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' the pulpit. 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 ing is a high one. How often we hear 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 Babcock. D. D. The General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its com ponent parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. 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