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r^= ^ A SONDAV Inffil SERMON M'i-'ULJI-J^j Subject:. Loyalty to the Truth. Brooklyn, X. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church ;on the theme. "Loyaltyto the Truth," the Rev. I. W. Henderson, pastor, took as his text I. Kings 22:14: "And Micaiah said, as the Lord !: k# eth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak." He said: The four hundred false prophets were mere flatterers. They interpreted and delivered the oracles to suit the king's whim. They paid small attention to the measure of -truth that their judgment contained. ^ If they discovered wrong, they kept quiet about it. If they foresaw evil, they were equally silent. To be optimistic -was to be popular. Self-interest dictated that they should return to the king good omens or none. Pessimistic prophesies landed a man in prison; and since Ahab wanted to be coddled and cajoled and flattered, they humored him to the best of their ability and to his full capacity. They -were optimistic patriots. Therefore they were favorites at court. Ahab hated Micaiah because he spoke the truth as it came to him direct from Gca. The monarch disliked premonitions of future evil and demonstrations of existing sin. He preferred a fancied security to definite know-ledge of conditions as they were. As Ahab comnlained to .Te hosnaphat, Micaiah prophesied not good, but evil; and for that reason he was heartily happy to jail him. Micaiah might easily have taken the advice of the king's officer and become one of the lying multitude, j He might, with profit to himself in ^ the eyes of Ahab, have reiterated in earnest, rather than in sarcasm as he did, the prophecy of the falsifiers. Self-preservation and the hope of self-advancement might, imaginably, have led him to have given the king just the answer for which his heart yearned. The profit from the king's pleasure was at hand and within sight, the Lord would forgive him j quicker than the monarch. Many a man has argued that way. But to Micaiah the truth was more precious than the benedictions of his ruler, the favor of Jehovah was more satisfying than were the praises of any ipan. "As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak," he says; and his words are an inspiration to the men of America as they mark out the strict line of duty we should follow in our time. ",Too many of us lack the fidelity of Micaiah because we fear unpopularity. Cowardice supplants courage " in ho few hearts that are aglow with v " a vision of the truth because men dare not defy the disfavor of the > Ahabs of tc-day. Smug self-satisfaction cries down the leader who would point the wrong; and above all, right it. Optimistic patriots in the church and out of it, with no eye save for the glowing, lustrous surface which . hides a central life bitten deep with sin, decry as pessimistic the man who paints the evil as it is. Self-glorification is easier than self-examination. There is more pleasure for the crowd in recounting ? their achievements than in clarifying the-*central springs of life, and in analyzing the depth and the consequences of their iniquity, it takes less brains to state the achievements already accomplished than it does to investigate and determine the sureness and stability of the foundations : upon which success is built. It is 4; easier upon the head to relate blithely the unexampled progress of your country or your church or your family or yourself in the attainment of material advantages, than it is to de, - cide whether or no the gain was "made : righteously and in the fear of God. and whether or no it will result in future happiness and helpfulness for all concerned. It is far more satisfactory, from the point.of view of the opportunist, to take thfngs as ,\they are and to make the best of them. No man really likes to unearth sin; it isn't nice work and it is Pint to hnrv the victims doesn't stop the epidemic. To congratulate oneself upon the amount of water in the reservoir, and upon the power and efficiency of the pumps at the water works, in no way diminishes the heat of the fever. In these days we want and hail men of mind and of action who will look for the hid-: den germs of disease. Then, in our desire to acclaim them we forget the days when, in spite of the self-satis,' ded, the ignorant, the careless, the wicked, they proclaimed the certainty of pur distress and disease; then we forget that those men whom we reviled as pessimists are our saviors; then we forget the years of research and of patient study into conditions as they were, we forget the premonishments of our fools grow wise, in our anguish at the situation as it is. I say we forget. I may be wrong. Perhaps w:e only then remember. We must have Micaiahs, men of loyalty to the truth at all hazards and at any cost, no less to-day than In the year that Ahab and Jehoshaphat went against the Aram sans at Ramoth-Gilead. Our age, our counv try, the church has need, and a great ' need, for men who will speak forth what the Lord saith unto them. To be sure those "who are folding their arm* in selfish ease" will declare them, as they did the Garrisons, the Phil*1pses of the sixtitis, anarchists and lit subjects for the gallows. The man who would battle with the social evil to the death and declare the wisdom and the truth cf God unto a white life for two sexes will find ilotrontnre anr? onemioc nn eiw: F \iCtiWVVVl U ****** V4*V*A**Vk/ V f hand. He who will annihilate the monster of intemperance and of legalized iniquity will. I am much persuaded, find adherents of the devil even within the sacred precincts of j the church of Jesus Christ. That j economic Isaiah who shall try the truth of God against the entrenched forces of gold-greedv materialists, in the interest of the men who toil, will find a fearful and unrelenting array j jugainst him. He who will protect ; * ~'iMwrW\ 5=? i- &&- = k QYTM? R E.V-i|| iRA W- tt&NDERj??jk THE EAMOUS dMIHB labor against itself will be forced to combat with evil men among those whom he wishes to uplift. But while j a man may with less timidity advance ' ? a 1- i+V*?k enmntifi^ WrtrlH lit? YV lUUU^Ul lix uuv ? w. in no place will he find, many times, a more uncompromising resistance than in the church. Be it for good or ill the simple fact is this, that nowhere has new light a harder fight than among many who are the folj lowers of Him who was the essence | of all truth and who prayed the gift ! of the Spirit for them that they might have a sure guide into the fullness of eternal wisdom. The fight of the church of God against truth is the amazing spectacle of the ages. The odds against truth to-day are tremendous; but even as Ahab never returned to the city of his rule, sp surely shall eternsfl and refining truth conquer in the age long struggle with the adversary. Two things are necessary that truth may win and be accredited. First, we must be sure that our insight is correct, our truth born of God. And then we must be loyal to the voice of Jehovah as He speaks to us. There is nothing more detrimental to the dignity and standing of the truih than irrational and ill-balanced thought. Every bit of truth is the word of God, but some statements which are caricatures of truth are not God-given, no matter how loudly and fiow long they may claim the distinction of divine inspiration. All truth may well be labeled, "thus saith the Lord," but all statements that bear the motto, "thus saith the .Lord," are not truth. There are false prophets to-day no less than in the reign of Ahab. He who will declare a messace to men must first be sure of his ground. Not less important is it that a man be loyal to the truth revealed to !iim through the workings of God's Koly Spirit. Truth may negative most of his own ideas and cherished preconceptions. It may even subordinate his noblest ideals. But by it he must stand. Micaiah went to prison for the truth and Jesus of Nazareth to the cross. Stephen was stoned by his enemies, as was Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, the priest, because he was faithful to the truth. John the Baptist lost his head for declaring that Herod had lost his. Luther withstood a church and the Smithfield martyrs suffered agony that truth might be supreme. The long list of heretics and excommunicated, the host of those who have lost life and friends, the army of those crusaders who, under God, have battled hard with sin?all testify to the need, the glory of loyalty to divine truth. It is no easy thing to lead in tfie march of progress or to fight the forces of evil. Conservatism would clutch progress by the throat and throttle it to the rattle. Sin hates the light and would overcome it. "But whether or no the opposition be fierce we need and must have men .who will be firm for the truth and not flinch in the hot fight. "There is, Ave are iuiu, nu mure uai&iuuus enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infested recesses in which no light has ever shone." But to that man who, filled with power by the Spirit cf the Lord, will speak what the Lord saith unto him there will be not only the hard warfare on the first line of the skirmish here, but the the crown of victory in the life eternal. More and more the need is for men of the mold of Micaiah; men to whom the truth is more precious than much fine gold; men whose integrity is indivisible; men whose opinions are the judgments of minds that have been moved upon by the blessed Spirit of the living God, who cannot be bought, and who, filled with a high and a holy devotion to their divine commission as the revealers, . interpreters and torch-bearers of God's illuminating truth will balk at no sacrifice; and be overawed by no opposition; and be diverted by no power from the declaration and the promulgation of that truth. Oh, that there might arise throughout this land men of the vision and the fidelity of the prophets of ancient Israel. Would that there might arise among the ministers of the Lord today a prophet of Jahwe, Jehovah the Lord of hosts and of truth; a prophet with a message and with the power to express it tersely, intelligently, forcefully, fearlessly. May God give us a Micaiah who shall tell America the truth concerning the conditions of to-day. The people, in the church and out of it, are weary and undesirous of platitudes and of unaimed verbiage. Mankind awaits a prophet of God. And when he, comes in the Plenitude or wisaom ana or power; furnished with a divine commission; endued with a mission and a message for a world in sin, may the church have the insight and the grace to see the marks of God's calling in him and in his message and not persecute him as did the fathers the prophets of God aforetime. "as the Lord liveth, what the Lord saitli unto me, that will I speak." May this be the motto of every man who loves the truth. May it be also our inspiration to fidelity and to a glorius ministry unto men in the name and to the honor of the living God.- And may we live so near to God that we may be able to hear His message and to speak with immedi" , ate authority to men. The Power Will Be Given. When Cyrus captured Sardis, the only sou of Croesus, who was dumb, ] saw a soldier ready to.give the king, . whom he did not know* a stroke upon the head with his scimitar. The son made such a violent effort to save his father by a word that he broke the string of his tongue, and cried out, "Soldier, spare the life of Croesus!" And so, if we love Christ and His cause earnestly, our tongues will be loosened. \ nOOHHBKflBKIMBBHHnEZaBai A Lazy Liver May be only a tired liver, or a starved liver. It would be a stupid as well as savage thing to beat a weary or starved man because he lagged in his work. 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