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diff --git a/18329-8.txt b/18329-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fe71b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/18329-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1606 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. +1827, by William Patton + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. 1827 + Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers + +Author: William Patton + +Editor: Rev. Austin Dickinson + +Release Date: May 6, 2006 [EBook #18329] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NATIONAL PREACHER *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Susan Skinner and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + +SERMON XXV. + +FROM REV. MR. PATTON. + +Vol. 2. No. 6. Nov. 1827. + + +THE + +NATIONAL PREACHER: + +OR + +_ORIGINAL MONTHLY SERMONS_ + +FROM + +LIVING MINISTERS. + + +EDITED BY +REV. AUSTIN DICKINSON, +_No. 144 Nassau-street,_ +NEW-YORK. + + * * * * * + +SPECIAL NOTICE.--Subscribers in cities, as well as in the country, are +expected to _send in_ their payments, agreeably to terms stated on the +next page, either to the Editor, or to some Agent named on the last +page. To candid men this notice need not be repeated. + + * * * * * + +POSTAGE. + +This Periodical contains but one sheet: the monthly Postage is, of +course, + +_One Cent and a half_, not over 100 miles; +_Two Cents and a half_, any distance over 100. + + * * * * * + +NEW-YORK: + +PRINTED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-STREET. + +1827. + +Persons receiving this gratis, are desired to give it circulation. + + + + +TERMS + +OF THE + +NATIONAL PREACHER. + + +I. Each Monthly Number to contain one long Sermon, or two of moderate +length, on superfine paper. 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NO. 6. + + * * * * * + + + + + +SERMON XXV. + +BY WILLIAM PATTON, A.M. + +NEW-YORK. + +THE DUTY AND IMPORTANCE OF SPECIAL EFFORTS FOR THE CONVERSION OF CITIES. + + LUKE xxiv. 47.--_And that repentance and remission of + sins should be preached in his name among all nations_, + BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM. + + +Here the apostles receive from Christ a commission to commence in one of +the chief cities of the world the great business of preaching the gospel +to mankind. The fulfilment of prophecy required them to begin at +Jerusalem. "Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord +from Jerusalem." "And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall +go out from Jerusalem." But there were other and more special reasons. +It was at Jerusalem that the death and resurrection of the Son of God +took place:--facts, on which Christianity rested all its claims: and it +was fit that the enemies of truth should have every possible advantage +for controverting those facts. In commencing at Jerusalem, an immediate +and striking illustration was also afforded of the forgiving spirit of +Christianity--'Go at once, and preach unto these mine enemies repentance +and remission of sins. Let them have the opportunity of salvation +through my blood--even that blood which their own wicked hands have +shed.' + +This direction to the first preachers of the cross, to begin at +Jerusalem, suggests the general thought, + +THAT IT BECOMES CHRISTIANS, IN ALL AGES, TO MAKE SPECIAL EFFORTS FOR THE +CONVERSION OF CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS. + +This thought may be illustrated and enforced, from the example and +instructions of Christ and his apostles; from the early and signal +visitations of the Spirit on cities; from the power with which Satan +reigns in them; and from their relative importance, and influence on the +world. + + +I. _Our Saviour devoted his personal ministry very much to cities and +large towns._ + +Says Matthew, "And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of +commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to +preach in their cities." Mark speaks of Him as follows: "And in the +morning, rising up a great while before day, he departed into a solitary +place, and there prayed: and Simon, and they that were with him, +followed after him. And when they had found him, they said unto him, All +men seek for thee. And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, +that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth." Luke informs +us, that, on another occasion, He said unto those who sought him, and +who urged him that he should not depart from them, "I must preach the +kingdom of God to other cities also, for therefore am I sent." + +From many other passages of Scripture, also, we learn of Christ's +preaching in cities. "And behold, the whole city came out to meet +Jesus." "And all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?" "And many of +the Samaritans of that city believed on him." He is also found in +Jericho, and in Capernaum. His wonders are made known at Chorazin and +Bethsaida. His walks are along the shores, where commerce and trade had +congregated vast multitudes. Jerusalem he repeatedly visits--especially +on the anniversaries of religious festivals; when his instructions might +fall upon the ear of assembled thousands; and through them be conveyed +to every town and village of the land. On one occasion, when he was come +near to the city, "he beheld and wept over it, saying, if thou hadst +known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to +thy peace; but now are they hid from thine eyes.--Oh Jerusalem, +Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are +sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, +even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" +On another occasion, it is said, "Then began he to upbraid the cities, +wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. +Wo unto thee, Chorazin; wo unto thee, Bethsaida; for if the mighty works +which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have +repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. And thou Capernaum, which art +exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell; for if the mighty +works which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would +have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more +tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for thee." +Thus it appears that the All-wise Saviour thought it proper to devote +much of his ministry to cities and large towns. + + +II. _Christ, in his instructions to his disciples, particularly directs +their attention to cities and large towns._ + +"These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Into +whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and +there abide till ye go thence. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor +hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the +dust of your feet. Verily, I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable +for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the day of judgment, than for +that city." How solemn, yet well defined were these instructions. How +strongly must the twelve have been impressed with the importance of +special exertion in large towns and cities. "After these things, the +Lord appointed seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face, +into every city and place, whither he himself would come. And he said +unto them, Into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such +things as are set before you, and heal the sick that are therein, and +say unto them, the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But into +whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out +into the streets of the same, and say, even the very dust of your city, +which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you. But I say unto you, it +shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom and Gomorrah, than for +that city." Wherefore should so much stress be laid upon cities, unless +it was peculiarly important that they should be converted? And wherefore +so heavy a curse, unless the power of their example was great? + +But still more particular and urgent are his instructions--The +disciples, when sent forth, were admonished that they would be "as sheep +in the midst of wolves;"--that they would be exposed to many and severe +trials. And surely, under such circumstances, human nature would plead, +that, when persecuted in the city, they might turn to the less +prejudiced inhabitants of the country. But no: the command is, "When +they persecute you in one city, flee ye into another; for, verily, I say +unto you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son +of Man be come." + +It is true, that in the last great commission, in which the world was +spread before them as the field, every limitation was taken off, save +that they should begin at Jerusalem. Still the example of the apostles +is worthy of notice. For whilst several of them continued for years in +Jerusalem,--notwithstanding the persecutions which they +experienced--others went forth, and immediately preached the gospel of +their ascended Saviour in other great cities of the world. + +Paul and Barnabas are found at Antioch, the capital of Pisidia. From +Antioch they went to Iconium, the metropolis of Lyconia. Thence to +Derbe, another city of Lyconia. In that embassy, they also preached at +Lystra, and Perga, and many other cities. Soon after this, Paul said +unto Barnabas, "Let us go again, and visit our brethren in every city +where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do." Paul +expressed an ardent desire to be at Jerusalem on the feast-days:--"For +he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem, the day of +Pentecost;" for then thousands of strangers would be there +assembled--"Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers of +Mesopotamia," and of many other places. In Rome, too, that imperial +city, did this apostle continue for two years, preaching the gospel of +Christ. There he established a Christian church, to which he addressed +the noblest epistle ever written. Of Philip it is recorded, that +"passing through, he preached in all the cities, till he came to +Cesarea." The apostles and disciples, then directed their attention very +particularly to cities. + + +III. _Cities were the theatres of the Holy Spirit's first and most +illustrious achievements._ + +Open the book of the Acts, and mark how and where the Spirit of God +accompanied the labours of the apostles. It was at Jerusalem, the city +whose million voices had just before demanded the death of their Lord, +and imprecated his blood upon their own heads, that the first and +greatest effusion of the Holy Spirit took place. _There_ was spiritual +wickedness in high places. There iniquity was strongly intrenched. The +strong arm of the civil as well as ecclesiastical power was its defence; +and human calculation could look for no visits of mercy. Still the +Savior's command, to begin at Jerusalem, was obeyed. Nor was it long +before that city was filled with the presence of the Most High--before +the Spirit came down in power, and thousands were converted to Christ. + +But this is not a solitary case. At Antioch, also, the Spirit was poured +out. Indeed, there are two places of this name mentioned in the Acts of +the Apostles;--both visited in saving mercy. One, the capital of Syria, +a city of great note. It was about ten miles in circumference; and, in +population, wealth, and splendour, esteemed the third city of the age. +Here Paul and Barnabas preached. Here the disciples were first called +Christians. Here the Church continued long to flourish. Here the +eloquent Chrysostom, at the close of the fourth century, preached with +great power and success: and here the Holy Spirit descended. "Now they, +which were scattered abroad, upon the persecution that arose about +Stephen, travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching +the word to none but the Jews only. And some of them were men of Cyprus +and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the +Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with +them: and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord. Then tidings +of these things came unto the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem; +and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch. Who, +when he came and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them +all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." So +great was this work, so important this field of usefulness, that to +secure the best assistance, "Barnabas departed to Tarsus to seek Saul; +and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to +pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and +taught much people." So powerful was this work of God, as to demand, for +a whole year, the special labours of two of his most favoured servants. + +The other Antioch, mentioned in the Acts, was the capital of Pisidia; a +place where many things opposed the advance of holiness. But there also +Paul and Barnabas laboured; and there souls were born into the kingdom. +The record is, "They came to Antioch, in Pisidia, and went into the +synagogue on the Sabbath day." And Paul preached of Jesus and the +resurrection, and faithfully warned against lightly esteeming the work +of God. "Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken in +the prophets: Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a +work in your days, which ye shall in nowise believe though a man declare +it unto you. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the +Gentiles besought that these words might be preached unto them the next +Sabbath. And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together, +to hear the word of God. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were +glad, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were ordained +to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was published +throughout all the region, and the disciples were filled with joy and +with the Holy Ghost." + +Ephesus, too, was visited by the Holy Spirit. This was one of the most +famous cities of Asia Minor. By historians, it has been called the +ornament of Asia--the greatest and most frequented emporium of the +continent. Here stood one of the seven wonders of the world--the +idolatrous temple of Diana. Paul paid two visits to this city: the +first, a very short one. After some months, he returned, and continued +for three years, and had great success. Many things opposed the +influence of truth. Iniquity was deeply rooted: their established +religion was a source of revenue; and countenanced them in unhallowed +courses. But the Spirit of grace prevailed. The result was, "that many +that believed, came, and confessed, and showed their deeds. Many of +them, also, which used curious arts, brought their books together, and +burned them before all men. And they counted the price of them, and +found it fifty thousand pieces of silver;" or, according to our +currency, nearly twenty-eight thousand dollars. Thus multitudes made a +public renunciation of idolatry, and a public profession of their faith +in Christ. "So mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed." + +The last city that we shall mention, as blessed with a revival, is +Corinth, the capital of Achaia. Here stood the temple of Venus; for the +support of whose costly and debasing services, a thousand human victims +were continually kept!--The multitude in this city were given to a +species of crime, most deadening to the conscience, and damning to the +soul. Yet all this did not discourage the intrepid apostle. For, about +the year of our Lord fifty-two, he came to Corinth, and "reasoned in the +synagogue every Sabbath day, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks." The +persecuting spirit of the Jews was marshalled against him. Yet he was +successful, for _God was with him_. "Crispus, the chief ruler of the +synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the +Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized. Then spake the Lord to +Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not +thy peace, for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt +thee; for I have much people in this city." And so great was the work, +and so important the station, that "he continued there a year and six +months, teaching the word of God among them." Here a large church was +gathered, to which he addressed two epistles. + +We could mention other ancient cities as blessed with revivals. We could +tell you of Athens, the eye and glory of Greece; of Philippi, the chief +city of Macedonia; of Iconium, "where a great multitude, both of the +Jews and also of the Greeks, believed;" of Rome too, and many others; +but we forbear, since enough is already before you to illustrate the +position, that cities were the theatres of the Holy Spirit's first and +most illustrious achievements. Indeed, what is the book of the Acts, but +one continued history of revivals in cities and populous places? + + +IV. _We should seek the conversion of Cities, because in them the +Adversary reigns with peculiar power._ + +Experienced Generals bend their most powerful forces against those +positions most strongly intrenched; well knowing, that if these are +subdued, the courage of the enemy is daunted, his plans marred, and that +what remains may fall an easy conquest. Why then should Christians leave +to Satan the quiet dominion of cities? He would rather give up a +thousand inland posts, than these strong holds of his empire. But, Oh, +could he be dislodged from these, how paralyzed would be his arm--how +feeble his resistance--how lost his influence! Would you see the power +of Satan in cities? Cast your eye back upon the past. What were Sodom +and Gomorrah? What were Tyre, and Sidon, and Ninevah? What was Babylon? +What was Jerusalem in its latter days, when given up accursed of God? +What were they, but sinks of pollution and fountains of ruin? And could +we draw aside the curtains of darkness, what might we see in modern +cities! Oh, the pollution, and dark waters, that are open to the eye of +God! Oh, the thousand lures to vice! Oh, the frauds, the oppressions, +the numberless wrongs, which break down the integrity of the young; +which harden the middle-aged, and cover gray hairs with shame, and +wretchedness, and ruin! Oh, the dissipations, over which custom has +thrown an influence well nigh omnipotent! Oh, the tauntings, and the +high looks, the stiff neck, and the contemptuous sneer, with which +wealth and station conduct themselves towards the lowliness of Christian +meekness! Oh, the power that nerves itself against holiness! Wealth and +imposing splendour, eloquence and numbers, are in its ranks. Perjury and +cruel mockings are among its weapons. Oh, the chains of darkness and +gates of death, with which the strong man armed here holds his +prisoners! How loudly then do these demand the commiseration and special +effort of those, who would proclaim liberty to the captives, and life to +the dead! And for the encouragement of the faithful, we add, + + +V. _There are peculiar advantages for the promotion of Religion in +cities._ + +God is wont to accompany the efforts of his people with special grace, +whenever they are exposed to extraordinary hazards. So, where peculiar +difficulties obstruct the advance of truth, there will also be found +other circumstances, which, if properly seized, will greatly facilitate +the work of reformation. + +In cities, ministers and good men can readily and effectually co-operate +in plans of usefulness. The inhabitants of smaller towns and villages +are too scattered to allow of ready co-operation; but in our cities, a +few minutes may assemble many of those who love the Lord. The dangers +which threaten, or the hopes which gladden, quickly circulate. The +weakness of one portion may be readily sustained by the greater strength +of some other portion. In the multitude of professing Christians, may be +found men of wisdom, of wealth, of enterprise, of leisure, of +devotedness; all of whose varied gifts and talents may be concentrated +for good. Surely these are advantages peculiar to cities. Too long have +we looked upon the might of opposing interests, and neglected the power +which God hath given us. Too long have churches stood alone, and feebly +exerted their separate influences. But in a union of the efforts of +churches the increase of power may be immense; for whilst "one shall +chase a thousand, two shall put ten thousand to flight." + +It is by the means which cities afford for ready co-operation, that +Satan and his followers have in all ages achieved so much. _They_ make +common cause. They suffer no differences to divide their strength; +knowing "that an house divided against itself cannot stand." They +combine their forces, in any plan which promises injury to the Christian +interest. Cities furnish to Christians the very same opportunities for +united effort, and thus present peculiar advantages. + +Again, cities also furnish advantages for individual exertion. Here a +minister's influence may at once reach, not merely to his own +congregation, but far beyond. Every month he is brought in contact with +some thousands, who may be affected by his faithfulness. And under his +influence, many benevolent and pious institutions may rise and shine to +bless the world. + +But it is not to ministers alone, that cities present large fields for +exertion. Private Christians also have abundant opportunities for +usefulness. In the walks of business, the influence of one inflexibly +just man is felt as far as his name is known. If Christians, in our +cities, would conduct themselves agreeably to the Bible, how awful to +the wicked would be their example! What reformations would be wrought +among the worldly and profane! How many haunts of poverty and +wretchedness would be searched out! How many souls, once in communion +with the saints, would be brought back from their wanderings! How many +children, rescued from vice, would be brought to the Sabbath school; and +there, perhaps, be taught of God to become themselves angels of mercy! +How many meetings for prayer and exhortation would every week be +sustained among the poor and the wretched! How many of these degraded +immortals might be rescued from temporal and eternal darkness, to become +lights in the world, and stars in the kingdom of our Father's glory! +What field then offers so rich and large an harvest to faithful labour? +The same exertion, that would instruct hundreds in the country, may +reach thousands in the city. Public sentiment has too long checked the +movements of sympathy for these congregated thousands. A voice, almost +unbroken, has sounded out; 'Peculiar and insuperable difficulties +prevent a general revival in cities: such are the occupations, such the +habits, such the temptations, and such the superabounding iniquity, that +it were visionary to hope for any general and powerful work of mercy.' +Well, then, had we not better give all up; and let human nature here +sink into its natural channels; and let multitudes before our eyes +continue to crowd the gates of the second death! O God, forbid such +cowardice, cruelty, and treachery in thy servants! No; we will not thus +surrender immortals. While there is grace or even nature in our hearts, +we will not. We have, indeed, heard of difficulties, till the heart is +pained, and the soul is wearied. But where are these insuperable +difficulties to be found? Not in the Scriptures of God, surely; not in +the result of apostolic labours; but in the unbelief and inaction of +modern Christians. "God is no more hostile to cities than to villages: +his Spirit is as free, and his offers of salvation as full, to the +people of the crowded city, as of the open country." Let the advantages +then be embraced. Let the power be concentrated. Let the sacramental +host arise; and the work is done. And instead of being overwhelmed with +shame and deserved reproach, we may joyfully say to such as pass by; +"Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof; mark +ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the +generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever." "Then +the sons also of them that afflicted Zion shall come bending unto her; +and all they that despised her shall bow themselves down at the soles of +her feet; and they shall call her the City of the Lord--the Zion of the +Holy One of Israel." + + +VI. _A sixth reason for special efforts in behalf of Cities is, the +influence which they exert on the country and on the world._ + +Look to any nation, whether ancient or modern; throw the map before you; +fix your eye upon the spots that bear rule; that command the attention +of the enterprising, and busy the thoughts of statesmen. You have fixed +it upon the cities of the world. Where was the strength of Italy, if not +in Rome, once mistress of the world? Where the strength of Greece, if +not in Athens, the mother of arts and refinement? And where is the +strength of our Republic, if not in our cities and large towns? There +talent in every art and profession is fostered, and exerts peculiar +influence. There wealth concentrates its millions upon millions, to +exert extensively a blasting or brightening influence on society. There +the press daily sends out its thousands and its tens of thousands of +winged messengers, to excite the passions, to influence the opinions, to +control the energies of a nation. Powerful as is this engine, for +corrupting or sanctifying the people, who does not know that its +munitions and magazines of strength are placed principally in cities; +and that the character which the press there sustains is diffused +throughout the land? In cities, commerce is concentrated. The products +of the soil flow from every county, town, and village, to the cities; +and thence they are distributed to the world. The riches, the luxuries, +the products of other climes and nations are brought to cities, and +thence distributed through the land. How manifest then, that cities must +exert a mighty influence on the country and on the world. Who, that +reflects on their extended intercourse, does not know, that they +regulate the prices of commodities; that their fashions are imitated; +that their maxims of trade are common law; and that their moral habits +and opinions, good or bad, have an influence on the whole community? +Their influence is great, whether we consider them in a moral or +political point of view. The capture of a city has decided the destiny +of nation. When Babylon was taken, a mighty empire was given to the +invader. When Jerusalem was vanquished, all Judea was subdued. When +ill-fated France was tossed with revolutions and counter-revolutions, +the possession of her metropolis gave to either party the supreme +command. + +Now suppose that all this influence of cities is of a worldly, immoral, +irreligious character; what must be its blasting power on the general +interests of religion! It was when the pretended successor of Peter +established his authority in Rome, that that mystical Babylon became +"the mother of harlots," and "made the nations drunk with the wine of +the wrath of her fornications." And not until the angel shall "cry, with +a mighty and strong voice, _Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen_," +will the strong man armed be vanquished, and the earth be encompassed +with glory. Not until the evil influence of cities shall be arrested, +will the mighty obstacles to the world's redemption be removed. How +immeasurably important then, that great efforts be made for their +conversion; and how merciful in God to destroy such of them as will not +repent. Oh, it was mercy infinite, that rained down fire upon Sodom, +and poured it heavily upon Gomorrah; and thus saved millions from the +contagion of their wickedness! + +But suppose that all the influence of cities were of an heavenly +character--suppose the intelligence could be circulated along all our +navigable rivers and canals--suppose it could be communicated from +village to village, and from family to family, throughout the country, +that the Spirit of God, as on the day of Pentecost, had come down in +awful majesty and power among us; that all our men of business, and +youth of folly, had been arrested in their worldly career; that all our +theatres and resorts for vain pleasure had been forsaken; that our +temples were crowded and overflowing with devout worshippers, and +anxious inquirers; that the universal voice of our city's population had +become, What shall we do, that we may glorify God and extend his +kingdom? Suppose, I say, that this mighty change in our city could be +told throughout the country; who can estimate the overwhelming influence +it would carry along with it? Where is the solitary village that would +not feel the impulse, and have its eye and heart lifted to Heaven, in +view of the bright cloud of incense, ascending from these hundred +temples, and these thrice ten thousand family altars? And to extend our +view still further; suppose that every city of our land--that every city +of the world--should experience such a change; what almighty strength +and zeal would it give to the Angel having the everlasting Gospel to +publish! How soon would the universal acclamation of mankind be, "Glory, +and honour, and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne!" And how +soon would that blessed voice be heard from the heaven of heavens, "The +kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of the Lord, and his +Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever!" + +These are not mere pictures of the imagination. The realities are at +hand. And the influence of cities, in introducing them, must be felt. +For "they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth." "The +name of the city from that day shall be, _The Lord is there_." "Thus +saith the Lord of hosts, it shall yet come to pass, that there shall +come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; and the inhabitants of +one city shall go to another, saying, let us go speedily to pray before +the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts." Thus the day shall yet be, +when the presence and power of the Holy God in cities shall so absorb +the affections, and command the energies of their inhabitants, that, +throughout the land, they shall be known and celebrated, not for their +wealth, their splendour, their numbers, or their worldly enterprise, but +_as the places where God has fixed his tabernacle_. Yes, the day shall +yet come when the intercourse between cities shall be chiefly for +purposes of religious improvement--when combinations for political +intrigue, or mercantile speculation, which now waken such intensity of +interest in our cities, shall dwindle to their comparative nothingness; +and when the world's redemption shall assume its proper magnitude; and +all be stimulated to more holy devotedness, and more heavenly effort. +Oh, what a day, when all our increasing facilities of intercourse with +the land, and with foreign nations, shall be used mainly for advancing +that kingdom which consists in righteousness and peace!--when thousands +shall prayerfully wait the arrival of every post, and hail the coming in +of every vessel, for intelligence, not of this world's riches and +glories, but of the glories and victories of Zion. + +Such, however, is the present power of the adversary in cities, that no +ordinary effort will dispossess him. Still it must be done. The triumph +of the cross, the salvation of the world can never be perfected without +it. I know there are difficulties;--that cities do congregate vast +assemblies of active depravity;--that they present multiplied +enchantments to ruin;--that in every city wickedness displays a stern +and lofty front. But I also know, that before the coming Spirit of God +these obstacles shall melt away like wax, and vanish like smoke; "for +strong is his hand and high is his right hand." + +It was when revivals prevailed in cities, that the gospel spread with +such amazing rapidity: and so, when the Spirit shall again descend upon +them, will the work of reformation move forward with such power and +grandeur, as shall make manifest that God is in Zion; "that the chariots +of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels;" and that "the +Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place." Let all, then, who +love Zion, seek for the reviving influences of the Spirit upon cities. +While every hand is faithful in the discharge of duty, let every heart +be impressed with the sentiment, _Not by might, nor by power, but by my_ +SPIRIT, _saith the Lord of hosts_; and let every eye be directed to Him +who hath promised, that _when iniquity cometh in like a flood, the +Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard_. + +In urging the importance of special effort and prayer for the renovation +of cities, we do not overlook the interests of the country; but would +thus guard every town and village from an influence heavily impregnated +with moral poison and death. The merchants of the interior, in the +prosecution of their business, regularly visit the metropolis. Many of +them, on the enticement of friends and acquaintance, attend the +theatres, and other places of vain amusement and sin; they become +familiar with their glare and dissipation. They return, and tell what +their eyes have seen, and what their ears have heard, and thus create in +the bosom of the young, the ardent, the rich, and the worldly, a thirst +for similar pastimes, and a disrelish for sober realities. Many faithful +pastors in the land weep over the growing immoralities occasioned by the +influence of cities. Many churches lament the defection of their +members, having become worldly in their spirit, and vain in their +imaginations, by reason of their frequent intercourse with cities. If +such, then, is their influence upon the country, well may the churches, +planted throughout the land, feel deeply interested in the moral +character of cities, and pray for their conversion to God. + +Let our cities become places of holiness: let holiness to the Lord be +written upon the heart of every merchant, of every mechanic, of every +statesman, of every counsellor, of every officer, upon every hall of +legislation, and every splendid edifice; and an influence sweet, holy, +and happy, shall go forth to revive the hearts of God's people, to awe +and confound opposers, and to dress up the wilderness "like the garden +of God." + +O, what a scene of grandeur and glory, when the thousands of the saints +shall wrestle in the spirit of Jacob for the blessing: when they shall +rise up in the spirit of their Master, and display an untiring zeal for +the salvation of man! O, what a scene, when the immense crowds of +immortal beings, who throng our streets, shall be deeply impressed with +the conviction of their accountability!--When every man shall feel that +he is acting continually under the eye of God, and in full prospect of +the judgment. Let these scenes be realized, and already I see "the holy +city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as +a bride adorned for her husband." And I hear "a great voice out of +heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will +dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be +with them, and be their God." + +Friends of the Redeemer, the hastening of this blessed consummation +depends very much upon your will. God has intrusted great power in your +hands. In the revelation of his Son, he has given you that word, which +is "as a fire, and like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces." In +shedding down a spirit of union, and guiding to the formation of great +benevolent associations, he has given you facilities for extended +influence hitherto unparalleled. He has given you wealth, and knowledge, +and all the means for using these facilities. And in the article of +prayer, he has endued you with a power well nigh omnipotent. His +condescending language is, "Concerning the work of my hands COMMAND YE +ME." I see among you men of wealth, who can count your tens, your +fifties, and your hundreds of thousands,--all of which has been solemnly +consecrated to God. I see among you men of talent,--"capable of +intimidating the collective vices of a nation or an age." I see among +you men of enterprise, and courage, and resistless perseverance. I see +among you men, who have strong confidence in God. And shall these varied +powers of resistance and aggression be circumscribed by the walls of +individual churches? Shall they not rather be combined for raising a +higher and higher tone of moral feeling, and Christian enterprise? Shall +they not send a strong, concentrated light into every dark retreat of +wickedness? Shall not the tide of dissipation, and crime, that would +overflow and mar every thing sacred, be met and turned back? Shall not +thousands and tens of thousands on our borders, and in our midst, be +rescued from the iron sway of the destroyer, and be saved from going +down to the pit? Shall not new temples be opened for their reception? +and shall not "God, even our God, be a wall of fire round about them, +and a glory in the midst of them?" + +Do you ask more particularly, how this shall be done? Plant, for +instance, an able and devoted minister in the most degraded portion of +our city. Let him employ his time in the cultivation of one thousand of +these minds. Let him, by the aid of self-denying brethren, assemble them +in one place on the holy sabbath. Let him visit their houses, and pray +with them, every month. Let him collect the children and youth into +sabbath schools and bible classes. Let him encourage among them every +means of intellectual as well as spiritual elevation; and how +astonishing will be the change wrought, even in the course of one year. +Instead of being objects of pity, shame, and aversion; many of them +become pillars of light, and exert a purifying influence upon others. Is +not this elevation worth more than all the necessary expense, even +leaving out of the account all the eternal results? Let, then, another +and another degraded portion be selected, and in like manner be +regenerated and ennobled. Especially let no one who feeds at the table +of our common Lord, and lives from week to week on the provisions of his +house, refuse, promptly and vigorously to co-operate in the work of +mercy, while a soul is perishing in ignorance and sin! + +In the mean time, let our civil fathers look well to the execution of +laws, which themselves have made, for the suppression of +sabbath-breaking and immorality. And let them inquire seriously, Whether +all our children and youth may not be brought under the influence of +instructors of good character, and other moral restraints, a +thousand-fold more efficacious, for preventing crime, than statutes, and +prisons, and chains. + +Our hearts rejoice to see new blocks of buildings going up to decorate +our city. But what is that to the present and eternal elevation of +these thousand minds? Should we not then exult in the privilege of +lifting all the degraded portions of our city, and of our land, into +intellectual and moral grandeur? What object of ambition could there be, +equal to that of thus creating an empire of righteousness--a world of +intellect? Such monuments of glory shall remain, when earthly +governments shall be no more, and the earth itself shall have passed +away. + +Never, methinks, was the language of God more distinct, than at the +present crisis. To the rich he is manifestly saying, "Bring ye all the +tithes into the store-house, that there may be meat in my house, and +prove me now herewith, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and +pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive +it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes; and all nations shall +call you blessed." To the ministers of religion, and to all his chosen, +he is manifestly saying, "O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee +up into the high mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift +up thy voice with strength; lift it up; be not afraid; say unto the +cities; Behold your God! Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand, +and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his +work before him." "When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in +his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise +their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the +people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord. For he hath looked +down from the height of his sanctuary, to hear the groaning of the +prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; to declare the +name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem." + +These are great privileges for God to confer on such worms as we are. +Yet God has indeed placed them within reach. And if we will but do our +duty here, we are only ripening for infinitely greater privileges and +higher honours. He that is _faithful over a few things_, shall be made +_ruler over many things_. Yes; when all our cities, and the earth +itself, and these heavens shall be "wrapt in consuming fire," we may, +"with the great multitude found faithful," enter that _City, which hath +foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God_. In _that_ City, "THERE +SHALL BE NO MORE CURSE, BUT THE THRONE OF GOD AND THE LAMB SHALL BE IN +IT, AND HIS SERVANTS SHALL SERVE HIM. AND THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE; +AND THEY NEED NO CANDLE, NEITHER LIGHT OF THE SUN; FOR THE LORD GOD +GIVETH THEM LIGHT: AND THEY SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER." + + + + +APPENDIX. + + +The population of New-York city, in 1820, was 123,706. In 1825, it was +166,086: making an increase, in 5 years, of 42,380. Allowing the same +ratio of increase, there is now a population of 185,000. There are in +the city 101 churches, or houses of public worship: Of which 4 are Roman +Catholic, 1 New-Jerusalem, 2 Unitarian, 2 Universalist, 2 Jews' +Synagogues, 15 Baptist, 13 Methodist, 17 Episcopalian, and 34 +Presbyterian churches, including the Scotch and Reformed Dutch. The +remainder are Lutheran, Moravian, Friends, German Reformed, and +Independents. The average number of regular attendants is estimated, by +such as have made it a subject of special examination, not to exceed 400 +to each house; which makes the number of those statedly attending public +worship 40,400. After deducting 50,000, for children, for the sick, and +for others necessarily absent, there will still remain NINETY-FOUR +THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED, or _more than half the population, absenting +themselves from the public worship of God!_ + +There are in the city 4 theatres and 2 circuses: most of which are +opened from 4 to 6 nights every week. The number of shops and other +places licensed to sell liquor by the small measure, is three thousand; +or about one to every SEVENTH DWELLING-HOUSE! In addition to the +violations of holy time, occasioned by steam-boats, and other public +conveyances, by butchers, grocers, and other traders purchasing their +stock from boats arriving from the country, upwards of ONE THOUSAND +_shops, and other places, are opened for the sale of liquor or other +things on the Sabbath_! + +Nor is this view peculiar to New-York. A critical investigation of facts +in other cities will develop similar results. In London, the whole +number of churches and chapels of all denominations is estimated at 400. +"If we calculate," says a late English writer, "that the average +attendance is 500; which is certainly the greatest extent we can allow, +and add 250 more for the fluctuating hearers, it will give a result of +300,000 persons. The population of this metropolis is estimated at +1,274,800. From which subtract the feeble minority above, and we find +NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED _persons neglecting +the public worship of God_! It appears that of the commercial papers +published in London on the Sunday, there are circulated, on the lowest +estimate, 45,000 copies; and that upon the most moderate computation, +between two and three hundred thousand readers of these papers are to be +found in the metropolis alone. While the great number of pressmen, +distributers, master-venders, hawkers, and subordinate agents, of both +sexes, and of all ages, who are employed on the Sabbath, all tend to the +most flagrant breach of the day of rest." + +In the mean time, the number of deaths in New-York is about _five +thousand_ annually: in London, about _thirty-three thousand_. + + + + +CONTRIBUTORS. + + +The following Gentlemen, (of five different Denominations,) among +others, are expected to contribute Sermons for this Work: + +_Rev. Drs. Mason_, _Milnor_, _Mathews_, _Spring_, and _Bangs_, and _Rev. +Mr. De Witt_, New-York City; _Rev. Dr. Richards_, Professor in the +Theological Seminary at Auburn; _Rev. Dr. Proudfit_, Salem; _Rev. Dr. +Chester_, Albany, and _Rev. Mr. Beman_, Troy; _Rev. Dr. M'Dowell_, +Elizabethtown, N.J.; _Rev. Dr. Miller_, Professor in Princeton +Theological Seminary; _Rev. Drs. Green_, _Staughton_, _Janeway_, and +_Skinner_, and _Rev. Mr. Bedell_, Philadelphia; _Rev. Professor +M'Clelland_, Dickinson College, Pa.; _Rev. Dr. Taylor_, Professor in +New-Haven Theological Seminary; _Rev. Mr. Fitch_, Professor of Divinity, +Yale College; _Rev. Mr. Hawes_, Hartford, and _Rev. Asahel Nettleton_, +Killingworth, Con.; _Rev. Dr. Wayland_, President of Brown University; +_Rt. Rev. Bp. Griswold_, Bristol, R.I.; _Rev. Dr. Griffin_, President of +Williams College; _Rev. Dr Humphrey_, President of Amherst College; +_Rev. Dr. Beecher_, Boston; _Rev. 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