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 The Transcendent Value of Man. 
 
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 DELIVKREn BKFURK 
 
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 REV. F. W. PARRIES, 
 
 ^ Chftplain of the Society, 
 
 ON 
 
 Sunday Evening Novernber, 29th, 1891. 
 
 Published by request of the Society. 
 
 OTTAWA : 
 A. S. WUObllLHX, PUIKTKB. 
 
 18111. 
 
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SEl^MON. 
 
 " Till we all come * * * unto a perfect man, unto ihc measure of the 
 stature of the fulness of Christ." — Eph. 4:13. 
 
 In the verses which precede the text, the Apostle enumerates the 
 various officers which the ascending Jesus bestowed upon His Church. 
 As princes on their coronation day dispense with lavish hands gifts upon 
 their subjects, so Jesus " when He ascended up on high, He led capti- 
 vity captive, and gave gifts unto men." As He ascended from the 
 humiliations of earth to the glory of the heavens, from the cross where 
 through weakness He was crucified, to the throne of all power, on His 
 great coronation day, " He gave some, Apostles ; and some. Prophets ; 
 and some. Evangelists ; and some. Pastors and Teachers." Some of 
 these officers were extraordinary and temporary, others were ordinary 
 and permanent, for both are His gifts, and He gives them 7i'/ien and 
 /i()7ci they can best promote the accomplishment of his plans and pur- 
 poses And the Apostle assures us that these officers, as Christ requires 
 them, shall be continued in the Church " until we all come * * * 
 to a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of 
 Christ." 
 
 Now, it is evident, from the connection, that the great purpose for 
 which Christ bestowed these officers, whether extraordinary or ordinary, 
 and tor which He continues them, is to make man perfect. And as He 
 is possessed of infinite wisdom and power, it is manifest, that these 
 officers, as He gives them, are the very best instrumentalities for the 
 accoitiplishment of this purpose. With us a second best is frequently 
 the best available, but with Him the very best is always at command. 
 Neither earth nor heaven could afford better instrumentalities than these 
 officers whom Christ gave, to make a " perfect man." But the work of 
 these officers is to preach and teach the Gospel. It is to proclaim 
 Christ as the Son of God, and the only Saviour of sinners. Their 
 whole work is summed up in the words of the great commission, "Go ye 
 into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature," " teach all 
 nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father -ind of the Son and 
 of the Holy Ghost." Sc that the divinely appointed means which these 
 officers are to employ to make a " perfect man " are the preaching of 
 the word and the ministermg of the ordinances of the Gospel. They 
 are to preach Christ, to make known to men the incarnation, the life, 
 the death, the resurrection and ascension pf Christ. And in the use of 
 
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these means, and of nothing else, they are to labour to make perfect 
 men. They are to proclaim far and wide among the nations, and to 
 every creature that the purpose for which Christ left the throne of glory 
 and came to earth and suffered and died, was not to make a man rich, 
 or great, or honoured, or learned, to hedeck him with stars, and dis- 
 tinguish him with titles, but to make him " a perfect man." Now, these 
 facts reveal not only the great purpose of Christ and his infinite love 
 and grace, but also the inestimable value which He puts upon man. 
 There is no object for whose attainment He has made such sacrifices, 
 and appointed such varied and costly instrumentalities and means, as 
 He has to make " a perfect man." In the light of his redemptive work, 
 we read his estimate of a man. The cross proclaims that there is nothing 
 that transcends a man in value. And to awaken in man the sense of 
 his own value, He propounds the momentous question, " What shall it 
 profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? 
 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? '' Christ knows of 
 nothing in all the world so valuable as man. And this is the truth, 
 the transcendent value ef man^ to which I ask your attention this evening. 
 
 I may state, in passing, that in the last clause of the verse the 
 Apostle defines what he means by " a perfect man." "A perfect man " 
 is one who has attained " unto the measure of the stature of the fulness 
 of Christ." We may not be able to apprehend all that is contained in 
 this phrase which is so rich with suggestions of supernal blessedness. 
 But to measure up to the stature of the fulness of Christ cannot mean 
 less than likeness to Christ. " We shall be like Him," says John, '* for 
 we shall see Him as he is." A perfect man is therefore a Christ-like 
 man. A man who bears the image of Christ. 
 
 With this explanatory remark, we proceed to consider the truth, 
 which shines oui trom the text, "the transcendent value of man." And 
 first let us notice a few of the ways in which the transcendent value of 
 man is presented in the Word of God. The Bible begins with an ac- 
 count of the creation of all things, and in this account it is manifest 
 that there is an enormous upward stretch from the highest animal crea- 
 tion to man . Man is separated and elevated above every other crea- 
 ture by the whole breadth and height of the rational and spiritual 
 nature which is his peculiar possession. Man is not only the last but 
 the greatest of all the works of creation. He alone was made in the 
 image and likeness of God. To him alone was given the dominion 
 over all the creatures on earth, in sea or air. Because he was made in 
 the likeress of God he was worthy to have rule. From the plastic 
 hands o/ the Creator man came forth, bearing the image of God, to 
 crown the summit of Creation's work. In his creation, God put the 
 stamp of a transcendent value upon man. And in the government of tht- 
 world he makes it manifest that it is not for his wealth, his honors, his 
 power and splendour that he esteems and values man, but for what he 
 IS in himself. When he cho.se a people whom he called his own, and 
 among whom he covenanted to dwell, ive passed by the mighty king* 
 
doms, the glittering royalties, the conquering nations, and laid hold 
 upon a race of slaves, and took them to be his peculiar people. He 
 identified himself with them. He proclaimed himself "the God of 
 Israel," and Israel was in Egypt under tie yoke of bondage. He took 
 David from the sheep-fold to make him king over his people Israel. 
 The Psalmist proclaimed a marked characteristic of his government 
 when he sang. "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the 
 needy out of the dunghill, that he may set him with princes, even the 
 princes of the earth . " God never values or exalts a man for what he 
 has, but for what he is, and his friendship and favor are especially 
 given to the poor and the needy. The only thing that Christ, the Son 
 of God took as his own, when he came into the world was our nature — 
 He became man. There was nothing else here worth taking. Every- 
 thing else was and is subservient to man, and of value only as it can 
 minister and is used for man's good. And so Christ did not come to 
 be rich, to dwell in palaces, to sit upon a throne, to win the titles and 
 honors of the world. He had not where to lay his head. He took 
 only our nature, that in the nature that had sinned he might bear the 
 penalty of sin — He died for man. It is in the cross we see the bright 
 est outshining of the love of God — and the whole wealth of that love is 
 given to man — not to the rich, the great, as such, but to man, to every 
 man. On the cross we see the most costly sacrifice that the universe 
 has ever witnessed, and that sacrifice was made for man. God knows 
 the true value of things. He is not deceived by appearances. He 
 does not give a ransom of countless merit for a valueless thing. And 
 so when we can measure the worth, the glory of Christ, and compute 
 the value of his sacrifice, then may we be able to estimate the value 
 which God puts upon man to whom that Son was given, and for whom 
 that sacrifice was made. And the end which God seeks in all this won- 
 derful work of Christ, in all the oflSces and ordinances of the Church, 
 and in all the means of grace, and in his whole government of the 
 world, still further, if it is possible, impresses us with the transcendent 
 value of man. His whole purpose is to conform man, not to the like- 
 ness of an angel, but "to the image of his Son." Genius with her 
 loft; ideals, and her skilled hand, has often taxed her powers to the 
 utmost to give us, in costly marble, or on glowing canvas, the image or 
 likeness of Christ. But when God would give us an image of Christ, he 
 takes a man, and by his spirit and grace moulds him into the likeness of 
 his Son. There is nothing in the universe but a man capable, in God's 
 judgment, of bearing the likeness of his Son. And when his gracious 
 end is completed in the man he takes him to glory. He —owns him 
 with blessedness and triumphant joy. Through grace ana .^ovidence 
 he is working and will work, " until we all come * * ♦ unto a 
 perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." 
 And then, as nothing befits " a perfect man," but a crown, and sceptre 
 and royal robes, he raises him to the skies to sit with Christ on his 
 throne. Now, through-all these facts, at which we have btit glanced^ 
 
there shine, not only the infinite love and grace of God, but his judg- 
 ment of the transcendent worth of man . And this judgment of man's 
 transcendent worth is not a mere sentiment, a barren speculation, a 
 pleasing dream, it is a principle or law to which he gives practical effect 
 in deahng with individuals and nations. 
 
 And, hence, in the second place, we notice that the individual or 
 nation that does not recognize, and accept and act upon this judgment 
 shall perish. If a man will not accept dod's estimate of his worth, and 
 will not walk in the way of obedience to God which leads to perfection, 
 it he will not heed his call, and resists the spirit and grace by which 
 God is seeking to mould him into the image of his Son, he shall cer- 
 tainly perish. If a man refuses to be governed by the truth, and makes 
 himself the slave of lust, and passion, and sin, if he makes gold, or 
 honours, or titles, or pleasures, and not perfect manhood, the object of 
 all his efforts, if he so degrades his being as to leave his Father's house 
 to feed with swine, and prostitutes his nature, which God desires to 
 bear the image of his Son, in worship to an idol, a graven image, pre- 
 fering the lie that enslaves, to the truth that makes free, that man shall 
 perish without remedy. Once it was a capital offence to deface the 
 image of the sovereign stamped upon a coin. It was counted an act of 
 treason . It is always a law of the Divine government, that the man 
 who erases the last lingering lineaments of the divine from his nature, 
 and resists the spirit and grace by which God is seeking to conform 
 him " unto the image of his Son," shall perish. He is guilty of treason 
 against God. He forfeits eternal life. And so Christ, in the I'roverbs, 
 affirms what is literally and terribly tiue . " He that sinneth against me 
 wrongeth his own soul." 
 
 And this is true of nations as well as individuals. For the 
 history of the world is strewn with the wrecks of nations who ignored 
 God's estimate of the value of man, in the conduct of their 
 national affairs. The civilization of the three great ancient empires, 
 Babylon, Assyria and Egypt presents some points of difference, but in 
 their estimate of the worth of man these nations were substantially alike. 
 The deepest conviction of their national life was that the stability and 
 permanence and prosperity of nations depend upon the vastness of their 
 territory, the richness and variety of their material resources, the 
 strength of their armies, ihe grandeur and magnificence of their cities 
 and palaces. And so they conquered peoples and took their gold for 
 plunder, and led the multitude who escaped their swords, in chains to 
 grace their triumphal processions. They built great cities, Babylon with 
 its surrounding wall, 60 miles in length, 80 feet in thickness and 350 
 feet in height. And within their massive walls they reared palaces and 
 temples and hanging gardens that for splendour and magnificence seem 
 to belong to the region of imagination rather than to that of accomplish- 
 ed fact. But through all the splendour and costliness of their palaces 
 and temples and pyramids, through the tumultuous enthusiasms of their 
 triumphal processions, we hear the groans and sighs and wails of the 
 
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 millions who toiled to erect them, whose spirits were crushed, whose 
 manhood was outraged by the despotisms that tore from them their 
 rights of manhood, and doomed them to slavery. Man was crushed 
 and degraded into a beast of burden, and was counted for nothing, 
 excepting as he was able to contribute to the erection of these national 
 works, and add to their material splendour. Herodotus tells us that 
 100,000 men were constantly engaged for twenty years in building one 
 of the pyramids of Egypt. But the divine law took effect on Babylon 
 and Assyria and Egypt, and they fell. They thought less of a man than 
 they did of a palace, or a pyramid, or a hanging garden. And Clod 
 overthrew them, plunged them into a ruin from which they never arose. 
 
 Other forms of civilization appeared in Greece and Rome, but 
 neither did they apprehend the true purpose of national existence nor 
 the divine secret of national permanence and prosperity, (ireece had 
 her sages, her statesmen, her poets and artists and heroes unrivalled. 
 She wrote the Iliad, she conquered Egypt, she built the Parthenon, and 
 fell. Rome rose on the ruins of (Jreece to the mastery of the world. 
 She had her wisdom, her couruge, her conquering eagles, her art and 
 enterprise, her magnitude and magnificence. But Rome, like Greece, 
 fell. These nations did not rightly value living men, they did not 
 realize that the true end of national power is to help men upwards 
 towards perfect manhood, and they withered out of existence by the 
 inevitable law of God. 
 
 And in modern times, God had a controversy with Britain, until, 
 at the cost of millions, she purchased liberty for her slaves. God 
 had a controversy with the United States, until at the sacrifice of 
 hundreds of thousands of her free born sons, Jind millions of treas- 
 ure, she struck the fetters from her four millions of slaves and 
 made them free men and recognized their manhood. And Russia 
 shall find no peace until her despotism ceases to crowd thousands of 
 exiles into Siberia to suffer and die, and sheathes the bloody sword of 
 persecution in its scabbard. God is on the side of the rights of a 
 man. He hears the cry of the poor and needy and oppressed, and 
 when a nation thinks more of its palaces and temples and pyramids, 
 more of its material wealth and power, more of its railroads, mines and 
 manufactories than it does of a man, it shall be overturned. If it fails 
 to perceive the everlasting truth that nations are not made strong and 
 stable by the breadth of their territory, the splendour of their cities, 
 and the wealth of their material resources, but by the quality and char- 
 acter of their men, and that true manhood can only be realized by work- 
 ing in harmony with the Divine principle whose aim and end are to 
 make perfect men, and help them grow up "unto the measure of the 
 stature of the fulness of Christ ;" it shall sink into the ruin that has en- 
 gulfed so many nations in the past. A nation that degrades or dis- 
 counts God's estimate of man cannot live. 
 
 Thirdly, notice that in the measure in which nations have recog- 
 nized and acted upon God's estimate of a man, they have risen in 
 
the scale of manhood and become leaders in the march of human 
 prugrt-ss. Time will nut permit me tu dwell on such illustrations 
 as the history of the Israelites, the Hugenots of P'rance, the Puritans 
 of England afford, I will refer especially, as befitting the present 
 occasion, to our Scottish forefathers. It is evident that when the 
 truth dawned upon Scotland it wrought these convictions with in- 
 creasing force into the hearts of the people, first, that (Jod's 
 word and not material wealth and splendour, is the only true founda- 
 tion of a nation's permanence and prosperity. Secondly, that personal 
 freedom and liberty of conscience are the necessary conditions of a 
 nation's acceptance of the word of God as the only rule their faith 
 and practice. Thirdly, that to realize the character which «-iod's word 
 required them to possess, that is, to become "perfect men," to grow 
 up unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ, is the chief 
 and highest duty of men, and that all the business of life and all the 
 affairs of their country should be conducted with a view to promote 
 this end. I'hey believed that individual and national life could not 
 prosper when its aim and purpose were different from the aim and pur- 
 pose of God in providence and grace. And so they struggled and suffer- 
 ed and died to win liberty, to work in harmony with God and toward 
 the same end for which he is working . As God has revealed to us that 
 his great purpose in all that he has done and is doing in providence 
 and grace, is to conform men to the image of his Son, to make perfect 
 men, with hearts strong to dare and do, they resolved to devote all to 
 this same end, and to be co-workers with God. This was the liberty, 
 by whatever name men may call it, for which our forefathers struggled 
 and suffered through long centuries of oppression and martyrdom. They 
 did not wish to substitute the Church of God for country. They always 
 maintained that Church and State were separate and independent gov- 
 ernments, but they were penef^ated with the conviction that they were 
 "doing their best for their country when they were doing their best for 
 the Church of God. They felt in doing so that they were not only 
 working in harmony with God but doing their best to quicken and 
 strengthen all the elements and forces which give permanence and 
 prosperity to a nation." And as Hetherington says : "In defence of 
 that sacred principle, they ' endured a great fight of afflictions,' through 
 which they were triumphantly borne by the mighty power of God, un- 
 folding and realizing in the fearful struggle, what, though of subordinate 
 importance, was still of inestimable value, that noblest charter of civil 
 liberty which man has ever framed, the British Constitution." And 
 thus by their heroic struggles, and suffered martyrdoms, they won a 
 character which commands the admiration of the ages, they planted in 
 the hearts of Scotia's sons a love of freedom which time can never 
 quench, and whose quickening breath is felt to earth's remotest bounds. 
 They fought for the rights of man — to give man the liberty and right to 
 be a co-worker with God in attaining perfect manhood, in attaining the 
 image of Christ. They valued man above everything else. They 
 
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shook off the hand of ihe clopot, ihcy hiokc the fetters of ect.lfsia-.lii:;il 
 tyianny that man might he frte, frtc lo use all things and make thtm 
 contribute to his manhood. Our great bard but c;.ughi ihe spiiit that 
 beats in Scottish hearts, and breathes through all our native land, free 
 as the winds that sweep her heathery hills or the waves that be.it on her 
 rocky shores when he sang : 
 
 "What tho" on hrnncly fare we dine, 
 Wear hodden gray, and a' ih.ii ; 
 (iie fools their silks, and knaves their wii.e, 
 A man's a man for ;i' that ; 
 ; For a' that, and a' that 
 
 Their tinsel show, and a' that ; 
 The honest man, tht)Ugh e'er sae poor, 
 J Is king o' men for a' that 
 
 You see yon birkie ca'd a lord, 
 
 Wha struts and stares, and a' that, 
 
 Tho' hundreds worship at his word, 
 He's but a roof for a' that ; 
 
 For a' that, and a' that, 
 ' His riband, star, and a' that ; 
 
 The rank is but the guinea's stamp. 
 The man's the gowd for a that. 
 
 .■\ prince can mak' a belted knight, 
 
 A marquis, duke, and a' that ; 
 But an honest man's aboon his might 
 
 Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! 
 F'or a' that, and a' that. 
 
 Their dignities, and a' that, 
 , The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, , 
 
 Are higher ranks than a' that." 
 
 Thus the divine truth that "man is of transcendent value" that in- 
 spired and nerved the hearts of our forefathers, lives in our native land, 
 and breathes in our national songs, and is stiiring the peoples of the 
 earth to aspire after a higher manhood, to grow into the "measure of the 
 stature of the fulness of Christ." 
 
 There is no time to apply this great truth to our own position in 
 this new land, where with our fellow-citizens of all nationalities we 
 are seeking to build up our country in true greatness I can but say 
 that this can be done only by accepting and acting upon the divine 
 principle that the good of man, and not material wealth, or magnificence 
 must be the chief aim of our national life, and that in this great work of 
 building up our country according to the divine rule, Scotchmen who 
 are the heirs of so grand a history, and of such a noble ancestry, should 
 play no unworthy part. The whole force of our national life impels us 
 
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 to take our stand for God and iruth and the well-being of man. " There 
 is an heirloom of stimulus to a whole race in the heroic acts of those 
 who have bequeathed them a name among the nations of the world." 
 And none have better reason to feel that stimulus than the sons and 
 daughters of the martyr heroes of Scotland. And so while cherishing 
 in our inmost hearts the memory of our native la.id, and glorying in its 
 heroic history, let us remember that our heritage of liberty and truth is 
 the birthright of all. And so live and labour as to lift up others and 
 make them free to be co-workers with God in striving for perfect man- 
 hood. There is nothing narrow or national in the gospel. Its blessings, 
 its salvation are free to all. And there is nothing narrow in the heroic 
 martyr-spirit of our forefathers. For the dying Covenanter, as he !«ank 
 among the heather of his native hills, saw not only a vision of the 
 splendour and glories of the new Jerusalem, his eternal home, but also 
 the vision of a righteous and holy Scotland, radiant with the light of 
 God's favor, and beyond that the world redeemed and won to Christ, 
 and filled with his glory, and the earthly scene was scarcely less enrap- 
 turing to his passing and triumphing spirit than the heavenly. So let 
 our eyes dwell upon the vision of the promised time, for which the 
 martyr heroes of Scotland and the good and true of every land and age 
 have laboured and longed, when the knowledge of God, and of his esti- 
 mate of man shall fill the earth, when all men shall seek to be like 
 Christ, and all men shall be linked together in the bonds of a loving 
 brotherhood. 
 
 "Then let us pray that come it may, 
 As come it will for a' that, 
 
 That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, 
 May bear the gree, and a' that ; 
 
 For a' that, and a' that, 
 
 It's coming yet, for a' that, 
 
 When man to man, the world o'er . 
 
 Shall brothers be for a' that." 
 
 "Until we all come * * * unto a perfect man, unto the 
 measure of the stature of the fultiess of Christ." 
 
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