FROM THE PULPIT.
EXPECTATIONS.
Notes of a sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie at Union Church on Sunday morning:-
"My sen!, wait theu only upon God, for my expectation, is from Ilim-Palm 6215,
"He looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it bronghu forth wild grapes."—larial. 3'2.
"He shall see of the travail ef His sond and shall be satisfie·1;” -Isaiah 53,11
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We have a common saying. "Blessed are they who expect little, for they shall not be disappointed." It may not soup! over reverent, bai so long as not repeated in the temper of the cynic we may let that pass and take it as embodying a usefal lesson which most of us pick up in the course of life. It is well to learn in good time" not to expect too much from life, to Ber moderate in the demands' one makes upon one's fellow creatures. in the estimate of what is dine 10 oneself and what
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accomplish, moderate especially in tle is "able to do exceeding And who also loves us so much? one's feelings of disappointnient abundantly above all, we ask or Our little club-corner proverba do when life's limitations come to be think." In Him all fallness not go very far in the heavenly realised. I certainly do not dwells, and those who look for places. Outside their range is mean we are to cease to cherish what is, not to be found in in the saving revelation that God high ideals and to work stren- are looking for that which is not so loved mankind as to send His aously for them. But it is wis to be hard from God. For God Son that we might have eternal dom to adjust our expectations gives what is best, and outside life, eternal life which means in reasonable proportion with the the gift of His Se the best is holiness, heavenliness, purity, facts and forces we have to deal but a second best.
Christlikeness. That expectatiou with. Most of us, perhaps, set 11. Thinking of these human and nothing less is the measure of our in life with the idea that we expectations it is bavught to mind God's love for men, and men's will live for the best and hope that there are certain Divine contempt of it or despair of it the for it, but continuing in that exptations with regard to us measure of His patience over spirit in spite of inevitable men and women which may be them. Not that the Lord is under
matter. realised or, on the other hand, any delusions about as. and Women who
It would make a kaows just what we are and what may no persevere attrithstanding the wonderful change in the life of we are capable of, both ways. checks sure to be encountered many a man if he could be Our Saviour had no unreal, ex- are those who learn, without gett-brought to realise that tl cares aggerated estimate of the men he ing embittere, not to expect to enough about him to expect gathered round Him or the much. Avoid such embitterueat anything of him, and to be crowds that hung upon His lips. at every cost. It is the end of disappointe lit Heiloes not get it. He threw ao sentimental glamour everything, the sound death, the My son texts "deals with over the outcasts He received paralysis of all noble living. The Gol's expectations of us men, into is fuld. He knew what It is taken from the beautiful was in mana" better than any
sat-bs is another
The
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meant to lear us where they
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le the writer of this 'salm, Song of the Vineyard"-"My he loved men, and in spite who learnt to lift up his eyes well beloved had a vineyari on of all their yarillations and incon- to the bills from life's a very fruitful hill; and he sistencies kept on expecting good valleys of humiliation, and to look fenced it, aut gathered out the of them-almost expected some to the God of hope. My soulstones thereof, and planted it of them into the Kingdom of wait thou only upon God," be with chotecat vine...anthelooked heaven. He expected Peter and sings, for my expectatio is that it should bring forth grapes." An Irew to leave their nets and from him. He had found many out reasonable expectation, as follow Him, expected Zaccheus to ward props fail and his own peall Gol's expectations are, differ-open bis door and welcome Him, die down within him, but when being from many of ours. He de expected oae nisu to lend an ass sarit high enough his hope was mands no bricks without straw; and another an upper restored. It is not mere parados, He requires no interest without when He had need of thema, but in a very real sense, the capital; looks for grapes only expected the dying thief to meet simple truth, that life's glory where He has planted good seed him that day in Paradise- lies in its incompleteness, that it and given careful tillage. But and if some more of us ever win is fulfilled in its limitations, what a disappointment awaits through thither it will be more satisfied in its disappointments. the Heavenly Husbandana: "He because the Lord believed it of By means of these Tre coloked that it should bring forth us than for any other reason. indeel a happy thing not to ex. Sapes, and it brought forth wild Disappointments and all, what pect of life what it is not intended grapes."
to understand Bizat it is
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room
A mak reversion miracles the Saviour achieved to type. An unaccountable lapse by assuming that people, often to yield nor to look to our fellow back to the old degenerate the most unlikely, would rise to man for what neither they nor stock. How like to much that his requirements. I think His ourselves are capable of supply has been happening ever since. way must be best after all, and ing. The other side of the lesson "He looked for judgement, but that we
do not expect half is to taste and see how gracious behold, oppression; for righteous enough of one another. the Lord is, and that they that ness, but, behold, aery." Ancient
The disappointments of reforma lack nothing.srael back to its lolatries with are a very byeword; and it in be on him "Blessed," aid our Saviour, "are all their evil fruits. Civilies cause we aim only at reform when they who hunger sad thirst after nations are to this day subject we should be aiming at redemp righteousness, for they shall be to Técurient outbreaks filled." They set their hope high barbarisai,
of tion, which carries reform in the selfishness and folds of it. enough, and the hope which is set
But whilst we may ferocity. Christaiuised nations try to content ourselves with little high enough is one which God
cannot certajuly be bits of precarious reform there is -they does not fail to meet. Let me called Christian-laying pro- ever before Christ's eyea a vision ask then. are we acquiring this digal offerings on the shrines of the blessedness as life goes ite course? of Mars and Bacchus and Venus. He died to accomplish, and short redemption which
I do not need to ask if we are be wild grapes of a truth-rightly of which He will coming aware that life at its best is God called the long-suffering content.
never be
In our third scripture reference
is greatly limited, or whether we in the Bible, which records "His gain experience of many disap experience" of their wantonness the prophet speaks of the Messiah, pointments in human character and theirs of flis surprising "He shall see of the travail of and institutions and achievements.
patience. "We disappoint ourselves, we dis-
His soul and shall be satisfied,"
more
appoint one another-all that is Bringing it closer home, there and we may be assured that He outside the sphere of question. have been wild grapes in all our will not fail nor be discouraged The question is are we learning gardens. The best of us has but short of that glorious consumma- from it ell that God is our portion, poorly repaid the Husbandman's top. God over all is blessed for and nothing less can be? Not are care, scantily justified His faith. ever, but not with the blessedness we "retiring from the world" in Yet His compassions have not of a small expectancy. He hopes discouragement or disgust, shut-failed us, even though year after for more, works for more, waits ting our hearts against
may have come "seeking and bas patience for our year He brethren, disappointing as they fruit and finding none." "If you than ever enters into the heart of are-like ourselves. Rather would love mankind you must not man, despondent, unbelieving, should we open,
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