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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
There is a powerlessness of utterance
in our blood that we should light
against, and struggle onward towards
expression. We can educate ourselves
to it if we know and feel the necessity;
we can make it a Christian duty,
not only to love, but to be loving; not
only to be true friends, but to show
ourselves friendly. ? Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
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Bragg?Sure! He originated the
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