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Teach all Nations.... <i>Matt.</i> xxviii. 19.</p> + +<hr style="width: 95%;" /> +<div class="center"> +<table summary="" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> +<tbody><tr><td align="left">Vol: II.</td><td align="center">NEW-YORK, NOVEMBER, 1827.</td><td align="right">No. 6.</td></tr> +</tbody></table></div> +<hr style="width: 95%;" /> + +<h2><a name="SERMON_XXV" id="SERMON_XXV"></a>SERMON XXV.</h2> +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<h3>BY WILLIAM PATTON, A.M.<br /> +<br /> +NEW-YORK.</h3> +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<h4>THE DUTY AND IMPORTANCE OF SPECIAL EFFORTS FOR +THE CONVERSION OF CITIES.</h4> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Luke</span> xxiv. 47.—<i>And that repentance and remission of sins should be +preached in his name among all nations</i>, <span class="smcap">beginning at Jerusalem</span>.</p></div> + + +<p>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.'</p> + +<p>This direction to the first preachers of the cross, to begin at Jerusalem, +suggests the general thought,</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">That it becomes Christians, in all ages, to make special +efforts for the conversion of cities and large towns.</span></p> + +<p>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.<!-- Page 82 --></p> + + +<p>I. <i>Our Saviour devoted his personal ministry very much to cities +and large towns.</i></p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>II. <i>Christ, in his instructions to his disciples, particularly directs +their attention to cities and large towns.</i></p> + +<p>"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?</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>III. <i>Cities were the theatres of the Holy Spirit's first and most illustrious +achievements.</i></p> + +<p>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. <i>There</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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 <i>God was with him</i>. "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.</p> + +<p>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?</p> + + +<p>IV. <i>We should seek the conversion of Cities, because in them the +Adversary reigns with peculiar power.</i></p> + +<p>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,</p> + + +<p>V. <i>There are peculiar advantages for the promotion of Religion +in cities.</i></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>It is by the means which cities afford for ready co-operation, that +Satan and his followers have in all ages achieved so much. <i>They</i> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + + +<p>VI. <i>A sixth reason for special efforts in behalf of Cities is, the +influence which they exert on the country and on the world.</i></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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, <i>Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen</i>," +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!</p> + +<p>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!"</p> + +<p>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, <i>The Lord is there</i>." +"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 <i>as the places where God has fixed his tabernacle</i>. +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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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, <i>Not by might, +nor by power, but by my</i> <span class="smcap">Spirit</span>, <i>saith the Lord of hosts</i>; and let every +eye be directed to Him who hath promised, that <i>when iniquity cometh +in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard</i>.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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 <span class="smcap">command ye me</span>." 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?"</p> + +<p>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!</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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 <i>faithful over a few things</i>, +shall be made <i>ruler over many things</i>. 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 <i>City, +which hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God</i>. In <i>that</i> +City, "<span class="smcap">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</span>."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="APPENDIX" id="APPENDIX"></a>APPENDIX.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> 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 <span class="smcap">Ninety-Four Thousand and +Six Hundred</span>, or <i>more than half the population, absenting themselves +from the public worship of God!</i></p> + +<p>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 <span class="smcap">seventh dwelling-house</span>! 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 +<span class="smcap">One Thousand</span> <i>shops, and other places, are opened for the sale of +liquor or other things on the Sabbath</i>!</p> + +<p>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 <span class="smcap">Nine Hundred and Seventy-Four Thousand +Eight Hundred</span> <i>persons neglecting the public worship of God</i>! 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."</p> + +<p>In the mean time, the number of deaths in New-York is about <i>five +thousand</i> annually: in London, about <i>thirty-three thousand</i>.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CONTRIBUTORS" id="CONTRIBUTORS"></a>CONTRIBUTORS.</h2> + + +<p>The following Gentlemen, (of five different Denominations,) among others, are expected to +contribute Sermons for this Work:</p> + +<p><i>Rev. Drs. Mason</i>, <i>Milnor</i>, <i>Mathews</i>, <i>Spring</i>, and <i>Bangs</i>, +and <i>Rev. Mr. De Witt</i>, New-York City; <i>Rev. Dr. Richards</i>, +Professor in the Theological Seminary at Auburn; <i>Rev. Dr. +Proudfit</i>, Salem; <i>Rev. Dr. Chester</i>, Albany, and <i>Rev. Mr. +Beman</i>, Troy; <i>Rev. Dr. M'Dowell</i>, Elizabethtown, N.J.; +<i>Rev. 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Andrews, P.M.</li> +<li>Pittsburgh, Robert Patterson.</li> +<li>Harrisburgh, William Graydon.</li> +<li>Braintrim, H.W. Northup.</li> +<li>Wilkesbarre, O. Collins.</li> +<li>Bethany, Jason Torrey.</li> +<li>Alexandria, John Porter, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>DELAWARE.</p> + + +<ul><li>Wilmington, Robert Porter.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>MARYLAND.</p> + + +<ul><li>Baltimore, John H. Naff.</li> +<li>Princess Anne, Joshua Moore.</li> +<li>Chestertown, Joseph Redue, P.M.</li> +<li>Vienna, Uriah Medford, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Washington, Reuben Post.</li> +<li>Alexandria, Reuel Keith.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>VIRGINIA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Richmond, Nathaniel Charter.</li> +<li>Petersburg, James Dwight.</li> +<li>Norfolk, Shepard K. Kollock.</li> +<li>Weston, G.D. Camden, P.M.</li> +<li>Romney, John Jack, P.M.</li> +<li>Ebenezer Academy, H. Clary, P.M.</li> +<li>Cartersville, George W. Hundly.</li> +<li>Powhatan C.H. Thomas Scott, P.M.</li> +<li>Abingdon, Augustus Oury, P.M.</li> +<li>Gloucester C.H. W.D. Cairns.</li> +<li>Lynchburg, William Poe.</li> +<li>Boydton, James Brame.</li> +<li>Charlotte C.H. John Morton, P.M.</li> +<li>Liberty, James Mitchell, Jr.</li> +<li>Winchester, Samuel H. Davis.</li> +<li>Prince Edward C.H., Francis Bartlet.</li> +<li>Otter Bridge, J. Leftwich, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>NORTH CAROLINA</p> + + +<ul><li>Fayetteville, Robert H. Morrison.</li> +<li>Newbern, Thomas Watson, P.M.</li> +<li>Salisbury, Thomas L. Cowan</li> +<li>Mecklenburgh, S. Williamson, P.M.</li> +<li>Alfordsville, Warren Alford, P.M.</li> +<li>Wilmington, A.J. De Rosset.</li> +<li>Milton, James W. Douglass.</li> +<li>Lincolnton, David Reinhardt, P.M.</li> +<li>Raleigh, P.W. Dowd.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>SOUTH CAROLINA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Charleston, Horace Utley.</li> +<li>Camden, Thomas M'Millan.</li> +<li>Georgetown, Peter Cuttino.</li> +<li>Beaufort, David Turner, P.M.</li> +<li>Bradleyville, R. Witherspoon, P.M.</li> +<li>Edgefield, A.B. M'Whorter.</li> +<li>Conwayboro', Henry Durant, P.M.</li> +<li>Lexington, C.H. J. Meetze, P.M.</li> +<li>Sumpterville, Jesse Hartwell.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>GEORGIA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Savannah, J.C.A. Johnston.</li> +<li>Augusta, Timothy Edwards.</li> +<li>Riceboro', A.H. Sample.</li> +<li>Wrightsboro', Joseph Barnes, P.M.</li> +<li>Bethsaida, Oliver Morse, P.M.</li> +<li>Mount Zion, M.H. Carrington.</li> +<li>Powelton, J.H. Burnet, P.M.</li> +<li>Clarksville, Thomas J. Rusk, P.M.</li> +<li>Sunbury, F.R. Whitwell, P.M.</li> +<li>Athens, Leander A. Erwin, P.M.</li> +<li>Carmel, Isaac Proctor, P.M.</li> +<li>Bethlehem, John F. Wallis, P.M.</li> +<li>Fortville, Henry W. Jernegan.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>OHIO.</p> + + +<ul><li>Columbus, James Hoge.</li> +<li>Steubenville, Charles C. Beatty.</li> +<li>Cincinnati, David Root.</li> +<li>Ellsworth, L.W. Leffingwell, P.M.</li> +<li>Marietta, L.G. Bingham.</li> +<li>Burton, Luther Humphrey.</li> +<li>Cadiz, Thomas Phillips, P.M.</li> +<li>Miami, Charles Atherton, P.M.</li> +<li>Rome, Elijah Crosby, P.M.</li> +<li>Vernon, Harvey Coe.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>INDIANA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Portersville, Simon Morgan, P.M.</li> +<li>Salem, Burr Bradley, P.M.</li> +<li>Indianapolis, George Bush.</li> +<li>Barbersville, Timothy Barber, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>ILLINOIS.</p> + + +<ul><li>Belleville, James Mitchell, P.M.</li> +<li>Greenville, Ansel Birge, P.M.</li> +<li>Canton, Nathan Jones, P.M.</li> +<li>Vandalia, James Hall.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>KENTUCKY.</p> + + +<ul><li>Munfordville, J.T.S. Brown, P.M.</li> +<li>Princeton, H. Cassidy, P.M.</li> +<li>Danville, Benjamin Shaw.</li> +<li>Cynthiana, A. Broadwell, P.M.</li> +<li>Henderson, James Hillyer, P.M.</li> +<li>Shelbyville, A.A. Shannon.</li> +<li>Frankfort, S.M. Noel.</li> +<li>Hopkinsville, John Bryan, P.M.</li> +<li>Harrodsburg, Thomas Cleland.</li> +<li>Augusta, Samuel Bonde, P.M.</li> +<li>Columbia, John Montgomery, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>TENNESSEE.</p> + + +<ul><li>Knoxville, James Campbell.</li> +<li>Winchester, John Goodwin, P.M.</li> +<li>Nashville, R.P. Hayes.</li> +<li>Dresden, Samuel A. Warner.</li> +<li>Paperville, T.C. Buckhart, P.M.</li> +<li>Jonesboro', D.A. Deadrick, P.M.</li> +<li>Murfreesboro', D. Wendell, P.M.</li> +<li>Columbia, Francis W.S. Frierson.</li> +<li>Blountsville, Samuel Rhea, P.M.</li> +<li>Lebanon, A. Bradshaw.</li> +<li>Hillsboro, G.W. Richardson, P.M.</li> +<li>Farmington, S.W. Calvert.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>ALABAMA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Huntsville, William Leech.</li> +<li>Perry, C.H. G.W. Brame.</li> +<li>Russelville, Peter Martin, P.M.</li> +<li>Somerville, M.C. Houston, P.M.</li> +<li>Bainbridge, S.M. Parry, P.M.</li> +<li>Florence, John Craig, P.M.</li> +<li>Courtland, John White.</li> +<li>Shelby C.H. Thos. W. Smith. P.M.</li> +<li>Ashville, Archibald Sloan, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>MISSOURI.</p> + + +<ul><li>St. Louis, Salmon Giddings.</li> +<li>Fredericktown, Thos. Mosely, P.M.</li> +<li>Clay, C.H. Wm. S. Smith, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>MISSISSIPPI.</p> + + +<ul><li>Natchez, John Henderson.</li> +<li>Port Gibson, D. Greenleaf, P.M.</li> +<li>Woodville, G.A. Irion.</li> +<li>Gallatin, A.B. Ross, P.M.</li> +<li>Columbia, A.G. Moore.</li> +<li>Pinckneyville, James Wilson, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>LOUISIANA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Baton Rouge, H. Alexander, P.M.</li> +<li>New-Orleans, William Ross.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>FLORIDA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Pensacola, W. Hazell Hunt, P.M.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>ARKANSAW.</p> + + +<ul><li>Dwight, Alfred Finney.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>CHOCTAW NATION.</p> + + +<ul><li>David Folsom.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>MICHIGAN.</p> + + +<ul><li>Detroit, D.G. Jones.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>CANADA.</p> + + +<ul><li>Montreal, William Hedge.</li> +<li>Kingston, Rev. 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