Free And Open Churches a Sermon Preached At the Parish Church of Stoke Upon Tr
Free And Open Churches a Sermon Preached At the Parish Church of Stoke Upon Tr
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James describes, and a defiant assertion of that which he so pas- sionately reprobates — no one, I say, can enter such a church, with its * free seats, ' forsooth, thrust under dark galleries and into impossible corners, where none can see or hear, without admitting that the day has been when this charge appeared to be too true. And I say that it would be for any Church a shameful and a fatal charge, because it would show a total degeneracy from the spirit, an utter violation of the traditions,... of the days which were nearest Christ. Look only at the life of the Lord Jesus. What meant that birth in the manger- cradle, that boyhood in the obscure village, those long years from the age of twelve to the age of thirty, of which the sole record left us is one word, and that word the ' carpenter ' ? What meant the fact that He had no roof which He could call His own ; not a foot's- breadth of ownership in the world for which He died ; no possession beyond the clothes He wore ? Does it not mean that He wished to reveal to us for ever the blessedness of noble obscurity, the dig- nity of honest toil ; and that, because He came to save mankind, and because the majority of men are poor, and because honourable poverty is a thing incomparably grander than sinful wealth, He voluntarily chose the low estate of the multitude ; — coming to make the meanest of earth's villages more glorious than Golden Babylon or Imperial Rome — coming to make the badge of a malefactor's infamy the proudest ornament on the banner of armies and the diadems of kings- — coming to be the friend of sinners, and to preach the Gospel to the poor ?
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James describes, and a defiant assertion of that which he so pas- sionately reprobates — no one, I say, can enter such a church, with its * free seats, ' forsooth, thrust under dark galleries and into impossible corners, where none can see or hear, without admitting that the day has been when this charge appeared to be too true. And I say that it would be for any Church a shameful and a fatal charge, because it would show a total degeneracy from the spirit, an utter violation of the traditions,... of the days which were nearest Christ. Look only at the life of the Lord Jesus. What meant that birth in the manger- cradle, that boyhood in the obscure village, those long years from the age of twelve to the age of thirty, of which the sole record left us is one word, and that word the ' carpenter ' ? What meant the fact that He had no roof which He could call His own ; not a foot's- breadth of ownership in the world for which He died ; no possession beyond the clothes He wore ? Does it not mean that He wished to reveal to us for ever the blessedness of noble obscurity, the dig- nity of honest toil ; and that, because He came to save mankind, and because the majority of men are poor, and because honourable poverty is a thing incomparably grander than sinful wealth, He voluntarily chose the low estate of the multitude ; — coming to make the meanest of earth's villages more glorious than Golden Babylon or Imperial Rome — coming to make the badge of a malefactor's infamy the proudest ornament on the banner of armies and the diadems of kings- — coming to be the friend of sinners, and to preach the Gospel to the poor ?
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