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EDUCATION SANCTIFIED BY PRAYER.
A SEEMOIN^
PREACHED AT THB
COIECMTION OF ST. MARK'S CHAPEL,
In 38i0]^op*!3 College, Eennoibtlle,
JULY IST, 1857.
BY THE
KIGIJT REVEREND G. LURGESS, D. D.
BISHOP OP MAINE, C. 8.
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TRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL, AT THE CANADA DIRECTORY OFFICE,
ST. NICHOLAS STREET.
1867.
9 3 714^,
SERMON.
" Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the
courts of our God." — Psalm xcii. v. 13.
The strength and promise, the ornament and
glory of a land, are its generous, intelligent and
energetic youth. Amongst these, so long as
knowledge holds sway over men, so long as in-
tellect guides society, the educated young man
must be what captains and standard-bearers are
amongst a valiant soldiery. The piety of such
young men is their strength and promise, their
ornament and glory, tlieir shield of faith, their
helmet of hope, their breast-plate of righteous-
ness. The strength of piety is in prayer, and
habits of devotion are the most beautiful adorn-
ment of youth in the sight of angels, and of
Him who dwelleth with the lowly and contrite
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spirit. And although no habits of prayer and
devotion can be thus precious in his eyes, except
those which begin in secret ; although the pri-
vate closet, and the inmost recesses of the heart,
must first be consecrated, yet these separate
fountains uill become an united stream, the
stream will seek a wider channel, and they who
pray in secret will gather to the assembly of the
saints, and have their household altars for the
family, and their dedicated temples for the mul-
titude of worshippers. Just between, blending
the domestic with the public aspect of daily
worship, is the spot where prayer is wont to be
made by a company of youths, with their teach-
ers and guardians ; of youths, culled from the
flower of the land, and trained up in the refining
pursuits of letters, under the exalting influence
of true science, within the restraints of an hono-
rable discipline, and in the fe ir of God ; there
are they to be planted in the house of the Lord ;
there, to be rooted in that godly instruction, and
those sacred customs through which, as long as
they live, they may flourish in the courts of our
God, till they shall be removed to tliose rivers
where on the banks of the water of life spring
up the trees of Paradise.
I do not know that any literal palm or olive
was ever permitted to grow within the large
precincts of the temple at Jerusalem. It is not
necessary to suppose it, that we may understand
the imagery which represents the rigliteous as
planted in tlie courts of tlie Lord. The moral
growth of the soul is every where easily likened
to the growth of a tree. Those who are planted
within these courts are those who live in the obser-
vance of His ordinances, and the enjoyment of
His grace ; and the simple hut most weighty im-
port of this saying of the Psalmist is, that the
Church of God is tlie school of godliness ; and
that they who learn it there will flourish for ever,
in the communion of the saints, and in everlasting
peace. The Church of God employs its sacred
edifices, and all its usages and services, as means
in tliis education of the soul. Education like
this is the business of all our life ; but that edu-
cation whicli is the appropriate task of youth
should be doubly tliis, since, while the education
of life trains for eternity, the education of youth
trains both for tliis life, and for eternitv. Edu-
cation, sanctified by prayer, is the very significa-
tion of the text, and it is the signification of
these walls.
To combat the dream of an education that
should not educate in the holiest knowledge, the
dream of abandoning youth to its unguided fancy
till time, experience and ripening thouglit, should
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lead it, sobered pcrluips, and sorrowin<if, to its
own dearly purchased conclusions, would be a
waste of effort amongst those who either submit
themselves to the word of God, or regard the
common judgment of mankind. That question
was never left undecided for one hour since Abra-
ham was commended as one who would *' com-
mand his children and his household after him,
to keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and
judgment." It never was treated as a question
by any earnest follower of any religion. All
men instruct their children, if they love them, in
that which they themselves deem true, important
and holy. It is ordy unbelief that can be indiffer-
ent, and he who can speak of leaving the young
to lomi tlieir opinions for themselves, might as
well propose to leave them to strangle serpents
in the cradle, or to aim boyish shafts at tlie lion
and the boar of tlie forest. The universal voice
oi' reason, speaking tln-ough all the transactions
of human life, declares tliat, unless divine revela-
tion, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
practice of godliness be less important than all
earthly things, they must be })arts of every edu-
cation wliicli shall not be miserably defective, if
not fatally false and pernicious.
Even more loudly has tlie Church spoken ; not
only by prescribmg one simple but most compre-
hensive and effective summary of the tilings
which a Cliristian ought to know and believe,
and requiring its use in every parish and every
household, but even more by placing at the very
head of all such instruction, the baptismal state
and privilege of every Christian child. The care
which brings him in the first days of his existence
to the arms of his Saviour, and receives him back,
sealed as an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven,
and with the charge that, as such, he be taught
and trained to lead a godly and a Christian life,
is certainly not to be relinquished at any later
period of his youthful progress.
There is, too, a striking and in some sense a
beautiful tribute which is paid by the worldly
and tlie unbelieving to the sovereignty of religion
in the sphere of educaaon as well as in other
very sacred parts of tlie domain of human life.
Men, who in their own practice, throw scorn
upon the Gospel, yet wish that their sons sliould
not be released from its control. They cannot
bear the thought that an irreligious mother sliould
bring up a prayerless oflPspring ; they would a
thousand times ratlier place a son in the hands
of a conscientious cleriiTman than in those of a
philosophical deist. They recognize the impos-
sibility of carrying on high institutions of learning
without the predominating influence of some one
commnnion, or of several. Exceptions to this
sentiment may certainly be cited ; there have
been teachers of the school of llousseau, and
more recent attempts to withdraw reUgious in-
struction from its seat ; but they have not as yet
been numerous enough to sliake the strength of
this appeal to tlie common conscience, which
only slumbers in the worldly, and is not dead
even in the infidel. Eor, the strange fact is, that
a deep persuasion of the truth, of the just claims,
and of the divine excellence of the Gospel, may
exist ill the same bosom which revolts against its
dominion, and may compel it to prefer for others,
for wives and children, for the public and for
society, what, for itself, the desire to live to this
world, and to indulge ludioly inclinations impels
it to disown. Such homage to the necessity of
religious education is almost as universal as in-
telligent reflection or parental love. If it was
a positively impious motive, which prompted one
who had accpiired immense wealth to connect
with his endowment of a splendid college for
orphans, the condition that no minister of religion
shoidd cross its threshold ; if he indeed desired
to banish all religious teaching from that scene
of education, his purpose fell to the ground ; the
advocates who upheld the legality of the gift dis-
claimed the real execution of tli6 design; the
place of Clirislian ministcTS was taken, as far as
mi^'lit !)(', by Cliristian laymen ; the letter was
observed, wliile the spirit was evaded, and all
philanthropy exulted at the defeat of an attempt
so odious.
AVlience come to us, on both sides of yonder
line whieh separates two nations, but not two
families of men, whenee come to us our institu-
tions of learning? They are the offspring of
those venerable Universities which have been
through so many ages monuments of the ances-
tral piety, and nurseries of the theological eru-
dition, of the Church of England. From those
universities, and from their train of subordinate
schools, dedicated fii'st to our most holy faith,
and next to all human wisdom, and sanctified by
the word of God and prayer, issued the founders
of all our transatlantic education ; not only those
who liave upheld the a[)ostolic discii)line, but
those wlio, while tlicy relincpnshed it on this side
of the sea, yet transplanted and transmitted the
union of sacred and secular knowledge, aUke in
the wayside school, and in the endowed college.
The old puritan divines of New England at-
tempted this, not less than the colonial i)relates
of this day. The future must decide whether
the bond of such union can ever be broken with
safety to the sacred or secular cause ; but the tes-
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timony of the past comes with one single voice.
It has not been, however, and it is not now,
the mere union of sacred and secular knowledge;
it is the union of intellectual culture and prac-
tical godliness. It is education sanctified by
prayer ; for prayer is taught by custom, even
more than by precept ; and all education, which
is indeed reliirious, is less the communication
and elucidation of truth, precious as that may be,
than the actual attempt to lead the youtliful step
into the very way of life, into the exercise of
faith, and the practice of righteousness. The
beginning, the progress, and the end, arc all
marked out by this token, " behold, he prayeth."
On the knees of our mothers, we learned to call
on our Tather in heaven, and learned His name
and power and love while we thus prayed ; and
there has never since been any real advaiiceiuent
towards lieavcn, except while we have been (/otng
that in which we have been instriicled. A
Christian seminary must Ijc a place, wiieri; every
facility is afforded, every motive pressiMl, and
every exanqde offered, for the creation and en-
couragement of tiie very habits of piety. It is
not merely to look for results in years to come,
it is to see both tlie blossom and the fruit already.
AVliere woidd you seek and find the b(\st iiope
of the Church and of the commonwealth ? 1 1 ow
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should that youth live on from day to day, who
shall be the crown of parental affection, the joy
of home, the stay and honor of his private circle,
the instrument of divine mercy for boundless
good in this sinful world ? If such an one could
be discovered by proplietic wisdom, it would be
one who, when he woke and when he fell asleep,
turned his first and his last thoughts to God,
with supplication and with thanksgiving, with
hymns and prayers. His knee would be bent at
his bedside, before he began th-^ duties ot* the
day; and when they closed, it would be with
humble petitions that every failure might be for-
given, and all the service accepted through the
blood of gracious atonement. From the word
of God, read in his chamber ; with prayer for tlie
guidance of that Spirit from whom it came, he
would gather the counsel that sliould conduct
him safely through all tem})tations, and the
comfort and hope in which he could lie down
and take his rest. He would bend himself to
his studies, he would mingle with his companions,
he would throw himself into his recreations with
the simple, childlike, and yet earnest, joyous and
manly spirit, wliich proceeds from habitually be-
hohling, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord Jesus.
Through all the ri[)er youth of our Saviour, His
perfect holiness drew no such observation from
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all around as could have fixed their faith, or pre-
vented the question, *' is not this the carpenter ?"
The completest sanctity which was ever seen on
earth, was hut little noticed, it excited no won-
derins: admiration, thousfh it found " favour with
God and man." So, then, we might discover
him who should he nearest to this example of
his Lord, onlv bv his modest blamelessness,
only by the fact tliat we could recall no duty
which he had not done. But we are sure tliat
the source of all his strength and purity, his
kindness and peace, would be in his daily drauglits
at that fountain of living waters, of which our
Lord has said, " If any man thirst, let him come
unto me and drink." We come to God, we come
to Christ, and through Christ to the father, by
believing prayer ; and if that inward stream of
shnple devotion be rushing up, from day to day,
with all its refreshing and invigorating power, it
will give to every toil, study, or pleasure, tlie
lustre of its own sanctity. By the ordinances of
Christ and of His Churcli, such a vouth would
abide, as a soldier at his standards. " In the
Apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in breaking of
bread and in prayers," he would stand fast as
yet, if not ignorant of the gusts of opinion and
of agitation without the walls of his ecclesiastical
home, yet, at least, uninjured by tlie storm. In
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due tinie,tlius nourished, strengthened and armed,
he would go out to his own place, wherever it
might be assigned by Providence, and fulfil the
work which should be given him ; bearing ever
with him the cheerful recollections and the es-
tablished habits of a youth and an education
consecrated by prayer.
To form such a character is the office of the
Holy Spirit ; but the means of grace are within
the power of the Church ; and it is the duty of
the Church so to furnish and minister them, so
to arrange, assist, instruct and adapt, that all
may, in best accordance with the declared will
of the Lord, be fitted to be the channels of that
Spirit, who is " the spirit of power and of love,
and of a sound mind." The Cimrch can teach
and train her youth to pray, and can look up to
God to give them the praying heart And when,
under the benediction and counsel of the Church,
institutions of education arise, they ought, by
every fit and sacred influence, to invite and urge
their inmates to constancy in all the exercises of
secret, domestic and pubUc devotion.
For this end, it is even meet that they should
be placed where the very scenes of nature should
lift the heart to contemplation. Not without
cause did the hermits and cloistered men of old,
choose for themselves the spots where the heavens
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and the earth seemed to be clothed with more
than wonted beauty or grandeur. The hill from
which the rising and the setting sun may be seen,
pouring joyous or pensive light over a broad ex-
panse of sky and sea or land ; the nightly spec-
tacle of a wide liorizon and the full arch of stars ;
the solemn hush of venerable woods ; the quiet-
ness of green pastures and still waters ; the
everlasting dasli of cataracts ; or sweep of gliding
rivers ; the waving plains, white for the harvest ;
*' the many-twinkling smile of ocean," or its
stormy roar ; all have their power to cherish
thoughts which rise above all pomp and vanity,
all lust and grossness, and find their rest only at
the foot-stool of the All-bounteous and Almighty
Maker. It is something to dwell, in the bright
years of youth, where this great universal temple
which God has built for His own praise, so swells
before the soul with all the skill of its Divine
Architect, so majestically inscribed upon its pil-
lars, its foundations, and its celestial dome. The
mind Avhich has been accustomed to meditate
and pray in such scenes will bear the same temper
into the most narrow and barren ; for the same
creative and kind hand is no where hidden, and
*' heaven and earth," down to its lowliest places,
** are full of the ^lajesty of His glory."
Much more important is the actual provision
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of such human facilities, arrangements end en-
couragements, as may contribute to promote the
habit of secret devotion. Oh ! if all mankind
could but appreciate the truism, that habit is but
continued action, how different would be their
estimate of the value of habit in religion from
their present too frequent indifPerence to its
growth and sway ! There is a habit of going to
Church, and a habit of spending the Sunday at
home ; each easily acquired, but soon separating
two persons as widely as he who walks in the
law of tlie Lord, is separated from him who is
without God in the world. Children have gene-
rally, in their degree, the habit of praying in
private ; many men have no such habit ; what a
gulf was crossed when that habit was left behind !
It is the difference between years of comparative
innocence, of awakened conscience, and of, at
least, occasional fervour, and years of virtual
atheism ; for what is God to him who never prays!
That the habit of living without secret prayer
may never begin within the walls wliich a^^e dedi-
cated to generous education, no possible caution
or solicitude ought to be spared by those who
watch over the arrangements and administration
of seminaries like this. Time and place for re-
tirement, exemption from ungodly example,
frequent inculcation of the duty, distribution of
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manuals, and the uniform rule and supposition
that private prayer and self-examination should
have their allotted place as surely as any study,
refreshment, or recreation ; so much it is in their
power to furnish; the rest must be with the
youthful heart, under the guidance of the ^^pirit
of all grace.
But the house of the Lord in which we desire
and pray that the youth of a Christian people
may early be planted, the Church of the living
God has in its place of public prayer, its best
representation and emblem. Here must they
be planted who are hereafter to flourish in the
courts of our God ; here, in the midst and in the
steadfast daily use of those holy services which
are the training prescribed by the Church for all
her children. *' This is none other but the
house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'*
It ought to invite them, if possible, by its sacred
beauty, its speaking form, its inspiring music,
and its solemn ceremonial. The very sight and
sense of such an assembly of youths with their
instructors, gathered before the throne of eternal
Wisdom, as brethren, the child: en of one Eather,
the enlisted soldiers of one Lord, the heirs of one
glorious inheritance, must enkindle a noble sym-
pathy, if it be not crushed down by the sugges-
tions of the basest frivolity. That frivolity, I
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position
should
Y study,
in their
ith the
B k^'pirit
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people
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its best
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1 in the
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for all
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sacred
music,
lit and
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eternal
^atlier,
of one
3 syra-
Lio'ges-
lity, I
know, is ever at hand, ready to pour its despi-
cable ridicule over all which is most serious, and
to shed upon bold and proud minds the poi-
son of a wretched fear of scorn, scorn of all
moral earnestness, scorn of the altars of their
fathers, scorn of the worship and the name of
God. The services of this house should bind to-
gether in a holy league of mutual strength, those
who are willing in their flower of life to seek the
favor of God as their portion, and to take up the
cross of their Redeemer. Here they will keep
the sacred fire alive, as it were from morning
till evening, from eve to morn, like the Levites
in the ancient temple. Here they will send up
their united supplications for their homes, their
•friends, their rulers, their sovereign, tlieir church,
and all their fellow-men. Here, perhaps, they
will kneel, side bv side, to take the bread and
the cup which are the communion of the body
and blood of Christ, presenting themselves, their
souls and bodies, a living sacrifice. What holy
purposes, what resolves transformed by humble
self distrust into prayers, what grateful remem-
brances of signal mercies, what struggles against
temptation, what confessions of departure from
God and His commandments, what returns to
the cleansing blood of the atonement, what vic-
tories of the soul, may here be witnessed by no
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1 ! !
human eye, but by Him who walketh amongst the
candlesticks, and is present wherever two or three
are gathered together in His name! The Col"
lege chapel should be such a spot ; but I well
know what it may be, when profaned, despised,
in coldness and dullness, a succession of inani-
mate performances, often shunned and often
barely endured, drags through the year, to be re-
membered long after either with remorse or with
settled hardness of heart. Oh ! let not these
consecrated walls send up such a record to the
judgment-seat ; and that they may not, (if it be
permitted me to address one word of exhortation
to all, who here may hold the seat either of the
teacher or the learner), let me beseech you to
make the services of this house always living ser-
vices ; as solemn, as interesting, as harmonious,
as impressive, as attractive as they can be ren-
dered by the faithful, fervent dispensation of the
pure rich Gospel of Christ, by the grand and
beautiful ritual of the Church of England in the
hands and on the lips of the wise and of the
young, and by the best exertion of all your
powers, under a glad and grateful dedication of
them all to the service of the Lord your Saviour.
So may those who are planted in this house
of the Lord flourish in the courts of our God.
They will go cut, imbued with the truth of
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despised,
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truth of
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Christ, fixed in their reli<*ious convictions, not
ashamed, wherever their lot may be cast, to be
found on the side of the faith once delivered to
the saints. Many will bear with them, already
established, the warm piety of lieart, the simple
trust in the cross, throuurh wliicli thev shall over-
flome the world, and adorn the doctrine of salva-
Hili. Some will here draw in the spirit of the
Ittitchful pastor, some the zeal of the laborious
ifciBsionary, some the high and grave wisdom of
Ae Christian scholar, who is to be the light of
iitB generation. Our thoughts go back on such
a spot to the youth of Martyn, of Kirke White,
of Heber, of Arnold, and of Archer Butler.
Our thoughts go out to the villages, along your
IBIignificent rivers, and under the sweep of your
jugh fortress, that ancient key to the western
wflderness, — the key which seems now, in the
name of Christ, to open to you all which lies
beyond as His inheritance, where His Church is
to enter in and take possession. Ear up the
chain of mighty lakes, far up the diverging rivers,
on to the coldest regions where the hunter and
the Indian meet, on to the western and northern
waters, wherever man can dwell ; you of the
Canadian Church must bear the Gospel and the
the English liturgy. We bid you God-speed, —
we, of the same natural and spiritual descent, ..as
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side. The event of this day, amongst so many,
which thrill the heart of nations, may pass almost
unrecorded ; but they who have assisted, by their
toils, their gifts or tlieir sacrifices, in raising these
walls to the honour of God, and for the service
of His Ghunrh, in the cause of that • education
which is sanctified by prayer, may rest in lUi
confiden(;e that they hav(^ helped to plant saedl
which shall flourish in the courts of the Ijonfc
when they are gone, and till He shall come witit
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