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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
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