{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_64742/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_64742","id":"gutenberg_64742","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64742","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. Micah, VI, 9 -- Sermons","Category: History - British","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Church of England -- Sermons -- 19th century","India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Sermons","Sermons, English"],"text":"Transcribed from the 1857 William Skeffington edition by David Price.\n\n\n\n\n\n                      \u201cHEAR YE THE ROD, AND WHO HATH\n                              APPOINTED IT.\u201d\n\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                 A SERMON\n\n                                   FOR\n\n                              The Fast Day,\n\n                             OCTOBER 7, 1857,\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                  BY THE\n                        REV. JAMES GALLOWAY COWAN,\n                 MINISTER OF ARCHBISHOP TENISON\u2019S CHAPEL.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n                                 LONDON:\n                  WILLIAM SKEFFINGTON, 163, PICCADILLY.\n                                  1857.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n\n\n\n_By the same Author_.\n\n\nCHRISTIAN MARRIAGE INDISSOLUBLE.  A plain Sermon preached at Archbishop\nTenison\u2019s Chapel, on the fifth Sunday after Trinity.  By James Galloway\nCowan, Minister of the Chapel.  4d.\n\n                                * * * * *\n\n\n\n\nA SERMON,\nETC.\n\n\n                                MICAH, VI, 9.\n\n    \u201c_Hear ye the rod_, _and Who hath appointed it_.\u201d\n\nWe believe that there is a GOD: that this GOD is the Maker and Preserver\nof all things visible and invisible; that He does now and ever shall rule\nover all as He has done from the beginning; that He calls the stars by\nname and numbers the very hairs of our heads; so that nothing, great or\nsmall, happens in heaven or earth but by His will or permission.  We\nbelieve that His rule is exercised, not simply in the maintenance of\nfixed laws, always working the same ends by the same means, but also, in\nactive special interferences in particular cases.  We believe GOD\u2019S rule\nto be a strictly moral one, that is to say, that He ever recognises and\nrewards what is right, and condemns and punishes what is wrong.  His\ntimes of interference, it is true, are not always such as we should fix\non.  He often allows righteousness to be long without its rewards, and\nwickedness without its punishment.  In the case of the individual, reward\nmay be deferred till he enters the future state which awaits him; and so\nmay punishment; or, it may be immediately consequent upon the act which\nhas earned it: while not unfrequently the moral law may seem even to be\nfor a time inverted by the prosperity of the wicked or the adversity of\nthe godly\u2014GOD\u2019S patience long bears with the wilful, while His love\nquickly chastens the weak but willing.  In the case of nations, the same\ndiscipline seems to be observed; only, as they have but a temporal\nexistence, they are always ultimately dealt with _here_ according to\ntheir deserts.  For a time, indeed, what GOD is pleased to account a\nrighteous nation may for their shortcomings and offences be abased and\ntroubled; but ere long it will be exalted: while a sinful people, though\nthey wax strong and are counted the excellent, and mighty, and honourable\nof the earth, shall soon know terribly that sin is a reproach and an\neverlasting destruction.\n\nIn administering temporal reward and punishment, GOD does not call into\nbeing new elements, out of which to construct His instruments; but He\navails Himself of what already exist, either directing, perhaps\ndiverting, natural agencies, or making the dispositions or doings of men,\nthe ministers of His providence.  It is thus that He orders rain to make\nthe earth fruitful or to flood it: wind to waft health or to bring\npestilence: lightning to ripen the fruit or to blast the tree.  It is\nthus, too, that He rewards the well-doers, out of their good thoughts and\nways, and punishes sinners out of their lusts and evil pursuits, making\nmen\u2019s own hearts and lives to be their friends or enemies.\n\nThese are the well-established principles of GOD\u2019S moral\ngovernment\u2014universal in their application, unfailing in their effects.\nIn applying them now to the case of nations, let us remember that each\nnation has a purpose appointed by GOD to answer\u2014a course to follow.  It\nmay or it may not answer that purpose and follow that course.  If it\ndoes, it is blessed with prosperity; if it does not, calamity will fall\nupon it; and, if one and another chastisement, one and another call to\nrepentance and amendment, prove fruitless, utter destruction is its\ninevitable doom.  \u201cThus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to ME, to\nwalk in my law, which I have set before you, to hearken to the words of\nMy servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and\nsending them, but ye have not hearkened; then will I make this house like\nShiloh\u201d (which at that time lay desolate), \u201cand will make this city a\ncurse to all the nations of the earth.\u201d (Jer., xxvi, 4\u20136.)  The kingdom\nof Judah was on a last trial when thus addressed by the prophet Jeremiah.\nCalamity after calamity had fallen upon it, combining chastisement and\nwarning.  Prophets had been sent to interpret these calamities, to\nreprove the people for their transgressions and to exhort them to\namendment, with the promise of consequent restoration to Divine favour;\nbut all was in vain: they would not see, they would not hear, they would\nnot return; and so within two years Jerusalem was \u201can heap of stones, and\nher king and people were wailing captives beside the river of Babylon.\u201d\n\nA warning this, and a very solemn one, to all nations; but more\nespecially to ours, my brethren, because we seem to be chosen like the\nJews to be a peculiar people to the LORD\u2014our privileges are higher, and\nconsequently our responsibilities greater, than those of other nations.\nIf sin is a reproach to _any_ people, we are sure it must be a crying\noffence in _us_: for what nation is there that hath GOD so nigh unto them\nas the LORD our GOD is to us in all things that we call upon Him for?\nAnd if He has drawn us thus nigh to Him, does He not require us more than\nothers to draw nigh to Him?  If we are, as we boast of being, \u201cthe temple\nof the LORD,\u201d surely we shall be more displeasing to Him than\nun-consecrated ground, if we become a den of thieves or a house of unholy\ntraffic.  He has exalted us to be the first of nations in religious,\npolitical, and social privileges.  He has done great things for us.  He\ntherefore expects much of us.  If, then, we grow unmindful of Him, and\nnationally dishonour His holy name, whereby we are called, either by\nneglect or transgression, we may expect His rod of chastisement, His\nvisitation of judgment.  In some of the ways in which He afflicted His\npeople of old, He will afflict us, and with the same design; for a long\ntime, to correct us and restore us to obedience and so to favour; but\nultimately, if we refuse to be reformed, to make us feel the weight of\nHis wrath and to cause us to cease from among the nations of the earth.\nI am not going to adduce proofs that GOD so deals with nations.  Every\nreader of the Bible can find them for himself.  He has but to study in\nScripture light the history of kingdoms, to ascertain beyond a doubt that\nrighteousness ever exalts a nation, and that sin is ever the reproach,\nand sin persisted in ever the ruin of any people; and that by GOD\u2019S\nirreversible appointment and by His superintending Providence.  Now this\nknowledge we may use in two ways.  Anticipating the effect from the\ncause, we may deter ourselves from national sin, by considering that its\ncommission will surely provoke a national judgment: or looking back from\nthe effect to its cause, we may find in national judgments a sure\nindication that as a people we have displeased GOD, that there is\nsomething in us which He would correct and punish.\n\nWe shall not be at a loss to ascertain what are national judgments, if we\nbear in mind that in Scripture they are represented as identical with\nnational calamities.  Anything that affects the honour, the influence,\nthe lives, the resources of our people is a judgment, of mercy or\nwrath\u2014of mercy it will prove, if we heed it; of wrath if we heed it not.\nWhen, then, a famine starves our people, or a pestilence cuts them off,\nor an enemy assails them, or they are involved in an aggressive war, or\nperplexed by civil commotions and intestine broils, we may be sure that\nGOD\u2019S judgment is upon the earth, that He is requiring us to learn\nrighteousness, or to eat the fruits of iniquity.  War in all its forms,\naggressive, defensive, or intestine, is assuredly a Divine judgment.  It\nmay be, often is, that the sword is put into a people\u2019s hand for them to\nuse as the soldiers of GOD: but that sword is always two-edged, wounding\nthose who wield it as well as those on whom it falls.  To be thus\nenlisted in the service of GOD should never be the source of\nself-gratulation or be regarded as a proof of Divine favour.  It is a\ncalamity (that is, a Divine judgment), even when we maintain the\nrighteous cause of a weak ally, or defend ourselves from a wanton\naggressor, or put down our wickedly rebellious subjects.  Assyria\u2019s hosts\nin fighting GOD\u2019S battles were made to punish themselves.  Israel had no\nwarfare to wage when GOD was well pleased with it, but only when it\nrequired correction.  And we, my brethren, in our last two righteous\nwars, had surely proofs enough in the loss of our best blood, the drain\nupon our resources, the griefs, the anxieties, the perplexities, that to\nbe GOD\u2019S agents of vengeance is no privilege to be coveted; that is a\nscourge, a fearful scourge, which a GOD who never afflicts willingly\u2014that\nis, in mere caprice\u2014would not have laid upon us, had we not needed\nchastisement, had we not provoked Him to displeasure.\n\nAnd what shall we say of that which is uppermost in all men\u2019s minds and\nforemost on all their tongues at this time\u2014our warfare in India?  Is our\npart therein a righteous one?  Assuredly.  Do those to whom we are\nopposed merit the severest chastisement our sword can inflict on them?\nWho dare doubt it?  Does GOD call on us to punish them, in His name and\nas His deputies?  We all reverently believe that He does.  Is it then all\nglory, all privilege, all favour\u2014that we are thus employed?  Surely the\nmany disasters, the sad, sad troubles we have already encountered, the\nfurther troubles which, without a prophet\u2019s skill, we can see to be\nawaiting us, must convince us to the contrary.  The famine-stricken\ngarrison allowed by Him who can save by few as well as by many, who can\ngive food from Heaven, or sustain without it, to yield itself to the\nfoully treacherous foe\u2014the pestilence-stricken band of noble, righteous\nwarriors checked in their good career\u2014are these proofs of GOD\u2019S unmingled\napprobation?  Would He without a purpose ever have allowed such\ncontending elements as Hindooism and Mohammedanism to combine against us?\nWould He who restrained this ripe rebellion when our forces were\nelsewhere doing His work, have given a loose to it now, had He deemed us\nworthy of His constantly protective power?  Would not He, who in some\ncases has caused a mere handful of men to put to flight a host, a woman\nto keep at bay a score of infuriated agents of Satan\u2014would not He have\nled us in all cases to easy triumph\u2014have crowned us long since with\ncomplete bloodless victory and trampled all those that hate us under our\nuninjured feet\u2014had we not deserved the rod of chastisement?  By His\noccasional intervention on our behalf, He has vindicated the general\nrighteousness of our cause, and manifested His power to help us when He\nwill.  Would not that aid, then, have been more frequent, would it not\nhave been constant, had we so deserved to conquer?  Recollect (it cannot\nbe too strongly or too frequently impressed upon you) GOD is free from\nall caprice; He does not afflict without a cause.  He may and does spare\nwhen we deserve punishment; He cannot afflict without provocation.\n\nIn thus tracing effects to their causes, I am not pointing at the\ncalamities which have befallen individuals, further than as illustrations\nof the general judgment.  They were not sinners above the rest of men,\nupon whom the tower in Siloam fell.  The wicked man often lives on in\noutward prosperity and comes in no misfortune like other folk; while the\nrighteous is afflicted and goes mourning all his days, or is cut off in\nthe midst of them.  Inoffensive women, innocent children, godly servants\nof the Cross have endured unspeakable agonies, and gone dishonoured\nbefore men to the grave; while unbelievers, and blasphemers, and\nlicentious, have, perchance, escaped unhurt, unassailed.  No matter: a\n_future_ state will set that right\u2014Lazarus is comforted\u2014Dives has as yet\nhis good things; but if he haste not to repent, he will ere long be\ntormented.  But, as before urged, there is no future state for nations.\nTheir visitations therefore are always judicial; and when, as in our\npresent case, they are full of calamity, it is clearly manifest that they\nare the fruit of sin.\n\nAnd cannot any reflecting mind, informed of our manner of rule in India,\ndiscern the nature and point to the instances of our provoking sin?  A\nwonderful Providence has made us, on most easy terms, possessors of a\nterritory abounding in all kinds of riches: we have brought home thence\ngreat stores of treasure: we have found there lucrative and desirable\nemployment for our children, who in their turn have been enabled to make\nample provision for their families, and we have reaped there many other\nadvantages.  With the soil, we have acquired dominion over some two\nhundred millions of human beings, possessed like ourselves of immortal\nsouls, and destined to inherit an eternal state of bliss or woe,\naccording as they shall have pleased or displeased GOD in the flesh.  We\nfound these natives sunk in various forms of the most degrading\nsuperstition, gratifying (as they thought _religiously_) the most\ngrovelling lusts, and practising the most inhuman rites.  At the time\nwhen our chartered merchants took possession of the ground they had\npurchased for warehouse room, the full glare of the Gospel-light shone\nupon us.  The semi-darkness of Popery had been dispelled.  It was the\ntriumph-day of the Reformation.\n\nNow, it is a first principle of the Gospel (which we had then no excuse\nfor not understanding), that none of us lives for himself; that a candle\nis not lighted to be hid under a bushel; that what we have received,\nChristian love and Christian duty require us to impart.  Yet we traded\nwith these benighted people, and lived among them, without allowing them\nto see the faintest glimmer of the true light.  By and by, we became\ntheir masters, or rather stewards over them for God.  We knew the\nreligious responsibilities which rest upon the rulers of a household, we\ncould not plead ignorance of the duties of stewards; still, not only did\nwe refrain from discharging these duties by instructing and regulating\nthose of whom we had the charge, but we actually ignored in their sight\nour own recognition of God, and our own personal responsibility to a\nDivine Master.  So that they not unnaturally judged that we were\ninfidels, acknowledging no religious faith at all.  It was a common\nremark made on all sides, \u201cWhen an Englishman goes to India, he leaves\nhis religion at the Cape\u201d\u2014because no sign of its having accompanied him\nwas ever witnessed.\n\nAnd this, be it observed, was not because the servants wantonly\ndisregarded their employers\u2019 injunctions.  It is recorded in history\nagainst the East India Company (and I need not tell you that the\nresponsibility does not rest wholly on them), that they never sought to\nmake converts to Christianity, but only to get money in India.  Nor, my\nbrethren, is this a crime, a dereliction of most solemn duty chargeable\non past ages only.  To this day and hour, no effort has been made by\nauthority to persuade the natives to become Christians.  Nay, worse; no\nclear exhibition of Christianity has been made to them.  There are, it is\ntrue, three bishoprics in the country, erected (and supported) by\nvoluntary societies, when the tardy permission was given.  There are also\nCompany\u2019s chaplains at the various military stations, and there are some\nfew missionaries.  But the whole number at the beginning of the present\noutbreak was only in the proportion of one clergyman to some eight or\nnine hundred thousand natives.  I know that some persons would object,\nthat even this little show of Christianity has been injurious to our\ntenure of the country; that it has roused the suspicions of the jealous\ninfidels, lest they should be coerced into an acceptance of our\nreligion\u2014that, in fact, it has caused the present outbreak.  My brethren,\nthis statement is scarcely worthy of a refutation.  If it were, I could\nfurnish it in the larger attendance of native children at the Missionary\nschools where the Bible is read, than at the Government schools from\nwhich it is excluded; and in the candid testimony of unconverted Hindoos,\nthat their greatest suspicions of compulsory conversion was founded on\nthe timid, half-concealed profession of Christianity by the English.\nBut, my brethren, suppose it even so: suppose that an attempt to proclaim\nChristianity did meet with opposition, did provoke mutiny, is not this\nwhat it has ever had to contend against?  Should you and I be Christians\nthis day, if the brave missionaries who first came to our island had\ndesisted at the earliest menace or murmur of the Ancient Britons or\nAnglo-Saxons?  O let no such vain and impious excuse be made!  We are\nbound as a Christian nation to exhibit Christianity to all our subjects;\nor, at any rate, to encourage the efforts of societies and individuals to\ndo it.  We must do it discreetly, but it must be done.  How else shall we\ngive account of our stewardship\u2014that stewardship entrusted to us for the\ngood of our subjects?  But, my brethren, we have not even brought moral\ninfluences to bear upon this people.  In our country every one is bound\nat least to obey the common law, and so is he (as far as I know), in all\nour dependencies, _save in India_.  But there (some restraints have of\nlate years been laid on them) infanticide, widow-burning, wholesale\npolygamy, and many other equally flagrant crimes have been tolerated,\nnay, deliberately sanctioned, because, forsooth, they are part of the\nMohammedan or Hindoo religion.\n\nDo we not deserve a judgment for this?  And have we not got it, alas! _in\nkind_?  We have left the Mohammedan to believe that it is heavenly to\ngratify lust, that it is meritorious to kill the disbeliever in his\nprophet.  We have left the Hindoo (till lately) to destroy the widow, to\nmurder the infant.  And has not this had its influence in the treatment\nof our outraged and murdered ones\u2014the men of peace, as well as the\nwarriors, the women and the helpless babes?\n\nThis is not the place, nor am I the person to discuss at length the\ncauses and cure of the Indian mutiny.  My aim has only been to give you\nsome glimpses of it in its religious light; and so to help you to see\nGOD\u2019S hand in it, that you may seek relief from Him; and, according to\nyour several opportunities, take counsel and use efforts to avert this\njudgment, and others, of which, if neglected, this will be the sure\nforerunner.  \u201cHear ye the rod, and Who hath appointed it.\u201d\n\nWith such sense of our neglect of GOD\u2019S work, and our fearful\nresponsibility to Him, let us draw near to the Throne of Mercy on this\nSolemn Fast Day.  Let us humble ourselves as a people for the aggregate\nof this sin, and as individuals, for the shares in it, which by our\ndeeds, our influence, our voice, our silence, we have respectively had.\nLet us consider, too, that as this wound in a \u201cmember,\u201d affects the whole\n\u201cbody,\u201d so may it have been inflicted for the sins of the whole body.\nThe moral corruption, the tolerated, the sanctioned, the _justified_ sins\nof this land, the general disregard of GOD as the administrator of\ntemporal affairs, the unwilling acknowledgment, often withheld, of\nresponsibility to Him; the sins like in kind to those which now excite\nour horror and indignation, the deceit and fraud, the atrocious murders,\nthe daring deeds of uncleanness, the reckless meddling with the sacred\nlaw of marriage here at home\u2014who shall say that this unhealthy state of\nthe \u201cbody\u201d has not helped to cause the sore in the \u201cmember\u201d?  And who\nshall not acknowledge that it is of Divine Mercy that that sore has not\nbroken out in a more vital part?  O then, as we \u201chear the rod, and Who\nhath appointed it,\u201d let us not only submissively receive the\nchastisement, but also humbly and thankfully adore the clemency, which\nhas made it so much lighter than we deserved.\n\nBut this is a day of requests as well as acknowledgments.  We have to\nmake our humble petitions to Almighty God; and to be acceptable\npetitioners, we must offer righteous prayers\u2014righteous, not simply in the\nfeeling that we merit punishment, that we do not merit mercy; but in the\nresolution to provoke punishment no longer; to deserve, by appreciating\nand turning to godly advantage, the supplicated mercy.  \u201cWe have done\nwrong, we repent, we pledge ourselves to amend:\u201d in this tone do we pray\nfor peace and the restoration of our dominion; at least if we do not, the\nintelligent Christian must devoutly hope that our prayers may not be\nanswered.  Better, far better would it be, much as the worldly-wise will\nderide the folly of the assertion, that we should lose India altogether,\nthan that it should be given back to us in anger; than that it should be\nagain a wide field, on which to display our contempt of Christianity\u2019s\nstrongest obligations: we the holders of a gift, which not to hand on is\nto lose, seeming not to know that we have that gift: we the soldiers of\nthe Cross to connive at, to sanction, and so to adopt and establish the\ndominion of Satan!  O, as you pray for the success of our soldiers\u2019 arms,\nasking that they may prevail and execute justice (_not revenge_) and\nrestore peace, let it be with the resolution that so soon as the fitting\ntime arrives, your voice, and influence, and means shall do their utmost\nto send out a spiritual army, to obtain a better conquest, to set up a\nmore glorious dominion, to secure a more lasting and effectual peace\nwherein righteousness shall reign!\n\nMeantime, let us not forget\u2014oh, their case will bear no delay!\u2014the\nimmediate sufferers under the Divine displeasure.  Too many, alas! have\nalready drunk the bitterest dregs of our cup of visitation.  Brutally\ntreated, savagely murdered, it is too late to do anything for them.  But\nthere are many whom danger as yet but threatens; whom fiendish lust and\ncruelty are seeking to grasp and victimise; whom the sword may smite or\nthe pestilence lay low, or the famine starve.  What can we do for them?\nI am not asking what the Government is to do for them: they know their\nwork, and seem fully bent on doing it: but what can we, as individual\nChristians, here at home do?  What, my brethren, but pray for them?\nBesiege the throne of GOD daily: intreat Him, if it is needful to smite\nus yet longer with His rod, at least to bear less heavily on the innocent\nand helpless, to prepare those whom He wills to take, for death and the\njudgment that comes after death; to sanctify their sufferings; to comfort\nthose who mourn for them.\n\nAnd something else remains for us to do.  There are sufferers in this sad\nmutiny who have escaped with life, but nothing else.  We read of crowds\nof them, helpless babes without nurse or mother; gentle, delicate women,\naccustomed to all the comforts of life, huddled together in one\nroom\u2014their hearts torn with the loss of those they loved\u2014their minds\ndistracted with the remembrance of the atrocities they have\nwitnessed\u2014perhaps experienced\u2014their bodies enfeebled, if not diseased,\nthrough their unspeakable hardships\u2014without a comfort of any kind, or the\nmeans of procuring it!  You know what to do for them.  You know the value\nand power of sympathy timely shown in relieving pain, in binding up the\nwounds of the heart.  In the name of the Great Sympathiser be not slow to\nmanifest that sympathy in all possible ways; and as a substantial proof\nthat you have it, lose no time in sending your contributions to the Fund\nwhich is to relieve their most pressing wants.\n\nI will not do you wrong by supposing that you need words of mine to urge\nyou to this duty.  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