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Notes of a sermon by the Res J. Kirk Maconachie at Union Church on Sunday morning

"In all things I gave you an example, how that so labouring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he himself said. It is more blessed to give than to receive."Acts 20:35.

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I have been asked to preach on the closing sentence in this verie. It concludes the farewell address of St. Paul to the sorrowful com- from Ephesus bidding pany

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farewell took ship at Miletus. reminds them of the saying "It is more blessed to give than to as something. well receive" known to have come from thei Master, and yet but for his own citation I would have remained unknown to us. It is one of the agrapha, or savings of our Lord not recorded by either of the four evangelists. There are very few in number, yet only a small part of all He said can be preserved in these brief records. We could sometimes wish it were other: wise, yet on second thoughts we see it was best that the Master left no written books behind Him and was not followed about by the verbatim reporter. A book from His hands would inevitably have led to worship of the letter-per- haps it was because He knew that the letter killath" that He wrote no book. He came not to give a new code of laws but to import a new dynamic to es- tablish an ideal. to lay the reality, hammered out on the foundation of a new life in the hard anvil of a laborious and Spirit That is what we find unselfish life. It comes to us not enshrined in the New Testament, as the chiselled result of abstract which is not a book of rales but speculation but as a bit of life. the record of an impression held out by the roughened hand whose sincerity is confirmed by of the tent-maker of Tarsus and the very variations, such as they passed on from One who went to are, which occur in the separate the Cross because He came “not accounts of what He said and did. to be ministered unto but to mic- Confirmatory also is the fact ister, and to give his life a that the few sayings which have ransom for many." That is come to us from other sources

the first thing to remember than the Evangelists add little to when these sacred words are re- their portrait and take nothing peated, as not seldom they are, în from it Our text for instance: the cynical spirit of the mere It is more blessed to give than man of the world. The Lord only to receive." The very form and said that it is more blessed to give manner of it are the Master's than to receive: He never said a searching truth almost par- that every man would find it so. adoxically expressed, with that He was co cloistered innocent, combination of daring, challenge but One who read men's ambitions and sweet reasonableness which and weighed up their efforts with was all His own. It does not tell unfailing accuracy. None knew us anything about the Lord better than He that the moving which we did not know, but it principle in the world at large is does suggest that what, we have.

not to give but to get, that success. not been told is of a piece with is measured not by how a man ail that

do know of

can serve, but by how much he Him. Jesus has not been edited for us, but simply, sincerely and adequately put before us in the unsophisticated recollections of men amongst whom he went out and in. I submit that such is the best account we could have had of him. "It is the manner in

we

which Divine wisdom directed

that His words and works should be remembered among men, and it has preserved for us the life and spirit which would only have been limited had the phonograph been used to record every syllable and the camera to depict every

scene,

Another general remark may, I think, be helpful. We see here the place which was given in the Church from the very first to the known words of Christ. Paul uses them here to clinch bis argument and enforce his appeal, and such is his attitude at all times. It is often said that we ought to go back to Christ " from Paul, that we have had too much about doctrine from the Epistles and too little about simple duty from the Gospels. The protest has not been without justification in a sense, but it is not fair to the Lord's most loyal Apostle. If our teaching ever departs from Christ you may be sure it is not following Faul but is misled by his interpreters. His counsel to the Churches is "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly." Similar is his habitual appeal to the Lord's example. "Be ye imitators of me," he writes, “even as I also am of

can

acquire. Seeing all this, He turned to those who gave heed to His view of life and said, "It shall not be 50, among you."* Was that a prohibitory com- mand, or was it the statement of a fact; I judge that it is both. If I find the spirit of this world, which is the spirit of grab, getting hold of me, it is bracing to remember that the game is one which is forbidden to me on my loyalty to the Lord. I am not to be a grabber but a giver if I pay any regard to His will

But farther if I am in fellow- ship with Christ this way of His becomes more and more my actual state of mind. Keep near to Him and you will find that "you do verily, and sincerely enjor giving more than getting. You will be more keen to do good than to get credit for it; you will be happier in serving than in being thanked.

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If it is otherwise was there ever, we may ask, such a futility as our Lord's own life? He went about doing good; giving, giving, with both hands and an overflow- ing heart, spending Himself un- grudgingly, upon all sorts. people, not all of them grateful. Sach was His estimate of a happy life. Was He right? If not He should have gone about getting, getting, looking for praise, gather. ing power, piling up wealth. What think you of this Christ? Was He really something of a simpleton, to live as He did in such a world as He found this ? Would He have done better to

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the teacher of the Pilgrim Fathers, in bis final counsel to his flock, charged them to follow! him only in so far as he had followed Christ.

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as the majority do? blessed to give than to receive?” You doubt if? You think it "impracticable? Well, the Lord believed it. Also He practised it.

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that last point becaus superior blessedness of giving is lapt to be contrasted with the sup- posed humilation of receiving. Now It is wholly certain that the Saviour never bids us gain bless- ing for ourselves by inflicting || something very different upon others. When He went about doing good it was never to the injury of anyone else's feeling or his loss of self-respect. The blessedness of giving is pales

the apart from

complacency of Lady Bountiful, påtronising the village and taking it out in bobs and curtseys, mightily pleased with herself but diffusing an atmosphere in which in- dependence of character cannot thrive, and by the like of her is indeed not wanted. But the fact happily is that a compensating principle in these matters is always at work. No man can live to himself alone. At some point every man's burdens are shared by other men. Life is a matter of mutual indebtedness in which all of us have accounts and contras if reckoning werd made, though it is best not to reckon The Master Him- self Whose joy was to bestow was not above receiving though He did not lay Himself out to receive. He did not come to be ministered. unto, but others did minister to Him. One man lent Him a room to keep the feast in another an ass to ride on the family at Bethany afforded Him of rest, the disciples stood by Him in His temptations. He put Him. self ou terms with a woman at the well-side by asking the kindness of a drink of water. And He appreciated it all, was grateful for it, forgot none of it. No, the blessedness of giving does not lie in being above the need to receive: it lies in being in our faint degree of a like spirit with the Lord, generous-hearted, glad to heableto Inake others glad. happier in doing à good turn than in coming in for a legacy, grateful to God if it is in our power to dry the orphan's tears, or cause the widow's heart to sing, or set a youngster on his feet or steady a brother man when things are going hard with him.

This world may be a hard one with a vast amount of selfishness and cynicism in it, as they say. But it contains more people than you may suppose who really have this gracious, helpful spirit, who are not all the time out to get, but to whom it is a joy to give, happiest when they are creating happiness.

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Further, I misread the signs of the times if it be not the case that the sorrows and calamities of the last few years bave given the old bad principles of grab and get a shake from which they will pot wholly recover. One need hot expect the millenium "Dext week, but it is something gained that the principle of selfishness as motive of human the main activity has been shown up in the glaring light of its atrocious con- CALL sequences. The world is begin- ping to see that it will not work, though the universal habit has been to hold that nothing else will. The acquisitive, covetous spirit has had a long innings and the at a public debate between Miss rack and rain of the world to-day Maude Royden and the Rev. porters are all there is to show for it. A V. Magee at the We shall not have a moral re- House recently on the question Church did not lose something": volution complete in a year or a whether women, should be ad- by the exclusion of women, and showed that the Bible could be generation, but this advance at mitted to the priesthood.

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the contrary. Woman owed much to the Church, which had gained for her her liberty and the purifie ation of her motherhood. He OF believed that the granting of the

priesthood to women would make- her false to her Master · and Clergymen hissed, booed, and false to her sex. (Applause, cheered with laymen and women and shouts of "Quite right." Miss Maude Royden's sup- zave her & rousing Church reception. She asked if the

any rate has been achieved, that The meeting, over, which the quoted in a number of cases as men are not quite no cocksure as Master of the Temple presided, including women in the sphere of they were in asserting that the was in many respects remark-priests as well as prophets. Son of God was a dreamer Whose able. As the debate started the Women, she said, desired women ideals are too fine for daily use. doors of the building were locked, as priests, and their admission to A suspicion gains ground that and a crowd as big as that with the priesthood would make it much easier for women to get perhaps after all His way is the in clamoured for admission.

The resolution debated was, help from the Church. She the only one which is going to prove practicable. Besides that, "That, in the opinion of this quoted the New Testament to the call of these terrible years for meeting, there are fundamental show that the Commission of the

forbid not principles which

the Priesthood was given to men and service and sacrifice has been in vain. Thousands admission of women to the women alike in the Upper Room

who had led empty, useless, priesthood," and disappointment at Jerusalem. almost wholly selfish lives was caused at the conclusion of WOMEN HEADS OF THE CHURCH. yielded to the irresistible demand the meeting by the Master's an The head of the Church of to begin at last to forget them-nouncement that there would be England had not always been a male. Queen Elizabeth, Queen selves, and in so doing they leamt no vote.

how much better it is to do so, Mr. Magee, in opening the Anne, and Queen Victoria had all However, you and I cannot debate, was given a great recep-been supreme heads of the legislate for the big world.. But tion. Men shouted and women Church. (Cries of "No." "Iatu we can make quite sure that for cheered. He dealt with the sorry if you don't like it," retorted ourselves any satifaction we are historical and traditional aspects the speaker," but it is so. going to get from life will come of the problem, and said the Later in her reply Miss Royden not from what we can snatch out question of admitting women to quoted the authority of the Mas of it but from what we can put the priesthood would be alter of the Temple for the accuracy What I spent I had, revolution, and not an evolution of her statement, but several of into it. what I kept I lost, what I gave I; They could not have a revolution her opponents disputed the have." That applies to money, of that character till the whole assertion.

But lest nine- Catholic Church bad set its seal Though there were fundam of you should say upon it and God had approved of it. [mental differences between men tenths that .it cannot ia that

THE SEX QUESTION; and women, they were not a bar case apply to you, I will but

Mr. Magee went on to speak of to women's entry into the priest remind you that this morning's the moral relationships likely to hood. Women desired to ogni text is the word of One Who was arise between men and women in form more nearly to the ideal laid poorer than any of us, and domes the Church if the latter were ad-down by Christ, and He laid down through one of His Apostles, who mitted, and his remarks were nothing and suggested nothin often had to say, "Silver and gold greeted with considerable hissing, that divided men and women hava I none, but sucie am E haye | cries of “Shame,” and some the syocation of priestl

of

course.

This is a searching principle we are dealing with, and the sacret of heartily accepting it is, as Paul said about the poor giving ourselves to the Lord Who Churches of Macedonia, in first

gave Himself for us: Otherwiss we are more likely to find a useful diecipline in giving than the give F futo thee." Both as to tor spontaneous pleasure od misansolver and gold and the other han

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