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u??! ! i i?niB-M?mn?i rTTrrrrii iiiinwr?? - * K SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY : DR. WILLIAM YOUNG CHAPMAN. * i* ** ? * ri-" ? t. Subject: Churchgoinj Abolished. Brooklyn, S. Y.?Dr. William Young Chapaftan, pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbj'terian Church, Buffalo, preached Sunday at both services in the Central Presbyterian Church. In | ,the morning he had as his subject "Churchgoing Abolished." The text yras from Revelation xxi:22: "And 1 saw no temple therein." Dr. Chapman said: Among many things in this sublime apocalypse or st. joim uaru 10 ue understood there is one thing that stands out with clearness and certainty, and , that is the vision of the perfected church, the ideal society. It is the same church triumphant aud perfect there that is militant and defective here. The same souls that struggle and suffer here are they that walk in white and wave palms of victory there. Here we see as in a glass darkly. There they see face to face. Here we know in part, there they know as they are known. John had given to him a divine horoscope, revealing the consummation and absolute perfection of the essential characteristics of the kingdom of God concentrated in the imperial capital of the universe?the city of God. By every sort of figure and symbol are its glories set forth. And we learn as much about it by what is said negatively as by what is said positively. Thus we are told it has streets of . gold and gates of pearl and a sea of ' glass tmd all the most costly and beau'. tiful tjfcngs of tiiis world, while all that- is disagreeable ? pain, sickness, sorrow, sin, death?is wanting there. There is nothing to hurt or annoy, no n' night, no more sea. no temple. And it strikes us at first thought as ""very strange that there should be no 'temple, no central place of worship in a city which we are accustomed to think is altogether devoted to religion. -'And yet the text states a great truth 'which I want to treat broadly, and I ' believe the text contains easily the subject by-which I have chosen to entitle * ? ' : THIS discourse, *_<uui"CiJi;viii? aimiished." The end being attained, the means are discontinued. Hence there are no more churches, no times, nor places, nor forms; no liturgies, nor rituals; no ecclesiastical machinery such as we know here. And, surely, this must come as a welcome announcement to -many a tired churchgoer in this world who finds his religious duties more or less irksome, and. to many a non-churchgoer, who does not feel quite comfortable in his neglect of formal religious exercises. Many there are who indulge an indif-* ferent hope of heaven as a sort of Mohammedan paradise, where they may enjoy an eternal holiday, basking in the recreated rays, drinking from and bathing in the waters of the fountain of life, eating the twelve manner of fruits and sailing on the glassy sea. But they would hardly be attracted to a place where this ceaseless round of ecclesiastical duties should go on forever. Imagine such a one enjoying the delights of that glorious city, counting the towers thereof, marking well her bulwarks and admiring her foundations of jasper and sapphire and chalcedony and sardius and emerald and 6ardonyx and chrysolyte and beryl and topaz and chrysoprasus and jacinth and amethyst, when suddenly there comes a peal from the golden bells and poor soul, he must take himself off to prayers. Let such a one be comforted, for John says he saw no temple there, and .we dare to infer from that statement that there is no synagogue, nor meet - Wg UOUSe, nor sunuay, nor iwrmai re, ligious exercise, "for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple ,?f it.'* It becomes us to inquire more closely Into the truth involved here. And if . what John saw. was the church triurn? - phant, if the conditions he saw were . the perfection of what is rudimentary rl here, if the Holy City, New Jerusalem, is continually coming down from God y out of heaven, then we ought to be rei alizing more and more on earth that < heavenly condition. I believe that condition is illustrated v by the progressive church of Christ on j earth. Think for a moment of the ad- j vantages we have over the ancient Jewish worshiper. He had his central j place-of worship. Three times a year he must make his pilgrimage to Jeru-! salem, from even the remotest corner of the land. Over many a rugged mile | he must travel with his family and his 6heep and oxen for sacrifice and his tent and provision for his journey, in order to perform his religious duties. There at Jerusalem was the temple. There he expected to meet God, or at least there God would be propitious. There was the priest who could-offer his sacrifice and present his confession to God. There was the holy place and the most holy place, the locus of the Jewish worship. Even in far off lands, when he worshiped he tinned his face toward the temple, as if his heart were there, in any case. Then, too. his daily devotions found fivrvvoccinn in n moct olfihAroto poromn nial. There were divers washings, as ^ there were multifarious causes of un? cleanness. There were titbings and manifold offerings. There were sin of^ ferings and peace offerings, all asso. elated with infinite trouble to the wor shiper. These minute requirements were infinitely multiplied by the Jew ; in the time of Christ an4 His apostles, so that Peter spoke of it as a yoke "which neither our fathers nor we ? .were able to bear." j Now it was immunity from these intolerable burdens that was the first . great practical boon of Christianity. Our Lord stated the precious truth to the woman at the well. Said she, "Our fathers worshiped iu this mountain (Terezim), and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." It was one of the first meanings of Christ's sacrifice, to abolish the temple. When He bowed Hjs head in d$atti on Calvary and said "It is fim fched," "the veil of the temple was rott I in twain from the top to the bottom,'* and the whole significance of the tem- j [ pie service passed away. The temple j itself did not long survive the death of ' Christ, and the ecclesiastical capital ; was soon destroyed. Henceforth the j Church of God in the world was on a different basis. Henceforth God became accessible without offering or priest, without temple or altar, and irrespective of locality. We are enjoying | in a measure that rest which Christ came to give?rest from ceremonial burdens. We are living in the dispensation of the spirit, and the church is wherever the spirit moves men to worship. Wherever the Holy Spirit has gone and planted the gospel of Christ in the hearts of men. turning their thoughts and affections to God, there is the cnurch. It matters not whether it be in Greenland's icy mountains or India's coral strand. It matters not whether it be in gorgeous cathedral or in mountain cave. It matters not whether the worshiper be white or black, whether be worship on his knees or on his feet or on nis oaca. su iuus no : he worship in spirit and in truth. Christianity so far as it consists of a J visible performance at all is the most | natural and spontaneous outgo of the j religious instincts to God. and religious : worship is essentially a personal communion with God, and in such form j and place as is best suited to the worshiper and most-in accordance with the will of God. Hence, you will see, one of the prime characteristics of the church triumphant is perfect liberty. "Get religion," j said Augustine, "and do as you please." j By which he meant if you truly get re- | ligion you will always please to do 1 right. Faul means the same thing when he says. "If 3re be in the spirit I ye are not under the law." And Jesus ! meant the same when He said, "Make j the tree good and his fruit will be j good." And hence, the ideal Christian j life is perfectly pontaneous. Obe- j dienc-e is not by compulsion of law, but by impulsion of love. "All the law is J fulfilled in one word, 'Thou Shalt love:'" We have heard not a little about "the-consent of the governed," and we are likely to hear more. The statement as it stauds in that famous document will not bear a literal application. But there is good reason to believe that our fathers knew wliat they were talking about. If they had said, "government derives its potency from the I consent of the governed" they would have been uttering the exact truth. Statutes are inoperative until the subjects consent. Perfect soeiety implies | perfect acquiescence in the will of the j superior or law making power. The j more society progresses toward unity, j the simpler and more equable will government become, because the more gen- j eral will be the consent or acquiesence j in the government. Paul says. "I consent unto the law that it is good," and in the perfect society of John's vision each man enjoys perfect liberty because the will of the governor and the governed are in perfect correspond- ! ence. Each individual does as he j pleases and at the same time does as ! He pleases. In some such way the perfect com- j raunity is characterized by perfect unity without uniformity. Each per- j forms his own duty in his own way, j but is all the while in perfect har- ! mony with his neighbor. Again, in the \ perfected society there is no aistinc- i tion between the religious and the sec- j ular. Here we have our times and ' -places of religion. We gather here in this house of prayer, believing that j God is present here as He is not in j other places, as, indeed,. He has prom- j ised to be. It is God's concession to ' our limitations and infirmities. But ; it is far from tlie ideal. We are apt to identify religion with the means of religion, rather than religion itself. ! We get grace by our religious exercises { to keep God's commandments in all ; our walks of life, and that is religion, j The members of the church triumph- i ant are equally religious every day o? the week and every hour of the day, and hence, church-going in our sense of the word, is forever abolished. In that sogiety, one does not need to say to his brother, "Know the Lord," for all shall know Him "from the least to the greatest. There is no more preach- . inc. "no temple therein.*.' j Once more; it is obvious that the more faithful and devoted we are to the means of religion here the sooner we shall bo fitted to do without them. ' Your child, learning to play the piano, I finds it hard labor to spell out note by note, conforming to the rules and rudiments of practice. By and by she will , go beyond the rules. She will acquire ; the genius of the skilled performer. ; And the more diligently we observe our religions duties here the sooner we shall get beyond them. The more : faithful we are now to the times and places of reiigious worship the sooner shall we b? ready for that society * where all life is religious. j Zaciiariah had that vision ages be ! fore John had it. when he saw "Holi- j ness to the Lord" inscribed on the ; bells of the horses and the pots in j the Lord's house, as sacred as the j bowls of the altar: yea,.and every pot ; in Jerusalem as holy as the vessels of : the sanctuary. That was at least a i glimpse of the templeless city of God. J And now shall we not keep before ns that ideal? Let us not he discouraged by tlie great disparity between that far-off perfection and present reality. The poet well expresses our j feeling: Oh, Land of Promise, from what Pis- ! gah's height Can I behold ihy stretch of peaceful j bowers, | Thy golden harvest flowing out of , sight. Tlie nestled homes and sun-illumined towers ? ; Gazing upon the sunset's high-heaped : gold, ; Its crags of opal and of chrysolite, j Its deens on deeps of glory, that un? : fold. j Still brightening abysses. And blazing precipices, Whence but a scanty.leap it seems to S heaven, j Sometimes a glimpse is given Of thy gorgeous realm, thy more un- , stunted blisses. Gazing upon that vision.. let us be j faithful to our temple duties here that j we may be fitted for that city where j there is no temple, "for the Lord God j Almighty and tlie Lamb are the temple j of it." I No troubles are so great that they i cannot be built into the steps of the j staircase, by which souls mount up to i heaven.?Canon Liddon. 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