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SERMON PREACHED BY REV. A. B; chambers, L.L.B,, '>8uperlnt«nd«nt, Montreal District. 0N THE OCCASION OF THE ' ■■' .DEATH OF ;^, JoriNjLOVELL eARSON, , FOR SEVERAL YEARS "^ ' ■ AN EARNEST CHRISTIAN WORKER ■■■■■; -^m-' ■:. ,:- ^'; ' ■ . ., .. ■ ■.■: ;..:■..'■■;:■■ '■■. iK'-^THt. •:' ■ DECEMBER, vi885. "♦I ^ ?1 • l\ ^.1 KSlfciitl- ■ ^X-^t \ i)f,; ./ ^ A«CM v:,>»: — n rnUIHiH '> ''gc^ belufl (TciitT, net s|)CiiUcth/V ■ "'■ Hkiikkws Hi 4. : V ■ ■ \ ■ «•„. _. ; ''■:''■'"' . •, ■ JrJr^HESE words remind iih of .the immortality of ♦i wise . JJ^ decision, a. Kotlly life, aad the inllucnces whicli spring theretrom. From the text we le^rn that Ahel oficred unto (lod ii more excellent sactificcxJnan Cain. Its sui)eriority consisted in this, that it i)roclaimed the consciousness of Abel's gUilt, and the need of atonement. It foreshadowed, however dimly, the oflering of the Lamb of (lod, and rested the hope of his salvation on the Seed of the Woman who should ,. bruise the serpent's head. * * (iod acceptefd his oflering, and in return gave Iwni flie witness that Vhe was righteous. Since then nearly sixty centuries hhve\passed, and during all these years Aliel has been speaking by his act and life of sin, atonement- iyid as- sured righteoUsnbiss. He did not cease to' speak when his spirit passed from aarth. Death is neither the annihilation of the soul nor the obliteration of influence. The good that men do lives after tVem. Their loved Ohesmay cherish their memory, and theWt told story of their faith and their triumphs comes down from genefationto generation to bless the world. This hfiefly abated is the meaning of my text.* In the death of Brother John Lovell Carson, this church has sustained what seems to be an alnjost irreparable loss; ■ a loss which so far as we are concerned can only be, -in any degree, mitigated by perpetuating his memory and influence in our midst. In this the text which I have announced in your hearing may aid us. I have just said that death is neither the annihilation of tlie Hpirit, nor the obliteration of influemx". The srtui of our defi^rtcd brother lives In the enjoyment of liberty and splendour which it could never have known whilij hampered by the frail l)ody which for thirty-three years held it. And now that he has gone from our midst, his beautiful life, his benign influence and trium- phant death s^K-'ak to us, and shall continue to s[)eak to generations yet unborn. Ix;t us endeavour to gather up, and treasure in our memories some of the les.sons of his life and death. . He l>eing deatt siK'a*ks to Us :— r ' /^ . . - • ' ■,■•'. ' ' ' • ■ . , *■,'•'■ '■■■"■ I. Of the inestimable value of a goulv parIcntaoe. Our deceased brother was the son of a man who, in the twenty-second year of his dge, was soundly converted and fully sanctified to (iod, and who, during his subsequent life, became eminent for piety. There are many in our city still, who rememl>er Mr. Hugh Carson as an esteemed class leader and thoroughly devoted and succes.sful missionary under the direction of the St. James Street Methodist Church. This man of (iod was the father of our deceased brother. He was also blessed with a pious mother, who in . his earliest infancy consecrated him to (iod. For six years these i)ious liarents watched over the religious development of their son and succeeded in giving him that bias towards a holy life, which early led him to Christ. When the child was only six years of age, ihe father passed to his reward, but he had left his impression on his son, and his influence continued with him to the end. The pious mother was spared, ahd with an ambition for her son's salvation which surimssed every other, she.watched over him in childhood, boyhood, and manhood, until in her old age, with trembling form and bleeding heart, the saw his eyes close in death. " In deriving his birth from these Christian parents our sainted brother got a good start towards the heaven into which his triumphant spirit has passed. The man who was p .> horn in a costly mansion, with only the>surrrtundingi»of worldly wealth and refinement, has mm h iW whic h to he thai)kful, hut the man whose iwrentsr were tXily pious has much more on account of which to be grateful,* even thouj?li like the world's redeemer, his birth took plate in a manger. Through all his life, our sjiinjed brother proclaimed the inestimable value of a pious parentage. . * . rl7ll. Hk, BKINO UKAI), VKT SFEAKHTH of THK I'OSSIHII.ITV OF OKNUINK CONVISRSIGN TO. (iOI) HKINO KKKKCTKD IN KAHI.Y, CHILDHOOD. ^_ " - ' - .^ ^ ^^ _:. :, I desire to emphasize this point, for there mre many still who seem to doubt this, and many in the church who stiJI seem indifferent to it. We look with intense interest at a man in the agony of repentance, seeking to exercise saving faith in Clod, but, too often, shame on us, we treat the child's tears of penitence as being of little importance. I say, the hope of the world lies in the conversion of childhood. ^And lightly as some may esteem it, there are thmj^ands.in ^e church on earth to-day, and tens of thousandM^eaven, who can attest the glorious jjossibility of early «/li version.- Among the latter, our departed brother bears his testimony and the record speaks to us. While the laughter of child' hood was still in his heart,'and the dew of childhood on his brow, at the tender age of twelve years he felt hims'elf a sin- ner against the God of his sainted father. The weight of that guilt oi)pressed him- He saw that without Christ, life in its brightest hours would be but daikness, and in its dark- est hours would be blackness. He saw that Christ had redeemed him by blood Divine, and then with calm and deep conviction, in penitence and faith, he consecrated his life to God. Perhaps some smiled incredulously as they saw the little boy bend his curl-covered head at the altar of prayer. Perhaps, as they heard his sobs, some said "It is only a child's emotion, which will pass away like the early dew;'' but, tha^nk God, it did not pass. Like the son of Hannah for whom his mother prayed, like the good King •f -Sp^^*,' ■ A :./■:■ Joslah, like Timothy who knew the RiriptHres from h\n y<»uth, oiir f>rothur lived tr> witncJis a good < onfi-sHion, and pnxLlim the genuineness of early conversion. Ixrl fathers iuul mothers, let Sabbath School teachers, let. the whole Church live and labour to bring the children to Christ in their youth. Jlring then» to Christ before their hearts be- come hardened, their minds |K)lluted, and the world binds them with her fetters. (lather the children into the churKAKS to US.O^ THUtSiri'KRrOR r'ilvASUUK WHICH HKI.KIION AKKOkHS IN KAKI.V MANHOOt). It is as natural for youth to .seek pleasure as it is to breathe. As we grow olilcr we are prone to forget this. Sometimes we look on the siK)rts and frolics and \)an- limes of youth as being extravagant, unnecessary and restrain.ible nonsense. This, in my opinion, is a severe and false judgment. ;\s well restrain the leaping, bound- ing joyfulness of lambkins in their springtime p.i.stures, as forbid the manifestation of the exuber.ant and ever increasing tide of vitality in yi»inciiR in the ball room, at the card tobic, or in the convivialities of life, brother Cafson found that religion's ways are ways of plea- Hantness, that »ll her paths are peace. His daily life wan a < ontradiition of the theory that religion mar« any real plen- »ure of a' young man's life. Ihe luxury of doing good ^fl»» his. His the e«(iuisite pleasure o( employing life to glorify (lod and make others happy. IV. Hk St'KAKS TO UH OK THK AHIMTY OK ChUIST TO KKEP TMK HKARl HAI'I'V AND THK MIND TkANi^UII., AMIU "the kntan(;i.kmknts of husinkss. Some of you have, more than once, heard me express my sympathy with men in business. I have some knowledge of how they are perplexed by the overreaching and sharp practices of -unscrupulous comjietitors ; by unreasonable customers who seek to get honest goods at dishonest prices ; by the dullness of trade and the thought of rapidly maturing obligations. I know something of all these things, and do not wonder that many business men grow nervous, irritable, and prematurely grey, or that they utterly break down be- fore they have grown old. I symi)athize with business men. But whtyn these men tell me that in view of all their entanglements' they cannot be Christians, I do not believe it. When they tell me that it is impossible for a business man to be tranquil and happy, I do not believe it. I do not mean that these business men intend to tell the minister what they know tobe false. Many of them are far too honourable and truthful for that. But they do not know the paV^r of God's grace. They do not know how it is adapted to meet every condition and emer- gency in life. They do not know that when God said " My grace is sufficient for thee," he meant for the banker, the broker, the merchant, the clerk, the doctor, and the lawyer, as well as for the minister. I am glad to say, however, that U #* '■ • i 8 there are some exceptions to this ignorance, and our saitited brother was one of them. He found the religion of our Lord Jes\is Christ sufficient to keep his spirit and temper unruffled in the midst of irritating circumstances, sdch as are' common to all business life. IJJevef rich, he passed thrqugh days which were especially trying. A few. years ago fire wrapped the old home in St. Johns, and swept away his^ busirvess and his prospect of support for himself and his aged, widowed mother; but it did not break his spirit, or shake his faith, He had committed himself and his business to God, and ht knew how to. praise God when he sent, prosperity, an,d to trust him in seeming adversity, Religion enabled him to make his store a meeting place .withQod, and strengthened him to speak- a word for Christ to many a casual caller ; while not a few who came orily to make some trifling purchase heard from his lips of the pearl of great price.. Men of business, when you are argu- ing that one in your station cannot be a Christian, do not look for proof to the weakness of your own purpose. Do not look to thos^ almost worse than half-hearted Christians, who, on Monday niornings, leave their religion at home in their Sunday costumes'. No, look to the almighty power of (»od, and to such illustrations as our lamented brother afforded. His was hot an isolated case, and what reKgion did foi^m, it is able to do for you. ,, V. Being dead, he speaks to "us of the blessedness OF REUGION DURING. A SEVERE AND PROLONGED ILLNESS. • , It is known to many of you/ that for a year and a half^ our dear friend waS under the hand of affliction. Day after , day during eighteen months, with only oceasional interrup- tions, he saw and felt himself sinking-^-steadily sinking. Do not imagine that this was no trial to him. He had not been human if the thought of failing health had' not grieved him. He had been less than huntian if the prospect of leav- ing the wife whom he loved with the pure and intense affec- tion of a. most devoted husband, and the little children who . ». t ,.-vW^* . ». % .1 I . were bdhe of his bone; and flesh of his flesh, had not made his heart groan with unutterable anguish. He had been an ungrateful son had he failed to pity the ipother who in his infancy pressed him to her heart, and in his maturer years loved him as her first-born son, who so largely reproduced the character of his sainted father, and who now, stricken with the infirmities of years, l^nt her trembling form, over him, and baptized him with maternal tears. He had been wanting in fraternal feeling had he not been saddened at tl prbsirect of separation from his only brother, the partner his childish joys, and the sharer in the cafes of his niiaturer . years. And other loved ones there were, from whom it must have been hard to part. He had been worthy of no , eulogy froip this pulpit had he not regretted leaviag this hallowed place where God had so^ often blessed him, and the souls for whom he had watched and prayed with the pious tenderness of an under-shepherd. Yes, that long affliction, with its ' gloomy prospects, was a trial which no hurnan language can portray. It was a cup which he earn- estly besought his heavenly Father to let pass from him. But religion sustained him. It saved him from murmuring and rebellion. It kept him patient. It filled him wit-h joy. It„ enabled hirn to say "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." ■. ';■ ■■'■■■■■" ^v During nearly five months of the present year, while seeking health in a southern clime, and enduring suffering, the recital of which wOuld make your hearts sick, his letters home were full of hope and Christ, and Christian* sunshine. In the month of August he visited Boston, and catching the spirit of those who believe that now, as in the days of His sojourn on earth, Christ heals by faith without human inter- vention, he cast himself wholly on the skill and power of the Great Physician. Never, I think,. was faith less falter- ing ; never was expectation more confident This was the longest of the occasional interruptions in the- consciousness of steady sinking to which I have referred; During this period his peace was deep as the ocean, his joy high as the 10 a:- ■ \ \ heavens. Then little by little the conviction was forced upon him that he had mistaken the will of God concerning him, or that his faith was imperfect. This was the darkest period in his illness; Confused, almost confounded, he asked, Is God unwilling to do for me what he has done for otiiers? Have I been deceived? Is my faith imperfect ? This to him was the hour and the power of darkness ; but even then his faith in Christ as the Saviour of his soul remained unshaken. Then the night passed. Gloom and *anxiety vanished. The glory of God's presence pervaded his whole being. With unbounded confidence he committed wife, children, mother, brotjier, loved ones and classmates to God, and longed to depiart and be with Christ. Praise God for a religion that can sustain a man so blessedly in such an ordeaL Gold has no power to purchase such consolation. This is heaven's anodyne for suffering Christians, to which there is nothing comparable in all the laboratories of human science. VI. Once more ;— He speaks to us of the splendour of the Christian's death At last the slow plague brought on the fatal hour. The hand of death was on his heart, the dew of death was on his brow. The scenes of earth were receding. Eternity was bursting ori his vision. How did he endure the ordeal? Gloriously! hU last written testimony an|k message, traced with a trembiinjg hand, thirty minutes before that hand was cold in death, is worthy of being engraved on the heavens by ah archangel's hand, using for letters the brightest con- stellations whiis free for all. I only ask you tp follow the departed, as he followed Christ. If you loved him you must love the Lord who saved him; more. When you think of him as being in heuvj^n, and feel that heaven is richer and dearer to you, becausehis spirit is there— you must not fail to look above him to hfs Redeemer and you%"and as you gaze, on the wounds He received for you, —as you behold in thought and faith the once blood-stained, but now glory coronated brow, you will be constrained with the psalmist to exclaim "Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee." , My young friends,! commend to yoU the Saviour, who accepted our departed brother in his childhood, ti you have not already given him your hearts, do so this night. Young men, I commend to you the religion whidi made the young manhood of our friend happier than all the plea- sures of earth could have doi^e without Christ Men of business, I ask you to take genuine religion with you into your workshops, your stores and your offices, and learn by experience that it can Iceep you in perfect peace. ff.. ". ' /I.. . ■.'■;■■■■;■-, 12 ■ ■ To those who are chief-mourners I cannot trust myself to speak at length. I will not say, don't weep. Nay, I would rather take my place among you and weep as my Master wept at the grave of His friend. But I will say, do not murmur. Give place to no rebel-, lious thought. Praise God for the life which He gave and ^ which He has taken. Rejoice in your loved one's victory over death, and look forwajrd to the reunion. Link by lihk the broken chain will be i%-united. Soon, if faithful, you will all be "Forever with the Lord ;" where " they, shall hunger fto mor^, neither thirst any more ; neither shall the sunlight on them, nor ahy heat. For the Lamb which is in th|i midst of the throne shall Yeed them, and shall lead them unto living fountainsof waters ; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." : Dear friends, when darkness wraps you, and disease wastes you> and death beats you, remember the Friend of our brother, who to every trusting soul says, " My grace is sufii- cient for thee." ; In concluding permit me to say to each :— " So live, that when th| summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves '• Tothat mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death. Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at nightj,' Scourged to his dungeon, bUt, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave. Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and l|es down to pleasant dreams." <^ I^Sf't'l: •^itf^'/iS' y (fram the ''Christian Guardian,'' IVeiiiuiday, January 6th, 1886.) ■- f fofttt %oxit\\ ©arson, In whom through a life of thirty-three years the great value and efficiency of divine grace was beautifully illustrated, departed this life at No. 12 Park Averiue, of the city of Montreal, the 30th November last Bro. Carson was the son of Godly parents, aad, as a blessing upon their efforts, was converted to God at the early age of twelve years. Fro;n this period his course was an eminently active and consistent one. He was ever ready to join in any Christian and benevolent enterprise that opened before him through others, or that could be thrust open by himself. Hence, he was prominent in the temperance cause, and in every department of labor to which our Church called him. The Methodist Church was to him, as to his father and mother, the object of intelligent and hearty Choiclf^d, therefore, all her obligations and privileges Werei,by;him recognized, prized, and promptly assumed. He graduated in her Sabbath School from a scholaf to the teacher, and thus to the superintendent. From his earliest Christian life he was a lover of the class-meetings, as of the other social and. public means of grace pectiliar to our Church. He became a class-leader and then a local preacher, in which latter office he not only filled those appointments which were made for him, but by cottage prayer-meetings, which in private houses he instituted and maintained, he wqht beyond the ordinary requirements of his office in proiiioting the cause of Christ— a, cause in the love of which he grew, manifest- ing such in the increasing ardor and earnestness of his zeal. ■ # '.'V ' . ■ ■ ■ ■/, ■ " . / . . 7 ■ ■ ./ ^: 'Wi .;■ ,: -.; ■ 14 , ■■;■■■••.■ ■ ■■■.. ■: ■• • fie had a happy faculty of gathering many |)eopIe around him, an influence which was felt not only within the churgh, but even beyond its immediate pale. By these he was highly esteemed and respected for his uprightness in life, and foV his warm and. loving spirit. His earlier religious life was spent in the tOwn of St. Johns, but about five years ago he removed to Montreal, arid entered into business in connection with Mr, Robert Miller, stationer, whose daughter he had married some three years previously. Mr. Miller was not only his father-in-law, but his uncle also, being the brother' of his mother. On cominjg to Montreal he con- nected him.self with the. Sherbrooke Street Church, and at one? entered on the actual duties of tl\e Sabbath-school, the class-leader, the local-preacher, and Qf recording-steward. Having received him when a babe frqm the hands of his parents, and dedicated him to God in baptism ; having been his pastor for several years subsequently, and joined with him in many forms of Christian effort ; h\iving known him intimately as a son, as a brother, as a husband and a father ; as a man of business in the public walks of life; as a private, and, for a number of years latterly, an, official member of the Church— in a word, having known him from the earliest developments of his principles.and talents to the day of his death, I can heartily join Mr. Ch^imbers in the following very just and pertinent remarks whiph he uttered in his appropriate and impressive sermon in iri;jproving our brother's death:— ' •i " "In the death of Mr. Carson the SherbrOoke Street Church has sustained what would seem to be an irreparable loss-— a, loss which, so far as they were concerned, could only in a degree be mitigated by perpetuating bis memory and influence in their midst. His beautiful life, his benign influence aijid his triumphant faith spoke to tfiem, and would contihue to speak through generations yet unborri." I Will here give Y fact which deserves a public record. Within about thirty mrnutes of his last pulsatioris, he ^ I *'«*r to -^sr*- ift ■i I ■V \ called for an album, and with tremulous handkbut in sufficient clearness of character, he wrote: "Have faith in God," and then almost immediately breathed his spirit up to God The testimony given on the evening of the day of his death is also worthy of a place Here. It is in the following vords : '« We, the members of the Official Board of the Sherbrooke Street Methodist Church, having learned of the death of our beloved brother, John L. Carson, desire ' to record the profound sorrow we feel on account of the loss this church has sustained by the removal from amongst us of a most faithful, efficient, earnest and devoted worker in the Lord's vineyard. 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