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/ i [ .. ' '.V'V-v', > / r.-* - ' * w 2\ ?* - * % ^ . THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY REV. I. W. HENDERSON. i 1 Subject: The Christ Life. Brooklyn, X. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "The Christ Life,*' the Rev. I. W. Henderson, pastor, took as'his text Philippians i:21: "For me to live is Christ." He said in the course of his sermon: It is my desire to convey to your minds and to press lastingly upon your hearts some homely, yet helpful. truths relative the Christ life. Persuaded of the similarity of your cares, trials, difficulties, problems, to ?my own, and recognizing the common needs of all men, I would talk to you about this text. Horace, the old Roman poet, sings I the praises of him to whom it is j sweet and honorable to die for his | country. I bring to you from the Eook of Boo"ks no note of death, but a psalm of life. "For me to live is Christ," and to pass beyond the veil is but to enter into life more abundant." Thus says Paul. For him and * for us there is no death. To live the Christ life here is to dwell within the glory of His presence there. "For me to live is Christ"?a plan of selfdedication to His service here, an earnest of our entrance into joy eternal there. "For apart from Me ye can do nothing," saith the Lord. St. Paul, the most strenuous of Christians, epitomizes the Christian \life in these words to the church at Philippi. His utterance states the sum and substances of the complete spiritual life. Our aim and our pleasure it should be, as it is our duty, as men and women who love our Lord, to so live, that men, looking upon us, may view in us the risen Christ. The text presents to our minds a fourfold thought. Broadly speaking we may say that men have four relations in this life?tc God, to society, to the home and to themselves. To set forth the same thought differently: Men have spiritual, civil, domestic -and personal duties. Relation might be multiplied upon relation; duty upon duty could be indefinitely remarked. But that would be to suggest subdivisions rather than fundamentals. Indeed, I am cognizant that the moral duty to the home may easily be included under the head of p > social: relations. But for the pur' pose of the moment we will resolve j r?f th*? Christ life into the i aforementioned divisions. The first, the greatest, the noblest J imperative in the life of the man who i desires to conform to the pattern of the ..true Christ life, who wishes to make the words of Paul his motto for -right living, is to love and to serve and obey our Heavenly Father. I may say that the whole duty of man Is bound up in this declaration. For, Christianly speaking, there is no department of life into which the service of our God does not enter. Loyalty to God is the basis of all purest living and highest thinking. To be true to the Father is to be loyal to society and strong for self. We may not be true to Goa and untrue to the social, civil and domestic ' conditions with which the mere fact of life confronts us. "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof," sings the psalmist. To be a traitor to the world is to be craven toward the Maker. We may not praise God with our lips and disobey Him in our every act. Our , words, honeyed though they be, will i count naught for us unto righteous, ness. The test of fealty is in action. We must measure true to the ideals tUS.1 WC yrCd'Jli. i i a;ti uiiu i are worthy, hut they are not service. . . Prayer pleases God and it strengthens us. Praise, no doubt, makes joy among the angels who surround the throne. But it is the service which does things; the prayer which resolves itself into action; the praise that is founded upon the knowledge of a task, through His grace, well done, which makes most for pleasure and for joy in the heart of our King. The Christ was true to God and to man and to self. The happiness of His Father's universe was His hope and care. To His home, to His neighbors, to His country, to all trusts, the Saviour was faithful. He ? had an eye singly toward holy and hallowing service. Preaching a gospel of life, He lived a life of love. And so, to be like Christ we must live like Christ. His hopes dust be our hopes; His pleasures must be our pleasures. The motive in His life must be the force which, in our lives, will make for goodness and godliness. And godliness is but goodness raised to infinity. 9 As the Christ was, so must the Christian be, truly spiritual. His guide and his guard must be the Comforter who cometh from above. Divinity, deep down in his heart, will ' be the power and the mainspring in his life. unristiamiy is pure pontics, cieau business methods, sturdy honesty and noble purpose, all rolled into one. A clear conscience means a brave ballot; and, conversely, a dirty ballot means a smeared soul. Upright business methods earn their own reward; perhaps not in unde, served dividends and wrongly divided or diverted profits, but in happiness of heart. Honesty is but a step toward holiness. Nobility and sincerity are mighty forces. And these facts the civic and the business worlds are recognizing more and more. Dishonesty is a bad asset; and the Christian man, who stands four square to the world upon the rock Christ Jesus, is to have the call. Time-serving politicians may scoff; those who define character in the terms of preferred stock, and who prefer gold to goodness, may continue to misjudge what is highest in life; sin may seem still to have the. stranglehold upon the world; Christians may stumble, yea fall, upon the , King's highway; be derelict to duty and to faith, may imitate poor, forewarned Peter and deny the Christ, but the eternal principles of individual and of social righteousness are b-und to win. f But while many of us are, tnrough the grace of God, enabled to approximate righteousness in our wider so-A cial relations. there are hut few of us who are Christlike in the home life. I have sinned must be our plea; for pardon must be our prayer. A renewed life must be our resolution, that Christ may be our portion. The gross sins of the believing Christian are, largely, not those of immense or awful delinquency. Most of us managed to keep out of prison. Few of us have to stand for trial upon charges of overt crime- Most of us, by the mercy of God, are guiltless of the sirs which shock the senses. The defiling sins of the Christian in his home life are what we are likely to term the weaknesses of life. For you and for me, petty faults are oftentimes the greatest sins. With us the proneness to say the unkind word: think the unworthy thought; to do the hard act or to speak the stern sentiment; to give . the rein to anger, or to let passion rule; these are the most detrimental or,/* riofiiirie' sins. Many a mother who woulc} give up life itself for the child who nestled at her breast; many a father who Lot only would, but does, work long and weary h~ur3 for the loved ones of his home and hearth; many such a man and many i such a woman finds the love of those most dear to them Is lost and lost to them perhaps forever, because of unchristian uncharitableness in the home. "For me to live is Christ," you say. Eut do you live the life'.' Are you thoughtless of the rights of others? Are you self-centred rather than world loving? Are you heedless of the needs of men? These are minor things in life; these are the trifles. But to the soul that is growing up toward God, and out toward men, and that is spreading roots through the eternities, they spell either failure or success. As has been said, "success is made up of trifles and success is no trifle." Selfishness, hastiness, inconsiderateness, all these are the sins which weight the soul. For those of us | who have laid our hearts at the feet | cf Christ, they are the sins which j keep-us from attainment unto spiritual perfection and the strength of the Saviour. They are the cancers which gnaw at the vitals of the man spiritual, and which consume the very life's blood. Leaving behind these lesser sins we may grow into the stature of the Son of God. Puttins meanness and pettiness behind us we may become like Him who was in all things pure. But only as we exclude the smallnesses of life from our natures do we grow. ! But we must always remember that we have a duty to self as well as to society and to the Saviour. Here, again, duty to God presupposes and implies a right relation with self. We cannot be true to God and untrue to self. Right relations with God preclude an evil inner life. ! "To thine own self be true," the poet I sings,' "and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." He might | have said, with equal surety, that [ loyalty to God precludes disloyalty ! to man and to self. Trueness to self I implies Christianly speaking, that I the man is in harmony with mani kind and with God. j Trueness to the highest and hoI llest motives and ideals that are within us brings greatest happiness j and peace. Right thoughts produce I and conserve a right life. High i thinking is a tonic. Low thinking j breeds disease. Cleanness of heart | means clearness of head. To grovel | spiritually is to declare one's self to j be a sloven mentally. We must keep I ourselves purified of unwholesomeness if we would attain the heights where holy men dwell. Education is not salvation. Knowledge is power and should induce purity. But the pure in heart?mind you, not the strong in mental force ?the pure in heart alone see God. The vile of soul are always in the depths of hell, and all the wisdom of all the ages could not pull them out. A clean heart fits a man for life's labors. We cannot submit ourselves to the rule of our evil passions if we would escape ruin. "Our bodies are good servants, but poor masters," is an apt and a wise saying. The Christ was a power, because He had a healthy mind and a pure heart. To Him evil was hateful. For Him love was the law and the light of the world. For God is love. To be pure, to be gentle, to be noble, to think kindly and to act worthily, to be right toward man and in the sight of God, to be growing constantly into God-likeness, that is to be truly Christlike. And to those of us alone who are trying, as Channing has said, "to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common," who are living nearest to the source of all love and of all life, is it given to say, with very truth,"Forme to live is Christ." Seeds That Grew, Seeds That Didn't. "I have noticed that when the green leaves have appeared, and have lifted themselves a little above the soil, it often happens that a bit of soil adheres to them and seem to weight them. Eut, as the plants go on growing, they cast off these specks of earth and push on valiantly. Some of my seed must have been dead, for though they had abundant time for sprouting, they did not all appear; they lay there inertly amid iuc cai til. "Which things have been a kind of a parable to me. Though the living seeds in their growing have carried on their leaves some-of the soil as they grow they are hinging it off, while the dead seeds are helpless under the earth. A Christian may be carrying seme mean and unseemly earthliness. But if he be really athrill with the new life and growing, he will be qmite sure to slough it off in time. Let me be patient with him and give him a chance. God does. The hopeful fact is that he is alive and growing. Dead seeds are powerless. So are dead souls."?Dr. Wayland Hoyt. The Footstool and the Watch tower. How many answers have been missed simply because we did not follow our petition with a heavenward eye and with the calm waitings of expectant faith! Remember, when you pray, go at once from the footstool to the tower.?J. Vaughan. a -Bewflciered' Taxpayer. An old negro, who'has accumulated enough property to buy a small home, entered the office of the list-takers to return his possessions for taxation, as all good citizens do. 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