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The Board of Missions PROCEEDINGS THE BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE Protestant episcopal Cintrcl) IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AT THEIK FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL AND FOURTEENTH TRIENNIAL MEETING, HELD IN BOSTON, OCTOBER, 1 8 7 7 . N e w Y ork : E. S. Dodge Steam Presses, 95 Chambers Street. 1877. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS OF TEE Protestant (Episcopal Cintrci) . \ N IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AT THEIR FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL AND FOURTEENTH TRIENNIAL MEETING, HELD IN BOSTON, OCTOBER, 1 8 7 7 . N e w Y ork : "E. S. Dodge Steam Presses, 95 Chambers Street. 18 7 7 . F o r t y - se c o n d A n n u a l Se r m o n . Delivered before the Board of Missions, at its Fourteenth Triennial M eeting, in Trinity Churchy Boston, Thursday Evening, October 4th, by thè Rev. Noah Sunt Schenck, D.D., o f Long Island. “ And God said, Let there be light.”—Gen. i. 3. L i g h t is an eternal thing. It is G o d ’s atmosphere. He, Who has His “ dwelling in the light which no man can approach* unto,” looked upon this chaotic planet, gloomed in the more than midnight blackness which preceded the dawn of time, rent in twain the curtain of the dark, and ushered illumination to the earth by the majestic mandate, “ Let there be light.” Now another star is made to glitter with the radiance of G o d —another sparkling orb launched into space, and added to the splendors of creation. But before this world had its baptism of light the S p i e i t of G o d hovered over the awful chaos. This was the incubation of Love. Then came light. First, the moving breath, as a floating canopy of love over the void and formless matter. Then the myriad lances of light pierced the darkness, and the world was aglow with the glory of the Creator. This was the genesis. “ G o d saw the light, that it was good.” And when once light mantled the earth, creation began. It was continued through those great epochs which culminated in the making of man in the image of the Infinite G o d . Then the chorus of the skies waked the echoes of j earth in the first adoring Te Deum, “ when the morning stars sang ' ^ together, and all the sons of G o d shouted for joy.” Bathed in this material radiance, the earth has rolled along the plane N of its sphere during the revolving centuries, the gift of light never with­ in drawn, but reassured to the race in the token of the gleaming arch set in ^ the clouds, at once the pledge of a never-ending succession of harvests ^ .and the never-suspended influence of the great source of light under Si which they grow to golden maturity, praising G o d and preserving man. xI’V Thus we see that the light which began in love has always been the S - glory of the world and the power in Providence which has fostered and fed the human race. And thus it shall be to the end. But how direful the contrast when we come to speak of that other light which glittered through the Garden when the voice of G o d was heard walking in it ! Scarcely was Eden flooded with this, before the awful satanic eclipse cast 4 its cleatli-sliade over meadow and orchard, and the stricken iace to which we belong have ever since been cowering in the gloom, or groping their way back toward the light they lost when the gates of Paradise were closed behind them. As over the primeval Flood the love-breathings of God brooded until the fiat, “ Let there be light,” so over the moral chaos of earth hovers the divine afflatus of the Spirit of Christ awaiting the dawn of the Sun of Righteousness whose awaking illumination shall be as “ the light of the morning ” to “ the nations sitting in darkness.” In the horror of this great darkness we live ; and ours it is to lift the pall. Prophets have foretold the great commission ; priests have adumbrated the sacrifice of Atonement ; kings have prefigured the Messianic office ; divine spokesmen have told in advance the splendid achievements of the GoD-Man Redeemed. The logic of the atonement, as harmonized through the whole revelation from the imprimatur of the divine Logos in the beginning to the colophon of the humanized Logos in the Apocalypse, all teach in crystal clearness, that, according to the eternal law of justice and adjustment, that what man disturbed, he must tranquilize ; what he destroyed, he must restore ; what criminal indebtedness he incurred, he must cancel by payment of penalty. This is the measure of human responsibility. Here is the moral problem of earth, and the Church’s office is to work out its demonstration. Her great Head, the Second Adam, the representative of a redeemed race and the pioneer of its des­ tiny, “ with His own right hand and with His holy arin hath He gotten Himself the victory.” It only remains that all the people of the world, sharers with Christ in humanity, should become sharers with Him in the sublime trophies of the conquest He has achieved over the enemies of that humanity. Chbist has made the awful expiation. Christ has made the fullest obedience. Christ has declared the whole mind of G od concerning the duty of man. As Captain of the Great Salvation He led on the front of the column of the Redeemed, until nearing the starry portals of the many-mansioned city, the cry went forth from the angel watchers, “ Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah ? this that is glorious in His apparel, travelling in the great­ ness of His strength ? ” When myriad voices came answering back, “ Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ; and the King of Glory shall come in.” Thus culminated the effort of the Church’s Head, the Eternal Sox of God, to restore a ruined race. But when He passed through the everlasting doors they closed not after Him. As the gates of the temple of the fabled deity, Janus, were opened in war, so the portcullis of the heavenly city remains lifted until all the vic­ torious followers of CnniST shall have entered. But, meanwhile, back upon the glittering pathway of the Ascension, descends the H o l y Ghost, to carry on the holy war, and show to men the things of Cheist— the sword that always cleaves a way, the shield which no missile of earth or 5 hell can break or pierce. Meantime the “ Author and Finisher ” lingers at the heavenly gates. His voice goes forth inciting the militant Church to battle on to the end. His hands are readied out in invitation. His eyes are kindled to love, and never weary is He of uttering that tenderest of overtures : “ Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Thus it is, referring to the analogue of the material light—thus it is that the moral earth rolls on darkly, while there is a Sun of Righteousness, at the brightness of whose rising the world shall rejoice ; but of which it has as yet but a few faint auroral fore-gleams. The S p irit of G od is hovering in lambent canopies of love over our moral chaos. Nay, the decree has been trumpeted from Bethlehem and Calvary, and the unsealed sepulchre and the Mount of Ascension : “ Let there be light.” But not now, as in creation’s dawn, spoken to dumb matter. The mandate now is to those who once imaged G od in intellect, in innocency, and in immortality. The intellect has been perverted. Innocency is lost. Immortality is the stupendous issue upon which every­ thing is staked. But alas, man, as a moral being, is like the midnight marauder, who prefers the darkness. Light cannot enter the mind when the ears are stopped and the eyes are closed. Light cannot enter the heart when its windows are blinded and its doors are barred. The great orb of spiritual light is only stayed below the horizon waiting the world’s prayers for its rising. The “ dark places ” of the earth shall all see “ the marvellous light,” when once the Church can aggregate and administer spiritual forces adequate to clearing the way. Right Reverend Fathers, Brethren of the Clergy and Laity, women and children—to all who have taken the sign of the Cross upon their foreheads (for the whole Christian Church is C h r is t’s Board of Missions), to all who by Baptism are citizens of the earthly and visible kingdom of our dear L o rd , to each one I come with the burden of Dumah : “ Watch- man ! What of the night ? ” The Church of God, administered by the Holy Ghost, and operating through human agency, exists by divine appointment that it may Christianize and reclaim to God this world full of sinners. This has been her time-long, earth-wide office, warring against the powers of darkness, the soul for its battling gage, and Heaven for its guerdon. In the pro­ cession of the ages we living men have now come to have place and part in this great struggle for G od and humanity. That we act up to the sentiment of our legacy of labor, that our effort be even with the level of our opportunity, we come to such great conferences as this, to mingle in grateful and hopeful devotions, to reconsider the methods of our work, scan the ground and classify the forces anew, speculate upon ventures as yet untried, add stars to the flag as we learn of broad lands but just possessed ; and so with newly born energies of faith, new sources of benevolence unsealed, and freshly consecrated zeal, we go forth again, as 6 went the disciples of old, and under the same Catholic commission, to drive the plough through fallow fields or strike the sickle where they are “ white unto the harvest.” To either a philosophic or practical view of the Church’s office and duty to the world, it would be necessary to regard in order the proper preparatiori for the work to be done, and then the wisest methods of adaptation in doing it.
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