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Wiedinger BX 8333)).H6>T5 Housh, Lynn Harold, 1877- The imperial voice ea F el i is i | ‘ a bi i) ee THE IMPERIAL VOICE THE’ MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK - BOSTON + CHICAGO + DALLAS ATLANTA + SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., Lutep LONDON + BOMBAY + CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Lr. TORONTO THE IMPERIAL VOICE AND OTHER SERMONS AND ADDRESSES BY LYNN HAROLD ‘HOUGH, TH.D., D.D. Mew Pork THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1924 All rights reservea Coprricut, 1924, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published April, 1924. Printed in the United States of America by THE FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY, NEW YORK TO MY FRIEND HARRY F. KEEP, Esq. WITH MEMORIES OF DELIGHTFUL DAYS AT THE GRANGE tig, ag" a ie A WORD WITH THE READER Crowds of happy memories have poured into my mind as I have prepared these sermons and addresses for the press. The people who have listened always form a part of the discourse in the recollection of a public speaker. And so I have been once more meeting old friends and standing in places of noble memory as I have gone over the contents of this volume. My first visit to Birmingham, England, was a sort of pilgrimage to the church where the great Dr. Dale had preached and to the grave where he sleeps near to the British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain, the two, close friends in life and not far parted in death. Carrs Lane Church seems to this day full of the royal speech of Dr. Dale, of the sensitive and gracious preaching of Dr. Jowett, and of the wise and gripping and human words of Mr. Sidney Berry. It has been my happy lot to stand a good many times in this pulpit and to come to number the people of Carrs Lane among my friends. Here the sermons on the Conflicts of Ideals, Ideas, Experi- ences, and Salvations were preached in the summer of 1922. “The Battle with Cynicism” was preached on one of my many visits to the City Temple in London. One looks up at the portrait of the leonine face of Dr. Parker. One gazes at the clear-cut features and the deep eyes of Dr. R. J. Campbell. One looks at the face of a man who is a thinker and a dreamer, that American of finely articu- lated mind, Dr. Joseph Fort Newton. One thinks of Dr. Frederick W. Norwood, whose voice from Australia now speaks with such trumpet notes of summons and such flute-like notes of sympathy in the great pulpit. One looks and thinks, then while the great organ plays, one enters the pulpit, understanding the wonder of its traditions and the impression of the distinguished preacher who said, “When I speak in the City Temple, I feel as if I were vii viii A WORD WITH THE READER addressing the British Empire.” The University of Chi- cago has its own gift of opportunity to offer to the men who preach in Mandell Hall. As I reread the “Pilgrim’s Progress of the Mind” I think of the delightful visits to this center of learning during a number of years. “Com- merce and Civilisation” was the baccalaureate sermon at Northwestern University in 1923. “The Making of the American Mind” was the baccalaureate sermon of the. Ohio State University the same year. “The Romance of Law” was an address at the Sunday Evening Club in Orchestra Hall, Chicago. ‘The Mind of the Preacher” was a commencement address at the Divinity School of Oberlin College. “The Intellectual Life of the College Graduate” was a commencement address at Albion Col- lege. ‘Freedom and Stability” was preached at Vassar College. All these in 1923. “Humanism and Religious Education” was an address at an annual meeting of the national body of the Universalist Church. “Pragmatic Christianity” was an address given as a fraternal delegate to the General Conference of the Canadian Methodist Church in 1922. “Making the World Our City” was_ preached in Sage Chapel of Cornell University. My first visit to Cornell was in the days when Andrew D. White was still alive, and his talk was rich and racy, sparkling with erudition and insight. Happy hours I have spent in the hospitable home of President Schurman after preaching in Sage Chapel, and I have felt the notable personal and intellectual qualities which President Far- rand is bringing to his great task. “The Imperial Voice” was preached in Westminster Congregational Church in London. ‘The Story of American Commerce” and “The Friendliness of the Universe” were preached in the Cen- tral Methodist Episcopal Church of Detroit, of which I have the great privilege and happiness to be pastor. And so with deep appreciation of friendly hearers on both sides of the sea, I send forth this book which is no longer mine if there are others who care to make its thoughts their own. Lynn Hazoxp Hovueu. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE TOLER LMELBIAL VOICH i sia, caer espe eri el ess 1 vil. Tam Barren wira CyNIcIsM........ 13 ~ill; FREEDOM AND STABILITY. . 2.2. . 2... 22 Babys) HE) CONFLICY OF IDBALS 4). 0 6). koa es 29 Bony Lae CONFLICT OF IDBAS 2 ci. Fw) ee 39 — VI. Tue CoNnFLicT or EXPERIENCES ...... 47 - VII. Tue Conruict oF SALVATIONS’. ...... 56 VIII. Toe Maxine or THE AMERICAN MIND... 64 IX. THe Story oF AMERICAN COMMERCE... . 72 X. COMMERCE AND CIVILISATION. ....... 80 ae Drie CROMANCH.OF UAW fo atta p. Orel wie 87 XII. Humanism AND ReELicious EpucaTION ... 93 XIII. THe Pinerim’s Procress oF THE MIND. .. 98 XIV. THe INTELLEcTUAL LIFE OF THE COLLEGE RADIAN IG Yo UG ie chide Mette cin SW URiotig tba re Cy 105 XV. THe MIND oF THE PREACHER ....... 112 TV RAGMATIC CHRISTIANITY §. 00; 20. ee os 119 XVII. Maxine THE WoRLD OvuR City ...... 131 — XVIII. Tot FRIENDLINESS OF THE UNIVERSE. . . . 138 > p CO ool WD it be Soa THE IMPERIAL VOICE I THE IMPERIAL VOICE “The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?” Amos 3:8. We have all been thinking about the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the poet Shelley. Once again there has dwelt in our minds the thought of that rare and delicate and exotic spirit. The exquisite and ethereal quality of that verse which often seemed to capture and hold in gossamer words feelings too delicate for the rude roughness of human speech, the passion for perfection which burned like a quenchless fire in the heart of the poet, the spirit of revolt from a world whose grim brutali- ties were the contradiction of that ideal loveliness of which Shelley dreamed—all these have been in our minds as we have remembered that “ineffectual angel” of a hundred years ago. What exhaustless aspiration, what passionate futility, what wrathful scorn of things as they are, made the life of Shelley an inner tempest. Perhaps the pure Greek spirit, unsupplemented by inspiration from a higher region, can never do better than to perish with a broken heart amid the hostilities of an alien world, wrapping the mantle of its impossible dreams about it and refusing to surrender even in the hour of death. Over against all this there has been another spirit in the world. If it has not been at home in this planet, at least it has been at home in the universe. It has been saved from revolt by finding a God who has satisfied all its needs. It has found an authority which has enfran- chised its life even as it has commanded entire obedience. It has been saved from misanthropy because over against 1 2 THE IMPERIAL VOICE -every human weakness it has found divine strength, and over against all the grim unloveliness it has caught a vision of the perfect harmony of the life of God. The thought of God has become mastering. It has become a luminous transforming experience which has interpreted life and has released boundless energies. Perhaps there is no better expression of this spirit than the vital fiery words of Amos: “The lion hath roared; who shall not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?” This eighth century prophet was a rude man of the open, quite innocent of all the delicate sophistication of a highly organised civilisation. He was busy with his sycamore trees and his sheep. His clear eyes wandered to the caravans moving on the highways near him or to the distant glimpse of the heights of Jeru- salem. His mind, as clear and as straight as his vision, moved among the problems of men, and with an almost terrible candour he brooded over the life of his age. Then alone in the wilderness he met the experience which made him know that God was speaking to him and that God would speak through him. His whole life bent under the passion and the power of it. And when he came to speak to men it was with the awful authority of a fresh and unmistakable contact with the will of the very Master of Life. So we have the two kinds of voices in the world. There is the voice of confused and scornful revolt, which ex- presses ideals but has no God. There is the voice of that deep and reverent worship which has found God, and so has in it the basis of every fertilising and enriching ideal. The one has the promise of the future in it. The other is at last a passionate regret for a world which can never be. The prophet Amos is more than a voice. He is one of a line of majestic voices. He belongs to an order of regal strength. Men of this order have kept hope alive in the world. They have kept humanity faithful in the long and terrible march through the wasting years. In every age of disillusionment and discouragement they have kept the THE IMPERIAL VOICE a flags floating high. They have been the saving element in the life of mankind. They have been the men of the Imperial Voice. We do not go back before the days of Amos. Only in passing do we remember the lonely splendour of Elijah’s battle and the near intimate human touch of Elisha’s ministry. In the eighth century itself Amos was but one of a group of men of the Imperial Voice. Over against the straight rude vigour of his speech was the lofty and sonorous utterance of that statesman prophet Isaiah. The one voice was as raw as the winds of the wilderness. The other had in it all the distinction of the hfe of the court. But each was a voice speaking for a God with a character. And each had the assurance which comes from a mastering personal contact with the will of God. The same age heard the poignant voice of Hosea, who, looking up out of a broken heart and a broken home, sud- denly knew what it meant to God to look upon the faith- lessness of Israel. The heartbreak of man became the interpretation of the heartbreak of Jehovah. And in the same eighth century, Micah, full of terrible wrath in the presence of social injustice, uttered a piercing cry of wrath in the name of God. For the wrongs of the poor were the wrongs of God. What an age of great voices it was. And we need to remember that it was a couple of centuries before the first Greek thinkers laid the founda- tions of philosophic speculation and before Prince Gau- tama founded a religion of brooding meditation in India, and Confucius in China founded a system which made ethics take the place of religion. The years passed quickly enough. And when the exile loomed like a dark cloud, it was that sensitively organised prophet, Jeremiah, who spoke the great words which caused Sir George Adam Smith to say of him that he reminds you of one of those shells whose shriek is heard above the noise of battle and whose very mission is per- formed in its explosion. His vicarious life brought a new idea into the mind of Israel. And a later prophet gave 4 THE IMPERIAL VOICE that idea immortal expression in the conception of the righteous servant who goes even to death in vicarious agony. When the exile was no longer a fear, but had become an experience, Ezekiel spoke with such beautiful hopefulness that the very sound of his voice delighted men. Then they paid him the dangerous compliment of admiring his method rather than of taking his message seriously. It was he who made the value of the individual soul in the eyes of God take on a new impressiveness. Jeremiah, too, had this vision. But under the pain of the exile the conception voiced in the words, “All souls are mine,” took on a new significance. We now see that it had the very heart of democracy in it. Other voices there were singing with encouragement or sharp with reprimand. And so we come out of the old days into the days when all things were to be made new. And the new days are ushered in as we might expect, by a man of the order of the Imperial Voice. He, too, has heard the lion roar. He, too, has heard Jehovah speak. It is a world with the evidence of the power of Rome everywhere, in which John the Baptizer speaks. It is a world with its own sense of sin and its own need of a word of hope and reconciliation. John has words which are swords. He has words which have their own hope. And as he speaks all Israel listens. Then the Master comes. And He, too, speaks. You cannot exhaust Him by putting Him in the order of the men of the Imperial Voice. But on one side of His life He does belong to that order. He gives conscience such words as conscience had never possessed before. He finds phrases of such divine simplicity and such matchless pene- tration that men marvel while He speaks. At last the words of men are enlarged until they are able to tell, in © quite a new way, the meaning of the will of God. Like armies His words march to battle. Like friends they wait for us with open arms. Like judges they pronounce moral verdicts. And like angels’ wings they flutter with the wonder of the divine love. Then what Jesus says is almost THE IMPERIAL VOICE 5 lost in what He does. And the great deed which opens all the doors of hope to the world in chains is done. And the Shining Victor returns from the tomb for a golden moment of Victory ere He takes His place on the throne of power. The generation to whom these things became command- ing and authentic burst into speech. There were men of the Imperial Voice everywhere. We will only speak of one of them. Sometimes it is a difficult and expensive thing to train a voice. In that thriving commercial city of Tarsus the lad who played among the wharves and felt the distant echoes of its busy university life and went off to Jerusalem to be made a master in the learning of his own people did not suspect the future which awaited him. But bye and bye this highly trained young man came to his great hour. He saw the face of God in the face of the living Christ. He heard the voice of God in the voice of the risen Lord. And from that day his life was organised about a new centre. And soon he became the master of a voice of imperial power. In the great cities of the empire that voice was heard. Before judges and kings that masterful and skillful pleader spoke. And every- where he left behind men who knew that they had met with the very will of God when they heard him speak. So the new faith spread. And now Rome decayed and came toward its fall. But before the end there were men —not a few—who belonged to the tradition of the Imperial Voice. A brilliant and hot-blooded young North African drank his fill of hectic vices in city after city of the Empire until at last he, too, met his great hour.