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Church of Scotland. 
 
 ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH 
 
 MONTREAL 
 
 tnemortal 5err>tce 
 
 January ioth, 1897 
 
 (Being the Sunday after the Funeral of Sir Joseph Hickson) 
 
 THE REV. J. EDGAR HILL, M.A.. B.D. (edin ) 
 
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 Montreal 
 
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SERMON. 
 
 " CHRISTIAN MANLINESS." 
 
 " Watch ye, gland fast in the faith, quit 
 you like men, be strong." 
 
 1 Cor. xvi. 13. 
 
 This is ii tnnnpet-call to the cultivation of a rohust 
 Christian personality. The one thing which iSt. Paul de- 
 sires for those Corinthian Christians is, that i-very man of 
 them should bo liimself — should stand on his own feet — 
 see with his own eyes — l)elievo with his own spirit — be 
 strong in a maidiness which is his very own. From all we 
 know of the apostle's character, that is just the counsel 
 Avhich we should have expected from him. It is not a 
 little significant, however, that he, of all the apostles, 
 should liave been exceptionally strong alike in what may 
 be called the womanly, as in tlie manly side of the Christian 
 character. No one ever wrote so tenderlv as he, of the 
 place and power of love, among the Christian graces. No 
 (me ever so glorified lieroic resolve, manly courage, chival- 
 rous devotion, both b}' precept and example. Significant, 
 no doubt ; but not strange. The Christ taught no one- 
 sided faith. His gospel would cultivate and develop, each 
 in their own degree, both the feminine and the mascuh'ne 
 types of character, — the emotional and the intellectual, — 
 the spiritual and the muscular. Christianity couhl only 
 thus offer full scope for the play of every individuality, and 
 lay no arrest on the idiosyncracy of any iiuman being. 
 That great fact must l)e kept constantly in view, by him 
 who would be a true interpreter of Our Holy Religion, 
 
First, and last, and altogether, the Christian man and 
 woman must adorn manhood and womanhood, as well 
 as Christhood, hy hecoming, each ever more and more, a 
 true, live personality. He or she must live and labour, in 
 the life here, and for the life hereafter, receiving the light 
 of the Christ as it comes directly from His divine person- 
 ality, and reflecting it upon society from the iiimost shrine 
 of a true personality — learning the lessons of the Cross as 
 these come straight from Calvary, and handing them on to 
 others by the set of the individual life, the force of the 
 individual character, and the tone of the individual spirit. 
 In fact, it goes without saying, that neither man nor 
 woman is to be true in anv relation of life, or strong 
 to help another, save by being their very selves. St. 
 John and St. Paul, for example, were both the great 
 apostles of the Master, which they became, simply because 
 of a spirit true to the light as they had it, expressed 
 through the medium of a vigorous individuality. Neither 
 spoke precisely alike, nor presented the same features of 
 their Lord's spirit with like prominence, or predondnance. 
 John could feel tenderly, best of the twelve ; he could also 
 feel bitterly, worst of them all. In the fullness of child- 
 like devotion he could pillow his head on the Master's 
 bosom, in the sweet serenity of perfect devotion ; under a 
 mistaken sense of the same devotion, he could decry a good 
 worker in the name of Jesus, and implore tire to descend 
 upon a Samaritan village. He is often called the apostle 
 of love; and yet he never grasped the length, and breadth, 
 and depth, and height of that sacred emotion like St. Paul, 
 Avho, with the hand of a divine artist, crowned for ever 
 charity, of all the graces, queen. 
 
 That combination of the graces and the virtues in St. 
 Paul elevates liim, in my opinion, to the first place among 
 apostolic toilers and teachers. Womanly in tenderness, 
 and manly in judgment, he stands out in apostolic history, 
 
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by tliese features of cyiiiraoter, and all the rest which these 
 imply, the safest giiifle, counsellor, and friend of primitive 
 Christianity. 
 
 After all, in the best natures, the manly and the womanly 
 seem to be both a natural and a necessary combination. 
 Head and heart are mutual allies and helpers in all well- 
 balanced characters. The head cannot say to the heart : 
 "I have no need of thee ;" nor the heart resi»ond, " I can 
 do without you." When St. Paul urges the Corinthians, 
 " Quit ye like men," he does not mean, that they are to be 
 all Bismarckian blood and iron. When he sings like a 
 seraph of love, to tlic same Corinthians, he does not mean 
 them to become all sickly sentimentalists. What he de- 
 sires to teach is, that the head shall find inspiration in the 
 lire of love to do the very best head-work ; and that the 
 jieart shall find counsel and guidance in the wisdom of the 
 head to do the very best heart-work. These, in mutual action 
 and reaction, made St. Paul the " Christian Great Man " of 
 his century, without a rival and without a peer. These are 
 the essentials to the first order of greatness in men and 
 Christians in any century. These, in happy alliance, will 
 ever make the man of light and leading, the trusted man 
 of aftairs, the noble Christian patriot, the robust Christian 
 prophet. One would hardly look to Von Moltke, the 
 famous German warrior, for an example of the softer 
 elements of human character. He was trained in an un- 
 likely school. Nevertheless, in his letters to his wife, no 
 one could betray a deeper tenderness, or reveal, at what 
 tremendous cost to his true manhood, he had learned the 
 
 stern repression of the emotional, in the hard discipline of 
 the school of war. 
 
 The model Christian is St. Paul's theme in this verse, 
 and he emphasizes in triple form the features of character, 
 which I have treated in dual form. His features are : 
 
 1. Wakefulness — Watch ye. 
 
 2. Faithfulness — Stand fast. 
 
 3. Manfulness — Quit ye like men. 
 
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1. The model man in wakeful and observant. He is 
 always alert, and appreciative of the forces playing around 
 him, and within him ; as also of the events transpiring 
 under his eye. He sees for himself; he cannot be satisfied 
 to use another's eyes. lie has to think, judge, and act for 
 himself, and he must see for himself. He cannot watch, 
 any more than he can think, by <leputy. He lives very 
 much in tlie present ; he lives for the future, through the 
 present, and guages carefully the inHuences which are to 
 make history. He sees events; he sees men; he vvatches 
 himself. He calculates how far tlio events are nuiking 
 the men, or the men the events. He judges how far he is 
 the master of his fortune, or his fortune of him. His wake- 
 fulness is a prime element of his strength. As he sees, so 
 is his power. Without a vision both nations and indi- 
 viduals perish ; and in proportion to the quality of their 
 vision only, do they flourish. 
 
 2. The faithful man is confident, because self-reliant. He 
 stands fast in the faith, because he has made it his own. It 
 is as a rock beneath his feet, and he knows the strata of 
 it through and through. We sometimes hear the term, 
 " faithful," employed to designate those who are the most 
 thoughtlessly obedient, and the most abjectly submissive to 
 authority. St. Paul's model Christian is not of that type. 
 He is to stand fast ; and to know whereon he stands. The 
 Christ is to be the strength of his life ; and his fidelity 
 must be the fidelity of the Christ. Another's fidelity may 
 be an interesting study ; but another's fidelity can never be 
 his. Just as he cannot see with another's eyes, so he can- 
 not believe by imitation. David could not fight in king 
 Saul's armour ; nor could Saul face the giant with David's 
 sling. " Every man in his own way," is the rule of faith, as 
 of a good many virtues besides. Our Lord made the measure 
 of faith to be, " according as a man can receive the truth." 
 N^o man should receive praise, because he sees eye to 
 
eye, in religious opinion, with his neighbour ; noithiTsliould 
 any one he bhimeil, heouuse heeannot agree in opinion witli 
 another. The only thing pniiHeworthy in any one is tiiith- 
 lulnesH ; and the only thing hhnneworthy is unt'aiththlne.s.s 
 to the light as it eonies t(t the individual soul. St. Paul would 
 have the Corinthians to In* watchful, and thoughtful as 
 thoy could ; and on that basis to be steadfast in their loyalty 
 to Christ. Sleepy or thoughtless steadfastness he would 
 not have. He did not eonsi(k>r that to be steadfastness. It 
 might seem, to the superficial observer, to Ije steadfastness, 
 just as pigheadeduess, or prejudice, or pride has to do duty 
 for l(»yalty sometimes ; but it could not be live fidelity to 
 the " Crucified One/' 
 
 •I The third mark of the model christian is juanliness. 
 " Quit you like men," is the climax of the verse. If St. 
 Paul had lived in the Middle Ages, he would have been 
 greatly disappointed at what he saw, and if he lived in 
 Montreal to-day, he would see a good deal to astonish him, 
 among Christians of all sects. He would have seen, four 
 centuries ago, and, he would see still, distinctions drawn 
 between nature and grace, between the secular and the 
 spiritual, between the Church and the world which he 
 never <lreamt of drawing ; but which on the contrary he 
 condemned, by anticipation, over and over again. He never 
 taught, that man or woman should cease to be true man or 
 woman in order to be a good Christian. He never th.ought 
 that one must cease to be natural, in order to become godly ; 
 or that a lino could be drawn through life, on one side of 
 which one can be selfish, and on the other saintly ; or that 
 the spirit of religion and common life must be necessarily 
 antagonistic. His Christly man is his manly man ; his 
 Christlike life is the manly life ; his true Church is at home 
 in the world ; his true world is to be inspired by the si»irit 
 of a manly Church. lie desired no man to lose his per- 
 sonality by joining the Christian ranks. He knew that 
 
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 the CliriHtianity ho ropreneiitod must be a ilelusion and a 
 unare. He could conceive of no saintlineHs worthy the 
 name, so delicate that it could only survive in devout 
 loneliness, or in social isolation. He wouUl have no 
 Church fit oidy to threaten the world with wrath and doom, 
 and no v/orld that should cojne hev'-ve the Church as the 
 crimiiuil before the judge. Kvery Christian must he a man 
 as God made him — with his own abilities, moral qualities, 
 disposition. These sancititied, elevated, and intensified by 
 the spirit of Christ, should make every watchful, faithful 
 Christian a man in the best sense of the word. Such an 
 one to fulfil, like a machine the purpose of its inventor, 
 should b. free and energetic in tlie power of a consecrated 
 manhood — doing his part in life as best he may, and <loing 
 it in his own way, watchful, trustful, manful. 
 
 It is somewhat of a coincidence, that in planning my 
 Sunday morning sermons for January, some weeks ago, I 
 should have chosen this text for meditation to-day. Little 
 did I think then, that, as a congregation, we should be 
 mourning to-day for one who embodied St. Paul's ideal in 
 no ordinary degree. Sir Joseph Ilickson was a man 
 remarkable for his penetration, self-reliance, manliness. 
 No one could come into his society without being conscious 
 of the spell of a great, and powerfid personality. What- 
 soever he had to do, or to consider, ho threw his whole soul 
 and strength into it. Work and duty were a passion 
 with him. Endowed by his Creator with rich natural 
 abilities, he cultivated his gifts so as to render a full tale 
 of loyal service. Therein lay the secret of his wide in- 
 fluence among men, and of his success in life. Of nothing 
 was he so intolerant as of work poorly done, or half-done, 
 or heartlessly done. Of nothing was he so commendatory 
 as of duty honestly undertaken, and energetically per- 
 formed. A true man himself, he would have every one 
 over whom he had control, to be true, by discharging every 
 
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 <luty ill a d'CMlitnblo and manly spirit. I romem1»or well 
 receiving a letter from him in the beginning of 1890, the 
 (lay after I had preached on the topic " The Net and the 
 Bird," requesting the miinuscript for publication. I had 
 been si»eaking of the dignity and ha[»pine8H of work, and 
 he wrote to say, that the teaching was no seasonable, and 
 salutary, that he wished to circulate the sermon among 
 the congregation and his friends. T quote that circum- 
 stance, because it was so characteristic of the spirit of the 
 man. His creed had no bettor defined article than this : — 
 " Whatsoever thy hand tindeth to do, do it with all thy 
 might." 
 
 A strong influence on behalf of honest work he was no 
 less strn g a force for honour and integrity. Time and 
 again, i have seou the indigiumt flash of his eye give 
 emphatic expicssion to the intense horror of his soul, at 
 all trickery, and corruption, and wrong. Often did he 
 deplore to mo the low moral tone of our }»arty politics, 
 because of the evil influence it was sure to exert upon the 
 growing youth of the country. Ho foresaw cicurly the 
 baneful results on the national life which must inevitably 
 ensue should politics simply become another Avord for 
 plunder, and patriotism sink into decrepitude, robbed of its 
 life and soul by men who served their country simply for 
 pay. No man ever more detested anything like cant in 
 religion. He believed that a man's personality should be 
 the exponent of his religious feelings and beliefs ; and that 
 if the life was unsatisfactory religiously, the lii> could 
 never compensate for the lack, do what it might. His was 
 a simple faith about which he never spoke. To me, it was 
 all the more real on that very account. For many years 
 he lived a crowded life, and I believe that the Gospel of 
 the Grace of God was his standing help and solace. 
 
 A strong man of affairs, stern for duty, inflexible in 
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 heart of flesh, of exquisite sensitiveness, for the misfortunes 
 and sorrows of others. He had no gi*eater j>k\asure, of a 
 Sunday afternoon, than to visit some old servant in suffer- 
 ing or distress, and hy kindly word, and open hand, win 
 the hearty blessing of the deserving poor. I know how 
 much he sympathised with some of you in the day of trial 
 and sorrow ; and how ready he was to go out of his way 
 in order to express his good feeling. He had an intense 
 sense of justice and fairness as between man and man. He 
 onee said to me, on the way home from church, not long 
 after Jay Gould's death, and when there was something 
 like an universal scream of execration from pulpit and 
 press, of the dead magnate whom so many feared in 
 life, though they denounced him in death, " I wonder if the 
 time will ever come when society will treat fairly and justly 
 the life-work of a i>ul)lic man. It seems to me, that justice 
 is about the last thing one meets with in the popular 
 verdicts now-a-days. T knew Jay Gould, and most of 
 those who write and speak so bittei'ly, in all i)robability, 
 never saw him. How difhcult it is to judge fairly of a 
 man you have never known." He was right. Fulsome 
 praise or fierce invective, both based very much on party 
 feeling, or partial knowledge, seem to be the only alter- 
 natives with some so-called organs of public opinion, as well 
 as with some speakers on platforms, and even in pulpits. 
 Sir Joseph Hickson was a man eminently fair in judgment, 
 and uniformly wise in counsel. 
 
 What our departed friend was to this congregation as 
 worshipper, elder, trustee for more than thirty years you 
 all know very well. You had no more reverential fellow- 
 worshipper; and I had no more attentive and candid 
 hearer. His policy as chairman of the trustees was based 
 on the conviction that congregational l)oards of manage- 
 ment, should nniintain a high standard of honesty and 
 honour, if the individual members of the church were to 
 
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 he examples of Christian virtue. He did not heliove it pos- 
 sihle for a congregation to he indifferent to its lawful re- 
 sponsihilities, and at the same time the niemhers grow in 
 the graces of the Christian spirit. May his sound, husiness- 
 like policy long hear fruit among us. 
 
 Into the sorrow of the family circle so sorely stricken I 
 dare not intrude. I know how much the dead liusband 
 and father was to every memher of the family, and how 
 much every member of the family was to him. They have 
 our sincerest sympathy ; and, if a sympathy so widespread, 
 and a respect so genuine, can help them to bear their sorrow 
 better, never had mourners more sincere and helpful sym- 
 pathisers. But, gratifying though it he, for those who 
 mourn for loved ones departed, to learn how much they 
 were respected and beloved beyond the limits of the family 
 circle, that circumstance only intensifies their own sense of 
 loss. When so many are deploring their great loss, the 
 mourners are thereby only the mere forcibly reminded that 
 the loss is irreparable. I am confident that our united 
 prayer to-day is, that the God of all consolation may be 
 ever more abundantly their strength and their stay. 
 
 Now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the 
 Holy Ghost be the praise, world without end. Amen. 
 
 
SERVICE OE PRAISE. 
 
 1. Opening Sentence. 
 
 " Forgive blest shade the tributary tear 
 
 That mourns thy exit from a world like this. 
 Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here 
 
 And stayed thy progi-ess to the seats of bliss. 
 No more confined to grovelling scenes of night, 
 
 No more a tenant pent in mortal clay ; 
 Now we would rather hail thy glorious flight 
 
 And trace thy journey to the realms of day." 
 
 2. Paraphrase LVIII., 1, 2, 5, 6. 
 
 Where high the heavenly temple stands, 
 The house of God not made with hands, 
 A great High Priest our nature wears, 
 The (luardian of Mankind appears. 
 
 He who for men their surety stood, 
 And poured on earth his precious blood, 
 Pursues in heav'n his mighty plan, 
 The Saviour and the friend of man. 
 
 In every pang that rends the heart, 
 The Man of Sorrows had a part ; 
 He sympathizes with our grief 
 And to the suffrer sends relief 
 
 With boldness, therefore, at the throne, 
 Let us make all our sorrows known ; 
 And ask the aids of heav'niy power, 
 To help us in the evil hour. 
 
 3. Hymn XCVI. 
 
 Our blessed Redeemer, ere He breathed 
 
 His tender last farewell, 
 A Guide, a Comforter, bequeathed 
 
 With us to dwell. 
 
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 He came sweet influence to impart, 
 
 A gracious, willing guest, 
 While He can find one humble heait 
 
 Wherein to rest. 
 
 And His that gentle voice we hear. 
 
 Soft as the breath of even, 
 That checks each thought, that calms each fear, 
 
 And speaks of heaven. 
 
 And every virtue we possess. 
 
 And every conquest won. 
 And every thought of holiness. 
 
 Are His alono. 
 
 Spirit of purity and grace, 
 
 Our weakness, pitying, see ; 
 O make our hearts Thy dwelling place 
 
 And worthier Thee. 
 
 O praise the Father ; praise the Son ; 
 
 Blest Spirit, praise to Thee ; 
 All praise to God, the Three in One, 
 
 The One in Thi-ee. 
 
 4. Anthem, Spohr 
 
 "Blest are the departed who in the Lord are sleeping, etc." 
 
 5. Response, 
 
 " O Death, where is thy sting ? 
 O Grave, where is thy victory ? " 
 
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 6. Hymn CCLVII. 
 
 Now the labourer's task is o'er ; 
 
 Now the battle-day is past ; 
 Now upon the farther shore 
 Lands the voyager at last. 
 
 Father, in Thy gracious keeping 
 Leave we now Thy servant sleeping. 
 
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 There the teare of earth are dried ; 
 
 There its hidden things are clear ; 
 There the work of life is tried 
 
 By a juster Judge than here. 
 
 There the sinful souls that turn 
 
 To the Cross their dying eyes, 
 All the love of Christ shall learn 
 
 At his feet in Paradise. 
 
 There no more the powers of ill 
 
 Can prevail to mar their peace ; 
 Christ, the Lord, shall guard them well, 
 
 He who died for their release. 
 
 " Earth to earth, and dust to dust," 
 
 Calmly now the words we say. 
 Leaving him to sleep in trust 
 Till the resurrection day. 
 
 Father in Thy glorious keeping, 
 Leave me now Thy servant sleeping. 
 
 Offertory, - " Crossing the Bar," . - Bridge 
 Sunset and evening star. 
 
 And one clear call for me ! 
 And may there be no moaning of the bar 
 
 When I put out to sea. 
 
 But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 
 
 Too full for sound and foam. 
 When that which drew from out the boundless deep 
 
 Turns again home. 
 
 Twilight and evening bell, 
 
 And after that the dark ! 
 And may there be no sadness of farewell. 
 
 When I embark ; 
 
 For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place 
 
 The flood may bear me far, 
 I hope to see my Pilot face to face 
 
 When I have crost the bar. 
 
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 8. Hymn LIX. 
 
 Jesus lives ! No longer now 
 Can thy terrors, death, appal us ; 
 
 Jesus lives ! by this we know 
 Thou, O grave, canst not enthrall us. 
 
 Hallelujah. 
 
 Jesus lives ! henceforth is death 
 
 But the gate of life immortal ; 
 This shall calm our trembling breath 
 
 When we pass its gloomy portal. 
 
 Halli'lujah. 
 
 Jesus lives ! for us He died ; 
 
 Then, alone, to Jesus living. 
 Pure in heart will we abide. 
 
 Praise to Him, and glory giving. 
 
 Hallelujah. 
 
 Jesus lives ! our hearts know well, 
 Nought from us His love shall sever. 
 
 Life nor death, nor powers of ill 
 Part us now from Christ for ever. 
 
 Hallelujah. 
 
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