"And these things I speak in the world,

that they might have my joy fulfilled in

themselves." J ohn 17: 13
The.re exists a difficulty in
expounding the Gospel of John,
notwithstanding the transparent
simplicity of his style. There are two
reasons forthis.ln the first place,John
is a seer. He arrives at truth by intuition,
not by argument. He does not reason,
he simply sees. And it is fitting that the
Apostle who lay upon Jesus' bosom,
and who is called the Disciple whom
Jesus loved, should
apprehend' the truth
qUite as much through
the sympathy of the
affections as by the
exercise of the
understanding.1n the
highest and purest since
of the word, John was
the mystic of the
Apostolic college, as Paul
was the logician. The
latter goes down with his
massive reasoning into
the bosom of the law,
and seizes the eternal
principles of justice and
of right, and holds them
up before the eyes of men; And then he
lays the whole work of Jesus Christ
over against thes , and establishes the
fact of our justification in the sight of
God. But the representation, you
perceive, is external; We are able to
apply the rule and the square to the
whole of his reasoning, and thus to
take the dimensions' of his argument.
We, rise from the discussion with the
assurance of haVing grasped, in all
their majesty and proportion, the
principles which were involved, -
simply because they were presented to
the logical understanding, and we have
been able to go around the argument
upon the four sides of the square. But
John resembles more one of the
prophets of the Old Testament, whom
the Holy Spirit lifts to an elevated
plane in order that he may just open
his eyes and see; and, when he has seen
,thathemaystandforthasawitnessand '
testify. He may not inaptly be styled
the Ezekiel of the New Testament,
whose words are symbols, obscurely
understood by those whose experience
does not rise to the level of his own.
Upon this ground, there is an inherent
difficulty in expounding his writings.
Again,John, beyond all the writers
of the New Testament, is a reporter of
Chtist's words: and what must be the
words of such a being as Christ! He the
sinless man! Whose judgment was
never warped by prejudice; whose
reason was never blinded by passion;
whose power, of thought, of feeling
and of action stand in the hannonybf
a perfect agreement, no one of themby
the breadth of a hair overlapping the
other. He, the Great Prophet too! Not
as Isaiah with all his fire; nor as
Jeremiah, with all his pathos; nor as
Ezekiel, with all his ecstasy: but as the
Head of ' the entire Prophetic
Dispensation, front Enoch down to
Malachi; all of whom were implicity
contained in Him, and each severally
deriving inspiration from Him. Not
only this, but the very God, coming
from the bosom of the Father, that he
may reveal Him! What shall be the
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words of this Revealer, but the flashes
of light from the person and being
Jehovah,- swifter than the lighting,
more dazzling than the sun? Look at
the sun rising from the lap of the
morning, gilding the mountain's top,
sloping down its steep descent, filling
every crevice in its side, and throwing
at last a broad glory over a hemisphere-
lighting up the clouds and unsub-
stantial air until they seem solid with
the glory with which they are filled.
Yet the sun is only God's work, while
Jesus Christ is God
himself.
Ahl When He grasps
one of the vast thoughts
of God, and does that
mightymiracle beforeus,
of imprisoning it in a
human word-and then
sets that word in a book-
what depth shall not that
word have? How shall it
not part beneath our
gaze, and let us down
into the very abysses
from which it was at first
drawn up? I have a long
while ago got past the
need of any external
argument for the divinity of Jesus
Chtist. If a man tell me that Christ is
not God-but only a man, or at best an
angel, or perhaps a gifted prophet, I
tum away from these coldspeculations
which chill the soul as with a polar
atmosphere, and walkUp and down in
this wann Gospel of the beloved
disciple. As I bend down my ear to
these verses, I find them throbbing
with the pulse of infinite life and love;
until it seems as though the echoes
were rolling up from the deep eternity
in which Jehovah dwells. We cease to
reason; thought glides into devotion;
and we feel we are about ready to step
from the heaven ofJohn's Gospel, into
the heaven of John's Apocalypse.
Readers, I come to you with one of
these Christ-words:"And these things I
speak in the world, that they might have
my joy fulfilled in themselves." Christ's
joy! What monal shall expound it?
Who shall mount into the
consciousness of such a being as the
God-man so as to delineate His joy?
Who can stretch his thought around
His complex person and take up the
two lobes of His nature, who is
presented in Scripture as the Christ of
God; and feel that he measures his
consciousness, and is able to interpret
Him to human thought?
And, if he should, must
not such a monal die from
sheer ecstasy? It seems
wicked to take a strong
word, like this in the text,
and break it into fragments,
just because we are
incapable of comprehen-
ding it as a whole; as
sometimes we take a pure
beam of the sun and pass it
though the prism. Some-
times, we have counted the
colors of the specuum,
pronoucing which are the
heat rays, and which are
thecolorrays, we conclude
that after all we have added little to our
knowledge, and find it bestto combine
all again, and send the white light
forth upon its blessed mission to chase
darkness and gloom from the earth.
So, after we have analyzed this joy of
our Redeemer, we may conclude that
it is better to mass the fragments again
into the one single idea, and share in
the joyunti! we are intoxicated with it.
Let me, then, present what I have to
say under four specifications.
1. Look at the joy of Christ, in the
consciousness of His sinless rectitude.
Even we,inourmeasure, can appreciate
that subtle joy which steals through
every fiber of our nature, under the
consciousness of doing that which is
right- and still more, under the
consciousness of being that which is
right. Just to the extent that one's
moral nature has been cultivated, is
the consciousness of rectitude, even
though it be partial, a source of
unutterable satisfaction. I scarcely
know how to illustrate this,unless I
compare it to the physical pleasure
which diffuses itself over the whole
body from the bare possession of
physical life and health. Look at the
young of animals,-not excepting your
own children, as they spon around
your knee at the fireside-how, in their
frolic they exhibit a strange delight
which thrills through every nelve and
every muscle, from the simple factthat
they live. The glow of health diffuses
itself over the whole frame, as a source
of exquisite pleasure. Were you ever
sick? After a little, you feel it to be
worth even the pain and the pelil of
sickness, to enjoy the luxury of
convalescence; when God pours the
tide of life back upon you, which had
been receding, and which you feel
tingling to your fingers' ends.
Well, carry the analogy from the
natural world into the spiritual, and
see if there be not such a thing as the
life of the soul, and the health of the
soul. If a man feel within himself the
powerto do battle with the temptations
of life, to spting over its ttials and its
SOTI'OWS- shan he not possess, in the
bare consciousness of this spiritual
vigor, a superb joy? I can only picture
the thing to you by the illustration
which I have employed; and then ask,
what must have been the joy of our
Lord in consciousness of His own
rectitude- in the serene consciousness
of His holiness as God, and then, lying
over against this, the sweet
consciousness of His sinlessness as a
man? It is written of Him, that He was
"holy, harmless, undefiled, separate
from sinners." There was
in Him the sense of perfect
purity in both natures, as
these were united in His
mysterious person, which
nothing could disturb.
Deep as was the agitation
of His spirit under the sin
which was laid upon Him
and for which He came to
atone- and great as may
have been His recoil from
the sins of others with
which He came in daily
contact-there was a calm
beneath in the hidden
depths of His soul, which
nothing could vex. Just as
the ocean which appears to be stirred
throughout, when the storm lifts up
the waves and dashes them against the
stars: and yet there are deeper depths,
where the mermaidssingin the grottoes
of pearl and know nothing of the
boisterous battle which is waged upon
the surface. Such a peace pervaded the
whole life and thought of our Redeemer
upon earth, in the sublime
consciousness of His perfect purity
and rectitude. I apprehend that we
find here, in pan at least, the secret of
His frequent retirement from the
bustling crowd; sometimes in the little
family at Bethany, but still more often
on the lonely mountain-where, in
secret meditation, He spreads out His
thought over the great work which He
must discharge, yet infinitely full of
joy in the perfect consciousness of His
own obedience to His Father's will.
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My brethren, ate we able, on this
earth; to share in thisjoy of our Lord?
See how it comes to us through the
rectification of ournature; when God's
blessedspiritquickensusintospiritual
life, and there comes upon us the first
sweet senSe of its possession.
Perhaps the first evidence of birth
into the kingdom of God, is the blind
instinctive joy which comes into the
heart from the first possession of
spiritual life. We do not instantly
analyze it. That is to be tracked
afterwards in the experience which
lies beyond. But at the first, when the
Holy Spirit us with His
quickening energy, there is an
inexpressible thrill of joy through the
whole nature which I;tas thus '. been
made alive from a state o[spirituai
death. .
Afterwards, this divine life deepens
in the soul, in .our progressive
sanctification; until we come to the
consummation of it, when, in the
supreme hour, the Holy Spirit puts
fonh His divine energy once more,
and changes grace into glory. When
the life which He gave in the second
birth, expands in the third-through
which we were born into heaVf;n and
into glory-oh, then is Chrises joy
fulfilled within us the joy which
spirings from the possession of
spiritual life and health; and oflife
and of health diffused through the
whole spirit and taking possession of
every faculty. "These thingslspeakin the
world, that they might havemy joy fulfilled
In
II. There is the joy of Christ, in the
anticipation of his. ftnishedwork. One
feels a strange pleasure when his work
is done, and he can hold it up before
hiseye and look at it as the embodiment
of himself. In proportion as the work
is great and in its execution drew upon
all the resources of our being, is the
gratification supreme when it is
finished. The vanity of authorship finds
itsexplanation,perhapsits excuse,just
here. It is surely a pardonable affection
with which one looks upon the lines
which are treasured, not only the labor
of many years, but the whole essence
and virtue ofhis intellect and thought.
The inventor, too, who holds before
his eye a perfected machine, goes back
in memory to the first rude conception
formed in his mind, and traces the
steps by which it gradually took shape,
until now he rejoices in the glory of its
completlon.Aman'swork, upon which
he has expended thought and care, is
the reproduction of himself. With an
honest pride he bequeaths it to the
generations after him, and hopes
through the wit of this invention to
secure a name which posterity"wiJI
not willingly let die."
Apply the principle, so as by it to
measUre the joy of our Lord in the
,
conte1)lplation of His finished work.
My hearers, what a work was His! It
was to look out upon a lost world, and
tb redeem it. It was to heal forever the
dreadful schism which sin had made
in the Universe, by throwing Himself
into the breach and . drawing the
creat1)res to Him as their blessed Head.
By His Spirit He lifted the sinner out of
the hole of the pit in which he was
fallen, . and made him by faith the
mem:ber of His own living body. He
stretched forth His hand until it
touched the angels in light, and
recapitulated them in Himself-that by
the blessed union of all in Him, an
eternal foundation might be laid for
the fellowship of the creatures. What a
work was that of Christ, when He
tendered an obedience even unto .
death, and laid this over against the
law of His Father, as its absolute
measurel In His body of glory, He
went up into the presence the Throne;
and held before the Judge, who was
pronouncing the decrees,a
righteousness which is a perfect
commentary upon a perfect law. If the
law be glorious upon which Jehovah
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has stamped the' majesty of His being,
what shall the exposition be which
stands over against it as the exact
counterpanandintetpretationihereof?
What a work is that of Christ when,
sitting upon the right hand of the
Father on high,He shall impress the
grace of which He is the author. upon
the substance and body of the law of
God! -so that throughout eternity, it
shall be the law of inflexible justice
arid truth tempered with infinite grace
and love. It was in the anticipation of
. these results, that our Lord utters His
joyin the' opening verse of this chapter
from which the text is taken: "I have
glOrified Thee on the earth; 1have fimshed
the work which Thou gavest me to do.
And now. 0 Father, glorifyThou me with
thine own self. with the glory which I had
with Thee before the world (] ohn,
xVIi: 4,5.) We are told of the stem joy
Which is felt by the brave on the eve of
battle-the deep excitement of one's
nature, which is not manifested in the
tremors of the body, but in the
exhilaration of the ' spirit- that
marvelous stiffening of one's energies;
when a tremendousissueislO be closed
within an hour, and the whole nature
is sum:moned to meet the crisis. Even
such an illuStration as this may help us
to understand a little hOw the Master;
just as He enters within the edge of the
dark cloud of His passion, was able to
project Himself over the abyss of
suffering arid death, and to seize by a
blissful antiCipation the glory which
lay beyond; He thought not of the
shadows of Gethseniane neir the deeper
hOrrors of Calvary, but ofthe glory
which He had With the Father before
the world was.
Is this a joy in which we, my
brethren, shall be able to share? When
the Spirit of Christ reveals to us the
righteousness of . our Head through
which we are .to become just before
God,do we not in that disclosure
behold its glory,and its perfect
adaptationto ournecessity? And when
the hand of appropriation has been intrude into the pavilion in which the turning away from Him of His
laid upon it which makes it our own, Jehovah dwells, so as to penetrate the Father's face, to bear alone the pressure
is there not a sense of sweetness of mystery of the Divine subsistence and of the curse. What then must have
possession? It is a law of our nature to communion. But we do know, from been the joy of the sinless Redeemer in
rejoice in what we acquire. We are the hints given us in Scripture, that in His communion with His Father above-
constantly thrust from within, to Jay the distinction of persons, there is an until that moment of anguish, when as
hold upon the things which are exchange between the three of in finite the sinner's substitute, He must feel
without. The little child is happy in the and divine affection. So far as we are God'sjudicialdispleasureresltngupon
possession even of the toys which it able to appreciate this play of divine His soul!
calls its own.lt is this, I suppose, that and boundless love between the Father, Is this then a joy, in which it is
lies at the foundation of that peace Son, and Spirit, are we able to possible for us to share? The Apostle
which we have in believing-the sense comprehend the blessedness of answersinthewords, "OurJellowshipis
of possessing a righteous- .-____________________ -, with the Father and with
ness which is ours simply " His Son] esus Christ." (I,
because we are conscious No creature may intrude into the Johni:3.)WebytheHoly
that we have taken it. It pavilion in which Jehovah dwells, so SpiIit, have the witness of
was not ours in the doing our adoption into God's
of it, and this we fully as to penetrate the mystery of the family, which enables us
know; but it is ours in the Divine subsistence and communion. to say, "Our Father which
receiving ofit, which our artinheaven!" "Forye have
consciousness attests with But we do know, from the hints given not received the spirit oj
equal distinctness. We bondage again to Jear; but
have been enabled to put US in Scripture, that in the distinc- ye have received the spirit
forth our two hands, to f h' h oJadoption, wherebywecry,
grasp it and to draw it up t/On 0 persons, t ere Isan exc ange Abba Father." (Romans,
to our own breast. It is between the three of infinite and viii: 15)Justso often as in
ours to plead against the
accusations of conscience, divine affection."
the closet you and I are
able to say " Our Father
which art in heaven," we whose sharp rebukes are
at once silenced. It is ours to rest upon
in the hour of death; when the curtain
is drawn aside, revealing to us the
awful realities of the spiritual world. It
is ours to hold up before the Judge;
when we stand at His bar, to answer to
all the challenges of the law we have
broken. It is ours, the robe of
righteousness in which to wrap the
soul, as we sit in the presence and
kingdom of our Father above. Yes, in
the moment that, by a divine faith, we
appropriate this righteousness ofjesus
Christ, it becomes our own, with as
true asense of proprietorship as though
we had wrought it for ourselves. In
this joy of possession whiclt fills the
heart of the believer, the joy of Christ
is fulfilled.
III. Christ has a joyin His fellowship
with the God -head. I touch here what
I can not explain. No creature may
Jehovah. Without undertaking,
however, to compass this divine joy of
Christ, as the Eternal son, in His
communion with the Father and with
the Spirit, 100kuponHimasincarnate.
How close a fellowship, even as man
here on earth, did He have with His
Father, enabling Him to say of
Philip, "he that hath seen me hath seen
the Father; and how sayest thou then,
show us the Father? Believest thou not
that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me?" (John xiv:9,lO.) In holy
communion with that Father He
poured out His soul in prayer, which
perhaps is best measured to us by the
agony which He experienced when at
death He exclaimed, "My God, my God,
why hast thou Jorsaken me?" It is with
special significance we read in the
sufferings of our Lord, that the element
of sorrow which broke His heart, was
hold a communion with Him as real as
that of a child with his parent upon
earth. When this is consummated
beyond the grave,- and we, through
our living union with Chlist, draw
nearer and nearer to the Father and
have larger and broader views of His
glory,-then will it appear that our
communion with God isiInmeasurably
closer through our blessed Head, than
could have been enjoyed through all
eternity apart from Him. The loftiest
being, whom the power of God ever
made, could never of himself come so
near to the eternal Father as those
whom the Savior folds within His anns-
when as the High Priest of the
assembled church He conducts their
worship in the heavenly temple. There
will be, through Christ Jesus a
continuous revelation of the eternal
Father to the redeemed in heaven;
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through which they shall hold
fellowship with Him even as they hold
fellowship with His Son. Thus here,
and hereafter, do we participate in the
Savior's joy, which He feels iu the
communion of the God-Head.
IV. There is the j oy of Christ, in the
expectation of His reward. This began .
with His resurrection, through which
He was judicially absolved from the
curse which He had borne for guilty
man; and through which He was
declared with power to be the Son of
God. (Romans 1:4) Then followed His
ascension into heaven; the symbol,
not only of the acceptance of His
finished work, but of His supremacy
as the king and head of His people.
The next stage is His session at the
Father's right hand in glory; where, as
Mediator, He enjoys the sense of His
Father's approval forever. He has,
moreover, a fullness of reward 'in that
innumerable company of which John
speaks, the ten thousand times ten
thousand and thousands of thousands,
which no man hath numbered or can
number, gathered around His person,
and given to Him as the purchase of
His death. And the climax of this reward
.is found in His glorious Headship over
the creatures; angels and men brought
together into one body of Him, and
constituted the universal Church-
which He shall preside in the glory of
that righteousness which this book
declares to be the illumination of
heaven; for "the dty had no need of the
sun, nctther of the moon, to shine in it;jor
the glory of God did lighten it, and the
1.amb.is the light thereof" (Revelation
xxii: 23.) Looking at this reward our
Lord feels thejoy which comes through
the near anticipation of it.
You and I share in the joy of this
reward, for we shall be sharers in the
possession thereof. "In my Father's house
there are many mansions; if it were not
so, I would h'!ve told you. I go to prepare
a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again and
recctveyou untomyselj, that where I am,
there ye may be also."" Father I will that
they also whom thou hast given me be
with mewhere I am; that they may behold
my glory which thou hast given me; for
thou lovedst me before the foundation of
the world. "(Johnxivi:2,3, lbidxvi: 24.)
The Apostle, "Hctrs of God, atld hctrs
with Christ; if so be that we suffer with
Him, that we may be also glorified
together." (Romans viii: 17.) I do not
suppose that heaven can be
paraphrased. There is no fonn of
speech in which its blessedness can be
described. Even the holy seer, as he
looked through the telescope and saw
the heavenly city, and t ~ walls
1
and
the gates, could only describe Its glory
by enumerating the stones of which
these were built. (See Rev. 21: 19-21)
He takes up the jasper, and the
amethYSt, !l,J;ld the sardonyx, and other
precious and brilliant stones, and these
were the types under which even the
inspired John represents the
blessedness and joy of heaven. And
because these words of his are only
symbols, this gorgeous deSCription
does not materialize it to our
conception. We walk the streets. that
are paved with gold; we pass through
the gates, "every several gate being one
pearl;" we lool< upon the river of life
and upon the trees which grow upon
either bank; yet is it no sensual
Mohammedan Paradise to us. We take
up no gross and material conception
of heaven, from all this symbolic
description;just because it is symbolic,
and we penetrate at once the hidden
meaning it is intended to suggest. .As
allegory and fable are the mere vesture
of the truth, the mere shell or rind in
which it is held-which fall aside and
leave us the. naked truth of which they
were only the symbols; so we forget all
these material images of the heavenly
word, and the miud is filled only with
the idea of its excessive glory. This
heaven shall be ours. As truly as we
have a home upon the earth-yes, more
certain than thiS, since many of God's
children have not where to lay their
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head -as certain as we have a chamber
iu which to lie at night, a bed upon
which to stretch our weary fOrIIls,a
pillow on which to lay our aching
head; shall thete be a prepared home
for all the redeemed in Christ, in which
perhaps we shall be gathered at last in
families. Heaven is in part iuterpreted
to us through are lacerated affections
upon earth, when those who made up
the family below have gone before us
to constitute the family above. It makes
the passage through the dark vale a
little light to us, when we can see the
beloved fonns sitting lIpon the door-
steps of these heavenly mansions,
waiting for our coming, that we may
also take possession of the home. There
is a comfort even in partiug with our
dead, whenwecanviewthemasdwelling
iu the house which is to be theirs and
ours, in the presence of our Master.
My hearers, Luther was right when
he said that the glory of the Gospel lay
in its personal pronouns. Says Thomas,
when his unbelief has been overcome,
"My LordandmyGod. Christ teaches
His own upou the eanh to say" our
Fatherwhich art in Heaven." We fold
the delightful comfort to our heart that
the great God, who upholds all the
worlds by His power, stands to us in
this tender relation. You and I have a
child's right to lay upon the heart of
that Father every care that burdens
this present life, and every sorrow that
,pricks us with its thorn. There is not a
thought which God's child may not
speak to his Father here upon the
earth-not a care whkhwe may not lay
upon His broad and gracious heart-
not a sorrow which we may not throw
upon Him; for" like as a father pitieth
his children, so the Lordpitieth them
thatfear Him." (PsalIh, ciii: 13.) and
so, because'we can say" our Father
which art iu Heaven," " my Lord and
my God," the Gospel is precious. It
makes over this God, infinite in His
perfections and blessed in His nature,
as the saiut's everlasting ponion and
reward.
Then, conversely, see how Christ
identifies Himself with His people.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I
give unto you: not as the world giveth,
give I unto you." Oohn, xiv: 27.) That
peace which filled the Savior's heart
like a cloud of glory, He makes overto
us. I put this verse in the fourteenth of
John, by the side of that desCliption in
the Gospel of Luke, when the Lord
Jesus went through the clouds into
heaven, "He led them out as far as to
Bethany, and He lifted up His hands
and blessed them. And it came to pass,
while He blessed them He was parted
from them, and carried up into
Heaven."CLuke,xxiv: 50, 51 ) The last
look which the church had of her
Lord, was with His anns stretched out
in benediction over her head. When
His feet stood upon the clouds of
ascension, ere He wrapped those
clouds around His fonn to be hid from
their sight, He is seen in the attitude of
one pouring blessings upon His people.
Through all the ages since then, until
the trumpet shall sound and this Jesus
shall come again to" be glorified in His
saints and admired in them that
believe," He may be conceived as
standing with His ann outstretched
over His snuggling Church upon the
eanh: blessing every son and daughter
of His within her bosom-blessing them
in their conflicts, in their moments of
temptation, and in their seasons of
bitter sorrow.The Lord's blessing,the
blessing that "maketh rich and addeth
no sorrow thereto," is dripping from
the fingers of our ascended Lord, as He
sits upon the throne of His glOly and
pleads our cause in the presence of His
Father. "My peace I give unto you: not
as the world giveth, give I unto you."
And now is there a word stronger than
thiS? When He has taken possession of
the joy, shall He not, as His outstretched
and priestly arms are pouring
benedictions upon His Church-shall
not that benediction come in the
utterance of this word" my joy I give
unto you, that your joy may be full."
Brethren, let us rise to the height of
our privileges. Let us lift ourselves up
to the majesty of our calling. Let our
countenances beam with such
happiness, springing from this sense
of acceptance in jesus Christ, as shall
make those around us covet our joy.
Then let us say to them in language
which shall woo there heans, "come
with us and we will do you good, for
the Lord hath spoken good concerning
Israel." There is not a poor staggering
Christian, who is giving way under
this trial and that, whom the Lord will
not make to pass through the gates of
pearl, as more than conqueror, by the
power of His grace. It is glorious to be
God's children in heaven; and there is
a glory in being God's children upon
the earth. Let the world mock at our
hopes, and cast contempt upon oUT
joys. Greater is He that is for us, than
all that be against us. With the foot put
upon the world, and with the eye fixed
upon the prize which Christ holds out
from His throne above, we will press
forward to the glory which is to be OUT
portion beyond the grave. OUT wish is
that we could persuade the
unconverted of the comfort which fills
our hearts in the possession of these
hopes; so that they might at last sit
down with us upon the mount of God,
and sing the praise of Him who hath
redeemed us with His blood.. Q
Attention! 1994 A.CT-5. Attendees ...
"Sits, [would like also to attend .. ' ..... below).
Would You Help Us Plan to Serve You in Our
Areas of Arts Expertise?
Choose {.f}Up to 3 Topics Below:
o Copyright Choices, Legal Tradition, and Technology: Unmuzzled
Oxen, or Tables and Sheets Stomped On by the other shoe?
o Cutting Through Popular Approaches to the ATtS.
o nle Artist: Legitimate and Worthwhile Calling?
o 3 Necessaty Factors of Great Art Which Continue to Elude
Chtistians.
o A Day in. the Ufe of a Composer: Teaching Christians to Arrange,
Compose, and Improv1se... by Actively AbandOning Secular Myths.
o Building and Using A Powerful Arts Bibliography.
Q Arts Apprenticeship: Educating Our Own ... for Real-World
Excellence and Profitability.
o Art and Free Market Economics: Marketing Fine duistian Art
Beyond Unbiblical Purist Notions.
o Arrogance and Apalhy: Avoiding False o.oices in Artistic Approach.
D Dreaming and Doing: Cluistian Artists As Creative Capitalists.
o An Optimistic Vision for the ARTS: Turning (Artisticl Dreams into
(Scientific) Reality.
o Maximizing Potential by Efficiently Using the Crowded Information
Age: Techniques, Technology, and Tomes.
o Resisting Common Artistic Delusions.
o The Arlist Fighting Spiritual Wickedness in High Places.
Please rtSeJVe my seaL"
o Arts Council Dinner (cost, time/day to be: almounced ASAP).
o Introduction to Chalcedon Arts Center.
o Hands on Workship on Revitalizing Worsll1p Music.
Open to All...
..... Lecture ...... Concert. ./ Demonstration Booth.
./ Chalcedon Arts Network.
./ State-of-the- art System for Reconstruction, Financing and
Marketing the Work of Accomplished MUSicians.
Name _______________ _
Addre$ ___________________________ _
City ________ State ___ Zip ___ __
Country ______ Phone (
My Position/Interest in the Arts is
Please return to : Barry Sindlinger, do Chalcedon Presbyterian
Church, P.O. Box 8B8022 , Dunwoody, GA30356.
June, 1994 THE COUNSEL of Chalcedon ;. 9