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 1884. 
 
The following sermon was preached in Christ 
 Church Cathedral, Hamilton, on the Sunday morn- 
 ing previous to Thanksgiving Day, by Rev. Dr. 
 Mockridge, and is published at the request of many 
 who heard it. 
 
THE FIRST FRUITS OF OUR INCREASE. 
 
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 Proverbs iii, 9, 10, — "Honor the Lord with thy substance, and 
 with the first fruils of thine increase ; so shall thy barns be filled with 
 plenty, and thy presses shall buist out with new wine." 
 
 It is the peculiar province of an intelligent 
 being to acknowledge himself under the control of 
 a superior power. That power we call God. It is 
 a wide, comprehensive term. With the idea of 
 a God there is connected everything that is good. 
 If there is a power which is yet to extricate me from 
 evil, and set my feet on holy ground, and make me 
 perfect so that I shall never again have even a de- 
 sire to commit sin, that power is God. And why 
 should any man attempt to limit the power of such 
 a Being ? If in Him is involved my very creation 
 and existence ; if it is through Him I am at this 
 moment a living, rational creature, how much do I 
 owe Him ! Do you think we always realize this, 
 my brethren, to its full and proper extent ? Is it 
 a matter of absolute thankfulness to God that we 
 are this day living, intelligent beings, — that we are 
 not a stock, or a stone, or a dumb brute, which knows 
 nothing but to follow its own blind instinct ? Is it a 
 matter of thankfulness that we are in possession of 
 all our faculties, that we are not blind or dumb, 
 sick, dying or helpless ? that we are not slaves as 
 men and women as intelligent as ourselves have be- 
 fore now been, subject to the brutal treatment of 
 heartless masters? In the face of our glorious 
 
liberty in this Canada of ours, where the rights of 
 all are respected, is there a feeling of gratitude 
 that we are this day what we find ourselves to be? 
 Is there a proper acknowledgment that we are un- 
 der the guidance of Almighty God ? These ques- 
 tions come before us naturally on this Sunday before 
 Thanksgiving Day. Our thanksgiving day ought 
 to be made a reality with us, — not simply a holiday, 
 or a day for a ramble in the country or the woods, 
 but a day of real thanksgiving and praise. Let us 
 honor this House of God with our presence that 
 day. In that way, whatever enjoyment and re- 
 creation we may take, let us honor God. 
 
 Yes, let us honor God, because if we recognize 
 that God exists, and that He is over us, that He 
 gave us life, and supports it and keeps it, then 
 surely it is due to us to honor Him. 
 
 But in what way shall we honor God ? How 
 can we who are of unclean lips hope to render any- 
 thing like suitable homage and praise to such a 
 Being as God ? 
 
 Many ways of honoring God will at once occur 
 to us. Prayer and praise and a holy life, — in such 
 ways may we honor God, and in many more. I 
 wish now, however, to speak of one prominent 
 means by which we may honor him. It is the 
 means mentioned in the passage of Scripture I have 
 chosen as my text. " Honor the Lord with thy 
 substance and with the first fruits of thine increase." 
 Such a means as this is all the more readily men- 
 tioned because we are on the eve of our na- 
 tional thanksgiving day. This year that day ought 
 indeed to be to all a day of actual thanksgiving, for 
 in the language of our text our barns are truly filled 
 with plenty, and our presses burst out with new wine, 
 — an expression which we may take to signify great 
 abundance. We have had this year what our ven- 
 
erable Bishop, himself for many years a close ob- 
 server of all such thinp^s, and now in the evening of 
 his life, declares in his Thanksgiving Pastoral to be 
 "the most abundant harvest that the oldest among 
 us have ever seen." Our barns are truly filled with 
 plenty. All necessaries of life, all materials even 
 for good cheer will be within the reach of those 
 whose means are but small. All this should fill 
 our hearts with gladness ; all this should make us 
 rejoice to render thanksgiving to our God. 
 
 But without having anything special to advo- 
 cate to-day, I am glad to embrace this opportunity 
 of the approaching thanksgiving to urge upon you 
 all the privilege God gives you of being allowed to 
 honor Him with your substance. It has fallen upon 
 me to make from this place many an appeal for 
 money. That is not exactly my object this morn- 
 ing. It is rather to lay before you the broad prin- 
 ciple of honoring God with your substance. Yes, 
 with your substance, with your wealth, whether 
 that wealth be much or little. All comfort is wealth, 
 the poor have little or none of it ; but many that 
 are, as the phrase goes, "well to do," have much. 
 They can lay by in store as God has prospered 
 them. 
 
 And it is not with a view to begging for money 
 that I speak of this to-day. It is a pity people think 
 that we ever beg for money ; it is a pity they ever 
 use the phrase. To state the needs of God's church, 
 or of God's poor, is not to beg for money. It is 
 giving people the opportunity of doing just so much 
 work for ood. But in any case I have not a matter 
 of that kind in view this morning ; I simply wish to 
 speak in the light of our approaching thanksgiving 
 on the general subject of honoring God with our 
 substance, anc rny meaning will be arrived at 
 perhaps a I'ttle more readily when I say that I desire 
 
to throw out prominently the words " Honor the 
 Lord with the first fruits of thine increase.^* 
 
 The p:reatest enemy that giving for religious 
 purposes has is irregularity, want of system. It is 
 not so in other things of a kindred nature. A man 
 truly religious is regular in his prayers. He has set 
 times for prayer. It may be morning and evening ; 
 it may be, and indeed should be with greater fre- 
 quency ; but in any case it is regular. Sometimes 
 he finds occasion for extra prayers. When death 
 hovers near his loved ones ; when danger threatens ; 
 when depression attacks him, he offers special 
 prayers, but these are over and above his regular 
 system of devotions. He honors God with his 
 prayers, but he does it systematically. It has at 
 any rate a foundation in system ; if the system is 
 broken in upon it is usually for the purpose of ex- 
 tension. He wishes to give sometimes an occa- 
 sional addition to his systematic rule. 
 
 In the same way should a rule be layed down for 
 the guidance of a man's giving for religious purposes. 
 It should be systematic. " Honor the Lord with the 
 first frtiits of thine increase.^' What is a man's in- 
 crease ? Surely it is his income. Whatever comes 
 in to him in return for his labor is his increase. In 
 the case of him who has a fixed salary the increase 
 is readily known. At the end of every month or 
 quarter he gets it, and the golden rule of systematic 
 giving is to honor the Lord with the first fruits of 
 every cheque received, of every month's pay or 
 quarter's salary that comes into his hands. He 
 should never take the whole of anything that he 
 gets. He should consider that part of it belongs to 
 God. However small he may choose to make that 
 part, still he should make it. He should honor the 
 Lord with the first fruits of his increase. He should 
 put away a little for God's cause of everything that 
 
comes into his hands. By this means he would not 
 only be always receiving but he would be always 
 giving. He would at least always be collecting ma- 
 terial for giving. I can speak from experience when 
 I say that a man is never really happy in his giving 
 till he realizes that so long as he acknowledges that 
 there is a God over him, and that the work of that 
 God on earth depends to a great extent upon his 
 exertions and those of his fellow creatures, he has 
 no right to take anything without reserving some 
 portion of it (however small) for Him. Sanctify 
 your means by honoring God with them. 
 
 There are some it is true, whose income is not 
 fixed ; they hardly know, from the fluctuating nature 
 of their business, what to consider their income. 
 Let them then approximate to it as closely as they 
 can, but let it be an honest approximation; let them 
 make it as those more anxious to defraud them- 
 selves than God. 
 
 I use that word ** defraud " advisedly, brethren, 
 though I don't mean it offensively. Read the 3rd 
 chapter of Malachi and my meaning will be under- 
 stood. A certain portion of your income belongs 
 to God, If you use it all you take what does not 
 belong to you along with what does. Never forget 
 the cause of God in everything that comes in to 
 you. If you are paid every day, then every day re- 
 serve something for God ; if it is ever so small, re- 
 serve it. Don't keep everything. You will be sur- 
 prised what it will mount up to in a month, or a 
 quarter, or a year. Have your box or your purse 
 specially marked as God's box or God's purse ; yes, 
 mark it so ; you are doing it for God. Let it be 
 marked then as His. Or open a bank account 
 specially for that purpose ; whenever you get money 
 which is a clear profit to you, take a portion of it 
 and put it away in '* God's box," or place it to the 
 
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 credit side in your bank account. Soon some one 
 will ask you to help a poor person, or to help the 
 church or to give to missions ; you don't put your 
 hand into your own pocket, you go to God's box 
 and you take what you think a fair share for that 
 object, and generally you will be surprised at the 
 good sum you will thus have at your disposal. 
 This is some attempt surely at honoring God with 
 the first fruits of one's increase. 
 
 And what shall that proportion be ? This is a 
 question that is settled for us in my opinion in the 
 Bible. The sindllest proportion is one-tenth. It 
 was this that Abraham gave to Melchizedek, Priest 
 of the Most High God. And it is from him that 
 Jesus Christ derives his priesthood. He is a priest 
 for ever, after the order of Melchizedek. We don't 
 know who that mysterious person was, but he was 
 some one for whom Abraham evidently had a very 
 high regard. We do know, however, who Jesus Christ 
 is. He is our Great High Priest, who to-day is mak- 
 ing intercession for us in Heaven. And he is a great 
 deal to us. All our spiritual strength has come from 
 him. To him we owe everything. Never till the 
 end of time shall we know how much we owe to 
 him. What shall we render back to him ? In the 
 light of his undying love for us, how little, how in- 
 significant does even a tenth of all our increase 
 seem ! To help missions, to build churches, to give 
 children religious instruction, to aid Sunday schools, 
 to relieve the distressed and suffering poor, surely 
 demands at least a tenth of all our increase. 
 
 My friends, I need not enlarge upon this. No 
 one would dispute the moral obligation that all 
 Christians are under to give at least a tenth of their 
 increase, were it not that there are enemies which 
 raise their hard heads against it. Three of these 
 I will now mention. 
 
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 The first is Habit. Men who are wealthy to- 
 day give no more than when they were poor. God's 
 law says, ** If riches increase set not your heart on 
 them." Habit says, *' If riches increase use them 
 all for selfish ends." Brethren, such is not the law 
 of God. It is by the first fruits of all our increase 
 that we are to honor Him, and nothing regulates 
 this better than a systematic plan of always giving 
 a certain set proportion of what comes in to us, 
 because we give then in proportion to what we get. 
 As we prosper, God's cause prospers through us. 
 God gets the benefit of our increase. 
 
 The second enemy is Extravagance. This robs 
 God ; it is a deadly enemy. If Christians would 
 live in true Christian simplicity they would have 
 much more for God's treasury than they have ; but 
 pride makes them want great things and grand 
 things, and they waste on their own perishing 
 bodies what would accomplish untold good. To be 
 penurious is mean ; to be economical is right and 
 fair, and if we are economical because we wish to 
 have something to give to God, it is Christ-like and 
 noble. 
 
 Another enemy which lifts its sledge hammer 
 arm against systematic giving is Covetousness. If 
 there is a man who might be exempt from giving a 
 tenth of all his increase it is the poor day laborer 
 who gets a small income and works hard for it. To 
 take from a laborer ten cents for every dollar that he 
 gets in return for a hard day's work seems to leave 
 him but little to live upon. His chance of earning 
 anything depends upon the weather and his own 
 strength. On a wet day or when he is sick he gets 
 nothing. But for those with large incomes how 
 much they can give, and how much will still be left 
 behind ! You get $300 a month ; you reserve $30 to 
 give away, and you have $270 for your wants ; you 
 
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 get $500; you put away $50 as your tenth, and you 
 have $450 left; and yet you will not even do this; 
 you must use it all to make your income bigger still. 
 This is covetousness; and the Master's words on that 
 should not miss their aim upon us. '* Take heed 
 and beware of covetousness, for a man's life con- 
 sisteth not in the abundance of the things which he 
 possesseth." 
 
 But I need not continue this. Systematic giv- 
 ing has these enemies and many more. Let us kill 
 them. A man does not know the true pleasure of 
 giving till he gives a set portion of every thing he 
 gets. I thank God men are beginning to realize 
 this as their privilege. It is a privilege which, for 
 my part, I would on no account resign. 
 
 There are many in this congregation whom I 
 should like to get into the way of giving regularly 
 one-tenth of all that comes into them. Were such 
 a rule at all universally adopted, such a mighty re- 
 volution would take place in the Christian world as 
 would astonish all. God's treasury would be full. 
 And I am not this morning addressing people who 
 do not give ; many of you give, and give liberally ; 
 it is the systematic giving that I plead for to-day; 
 it is the honoring the Lord with the first fruits of 
 of our increase. 
 
 And I have a right to urge this upon you ; I do 
 it in the interests of the church that we love and 
 her divine work on earth ; but above all I do it in 
 the interests of Christ Jesus our Lord, and I do it 
 in the face of our thanksgiving for a most abundant 
 harvest. " Our barns are indeed filled with plenty." 
 
 Money, it is true, is not every thing, — our life, 
 our hearts, our soul, are absolute gifts which we can 
 make to God ; but money is a great deal. It is a 
 ready means of giving relief; it is a ready means of 
 doing work for God. ** Charge them that are rich 
 
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 in this world * * * that they do good, that 
 they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, 
 willing to communicate." So said St. Paul to 
 Timothy ; so says the Word of God to us to-day. 
 It is an undying principle : if God is always giving 
 we should be always giving too. How continually 
 we are asking God,—*' Pray give me this." " Be 
 pleased to grant me that." How little do we give 
 back to him even of that which really would cost 
 us nothing ! Is this, my friends, honest Christian 
 fairness ? 
 
 The text promises a blessing; " Honor the Lord 
 with thy substance, and with the first fruits of thine 
 increase, so shall thy barns be filled with plenty 
 and thy presses shall burst forth with new wine." 
 
 And God always fulfils his promises. We may 
 not see how he fulfils them, but fulfil them he does. 
 His promises never fail ; they will come to us to 
 our advantage in some way, for God's word is true. 
 
 Let us think deeply of the golden words of our 
 text to-day. Let us go away thinking of them, and 
 with them let us connect those words so well 
 known to all of us, — " To do good and to distribute 
 forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well 
 pleased." 
 
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