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ITS: PLACE IN OUR NATIONAL ·
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abiding mark upon our national life. And in the seventeenth century, it is interest- ing to note, London dominated the whole life of the Kingdom in a way that it has never done before or after. It was an epoch too of wonderful expansion in our national life and in the world's life--days
discovered.
"A thousand years in thy, sight are but when new worlds were
And throughout all this period there as yesterday"-PALM GO
was a growing consciousness of nationaF). ^. Taking as his text the foregoing quote which culminated in the reign of tion from Palm so the Rt. Reverend the Elizabeth and found wonderful expression Bishop of Victoria, preached the follow in the glorious Elizabethan literature of ing sermon, is the Cathedral on Sun which the Authorised Version of the day:
Bible has been the chief factor in our late: national life.it
To-day let us look back over a thousand years and more, to, the days when first of all a Christian Church was built where now stands St. Paul's Cathedral,right in the very heart of the British Empire And at the outset let us for a moment glance back into the distant past beyond Those days when the workmen of King Asthelbert first built St. Paul's Cathe dral For there are those that believe that to the high ground where St. Paul's Cathedral stands our British forefathers in days long gone came in long proce sion from the wooded heights of North London with their white robed priests to offer sacrifices-human sacrifices.
About this, of course, there is no cer- tainty bus is seems to be historically established that for
many hundreds years before the coming of Christ London was a scene of human activity. Sir Arthur Keith in his book the Antiquity of Man speaks of the discovery of human remains just East of London which would carry us back thousands of years before Christ, and he remarks," there is not a single feature of this skull primitive or ape like. We are on surer ground when we picture to ourselves the Roman Colony established nearby where now St. Paul's Cathedral stands. Sir Christo- pher Wren tells us he found Roman re- mains when he laid the foundations of the present St. Paul's. It may well be that as the Roman officers went the buat they offered their sacrifices at a temple to Diana which occupied the pre- seat site of the Cathedral. Wren reject- ed this idea but as late as 160 a stone altar with an image of Diana was found almost on this very spot
Among those Roman colonists, far from the home of their birth, some juquestion ably were Christians as was Allan at thei Roman settlement of Verulam thirty niles away. And at the. Council of Arles in 314 we read of Restitus, Bishop of London, being present. But soon came the Saxon invasion and nearly every trace of Roman civilization and Roman Christianity was removed.
THE FIRST ST. PAUL'S
There are those who would suy that during this period the English Church found itself; others would rather say that our church was set the harder task of finding itself in an catirely new world outlook-a task in which we have partly succeeded and partly failed a task which is with us stiil. Be this as it may, the British people had travelled far since the days when old St. Paul's was started in the twelth century, when in 1666 Dr. Wren was asked to report upon its condition to see whether the fabric could be re- paired. He complained that the Cathe dral had been ill built, that the pillars: had been filled with rubble. Some," he said, "might-think of piecing up the old, fabric, here and there with stones, here with bricks, and cover all the faults with a coat of plaster leaving it still to pos terity as a further object of charity. But such were not Wren's idens.
Within a few weeks after making this report came the Fire of London. It start- ed on Sunday, September 2nd, and berat till the following Thursday." "God grant," wrote Evelyn who was an eye. witness of the scene, (od graut mine eyes may never see the like again, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one Aame." On Tuesday, September 4th, be wrote. "All Fleet Street, Old Bailey. Ludgate Hill, Watling Street now flam ing. and the stones of St. Paul's dew like grenades, the melting lead running "On down the streets in a stream." Friday I was inanitely concerned to ind that stately church St. Paul's now a snd ruin." and he adds later. Thus lay in mins that most venerable church one of the most ancient pieces of early piety in the Christian world.
THE NEW ST. PAUL'S. Now let us think of new St. Paul's and
its associations: Wren laid the founda tion stone without any ceremony whatever on June 21st, 1675 It was twenty-two years later that it was årst opened for livine service. It was after another thirteen years that Sir Christopher Wren, by the hand of his son, attended by Mr It was just three years before the dawn Strong, the master mason and the Body of the sixth century that Augustine first of Freemasons, of whom Sir Christopher landed with his band of missionaries in was an active member, laid the last and the Isle of Thanet and gave himself up highest stone of the lantern with humble to the work of building up Christianity prayer for divise blessing on his work. in Kent and beyond it. Within a abort For more than two centuries now the new time he consecrated one of his companions St. Paul's has played its part in our Mellitus to be Bishop of London, and for national life and what vast changes have him Aethelhert, the King Kent, with taken place during these years. Think the assent of Sebert, Flasher Egat merely of a few of those whose nemorials Angles built, we are told, pagacent u within its walls and of all their nattes Cathedral dedicated to St. 16. And suggest in the story of our national te this dedication to St. Paul itself is
Horatio Worthy
Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, of notice. Other Cathedrals are known General Gordon, Lord Roberts, Captain by their locality bas London Cathedral Cook, the Discoverer of Australasia, Sir has always been Poules or St. Paul's. J. A. Macdonald, first premier of Chanda. Not cely have these years witnessed the vast expansion of the British Empire but the whole of life has become a much big- xer thing. Consider the changes of the 19th century alone. The universe has be. come to us something bigger far than our fathers knew and many are feeling lost amid its bigness.
On the spot where Aethelbert built. graves have been found. British: Roman and Saxon, succesive masters and in babitants of London. The Cathedral as built by Aethelhert.lasted till the tenth century Let us glance at the history of those 30 years during which it, stood. They were days when a Christian Church was being born in England, days too when our nation was coming to its birth. It was hy a slow process and through pain and sacrifice that advance came. For instance Mellitus very soon after being consecrated bishop was compelled to leave London and for thirty-six years there WIS no Christian service in St. Paul's.
BIG PAUL
nings of our race and of the development. We have thought today of the begin- { of our pational history. What is the
eaning of all this to us as we worship bells in St. Paul's Cathedral and is the here? On" Big Paul one of the largest world, weighing nearly seventeen tons, are these words written in Latin. "Woe la me if I preach not the Guspel
In the days of Alfred, chief author of our English greatness, we see gradually
One institution has withstood the the cation being born. London hud be- come less and less important as the Danes wreck of the ages. The Church of Christ made their constant onsets upon us and is older than the English monarchy, than. Winchester, was the early centre of our The Church of Christ is the same in its the English law or English Literature. dawning national life. The Cathedral as built by Aethelbert was destroyed by fre the same to the end of time. It is sub- essențial character how as ever will he in 909 when Dunstan was Archbishop of Canterbury. It was rebuilt, and when ject to vicissitudes, many and various William, the Conqueror. came to
it has its triumphs and defeats; it has the throne he bestowed special privileges on seasons of high enterprise and deep the Church of St. Paul's. Some lands spirituality and energetic zeal; for it is I give," he said," to God and the Church throughout there has been a sustaining administered by human agents. But
of St. Paul's in London because I wish that this church may be free in all things we not of earth a life germ which no As I wish my soul to be free on the day of judgment."
OLD ST. PAUL'S
antagonism of fue, no recklessness of friend could extinguish ever' reviving. ever asserting itself, ever breaking out. in fresh developments" To-day it i9" Ju the fire of 1087 St. Paul's was again being given. us an opportunity of help- destroyed. It was the Conquerur's chaping to rebuild this great national tonu- lain, blauriting, or Maurice, who had ment of ours. St. Paul's Think not to become Bishop of London, that started say,This fund is over subscribed it the rebuilding. A work," says Stow indoes not need my help." Rather think bin Survey of London," that men of of it thus, our task is not simply to patch that day judged would never be finished up the work of an earlier generation. It so wonderful in length and breadth. It is given to us in our generation to leave is interesting to notice that about this pur distinctive mark as this Cathedral, time London bail thirteen monastic and The middle ages were far less wealthy
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one hundred parochial thas our own, but they left behind them Churches. Thus came into, beisy old St for all time. Wren made it his aim to memorials of beauty which are a heritage Paul's гі Old Poules! as it came to
more
he known. It survived 600 years till the build for eternity. Each generation as great fire in 1665. Let us think of the it comes can accept an ideal no leas figh. associations which gather round this. "We ministers of an hour appear one building, not in detail but in rond out after another in quick succession, each line
only. These were days when Eng-dong our work, speaking our message, innd was linked closely to the cuátinent, passing to our account but the great days in which the life of the people was Church abides an image in the realm of enlarged by outside contacts, but in sense and time of that which is eternal" which at times it looked as if we might one generation to another. A thou- "Lord thou hast been our refuge from lose our identity both as church and nation. They were days which witnessed sand years in Thy sight are but as yester the growth of education through the day." monasteries, through the establishment of
the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Millinery,
and through the introduction of printing; which witnessed too the expansion of trade through the early merchant adven- turers and the trade guilds of London and other cities,
It was a time when Church and State were closely interrelated through the blending of ecclesiastical and political offices, A time too of strife and civil wars, and of religious persecutions, now by one party now by another. They were days in which the revival of learning and the reformation of religion left their
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