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SERMON !:|i| Iii LiUil iiTHE: PAMOOS DIVINE*.
Subject:. Loyally to the Truth.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church
on the theme. ‘Loyalty to the Truth,”
the Rev. I. Vt: Henderson, pasto;,
took as his text I. Kings 22:14:
' And Mieaiah said, as the Lord !i• -
eth, what the Lord saith unto me,
that will I speak.” He said:
The four hundred false prophets
were mere flatterers. They inter¬
preted and delivered the oracles to
suit the king’s whim. They paid
small attention to the measure of
truth that their judgment contained.
If they. discovered wrong, they kept
quiet about it. If they foresaw evil,
they were equally silent. To be op¬
timistic was to be popular. Self-in¬
terest dictated that they should re¬
turn to the king good omens or none.
Pessimistic prophesies landed a man
in prison; and since Ahab wanted to
be coddled and cajoled and flattered,
they humored him to the best of their
ability and to his full capacity. They
were optimistic patriots. Therefore
they were favorites at court.
Ahab hated Mieaiah because he
spoke the truth as it came to him
direct from God. The monarch dis¬
liked premonitions of future evil and
demonstrations of existing sin. He
preferred a fancied security to defi¬
nite knowledge of conditions as they
were. As Ahab complained to Je
hoshaphat, Mieaiah prophesied not
good, but evil; and £ 91 - that reason he
was heartily happy to jail him.
Mieaiah might easily have taken
the advice of the king’s officer and
become one of the lying multitude.
He might, with profit to himself in
the eyes of Ahab, have reiterated in
earnest, rather than in sarcasm falsifiers* as
lie did, the prophecy of the
Self-preservation and the hope of
self-advancement might, imaginably,
have led him to have given the king
just the answer for which his heart
yearned. The profit from the king’s
pleasure was at hand and within
sight, the Lord would forgive him
quicker than the monarch. Many a
man has argued that way. But to
Mieaiah the truth was more precious
than the benedictions of his ruler,
the favor of Jehovah was more satis¬
fying than were the praises of any
man. “As the Lord liveth, what the
Lord saith unto me, that will 1
speak,” he says; and his wort’s are
an inspiration to the men of America
as they mark out the strict line of
duty we should follow in our time.
Too many of us lack the fidelity
of Mieaiah because we-fear unpopu¬
larity. Cowardice supplants courage
in no few hearts that are aglow with
a vision of the truth because men
dare not defy the disfavor of the
Ahabs of to-day. Smug self-salisfa r -
tion cries down the leader who would
point, the wrong; and above all, right
it. Optimistic patriots in the church
and out of it, with no eye save for
the glowing, lustrous surface which
hides a central life bitten deep with
sin, decry as pessimistic the man who
paints the evil as it is.
Self-glorification is easier than
self-examination. There is more
pleasure for the crowd in recounting
their achievements than in clarifying
the central springs of life, and in
analyzing the depth and the conse¬
quences of their iniquity. It fakes
less brains to state the achievements
already accomplished than it does to
investigate and determine the sure¬
ness and stability of the foundations
upon which success is built. It is
easier upon the head to relate blithe¬
ly the unexampled progress of your
country or your church or your fam¬
ily or yourself in the attainment of
material advantages, than it is to de¬
cide whether or no the gain was made
righteously and in the fear of God.
and whether or no it wiil result in
future happiness and helpfulness for
all concerned. It is far more satis
factory, from the point of view of
the opportunist, to take things as
they are and to make the best of
them. No man really likes to unearth
sin; it isn't nice work and it is
dirty. But to bury the victims doesn't
stop the epidemic. To congratulate
oneself upon the amount of water in
the reservoir, and upon the power
and efficiency of the pumps at the
water works, in no way diminishes
the heat of the fever. In these days
we want and hail men of mind and
of action who will look for the hid¬
den germs of disease. Then, in our
desire to acclaim them we forget the
days when, in spite of the self-satis
the ignorant, the careless, the
wicked, they proclaimed the certainty
of our distress and disease; then we
forget that those man whom we re¬
viled as pessimists are our saviors;
then we forget the years of research
and of patient study into conditions
as they were, we forget the premon
ishments of our fools grow wise, in
onr anguish at. the situation as it is.
I say we forget. I may be wrong,
Perhaps we only then remember.
We must have Micaiahs, men of
loyalty to the truth at all hazards
and at any cost, 1:0 less to-day than
in the year that Ahab and Jebosba
pliat went against the Avameans at
Ramoth-Gilead. Our age.-our coup.
try. the church has need, will' and a great
need, for men who speak forth
what the Lord saith unto them. To
be sure those “who are folding their
arm* in selfish ease” will declare
then . as they did the Garrisons, the
PhilTpses of the sixties, anarchists
and fit subjects for the gallows. The
man who would battle with the social
evil to the death and declare the
wisdom and the truth of God unto a
white life for two sexes will find
detractors and enemies on every
hand. He who will annihilate the
monster of intemperance and of legal
ized iniquity will. I am much per
suaded. find adherents of the devil
even within the sacred precincts of
the church of Jesus Christ. That
economic Isaiah who shall try the
truth of God against the entrenched
forces of gold-greedy materialists, in
tbe interest of the men who toil, will
find a fearful and unrelenting array
against him. He who will protect
labor against itself will be forced to
combat with evil men among those
whom he wishes to uplift. But while
a man may with less timidity advance
new thought in the scientific world,
in no place will he find, many times,
a more uncompromising resistance
than in the church. Be it for good
or ill the simplg fact is this, that no¬
where has new light, a harder fight
than among many who are the fol¬
lowers of riim who was the essence
of all truth and who prayed the gift
of the Spirit for them that they might
have a sure guide into the fullness
of eternal wisdom. The fight of the
church of God against truth is the
amazing spectacle of the ages.
The odds against truth to-day are
tremendous; but even as Ahab never
returned to the city of his rule, so
surely shall eternal and refining truth
conquer in the age long struggle with
the adversary.
Two things are necessary that
truth nily win and be accredited.
First, we must be sure that our in¬
sight is correct, our truth born of
God. And then we must be loyal to
the voice of Jehovah as He speaks to
us.
There is nothing more detrimental
to the dignity and standing of the
truth than irrational and ill-balanced
thought. Every bit of truth is the
word of God, but some statements
which are caricatures of truth are not.
God-given, 110 matter how loudly and
how iong they may claim the distinc¬
tion of divine inspiration. AU truth
may well be labeled, “thus saith the
Lord,” but all statements that bear
the motto, “thus saith the Lord,” are
not truth. There are false prophets
to-day no less than in the reign of
Ahab. He who will declare a mes¬
sage to men must first be sure of his
ground. .
Not less important is it that a man
be loyal to the truth revealed to ?:im
through the workings of God’s Holy
Spirit. Truth may negative most of
his own ideas and cherished pre¬
conceptions. It may even subordi¬
nate his noblest ideals. But by it he
must stand. Mieaiah went to prison
for the truth and Jesus of Nazareth
to the cross. Stephen was stoned by
his enemies, as was Zechariah, the
son of Jehoiada, the priest, because
he was faithful to the truth. John
the Baptist lost his head for declar¬
ing that Herod had lost his. Luther
withstood a church and the Smith
field martyrs suffered agony that
truth might be supreme. The long
list of heretics and excommunicated,
the host of those who have lost life
and friends, the army of those cru¬
saders who, under God, have battled
hard with sin—all testify to the need,
the glory of loyalty to divine truth.
It is no easy thing to lead in the
march of progress or to fight the
forces of evil. Conservatism would
clutch progress by the throat and
throttle it to the rattle. Sin hates
the light and would overcome It.
But whether or no the opposition
he fierce we need and must have men
who will be firm for the truth and
not flinch in the hot fight. “There
is.” we are told, “no more hazardous
enterprise than that of bearing the
torch of truth into those dark and
infested recesses in which no light
lias ever shone.” But to that man
who. filled with power by the Spirit
of the Lord, will speak what the
Lord 2 . 1 unto him there will be
not ■< the hard warfare on the
firs t line of the skirmish here, but the
the crown of victory in the life eter
nal.
More and more the need is for
men of the mold of Mlcaiah; men to
whom the truth is more precious than
much fine gold; men whose integrity
| is indivisible; man whose opinions
are the judgments of minds that
j have been movgd upon by the blessed
Spirit of the living God. who cannot
( be bought, and who, filled with a
j | high and a holy devotion to their
divine commission as the revealers,
interpreters and torch-bearers of God’s
illuminating truth will balk at no
sacrifice; and be overawed by no op¬
position; and be diverted by no power
from the declaration and the promul¬
gation of that truth.
Oh, that there might arise through¬
out this land men of the vision and
the fidelity of the prophets of ancient
Israel. Would that there might ari 3 e
among the ministers of the Lord to¬
day a prophet of Jahwe, Jehovah the
Lord of hosts and of truth; a prophet
with a message and with the power
to express it tersely, intelligently,
forcefully, fearlessly. May God give
us a Mieaiah who shall tell America
the truth concerning the conditions
of to-day. The people, in the church
and out of it, are weary and undesir
ous of platitudes and of unaimed ver¬
biage. Mankind awaits a prophet of
God. And when he comes in the
plenitude of wisdom and of power;
furnished with a divine commission;
i endued with a mission and a mes¬
j sage for a world in sin, may the
!* , oreh , , have the ...... insight and , the grace
1 s39 ta ? ™ rks of God s calling in
blm and h ' 3 "J®” 1 i* P »,:
secute , him as did the fa.ners the t
, propt'Cas of God afor 6 ime.
:* s the Lord ! '
I I ^ith , unto me that will , I speak.
Ma V n,s be tb f e l e \ y ™ “
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God ’. tbat t we “ ay be fe ft b * a ^ ”' s
j message and to speak with immed,
* ate au thority to men.
) j The Power Will Be Given.
i When Cyrus captured Sardis, the
| j only a son soldier of Croesus, ready to who give was the dumb, king,
saw'
j whom he did not know, a stroke upon
| the head with his scimitar. The son
j made such a violent effort to save his
j father by a word that he broke the
I string of his tongue, and cried out,
| “Soldier, spare the life of Croesus:”
! And so, if we love Christ and His
j cause earnestly., our tongues will be
; loosened.
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