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{giMit »m i» i%t f tanger. 
 
 A SERMON, 
 
 l^ PREACHED IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JAME3, 
 TORONTO, CANADA WEST, 
 
 ON THE EVENING OF 
 
 ST. GEORGE'S DAY, 1860, 
 
 ON BEHALF OF THE 
 
 ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY 
 
 BT 
 
 REV. E. K. KENDALL, M.A., 
 
 ST. John's collkgb, cahbbidoe. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, ETC., IN THE UNIVERSIT7 OF 
 • TBINITT COLLEGE, TORONTO. 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY. 
 
 TORONTO : 
 ROWSELL & ELLIS, PRINTERS. 
 
 1860. 
 
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€\mi itm m t|e Slnntgti. 
 
 Matthew, Chap. xxy. part of vene 85. — " I WAS A 
 STRANGER, AND YE TQOK ME IN." 
 
 We must often have felt, my brethren, that the 
 words of Holy Writ, more especially those of our 
 blessed Lord Himself, are so pregnant with meaning 
 and so forcible in expression, that any attempt to 
 explain or illustrate them, seems to diminish rather 
 than increase their force. They are, as it were, the 
 few bold strokes in a picture sketched in by a master 
 band, which tell their own tale better than the more 
 elaborate production of an inferior artist, and the ef- 
 fect of which is to a great extent destroyed, if it be 
 giren to another to throw in the light and shade and 
 work up the colouring. And so it is this evening, 
 brethren, that I feel as if I coulJ gladly leave to your 
 Christian sympathy and charity, the claims of that 
 Society whose cause I have to plead with yon, with 
 nothing but our Lord's own words to recommend 
 them: "I was a Stranger and ye took Me in ; foras* 
 much as ye have done it unto the least of these My 
 brethren, ye have done it unto Me." I cannot but 
 feer that any remarks of mine can add but little to 
 your understanding of words so appropriate to the 
 occasion as these, but may rather weaken the effect 
 upon your minds of teaching so forcible and so plain. 
 
 But yet, when I consider the cause which I have 
 
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to bring before your notice, which solicits your 
 Christian consideration by touching at once two of 
 the most sensitive chords in our hearts,^ namely pity 
 for a stranger, and love to a brother, inasmuch as it 
 relates to those who are not only in one sense strangers, 
 but in another our own brethren and fellow-country- 
 men ; 8 cause therefore which does not depend for 
 its acceptance with you upon the ability and elo- 
 quence of the advocate ; when I consider this, I am 
 emboldened to avail myself of my privilege this eve- 
 ning, to dwell for awhile upon the words of the text, 
 with no fear that your response will not be liberal, 
 but with a sincere wish and prayer that your offer- 
 ings may be made in a spirit which Avill benefit 
 yourselves, no less thar. those to whose needs you con- 
 tribute. - . 
 
 I have chosen for my subject our Lords own words, 
 it is no lesser Advocate who is to plead with you to- 
 day. And they are spoken when He was describing a 
 very solemn scene, perhaps the most solemn one 
 which is depicted in Woly Hrit, even the judgment 
 at the last day. 
 
 . The Son of Man is come 'in His glory, and a;ll Hi^ 
 holy Angels with Him. The rainbow like unto an 
 emerald is round about the throne, and He sits in His 
 Majesty, and before liim are gathered all nations to 
 receive the verdict of their Judge. A separation is 
 made now that was not made on earth, between the 
 righteous and the wicked, as a shepherd divideth his 
 sheep from the goats. The sheep are on the right 
 hand, th6 goats are on the left. And what is it 
 that the mighty King, the everlasting Councillor, the 
 righteous Judge, has to say to the race of His faith- 
 ful ones? What is h that He commends in His 
 
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 Saints, in Whose sight the Heavens are not clean and 
 the very Angels are charged with folly ? ** Then 
 shall the King say unto them on His. right hand 
 'Come ye hlessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 
 prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 
 For I was an hungered and ye gave Me meat, I was 
 thirsty and ye gave Me drink, I was a stranger and 
 ye took Me in, naked and ye clothed Me, I was sick 
 snd ye visited Me, I was in prison and ye came unto 
 Me. *" And then in. answer to their enquiry how or 
 when they, the vast assemblage of all the nations, of 
 the earth, had ministered to Him, our Lord adds ; 
 «• Forasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of 
 these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me." 
 
 Now, my friends, if we had never heard this be- 
 fore, it would strike us as a very wonderful sentence, 
 and a vepy wonderful answer. And even now when 
 we come to think of it, how, much of truth seems 
 wrapped up in it. It shews us that we are living for 
 this judgment now, and how we are living for it in 
 our daily acts ; that our state hereafter depends upon 
 how we behave ourselves here, and that not so much, 
 in great matters as in small. It shews us in short, 
 that while salvation is by grace through faith, judg- 
 ment and reward are measured to us by our works. 
 Nature itself points [out to us that good and bad 
 deeds are followed by a righteous retribution. And 
 that which Nature could only partially shew by hint 
 and inft^rence. Revelation has taught us on th« autho- 
 rity of God. 
 
 But yet when our Lord in hi« capacity of inspired 
 Teacher of the sons of men, explained as He did on 
 this and a few other occasions, the principles on 
 which His judgment was to be based, how simple 
 though how searching does it all appear. 
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 It is not " Ye have had faith which would remove 
 mountains, ye have had a deep insight into the mys- 
 terfes of religion." It is not "Ye have had strong 
 and impassioned feelings, highly wrought convic- 
 tions, manifold experiences,*' which many in our day 
 would teach to be the very essence of religion, and 
 the only test whether we have it or no. However 
 indispensable to the sinner, if he would be saved, the 
 conviction of sin ; and the firm grasp of faith on the 
 promises of God ; and the reaching onward of hope 
 aft^r a crown of immortality ; and the reasonable as- 
 surance of a Christian man who knows that Christ has 
 redeemed him, and believes that He will not cast out 
 him whom He has redeemed : however all these I 
 say must enter in various ways into the Christian's 
 life, they do not in themselves form the test of accep- 
 tance with God By their fruits are they known. 
 This is the proof whether faith be really faith, and 
 not self-delusion ; whether hope be really Christian 
 hope, not presumptuous confidence or careless indiff- 
 erence ; and whether the warm feeling, the passion- 
 ate longing, the religious excitement, be the kindling 
 of a holy and healthful zeal, or the frenzy of an unholy 
 feverish madness. 
 
 Nor again even is it "Ye h^e converted many souls 
 to Me, have had peculiar and signal intellectual or 
 spiritual gifts, have spoken with tongues and prophe- 
 sied, and done wonderful works in the name of 
 Christ." Special gifts and powers are indeed to be 
 valued by those who have them, and they are for the 
 strengthening and building up of Christ's Church. 
 It is moreover incumbent upon us to use the talents 
 conamitted to us, be they many or be they few. But 
 the final trial is something whi6h is in common with 
 
the highly gifted, and the less favoured servants of 
 Qod ; something which puts on an equality the roan 
 with lofty intellect, capable of investigating laws, 
 tracking truth, and mastering sciences ; and the un- 
 lettered one who scarcely knows his right hand from 
 his left. It makes little difference to exist between 
 one of high spiritual knowledge, and deep religious 
 feelings ; and one who knows little more than that 
 man sinned, and Christ died to save, and God loves, 
 and the Holy Spirit sanctifies the people of Qod. 
 Our Lord says, *♦ Ye have fed the hungry, and satis- 
 fied the wants of the thirsty, and ministered to the 
 stranger, and clothed the naked. Ye have done it to 
 My brethren, and therefore ye have done it unto Me." 
 
 It sounds so little that the Saints can scarcely be- 
 lieve what they have done. They ever feel that all 
 that they can do is nothing. Their left hand know- 
 eth not what their right hand doeth, often knoweth 
 not that it hath done any thing. They are ever ask- 
 ing themselves and God, as they are represented 
 doing here : ** When did we these things ? How is it 
 that God can look with favour on the imperfect efforts 
 of the sons of men." The more they strive to do of 
 His will, the less do they seem to do. The more 
 they perform of their duty, the more do they seem t» 
 leave undone. The clearer knowledge they gain ol 
 the path of duty in which they ought to walk, th<i 
 farther does it seem to stretch away before them, anj 
 they to be taking a few feeble steps along a road, tht 
 end of which is lost in the infinite distance. 
 
 And yet notwithstanding this, God,'accepts themst 
 good and faithful servants according to that they 
 have. He knows their frame and their weakness, 
 and their struggles, and how they are beset round 
 
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 about, and how their foes are strong, and their flesh 
 is weak. And what he asks of them is to do what I 
 they can ; to live in faith in Christ and tove to the breth- 
 ren; to ae3 in every hungering and thirsting manJ 
 Hini who hungered and thirsted for them; in every 
 stranger, Him who for them was a stranger among 
 His brethren, and had not where to lay His beadj 
 And this leads us, my brethren, to the considera- 
 tion that these duties are here sa^id to be done to I 
 Christ Himself. This, and this alone, is the reason I 
 why they are pleasing to God. ^ " I was a stranger | 
 and ye took Me in/' It is not you will observe, "Ye I 
 have ministered to the brethren and that is pleasing j 
 to Me ;'* but more than this, " Ye have ministered to 
 Me." 
 
 This it is that distinguishes real Christian charity 
 from the results of mere good nature, or a desire not to 
 be outdone in liberality, or the pressure of some other 
 exciting cause. This is the test that divides those 
 on the right hand from those on the left. Perhaps 
 they do, to a great extent, the same things, as far as 
 appearance goes. There is a good deal of spurioug 
 liberality, imitation of charity in the world. A 
 Christian man, for example, isj not more likely than 
 another to appear as contributing largely on a sub- 
 scription list, to an object of charity, {perhaps less 
 80, since the Christian does not his alms to be seen 
 of men. Those on the left hand you observe are 
 represented as saying " When saw we Thee in need 
 and did not succour Thee?** We have no means 
 nqw of separating between really good and appar- 
 ently good actipnsL The difference is this, the love 
 of Christ constraineth to th^ one, and it is jsome* 
 thing else which constraineth to*the other. 
 
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 Things done to Christ for the faith and love of Him, 
 
 I pleasing and acceptable to Qod. Chritl is One 
 fith His brethren. He is the Head and they are the 
 Members, and ministering to one Member is minis- 
 mring to the Body. Yes, my brethren, Christ is One 
 fith His brethren. In ministering to them we are 
 nminded of Him, we are following His example, we 
 lie doing what He approves, but more than all, we 
 ire ministering to Him$elf, 
 
 Let us consider two ways in which Christ is one 
 with men, which shew that by no mere figure of 
 ipeech does He thus transfer to Himself those deeds 
 of love which are done to the brethren. 
 
 Now, first. He is one with us in nature and condi. 
 tion. He is here called not only the great King, but 
 the Son of Man. This title He ever takes to Him- 
 self as if it belonged in some peculiar way to Him; 
 IS if it were the title which it was most wonderful 
 that He should have. That the Saviour of men 
 should be the mighty God ; one by mysterious inefifa- 
 ble union with Him who made the world and man, 
 ind one in Council and in Substance with Him who 
 planned ihe restoration of the one, and the salvation 
 of the other ; thit would seem on account of the power 
 requisite to bring these mighty eiTects about, almost 
 less wonderful than that H^ should be Man. And 
 yet there was the necessity that obedience to Qod 
 fliould be rendered by Man in order that Man might 
 be able to obey ; that expiation for Man's sins should 
 be oflered by Man in order that men might be for- 
 given by God ; and that temptation should be over- 
 come by a Man, who like Adam could feel temptation, 
 but unlike Adam would not be conquered by it. He 
 Himself the "second Adam,*' the "everlasting Father" 
 
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 pf tbe children of the regeneration, proved at once 
 His Godhead and His Manhood hy power on the one 
 
 xtkd and weakness on the other, in a way level to 
 the understanding, and forcihle to the hearts of all. 
 
 When God in His mercy had planned the salvation 
 of a fallen world, at the fulness of time His only Son 
 came down from Heaven to earth, to teach and to 
 save m'ankind. God is come into the world to save 
 men ; where is He to be fouud ? 
 
 Those who look for the mighty Deliverer from 
 Heaven, whom Type and Prophecy and Heavenly 
 Sign had gone before, and whose Advent myriads of 
 'Angels wait upon, are led to the lowly B&be lying in 
 tbe manger of an inn at Bethlehem ; to the humble 
 cottage at Nazareth ; to tlie assembly of the Doctors 
 where the Jewish child ans';yered to His faith ; to the 
 carpenter's bench. Later on He is found with fish- 
 ermen in Galilee, on the Lake of Tiberias, or coming 
 up with His brethren to the Feast-at Jerusalem. He 
 taught in the Temple and in the Synagogue. He had 
 words of instruction for Nicodemus a " Master in 
 Israel," and did not disdain to address His gracious 
 doctrine to the publican and the sinner. None could 
 feel>that He cut Himself ofT from them. It was their 
 own fault if He had not for all the teaching which 
 their needs required. Ho was much with the family 
 at Bethany, each member of which He loved. He 
 wept over the grave of one of them even when about 
 to restoje him to life. His first miracle was wrought 
 at a wedding, but more often was He found with 
 those that weep. He was "a Man of Sorrows." 
 Exercising the power of God in healing and feeding 
 others. He felt to the full the weakness of man in 
 His own person, using no miracle to supply His own 
 
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 needs. He liungered and thirsted in the ilcsh, in or- 
 der to preach to the poor, and wandered as a stranger 
 to seek those who w&re wandering as strangers from 
 the fold of God. And yet though there was so^ much 
 that might seem on the one hand to further and on 
 the other to hinder His teaching, He as man spoke 
 rather to the hearts of a few ; and whilst His miracles- 
 testified to His mission. He taught men to love Him 
 I first as Man, 
 
 And at the last, when led ffs a lamb to the slaugh- 
 Iter, He was mindful even to tears of the fate of his 
 beloved Jerusalem : He felt from the full depth of His 
 I man's heart for the women who followed Him, saying 
 to them " weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves 
 and for your children ;" and lastly from the Cross 
 itself He gave to His mother, whose heart a sword 
 was piercing, a son in the disciple whom he loved. 
 
 Do not these and many other touches of nature 
 which 1 could recall to your minds did time permit, 
 tell us of the Man : do they not teac^ us that He 
 Himself ♦' took part of the same'* flesh and blood of 
 which the children of men are partakers; that in 
 His Manhood, and in His condition there. He is 
 one with His suffering Members upon earth. ■ 
 
 But again He is one with us by grace. As he is'One 
 with the Father, so by the Comforter are his people to 
 be one with His Father and Himself. ♦* As ihou 
 Father art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be 
 one in Us." Wonderful mystery! The Holy Spirit is 
 one Person of the Triune God, and yet lirps in the 
 hearts of men. This Spirit it is that binds men to 
 Himj; that makes those who believe in Him one with 
 Him. He would be but another man, of the most perfect 
 type indeed, but still only another man, were it not 
 
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 for this most mysterious bond. His perfect obedience 
 and sympathy would be something which we could 
 admire and feel, but which would have no intimate 
 relation to ourselves. 'It would, except in degree 
 be but like the obedience and sympathy of any other 
 man. But now we are made Members incorporate 
 in the Body of Christ. By the Spirit it is that we 
 have access to the Father in union with Christ, through 
 faith, by the Sacraments, by Prayer, and the other 
 means of grace. His obedience is reckoned to us. His 
 suffering is accepted for us. AH are made alive in 
 Him. . All will rise again, because Christ has risen. 
 • The Spirit is our Life, our Strength. Through Him 
 we partake of the Life of Christ. He pleads with 
 us, and in us, and is at hand to give us His aid, and 
 lead us to holiness. 
 
 And now my friends, I' have tried to point out 
 briefly to you how Christ is one with his brethren: 
 one, inasmuch as he is Man like themselves ; one, 
 inasmuch as by the Comforter they are united to His 
 glorified Person : one, because while on the one 
 band He took the form of a servant ; on the other 
 He has thus taken the Manhood into God. 
 
 I have done this lest you should think that doing 
 
 kind actions to yourneighbours will of itself give you 
 
 a seat in the Kingdom of God ; and lest you should 
 
 suppose that it is the deed itself which is accepted 
 
 . by God, rather.than the motive from which it springs, 
 
 ' namely, faith and love to Christ. 
 
 The question with each man is, '* Do you love 
 
 Christ V* Do your acts of benevolence and charity 
 
 spring fromi a love to Him Who has redeemed you ? 
 
 - Does your love for your brother proceed from your 
 
 love to Christ and God ? 
 
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 Do you shew your love to QodrWhoia you have not 
 ieen, by your love to your brother, whom you hav4 
 seen? 
 
 Tben if so, ih ministering to your brother's wants, 
 you are ministering to Christ ; in doing your duty to 
 your neighbour, you are doing your duty to Gbd. 
 Do what is right, and do it from right motives; that 
 18 true religion. If you can humbly hope that to 
 some extent thi» is your case, many are the exceed- 
 ing great and precious promises to those who supply 
 the wants of the stranger; to those Mrho "do good 
 and distribute," with whom "Qod will be well 
 pleased ;** to those " who lend to the Lotd '* in 
 their " pity for the poor," believing that what they 
 "lay out shall be paid them again ;" to those wiio 
 <• minister to the saints,*' knowing that «' QoH ianet 
 unrighteous to forget their works and labour that pro*- 
 ceedeth of love." mnoii 
 
 See what the beloved disciple St. John saith, where 
 in few touching words the lessons are summed up 
 which I have now tried to set before you: " Whatso* 
 ever we ask we receive of Him, because we keep 
 His commandments, and do those things that are 
 pleasing in His sight. And this is Hia command- 
 ment, That we should bdieve on the name of Hit 
 ton Jesm Chmly and love one another as He jgaveius 
 commandment; And he that keepeth His ccHumand" 
 mehts dwelleth in Him, and He in him. And here- 
 by toe know that He ahideth in usj hy the Spirit whuJi 
 Se hath given ^8. 
 
 But yet, my brethren, I must remind you^that there 
 
 is anbtheri^ide to the picture. There are thoto who 
 
 will Bay in agony of soul : ** When saw we Thee and 
 
 did not minister to Thee : we have eaten and drunk 
 
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 in Thy pretence, and Thou hast taught in oiir streets." 
 To whom the Judge will say, ** I never knew you. I 
 was a stranger and ye took me not in ; ye let me 
 remain ever a stranger to you. I knocked at the 
 door of your hearts, and you would not let me in. 
 I would hare supped with you, but you would not 
 receiT* me." Oh! my friends, are there any such 
 here to-night. Tou hare heard of Christ, read of 
 Him, perhaps even pray to Him, and use His Name 
 when you pray. You are His servants in name^ but 
 do you know Him ? Is He a stranger to you mfau T 
 Do you hear His voice ? Do you open to Him the door 
 when He knocks ? If not, delay no longer in. giving 
 your hearts to Him. He is the only one who can 
 save you from your sins ; who will by the Holy 
 Ghost, the Comforter, be your Life, your Strength. 
 He is one with you; He knows your wants, and has 
 borne your sins and sorrows. Oh ! consider the fear^ 
 ful sentence which the Judge here pronounces on 
 those who are content to live in carelessness, or rest 
 in fair outward show. A cup of cold water to one of 
 Christ's little ones, given because he belongs to 
 Christ, will not lose its reward ; but all your goods 
 may bi; given to feed the poor, and yet for lack of 
 Christian charity may profit nothing. 
 
 I could not ask your alms to day, my friends, with- 
 out a word of caution, that your ofiering be not 
 elicited by any other motive than love to Christ, and 
 love to His brethren. But yet I can now beg you in 
 His Name to do what you are able. To many of us, 
 to the preacher, as well as to yourselves^ mt^y be 
 applied the words of Moses : >* Ye know the heart of 
 a stranger, seeing that ye were strangers in the land." 
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 ben of the St% Qeorge'i Society know, what it it to 
 be in a new world, without the smile of a friend's 
 face, or the touch of a well-known hand, or the cor' 
 dial accents of welcome. They know the blank look 
 that every thing had, when they had nothing to look 
 St that they had ever seen before. Many of us for 
 Tsriovs reasons, have left old ties and associations that 
 seem .twined round our hearts, and part of our very 
 selves ; and though we were here in presence, we 
 felt as. if we had left the greater part of us behind. 
 And what mu9t this be, my friends, to the stranger* 
 if the .new world does not use him well, or if through 
 his own misfortune the venture that he has made 
 does not succeed. What must it be, if to the feeling 
 of strangeness, be added the pinching of poverty, the 
 miseries of want. Ai^d how must the stranger's 
 heart be lifted up within him, how will he thank 
 .Qod and take courage, if both these miseries be re- 
 moved'at pnce ; — if the poor needy £nglish emigMuit 
 is met with the hearty response of the St. George's 
 Society, "You are not a stranger ; you are among 
 English hearts. Christ loved His own Jerusalem, and 
 if we forget out Zion let our right hands forget their 
 cunning, and if even in out mirth we prefer it not, 
 let our tongues cleave to the roofs of our mouths. 
 Tou are a stranger no longer,— -you are among brothers. 
 You shall not perish for want. For the love of Christ, 
 and for the scarcely less holy love of our country, we 
 will minister to you of our abundance." **No man 
 ever yet hated his own flesh, but loveth and cherisheth 
 Ait even as the Lord the Church." 
 
 I need hardly say much on such a subject as this. 
 For particulars of the efficient working of this noble 
 institution I will refer you to the printed report. 
 
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 ' Suffice it to say that it has been the means of assist- 
 ing numerous deserving cases, and that its funds 
 have been spent with judgment, and to the best ad' 
 advantage. Perhaps many of you saw the Christ- 
 mas distribution, when more than nine tons of pro- 
 visions were served out to the poor, through the 
 agency of this Society, to the value of nearly 600 
 dollars. Surely this good old English way of keep- 
 ing the feast at which we call to mind our Blessed 
 Saviour's coming as a man upon earth, was a right 
 
 * way of shewing lov0 to Him. All of you will respond 
 to the noble boast of the Society, that while the 
 charity is intended for the English poor, yet to the 
 really deserving no difference was made ; ho case of 
 real want sent away. There is a wider brothierhood, 
 even than that of Englishmen, as we in this country 
 ought to know. Let it be ever thus ;' and provoke one 
 
 . another to love, and to good works, remembering that 
 **The liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal 
 things shall he stand."