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THE VULtofT
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. T. C. McCLELLAND.
Subject: What is Christianity?
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Brooklyn, X. Y.?In Memorial Presbyterian
Church Sunday morning the
pastor, the Kev. T. Calvin McClelland,
Ph.D., preached on "What Is Christianity
V" The text was from Acts xix:
23: "And the same time there occurred
no small stir about that way." Dr.
McClelland said:
The name Christianity is not in the
Bible. Before the religion of Jesus
was molded into a creed or organized
into a church it was called simply the
Way. That was the name given it oy
its friends and its foes. After Jesus
died the young men who had been His
students were asked and they asked
themselves ? what had Jesus given
them? He had given them wonderful
words, but He had done something
more than set them to learning
precepts to be repeated parrot-like.
He had formed them into
a circle, but the gift He had left
them was not a society. He had
given them?not something to believe
nor something to join, not a creed nor
a church, but just a way of living.
And so they called Christianity the
Way.
In a little book called the Acts of
the Apostles we have pen pictures of
the lives of these first Christians, and
these pictures show a likeness in their
Way of living, and tnat Way they had
is marked by four characteristics:
First. The first Christians lived as
servants of Jesus.
Second. Those first Christians lived
by the strength of God.
Third. Those first Christians lived
in devotion to the common duties.
Fourth. Those first Christians lived
yeith men as brothers.
Let us study these four points.
The first Christians had a way of living
as servants of Jesus. That is, they
took Jesus' word as law. They called
themselves His "slaves;" their favorite
name for Jesus was "Lord;" that
means simply, master, director, chief.
It was their passion for Jesus which
Tr/-?n tho'ii first nickname. The
heathen called them "Christiafas," that
is, the party controlled by Christ. This
was not the name they gave them/
selves. Their common name for themselves
was "The Brothers." But more
than their love for one another, their
subjection to Christ impressed their
pagan neighbors, and so they came to
be called Christians.
Why did they call Jesus? They had
no theology of His person. You hunt
the Acts of the Apostles from beginning
to end without finding any speculation
about the second person of the
Trinity, or the deity of Jesus. These
speculations came years after. At first
Jesus was an absolute Master, and He
was a Master, because though He had
been crucified. He had risen from the
dead. Jesus had passed through deatli
into life; they had not expected it, and
in their exuberance over it what was
there to do but to make themselves
slaves of the man who had given them
this brand new reality? "He delivered
them, who. through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage."
And so they made that empty grave
a throne and the risen Lord sat upon
it. So the first characteristic of the
Christian way was?it lived in subjection
to Jesus.
The second characteristic of the first
Christians' way of living was. they believed
they lived by the strength of
God. They talked about themselves
as being possessed of the spirit of God.
the soul of God. The Holy Spirit, the
Holy Soul, spake through their lips,
moved in their hands, dwelt in their
. hearts. This was a remarkable consciousness,
this consciousness of God
as being concerned in every detail of
being and doing. The birth of this consciousness,
the descent of this Holy
. Soul, is placet! in the opening of the
story as the most memorable thing
about the way. Every individual, even
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for their Lord, felt that their life and
God's were all of one piece. The working
of this soul of God. this Holy
Spirit, was felt everywhere and in
everything. By His power they
preached, iauyht. healed and ordered
their outward and inward life. Every .
thing the first Christians said or did
was said or done by the strength of the
Father-God.
The third characteristic of the first
Christians' way of living was, they
laid emphasis on the common duties.
The immediate followers of Christ believed
that their first business was to
do their duty. "The fruit of the
Spirit," they said, that is. the immediate
result of this subjection to Christ
and this union with the soul of God,
'is love, joy. peace, long suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, selfcontrol."
The lives that they lived in
subjection to ^esus and by the strength
of God they lived in the midst of me?.
Now this characteristic of the first
Christians' way of living is all the
more remarkable when you remember
that these men were for the most part
Jews. They bad been brought up to
believe that religion was summed up
in exact observance of ecclesiastical
forms. A Jew's religion consisted of
the offering of certain prayers in a certain
way, at certain times of the day.
of various washings of the hands, of
prescribed visits to the temple, with
prescribed gifts for each visit. To perform
these and a thousand other ceremonies
was to be religious, and the
performance of tlicse tilings took precedence
of nl! else. For instance, it
.was grained by the Jews that it was a
duty to honor father and mother, but,
since the commandment requiring this
was the fifth, it ranked not so high as
the first, which required of man that
he should sacrifice to God. Therefore,
if one had only enough to buy the proper
sacrifice for God. he was warranted
in letting the parent starve and
to gain the temple offering. Now it
was men brought up on this idea of religion
who suddenly turned the tables
and laid the emphasis on common duty.
It were better to be charitable than to
have the gift of prophecy, aye, better
than to have a faith that could remove
mountains.
When the feeling of the lordship of
Jesus and the union with God's Spirit
got on the nerves of the new converts
and let them into extravagant otherworldliness?
wbrd came from a great
leader warning them that pure religion
and undefiled was summed up in visiting
the fatherless and widows and in
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keeping themselves unspotted. This
new- way was one of life, of the eternal
kind of life, but it was living the eternal
kind of life in the midst of time,
living it in subjection to Jesus by the
strength of God.
The fourth characteristic of the first
Christians' way of living was, they
treated men as brothers. This was the
one thing which, next to their cheerful
servitude of Christ, most impressed
the heathen world. "Behold,'' said the
pagan, "how these Christians love one
another.'' From the very first they
Wiltivl in thp In VP WrtV. TllPV did not
look upon other men as mere tools for
selfish gratification, as mere means for
one's own ends; they worked for others'
interests, they found joy in their successes
and pain in their reverses.
The Christians' first name for themselves
was "The Brothers."' And so
full of this idea of brotherhood were
they that, first off, they went daft over
it and thought it involved communism.
Each man sold his possessions and
pooled the proceeds and let the apostles
distribute the fund as each brother
had need. "Not one of them said that
aught he possessed was his,own, but
they had all things in common." It did
not take them long to find out that
brotherhood involves no senseless leveling
down of everything and everybody,
that it involves elder and younger,
stronger and weaker, larger and
smaller. But, though they had abandoned
this experiment, they conserved
the fundamental principle of mutual
service and brotherly union. They
lived a way which had as its motto,
"Bear ye one another's burdens."
Christianity meant walking in the
"Road of the Loving Heart."
These, then, were the characteristics
of the Christian way as the first Christians
understood it?it was a life of
subjection to Jesus, a life lived by the
strength of God, a life of devotion to
duty, a life of love to brother man.
Ana tijis is unnstiamty, ana it can De
nothing else?living your daily life at
the call of duty in allegiance to the
Lordship of Jesus, with a personal
consciousness of God as a Father and
fellow man as brother.
A day came to Christianity when it
meant more than this. The day of inquiry
came, when Christianity was
brought into conflict with other cults,
and then Christianity got itself a creed.
The day of systematic evangelization
came, when Christianity had lost her
first leaders and had to make new ones
out o? the raw material found among
the new converts, afid then Christianity
got itself energy and organized itself
into the church. But first and fundamentally
was what its Founder left it,
and what its pathfinders made it?a
way of living the daily life in allegianc^
to the Lordship of the risen Christ,
with a personal consciousness of God
as a Father and one's fellows as
brothers. And this is the first and
fundamental way in which Christianity
must be presented to and embraced by
every real life, if it is to oe a real and
vital religion. It must be. first of all,
just a way of living the daily life.
A man begins to have it and continues
to be a possessor of it when, in
his home, in the street car, in the hotel
and shop and legislative chamber he
makes himself the subject of Jesus
and feels himself to be the son of
God and the brother of every last fellow
mortal who has a claim on what
God has.given him of health, wealth,
education, friendship,ind spiritual life.
To crevy man who lives in this way
there may come a creed. There comes
a time to every man when he inquires
of the solemn face of life, and God
and Christ what they are. And the
answer which comes to his own inmost
soul through his personal experience
wiii ue iuis man s eireu. ;vuu iu cveijc
earnest sonl who lives in the way there
will come a church. As he seeks the
conditions of his own best way of
living, as he reaches out to help his
brothers in their pilgrimage, he will
discover that there is power in association.
a dynamic in organized fellowship
and thus he will re.ioice in the
glorious company and will enter lntc
operative fellowship with all who own
the risen Lord.
But with all the creed and in all the
community with other believers, religion
will still be this and this onlyliving
one's daily life of common duty
with .Tcsus as a Master, with God as a
Father and with men as brothers. The
creed and the church will be the outward
expression and tools of the thing,
hut not the thing itself. The man who
lives in the way will see how a -man
may be able to give assent to tK creeds
of Christendom and yet bo out of the
way. He will realize that a man may
be baptized into the faith of Rome,
or confirmed in the Episcopal denomination.
or received into the Presbyterian
church, and yet be forewandered
from Christ. And he will discover
how, though a mau be. unable to subscribe
to any formula of faith, and
though ho be disallowed the privileges
of church membership, if he followed
in the way, if he live his daily life
with Jesus as a Master, God as his
Father and men as his brethren, he is
still a friend of the risen Lord.
. What is a Christian? A man who
ficth the* same things as other good
'men, but wiili a different motive, a different
method, a different aim. The
motive is devotement to Christ. The
method is by the strength of the immanent
God. The aim is for the love
of brother man.
ror tno yuiet uour,
"If any man say that lie -ias no sin,
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