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HENRY ROE, D.D., VIC K- PRINCIPAL AND PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN UISHOP's COLLEGE, LENXOXVILLE, AND EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE LORD BISHOP OF QUEBEC. Frinttd by request of the Lord Bishop of Quebec y and of the Clergy present. PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL ^ SON. 1886. \ % ^ ^ Blessed are the PeaeemakcrsT . ^ PI- ^^-^ ^ ^^" ^*^ " BISHOP OF QUbBLL A S CllUKCU, (^UhBLC, ON AU. SAIN-1-^ I'AV. 'SS6, 15Y Till-. REV. HENRY ROE. D.D., ,,rfE LENNCXVILUE, AM-> n,./,v and of the Clcrgv P>^^''''^' ,f.i- the Lord Bishop ojQncl^^'-^^""^ I Printcdhv request o}th.Lo PRINTED BY JOHN^ 1886. LOVELL c- SON. -_ ._— .aiMaMSSS*'*"''*'" SERMON. S. Mattiikw, v. i). •" Bles3jd are tlio pjacemakeM, for they sliall bo called Iho cbildrenof (iod." It was a Divine instinct in the Church whicli led her to select as the Gospel for All Saints Day the seven Beatitudes, the passage which more perfectly than any other Scripture brings together in a few wonderful words all the elements wliich go to form the saintly character. And with equal fitness has to-day been selected for the high solemnity for which we are specially assembled, to advance a brother into the Priesthood of the Church ; for surely the Christian Priesthood is, in its intention, the very crown and flower of the brotherhood of the Saints. And we all 1 am sure recognize too the fitness of the ^^/ace for this special ordination. It is not only that tiie candidate for this high office has served his noviciate and won to liimself this good degree by his labours in this parish. This ordination we all feel is no ordinary one, but one around which many precious associations gather, many thoughts wliich make the heart to swell. It is our Bishop who is consecrating his son, his only son, to God for this high work. And he is to be set ap irt here, in this con- gregation gathered out of the poor of these suburbs by our Bishop's saintly predecessor, whose first-born son, again, was him- self the first Priest of this parish, where he laboured with a devo- tioii wliicli nono of liis successors can ever forj^-et. Yes, sdini- /n/r.s.s, in tlie truest sense of the wor.l, is stamped upon tlie liistx)ry of tliis pari:ili, inscpara})ly cornieeted as it is with tlie saintly Mountain family. When, then, Bishop Mountain's successor in his turn ^'ives his son to the same ministry, itself an event sun-ly of tlui happiest onu^n, where could the act of devotion he so fitly accomplished as in this Church where the former Bishop and the former Bishop's son for so many years ministered to CJod, and preached the gosricl to the poor ? And for su'-h jin occasion what Scripture could hettcr guide our thoughts than my text? For, the Chrisfldn Priest,— what words could more fully set forth the most essential elements of his life-work t\mu the wowl Fmcaitdkcr? Does It express the reconciliation of men estranged from one anotlier ? Does it ex- press the l)ringing peace of mind and conscience to the trouhled soul ? Does it point to the restoration of the broken peace of the family, the healing of civil discord, the binding up the bleeding wounds of the Church ? Docs it above all suggest the reconciliation of the sinful soul to its God ? All these things form tlie f-um and substance of the ministry of reconciliation which is confided to the Christian Priest. The Beautitude, in its fullest extent, belongs to every soul before me ; and looked at in this its true light will its force best be seen as applicable to the life-work of the minister of Christ. What, thcn,*is it to be a peacemaka-, in the sense which our Lord here pronounces Biassed f First, we must be careful to notice, it is not the same thing as \\\Q peocealle man. It is not the gentle, mild, yielding temper which is meant, a side of the Christian character already com- mended in the blessing pronounced upon the meek. Much less is- it tlu! iniloleiit disposition, which chiiuis to bo ever on the side c^ •peace, while it lazily lets things ir//^Y^r who is }>le a ower one as itsplncein tbe scale of the Beatitudes shows. Tlic •"•race of mcrcifiihir.ss is indeed a noble temper. Tlie temper of aetive eliarity that would ever be comforting sorrow, soothing pain, su}>plyinu' want, cheeking cruelty, making a home for the friendless, relieving the numberless miseries of our sad world, this is God-like indeed. But the work of the peacemaker goes to the deeper needs, and the more desperate diseases of our nature. For God to provide for man's bodily wants, though the provision made for these in the course of nature is a revelation oi" His goodness ineffably consol- inir, must be to His wisdom and power, we know, simi)ly nothing. He has but to think, and it is done. We may venture even farther and say that for all the misery tliat is in the world, all that is mere suffering, looking at it apart from riin, He could, if He s:iw good, sweep it all away in a iiiomont. And it is certain that He would do so if it were not serving the best of purposes. All that vast complex of suffering in the world, awful as it is to conteniplate, and beyond our grasp as it is, must be, our reason tells us, a Divine system of mereiiul Fatherly chastening, with one end in view — saving men and making them good. Eut the needs I speak of power fails before them, wisdom sinks back buffled. To win an estranged heart— here is the problem. To win a heart entrenched amid its years of ever growing bitter- ness, its deep sense of wrong, its hardness and sullenness, its intense hatred it may be of all goodness, this is not a work ibr power. And it is because the pure in heart, in their contemplation of God and their communion with Him, see Him to be unceasingly enuaued, with the infinite patience of the Divine love, in winning the lost ; seeking with a kindness that never can be wearied, with a sympathy which goes down to and tries to get below all the evil (»f tlio worst lieart, however mad atul fVonzicd, however haLcfiil and dreadful tliat wickednenH m;iy be, and lift the heart out of it, it is because they see that tliis is (iod's heart, and because thciy sec its bi-auty, thaf. they long to ))e allowed to share it, that they crave for the blessedness of the peacemakers. No, it is not advance in rank, or official standini;- that is required for the work of the peacemaker, but growth in goodness, progress in saintliness. The dlDicnltij of the work, its high spiritual nature, calls for (qualifications which the advanced Chris- tian alone possesses. How true is this even of the lower, of the less difficult cases of breaches of charity. Did you ever try, did you ever set yourself with most earnest i;urposi', to reconcile two souls at enmity,- -parted by a long cuvu>e (jf injuries given and received, of bitter taunting words spoken. T dislike settling down more and more into hatred and fixed aversion ? If you did, you know how arduous is the task, — ho\» mipo^sibl" it seemed at first, how the difficulties grew upon you, an«' p". drably how in the end you utterly failed. Ol; how hard it i^ to bring together and reunite the broken strands of charity ! What nice tact is re- quired, men will say, what wisdom, what knowledge of human nature ! Or rather, the Christian knows, what power is needed of o-cttino- within the heart of each, and making each feel that you share his burden ! Nothing can do this but genuine sympa- thy begotten of the grace of (rod in a pure heart, the sympathy which is born of real unselfishness, of a real love, of a real anxiety to be helpful ; a symp ithy which is not arrogant, nor proudly sets itself up as a judge, but approaches another in a lowliness of mind which esteems the other better than himself. There is nothing, I think, which so truly tends to humble the true heart as its ftiilures in these efforts to be a peacemaker, 8 revealing as they do one's own deficiencies, one's want of higher fjualities wliieh, if one liad tlieni, would work out success. And \uiYQ conies in the true glory, the true meaning of the Incarnation. It sets forth God's anxiety, what has been ever in ]Tis heart, how entirely it fills I["s heart that He sliould be able to make Peace. Power, we have seen, could not do it, no nor wis- dom directing power. It was heart only that could reach luiart. There was a necessity for pfrsonnl Intervention, — for a person to come to the estranged heart, and lay siege to it with a personal love and sympathy, and to tako in and share all its sorrows. And that this might be possible to Him, or rather that to man, the loving sympathy which always filled the heart of God might be manifest, God became incarnate. The peacemaker, then, is sharing directly in the liighest, most glorious work of Almighty God our Heavenly Father. And therefore it must demand the highest attainments in him who aims at sharing in it. He must be nble to make his own, as our I^ord does, the sore lieart of the estranged one. He must be able to bear upon his own heart, as if it were his own, the alienation, distrust, resentment, anger — all the miserable inward unhappiness of the soul at enmity. Strange that tliis should be possible ! Surely it is the very mystery of love, of purity, of holiness, to be able to take into your own heart by a true sympathy the misery of those who are sinfully and wickedly estranged without taking in any portion of their sin. But you do t;ike in a weight, a divine sorrow at such misery and such sin, a tender compassionate sorrow, which is felt, and which is a renl pain, a heavy burden upon the spirit. I liave sometimes tried to picture to myself a Peacemaker. And what must the picture be ? Mot a bright, joyous, merry counten- ^s 9 1 ance — Oh no ; such could not be tlie face of one who has had Uirge experience iu this ministry of reconciliation. -Must it not be a tender, worn, s^Tave sweet face, covering evidently a heart that feels deeply and cnt<3rs into the sins and sorrows of those it seeks to reconcile ? Have you ever noticed the cast or expression which the face of a true physician naturally assumes, those nobler examples of a noble profession, the worn, serious face, tender and kind, yes and cheerful, but serious and worn, bearing evidently the burden of the many sufferers to whom he ministers ? Yes, this is the portrait drawn for us in prophecy of the great Peace- maker, the outcomiug upon that Holy Face of the Divine sym- pathy which was itself the source of His saving power ;— " His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons ef men; So shall Me sprinkle m most important of all concerns, — where there is no arrogance or spiritual pride on our part, V)ut simplicity and humility and sympathy,— I am quite certain that such words would be gratefully received. Nay, more, in most cases we shall tind our brother's heart secretly longing for just such brotherly help as we are offeimg. But be this as it may, what we have to U arn is that our brother's life is entrusted to our keeping; that when his peace is gone from any cause, it is our duty as brother Christians to help him to regain it ; and that in pri^portion to the interests at stake is this duty urgent. Blessed are the jye't.cemaL'ei's is spoken to you, is spoken to all Christians ; and it means, "' Become a peacemaker, put yourself in training for it, work towards it, and uever cease your ettbrts till you have (pialitied yourself- for, aadareprjictically exercising this blessed ministry in the kingdom of your lledeemer." And now, my dear brother, 1 know well that 1 need not ask you to remember, what has long been deep down in your own heart as your most cherished conviction, that it is to this nam 12 ministri/ of reconc'dlatlon first and lust and above all that \vc, the Priests of Christ, are called. Not excluding the lower senses of the word. Many happiest opportunities does our pastoral work give us of healing the sad breaches of love which abound on all sides. ^Yh;^t true pastor cannot recall some such instances of real reconciliation wrought through his ministry ? We do not always realize, I think, how great a thing it is that we have an authority, as Clirist's P.-istors, wliicli no one will question, giving us the right, making it our duty to penetrate into the most sacredly private circles and mediate I'or peace. But the ministry of reconciliation to be committed to you to-day is something higher than this. Whatever the great commission of our Lord to Ilis Apostles, expressed in those awful words which arc repeated over our heads in our ordination, — '■'■ Receive ye the Holy (xhost; whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain they are retained," — whatever that commission contains, it must mean at least this, that the essence of the Christian Priesthood is, a dealing with iudivldul souls with a view to tlitir reconciliation, with a view to their conscious reallzatlo)i of peace with God. And w^e need constantly to remind ourselves that this is our real work. For many easier paths, worthless though they be as sub- sti^tutes for this — parochial activities, beautiful ceremonial func- tions, charitable orij^anizations — will seek to absorb our attention. Oh Uow hard it is to keep up to our real work ! llow hard to over- come the shyness of entering upon this great and difficult subject which is created and fostered by our intimacy with our people, an intimacy itself so essential to pastoral success ! The true remedy is I am persuaded what we have found in our study of my text ^. 13 to-day. The ministerial comiuission ojves a special riglit to enter upon tliis work; but t is growth in personal holiness alone, growth in sympathy with t'lc mind of Christ — that mind which makes Ilim take every sinner into his own heart that he may win and save liim, which ensures success. But what helps you have to tiiis ! Your own abiding sense of your divine vocation, this stimds first. Your certain assurance, next, that with your commission you receive, — oh my brother, open up your heart to take it in in all its fulness, — you receive the Ilohj Ghost, and that your one work hereafter will be to '' stir up the gift that is in thee by the laying on of apostolic liands," Yes, and this high festiv;d will ever remind you, as your thoughts come back to it. how on All Saints Day, possibly, in siu'ht ol' that '• ureat cloud of witnesses " — for aro we not " come to the spirits of just men made pcrft'Ct ? " — at least, in a saintly place, peculiarly consecrated by saintly lives and saintly work, you were consecrated to follow saintly steps. Every street of these suburbs where you minister, has been worn down by "feet shod," in the truest sense, '' with the prepara- tion of the Gospel of peace." Its houses have been consecrated by long courses of tender ministrations and of holy prayers of holy men offered by the b^^dsides of the sick atul dying. And the dust of many so won to God, and though l(nvly in life made by His grace in a true sense saints, sleep in the neglected graves n.round this Church. The whole history of this parish, how anim;;ting it must be to the heart of its pastors, how comforting to every true Christian h.;art ! Two families shine out, who may well l)e commemorated on All Saints Day. Bishop George Mountain, Armine Mountain George Il-imilton, as already gathered to the saints of God, we 14 may uaine. And another, though still with us, yet as his work on this spot is closed we may venture also to name, as one whose ministry of reconciliation has surely borne the stauij) of true sanctity whose example must remain a tower of strength to his successors for ever,— our own beloved Charles Hamilton. Covet earnestly, my dear brother, the high prize of helping to add a third name to this blessed company, and that it may be so, in, every soul living in unpeace see one specially commended to your special love and care. And all through life, when you begin to flag, awaken again and keep ever ringing in your ears, like the sweet music of heavenly bells, the saying of your Lord, Blessed are the Pe<(cemakers. \ i 1 \ \ A < v<- " ^^^^4.^^ uv -it^ y^