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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. 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