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DR. CHAPMAN’S SERMON
A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
PASTORiEVANCEUST.
Subject: The Sane of the Dnr<l—If Our
Huerta Will Uut Sine IUeht Christ
Will Help Us to Counteract Our Dial
to Sin.
New Yobk Citt.—The Eev. Dr. J. Wil-
T)Uf Chapman's sermons continue to excite
the profoundest interest and to give* the
greatest satisfaction to that large hum’oer
•of American people who demand a strik
ing discourse for weekly reading. The
popular pastor-evangelist has prepared the
following sermon for the press. It is en
titled ‘ The Song of the Lord,” and is
preached from the text, “The song of the
Lord began also." II. Chronicles 21): 27.
The difference between the 28th and the
29th chapters of II. Chronicles presents to
us an illustration 0f that difference which
we frequently see in the church as she
passes from times of enthusiasm to days
of depression and back again, and for
which there seems to be no human expla
nation. So also is it the picture of many
families where the godly father has an un
godly son and an ungodly father a godly
son, which is entirely contrary to the rules
which in our own house we have deter
mined should abound. So also is it a pic
ture of many individuals who after weeks
and months and even years are found reg
ularly in the bouse of God the most devout
of worshipers, and then suddenly stop un
able almost to explain to themselves how
they have lost interest and why their zeal
is quenched. The wicked reign of Ahaz
and the reign of his righteous son Heze
boy as he follows his plow, the shepherd
as he keeps his flock in the mountains, the
sailor on the sea and the traveler on the
plain, they all sma At a critical moment
in the battle of Waterloo when the soldiers
were wavering Wellington found out it was
because the band bad stopped. He ordered
the musicians to play again, and the effect
was*marvelous. Jf there would only be a
sonjj in our souls to-day and in the churqh
there would be power. A mother saw her
child standing upon the edge of a preci-.
pice. She knew if she shouted she might
startle the child so that he would fall, eo
she attracted his attention by a familiar
song she sang. There are men and women
standing on the very brink of perdition to
day without hope, but if the church were
but singing her song as she ought the lost
could be saved, and if oue had a song oth
ers would join with it. On tho battlefield
of Shiloh fainting and suffering a Christian
soldier began to sing, “When I can read
my title dear." In a few moments an
other soldier with weak voice joined in
and then another until a score of voices
were taking up the song. Oh. if we could
but set on fire one church for God the
whole city might soon be under tho touch
of His mighty life.
Second, what did Hezekiah do? We
have only to read the story to find out.
(1) . He opened the doors, as indicated
in the third verse.
(2) . The priests were santified, the 15th
verse.
(3) . They went into the inner part of
the house and’ made it clean, the 16th
verse.
(4) . They sanctified the entire house,
•the 17th verse.
(5) . They restored tho vessels which
had once been used in the temple.
(6) . “And Hezekiah commanded to of-
kiah thus furnish us with practical illus- fer the burnt offering upon the altar. And
tration. I when the burnt offering began the song of
I. the Lord began again, also with the trum
pets and with the instruments ordained by
David, king of Israel. And all the congre
gation worshiped, and the singers eang
and the trumpeters sounded, ana all this
Ahaz was the eleventh' king of Judah,
the son of Jotham. His example was holy
and his reign was peaceful and prosper
ous. Not so of his son. He was a gross
idolator, actually sacrificed his children to
the gods, remodeled the temple that it
might be fit for idolatrous uses and owned
chariot horses that were dedicated to the
son. Upon all of this the judgment of God
falls, hut because of it the condition of the
people is something dreadful. He is an il
lustration of the power of sin. First, in its
infatuation. We find him robbing the
palace and plundering the temple, places
which had always been sacred both to the
king and to the people, but which he pre
sents as dishonored in the 21st verse of
the 28th chapter, to the king of Assyria,
but somehow sin seems always to present
the Bame sort of an infatuation to those
who walk for any length of time in its way.
Second, in its degradation. There could
he no worse sin than that described in
verses 24 and 25 of the 28th chapter, where
Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the
house of God, shut up the doors of the
house,, and in all the cities of Judah made
high places to burn incense to other gods.
A picture very much like it is found in
the 5th chapter-of Daniel the 3d and 5th
verees, where the temple vessels are taken
by the king and need in midnight revelry,
when suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand
are seen writing on the walk "Thou art
weighed in the Dalance and found want
ing. However, it is true that any man
who uses his power? of body or of mind to
tin ia as defiantly sinful as was Ahaz the
T^'ird , in hie death he is a picture of the
end of sin. He died when only .thirty-six
years of age an untimely death, ana he
sleeps in a dishonored grave, -for they
would not bury him in the tombs of the
kings, a perfect illustration ef the text,
"Sin when it is finished brings forth
death.” In the city of Peris in burning
letters of fire a certain place of dangerous
■in greeted the passer-by with these words,
all of them written in fire, "Nothing to
pay," but he who enters in through the
door will find' that the wages' of sin is
death. This has always been true. Heze
kiah, the son of Ahaz, began to reign
when he was twenty-five years old. In
his parental heritage he had everything
against him, but his mother’s name was
Abizab, and she was the daughter of
Zechariah, a man who had understanding
in the views of God. This is undoubedly
the secret of Hezeki&h’s goodness. Boys
frequently go right when their fathers are
wrong, but when the mother is wrong very
rarely do they Walk in the paths of recti
tude.
II.
For sixteen years there had been no tong
in the temple. This was a great loss, be
cause the people had always been accus
tomed to sing from the time at creation
when the moniing stars sang together and
all the sons o' God shouted for joy to the
marching through the Red Sea where the
sons of Israel were led by Miriam in the
singing, and the birth of the 8aviour where
the angels were the choir, tHe last supper
where the Lord Himself was one of the
singers, up to the new heaven and the new
earth where they sing the new song the
world has had. much to do with music. The
temple service when men lived in right re*
. lations with God and the house was clean
was beautiful. Some Psalms were written
in the temple in letters of gold, and the
people chanted them to the accompani
ment of the consecrated instruments, the
antiphonal choirs answered each other, as
for example, in the 24th Psalm, one choir
would say, "Lift up your heads, 0 ye
S ates, even lift them up, ye everlasting
oora, and the King of glory shall come
in.” and the other choir would respond,
“Who is this King of glory?" only to have
the other singers reply, “The Lord of
Hosts, He is tne King of glory.” But for
sixteen years there had been no song.
First, why was this? The best expla
nation is given in the 28th chanter of II.
Chronicles, the 24th and 25 tn verses.
"And Ahaz gathered together the vessels
of the house of God, and cut in pieces the
vessels of the house of God, and shut up
the doors of the house of the Lord, and
he made him altars in every corner of
Jerusalem. And in every several city of
Judah he made high places to burn in
cense unto other gods end provoked to an
ger the Lord God of his fathers." There
is many a life to-day without a song, and
to all such I give my message. The reason
for this is found in the fact of sin. We sin
in our outward acts, but God can keep us
from that if wc will let Him and give us
the song once more. We sin in our de-
■ tires, hut He can remove these desires if
we will but permit Him to’ do so, and our
affections may be aet'on things above. We
sin in our motives, but if we are His there
is is new pivot to our life, and the motives
which were most impure may become pure,
indeed. We have also a bias to tin which
comes to us with our birth, but He can
counteract it if we will give Him the right
to do so. If one could throw a stone up
high enough it' would, come to the place
of equipoise, where the law of gravitation
would be overcome by the high law which
pulls upward, and so if we aid but yield
ourselves to Christ ss we ougb.t we wonid
come to the place where He would over
power the weakness of our nature, and
wbat we doubtless need is a song to-day.
It may be the old song we used to sing. It
Music is still another vessel, and that
church is to .be pitied, if not despised,
where the musio is not in every way to the
praise of God, rendered by men and women
whose hearts have already been yielded to
God, but it was when the burnt offering
was presented that the song began and
there was this peculiar about the burnt
offering, it was all yielded and it was all
ionsumed, at) illustration of the fact that
when we are entirely surrendered to God,
when He rules in the ministry end control)
in everything in the church, when there it
no thought but for His glory and no com
petition out for His approval, then will the'
song of the Lord begin once again,' If you
will read the 30th chapter of II. Chronicle)
you will have the story of a great revival,
where people from Dan to Beerelieba cnm«
to Jerusalem to spend seven days, and then
up and down the land overthrowing
he idolatrous places of worship and set
ting up the altars once more. This is the
secret of purifying our cities and purifying
our land. Let the eong of the Lord begin
once again. There is no more fitting close
to Hezekiah’s life than the 21st verae of
the 31st chapter of II. Chronicles. “And
with every work that he began in the serv
ice of the house of God, and in the law,
and in the commandments, to seek bis
God, he d!ld it with all his heart, and
prospered."
is natural to everybody to sing, the plow- j this put?
continued until the burnt offering ....
finished."
Third, all this is typical. We have no
eong in the church to-day as once we had.
I do not wish to be pessimistic in my view
of the condition of things; it is my great
desire to inspire the church with a new
hope and a. conception of better things,
but no one is so blind to-day but what he
can see that the church is without the old
song she used to have, and beyond all ques
tion it is because the temple must needs
be cleansed. Why should not the work be
gin now?
(1) . It ought to begin with the priests
themselves as in the Old Testament story.
Christian Evans tells of the time when
one day riding through a wood he dis
mounted from his horse, hitched it to the
tree and made his Way into the darkening
shadows and stayed upon his face before
God for hours waiting for his special bless
ing or his special work, and when he re
turned to his horse and mounted it and
the next day began his preaching service a
revival was started which swept the whole
country. Maze spent a day-and a night in
a New York hotel asking for God’s special
blessing because he needed it, and at last
must needs rise and say, “Oh, Lord, stay
Thine hand I can bold no more.” Murray
McCheyhno was to filled with God that as
he laid his hands upon a boy’s head and
said, "I am very mucl) concerned abont
your sow, the boy remenfbered it and
when he. forgot McCheynne’s sermons he
felt the touch of his loving band upon hie
head,'and it pushed him into'the kingdom.
(2) . And the inner part of the house
mods also to be cleansed. Thore is in
everjr church a circle into which God has
seemed to call Cdrtain persons. Tp these I
now direct my message, to the officers of
the church of whatever name, to the Sun
day-school teachers and to those who have
bocorpe spiritually minded is the searching
question "Is thine heart right in the sight
of God?'- In the 52d chapter of Isaiah
and the 11th verse the prophet says, “Be
ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord."
God pity the man whose, life is unclean,
while his office is one the angels might
covet to fill. The searching power of God's
word ought to touch the Sunday-school
teacher. One of Mr. Moody’s teachers in
Chicago was dying of consumption. He
must leave his Western home and return
to the homo of his boyhood in the East,
but before he would leave, entering a car
riage he drove to every' home and besought
the members of his class to yield to Goa,
and arid Mr. Moody, “When the time
came for him to leave Chicago his whole
class, every one of them saved, gathered
at the platform of the station to wave him
a farewell, and they all sang, ‘Blest be the
tie that binds our hearts in Christian
love.’" In Galatians, the 6th chapter and
the 1st verse, it is commanded, "ye which
are spiritual restore the wanderers in the
•pint of meekness," and alas, it is true that
men have wandered in multitudes from the
church, and we have done nothing to re
strain them, let the work of cleansing go
on.
(3) . The church as a whole ought to be
set right with God. In Zechariah, the 3d
chapter and the first seven verses, we have
the picture of Joshua, the high priest,
standing before the angel of the Lord.
He was clothed with filthy garments, and
the word of the Lord came saying, "Put off
the filthy garments and I will clothe thee
with a change of raiment." These filthy
garments upon the high priest are like the
habits which cling to some of us. They
have ssppdfl our spiritual life, and we are
powcrlets in the presence of the world.
We ought to put them off and then put on
Christ, so that living among men we
might win them to Him by the very way
we live. This will not he easy, for the pic
ture of Joshua is with Satan resisting
him. I doubt not he is resisting us now
in the presence of God, doubtless calling
attention to the way wc have sang our
hymns this morning and uttered our pray
ers. but this picture in Zechariah also
tells us that Joshua, the high priest, had
a fair mitre set upon his head, and the
bands showed that service was hard. That
fair mitre is like the descent of the Holy
Ghost, for which there is a great need to
day. Then Hezekiah saw that the vessels
of the temple were restored. The church
has bad certain vessels committed to her,
as, for example, the Bible. We have
picked it to. pieces until the faith of some
has been shaken. "Will you pray for a
theological student?" said a woman to me
this week, who used to be one of the most
consistent Christians I ever knew and one
of the most zealous. "He doubts much of
the Scripture, and as a consequence his
life is not only indifferent but inconsist
ent." Thr time has come when the Bible
ought to be put in the church in the place
it once occupied.
Preaching is another vesssl entrusted to
the church. As a matter of fact, do you
believe that men would know they were
lost from much of the preaching they hear
to-dsy. The time has come for the old-
time spirit of the church fathers to pre
vail
Prayer is still another vessel. Prayer is
not a performance with which men may be
either pleased or displeased. Prayer is
talking to God. Will our prayers stand
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