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1 THE TULTIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY BISHOP BURGESS, D. D. x r Subject: The Church's Foundation, Brooklyn,v N. Y.?In tlie Church of the Messiah the Right Rev. Frederick * Burgess, D. D., Bishop of Long Island, on Sunday preached from the text, Matthew xvi:13-20, and particularly * the passage: "And whom say ye that I am? Simon Peter answered: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered and said: iJiesseti art tnou, aimun j&uijuuu, u?u and blood hatli not revealed It unto thee, but My Father -which is in Heaven. I say also unto thee: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build My church.*' He said: These words can be scarcely understood apart from their context The author of the Bampton Lectures pointed out that Caesarea was the borderland of the Jew and the Gentile, and thus was a fitting place for proclaiming the divinity of Him who came to save, not one race, but all mankind. Later study of our Lord's life revealed the fact that He was at that time truly in exile. It becomes almost self-evident, as we read the Gospels, that our Lord was suffering depression and felt that His work was, to a certain extent, a failure. The cities of Capernaum and Corazin, where He had preached and labored, .were all against Him: and you can all recall the sad farewell which He gave to those cities. In the Gospel of St John we cai^ see evidence that a large number of people who at first had believed in Jesus were gradually estranged from Him by His teaching > > and by His unpopularity. He had been forced to leave His native land, and go into exile. The words which He spake to the Syrophoenecian women, "It is not meet to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs," shows the sadness, almost bitter sadness; and when He came to "TTic, /irrn FTim TlOt." 'JDUO VHU XX1>7 vtf-u xvvvAf VM ?? III one way and another, we can see iow bitterly He felt and, while we have 110 real picture, yet. nevertheless. we can, in fancy, see Him, as we read the Gospels, with His little band, i* going ahead of them through those northern valleys; and we know that It was no figure of speech, but the trnth, when He said: "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not , V .where to lay His head." Now this confession of Peter marks the end of this period of exile. From that time on He set His face toward Jerusalem. Almost immediately there followed the transfiguration on, probably, Mount Hermon, and then He started, with His twelve apostles, to" Jerusalem to suffer and to die. Now thi? passage reveals deep truth. It reveals the foundation on which Christ built His church. But, as you understand, we must not lose sight of His humanity. The heresy which sees in Christ an unreal man. one who / \ cannot be touched by our sorrows, our > $ Joys or our disappointments, has always,-been condemned in the councils and by the creeds of the church. Our ' Lord'could riot have been.truly man if He had not hungered and thirsted and been weary sometimes. He had V not sought for help if sometimes He had felt the depression of loneliness and disappointment, though only once did it find expression, namely, on the . cross when He said: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me." This period of exile, then, was a period of depression. Men had deserted Him by thousands: the people whom He had cured and taught were all gone now. And perhaps He feared, as He asked His apostles that crucial question: "\Vhom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" If. however. He did fear, whatever He feared was dissipated by the perfect faith of Peter's clear, strong answer: "Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God." And one who has ever tried to do real work for humanity and to help forward the kingdom of God must have known something of this depression, and must also have known something of this joy when at least He had found one man who believed in Him and in His message and who was ready to stand out before the .world and confess his faith. Our Lord, then, founded His church upon a man?upon Peter, if you will. He did not found it upon a doctrine, or a building, or an army, or a treasury. No, but on a warm, rugged human heart. He said to Peter: Thou art a rock, and on this rock I will build My church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Those who want to see in this passage a long, liieratical line, ever connecting itself with a bishopric, must, I suppose, be allowed to hug their delusion as long as they live. But a sane criticism will always reveal the fact that our Lord was asserting that He would found His church upon loving human hearts, upon men who believed iu Him, in honor and dishonor, through good re# pun ot e\ii rcyuj.i, iu ^n.iiuc^o HUM health, as well as in proverty and exile. Our Lord believed iu men; He trusted them. It has been well said of Him that indignation, even anger, were spoken of men, but to condemn, never. Man, as man, was worthy of respect. Now that has not been the attitude of the great writers and generals and leaders of mankind. Alexander, Caesar. regarded men as so many pawns to be moved about as they willed., "What are a million souls to me?" boasted Napoleon when he was taunted with the loss of an army; so In philosophy we find the same discrediting of men. But. Christ taught' a different estimate of mankind to His apostles, and St. Paul reverenced men, even when he saw their sins and rebuked them. The parable of the prodigal son and the epistle to the Romans have been contrasted, and it has been said of the one that it is tenderly and pathetically hu^in as lie rises above his rabbinical law to teach the death of the Lord and the riches of the goodness of God. All through that epistle to the Romans there runs the burden of the glory of man's origin and man's destiny: "We are children of God, and if children of God, then heirs, joint heirs with Christ, if so be we suffer with Him.*' There is man's glorious heritage in that he is made in the image of God. i>o with all the apostles and true followers of Jesus throughout the world, they have aliwwrs reverenced men, Thev have I seen the greatness ef capacity, even when they have seen the evil as it is shown so in our great eities, which in some respects e*i?al Sodom and Gomorrah. Beneath all the external they can see the power of ths human heart. "Who is that commonplace looking fellow?" said a man ta Abraham Lincoln. "Friend." replied the President, "the- Lord prefers commonplace people, and that is the reacrm rrhv ' ho has made SO mailV Of them." Now, our Lord estimated men at their true worth. He knew their power, and He founded His church o* men?on Peter and James and John and Thomas and Paul. As our beloved collect expresses it: "Thou hast founded upon the apostles and prophets, Christ, Himself, being the head cornerstone." To that church you all belong. You have taken the step which announces that consciously you have come to your full conception of what that church is, and that you are members in it. Now, what Christ wants of you is, not your money or your influence, but He wants your heart, your devotion, but He wants you to stand really, purely, honestly, truly, steadfastly for Him. He wants you to be built up, as St. Peter expresses it. "as lively stones" in His church. . It has been said that to suppose that the Christian Church could have been founded by any save Jesus Christ would be as absurd as to suppose that Strasburg Cathedral had been formed through the centuries by the conflux of the dust of the streets. Now, it is into that church that you have come, and you are to become stones in the building. You are to grow strong by being true and earnest, and pure and temperate. Buttresses and arches and roofs are not more really the fruit of human architect's work than temperance and chastity and honesty are the fruits of the Divine Architect's love. "On this rock I will build My church." The Church of Jesus Christ will be stronger to-night and stronger to-morrow. because you have been confirmed to-day, if you honestly keep the prom* ises you have made*to-night. After Revival?What? The remarkable religious movement which not long since arose in the West like a little cloud no bigger than? a man's hand, is apparently spreading throughout Christendom. It has already assumed proportions which command attention from all quarters and has won for it general recognition as "the revival." Every genuine Christian, at least, will be on the watch to make the utmost of its best features and the least of its blemishes. It is alike impossible that the latter can be essentially divine, or that the former can be exclusively human. Here, as in all Christian "salvation," it is imperative that there should be the distinct recognition of co-operation. For it is always true that God can no more save man without himself than man can save himself without God. This principle, however, compels us not only to look with reverence for the Divine element in present events, but to consider carefully human issues in the future. Waves of strong emotion, be they ever so potent for good, cannot roll on without cessation. There is an ebb as well as flow to every tide. It is none too soon, therefore^ to ask and answer such questions as. these: Whither is this movement leading us? What will be left when its emotional force is spent? Will it prove a veritable Nile in its fruit-bearing deposits, or will it ebb away into Sahara-like sterility? All evangelical Christians doubtless hope that the utmost of the highest will abide. Yet is there ample room for most serious thought as to how this more or less transient impulse may not only be translated into something permanent but become the starting-point of a definitely higher conception of Christian doctrine and practice throughout all the churches. ?Frank Ballard, in London Methodist Times. . Tlio Wonder of God. "He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no interopssnr." Here is a needy world with its cliiefest liop'e in what intercession may bring. Here is a God who declares that unlimited blessing may be gained for men through intercession. Here is yourself with some knowledge in your own experience of what intercession might mean. Yet God waits and wonders! The phrase is not too strong. Remember the missionaries who have gladly renounced all for the joy of putting a new light into despairing faces?but they spend little time in asking for the Light. Remember the pastors whose calling it is to minister?but they have renounced the highest and most efficient ministry. Remember the myriads who prate ceaselessly about the world's need of revival?but they talk little about it to Him who alone can give it. Remem- I her what you say you believe, recall what you .actually do?and cease to wonder that God wonders.?Pacific Baptist. Gotl is in Circumstances. It is not by regretting what is irreparable tbat true work is done, but by making the best of what we. are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are. is God's providential arrangement?God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and wise way is to look your failures in "* 1?-1- ? ? IVA morla the face ana see wuui am ut iuuup out of tliern.?F. W. Robertson. Desire For Obedience. * Obedience must be the struggle and desire of our life. Obedience, not bard and.forced, but ready, loving nn(l spontaneous; the doing of duty, not merely that the duty may be done, but that the soul in doing it may become capable of receiving and uttering God.? Phillips Brooks. S tralghtforwardneM. Be sure that straightforwardness is more than a. match at last for all the Involved windings of deceit. In your daily life do what you feel^ right, say what you feel true, and leave, with faith and boldness, the consequences to God.?F. Robertson. Have; Christian Faith. Bo a Christian, throw yourself upon God's Word, and get the ability you want in it. No Christian will ever be good for anything without Christian courage, or what is the same, Chrif> tian faith.?Horace Bushnell. Darling at the 'Phone. She had promised to come down town and go to luncheon with him and about noon she opened his office door. Her husband's voice at the 'phone made her stop to listen. "That you. darling?'' he was saying. "Say, my wife's coming down to-diiy, so we can't ..ave that spread. jBut we'll have it tomorrow. Meet me'- at the usual place, you know. Yes, ail right. Goodby." She slipped quietly away, and although he waited until 3 o'clock his little wife did not come to go to luncheon with him. By the time he got home that night she had fought it out with herself and determined to have an explana tion. So she said as calmy as she could. "George, do you usually go out alone to your l^inch?' "Why, yes," he answered. "That ia unless Darling goes with me." "Darling?" she cried. "For pity's sake, George, who is " "Why, Jack Darling. You must remember hearing me speak of him. Don't you know " She got up and it was several minutes before he could check her sobs and get her to explain why she had broken her appointment.?New York Press. Heard the Voice of Conscience. The mother of the small boy had been trying to install within him an idea of conscience. She described it as a little voice which whispered inside one when he was doing wrong. "I never heard it," said the small boy, cynically, and in tones of one who shrugs.his shoulders. A little later the small boy did some, thing he had been told not to do, and was sent to sit on a chair, and ordered not to get off until the powert that be gave him leave. Ten minutes later he came into the room where his mother was sitting, jubilant. " I've heard it, mother," he exclaimed. "Heard what?" asked his perplexed parent. "Heard the little voice. It said, 'Sam Smith, you get off that chair. 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