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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
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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 ;
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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
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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
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