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~ THE PULPIT AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. CHARLES C. AMES. Subject: The Glory of Simple Rectitude Boston, Mass.?The following helpful sermon was delivered Sunday by the Rev. Charles G. Ames. It is entitled "The Glory of Simple Rectitude." and was preached from the text. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." ?Matt. V. 6. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled/' The man -who says that lias a claim on the reverent and grateful attention of all mankind. He gives voice to the universal reason and conscience; he inspires the highest ar.d holiest hope, Heaven and earth may pass away, but the words that gfve life are themselves immortal. Like the utterances of the sibyl they are "simple, unadorned, unperfumed, and reaching through the ages, because of God." Here is one sign of truth. It affects as like a part of the permanent order of things: it is all of one stuff with the word and with our own proper nature. It lias the ring of reality. Like sunlight it carries its own evidence; and to the sane mind it recommends itself as sunlight does to the healthy eye; but it is concealed from our grossness by its own simplicity and transparency. "Who realizes this splendid miracle of the common day? In tho same way we have become too familiar with some of the most obvious and important aspects of spiritual truth. These Beatitudes of Jesus may seem to be worn smooth. We have heard them from our intimacy: their force and beauty appeal to unresponding hearts. If we could have stood, one day long ago. among the Syrian peasants, on the slope of a liill in Galilee, and listened to these sayings as they fell fresh and clear cut as newly minted gold from the living lips of the new prophet, perhaps we. too. should have been "astonished at the doctrine," we should have "wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of His mouth." Did it not seem as if Nature herself had at last found a voice, and as if that voice "were sneaking straight to her children, saying clearly and cheerily, yet soberly and solemnly, vrhat all men vaguely think or feci, but can rarely nut into words? Yet these Beatitudes are remarkable for what they do not say. The sentences of Jesus seldom run in the grooves of old commonplace. He does not sit there, like the scrib" of the synagogue, complacently reciting, in tones that make men sleepy, the virtues and piety of a dead ancestry, as if it were enough to have Abraham for a father and Moses for a lawgiver. He pronounces no blessing on religious respectability, decorous conformity. doctrinal soundness, loyalty to the standard, fidelity to the traditions, or eA*en diligence to the routine of observance and devotion. Any priest in the audience must have felt that a slight was put upon his great office, as if the sn?akor had forgotten to do it honor. The temple, the altar, and the 6acred books are all mentioned vritb respect, yet they somehow fall into the background. Humanity is brought directly fronting Divinity, as if the pure heart might see God and the impure might know the cause of their blindness. Many a man in that company must i have hung his head as the rebuke came home to him. Complacent worldlings, men proud of their estates or their learning doubtless stood there, expecting that He would confirm the world's vulgar judgment which .says. "Blessed are the prosperous, the popular, the cultivated and the comfortable." But no. The lins that onened in blessing made them shrink as if He had uttered a curse. Every world fell like a blow on their idols. The virtues which had strutted so proudly before God and man began to uumask as ugly vices as He went on to say: "Blessed are the men of humble mind, the men of crood will, the meroifnl. the pure in heart. Yea. blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness. so that for the sake of being right they dare and bear all losses and pains, and willingly let their names be east out as evil." No comfort here for the s<!f-righteous. the self-satisfied, the self-willed, the self-seeking. But scattered through the .omnany were men and women who fett their emntiness and poverty, who took no credit for their ancestry. . their accomplishments or their social standing, who hardly dared so much as to lift up their eyes to heaven. Yet. as they listened, all the .world above, around, within, seemed to change. The awful Jehovah, whom they bad thought of as throned afar in threatening majesty, seemed a smiling Father who wished His children to be near Hira and to be as perfect as Himself. They drew in deeper draughts of the country air; their very emptiness seemed to make so much more room for God and goodness. Their cry of inward need changed into childlike trust. Here was indeed a messenger of good tidings. Here was a doctrine as wormy or man as u v. as wortuy or God. And does not all the best thought of our own time still travel this way? Has the weary search .of mankind through the ages found anything better than a righteousness which is rooted in sonsliip to the highest, and which blossoms into service to the lowest? Has not our clearest conception of the divine ever been an expansion and idealization of the best qualities of the human? Tiie one fact which we most certainly know is our own existence: and that fact, if we look ileen enough and honestly enouab. we shall find the revelation and witness of God. For. when a man has rightly reverenced the decrees of conscience, he has heard the Voice: j when he has really made acquaintance 1 with his own nature, he has seen tlm | Face. There are times when I feel entirely i "satisfied with this inward proof of j realities. There are high moments i when there is need o? no other evi-! dence cf God than the fact that I am ! alive. And llmro are times when the! sight of a good man. or something seen in the face of a child, or some stir in j Nature that affects me like a footstep ; carries with it conviction and assur- i wwnwr?w?wiimiimii ??a?i?i ar.ce. Along with this fooling comes always the perception that goodness Is what I am made for. Not even a voice out of the sky could tell me more plainly that the Holy Being wills that I, too. should be holy. Along with the reproof comes the encouragement, and along with the hunger for righteousness comes the promise that the hunger shall be satisfied. To suppose the Creator indifferent to the moral character and welfare of His creatures is essential atheism; but, if not indifferent. He must have provided all needed helps to virtue, He must have given His creatures light to find the right way and strength to walk in that way. But, even if He were indifferent, we cannot afford to be so:, for our highest interest is to be found in seeking the completeness of our own being in and the harmony or rightness of our relations with all other beings and with the iaws and forces of the universe in which we find our place. Everything worth having or - " 'Vi /lAoifirxv !c invAlrnrl in nhnrflP ter. ill being simply and soundly right. The world eomfs right when the man conies right. What it is to each one of us depends on what we are and how we take it. We make our own hells, we can make our own heavens. "When the soul to sin hath died, Time and beautiful and sound Tiien all earth is sanctified. Upsprings paradise around." A rough-cast man rose in a country meeting-house to tell his experience: "It was in the north country, when the snow lay deep on the ground, that the Lord God found out Jonathan Hinckley and converted his soul. And the leafless trees gave praise to Gcd." Is there one among us who might not report to himself something like this happy convert's story? Who has not at some time felt sure of his place in the great order, and seen all the world irradiated with a light which really shone from within the mind? If a man has lost his faith in God and still holds fast his own integrity, well for the man. But, in this very concern to be true to the highest law he knows, he is unconsciously a worshiper. Blessed is the man who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, for already he holds in his soul the richest of all treasures. We who believe in God need not be seriously troubled about the fate or state of honest nonbelievers. for we may count their very honesty as a sign of the real presence and the finest inspiration. Once accept the principle of duty, and all life becomes an honorable discipline and a steady advance. There is 110 higher rank on earth or in heaven than the rank of personal goodness: and he who loves it, seeks it, and practices it for its own sake is surely moving, however slowly, toward the , perfect life. Here also is the cure, and the only cure, for our restlessness and selfdissatisfaction. "No man can serve 1 two masters." But he who falls ! heartily in love with virtue is no longer distracted by, a divided allegi- | nnce. He has nothing else to do but ! to occupy himself with learning and i doing what is right and reasonable. | Having settled the central principle and leading purpose of his life, every | step onward and upward makes the ! next easier: and the law of habit con- i tinually operates to confirm this deep- J hearted choice. He is no longer driven ! by the lash of conscience; he is no j more a servant, but a son, and the Father's house is his happy homo. Here too is the secret of victory i over our trials and depressions. When ; shall we half realize the grandeur and J glory of simple rectitude Let me ; again repeat a tale of real life. Years ago, and far away, I knew a woman of m<*st fine and excellent qualities ! whose deeply shadowed life was like j a long crucifixion and martyrdom. In j one of her letters she said, "My yonth j is gone, my hope is dead, and my heart j is heavy; but I neglect no duty." In j reply I sand: "If you could ask God j for just one blessing, and could be j sure of that one and never of another. ! would you dare pray that your youth ! might come back, or that your earthly j hopes might be renewed? Would you not ask for a living principle within ; yourself that would make you neglect j no duty? And can you not see that, J in giving you the love of righteousness, J He has really given you the best thing | in all the universe?" In her next let- i ter she wrote that this view of the j matter was new to her own mind, but that she accepted it as true, and fotind , in it strength to take up her burden? a burden carried, as I believe, with | patience, courage, and constancy to the end, which was not far away. There is one thing more to be said. ! He who really loves righteousness can- j not love it for himself alone: he hun- I gers for its triumph over all the earth; ' he longs for the banishment of every j wrong. Hence his zeal for justice is j sweetened with good will to men. so 1 that righteousness becomes one form of benevolence. The right is always ' the good. Hence the ethical passion j kindled from the heart of Jesus has i flamed out in abhorrence of wrong j and evil, and has lent support and I vigor to every movement for reform I and welfare. "It is a spurious virtue j that can contentedly see vice thriving j by its side." The gospel is no gospel ; if it does not turn the hearts of men ; toward each other as well as toward God. It is no gospel if it does not unite j all believers in wise, well-considered, j and earnest moveineuts for the cleans-1 ing of the world and the better order- ' ing of all human life. Righteousness I is Tightness. To hunger and thirst for , righteousness TRererore is an one witn the prayer that God's kingdom may i come, and that His "will may he don' j on earth as it is in heaven. "Never Defused God Anything.** Florence Nightingale said: "If I couid give you information of my life. I it would be to show how a woman ot very ordinary ability has been led by j God in strange and unaccustomed j paths to do in His service what He ' lias done in her. And if I could tell i you all, you would see how God has! done all, and I nothing. I have worked J hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything." Do Not Delay. To-day is a good time to mend you life where it has need of it. Take the step into your Father's service. Do it in genuine honesty and faith. Don't quibble with your doubts. Don't mistrust yourself. Don't forget that Jesus is looking 011. Don't wait any longer. The door is open. You can enter. You can do it now. To-morrow may he tor lute.?Dev. I. Mench Chambers. i r Thousands^ Womer ARE MADE WELL AKD STRONG Success of Lydla E. 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