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''J'^IIl'.Sl': few thou^MUs ill im)sc and verse an ''Aj. out into the world in tlic hope that thcj arc sent )j)e that tncy may instruct, inspire, or assist some Cliristian soldier in Life's battle-field. Delivered extauporc, the)- have i;cen collected by recollections atul by means of notes made beforehand, and reduced to the enclosed form. The addresses viewing the Christian as a Missionary Soldier — 1st. To the ^'reat world of men ; 2nd. To the little world of his own .soul, have been blessed to some of those who heard them, and hopin*,^ that in a lar^^er field they may have further work to do for the Master, they are published. If, dear reader, you ^^-t an\' help from what you read herein, will you just ask our precious Redeemer to bless me with more love and loyalty to Him and more zeal for His ^lory ? C. SYDNEY GOODMAN. Hkll's Cqrnkrs, (^TTAW.\, April, iSqo. CONTBNTS. I. Tim-. MAKCHiNd Oki)i:ks oi- tiif. Church - ii II. Thk Wa'h hwokd of Cihustian Soldiers . . . . . 23 III. A I'AssioN I'KAVKi-.— Poem 28 IV. The Lesson of Autlmx.— Poem - 29 V. WiNTEK AND Si'RINC. — HERE AND Hereafter 30 creat f^^ OCCf fuin ascc fick sacr S sen!' deft a L^l lost }'Ct saiT sup ADDKIiSS I. TllK 'JllURCH'S M.\R(llI.\(i OKDKRS. " ( io ye into all theuoihl, and preach llie ( iosjjei to every creature."— Si'. Mark xvi. 15. "^^HICSK arc lari^^c words, my fricMids, lar^c, bold, 1^^ world-wide, maL^tiifirctit words. They were spoken to men at a time, at a i)lace. on an occasion when there seemed no human hopes of their fulfilment, The Master was about to accomplish His ascension. No more should His sacred feet press the fields of Palestine ; no more the air divide before His sacred form. Some forty days before had the a])ostles known the sense of desolation amid the blackness of the seeming defeat of Good Friday ; but Kaster day had risen on a glorious victory. God had conquered. Death had lost its sting. The Master was back again : the same, yet so different ; with the same winning smile, the same long-lingering look of love ; all human, and yet superhuman, unearthly. r2 rilK CiHII^n's MAl;(III\(, OKDKKs. There, under the shade of lk', uas -athered the earh'est Church of Christ—the h'ttle leaven which should spread throu<,rh the world. The Kin's : days of darknes.s, .sorrow, per- secution ; da)-s of joy, success, victory— even unto the end of the world. The Spirit-Comforter should lead them into all truth, fdl them with all fulness, .speed them from stren,t,^th to strenj^^th. And then— the power of God theirs; the forces of the world to come at their dis])o,sal— " Go ye into all the world, preach the Gospel to ever\- creature." These are the Church's marching orders! Large words, I said, my friends, and so the)- are ; large— for the orders are for all time; large-for no place.'nation, or people is excluded ; large, too, must be the efforts of the Church to fulfil them. They prove th.at the Church is. I. A Great Missionary Society. Stillness is a sign of death. The lifeless body moves not, breathes not, works not. The dead tree throws out no oew branches, no fresh green leaves. The Church— Christ's Cliurch, the Living Church- must ever be moving, marching onwards. ^ Evermore must she send out new shoots, fresh sprays from her Tree of Life. Evermore must she disperse the life- blood to e\('r\- corner of Iv.r va^^t -^n -^ tcm. s j^fathcrcd ivcMi which lonj^r jour- 'ijj; to their with them )rrow, per- il unto the 1 into all !icm from - forces of re into all re." I Lari,^e lar- ui take no holidays. Tau.ses in the strife, mom .ntary breathini;- sj)aces there ma>' be ; cessation of warfare, never, this side the L,n-ave. Vast tracts arej'^/ to be reclaimed, spiritual wilder- nesses j'l'/ to be sown with the heavenly <^rrain. The heathen and the .savage — stones on life's rou{^h hi,L,di- way — -jv/ are to be raised up children unto God. And this — aye, all this and far more — all this is implied in the simple marchin^^ orders of Ascension Day. The battle-field of Christ's Church is no one country, no single people, it is t/w ivorld. What does that imply, my friends? Shall it not mean that every Christian soul is also a Christian soldier, a Chri.stian missionary? The forei<^n land, the backwoods, the desert wilds ma)- not, need not be thy sphere of mission work. Nay, He who has placed thee there, and traced out thy daily bounds, hath put thee in that place in I lis world where thou canst do, and best do too, my friend, that work which He has laid out for thee. Is it the farm ? Is it behind the shop counter? in the school-house ? in the busy workshop? It matters not. There must thou be Christ's missionary, there must thou talk and think and act that if every other 14 TIIK (IIUK.n's MARCHING OKI.KKS. soldier „f Christ did the same, this world would to-morrmv be tjathcred around the Saviour's feet a„d wo slKHdcl have again o„ earth the beautiful I'aridisc (H (.J()(l. I P.--s-, buildings, human nature. 1 he Romans : their ideal-massive strength and a deep sense of duty. "^ The Egyptians : life was to them the thing sacred .-md djvme ho they worshipped the calf, the bull, the crocodile, the cat, the snake. And so o„. Nations, individuals, philosophies .chg.ons-aIl have tried, but vainly, to satisfy a soul's need ; have tried to gain the seamless robe of Truth and but a hem of it remained in their eager grasp The Church of Christ alone " realizes and satisfies tlie need. To teach tnc Truths to answ^er satisfactorily the universal questions. Where am I? what am I? u hither go I ? to persuade men that TIIK cnUkCIl's MAKCHINd OKDKRS. 15 " IJfe is real, life is earnest ; And the j^r.ivc is not its j^oal : ' Dust tliou art, to dust relurnest,' Was not spoken of the soul." To ^nvc the ideal to every man, which shall fill to the full every wish, satisfy every need, every desire of the human lieart ; to orive poor hun^^ry souls not the husk — which seemeth full, really is a hollow shain — but the honest, ^^olden <^rniin ; in short, to ^n"ve Christ — Perfect (iod, I'erfect Man, Perfect VVisdc^m, I'erfect (ioodness. I^-rfect Satisfier — to every child of Adam, black or white or copper-coloured, educated or entirely ij^niorant ; that wherever the sun shines, there also shall the Sim of Ri^diteousness cast His beams. That, my friends, is the object of Christ's Church ; that, is to realize the universal sweep of the marching orders. The (ircek need — satisfied in the"chiefest amon<: ten thousand and the alto<,a'ther lovely." The Roman's — in the God of all comin<^r clown trt earth to do His i\'ither's will — Perfect Duty: "endur- ing- the cross, despisin^^ the shame," bearin<( all with an unmatched fortitude — Perfect StrenL^th ! The I\L(yptian need — in the Life of Life, the great I Am, the Evcrliving Son of God. Oin- souls, my friends, are not to be fed, dressed, pampered like our bodies ; nay, there is the likeness of (k)d in them, and that likeness must be renewed and brightened and glorified by His continual presence therein. Nothing can fill the never dying soul but the L'nd)-ing God. i6 THK CHL'Kl ll's MAK( lIINCi OKDKKS. Listen. St. Aii^rustinc, a ^^reat I'athcr of the Church— restless, ch'scontentecl, servin^^ his sinful nature and the devil for half ;i lifetime ere the love of God triuniplu-d in his heart— echoes in his " Confes- si(jns " the human ncvd, " We were made for Thee, anil our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." Ah ! my brothers and sisters, there are restless souls all alon^r life's hi^diwa)-! How can they rest if they hear not of Him who invites the sin-stricken ant! sor- row-laden? "Come unto Me, I will i^ivc you rest/" The soul's (juenchless need is satisfied in Christ Jesus ; Christ the Saviour ; Christ the Teacher ; Christ the Giver of the f foly Spirit ; Christ the Kin^^ of the Church, here and beyond the grave ; Christ, who shall judge all men at the last great tlay. One thought more, and I have done. The marchiiur orders of the Master, we have seen, imply that the Church must ever be a great missionary institution, that she must realize the one thing needful to satisfy the needs of a soul ; in doing so, what further docs she do? What further, did I say? Nay, it all springs from, it all points to this ; for she is III. Doing her Duty. Duty ! What is due from her to her King. Wonder- ful word! how like " Marathon ! " to the old Greeks, it should thrill through the Christian ranks! Doincr her duty ! Yes, in its two-fold meaning ; to God, and to her own members, and that implies (we have seen before) 'IIIK ( [llk( il's MAk( IIIN(. ((KDKKS. 17 — that implies the whole huniaii race, tjiat "the earth may be filled with the knouleil^^e of (iod as tiic watei . cover the seas." I'he Captain's orders ii ust not he (jucsfiDitnl; they must be afn't/cd ! 'I'hink of that mad charj^e of the Li^dvt Brigade at l^alaclava. Those six hundred knew that to attempt to "take the jruns " meant absolute destruction, but "Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs hut to do and die." old Greeks. Ami so they char^rcd the- Russian j,ams— their first and last thoii<;ht — duty. The Church of Jesus has led many a forlorn hope. He^r.'in to evan/>7V, saith the Lord of Hosts." Duty. See the Master's hi<,di .sense of it. Was there toil, privation, suffering? Was there a dead one to be restored to the sorrowing home, sorrow to be sweetened, disea.sc to be fou<^ht, sin to be cast out, a Gospel to be preached? There was Jesus Christ bee au? Lo. I to do Thy will, O God." Wh; come 10 lu) 1 ny wni, kj iioc is the will of God concernin<; His Church? "That e7'rrj' one should be saved and come to the knowledge iS rill". ( iiru( ii's \i,\K( iii\<, okDKKs. of the truth. The will of (iod ' Shall tiol we, u ilh the "JHr^^cr Iiopi:;" we. whom (iod has made iiviiij^ member of His Hody, the Church; we. for whom there is a special room of service here, and hereafter a beautiful killed- n and a ^dorious crown , shall not \\( trive to fuli]] (iod's will to u>-uard? llu will of (ind ! All that we are. all that we have \vr owe ti. tliA ill of Love. He created us, redeemed us, pours out Ills lilessed Spirit upon us all of His free Love! "If He would, thou mi^htest liave been some soulless savage beast of burtU'n, sonii- worm of earth, some idle sea-weed cast w itlu.'rin;^- on the siraml, some barren rock in the thick-ribbed ice." One of these we mi^dit ha\f been, aiul yet — and yet. He made us redeemeil men and women "called to be saints," called to do His will! We think of Christ. How perfectly obedient! How pcrlVctl)- obe^'iiiL; His l*'ather's will! We tiiink (jf th.e world of nature. Wind and storm, sunli^dit and darkness ; the stones, the plants, the animals, all do their duty in that state where God has placed them. He .sendeth out His word .... they fulfil that word. We, m>- dear friends, are in a higher world, a world of grace. We must obey not from fear, not from being bound to, like the lower creation ; but what is far higher, far better, like a spirit made in God's own likeness — from Love. If we obe\- from real love, \' ( -ilso shall take an I'lll ( III ki ll's \l\k( Iii\(i uuhKKs. t9 interest ill ohcyin;^ : take ;iii inlcn-st in fill filling' the marching' orders, tak a lively iiitere> -i- missions. There is a story tokj of a httle hoy in Ik-lfast, a chimiu'3 -sweej). Hi hii)|)eiu(l to W attracted h\ missions and he contributed to a nussion-box, a sum which was not inconsiderable loi a chimney-sweep, the sum of twopence ! One afternoon, a hicnd of this b()\-'s nut him L;oinL[ alon^ the street in an unu -ua! rotuUtion. His face and hands wen- washed, and he was dressed in very s^u(m\ cl<»thes. And the hex, wht) was his friend, said to him, "Holloa! where are you •(oin^r I am ^^oiiifi^ to a missionary "Oh!" he said, meetinj^." " W'liat ! " said he, " ^oin^ to a missionary meeting ; what are you j^oin^- to a missionary meeting' for?" " Well," the sweep said, "you see I have l)ccomc a ^^^vi (){ partner in t/ie cofurr-n, m\L\ I want to "c how the business is ^cttin^ on ! " Well, now, that is just what we want. To -ealizc that we are all partners in the ^n-eat concern of s iving souls, preaching Christ's Gospel, endeavoring^ tf) hasten what we pray for, each time we say the Lord's Prayer, "Thy kini^dom come, Thy will be done in earth." An interest in missions. Not merely \^Wc our money when the subject is broached, and then th nk no more about it. That is but the interest of a " sic p- in^ partner" in the Church's great concern. An interest in missions. Cannot we take some 20 THE CHUKCH'S MARCIIINd ORDERS. field to pray for, to work for, to be interested especi- ally in ? Oh, my friends, with these marching orders of ours which know no limit of time or country, surely, surely, there is a duty for each Christian soldier, who is not only a fellow-worker with others, but has the marvel- lous honor of beini^ a fellow-worker with the Great Master; surely there is a duty for each to send forth the mission spirits — to spread the Gospel lii^ht, like angels of the dawn, with both their hands, until the kingdoms of the world become the one great kingdom of God and of his Christ. ted espcci- crs of ours cly, surely, vho is not "le marvel- thc Great send forth liL,dit, like i, until the it kin^rdom II. THE WATCHWORD. '4 ADDRESS 11. THK CHURCH'S WATCHWORD. Jesus only, Jesus always, all for Jesus Mv Dkak Impends,— Advent is here. The old Christian year, with its hopes, its joys, its falls, its fears, is closin^^r. A new year of grace with its un- known trials and its vast possibilities, is about to open upon us. A fresh field of battle, the great untried future, is rapidly nearing. As soldiers of Christ, what shall be our watchword this new year? Every season of the Church's year— the year of grace, just as every season of the natural year— comes to us with a fresh call to know God better— the Father, as our Father, the Son as our Redeemer, the blessed Spirit as our Sanctifier ; and a fresh opportunity of serving Him, of fighting down sin, of devoting our whole being to the service of the King of Kings. What watchword better, then, O army of the living God, in every thing, every day, at every confiict, than, "Jesus only, Jesus always, a// for Jesus?" What docs Advent tench us ? 24 TIIK ("!IUK(in:'S WATCHWORD. I. lAfc is a Battle. Wc promised at baptism to be ^ood soldiers of Christ ; to fi^dit manfully ai^ainst sin — the world, the flesh and the devil. Let us strive more nearly to do so. Buckle on all \\\(i Christian armor! Cast away the deeds of darkness ! Open the windcnvs of thy soul that the blessed lii;ht of God which is all around thee may stream in ! What is j'(9//r chief sin — the sin that doth so easily beset you ? Is it i)ride. lust, vanit)-, selfishness ? What is it ? Find it out, fii^dit it out, quit it, this Advent. Let " Jesus only " reii^n in your soul. IT. Life is Fleeting, A k^w more strujj^L,des, a few more si^hs, a few more partin^^s - chan^^es and chances of this mortal life ; all will be over. ICterm't)- will have bei^un. Remember, iw,o is the accepted time! whilst it is calletl to-day I Pause, thiwk, realize, life is most serious Tis only the half-way house betwixt two eternities. An eternity behind and an eternity in front ! See to it that we spend the brief space called Time "walking honestl}-, as in the day ; not in riotinj; and drunkenness, not in chambering- and v\ antonness, not in strife and cnv\-in-, every hour, every moment, consecrate it to Christ. " Jesus always! " III. Life has Results. Death must come to each and all ! and, after death, the judj^ment ! ! " Prepare to meet your God, but not in some distant land, in some far-off time. Prepare to meet Him here and now. always and everywhere. Prepare to meet Him in your office, in your business, and in all your communion with your fellow men. Let every day be your judgment day. Live so that at last shall come to >'ou as a festal invitation, the warning to prepare yourself to meet your God." Be not satisfied with this world. Seek the things unseen, eternal, which can never pass away. Be /;/ the world, yet not of the world. Look ahead ! try to pierce the dark veil which divides Now from Then ; and, like the seaman, trained m'ght by night to see through the darkness, the eyes of thy soul shall see more and more of the outlines of the heavenly Jerusa- lem — the city without foundations, where Christ, thy changeless Lord, will reign King forever. Do all, looking ahead ! " All for Jesus!" Think of these solemn thoughts ; and, something more, be quiet practical, make a fresh start. Try again! 26 Till', CllUKC II S WA'K ilWokh. (i.) Say your Prayers more earnestly, more rej^u- larly, more devotedly. Prayer brit^htens the Christian's armor. To pray is to si)eak face to face with Christ the Kin^. (ii.) Cone to Cliurcli. Let every Sunday see you there. Let nothin in ki ai ri:u. Uiulcrncath llu; >t.ili.I)' port.il Df the (lark hall of the dead ; 111 ihf silcticc of Life's Winter, Tiioii, dear soul, wilt one da)- tread. Lean, then, on the Ann not human, Look thee to the Shepherd's face; Never fear the dark and shadow, Trust the Lord of Life and dracc. Soon the Lii^ht immortal dawnrth On th\' loii^^ini;, wondering- i;a/e. Life's dark winter -now, Heaven's Sprinij-time; hursts th\- soul in rapturous i)raise. Dear Redeemer! //<';•<', the winter Of our sins Th)- ^dory hides. May we there for ever view 'ihce, Where Internal Si)rin^ abides. C. S\l)Ni;\ (iii(»i)MAN. WORCKSIKR, ENOI.ANh, Christinas^ iSSj.