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Kings, 2nd, XII, 7 -- Sermons","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Church of England -- Sermons","Sermons, English -- 19th century"],"text":"Transcribed from the 1868 Bell and Daldy edition by David Price.\n\n\n\n\n\n                  _PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND_.\n\n\n                                 A SERMON\n\n                             PREACHED IN THE\n\n                       PARISH CHURCH OF DONCASTER,\n\n                   ON SUNDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1868,\n\n                ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST OFFERTORY IN\n                          LIEU OF A CHURCH-RATE.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                    BY\n\n                           C. J. VAUGHAN, D.D.\n\n                           VICAR OF DONCASTER.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                         _Published by Request_.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                 LONDON:\n                       BELL AND DALDY, YORK STREET,\n                              COVENT GARDEN.\n                                  1868.\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nTHIS Sermon was preached in the common course of the Sunday Services, and\nwithout any idea of its being noticed beyond the circle of its hearers.\nAs, however, the interest of the subject, far more, certainly, than\nanything in its treatment, has called some attention to the Sermon since\nits delivery, I have thought it right to comply with the request of some\nrespected members of the Congregation, and commit it to the chances of\npublication.  In so doing, I have made no attempt to supply its many\ndeficiencies, nor have I even removed from its opening sentences an\nallusion to other Sermons of which it formed the continuation.\n\nDONCASTER,\n         _September_ 4, 1868.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA SERMON.\n\n\n    Why repair ye not the breaches of the house?\n\n                                                         2 _Kings_ xii. 7.\n\nTHE House is the Temple.  We have travelled, therefore, from the north to\nthe south of Palestine, from the capital of Israel to the capital of\nJudah.  As soon as the two great prophets, Elijah and Elisha, are no\nmore, the interest of the story centres no longer in the kingdom of the\nten tribes: it reverts to the stock of David, and finds its latest gleam\nof beauty and glory in the national reformations and personal pieties of\nHezekiah and Josiah.\n\nElisha is not yet dead: but he has ceased to occupy the sacred page after\nthe anointing of Jehu, until he appears once more, and finally, in the\nstriking incidents of his death-bed and his grave.\n\nMeanwhile that Baal-worship which Jehu has extirpated in the north, has\nfound refuge in the southern realm, under the fostering patronage of a\ndaughter of the house of Ahab.  Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, had married\na second Jezebel, in the person of her daughter Athaliah.  Jehoram\nreigned eight years, and was succeeded by his son Ahaziah, who perished,\nas we read last Sunday, with his uncle Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of\nIsrael, under the hand of the avenging Jehu, the scourge of God.\n\nThen Athaliah, seeing that her son was dead, determined to reign for\nherself.  She was one of those masculine spirits, one of those heroines\nof pride and crime, who can brook no puny, infant sovereigns; she could\nnot live to be ruled by a grandchild; and so she took the decisive step\nof _destroying all the seed royal_, after which, it is said, _Athaliah_,\nlate the queen-mother, _did reign over the land_.\n\nBut it is seldom, on this earth\u2014which is still God\u2019s, however much, at\ncertain times, the devil may claim it for his own\u2014it is seldom, I say,\nthat crime is quite prosperous, quite thorough: something is forgotten in\nevery murder, which rises at last into a testimony; and some one, some\nlittle babe perhaps, is overlooked in every massacre; there is a sister,\nit may be, or an aunt\u2014as it was here\u2014whose heart yearns over that little\ncradle, and who contrives to rescue its unconscious occupant to be the\nheir of the throne and the avenger of the family.\n\nSuch was King Joash; rescued by his aunt Jehosheba from her own mother\u2019s\nfury, and by her hidden, during six years of earliest childhood, in one\nof the chambers of the Temple\u2014for she was the wife of Jehoiada, the High\nPriest.\n\nIn his seventh year, there was a conspiracy, a revolution, and a\ncoronation.  The little King was _shown_ to the people in the\ntemple-court, the crown was put upon him, the testimony (or book of the\nlaw) was given him, he was made and he was anointed, and all the people\n_clapped their hands_, _and said_, _God save the king_.  And when the\nusurping grandmother, attracted by the tumult, came upon the scene, with\nthe cry, _Treason_, _treason_! the High Priest _had her forth without the\nranges_; she was allowed to pass unmolested through the crowd and through\nthe guard, till she was outside the consecrated ground; and there she was\nslain.\n\nThis was the curious, memorable entrance of the little King Joash upon a\nreign of forty years in Jerusalem.  You can imagine how that scene must\nhave printed itself on his memory.  It must have given a strange, a\nsolemn importance to the house of God, and all its belongings.  The\nrecollection of that sudden command, given by the High Priest, his uncle,\npreserver, and king-maker, _Have her forth without the ranges_, must have\nwritten upon his heart an indelible impression of the sacredness of that\nspot which could thus arrest revolution and make the most righteous doom\nimpious.  You will not wonder, therefore, if his young thoughts were\nfirst turned, as a Sovereign, to the wretched, the dilapidated state of\nthe Temple itself.  It appears that, on the one hand, there were long,\ncareless arrears of temple income: people had grown indifferent to the\npayment of their most unquestionable dues to the Altar and the\nPriesthood: on the other hand, there was a positive as well as a negative\ndefalcation; for on that sacred height of Mount Zion there had arisen,\nside by side with God\u2019s Temple, a rival shrine of Baal; and the\nidolatress Athaliah, with her creatures, seems to have taken from the one\nto build the other: in short, the very foundation and wall-stones of the\nHoly House had been gradually pillaged and carted away, and the House\nitself stood a monument at once of modern shame and ancestral glory,\nneeding the builder\u2019s hand to restore it to decency and even to safety.\n\nAs for the vessels of the House\u2014all those costly priceless treasures with\nwhich the wealth and piety of king Solomon had filled it\u2014they had gone,\nbit by bit, to buy off the annoyances of powerful neighbours: King\nRehoboam, at the very outset of the schism, had given Shishak Solomon\u2019s\nshields of gold, and replaced them with pitiful shameful shields of\nbrass: it was too late, or too soon, to think of ornament\u2014the present\nquestion was one entirely of use and substantial repair.\n\nIt seems that even the efforts and injunctions of the young King were for\nmany years ineffectual.  In the twenty-third year of his reign the old\nbreaches were still unrepaired.  It is astonishing\u2014men would not believe\ntill they had tried it\u2014how long it takes to re-awaken one slumbering\nconscience, or indeed to make one desired work of reparation, be it never\nso small\u2014we see it ourselves at this moment in a side-chapel of this\nChurch\u2014a fact accomplished.  And so King Joash, stung to the soul by the\ndisappointment of his own good intentions, summons before him Jehoiada\nthe Priest, his own uncle and benefactor, and expostulates with him and\nhis brother-priests in the words of the text, _Why repair ye not the\nbreaches of the House_?\n\nAnd the result of it is, that, instead of leaving the money received for\nthis purpose in the unaccountable hands of the Priests, they have a chest\nmade, with a hole bored in the lid of it, and set beside the altar; and\nthe Priests are to put all the money which they receive into this chest;\nand then they have a civil auditor, the King\u2019s scribe, a sort of\nSecretary of State, to act with the High Priest in counting and applying\nthe sums thus accumulated, and so it passes direct into the hands of the\ncarpenters and builders, and the work is done.\n\nMy brethren, you will all perceive why I chose this text this evening,\nwhen we are making our first collection, under altered circumstances, for\nthe more substantial part of our annual expenditure upon this Church.  It\nis true, this House of Prayer is not in all respects like Solomon\u2019s\nTemple: I mean that, in Christian times, it is not the fabric, it is the\nCongregation, which is the Temple or House of God.  Nevertheless, without\na fabric a congregation is a rope of sand: there must be a place if there\nis to be a worship: and therefore the distinction, though true, may be\noverstrained; and I am not afraid to apply to this Church, the building I\nmean, the expostulation of King Joash with Jehoiada and the Priests, _Why\nrepair ye not the breaches of the House_?\n\nI have not, indeed, one moment\u2019s anxiety as to your response.  You love\n_the place_, this place at least, _where God\u2019s honour dwelleth_.  I\nbelieve that your periodical offerings on this monthly occasion will be\nalmost, or perhaps quite, equal to those which you make for any work of\npiety or charity: and I may remind you that there is an especial reason\nwhy your offerings should be large at the outset, inasmuch as already\nfour months are gone by of the current year, and we have to supply in\neight months the resources (as they hereafter will be) of twelve.\n\nBut on this point I feel an entire security.  You will never allow those\nwho undertake the office of your Churchwardens to incur any\nresponsibility but such as you cheerfully guarantee to them.  I will\nrather take the opportunity of saying one word upon the more general\nquestion.\n\nWe have never in this place\u2014certainly not for many years past\u2014laid a\ncompulsory church-rate.  We have always allowed those who would to refuse\npayment.  Even when the law was clearly with us, we have never taken\nadvantage of it.  So far, we might, if we would, have regarded the new\nAct as confirming and stereotyping our own local custom.\n\nBut there were these two differences.  We could no longer carry with us\nthe influence, the persuasion, of an unenforced compulsion.  We could no\nlonger say, as heretofore, He _that may command_, _entreats_.  Henceforth\nit was lawful to refuse.\n\nAgain, we could no longer extend our payments over the whole Town; and,\nwith whatever abatements from caprice or principle, hope to enlist, in\nthe work of reparation or maintenance, the sympathies of an entire\npopulation.\n\nIt became necessary, therefore, that we should look to the Congregation\nalone; and, in one form or in another, ask those to support, who really\nlove and use, this House of God.\n\nHence our appeal to you this evening.  And if on future occasions the\nappeal is commonly made to you in silence, without special enforcement\nfrom this place, yet let me hope that you will all register it in your\nminds as a just claim, and not suffer these periodical gatherings to lose\ntheir interest or to fail in their amount.\n\n_Why repair ye not the breaches of the House_?  The subject expands\nitself before us, and we read the remonstrance as applying no longer to\nthe fabric, but rather to these three larger and more sacred topics, the\nCongregation, the Church, the soul.\n\n1.  That anxiety which we do not feel about the fabric, for we are sure\nthat you will attend to it, we cannot stifle as regards the Congregation.\n\nFor indeed it is this which makes the House.  The building is only\nvaluable, only significant, for the sake of the inmates.  When it is\nasked of us, _Why repair ye not the bleaches of the House_? we may look\nup indeed at our broken pinnacles, our not watertight roof, our falling\nflowers, our patchwork pomegranates, and think that these too require\nattention or deserve reproach; but, after all, these are not the real\nthings; these altogether make not the House; the House, the Temple, now,\nin these days of spirit and Gospel, is the community, the congregation,\nthe living body within.  How is it with this?  Are there no breaches\nhere, visible not to an eye of flesh, but to One who seeth in secret?\n\nFor example, my brethren, is there not too great a disproportion here\nbetween the real and the nominal worshippers?  Is it not lamentable, is\nit not even discreditable, that so many should be present at one Service\nonce on the Lord\u2019s Day, and so few at any other Service either on this\nHoly Day or on any other? that so many should come together here this\nevening to listen to music or preaching, so few to pray and to praise, so\nfew to break the Holy Bread, or to drink the Sacred Wine?  Is not this\none of the _breaches of the House_, the spiritual house, which wants\n_repairing_ amongst us?\n\n2.  But this carries me on to a somewhat wider field, which I have called\nnot the Congregation, but the Church.  And here, as is natural indeed in\nthese eventful, these quickly moving times, my thoughts are upon our own\nChurch, that communion which is the congregation of congregations; that\ncommunion which we have heretofore known as the Church of England by law\nestablished.\n\nSo rapid has been the course of events in late years\u2014I might single out\nthe last ten, or the last five, or (quite by exception) the last year of\nall\u2014that Church-people must prepare themselves, I feel sure, for a\nspeedy, a scarcely gradual, demolition of all that has been distinctive,\nall that has been exceptionally advantageous, in their position.  An\neminent man and excellent Bishop, who was laid in his grave last Friday,\nwas wont to say, _If I live ten years_, _I shall be the last Bishop of\nPeterborough_.  It is more than probable that some of my younger hearers\nthis evening may live not only to see what we call the Church of England\nthrown altogether upon voluntary offerings for its maintenance\u2014in which\ncase some of them may remember in old age the first collection made in\nthe Parish Church of Doncaster for the repairs of its fabric and the\nexpences of its services\u2014but also to find it at least an open, perhaps a\nvery doubtful, question, to whom shall belong the Churches themselves and\nthe glebe-houses\u2014whether indeed there shall be left to the old Church of\nEngland, as we still fondly call it, any vestige of that legal standing\nwhich has made her hitherto the calm shelter of her children, the\nadmiring wonder of foreigners, and the mark of obloquy or envy (as the\ncase might be) to thousands of her domestic enemies.\n\nI am far from regarding this prospect\u2014be it far off or near\u2014with unmixed\nalarm or dismay.  I never believed that the Establishment, as such, was\nChrist\u2019s Church in England, or that the withdrawal of the favour of the\nState would be the putting out in our communion of the Divine Shechinah.\nIt is not so much for the Church that I fear: for I firmly believe\nChrist\u2019s words, _Lo_, _I am with you alway_, and doubt not that the old,\nthe everlasting benediction is able to repeat itself in many new, many\ndiverse forms.  I do fear something for the State, when it ceases to have\na religion.  I do fear something for the average tone of religion in our\ncottages and in our palaces, when there is no longer one form of worship\nwhich has upon it the stamp of pedigree and of custom; when it is an\nevenly balanced question with every man and with every family, _Whither\nshall I go this day for God\u2019s worship_? _whither_, _or whether any\nwhither_?  I do fear that there will be more and more in many houses of a\ncold indifferent scepticism, a Christless education and a Godless life.\nI do fear that more and more may reach old age ignorant of a Saviour, and\ngo to their graves without any sure and certain hope of a resurrection to\neternal life.\n\nFor the Church itself I fear not.  In so far as the Church of England (so\ncalled) has had Christ in her and God with her, she is indestructible and\nimmortal.  In so far as she has trusted in outward advantage, and\nsuffered herself, in her priests or in her people, to become sluggish,\nlukewarm, contemptuous, or persecuting\u2014in so far let a change into\nadversity\u2014God grant it\u2014reform her.  The great question for all of us, in\nour several stations, more especially in the days which are now coming,\nor almost come, upon our Church, must be this one of the text, _Why\nrepair ye not the breaches of the House_?\n\nLet the Priests of the Temple ask it\u2014ask it of themselves\u2014Are they\ntrusting at all in the advantages of an Establishment, and negligent, in\nthe same degree, of that personal industry, of that individual\nself-sacrifice, which alone can justify their endowment, maintain their\nhonour, or do their work?  If the Established Church of England, as such,\nbe swept away, then, along with it, will go all idle, inconsistent,\nscandalous Ministers: those who are to serve at God\u2019s Altar afterwards\nmust be only such as are respected by their people: let it not have to be\nsaid that England would gain as much as she loses by ceasing to have an\nendowed, an established Ministry, inasmuch as, quite as often as not, the\nParish Minister was an indolent, an unworthy, or an inefficient man!\nThis is the way in which the Priests must set themselves to repair the\nTemple-breaches.\n\nThen for the People.  To what end does a Church exist amongst us?  To\nwhat purpose this costly, this almost magnificent apparatus of vestment\nand ritual, of Cathedral Church and elaborate minstrelsy?  Does it mean\nanything, or nothing?  If it represents to the country, in symbol and\nform, the wants of man\u2019s soul, and the absolute necessity of a Divine\ncommunion, then prove it by the using!  Do not talk of the duty of the\nState, of the rights of the Church, of Apostolical Succession and an\nauthorized Ministry\u2014and never use any!  When the Church of England\nceases, with our will or without it, to be an established, privileged, or\nfavoured Church at all; then, how many of you will be found to come\nforward in its maintenance?  How many of you will worship here, when\nthere is no longer any traditional or conventional propriety in doing so?\nHow many will accept their position, in reference to man, as only one out\nof fifty or a hundred denominations\u2014treat with all respect and charity\nothers who follow not with them\u2014and yet, for themselves, become but the\nmore earnest and devout Churchmen, in proportion as State aid and legal\nendowment become things of the past\u2014things, it may be, of remote and\nalmost forgotten history?\n\nAnd, meanwhile, let me ask this of the Churchmen here assembled this\nevening, Are we half as liberal\u2014I ask it advisedly\u2014in giving for the\nmaintenance of our Church, as are many bodies of Nonconformists in their\nofferings for theirs?  You know that we are not.  Let us look about us in\nthis matter.  Let us rise to the emergency.  Show that you value your\nChurch, by giving bountifully in her behalf.  If the Church is what you\nprofess it to be, surely it is worth something, something even of\nself-sacrifice, to maintain it in its efficiency.  You know that there\nare many amongst us to whom the Church costs nothing.  On one pretext and\nanother, they evade all her burdens.  They grudge the very rents of their\nsittings; and if those rents were exchanged to-morrow (as I would they\nwere) for Offertories, still they would give nothing.  My brethren, these\nthings ought not so to be.  By this grudging, this ungenerous spirit, we\nare drawing down upon ourselves, as a judgment, the sentence of\ndisestablishment and disendowment.  Be it not so amongst us!  Count no\nmoney better spent than that which is given for the repairing of the\nbreaches of this House; meaning now by the House, not only or chiefly the\nfabric, but rather the purpose for which the fabric stands\u2014the\nedification and salvation of human souls.  Above all, see that you\nrightly, earnestly, industriously use the means of grace herein afforded\nyou.  What would not they give, who are gone from us this last week by\ndisease or accident, unrepentant, unredeemed, for one such feast of love\nas was accepted this morning by but six and twenty souls\u2014for one such\nopportunity as we have enjoyed this evening of drawing nigh to the Throne\nof Grace through our one Divine Lord?\n\n3.  Thus, then, we pass naturally, in conclusion, to that House, or\nTemple of God, which is of all the most intimate, the most sacred, the\nmost inaccessible; yet in which, if anywhere, the true fire burns of an\nacceptable sacrifice\u2014the real altar is built of lively, living, devoted\nstones.  That House is the soul; and it, too, has its _breaches_.  Yes,\nwe know it.  That Temple\u2014which ought to _lie four-square_, which ought to\nhave everything in its place, which ought to be gleaming with the fire of\nthe Holy Ghost, and adorned with the precious stones of a meek and quiet\nand pure and Godward spirit\u2014that Temple, of which the light ought to be\nshining through into the life, and making every act and word and thought\ngracious and beneficent and God-recalling\u2014that Temple is all jagged and\ndisordered and spotted and sin-stained\u2014that Temple lets its altar-fire go\nout every half-hour, and suffers _a darkness that may be felt_ to settle\ndown upon its chambers\u2014making unbelievers at last say, _If that be\nfaith_, _give me reason_; _if that be piety_, _give me conscience_; _if\nthat indeed be religion_, _let me know only the heathen\u2019s revelation_\u2014_of\ngood sense_, _good nature_, _and an elevated self-love_!\n\n_Why repair ye not the breaches of the House_?\n\nDo we answer, _I cannot_?  It is a reproach, it is a calumny, upon the\nGospel of Divine grace.  That is the very revelation of the Gospel\u2014_God\ngiveth more grace_: more, as we need more; more, as we ask more; more, as\nwe look and wait and make room for more.  I _cannot_?  No; but God can.\n_Ask_, _and ye shall have_.\n\nOr do we answer, _I need not_?  _I am well enough as I am_\u2014_God is very\nmerciful_\u2014_He knows our frame_, _and whatever deficiencies He sees in\nme_, _Christ will make them up_?  Alas! it is too often the evangelical\nreply\u2014if not with the lips, then in the heart!  Christ died to make sin\nless sinful, to make sin less dangerous, by substituting a figment of\njustification for a reality of holiness, watchfulness, and self-control!\nThus even the Blessed Lord Himself is made _a minister of sin_, and man\nturns the very table of his blessing into a new occasion of falling!\n\nOr do we answer, finally, _I will not_?  _I love the breaches of my\nsoul\u2019s house_; _I do not wish that the gusts of passion should be fenced\nout_; _I do not wish that there should be no crack or cranny through\nwhich I may peep out on the world\u2019s vanities_, _nor any secret neglected\npostern through which some delicious delirious lust may creep in to\nintoxicate me_?  Oh! worst of all, most hopeless, this last answer\u2014the\nanswer of many consciences, will they but speak, in this great\nCongregation; the answer which not only virtually denies, but wilfully\nrefuses, the Gospel; which makes the Cross an offence, and Christ to have\ndied in vain!\n\nMay it please God, by some one of His thousand, His myriad agencies, to\nmake us feel! to bring us to our knees in hearty repentance before Him;\nand then, even as it is written, _humbling ourselves_ first _under His\nmighty hand_, at last to _exalt us in due time_!\n\n\n\n\n_RECENT WORKS BY DR. C. J. VAUGHAN_.\n\n\nTHE CHURCH OF THE FIRST DAYS.  Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles.  I.\nTHE CHURCH OF JERUSALEM, SECOND EDITION.  II.  THE CHURCH OF THE\nGENTILES.  SECOND EDITION.  III.  THE CHURCH OF THE WORLD.  SECOND\nEDITION.  Fcap. 8vo, cloth, price 4_s._ 6_d._ each.\n\nLECTURES ON THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN.  SECOND EDITION.  Two Vols. crown\n8vo, price 15_s._\n\nWORDS FROM THE GOSPELS.  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