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* AH ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY ;
T^E REV. JOHN DOUGLAS ADAM.
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Subject: Moral Lameness.
Brooklyn, v N. Y.?The Rev. John |'
Douglas Adam, the pastor of the Reformed
Church on the Heights,
preached" Sunday on "Moral Lames
ness," from the text: Acts iii:G: "Then
Peter said. Silver and gold have I 1
none; hut such as I have giye I unto
the^; in the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth rise up and walk.* He said:
Our text introduces us to a lame
lr?r? Vv^? rlor O f thft (TP t ^
liliUi ill* lrt%Y u?4? ut imv
of the temple in Jerusalem, begging
for sufficient money to keep him in
life. This is a very common scene
< in the New Testament, where we are
constantly meeting the lame, the halt,
the blind and the lepers, and there is
no "wonder, for we must bear in mind
those were the days when there were
,no hospitals, no scientific medical
schools, no homes for inc^jjables, nor
any societies of aid. Since that day '
Cfiadstianity, without boastfulness. has
had a magnificent share in the creation
of those centres of relief. We see
v no such spectacle on our streets as did
the Syrian of old upon his. Our Cbris?
tian sentiment and Christian love have
? , provided the hospital, and our lame
mertare sent there. And not only the
hospital, but we have to-day enlightenianHflu
ofPnrt societies of char-1
CJTCU OVKUliuv vmv.
ity*and helpfulness on all hands: and
because the modern method of dealing
with sickness is not the same as that
of the apostles, never think that it is1 ,
not Christian, for the same Christian
spirit plays about the treatment of
physical ills to-day. We have to be
| delivered, it seems to me. from the
idea that God is only in the extraorx
dinary. That He is only in the large.
It seems to be hard- upon our reason
to comprehend. God is as much in
. the ordinary as in the miracle. It is
the same God. and God is as much
in the hospital, in His spirit, and in
* - the modern methods of curing siok,
\ ness. God is there just as truly as He .
was in the days of old. So Christian?/,
ity has in a large measure solved the
questions of the physically lame man.
^ I am not going to speak.this morn^
tog of him. We have practically dist
posed of him. I shall talk of the
morally lame man. and when I speak
|>-V of him let us understand each other.
The morally lame man may be physically
equipped with the physique of
f a triumphant athlete. He may pay
every debt. The- morally lame man j
> ' is the man who is lame in his will. |
7 and he knows it. His will does not
work with health toward his duty.
ST/' J3e is lame in his conscience: it is defective.
He is lame in his affections.
His emotions in the higher reaches are
5 lame. His imagination does not bound
r toward its goal, for the goal of the
imagination is God and the infinite.
I - The morally lame man falls down be ffwi*
hi* own self-respect in the develop- j
\ . ment of his character. He fails in
his own conception of duty and in his
<?. & relations as a son, or husband, or
friend, and in his relationship to town
:r and country. He is not a factor in
the moral progress of those about him
or the community. He contributes
nothing, but rather takes away. This
? - .. lame man in the story lay begging.
There are physical and moral beg-j
; gars, but the worst pauperism is j
* moral pauperism. The man who lacks
sufficient force to pilot himself through i
?'v- life and never creates optimism and j
^ moral stamina out of his own life
would, if the world were to surrender
Its moral power, commit suicide. Ifx
you notice, the chief contributors to
&V.S this man's sustenance were the people
on the way to the temple. They gave
^to him sufficient to keep him alive and
* -s. then passed on to worship. And I
think they are still the chief contiibj?y
utors to the sustenance of the morally
lame man. This poor fellow may have
laughed in his sleeve at the religious
devotees as they passed on, and the
true, earnest men and women are the
v people who are supporting morally
those who sometimes even sneer at
# their moral earnestness. It is those
E? who are maintaining the rest of the
.V community. Man lives not by bread
alone, bnt, as he is sustained physi- i
Ml cally through the industry of those ;
i.;V who produce bread and the necessities ;
of physical life, and without which .
!;. there would be physical famine, so we j
live by moral bread and we are much
' more dependent on that in the last !
. j analysis of life than on the physical. J
* for a nation like this lives upon ideas '
and love more than on any material
thing. Take these away and all our
boasted material progress falls like a .
m ' *" ? ?1ai?1auo iy>O_
House or cams, as uiu. mc JIViiVUO uiu 1
terial wealth of Rome because ther*
<" : was not Behind it the manhood to sustain
it. Our world lives through the
industry of the truest men and women 1
in It in the moral sphere, and if there <
is no love being generated by unsel- J
fish hearts and no faith by pure minds i
and no moral inspiration by brave 1
f-^ souls, a nation, is doomed. There are 1
those who not only do not contribute 1
moral strength, but there are those J
who take away the moral bread baked J
r / by the labor of good men in the fiery 1
furnace of trial, and throw it away ,and
sneer at every pure and divine
thing. They are the infamous destroyers
of that which is the pillar of
power. <
Our problem to-day is the lame man. (
It is a patriotic, economic and relig- 1
ious one, than which there is none ?
:"'y more practical. The problem before i
the church is to set the lame man on <
his feet so that he can make his own way
in things of the heart and become
a contributor to the moral health of
the world. Let us observe how Peter
and John faced the problem. First, j
. they faced it squarely. They did not .
dodge it. They were not too anxious (
about getting to the temple. While (
i Worship has its supreme place in the r
religious life of every man. there is
something else. They did not criticise
i i- the poor fellow; they helped him. And
. our question is how they helped him? *
They did not give him money. They I
had none, and they did not feel the <
pressure of the limitation either; they ,
felt they could solve the problem <
without it. The silver and gold in the j '
moral sphere are not good aud con-:
i - * genial surroundings, congenial work '
| 2 and good advice and ideals. The Chris-(c
; tian Church does not stand merely for i ^
philosophic help and the gospel of j t
good surrouudings. Peter and John six i s
months before would not have been ' t
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morally equipped to face this problem* j
they did not then possess God nor did i
God possess them. They were com- '
panions of Christ, but they did not I
possess His spirit. But now they were j
wholly possessed by the Spirit of God,
and that was the first sten toward the
solution of the problem before them.
And- it is the first step to-day. You
and I can never help the lame man
until we not only possess God but are
possessed by Him.
Another elemenf in the solution of
the problem was that the two were in.
perfect accord. Six months before
Peter, had forsaken Christ, while John
alone ran the gantlet in the terrific
blast of passion in the city of hate,
but Peter never again shirked his
duty. John liad been ambitious ior 1
the supreme place among the apos- |
ties, but now he had grown in grace
and lost the passion for prominence. '
Friends, the same conditions are neces- !
sary to-day in solving the problem of- J
the morally lame on the part of the j
Church of God as were manifested on
that day.
The love of prominence must go,
whether.it be of individual or church,
or denomination. Passion must cease, i
One of the reasons why the. church
of God is not omnipotent is because
there is still this lust for prominence
on the part of individuals, churches
and denominations, and instead of self
abandon we are absolutely too selfconscious.
every one of us. Again
they solved it in giving the power of
Christ to the man: "In the name of !
Jesus Christ rise up and walk.*' The J
communication of ideals will never |
save men from moral lameness. Ideals
must live in personality. That is the;
difference between Christianity and
everything else. It is the communication*
of po^er. the touch of God?the
touch of -divine powfer in the heart.
Let us feel it this morning. "In the
name of .Tesns of Nazareth, rise up j
and walk." Let it touch upon your j
weakness. It is here. Let it do for !
you and me what it did for that lame
man.
It breaks the power of cancelled sin,
And sets the prisoner free.
That is what Peter and John did.
Think of it! There was the lame man: !
there was the critical public: there j
was the memory of their- own past |
failures, and there was the power of j
Christ. It conquered them all, and i
the man arose, and stood up. Not
only did he stand, but the solution of
this problem included qyery other. He
can earn his own living now. and
needs not assistance. Every problem
of life is bound up 111 the problem
of the lame man being straightened
and strengthened. It is smooth sailing
after that. Lastly, the man be
came a benefactor and praised Goa. ;
He inspired the faith of men. Before,
his rery presence created pessimism;
now it was faith and praise. The atmosphere
of the man became a factor
and an asset in the progress of the
world. We are either contributors to
or exhausters of" the moral life of the
world. Which is it? My subject
gathers round these two points: First,
the lame man. and, second, the men
who through the instrumentality of
Jesus Christ cured him. We as
Christians stand in the apostle's
place. Let us. under Christ, cure the
lame, and if we stand in the lame
man's place Christ will make us
whole. May we, like Peter and John, j
help the lame man to praise' his God j
and inspire our fellow men for Christ's
sake!
TJie Upward Look.
"It i? of no use to tell .me to look
forward," said one in great trouble,
the other day, to a friend. "The worst !
of my trouble, I know lies ahead. To i
look back upon the past. Doiore una
shadow came, simply adds to my agony.
I can only sit in the darkness,
and shut my eyes to everything, and
bear as best I may."'
"There is always one way left." said
the friend, gently. "When we cannot
look forward or backward we can look
upward. I have been in every whit as
hard a place as you. and I sat a long
while in the djtrkness before finding
the way out. Try the upward lookit
is meant for just such sorrows as.
this, which seem to shut in the soul ;
Inexorably. If we look up, we never
look in vain."
"Time alone can help such sorrows
as yours," said a woman who called
herself a Christian, to a bereaved
friend lately. There was no upward
look suggested there. A heathen could
liave said as much. Time only can dull
the edge of pain: the upward look robs
suffering of its sting surely and* lastingly.
It is always possible to lift
our eyes to the sky; and though at
first, perhaps, we see only the clouds,
we shall find it true before loug that
'Over all our tears God's rainbow
bends."
God's Way of Escape.
The steamer plied its way amonjf
the Thousand Islands. Often its
i-ourse was toward a rocky height or
i wooded shore. Surely unless the engines
were speedily reversed the vessel
would be wrecked. One turn of
the pilot's wheel, and before us spread
the glory of the inland sea, and unimpeded
was the channel to it. With?
not before or alter?the temptation or
trial He provides a way of escape.?
Pacific Baptist.
Power of Example.
Xo man is so insignificant as to be
;ure Ills example can do no hurt. Ev?ry
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'xample is the doom?and the privilege
-of every human being.
Live New'LIIe Now.
To be always intending to live a new
ife. but never find time to set about it
-this is as if a man should put off
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>ne day to another, until he is starved
ind destroyed.?TilJotson.
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