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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: A Sermon preached at Christ Church, Kensington, on May 1, 1859 - - -Author: William Wright - - - -Release Date: March 6, 2021 [eBook #64717] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SERMON PREACHED AT CHRIST -CHURCH, KENSINGTON, ON MAY 1, 1859*** - - -Transcribed from the 1859 Rivingtons edition by David Price. - - - - - - A SERMON - - - PREACHED AT - - CHRIST CHURCH, KENSINGTON, - - On May 1, 1859, - - BEING THE DAY APPOINTED FOR A GENERAL - THANKSGIVING TO ALMIGHTY GOD, - - FOR THE SUCCESS GRANTED TO OUR ARMS IN SUPPRESSING THE - REBELLION AND RESTORING TRANQUILLITY IN HER - MAJESTY’S INDIAN DOMINIONS. - - * * * * * - - BY THE - - REV. WILLIAM WRIGHT, M.A. - SENIOR CURATE OF ST. MARY ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON. - - * * * * * - - * * * * * - - * * * * * - - LONDON: - RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. - WINTER, HIGH STREET TERRACE, KENSINGTON. - 1859. - - * * * * * - - 2 SAMUEL viii. 14, 15. - - “AND HE PUT GARRISONS IN EDOM; THROUGHOUT ALL EDOM PUT HE GARRISONS, - AND ALL THEY OF EDOM BECAME DAVID’S SERVANTS, AND THE LORD PRESERVED - DAVID WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT. - - “AND DAVID REIGNED OVER ALL ISRAEL: AND DAVID EXECUTED JUDGMENT AND - JUSTICE UNTO ALL HIS PEOPLE.” - - - - -A SERMON, -ETC. - - -AS an aggregate of individuals professing faith in Christ, we, the people -of Great Britain, may with truth and reason venture to assert that our -Queen and our Legislature are on a footing, as to God’s protecting care, -with highly favoured and heaven-honoured David of old. If Almighty God, -under his earlier revelation, did actually guard and help in temporal -matters a ruling prince of this lower world, who was a man “after his own -heart”—as David’s plainly-told history everywhere assures us that He -did—none can reasonably say that it is either impossible or improbable -that He should vouchsafe to guard and help our presiding Monarch and our -law-giving Senate in the administration of public affairs, baptized as -they are “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy -Ghost;” educated as they are in the very details of his later and last -revelation; and supposed, pledged, and believed as they are to be seeking -_individually_ after the mind which is in Christ, and the sanctifying -influence of the Holy Spirit of God. All, indeed, must at once see, and -grant as a foregone conclusion from which there is no appeal, that our -monarchical and representative government, being _essentially_ and -_generally Christian_—being so in spite of the Judaism, vice, and -infidelity which may be discerned in it, and which in no way interfere -with our present argument—is, by virtue of its admitted and -preponderating Christianity, brought under the immediate guardianship and -protection of the Most High. - -Such being the case, or since we believe such to be the case, we most -naturally, and, I may add most consistently, pray for the “High Court of -Parliament” which assembles from time to time “under our most religious -and gracious Queen.” Our prayer in this matter is as simple as it is -beautiful. A prayer is it which none who are in the habit of praying at -all for others can possibly object to. It simply asks of God that He -would “be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the -advancement of his glory, the good of his church, the safety, honour, and -welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions.” - -Often and often, let me trust, have we loyally and faithfully prayed -after this most becoming and time-hallowed fashion. Especially, most -especially, let me also trust, did we do so—I feel confident that we did, -if our hearts were not steeled against every patriotic impression—some -two years ago, in this very place, as also in the still larger chamber of -a thoughtful spirit,—at a time which all must well remember,—a time of -deep national distress and heaviness of heart into which, under God’s -fearful and probationary providence, we as a people were cast headlong -and unawares by the event of an Eastern mutiny. Recall the occasion -referred to. By so doing we shall be reminded of the great need there -then was for prayer for help, and of the petition we then put up, and so -be enabled to appreciate more livingly and heartily the answer which God -has given us this day in the blessing of peace and restoration of -“tranquillity in her Majesty’s Indian dominions.” Let memory’s wand -conjure up to our imagination, or, if we please, let fancy’s pencil -sketch to our view the scene, the hour, in which, at the period in -question, we had recourse, with more than ordinary interest and -earnestness, to prayer in our difficulty on behalf of our Queen and -Council of State—prayer to the effect that they might be “directed and -prospered” in all their momentous “consultations” on which, humanly -speaking, hung the dignity, the happiness, and the missionary usefulness -as well as the safety of our beloved country. You will suppose, then, -that we are just released from the cruel bondage of a warfare into which -we were compelled, as men of faith and feeling, to enter for humanity’s -sake. Our laurels of awarded victory are still fresh on the hero’s brow. -Our triumphant attitude is, to all appearance, keeping at bay a tyrant -world, and securing “peace on earth and goodwill towards men.” Time is -about to commence her gracious task of lessening our sorrows for the -brave and bold who are no more on earth amongst the children of men, and -whose remains are swelling with their sad accumulations the once -unbroken, but now grave-studded Crimean plain. Our minds are turning -homeward. We dwell upon reforming ourselves. Social progress and fair -play in all matters, ecclesiastical as well as civil, are points which -much interest us. We are musing with practical intent upon such things -as become enlightened and well-disposed minds. We are thoroughly -enjoying national repose, dwelling each man “safely under his own vine;” -and we are doing, and anxious to do, the great, the civilizing work of -peace. Alas! “All is vanity and vexation of spirit.” Our fondest hopes -are broken up, and, in a moment of time, vanish away as a vision of the -night when one awakes. A cry is heard abroad amongst us; it is no less -than a cry of war—that hell-cry which despots love to raise, and which -all godless and loveless spirits echo in sympathetic sinfulness! At the -gates of science do we listen, in dread suspense, to hear the -contradiction or confirmation of the evil tidings. Our worst suspicions -are soon confirmed. In rapid successions does the magic whisper steal -across the deep, and tell its brief but bloody tale, that ours have risen -up against us in the far East; that many a bitter Shimei has come forth -to curse our rule; that many a mutinous and rebel Sheba has blown the -signal blast of insurrection; that men, women, and children, “bone of our -bone, and flesh of our flesh,” are being scattered abroad by a cruelly -organized persecution, some seeking in hopeless flight a desert solitude, -there to die unfriended and alone; others hastening to the nearest -fastness, there to hold out, a scanty and surprised handful, against an -armed and swarming adversary; and that, once more, numbers of our -fellow-countrymen, together with their wives and little ones, have -actually perished, if not by more hideous means, by the edge of the -sword. A trembling for the present, and a fear for the future, take hold -of us. With deepest anxiety do we turn, in this our moment of sharp -distress and bewilderment, to our ruling representatives, bidding them do -in our common name what seemed to them good under the circumstances of -our emergency, and dismissing them to their onerous work with the -benedictory prayer, that Almighty God would of his infinite goodness “be -pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement -of his glory, the good of his Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of -our Sovereign and her dominions.” So it was, I doubt not, that we, as a -God-fearing people, prayed for our rulers when they were summoned to -consider and prepare for the suppression of that Indian mutiny of 1857, -whose simply detailed history is of itself, its plain, unvarnished, -unembellished self, the most cruel and the most heart-rending tragedy -that has ever been recorded! Of this enough. - -And now, my believing and prayer-using brethren—so I would style you -_all_—it is high time for me to challenge your hearty attention to the -joyous and indisputable fact, that your reward for having prayed for your -rulers is at hand. Your petition on their behalf has been heard on high, -if petition on any national account be ever hearkened to above, or if -what we see before us is not the merest coincidence of blindest chance. -Open wide your eyes, and read for yourselves the heaven-sent answer to -your prayer. Your Sovereign’s will, your senators’ wisdom, have both -alike worked marvellously well for you and yours. All their -consultations, resolutions, and decrees, in the matter of the suppression -of the Indian mutiny, have, up to the present moment, been accompanied by -that triple result which you have so often prayed for—“the advancement of -God’s glory, the good of his Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of -our Sovereign and her dominions.” - -Let me somewhat enlarge. God’s _glory_, we do not hesitate to affirm, -has been more or less advanced by the conduct and policy of England in -and during the warfare which has been recently accomplished in the East. -All that we have done in it worthy of praise or remembrance, we have -done, so we believe and confess, through Him, through his strength, -through his teaching, through his Gospel, through the very circumstances -under which He has placed us, and through the very constitutional -dispositions which He has given us. All, therefore, that has been done -in it worthy of praise or remembrance, do we feel bound to ascribe, -purely and simply, to God, as its author and finisher, entering as we did -upon every work, every encounter, with these words of humility upon our -lips:—“Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name, give glory, -for Thy mercy and for Thy truth’s sake;” and checking the thought of -pride and self-sufficiency which from time to time rose up within on -occasion of our having done well, with the apostolic inquiry and -reproof—“Who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that -thou didst not receive? Now, if thou didst receive it, why dost thou -glory as if thou hadst not received it?” - -Much, indeed, from this point of view, does our national behaviour in the -East during unparalleled difficulties redound to the _glory_ of that God -from whom all “holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do -proceed.” Never have we been in such straits. Never have we acted so -graciously and so in accordance with the spirit of our Gospel. Before us -stood—a sickening and never-to-be-forgotten sight—a vast army in deadly -and rebellious array—an army made up of men with whom we had gone side by -side to victory over a common foe—men our familiar friends, to whom we -had extended, and were learning more and more to extend, the right hand -of social fellowship—men whom we had not only treated kindly, but, as was -reported and believed, had verily spoiled by forbearing gentleness. -There they stand—a rebellious horde—raging “furiously,” and imagining a -“vain thing,” doing all they can, by slaying the innocent and -dishonouring the chaste, to tempt us to forget our nature and our -nature’s God, and to assimilate ourselves to their unholy and fiendish -temperaments. Nothing, however, that they do disturbs for a moment the -balance of Christian power and influence in our national and common mind. -To war, indeed, do we sally forth in saddest necessity and from a sense -of duty, but it is to a war of a _purely defensive_ character on our -part, and nothing more. No hunting down the adversary, no trampling upon -him, no tearing away the suckling from the breast, for the sweetness of -being revenged, have characterized our doings. Vengeance have we -repudiated, or rather, I should say, not dared to handle, being, as we -conceive, an attribute belonging solely to God, and too fearful to be -entrusted to fallen man. Here and there, it is true, the pulpit and the -press, losing their moral self-possession, raised awhile in our hearing -that ancient Christ-condemned cry of retaliation—“an eye for an eye, and -a tooth for a tooth;” but soon, very soon, was that harsh and ugly sound -let die away and for ever perish in the softer strain of the Son of -God—“But I say unto you, _that ye resist not __evil_; but whosoever shall -smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Yes. No -vengeance, no retaliation—God’s holy name be praised—have stained the -banner of England. We fought honourably and for noble ends. We have -slain, alas! but only those on whom the law of God and the law of man -would have passed sentence of death, if required so to do. We have -fought, who can deny it? but fought that we might “live and let -live”—that the world might be peaceably ordered—and that “peace and -happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety,” might be established -amongst us, amongst the people committed to our charge, even the hosts of -India, “for all generations.” We are ashamed neither of our deeds nor -our motives. They, indeed, are not ours; this is _why_ we are not -ashamed of them—but as we have said, they are God’s—God’s, that is, so -far as they are pure, holy, merciful, upright, manly—in a word, so far as -they are Christian. To Him, therefore, let them be ascribed in the -presence of the whole world, and from them, as from a moral mirror, let -there be reflected, not our national, but his everlasting “Glory.” - -Inseparably connected with the glory of God, which has in a measure been -worked out, as we maintain, by the events to which we refer, is the “good -of his Church”—a result we ever pray may attend all our political -consultations and movements. Who can doubt that the spectacle presented -to the Indian mind in all our transactions of war—our wisdom, our mercy, -our justice—is doing its silent work in many a thoughtful bosom, and -adding some new soul to the Church of Christ even whilst we are speaking? -Many and many a man, depend upon it, has been made to think for himself, -in these troublous times, of the real value and working of his ancestral -creed. He has often, may be, had doubts as to the superstitions of his -nation, and the doctrines of his overseers. He has for years, perhaps, -held in secret and deep admiration the aspirations and longings of his -natural conscience, and felt that they ran counter to the senseless -commandments and idle traditions of the world with which he and his race -have been overburdened. He has longed for a creed which should not -suppress and smother, but fan into a living flame of sterling piety, -those smouldering elements of natural religion which he has treasured -amidst the follies of heathenism on the hearth of a not yet abandoned -conscience. His wish is gratified. He has at length found, or rather, -we should say, seen at work, such a creed—seen it in the warrior of the -Cross, seen it in one who can fight and yet be merciful, who can have -within his power a cruel relentless enemy, yet find room for compassion; -who can show at all times and in all places that he has a heart which -beats true to the instincts of our nature, when not lost and sensualized. -He has rejoiced with exceeding great joy to have fallen in with a -religion which is far from contradicting conscience or nature, but which, -contrariwise, advocates and enforces “whatsoever things are true, -whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever -things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;” things which -even in his childhood’s superstitions and the ignorance of his more -advanced years have never altogether forsaken him. He has pondered over -these things in his heart, and contrasting the plain, true, useful life -of the Cross, with the wicked follies and fancies of the Crescent, has -yielded himself up to the former, and added himself to the Church of -Christ. May it have been so in many, many instances! - -As to the last result of legislative labour on our behalf, “the safety, -honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions,” which we prayed -might follow our rulers’ consultations, it is needless to say anything. -Each of us can see the finger of God at work in, and trace its divine -impress upon, the facts of to-day, which call us together to thank and -praise the Lord. Each has faith and wit enough of soul, let us believe, -to read, in the spirit of the words of the text, the manner in which God -has been with our Sovereign, our national interests, yea! ourselves—“_And -the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went_.” - -And now, my brethren, what is the most appropriate thank-offering that -we, Sovereign and people, can make to Almighty God for his mercies -vouchsafed to us? Undoubtedly that which follows up our advantages and -shows that we are worthy, or labouring to be thought worthy, of the great -position with which God has entrusted us, even the thank-offering which -David made after his preservation, and which is unpretendingly recorded -in the words, “And David executed judgment and justice to all his -people.” This it is ours to see carried out, so far as in us lies, and -this we trust is being carried out fully and conscientiously by our -representatives. - -But something more have we to offer up to God than judgment and justice -toward the people subject to our rule, though this offering be great and -to be had in highest esteem. We have heard and seen what kings and -prophets desired of old to hear and see. Our knowledge is increased, and -so is our responsibility. All type, all figure, all mystery, are removed -from us, and “God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in -time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days -spoken unto us by his Son”—spoken a word of salvation in the Gospel which -exceeds, in point of moral beauty and spiritual comfort, all that we can -imagine or desire. This word we dare not enjoy to ourselves. On we must -pass it, together with judgment and justice, to our people. It has made -us great, and caused us to “shine like lights in the world.” Why should -it not make them so, and cause them so to shine? On we must pass it, not -only as a matter of ordinary and evident duty, but as a matter of -feeling. Each true believer is, by his very impulse of faith, a -soul-seeking power amongst men. In his heart is deeply sown the -missionary germ—only requiring the light and heat of a living faith to -raise and mature it to its appointed height and grandeur—when its -branches are sure to spread themselves forth in sheltering love over all -living within their reach. - -To this passing on of blessings received to others are we ever invited. -Now, this very day, are we so especially. “A great door and effectual” -is open to us in the East. By the violence of -circumstances—circumstances, those emissaries of the great Creator’s -purpose—have the gates of superstition been torn from their hinges, and a -way made for us to enter, unmolested, into the very sanctuary and -stronghold of Belial, there to preach to our heart’s content “the way, -the truth, and the life.” It is as if an angel—opportunity had been sent -from on high to “prepare the way of the Lord,” and had cried aloud to the -long pent-up and isolated heathen world to receive us—the _missionary -nation of the Cross of Christ_; saying unto them, “Open ye the gates, -that the righteous nation which keepeth truth may enter in.” Oh! who is -there amongst us that does not now desire to enter in? Who is there that -does not sorrow over his indolence in not having done more hitherto for -his fellows? Who does not burn with indignation at his own—his -country’s—missionary apathy, when he contemplates before him, in India -and her immortal millions, a vast sea of souls, now surging with -infidelity, now again raging with superstition, bearing as it does on its -sin-heaving and lust-swelling surface but few, very few, labourers in the -employ of that blessed and acceptable merchandize, the toiling, as -“fishers of men,” for the Son of God? Who, when he contrasts the -greatness of the work to be accomplished with the contemptibly limited -means he has brought to bear on its fulfilment—one pastor to a million -souls being the provision made by Christian England’s National Church for -the restoration of heathen India to her God and Saviour—who, when he so -contrasts, is not lastingly impressed with a sense of unworthy -selfishness? - -Once more—accept, my beloved brethren, whilst it is to-day, this, this -for all we know last, last challenge to visit, gospel in hand, the -degraded millions of India. Plant amongst them a church. Erect for them -a school. Provide them with a minister. Give them freely the means -which have made you under Providence what you are. Let them know that -these means are to be the implements of your new spiritual warfare amidst -them. “Fight,” before them and their children, “the good fight of -faith.” Tell them you seek, and wish them to seek, that “peace which the -world cannot give,” and “which passeth all understanding.” Show them -that you delight not in brandishing over their heads the cold and deadly -steel, nor take pleasure in witnessing the fire-flash which heralds a -creature’s death, but that you would rather wield the sword of the Spirit -over their immortal souls, by means of the preached word, and rejoice for -ever and ever in heaven that they were preserved with you and yours unto -everlasting life. - - * * * * * - - THE END. - - * * * * * - - H. 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