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/ THE PULPIT. i A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY BiSHCP SEYMOUR. Subject: " My Shepherd." f * Brooklyn. X. Y.?At the Church of the Messiah, the Right Rev. Bishop Seymour was the preacher Sunday morning. He chose for his subject. "My Shepherd." and his text was Psalm 1:23: "The Lord is iny shepherd: therefore I can lack nothing." he said: ? We pass from the brightness of Christmas and Epiphany to the season of Lent that closes with the darkness of Good Friday. Ere we bid Epiphany goodby let us consider what it tells us, namely, that our Saviour came to be the Saviour of all mankind. Epiphany falls into two divisions: The Christmas of the Jew and the Christmas of the Gentile. First, the Christmas of the Jew, when the shepherds came as the representatives of the shepherd nation: came called on by an angel through whose dispensation . the law was given to the Jew; came to the manger: came to worship. * And then the Gentile Christmas, called Epiphany, when the kings were led by the star to worship the child. And then the fact that the Jew and the Gentile alike fell down and worshiped the little child, a baby, weaker than the weakest, I may say, of all the young, and yet?Him by whom the worlds were made. It is indeed a wonderful spectacle to see the Jew ana the Gentile alike worshiping the babe. We leave the angelic host that sang > over Bethlehem and .ae brightness of the star which brought the three kings -rat aU events the kings of the East worshiped the little babe with appropriate gifts?for the transition period of Lent. Could I do better than ask you. with - myself, to consider our personal responsibility in the weds of the text: . "The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can I lack nothing?" Here is a declaration' which may make or not. as we choose, -for the possessive pronoun / is intensive?"my," as though' it were something that we loved, as jewels of earth?"they are mine; I own them." So; '"The Lord is my shepherd." and based upon that declaration is the fact; "therefore can I lack nothing." There is no word which more frequently falls from our lips than "I." It is the shorte:t word in human speech? a single letter?because it brings to ' the surface personality. Go whither ? you will, on every side you will hear men. women and child uttering "I." "I" is to each one the centre of the universe; everything radiates from it and everything comes into it. And this is right in its way, only sometimes it is exaggerated and we have what we call selfishness. But I am not disposed to criticise that just now, only to say that this pronoun "my" grows out of the personal pronoun "I," be* cause it denotes ownership?"my." And we may say, the poorest of us, first we own ourselves: "I, myself; 1 A- _H> >> ,1 !. ,Kn OtJiOIlg lO lli.ViCU, UUU it 1I? Ull luc basis of that claim tliat we have the wars' for independence, for liberty or personal right, and men resist the idea of being owned by the others, and pre? * eminently in this laud of freedom claim- to be free?"I own myself." I have not time to analyze the worth of the claim, for it is immense: "Mine, spirit, body:" this creature, of Godlike mould and sunning workmanship, bow marvellously built up! A single profession, numbering some of' the greatest men, devotes days and weeks to studying it and yet has not fathomed "its secrets. The medical profession is largely experimental to-day. It has made wonderful discoveries in fifty years, and still it has not yet probed this little mass of matter, the body, to tm its depths. And back of it is the mind, the intellect, the memory that holds the past and hope that grasps the future: the mind that deals with premises and conclusions and reasons. It has no moral quality, it is pure intellect. Deeper down than it is the spirit, the seat of conscience, the moral sense, marvelous beyond expression! that emphasizes our nearness to God. Body, mind and spirit bound up together and each of us claim to own that trinity blended into unity. "I, myself, I own myself." Let us pass on. "My time;" that is. "my life. These hours and days and weeks are mine," and. heme, the: wage question, when men claim the right to > sell their time for so much. So, you see, we claim the ownership of time. Of course, it is not really ours. "Our , times are in His hand." Still, we claim it. "My'years are so many." Hence, we see another element of wealth?time, opportunity. Then, again, character, "my character," em ^?hasized by the name. A good name " is worth a good deal. We pass still further: "My position in life, in society, my parentage, my surroundings, my friends and relatives?these beloDg to me/' And they are worth a great deal sometimes. Then we come down to that with which we are most familiar: "My material wealth, my stocks and bonds, jewels, wardrobe. They belong to me." Now, that brings us to David's tp* claim: "The Lord is my shepherd." You. do not give up the other things, but you make another claim, and that you can only make through Him who flllnws it and "H> allows it hv pnminer here to be reached and embraced, if you will, and loved. He revealed Himself as one of us in order that through Him we. by the Holy Ghost, might reach the Father, for He comes out * from the invisible to be visible. He can be touched and handled and seen here. He was here with a certain generation when this was the case. We must not envy them, for we have a greater privilege than they. You remember Thomas. Jesus said to him $fter lie bad been so obstinate, "Because thou bast seen Me thou bast believed: blessed are tbev. that have not :?eeu and yet have believed." We may .believe if we will, on the undoubted testimony of the ages, that Jesus after death was vn this earth. He had passed through the graven gate of death and had consummated for man the glory of the resurrection, and took <#ir nature through into heaven and blessed it on the throne of God. where He ever remains as a magnet to draw men in love, so that we may say with Day id, "The Lord is ray Shepherd, therefore can I lack nothing." Kow, my friends, I wish to say that I 4 jfc; no other element of wealth can civile us to say, "Therefore can I lack nothing." Try the experiment with which we are most familiar as a world power, wealth in any form. I have been with some of the wealthiest men that the last generation knew. I have seen them in the hoar of death and as they died the bonds and stocks of wealth fell down and passed hands. It could not buy an entrance ticket to Paradise nor to heaven. If you would be wise consider the end and nothing between, nvvor-nct rhp frtnre. not as bounded by the horizon of earth, but by the glories of Paradise and heaven. "The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing," because lie was born with us. nay, conceived witn us. and He goes through life's journey with us as our friends do who survive us, but they must part with us as we bid them the last farewell: but He, of whom the Psalmist speaks, "The Lord my shepherd,"' He dies with me, is buried with me"; He goes to Paradise with my soul; He will be with me at the last great day, and if I have been loyal and true to Him, He will welcome me to His everlasting blessing; He will be my advocate and plead His sacrifice to take away my sins. Observe that the religion which Jesus gives us embraces the whole of life. There is no other religion that does. You may divide them into religions that appeal to pleasure, "the lusts I of the flesh."' aud the religions that appeal to the pride of intellect. Take the ancient Saduceeism. the medieval Mohammedanism, and the present-day Mormonism. They are the flesh in religions. They cannot begin to tell v *? 1 .1 * upon manKiau mini passivu Mian develop in manhood and womanhood. Take the intellectual systems of Greece and the philosophies of the present day that appeal to the intellect, and a man is almost half way upon the journey of life before they touch him. Take Christianity; where does it begin? With conception, with birth, infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, in health, in sickness, in death and the resurrection and the life eternal ill the presence of the great White Throne. Christianity embraces the religion of life. Does it appeal simply to the body? No. But it appeals to the body, the intellect and the soul. Kemember the declaration of St. John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved." He says: "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, as cf the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."' He embraced the whole of man. The Word was made flesh, but with that was intellect and spirit, and so He was a complete and perfect man. This morning we were joined together hand in hand in the prayers offered by your rector, bnt when we come to the creed, how is it? The husband drops the hand of the wife, the father of the child, the friend of the friend, and each for himself, as in the Day of Judgment, stands on his own feet and says, "I believe." It is a personal act. "The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can I lack nothing." There is one element of wealth on which we can rest, and which will enable us to say "We shall lack nothing." Without our Saviour we shall lack everything when we come to die. I ?are not who we are or whether we have been clad in the purple of kings VI UiC VJL JC n CIO, uc CUGil UV7 stripped stark naked and go up naked into the presence of God. We shall lack nothing if we can say from the depths of our soul, "The Lord is my shepherd." Then when the end comes we shall be able to say: "Thy mercy and loving kindness?Thy mercy for forgiveness: Thy loving kindness for my needs?shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." There is no dwelling place here. I was once a rector in Brooklyn, but where are my parishioners now? Most of them are gone. Within the last two months two of my classmates in Columbia are gone. And there are but few of those I knew in the lecture room left There is no dwelling place here. It is a cheat we put upon ourselves when we talk of houses as dwelling places. They are not. God grant, ray brothers, that it may be our lot to "Dwell together forever in the house of the Lord," which will be our eternal home. I Tli? Bu?y Watchmaker* j A watchmaker who enlisted for the . war thinking that he might earn a lit: tie when off duty, took some of hfs i tools along with him. But he found i so many watches to mend that he fori got he was a soldier. One day he was j ordered into battle. He looked about ; him in consternation and exclaimed: j "Why, how can I go? I have ten | watches to mend?" Many of our exi cuses and sometimes our reasons, | which we try so hard to-be conscienj tious about, if correctly translated. I would read: "Why, how can I read ! my Bible and pray every day? How j can I be true to my religious duties? ! I have something else to do." I ' What We Can Do. ; God hgs not given us vast learning j to solve all the problems, or unfailing j wisdom to direct all the wanderings | of our brothers' lives; but He has given ' to every one of us the power to be I spiritual, and by our spirituality to lift aud enlarge and enlighten the lives we touch.?Phillips Brooks. Spiritual Lit*. A soft snap is Satan's trap. A failure to make a living is not a ! fitting to preach the gospel of poverty. Some men will feel cheap when they read their own advertisements at the judgment. Preaching dogmas is fighting the devil with the scabbard instead of with the sword. The modern idolator fails down before the work of his own imagination instead of that of his hands. The mighty God is a tireless God; He faintcth not, neither is weary. This is brave doctrine, then, that a tireless deity attends humanity amid all its struggles and hardships, and attends it to aid. to soothe, to cheer, to purify, to redeem, to save.?C. Silvester Home. 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His wages, with the boarder's, would nave suppenea the family, but he had a fixed passion to become a musician, and was boarding with another family -because they had a piano and would let him practice on it. He was (perfectly tractable on all other points, but give up his music he would not. What! resign his ambition and ruin his life? No. The committee cast about and secured from an interested person the use of a piano. The boy was told that he oould have this in his home free*of charge, provided he would turn his wages into tjie family exchequer. He consented. "And now," says Dr. Oppenheimer, "there is nothing the matter with the family except that they don't get enough sleep, as the boy practices at the most unseemly, hours,"? New York Press. INCIDENTAL. "The new congressman seems to be a good-, amiable sort of fellow, but I wish he wouldn't put on that forced, mechanical smile when he shakes hands with his constituents." "You mustn't mind that. 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