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 SOOTa?ISII IE>A.TE,IOTIS3i^. 
 
 ANNUAL SEHMON 
 
 BEFORE THE 
 
 St. Andrews Society. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. J. C. BAXTER, 
 In Stanley Street Church, Montreal, 
 
 November 30, 1876. 
 
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THE SERMON. 
 
 " Mindful of that country from whence they came out." 
 
 — Hebrews^ xi, IS- 
 
 On this dr >, noted somehow in the calendar, " that country" 
 u our fachen, ' -nd met for worship in our Father's house, 
 t.. e i as* .. .- y P' r""'* Scots should be "mindful from 
 
 whence ' r> i ->- " ^ii i<J^ul of that country, we do not for- 
 get t^ il^ . 01 'inerf. • Jod u.at made the world hath made 
 of oi Vxcoyi M » '-)na of men to dwell on all the face of f:he 
 earth." Scripture, that gu.Jes our course, has enjoined a 
 philanthropy which folds Ln 5}TOpathetic arras the widest wants of 
 every peopled province. And taught by Gospel truths, we would 
 be led by Gospel laws to help the time when over the globe the 
 millions who bear thf human name shall show and share the sight 
 of brethren banded together in unity. 
 
 Bu- while, in broad Chiistian view, nothing that is human can 
 be foreign to us— none the less may hallowed hearts throb 
 with special love for those who, like ourselves, are heirs of 
 the history or destiny which natal neighbourship implies. Such 
 sanctified attachment to kinsfolk has ever formed a firm cord 
 in noble breasts. Prophets and Apostles inspired for spread- 
 ing pure religion to the Utmost range have set examples of ardour 
 for ancestral privileges. Nay ; Jesus himself, who tabernacled in 
 flesh for the welfare of the world, was touched with the feeling of 
 
peculiar affection toward Israelites indeed. •' Compassed about 
 with so great a cloud of witnesses," justly may the memory of their 
 deeds draw us to tread in their steps ; and when thoughts go up 
 to the heroes whose renown constitutes the richest dower oi the 
 country whence we came out, our cherished mindfulness should 
 stir for worthiest ends, the question — What manner of persons 
 ought the sons of Scottish sires to be ? 
 
 As Zion, coming into mind of the scattered tribes, drew 
 them " to take pleasure in her stones and to favour the dust 
 thereof," so we, who are away from scenes familiar in younger 
 years, confess to a sentiment of fondness for the homes which 
 distance only strengthens. Lofty hill or shaggy heath — tiny 
 brook or grassy brae — mossy lea or wavy loch — these are vi- 
 vidly recalled ; and though in vastness unequal to the moun- 
 tains or forests, the rivers or prairies, the vales, or lakes of 
 immediate surroundings, we seldom fail to measure the impres- 
 siveness of the latter, ^s they seem to mirror the attractive- 
 ness of the former. Grand panorama of nature greets him who 
 stands for survey on the Royal height which crowns our city ; but 
 its value appears enhanced when the whole suggests similitudes 
 that speak to us of far-off Caledonia ! Behind, the Laurentian 
 range may image to our eyes the Northern Grampian chain. In 
 front, the Adirondacks, running through another realm may tell 
 us of the Cheviots that link our soil with the south of Britain. 
 West or East of us, as fancy sweeps from ocean to ocean, with 
 rapids, islets, falls and straits, we picture varied points from Pent- 
 land Firth to Solway Sands. And thus reading the local map we 
 find the perusal a real pleasure, because its lessons freshen remem- 
 brance of regions still dear as the spots about which past travel 
 circled or early associations clung. 
 
But precious as geographic visions arc, their chief power to 
 arrest attention lies in the events with which they have been 
 coupled. Here, on this new Continent, what boundless tracts 
 remain without a social record? There, in that old country, at 
 almost every turn, the figures of sturdy workers rivet our gaze ; and 
 if the tracings of landmarks lately exhibited in the adjoining Rink 
 are re iewed with due reflections, how suited might the series be 
 to teach us concerning successive stages of out kingdom's career 
 Let us who were among the spectators be mindful of those 
 art-instructive specimens. Staff^a, with its cathedral columned 
 cave, and its legends of a giant age ; Dumbarton Rock, with its 
 footprints of warrior Wallace, and its stories of his fearless fight 
 ior freedom ; Holyrood, with its relics of despotic sway and its 
 vestiges of feudal struggle ; Mossgiel, with its hints of hardship 
 for the boyhood of Burns, and its foreshadows oi his fame wherevev 
 lyric poetry is sung ; Abbotsford, with its treasured items of the 
 - Great Unknown," and its tales of influence which the author of. 
 Waverley still wields ; Glasgow, with its crowded haunts of com- 
 merce, and its fleets which navigate all seas in search of gain ; 
 Edinburgh, with its halls of science and Courts of Session which 
 merit for it the oft-accorded name of modern Athens ; Balmoral, 
 with its proofs that our Sovereign has her heart in the Highlands, 
 and its signs that loyalty to the throne glows nowhere warmer than 
 among the clans of Mar. Such were some of the photographs 
 with our musings from them in the school across the road ; and 
 when we think of what they told about courage in battle or 
 changes in sceptre-about success in business or progress in cul- 
 ture, the result is to render us proud of our country, though by no 
 means proud of our pride. 
 
 Yet the basis of our country's glory is deeper than the merely 
 
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 secular. A spirit of piety has been the prop of its stabih'ty ; nor 
 were mementoes of such an element omitted fro.ii the list of 
 recent representations. As we caught a glimpse of Fingal's abode, 
 lona loomed in the horizon, with its venerable ruiiis, which lead 
 back to Culdee periods, when, through the zeal of Columba and 
 his followers, the light of vital religion rose like a fertilizing sun to 
 nourish the fruits of holiness on fields that before were moral 
 wastes. Melrose, with its Abbey, reared by Popish devotees, 
 whispered of an age when the native Church had lost its simple 
 graces and fell under the corrupting grasp of ambitious Anti- 
 Christ. St. Giles, with the Canongate, spoke to us of the revolt: 
 against Rome, which centuries of godless tyranny forced on a 
 groaning populace, and pre-eminently of the one man 'vhom 
 Providence prepared for the triumph of Protestantism. Others 
 had striven and suffered already in tlie conflict ; their efforts and 
 sacrifices not utter failures, since the} pioneered the path for the 
 perfect victory to come. But defeat after defeat sustained, the 
 champions of the cross were verging on despair, and the torch of 
 truth which they had lit from the fires of the Lord's altar to fling 
 flashing sparks over the land was dashed in the dust, as if waiting 
 to be quenched. Then sudden news startled the capital, and lei 
 another pen portray the issues of the imexpscted tidings. "The 
 cry arose ever)'wh£re, 'John Knox is come.' All the town 
 rushed into the streets, the old and the young, the lordly and the 
 lowly, were seen mingling and marvelling together. All tasks of 
 duty were forsaken, priests abandoned their masses, mothers 
 hurried from their domestic toil to ask what strange thing had 
 occurred, travellers mounting their steeds hasted into rural quar- 
 ters with the report. At every cottage door the inmates stood in 
 clusters, silent and surprised, as horseman succeeded horseman, 
 

 shouting, ' John Knox is come.' Barques that were quitting port 
 bore up to signal ships at s:)a. Shepherds were summoned from 
 their stations, students ^qtc aroused from their book<s, sentinels 
 on watch-towers when challenging those who approached, were 
 answered ' John Knox is come/ " The sound of this name para- 
 lysed the plans of foes, and revived the hopes of friends. And 
 from that hour till now wherever the echoes of his potent voice 
 or the skirts of his wondrous mantle float over the districts to 
 which God's love gave him, we owe a debt of deathless gratitudo 
 to one of the truest of the true, one of the brav st of the brave, 
 whom brave, true men should delight to honour. 
 
 Reverting to that era with its confusions and conrilsions out of 
 which have sprung oui order and repose, v/eU r-^y we endorse the 
 tribute of Carlyle to our arch reformer. " His grtat message was, 
 * let men know that they are men, created by God, responsible to 
 God ; who work in any meanest moment of time what will last 
 through eternity." This message he did deliver with a man's 
 strength and found a people to believe him. Of such an achieve- 
 ment were it to be mnde once only, the outcomes are immense. 
 Thought, in such a country, may change its form, but cannot die. 
 The country has attained majority ; a certain spiritual manhood, 
 ready for all work that man can do, endures there. The national 
 character originated in many circumstances ; first of all, in the 
 Saxon stuff there was to work on, and, above all else except that, 
 in the Presbysterian Gospel of John Knox." 
 
 Besides, later epochs were brought to mine' by sketches of other 
 celebrated places. Killiecrankie, with its wild Pass carriea us 
 mentally to the martyrs " wha ance, upon auld Scotia's hills, were 
 hunted like the paitrick, v.'cre hacked with swords and shot wit 
 guns, frae Tummel's banks to Ettrick." Stirling, with its vcrdan 
 
carse, bore us away to the seceders who, resisting lay patronage 
 in ecclesiastical spheres, took a position which, in the lapse of moxe 
 than a hundred and forty ^ ears, the Kirk they left has practically 
 vindicated. But why adduce additional instances ? Those select- 
 ed may suffice to illustrate the statement that, for the valour and 
 vigour which stamp our kindred, an underlying all-pervading tone 
 of religiousness must be recognized ; and nothing short of this 
 heritage is the secret of their descendants' determination, at any 
 cost to preserve and perpetuate the legacy of liberty. Accusations, 
 indeed, of abject obedience by the nation to clerical control have 
 been cast upon the Scotch. Mr. Buckle, in his volumes on Civil- 
 sation, has even dared to allege that for blind homage to the beck 
 of ministers, the masses in Scotland are stupid ao priest-ridden 
 classes in Spain. The charge is a libel ; the logic of facts refutes 
 it. If the pulpit ever had the power to mould the populace, it has 
 not reached the post by delusive devices or for selfish purposes. Its 
 occupants have been defenders of the people rights, repairers of 
 the people's wrongs ; foremost in peril ; firmest in trials ; the 
 faithful pastors of the trustful flocks, and so magnifying their office 
 as heralds of Him who is the giver and guardian of every good, 
 they have done for the community much of what only Ambassa- 
 dors of Christ could accomplish j much also for v/hich the best 
 trained, the most candid of the commonwealth there or her^, of 
 anywhere offer thankful acknowledgment. But whether directed 
 by church leaders or dependent on different councillors, the 
 evidence remains incontrovertible, that whatever of industry or in- 
 tegrity, whatever of dignity or solidity has been connected with 
 individuals or institutions of our native land is dcducible from 
 intelligent, conscientious reverence for the Divine will revealed 
 in the Bible. " I speak as to wise men ; judge yc what I say." 
 
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 Now it is no trivial advantage to call " Scots worthies" our 
 forbears ; it is something for us in the present to be hereditarily 
 identified with them in the past ; and if though dead they yet 
 speak, let us be mindful of that country from whence we came 
 out by fostering fittest admiration for the men of old. To live 
 with such men in their biographies is to mix with the choicest 
 of company. To sneer at antiquity is the b idge of a flip- 
 pant society, the mockers rob themselves of the surest shield 
 against future decay. But sober respect for what has been, 
 nerves for serious effort after what should be, and situated where 
 or as we are, let us manifest our esteem for bequeathed benefits 
 by resembling " the children of Issachar that had understanding 
 of the times to know what Israel ought to do." Ought to do — 
 what ? Shun Imitation of any faults which the predecessors in 
 in our country committed. Stains there are on its annals ; nor 
 would we shut our eyes to foul blots that deface the register. Let 
 them be called to mind, however, not for the sake of ridicule but 
 in a frame of regret. He is no i^atriot who, to make an oratorical 
 hit, or raise an uproarious laugh with his audience spurts out 
 coarse jests nt the expense of even the follies that strew the land 
 of his birth. " Show me the man," says an American Writer, 
 " who looks down on the land of his birth, and I will show you a 
 man who should be looked after in the land of his adoption." 
 But we are not enemies when avowing the truth, we lament 
 palpable blemishes, and while dealing blows against evils with 
 a hand of steel we have our hand clad as in a glove of velvet. 
 Especially when remote from habitation where such errors or vices 
 seem rooted, let us beware of transplanting hither the poisonous 
 thorns, and if we cannot clear the ground there of hurtful customs 
 we should at least try hen to hinder their inroad as we would escape 
 
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their injury. Ought to do— what ? Seek imitation of every ex- 
 cellence for which the predecessors in our country were distinguish 
 ed. " Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, 
 whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever 
 things are lovely, whatsoever thinors are of good report ; if there 
 be any virtue and if there beany praise, think on these things." 
 The worse aspects of our ancestors glare as beacons to warn us 
 from the shoals on which many were wrecked : the better features 
 shine like heaven-set orbs by whose tested gleam our own voyage 
 to the eternal shore may be safely steered : and admonished in 
 the one light to renounce the sin which is a reproach to any 
 people, we are encouraged in the other to uphold the righteousness 
 which exalteth a nation. ' This is the way, walk ye in it,' sounds 
 the voice of our parent territory to us who have come out to an 
 adopted colony. Be good and do good, still ring the strains from 
 that same source. Never blush for your ancestry, nor favour 
 aught because of which that ancestry must blush for you. Grow in 
 energy, in rectitude, in personal godliness— as ye ha\e us for ex- 
 ample. Expand your desires beyond private improvement. Let 
 showers of blessing that drop on your souls glide in loving streams 
 to the welfare of a widening circumference. Act unitedly like the 
 cloud 'which if it move at all moves altogether.' And borne along 
 with such a current of steadfast, useful, sacred, humble resolve 
 you will further the future of this embryo empire as the bent of 
 your labour is shaped by the zeal of your prayer. *« Let Thy 
 work appear unto Thy servants and Thy glory unto their children. 
 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and 
 establish Thou the work of our hands upon us : yea, the work of 
 our hands, establish Thou it." 
 
 Perhaps in the matter of public spiritedness, some men are 
 prone to do nothing, on the plea that they cannot do much. The 
 
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 pretext is a mistake— a fallacy forged by Satan to lull the soul 
 asleep, and frustrate if possible, the scheme of Divine operation 
 in advancing the prospects of a country. " God does most of His 
 great works by the few, not by the many— by the feeble, not by 
 the strong— by the bruised reed, not by the glittering spear. If 
 we but use. the gifts conferred on us in their natural and healthy 
 way, He will equip us for any enterprise, be it the most difficult 
 or dangerous in which brain or muscle may engage." Here, then 
 there is work for all— special work for each, from the ripest 
 settler in the Dominion to the latest immigrant who enters our 
 docks ; work not for the Scotticising of Canada, but for importi, ig 
 into it a graft of the pith, the push, the patience, the piety that 
 have been the germ and sap of Scotland's prosperity. Going forth 
 in this our might ; active, hopeful, earnest, we shall leave foot- 
 prints on our chosen lot which set aside the fear of ^inpotence to 
 serve our generation, and the risk of being rated, ages hence, 
 among cumberers of the ground. Emphatically, should the youth- 
 ful among us be mindful of this appeal. They come with buoyancy, 
 appropriate to their years ; let them toil with a perseverance which 
 meanwhile is their soul of action ; and eager for recompense, in 
 pecuniary store, or political state, as they may be, let them covet 
 the higher satisfaction which flows from the inward consciousness 
 of having contributed to the genuine happiness of their fellows ; 
 beyond all, from the assurance of being workers for Him whose 
 judgment is infaUible, and whose promise is irreversible — "Them 
 that honour Me I will honour," saith the Father of the families of 
 the whole earth. 
 
 We pass — the path that each man trod 
 Is dim, or will be dim with weeds, 
 
 What fame is left for human deed . 
 In endless age ? it rests with God. 
 
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 Will you permit me a sentence or two regarding the obligation 
 to assist by liberal beneficence the necessitous among our kinsfolk 
 in Montreal. For relief of the Scottish poor, St. Andrew's Society 
 was organized ; of what avail in softening the sorrows of the 
 destitute its agencies have been, hundreds are ready to declare. 
 The return of winter, with probable severity and scarcity of 
 cmplo>ment, commands the Committee to double their labours of 
 love, and bespeak on their behalf the support of all who can aid 
 their brethren. " I show mercy to the man, not as he is wicked, 
 but because he is a man of my own nature," was the generous 
 reply of a heathen philc sopher to friends who wondered at his 
 compassion for a profligate alms-seeker. Why, then, should we 
 refuse even a prodigal's suit, if practical Christianity would adorn 
 our profession ? But when poverty and honesty are combined, as 
 in most cases that receive succour at our Home's hands, certainly 
 a response to the present request for funds should be neither paltry 
 nor tardy. I have read of an Egyptian emblem, which through 
 hieroglyphic medium, pictured what the dwellers near the Nile 
 deemed the ideal of Charity-a modest child, with a heart in his 
 hand, giving honey to a bee without wings. This is the interpre- 
 tation thereof The child represents the lowliness of benevolence ; 
 the heart in the hand, the cheerfulness of benevolence ; the giving 
 honey to a bee without wings, the worthiness and helplessness of 
 the object of benevolence. Brother Scots : Apply the lesson ; be 
 unostentatious, not pretentious ; encouraging, not rcpellant ; 
 appreciative, not indiscriminate in deeds of charity ; and next to 
 the joy of being approved unto God for the exercise of this grace 
 Nv ill be the comfort that even in the absence of other applause 
 from the world, each well-doer for the distressed may feel " The 
 liLESsiNt; OF Him who was ready to perish came upon me." 
 
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