Lombard Street in Lent; A Course of Sermons on Social Subjects Organized by the London Branch of the Christian Social Union, and Preached in the Church of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, Lombard Street, During Lent, 1894 with a Preface by the Bishop of Durha (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... THE IMPERIAL CHRIST, AND HIS DEMOCRATIC CREED. BY THE VERY REV. C. W. STUBBS, DEAN OF ELY, AUTHOR OF 'CHRIST AND DEMOCRACY, ' ETC. I. Town Problems. 'And many, hearing Jesus, were astonished, saying, Is not this the carpenter?... And Pilate said unto Jesus, Art Thou a king then?'--St. Mark vi. 3, and St. John xviii. 37. A CARPENTER or a king? Which was He? A workman or a leader of men? Let us think The Divine Founder of our religion, the great Head of our Church, is known in the sacred records, and has been designated from time to time in the long history of Christian society by many names and many titles. Is there any true sense in which it is right for you and me, without irreverence, to speak of Jesus Christ as the greatest of social emancipators, the most potent of labour leaders? I think so. Every king and leader of men is enshrined for us in his own age. Indeed, you will always find, I think, that the best history of any age is to be found in the biography of its hero or greatest man. The golden age of classic Greece you will better understand if you think of it as the age of Pericles; the majesty of imperial Rome when you think of it as the age of Augustus; the era of Italian Renaissance when you connect it with the thought of Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo or Raphael; the epoch of the Protestant Reformation when you speak of it as the times of Luther and Erasmus, and Colet and More. But when we come to speak of the King of the kings of men, the Flos Regum Arturus of the heroes of humanity, of what special age is He the measure? The Christ has for His times all times. Not the first century only, nor the second, nor the twelfth, nor the sixteenth, nor the nineteenth, is the age of Christ. 'The present days are His days, and we are His contemporar...