +when we have reached out our hand to grasp the hand of Jesus, that, +because we cannot help it, we reach out the other hand to help some one +else. We cannot from the heart say, "Our Father," and not remember +wandering brothers whom we may lead to the Lamb of God that taketh away +the sins of the world. The story is not for wage-workers alone, not for +the poor in the attic and the cellar alone; it is for the man who lives +in the marble house, it is for the trafficker in the market, it is for +every one away from home and heaven and God. We must find the way to +speak as one tempted man has the right to speak to a brother that is +battling with temptation. It is not done by assailing sinners as you +would besiege a city. We have tried hard words and the have answered us +with a curse. It does no good to tell the poor wretch in the ditch, "It +is your fault." We have led men to Mount Sinai, and their hearts would +break if we led them to Mount Calvary. It is this that makes the life +of an earnest minister of Christ the happiest life that God ever gave to +man. I am not here to-day to tell you what to do, but to tell you your +Master's secret, "If you give Him the will, He will find for you the +way." Although you might be the veriest stammerer, if Christ speaks out +in all your life, you will be the best talker in the world. We must +believe in our work; we cannot make others believe until we first +believe ourselves. Our feet must be upon the rock; there is no question +of success or failure there. It may be Athanasius against the world, +but the Athanasius and the faith of Christ will conquer. + +And lastly, brothers, never since man has lived on the earth has there +been an hour when a Christian man might be so thankful to God that he +can live and that he can work. In all the ages of this world's history +there never have been such marvels before man's eyes as we see to-day. +I speak not only of the wondrous secrets of God's storehouse, that, for +some end in the councils of eternity, have been reserved for the last +days. You are living at a time when impenetrable barriers have been +broken down; when God is fusing the nations of the earth into a common +brotherhood; when there is not a place in the wide world, where, if you +will, you may not carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Nay, more; you are +part of a race that God in His Providence seems to have placed in the +forefront of the nations of the earth. I am not speaking of +Anglo-Saxons, but I am speaking of the race that God has been fusing +out of every tongue, and tie, and kin of the earth; and they having one +language, are, I believe, to do God's work in the last days. One +hundred years ago English speaking people numbered less than many of the +Latin races of Europe; to-day there are one hundred and fifty millions. +And when I remember how God ordered that the Greek tongue should become +the tongue of the whole civilized world to prepare for the first +preaching of the Gospel; and when I think of all that God's Providence +has done for us, I can believe He calls us to lead on in the work of the +last time. In the days when Rome had overrun the world, if some one +regiment was to be placed in the jaws of death, and perhaps upon that +legion rested the fate of an empire, they came out in front of the +assembled host, and kneeling down on one knee they raised their hands to +heaven and took an oath to die for Rome; and that was called the +sacramental oath. And our Saxon forefathers, when they came to the +Lord's trysting-place of love, thought it was a place for taking the +oath anew. + + +After our Civil War, George Peabody, one of our noblest Americans, gave +his fortune for schools in the desolated south. He visited the White +Sulphur Springs. No king ever received so heart-felt a welcome. The +south laid the homage of grateful hearts at his feet. An aged bishop, +now in Paradise--Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana, came to see him, and said: +"Mr. Peabody, I am a southern man, and my heart goes out in love for the +man who has been our benefactor. But, Mr. Peabody, if you are saved, it +will not be because you gave your fortune to the needy. You will be +saved, as the poorest laborer, for your faith in Jesus Christ." Mr. +Peabody said, "I know that. I do believe in Him; I do pray to Him." +"But," said Bishop Wilmer, "Mr. Peabody, the night before the Saviour +died for you, He instituted the sacrament of the Holy Communion, and He +left a request for you to come and receive it. He has a gift for you. +Have you ever come to His table?" Mr. Peabody said, "I never knew that. +No one ever told me. I knew about the Holy Communion, but I thought it +was for saints--men who felt sure they were going to heaven. I never +knew it was a place to come and receive a gift the Saviour had for me." +That day Mr. Peabody left the White Sulphur Springs. He knew that the +Holy Communion was to be celebrated in his mother's church, at Danvers, +the next Sunday. He reached Danvers Saturday, and at once called on the +pastor and said, "I am coming to the Holy Communion tomorrow. I did not +know it was my duty till a few days ago." And he did come. That was +royal faith. Not faith in water, not faith in bread and wine, not faith +in priestly hands, but faith in Christ. Such faith as little children +have who take the words just as they read and for all they mean, and +then are safe in the everlasting arms. + +So let us to-day consecrate every thought and all we have to Him, and +giving Him the will go out to do His work. And He will do the rest. We +may fall in battle; we may sow the seed and die; but it will fall into +the ground and God will give the harvest. When we reach the other home-- +not a place of bodiless shades; not a confused throng of nameless +spirits, but a home of brothers in our Father's house--next to seeing the +Saviour, next to having the old times re-united, will be the comfort of +meeting some one that we have helped home. + +And now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, be all +might, majesty, dominion and power, world without end. 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