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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 12 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1.0 I.I 1.25 i^ 2.8 2.5 1^ j^6 1 3.2 r\ r\ t IIIIM - g U£ 2.0 IS. ^ u bibu 1.8 1.4 1.6 A APPLIED IK/MGE Inc ^^ 1653 East Main Street ~^ Rochester. New York 14609 USA •^SS: (716) 482 - OiiOO - Phone =^ (716) 288 - 5989 - Fax I THE (EIKHl^OLl) CORD I OF LOVH. BY A CHRISTIAN MINISTER A "By this shall all mi-ii kiKAv tiiat ye are iTry disciples, if yo have love one to another."— .loiiN xiii. 35. TORONTO: WILLIAM BRKK^S, 78 & 80 KIN(J STREET EAST. C. W. COATES, MONTREAL, (^(E. S. F. HDESTIS, HALIFAX, N.S. t»RTCK lO CKTVTH. • Shall We, or Shall We Not? A SERIKS 01 I IVK UlSlOtUSKS BY THE REV. HUGH JOHNSTON, M.A., B.D. SUBJECTS nlSCUSHKU: WISE'-'OAPS'-'MEDASCE'-'THETEEmE' ■WHAT SHALL WE DO?' rnivor, 1«0 lM)-> 35 Cents. . .,,,,1 stirrin" and poiiiti-'l iippoal-" "Full "f cog"'' "''S"'™ -DaUy Examiim, I'dahm'. ..Thoughtfully and reasonably wntten."-r/« W.ck. tho,ave-goi„g a,.e ^^^^:^^, ,,„,„« ground on the :r:i^:;rur:s.t.d:»a"..„t.niti,y..on. WILLIAM BRIGGS. 78 & 80 KING ST. EAST, TORONTO. C. W. COATES, MoxTiiHAii, Qui. S. F. HUESTIS, Uaufax, N.S. I THE THREEFOLD CORD OF LOVE. BY A CHRISTIAN MINISTER. -0 " By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."— John xiii. 36. TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS, 78 & 80 KING STREET EAST. C, W, COATKS, MONTREAL, QUE. vS, F. HUESTIS, HALIFAX, N.S. i>RICE !0 CENTB, il il The Threefold Cord of Love. F luivo Ijad it in our heart to jot down a fow of our most earnest thoii^dits on three plain rules of Scripture, prayin«r that with (Jod's blessing they may be n ndered instrumental in (juell- ing or preventing to ,onie extent the feuds of the churphes, wherever a kind, providence may permit them to go. The world has its multitudinous groupings, accord- ing io the endlessly diversified conditions and circum- stances of men. Some are classified by self-interest, others by oneness of sentiment, others by relationship. However, such cords bind only groups, but there is a golden chain which can bind all men into one universal brotherhood. Love is that golden chain, U is im- planted within us by the Holy Ghost ; Christ is its source, and the centre of its strength in us : it binds Him, it binds us, and each to each. It is the saine kind of love which unites Father, ^Son and Holy Ghost. Says Christ to His followers:' "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you ; " and then designing the same kind of love to be passed on, He says, "This is my con^mandment that ye love one another, as I have loved you." This love binds closely, divinely, blessedly, so that we can say, "We being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." We exist as a Church not only to conserve and establish truth and holiness and secure the observance of all God's. ordinances, but to sympathize with each other in the Joys and sorrows of He, and provoke each other to love and good works, and put forth united efforts for the conversion of mankind both at home and abroad. When we thus walk in faith and charity, spreading holiness and following peace with all men, the great object for which we exist as a Church is answered ; then while we put forth aggressive effort let us endeavor to recognize and fulfil our mutual obligations arising out of this divinely established relationship. One duty linked to this relationship is courteousness. " Be ye kind one to another." This obligation may be performed cheaply, therefore the neglect of it is the more inexcusable. How small a thing it is to make a pleasant bow or speak a kindly word, or even seek to turn away wrath by answering softly. Whatever influence you have to exert in any direction your courteousness or your want of it often determines whether or not it shall have sway. Its use may be good or evi! ; but it is a power, and has too often been made subservient to evil. The representative of a false religion comes before you with oily, pleasant words, and presents his dogma for your acceptance, and for want of closer or more extensive reading on 5 closely, e being members ve and ervance fch each provoke 1 united it home iharity, ill men, urch is e effort mutual blished usness. nay be is the nake a seek to latever I your rmines nay be n been e of a easant )tance, ing on 4 the subject, you perhaps fail to detect the underlying fallacy, and it is a mercy if you are not victimized by this setter forth of strange doctrine. And if blaridness of speech does so much for the false systems without being in itself an evil, why not use it freely in the cause of Christianity ? Its service here is legitimate, being itself an element of Christianity, and the exercise of it a part of Chris- tian duty. Its exercise develops an essent part of the Christian's character, and brightens his graces and enlarges the sphere of his usefulness, and he becomes under its gentle sway more like his exemplar and Lord. But when errorists use it to build up their spurious systems it is contraband ; they have no right to it ; it is sheep's clothing for them when they are not sheep, but wolves instead. It makes them like a sunbeam, when the light within them is darkness ; it places them in a falsely favorable light before the world, while it sets the Christian in his true and proper place. And how much more good some of us might do in the world if we were more affable in our intercourse with others The result of this would be the persuasion on their part that we feel an interest in them, and this would make way for influence to benefit them. Our relation to them may be such that we have no other way to give them to feel our interest in them than by friendly recognition, or by addressing them with respectful and loving words ; and how many have been won for Christ and the Church by this kind of approach. It is not enough to know that you have love in your heart for them, you must find some way 6 to manifest your regard, and this way is always open. Take an example of its utility : The late John B. Gough was in a terrible gutter, an outcast of society, self-respect all gone. Joel Stratten went to him in his rags and told him how he could improve his condition and be a man and be respected. This friendly attention touched his heart, and when he promised to take the temperance pledge and did not mean to do it, he was overcome and induced to do it by Stratten's expressed confidence in his sincerity. He had not been accus- tomed to receive such respect, and was conquered by its power and became, perhaps, the most attractive and successful temperance lecturer in the world. A friendly word may open for you a door of useful- ness when you little think of it, and a slight or a frown may drive a soul from the range of your influence, and from the Saviour whom you serve, when you little dream of such a result. You may have occasion to administer reproof, but you can make it the remon- strance of a friend, and it need not be offensive. With what significance Paul's advice to Timothy comes in here : " Reprove, rebuke with all long-suffering and doctrine," and in anothf •^ place his exhortation runs, "In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." This means that we should administer loving reproof. It is one thing to reprove, and another thing to make the reproof scriptural and salutary. We need some of the elements of a Christian gentleman to enable us to do it. However, touching the question of courteousness, perhaps you tell us you had rather be blunt and honest. We had rathei that too, if you could not be honest without being repellant ; and not so much matter if every one concerned could see kindness nestling at the root of your bluntness. But since the tendency of coarseness is mischievous, it is better to cover with a gilding of external kindness your intercourse with others. Genuine Christians have loving hearts the Christ-like life begotten within them impels them to do good, and no sign contrary to the law of love should be observable on their tongues or in their lives. Another obligation arising from our relationship as members of the same church is mutual submission- " Submit yourselves one to another." God requires of His Church submission one to another because of its peculiar and diversified rela- tionships. There may be slight diflferences as to authority of claim to be submitted to, which may be regulated by a due regard to the amount of responsi- bility invested in the individual. While no one is allowed to lord it over God's heritage, we learn from a particular precept of His Word that those who have the responsibility of the ministerial office have a special claim to deference which they modestly recog- nize. " Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch over your souls as they that must give account." But beyond this, on tiie ground of heaven-inculcated expea-ency, there is 8 a call for a great deal of mutual submission ; submis- sion, pleasant and sometimes distasteful ; submission, intelligent and sometimes quite the contrary, were it not for some awkward circumstance making it neces- sary; submission of the rich to the poor as well as that of the poor to the rich ; submission of the learned to the ignorant as well as that of the ignorant to the scholarly; submission of the old to the young as well as that of the young to the authority ofyears. But is this submission in perfect agreement with the designation, " kings and priests," applied to Chris- tian believers in the revelation of St. John ? Yes ; there are strokes of royalty in this mutual sabmission.' What is it but authority conunencing to wave the sceptre of its power at home ? The man who is so wise and strong that he must rule may rule ; he may be a king as well as a priest, only let his authority begin at home. Let him take the Bible and manage his temper and life by its laws ; let him curb his headstrong will by its requirements ; let him rule his passions by its precepts, and he has won a more glorious victory than any military general who has bugled his supre4nacy at the close of a sanguinary con- flict, " for he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." It is a grand thing for a man to rule himself properly. But if he does this he will see that there is as much submission as authority in such ruling, and that it is a complete preparation for the mutual submission en- joined in the New Testament. We speak not of un- qualified submission. We are not to be like the vane submis- unission, , were it fc neces- l as that irned to t to the as well nt with ) Chris- ? Yes; mission, ave the 10 is so he may ithority manage irb his rule his I more ho has ry con- ihan he operly. 3 much it it is ion en- of un- e vane on the steeple, subject to every wind that blows. We must have steadiness of purpose with correctness of aim, and when submission is not conducive to God's glory, It IS not required. We nuist resist unto blood rather than give up a fundamental doctrine of God's Word, or the practice of any kind of morality required by Its laws, but in dealing with prudential measures involving no fundamental principles of right and wrong, any one of which might succeed to a reasonable extent, it is not best to say, with a scowling brow I have named my plan and if it is not adopted I'll dri've in the wedge of opposition with the unconquerable torce of my sledge-hammer will. The machinery of the Church cannot work to advantage on that line. The better way is to act in unison, though we cannot quite think the same. But how often when a site for a new church is to be chosen, or the time of public worship to be fixed, or a church officer chosen, or a hnancial scheme inaugurated, the decision of the ma- jority is opposed by a small minority; small, but larcre enough to retard materially the good work to be done Halt a dozen men want to have their own way and who can blame them ? It is all right, but they won't fall in with any other plan. That's all wrong, because instead of suffering "all things lest any man hinder he Oospel of Christ," they blockade the heaven- ireighted ship that won't carry their canvas, and the Church has to halt in its accomplishment of good for their sakes. ^ ^ Their justification is that their method or plan is intrinsically the best, but the question is, will it work ! 10 IN the best resnits with a majority not in sympathy with it, and not lielpinle service jown the ivate the lay aome- idance of allv more Bd a will- B Church nust do a ) of if we He sub- depraved le conde- He had tion was :1 is there ster asks disciples ], or His 5 of men 3is inter- my more s or gifts ss to do [ivintj for first im- portance. Then let us remember the feet-v a.^hir,g and its lessons. Another obligation arising out of our re- lationship as members of the same church is a willing- ness even to suffer wrong when necessary for the pre- servation of harmonious action. One essential for a Church is rectitude, but the aj)- prehension of right being clear to one mind and only imaginarily so to another, there arises a difficv.Ity in securing to every man his just claim peacefully. You desire to have your right, but you had better try to maintain peace too. " Jf possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men." The Gospel of Christ is a gospel of peace, the kingdom whose im- munities it offers is a kingdom of peace, and the hea^'en to which the one points and in which the other ends is a heaven of peace. Therefore as heaven-bound travellers we must be lovers and promoters of peace. The ruling principle everywhere within heaven's jur- isdiction is love, and peace the issue. But you ask, how are you to maintain peace when your earnest work is rewarded with jeering and reproach ? It may be far from right to make you the victim of such foul treat- ment, but don't be in a hurry to settle accounts with your persecutor, wait until the cool of the evening when the agitation will be off and the result will be better. If your assailant pounces upon you with a nature which contact with the enemy has transmuted into flint, d- I't let your temper harden you into steel and there will be no fire. Let the 13th chapter of first Corinthians pour into your heart a flood of well-distilled charity, and let this chapter not only be your wardrobe 16 to furnish you with mantles of charity for others, but your arsenal to provide you with siicli weapons of de- fence as will enable }'ou when assailed to overcome evil with good. But you clrtim the ri<,dit to maintain your dignity. You may do so and still bring your soldiery into this line. Suppose the Prince of Wales were standing on the declivity of a mountain, and a huge stone is seen rolling from its summit, its apparent aim is to strike the Prince's path. What is the Prince to do ? Why, get out of the way. But nuist a Prin-o give way to an Inanimate stone ? Yes, until it roils past. And who will say that the Prince lias debased himself by doing so ? One day a contemporary of John Wesley is said to have met him on the side-walk and was anxious to let him know why he had not the politeness to turn aside, so he said, " I never turn out for a fool." Wesley im- mediately stepped aside, saying at the same time, " I always do." Who will say that the M. thodist divine demeaned himself by the act ? Do you still insist on having your rights ? Then we must ask who are you, who cannot in anywise be im- posed upon? . heaven-acknowledged expediency to suffer wrong furr, i,, elf into some circumstances of life, and it will U i v oiuier if it does not demand recog- nition from you and r.io. Did not our blessed Saviour suffer a large amount of wrong? Was it right that men linked to fiis hallowed name a thousand epithets of reproach, and that they called Him an ally of hell and spat on His face and condemned Him as a malefactor ' others, but ipons of (le- ercome evil nir tlignity. ry into this standing on tone is seen is to strike do ? Why, y'lve way to past. And himself by sy is said to xious to let turn aside, ^.Vesley im- ne time, "I dist divine ? Then we ^vise be im- jediency to nstances of land recog- ed Saviour t that men epithets of of hell and malefactor m. 17 and blasphemer' This was all •^Ton^^ an.l He could have protected Himself a-ainst it. Ho could have slam all His persecutors by the breath of ids mouth Then V .V did he not ? Because He saw that more good would be the result by submitti»ig to these cruel wrongs than would be the conse(|uence of resisting them ; so " He was led as a Iamb to th(> slaut^ditnr. and as a sheep before her shearer's is dumb, so H»^ opened not His mouth." And is it not enough that the servant be as his Lord. The example of Christ speaks to us, and the Word of God says to jangling, irascible crowds, why do ye not suffer wrong ? Why do ye not suffer yourselves to be defrauded ? ^ Christ has left us an example of suffering-wrong which is more than passive (such as just mentioned) When Christ was asked for tribute money for the maintenance of temple service, uch money could not on any fair grounds be exacted from Him, as shown by his own question to Simon Peter, " What thinkest hou Sii 'M, i Of whom do the kings of the earth receive tribute, of their own children or strangers ? Peter saith unto Him, of strangers. Jesus saith unto him then are the children free." The argument is, that as the kings of the earth did not take custom from their own household, but from strangers, the collectors of such revenue had no proper claim upon Him and the apostles whom He had chosen for the tribute of the temple, the house of His Father' and had a compliance with their demand been produc- tive of more than personal inconvenience, as would ,..!,. ^a^c iL the uuatriDuuon had been for 18 the support of a pag^ temple, He would have resisted the impost with the heroism of a thousand Daniels, if as much chivalry w^ere necessary ; but knowing that the payment of the money would have no corrupting influence upon society, and that it was not convertable into injurious precedent to work mischief in the future, and that a refusal to recognize the tax would produce a jangle with the oflftcers of state which it would be worth something to avoid, He said to Peter who had answered His question, " then are the children free ?" "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first Cometh up, and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt find a piece of money, that take and give unto them for Me and thee." No matter whether great or small resources are at command there is a repugnance in every intelligent being to an unfair demand, and any Christian believer, following the example of Christ on this line, will soon find that he needs no small measure of his exemplar's supporting grace to enable him to say, I will take this wrong lest I should ofiend. You are not required to suffer wrong either passively or with your consent, indiscriminately. You are re- quired to do it only when more evil will be occasioned by not doing it. Only when if you fail to do it the chariot wheels of the Gospel will be retarded, and when it will be likely to occasion a diminution of glory to the triumphantly waving banner of our conquering Im- manuel, and should we not be willing to make such sacrifices for Him " Who bore our iniquities and carried our sorrows." ■m ive resisted Daniels, if owing that corrupting 3onvertable the future, lid produce t would be ?r who had Iren free ?" I them, go up the fish opened his .t take and Br whether there is a an unfair owing the nd that he supporting wrong lest ? passively ou are re- asioned by ihe chariot len it will [■y to the lering Im- nake such nd carried 19 Say you that you would willingly take wrong for the Master's sake, if while you endure it you could claim respect ; but when you are called passive fools instead, you shrink, but if you have a spark of the Master's spirit left, you will welcome such reproach, and rejoice in tho experience of such a conquest over your rebellious self as enables you to do it, and in the experience of such a rising into the Christ-like as is implied in such a victory. If reproach comes to you for the noblest obedience that heaven can receive and earth can offer, let it come, and happy are you. Thank- ful should we be that it is allowable on certain condi- tions to suffer wrong in the interests of peace, because there are times when the peace of communities and of churches cannot be maintained without. Being members one of another, and dependent one upon another, men are necessarily brought into some kind of business contact with each other. Some itenr of business has to be transacted with another sur- rounded with inversely modifying circumstances. Your claim is so, and so looked at from your own standpoint ; your neighbor's claim conflicts with yours as seen from his point of view. You say that your logic is as correct as his, and he demands that his reasoning process is equal to yours. You say that you are smcere in fixing your premises and deducino- your conclusions ; he insists that he is equally sincere and logicjJ in arriving at his conclusions. ^ What is to be done ? Shall you in your manliness insist that your claim is the true one and make it a demand ? Let the consequence be what it may, are 20 you determined not only to do right but demand right /3^^4— at any sacrifice? ^8y-why should not your contem- porary who has to deal with the same thing, and who, although having the same Bible to guide him, has dif- ferent eyes to see the application of its teaching to the matter in hand, be as firm in his demands ? There you are both acting conscientiously and press- ing your conscientious claims, but you cannot have peace on that footing. One or the other must consent to take less than he considers to be his due. You should bear in mind that you differ from him as much as he differs from you and ought to endeavor to find out by putting yourself in his place and cherishing his sympathies and asking his questions, if it is not possi- d^t^f^u ir ble that the enforcement of !««• claim may seem as unfair and grievous to him as his exaction is to you ; and that if the Omniscient One were to examine each heart might there not be danger that He would report each the imitator of each others sin, i.e., each proving his love for the other's sin by being guilty of the same thing, and each hating each as the perpetrator of the act. But if instead each were to hate the sin and love the sinner, how much more Christ- like the act, and how much more heavenly the result. No one should be willing to suffer wrong without a sufficient motive ; but a church's peace is of weighty importance, and men are ready to recognize the doc- trine that we are endeavoring to enforce in its appli- cation to purely business transactions. Many a saga- cious business man will curb his temper and meekly submit to be defrauded of cents if he has a prospect 21 nand right ir contem- <;, and who, m, has dif- eaching to ds? and press- nnot have ist consent due. You in as much 7or to find rishing his \ not possi- y seem as is to you ; imine each )uld report ch proving f the same itor of the n and love le act, and without a f weighty e the doc- L its appli- ny a saga- id meekly a prospect of repairing the loss with the gain of dollars. Many a patriotic statesman will pocket abuse from an un- thankful constituency which ho has no right to receive and go on legislating for their good and l.is own • the abuse won't drive him from the track because' the compensating good to be accomplished and enjoyed nerves him to endure it. And shall God's glory be a less influential motive to do and suffer than the money consid. ration of the business man is to him, and the patriotic and personal considerations of the politician are to him? When we know that our resistance or ob- .stinacy or wrath worketh not the righteousness of (^od, let it be restrained for the Master's sake. Perhaps you are the subject of undeserved reproach which is grievous to conscious innocence, but Christ- hke patience will give relief. When the carnal has the supremacy this may appear like curing a festering sore by pin scratches, but as soon as the spiritual be- comes supreme you will see clearly the adaptation of the remedy The cup put to your lips by the hand of calumny is bitter enough, but the undesolved sweet- ness of God's blessing is found at the bottom and patience converts the venom of the verulent into means of grace refreshing to the soul. " Take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and patience, iiehold we count them happy which endure " While you adore the doctrine of God your Saviour and suffer for His sake. He will not leave you without a comforting sense of His approval. "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God en- < '^• 'A- 22 dure grief and suffering wrongfully. For what glory IS It if when ye be buffetted for your faults ye shall take It patiently ? But when ye do well and suffer for It ye take it patiently, this is acceptable to God " It IS no part of your duty to stir up the rage of the god- less, but if they will make their words like sharp swords to destroy you, and will pierce you with their hellish darts, you can pray with " Christ-like patience arm my breast," and experience the support you need and have your conduct pronounced by heaven thank- worthy and acceptable, and the well-done of heaven will comfort and cheer you more than all the curses of- wrong-doers can harm you. The archers may shoot at you, but when they have done their worst you can say my Kedeemer and Lord hath turned your hard battering into burnishing for my wounded spirit, and lamagainor for the grieving ; brighter, for the be- spat ering, richer, better, freer, happier for the spoil- mg, ror who hath cursed whom God hath not cursed " If we famt in the day of adversity and can endure nx)thing for the Master's sake "our strength is small." We may have much knowledge but what of that if we have no patience ; we may say much and do much but where is the profiting if we can suffer nothing. We mus learn to bear contradiction and suffering in the spirit of Christ. If we fail here where can we di- rect people to look for the proof of our conformity to the mind of Christ and for evidence that our religion is a reality. ° What is it tlmt makes a ma„ an attractive member oi the Church of (Jhrist ? It is not being what the 23 world calls a grand man, or a great man, or a brilliant man. A man might be all these and not be a Chris- tian, or his Christianity, if Christian at all, might be crippled and dwarfish ; but let him add to any of these elements of character that of a meek follower of Christ, then he begins to shine. "Jesus let all Thy lovers shine illustrious as the sun." When the usefulness and popularity of Charles Hadden Spurgeon first appeared, men bespattered him with mud, calling him an upstart through the papers. If he had come down from his great work and spent his time in putting himself right before the world and had found delight in resentfully putting the black cap upon the heads of his culumniators, we doubt whether he would have been the Spurgeon of the present day. Or if Stephen, while answering the fallacious argu- ments of his pagan castigators had cherished such a temper as would have thrown back at his murderers the stones that made him a martyr, we doubt again if his face would have shone like an angel's. So that if men will daub over your good name and make you a reproach to your neighbor be thankful. " For it is better if the will of God be so that ye suffer for well doing than for evil doing. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God." Fidelity to the foregoing trio of scriptural obliga- tions will be a guarantee against what is unkind in demeanor and uncharitable in judgment, and whisper- 24 ing and backbiting, anri will temper what is uncom- promising in disposition and harsli in reriuirement and bring into harmonious action the working elements of the Church of God, and at the same time be help- ful to personal piety by brightening your graces and strengthening the love which embodies them all In- stead of sinking it into nothing or quenching its twi- light, It will lift it to an altitude of power almost beyond the influence of earthly storms and hellish darts, and place you in the sunny prominence of per- tection s height. Patience naving had her " perfect work," leaving you perfect and entire, wantincr nothmg. ° m 'VW»W I JII1L-1!_. avers Youiig Man SlioiiW ted This Book, ELEMENTS NECESSARY TO THE FORMATION OP BUSINP^ CllARACn^R. By JOHN MAGDONALD, Esq.. Toronto. PAREH8 SHOULD msmj^TO THEIR SONS- IGxrxo. 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