The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 23, 1907, Image 7

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* " \ ' % t l ? mill i i ni irnr ""?.I ry??g i^itiojF\ A SERMON' V>? TflE REV? 5RAV//Iende^ ^!^PSubject: The New Note. Brooklyrf^ N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church. Hamburg avenue a<id Weirfield street, on the theme, "The Church's New Note," tlie Rev. I. W. Henderson, pastor, took as his text Mark 12:30: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength." He said: ,Tne adaptability of the Gospel is wonderful. In every epoch and in every age wherever the truth of God as it has been revealed in Jesus Christ has been preached, it has been found to be a fit guide for the leading of the minds and hearts and souls of men. a true solvent for the evils of the epoch and the age in which it has N been declared. Always it has possessed a message that has been peculiarly adaptable to the individual and social iniquities and to the individual and social spiritual yearnings 'and necessities of the society to which it has been proclaimed. When in apostolic times the preciousness of budding human life was discounted and largely unrecognized the vitalizing Gospel of Jesus Christ revealed t^e beauty and the value of life it gfelf. When in the ante-Reformation days the truth was endangered by the regrettable unwisdom of the ecclesiastical authorities of that day and time the compelling Gospel of Jesus opened wide the treasury of written truth that had been preserved in all its fragrance through the centuries and a new era for mankind began. As in those times so throughout Christendom it has been. Whatever may have been the sins, the spiritual yearnings, the mode of thought, the manner of expression, of any generation, the Gospel has always adapted itself and been found humanly adaptable to the sihs, the yearnings, the tnougnts, tne terminology 01 tne period. Every revival in Christian history, especially in the history of the last four hundred years, has had . its peculiar message, adaptable lo the sins, the yearnings, the spiritual needs, the thought and the terminology of the time in which it has been preached. Historians tell us that when in the days of Jonathan Edwards?days in which Christianity was largely legalistic in thought and speech?the fiery prophet of the living God wished to bring men into an open realization and confession o? their sinfulness and their accountability to God he preached them seri -v. mons on the essential fact and necessity of Divine sovereignty; and with burning zeal declared to humanity, as God gave him opportunity to sow the seed o^ His truth, the wisdom of yielding self into the control of the Divine Ruler of the universe. Wesley preached the truth of the freedom of the will to a nation to whom freedom was life. "Whosoever will may come'' was not all the Gospel then, nor is it all the Gospel now; but it is the lever of truth by which men in the days of that great revivalist were most quickly turned to love and serve God. We are face to face with another , great world-wide revival. We are in the midst of it. It may not be recognized in some quarters and it may be blinked in others. Many men . refuse to recognize it or they may fail to have the insight to perceive it, but It is here none the less. Evidencing itself within the church it is expressing itself more largely perhaps outside of the church than within it. Men are Gospel-hardened to the messages of yesterday. Not that they disdain Christ, but because the proclamations of the past have lost, through perfunctory familiarity with them, the power to cut deep into their souls. The edge of the truth has - become dulled for them. It needs to oe Drougnt xo xne tempering nre 01 a flaming truth that shall startle and attract men. It must he laid hard on * the wheel of a compelling Divine verity that shall put an edge on all that has become dulled. The preaching of Edwards will not do it, the oratory of "Wesley will not do it, the burning messages of Finney will not do it, the declaration of God's love in the mouth of Moody will not do it. These are our places of departure. The truth that these men have declared, the men-we-are-after know. We must vitalize that dormant truth by flinging a new message into their souls. "We must warm the chilled embers of their own religious experiences with the blaze of a modern message that, having its inspirations in the historic Christ, shall be indwelt of His presence and energized 1 of His spirit for a special ministry i to-day. Men know that God is sov- < ereign; they know that the human i will is free, for are they not exercis- < ing it against God every day? They < Jcnow that personal responsibility for personal sin or decency is inescapa- s ble; they know that God is love. We ' do not need to prove these things to " them most insistently. What we need < to do is to proclaim before them a s new note from the old Anthem of < God's revelation of His truth and Himself in Jesus Christ that shall find a correlative note in their own 1 souls and lead them back into har- 1 mony with the age-long chorus of the ' redeemed of God. It is the business 1 of the church of Jesus Christ to strike ' this note and to assume leadership. Granted that these remarks be true, -what then shall be our new note? What note shall we strike? : What word of God shall be our watchword? What text in the Scriptures shall epitomize our thought? About 1 what idea shall our preaching re- ' volve? In ihy humble judgment the text which shall epitomize the message of the new revival is that which is to be found as indicated in the text for this evening in the Gospel according to St. Mark, the 12th capter and the 30th verse: "Thou shalt ; love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with. all thy mind, and with all thy strength." And the idea that shall crystallize' our thinking shall be the conception of human love for God. As the basis of Moody's evangel was ;' the lovb of God for men, so, I verily believe, ere we shall do the work for Jesus that we desire to perform, we must declare, with insistency and with cumulative force, the identity, the wisdom, the fairness, the efficacy of human love for God. The trouble with us to-day is not that we do not know that God loves us. The trouble is that men do not love God. The evil which afflicts us can only be cured by the exercise of a controlling and vitalizing love for God, such a love as shall mellow and beautify the souls of men. The in-, iquity which scourges us now and torments us would not be if, in the past, men had loved God. A thoroughgoing love for God will make evil conditions in this world as impossible as they will be in the new Jerusalem hereafter. The golden rule has failed to accomplish its mission, not because it is not a truth, but because it is only half a truth, as it is popularly used to-day. The second commandment is a safe guide for our rule and practice through life only when it is correlated with that primary commandment which our Lord enunciated as at the logical centre of the moral and spiritual realities. The golden rule is not enough of a guide for us as we travel toward the undiscovered country. We must be more than moral if we desire happiness here and hope to enter into joy eternal hereafter. The golden rule must be vitalized by the living dirst principle of the kingdom of God . The trouble with the world is that men havebeen altogether too well satisfied to do and be done by, as God never intended they should. See for a moment how this half truth works in practice. You and I are on the Stock Exchange. You are satisfied that if by trickery or falsification or by the spreading of dangerous reports, true or untrue, I can ruin yen, I /nay do so, provided 1 afford you equda'opportunity to do the same to me. You and I are trading horses. It is all right for you to fleece me with my eyes open so long as I am permitted to fleece you in the same manner.. V mi and F avp in business. It is proper for me to steal your trade, provided you have an equal opportunity to steal mine. Of course this meets a modern interpretation of the golden rule, which says, "Whatsoever ye are willing that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." But how grievously it violates the spirit of Christ's law. The principle of the business world too largely is this, that it is all right for one dog to eat the other, because they have agreed that it shall be fair to play the industrial and commercial game that way. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," we are told. But when this law is separated from the correlated truth that Christ declared, and transplanted alone into the lives of multitudes of men to-day, we understand what an awful halftruth it has become. In all seriousness, I do not desire that some men shall love me in the way they love themselves, outside of Christ. I do not care to practice the golden rule as to-day it is promulgated in our social life, outside of Jesus Christ, or to have it so practiced upon me. For some men have no comprehension of their own value and the demands of their own integrity upon their lives; and how, therefore, can they appreciate the value of the lives, the minds, the hearts, the souls, the peace and purity and happiness of their fellow men? Some men have such a small estimate, seemingly, of themselves, judged by the way they treat themselves, that we should be untrue to ourselves did we not resent like treatment by them of us. Some men have such a debased idea connn^ninor nrliot io T1 Or h f frtl' YY1 On tf? H f? V/Ul UIU5 nuot JO 1 AW* AA*VM WW WW unto them that they cannot be expected to know, unless the grace of God inform them, what ihey should do to their fellows. The message for our own time, the appeal of to-day, must be based on the text I have read. Its theme must be the love of man for God. Loving God, we shall conserve the interests of our own personalities and gain a divine value of our own worth to Gad and to the world. Loving God, we shall know the value of our brethren. Do you suppose for an instant that men would have the audacity to publish declarations that they were only worth a paltry couple of hundred millions if they really loved God as God means they should? Do you suppose for an instant that they would boast that they can buy legislatures and judges and the government, if they loved God as Jesus loved Him? If we loved God as Jesus means we should, do you suppose that we would stand for child labor, with all its horrors and cruelties; for the saloon as it is, with all its fruitage of vice and crime and misery and poverty and despair? If we-loved God as Jesus means we should, have you the slightest suspicion that we wcfttld permit women by the thousands to be sent into the brothel in economic selfdefense? If men loved God, would it be thinkable that they would murder and rape, and steep themselves in drunkenness, in bestiality and crime? Do you think that if we could eet men to love God, they would not have again a lively consciousness of His sovereignty as Edwards declared it, and of their free will to do the right as Wesley declared it, and of their personal responsibility as Finney declared it, and Df their indebtedness to divine love as Moody declared it?. I think not. The new note of tne church will be the love of men for God. For it is the second logical step in the scheme of redemption in Christ. God in Christ hath already loved men, and now loves them. It is for them to reciprocate His love. The new message must be the central truth of the kingdom of God on its manward side. We must lead men to love God. Then shall we reach them. Getting men to love God, we shall transform the individual character; we shall regenerate society; we shall make wars to cease and all nations throughout all the earth to dwell in righteous and godly fraternal relationships.. The task is great. But it is not impossible. The means and j the method we shall discuss at another time. But when we shall have { gotten men to love the living God, then shall we hear a voice out of j Heaven saying unto us, "Behold, the j tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they bhall be His people, and God Himself b^ll be with them, their God." HI TfWl ! Wl ! Women Who Wear Well. 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As surely as the general health suffers When there is dftwjjgeaaent of the health of the delicate womahlfcorgans. so surely rtriranc a reN^STahlished in health theh^ce an?^?ta^n^fcice witness to the Tact InrfcRefrid comefrness^ Nearly a million women have found health and happiness in the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. Ingredients on label?contains no alcohol or harmfnl habit - forming drugs. Made wholly of those native, American, medicinal roots most highly recommended by leading medical authorities of all the several schools of practice for the cure of woman's peculiar ailments. For nursing mothers.or for those brokendown in health by too frequent bearing of children, also for the expectant mothers, to prepare the system for the coming of baby and making its advent easy and almost painless, there is no medicine quite so gooa as "Favorite Prescription." It can do no harm in any condition of the system. 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