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FROM THE PULPIT.

THE SIMPLE WAY.

Such is the cry of the tormenting but unlightened conscience in all ages.

Men know they are wrong but know not how to get right, and go Notes of a sermon by the Rev. Taragent efforts to appease until from one stage to another of ex- J. Kirk Maconschie at Union in the end ey have made their Church on Sunday morning. God and their Maloch, to whom "He hath showed thee, Oman, they cause their children to pass what is good: and what doth the throughthe fire. No lower depth is Lord require of thee but to do possible, but there are justly, and to love mercy, and to stages in the

nearer walk humbly with thy God?"-weary track by which, refusing same mistaken

Micah 6/8.

This wonderful saying, which the straight and simple path, "has been called

men attempt to approach their the greatest God. The lawyers and in the Old Testament, takes Pharisees, were on the same the the form of a question, because track in our Saviour's time, when, it is the unanswerable con- Held them, they would clusion of an argument which tithe even such particularities as God has been conducting with mint. anise and cummin, His people. Not a contentious while argument-God has no place for the weighty matters of judgment, leaving undone the that but a piece of sober, earnest mercy and the love of God. It is pleading. Passages in that tone the same still when men look for are frequent in the later prophets, salvation by way of ecclesiastical and none of them nobler than obediences and conformities, by this in Micah, in which nature ceremonies and sacraments, or and history are called to witness doctrinal correctness or rigidities that Jehovah has never dealt of behaviour. with Israel in an exacting Not these mor their likeness spirit, but always with kindness does the Lord require of us. In and reasonableness.

Yet the themselves they are profitless, neople will not take the and as substitutes for the essen- simple way of pleasing Him and tial. so far from doing good they fulfilling their side of the covare mischievous. He hath enant. They fall into alienation shown thee, O man, what is good and disobedience, and then and what doth the Lord require search about, like the heathen of thee but to do justly, and to for painful and hard excesses of love mercy, and to walk humbly apparent self-devotion in the with thy God?" hope of being restored to favour.

Such is the conclusion' of the "Wherewith, they say, "shall I whole matter. It is unanswerable, come before the Lord, and how No man can add to it anything myselfbefore the Most High God? which will bind the reason or the Shall I come before Him with conscience of any man. burnt offerings, with calves of as we hear it we assent that it is As soon year old?

Will the Lord be right, that it is final, that it points pleased with thousands of rams, the one way in which it is our or with thousands of rivens duty to walk. It is the simple of oil? Shall I give my first born way, and if it be at all time that for my transgression, the fruit of simplicity is nature's ball-mark. my body for the sin of my soul?" it is at least surely mark

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exp Religion is off the track when it afes forms which the common men samt deal with without the Intervention of the priest, or the lawyer. God's great words are addressed not to the ecclesiastic but to the ordinary man. "I have! shown thee, O man, what is good” and you require no ecclesiastical person nor organisation to inter pret it to you. Itcarries its own meaning. and has its own sanction

the mind and conscience of every man. Such is the simple way. But to say it is simple is not to say that it is easy. Easy it is, like the yoke of Christ, as compared with the burdensome systems of pen- ances, sacrificings, observations with which men load their own aboulders in efforts to put them- selves right with God., But who- ever takes in band practically to live the life of this simple law of love finds he has a task which demands his best and more. You may often hear people speak in s Way which overlooks this. Why trouble us with your theologies, your creed, systematised religion ?" they say. All that God wants is that men do justly and love mercy," the last clause of the verse, I am afraid, is too apt to be left' out., Well, that "all" is a very large one, and is not little in either of its three dimensions.

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1. To do justly." Is that an easy thing? President Wilson, speaking to the International Law Society in Paris, says no:

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stood in the way so formidable TEL. 482. BEST CARS IN THE COLONY TEL. 482. and so long. The world teem's with injustices, has done so,al! along. Nothing in the world is People will offer charity, be- so difficult to get as simple justice. nevolences they will suggest com-

promises, offer concessions; take securing the fruits of victory. stantly that we are bound to their stand on legalities, on They have not an easy task, but remark them. One was indigna- custom-anything sooner than the miracle is that the task tion, indignation against injustice. just do the simple right, for the is even being attempted oppression, conseriousness, im- sole reason that it is

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that we may and placability, His anger stirred by without qualification. Few love should give thanks to God. It is the way men misrepresented justice as they should. The man this which gives hope, in spite of God and dealt hardly with each for woman who does, in whose all the tribulations and distress other.

soul the passion for it burns as

which overhang the present, that The other emotion was com-". a consuming fire, is of the kind a new turning has really been passion for the crowd, hungry, that seems to be too good for this taken which is going to make our untaught, unshepherded; for the world, which does its utmost to world less hideously unlike what individual, diseased, unsorrowing, health, heart, and fortune. It is way but it will not be an easy overflowed **with break them on its wheel, init.ought to be. It is the simple sin-laden. His great heart considerate.

a world of injustices, and most of one. Still it will be easier than careful love, even for what was us are content to let it go at that, the old and bad one, which indeed dispised and counted worthless- provided we can get rid of such had brought our civilisation with-the broken reed and smoking flax. 89 happen to press upon

in sight of destruction.

If we love not mercy we cannot ourselves. An optimist has been 2. And to love mercy." This be in fellowship with God, we defined as one who does not mind farther is what the Lord requires have nothing in common with what happens as long as it does of us. There is no occasion to Jesus Christ, we shut the door of not happen to him: there is much draw elaborate love of justice which is no more However they may be defined offerings and endless prayers

distinctions Heaven in our own faces though, 'between

justice and mercy, we should besiege it with costly respectable.

of, 118 love

But what the Lord requires abstractly in practice they shade Do we love mercy? Or has is not. merely into one another. If justice be it to be half wrung from us as s of.. justice, but an instinct of the conscience, supposed duty? Does it gratify the doing of it. and there is the mercy is e quality of the us to exercise mercy, more than, rub. It is easy to admire instice, heart, and the character say, "to get even" and do as we

to praise it, to put up statues to which is distinguished by the have been done by? Do we look it, to wax indignant over the lack-one is not likely to be out on this world with a kindly ing of it. So long as all that is lacking in the other. Shylock tender charity which rejoices not merely abstract the devil is little with his pound of flesh was great in iniquity and is willing to make disturbed. Satan does not tremble on justice of a kind, but it was the best of each and all 2 at our rhetoric, which he knows not God's kind, and we make of Or have we that hard grim right well may be a kind of harm-justice but a poor bare skeleton mind which you see expressed in less safety valve. To talk justice of the reality if we make it such too many a set of features, or the is simple enough, but to execute that the quality of mercy in any satisfied contempt which pro it-which is what my text means way contradicts it, largely though duces so many pakind words and to carry it out, is another matter. it may supplement it. A merciful critical observations? A kindly How difficult it is to be perfectly man is one who remembers his heart is more in God's sight than fair to our fellow-men and women, own liability to err, one who all burnt offering and sacrifice.. and how unusual! We indulge is aware how much he needs for-It spreads more happiness than in likes and dislikes, and we have bearance, charity, consideration, anything else, does more, good our bero-worshipping and our pet from his fellows. Justice flames than all our cleverness, doubles. aversions, but who of us takes before his eyes like an ideal; quadruples, multiplies indefinitely proper pains to sift it all, to get at pity also glows in his heart, the any service, great or small, which the real truth? Who of us are pity which is akin to love, which you or I can do for our gen- as careful as we ought to be, one might say is the child of love eration.

that we think rightly about one or again the parent of it. The It brings something of God, another, act rightly, and speak merciful soul cannot be a little into this world, it manifesta Jerus rightly Conversations border one; pettiness and pitifulness do Christ, helps men to believe, and on the verge of slander, com- not dwell together, because pet to hope, to keep their heads above merce on that of sharp practice, tiness is making much of the the food and take heart in all) legislature is very much a series little self while pitifulness is a their troubles. Seek to have the of attempts to enact what is right tender thought of others. My kindly heart, pray for it, cultivato in spite of the opposition of ad-text may be the greatest in it. Let it not be hustled out verse interests." Mankind has the Old Testament, but there is you or rusted out of you just fought the most terrible war another I should almost miss the clatter and cartoon in its history to overthrow more could it be withdrawn world. Whet dolu the assertion that might is the Like as a father pitieth His require of thee but to do only right. The struggle ends children, so the Lord pitieth them and to love mercy with the dawn of a new hope for that fear Him for He knows our the future, because for the first frame, He remembereth that time the statesmen of the world aze dnst Mérey is indeed of

liberating, with