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OOUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
AN pnoFESSOR HUGH BLACK.
Theme: Shame of Detection.
vjyn N. Y. —The baccalaureate
, of the Packer Collegiate In
: p was delivered by Professor
, ! Black. M. A., of Union Theo
uf a i seminary. The service was
in the chapel of the institute,
\ w'i s presided over by Professor
k ni r . Black, as the Scripture
‘ nn ‘ , ad the fiftieth Psalm. Pro-
J es ; ( )j.’Black spoke on “The Shame of
twoption,” selecting as his theme
V'pmiah 2:26: “As the thief is
"-Mined when he is found out, so is
?hV house of Israel ashamed.” In
}J e coU rs of his sermon, Professor
niiick said.
p The prophet is accusing the nation
n f apostasy, of unfaithfulness to her
true spo .se. To awaken repentance
he points to the base ingratitude
which c mid forget the early days of
history when God espoused
tfwm in love and favor brought them
out of the land of Egypt, led them
through the wilderness and brought
them into a plentiful country. He
points next to the willful and wicked
obstinacy which made them forsake
God and choose the lower worship
an( i the lower moral practice of
heathenism. And here he points to
the folly of it. Besides its ingrati
tude and its wickedness, it is also un
speakably foolish, an insensate stu
pidity at which the heavens might
welfbe astonished, not only that a
nation should change its God who had
taken them by the arms and in end
less love and pity taught them to
walk, but that it should change Him
for such other gods — that Israel
should have given Jehovah such piti
ful rivals. This is the folly at which
the heavens may be amazed, that My
people “have forsaken Me, the foun
tain of living waters, and hewed them
out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can
hold no water.” To a monotheist who
had grasped the principle of the One
God, and who had experience of spir
itual communion, polytheism with its
lords many and gods many must have
seemed a system almost beneath con
tempt. Intellectually, it introduced
confusion instead of order; morally,
It meant that life would be lived on
a much lower plane; relglously, it
was the degradation of the pure spir- I
itual worship to which the prophets
pointed the people. j
This is why the prophets always
speak of the shame of idciatry. It
seemed incredible that men in their
senses should prefer what appeared
to them to be brutism superstition.
Both intellect ually and morally it was
a disgrace. Especially the prophets
of the exile and after it, who had
come into close connection with
heathen idolatry, had this sense of
superiority, and withered the stupid
ity of polytheism with their most
mordant irony. It was a shame, at
they blushed, to think of Jews
descending tosuch puerile worship and
practices. It was folly for the heathen
who knew no better; it was shame
for Israelites to grove 1 before a stock
or stone. The prophets confidently
predicted that experience would prove
the tolly and vanity of idolatry.
“They shall be turned back,” says the
prophet of the exile; “they shall be
greatly as named that trust in graven
images, that say to the molten im
ages, Ye are our gods.” The proph
ets with their spiritual insight al
ready saw the disgrace and vanity of
rurh worship; but the people who
wc.e sed iced by the lower and more
sensuous rites of idolatry would have
to learn their folly by bitter experi
ence When the pinch came, when
le needs of life drove them like
BUeep, wh n in the face of the great
necessities, they would find out how
|TUe had teen their faith. “As the
:! . e ’ s ashamed when he is found
out, so the house of Israel will be
quanted; they, their kings, their
; nnces > and their priests and their
Uophets, saying to a stock, Thou
other; and to stone, Thou
nasc brought me forth; but in the
ot their trouble they will say,
and save us. fUit where are
T T 1 that thou hast made tliee?
in arise if they can save tliee
de time of thy trouble.” *
wrmM ! n , tlle of trouble they
,:! ‘d out their folly; and the
f‘ ■ ’beir trust in -idols would be
thp n They should feel already
spn?iu §lace: 1)ut ’ though they are :n
--conv- J° tslat EOW they will yet be
win ' ‘ and le hot blush of shame
faro • ‘ them with confusion of
inernff 1 . are not chained of the
of ,1, '• Uf f; and wickedness and folly
find cond uct, but their sin will
conv,Y?f m outj and then surely the
Eiiih -n of their foloishness and
l as;t '\ hl a bash them, and then at
deerarn 6 / know the sense of
sbnnV/ 1 ] 1011 and self-contempt which
is aih ’ e l tlleirs “As the thief
thn hr. When he is found ouc, so
Tj' 01 Israel will be ashamed.”
<3aiW SUme dullness of mind and
cortfi ' i !s heart and obtuseness of
ouS n< : e can be Paralleled among
Boeia] /w'. I s it not true that in
to ho tbe unpardonable sin is
knot fv. un ?, ? ut? In many cases it
ano . Uiing itselE that men fear
but an*!, • run and are ashamed of,
Thero ;* u n . ng like exposure of it.
dlserano '\ keen enough sensibility to
Which r k t not tor the thing itself
thin 4 I- 1 ,? e disgrace. Men will do
which ,'V 1 ' 1 au eas y conscience for
they . w °uld be ashemed—if
stand op!. re ,. ! OUDd out. Our moral
that ( t t: 1 judgment is so much just
science ; .' ne comn iiinity. Our con
tnerelv ' r se:ly a social conscience
and Yi| \ 1 individual and personal
society I ’’ , l!Ut imposed upon us by
Which ’ “ c,) de °f manners and rules
ho ex't.t. mu . st not transgress. It is
more livT' ;Mion to say that we live
re scrai’ >. 1 p c °d_e, by the customs and
law ofrTi 01 soci ety, than by the lioly
lamp t ‘ ' as a light to our feet and a
good a -' , ' ll Putb- Much of this is
gains m,r i)l ' esen t s the accumulated
u . i !l f Past, a certain standard
Peetet] t ls ’° 1 w which men are not ex-.
Christiui/. la ‘l* a m oral and even a
sil and'...]' 1 11 lll °sphere which affects us
°f the o-o 'i 0,1 is res P°nsible for much
%ds that is in us. One only
>muiy ; v V ? for a little in a Pagan
°w e to th/ 0 reQ lize how milch we
general Christian standard
wintry, such as it is. At the
same time we must see bow insecure
this is as a guard and guide to life.
A man might have a corrupt heart
and be filled with all evil passions,
but it stands to reason that society
cannot take him to task for that, un
less it gets something on which it can
lay a finger. And apart even from
such deeper moral depths of charac
ter, there may be actual transgres
sions, but, until they are discovered
and proved, society must treat them
as if they did not exist. A man might
be a thief, not only in desire and
heart, but in reality, but until he is
found out, he rubs shoulders with
honest men everywhere as one of
themselves. Society is not ashamed
of him, and he need not be ashamed
of himself.
The shame of being found out may
of course, induce this better feeling’
and be the beginning of a nobler and
more stable moral life. It is one of
the blessed functions of punishment
to offer us this point of departure as
the house of Israel through the shame
of idolatry reached a loathing of it
that ultimately made it impossible in
Israel. Welcome the retribution
which brings us self-knowledge; wel
come the detection which makes us
ashamed and makes us distrust our
ssives at last; welcome the punish
ment which gives repentance of sin;
welcome the exposure which finds us
out because it makes us at last find
out ourselves! All true knowledge is
self-kncwledge. All true exnosure is
self-exposure. The true judgment is
self-judgment. The true condemna
tion is when a man captures and tries
and condemns himself. Real repent
ance means shame, the shame of self
that he should have permitted him
self to fall so far below himself, and
have dimmed the radiance of his own
soul. Long after others have for
gotten, it may still be hard for a man
to forgive himself. Long after others
have forgotten, he may still remem
ber. To this sensitive soul, to this
vitalized conscience there may be even
wounds hidden to all sight but his
own sight—and God’s. As the thief
is ashamed when he is caught, the
house of Israel is ashamed, at last,
not because of the mere exposure, but
because of the ingratitude and wick
edness and folly that made an ex
posure possible and necessary. We
need to have the law written on our
hearts, to conform to that and not to
a set of outward social rules; we need
to walk not by the consent of men
but by the will of God; we need to
see the beauty of Christ’s -holiness,
and then our sin will jind us out,
though no mortal man has found it
out.
“As the thief is ashamed when he
is found out, so the house of Israel
will be ashamed.” Shall he—must,
be! We are only playing with the
facts and forces of moral life 4f we
imagine it can be otherwise. Real
and ultimate escape from this self
exposure is impossible. There is no
secrecy in all the world. “Murder
will out” is the old saying, or old
superstition, if you will. The blood
cries from the ground. It will out in
some form or other, though not al
ways by the ordinary detective’s art.
Retribution is a fact of life, whether
it comes as moralists and artists of
all ages have depicted or not. Moral
life writes itself indelibly on nerves
and tissires, colors the blood. It
records itself on character. Any day
may be the judgment day, the day of
revealing, declaring patently what is
and what has been. The geologist
by a casual cut of the earth can tell
the story of the earth’s happenings
by the strata that are laid bare, de
posit on deposit. The story of our
life is not a tale that is told and then
done with. It leaves its mark on the
soul. It only needs true selfVknowl
edge to let us see it all. It only needs
awakened memory to bring it all
back. It only needs the fierce light
to beat on it to show it up as it was
and is. “There is nothing covered
that shall not be revealed and hid
that shall not be made known. There
fore whatsoever ye have spoken in
darkness shall be heard in the light,
and that which y-e have spoken in the
ear in closets shall be proclaimed
upon the housetops.” Ashamed when
he is found out! If to be undetected
is the only defense, it is to gamble
against a certainty. Found out we
shall be, as we stand naked in the
revealing and self-revealing light.
“Then shall we begin to say to the
mountains, Fall on us, and to the
hills, Cover us.”
Rock of ages, cleft for^me,
I/et me hide myself in Thee.
A Song in the Heart.
We can sing away our cares easier
than we can reason them away. The
birds are the earliest to sing in the
morning; the birds are more without
care than anything else I know of.
Sing in the evening. Singing is the
last thing that robins do. When they
have done their daily work, when
they have flown their last flight and
picked up their last morsel of food
and cleared their bills on a napkin of
a bough, then on the top twig they
sing one song of praise. I know they
sleep sweeter for it.
Oh, that we might sing every even
ing and morning, and let song touch
song all the way through! Oh, that
we could put song under our burden!
Oh, that we could extract the sense
of sorrow by song! Then, sad things
would not poison so much.
Y, T hen troubles come, go at them
with song. When griefs arise, sing
them down. Lift the voice of praise
against cares. Praise God by sing
ing; that will lift you above trials of
every sort. Attempt it. They sing
in Heaven, and among God’s people
on earth, song is th s appropriate lan
guage of Christian feeling.—Henry
Ward Beecher.
Uncommon Service.
We rrtust, not forget that our call
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it said in our prayer meetings that we
are to serve the Lord in little things!
It is true, and it is a great comfort
that it is true, that the giving of‘a
glass of water can please God, and the
sweeping of a room can glorify Him,
But woe be to us if we are content
with small service! Too much
thought of little things belittles.
We should “attempt great things
for God.” Caleb said: “Give me this
'mountain.” Mary broke the alabaster
box that was exceedingly precious.
The disciples left all to follow Jesus,
and counted it joy to suffer for His
sake. Let us not be easily content.
The note of heroism should be in our
giving, in our serving. Our King de
serves and expects kingliness.—M. D
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