Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-07-29
CHURCH ITEMS.
BY rHE nkv. VIZ. Iusx. IN.

Themornng was beautiful, mild. and serena.
Aunstnre haG walked from repose: ~
! Nateroal affection. same silently in.
Aud PLACED % my tosom rose,'
/ III was y belief among the Jews, &C
cording TO Zoroaster, that the cundred
leaf rose Is consecraled TO an afchangel of
The highest order...... TnE Persian fire.
worshipers believe that Abraham was
thrown into furnace by Nimrod, and the
flames fortl>with turned into bed of
roses. TuE Turks hold that the rose
springs from the Precipitation of Moham-
med and in accordance with this belief,
they never tread upon ii or suffer one 10
lie upon the ground. -. Solon held that
the rose and woman were created at the
same time, and in consequence thereof
there sprang up a contest among the gods
as to which should be awarded the palm
OF superior beauty......1N the bleak polar
regions, where the days of sunshine are
so short and SO few, there is seen among
the first breathings of the summer zephyrs
the Rosa rapa," its slender stem cover
| ep with pale double flowers, lifting its
head to greet those ice bound prisoners
as they issue fiom the fling air of their
winter hnis. Degraded rs are that PEG
are in their tastes. the magic of these ST.
lent messengers from God is so forcible,
that they greet them with highest Joy,
and deck their heads and rough sealskin
clothing with their lender blossOms..
EVEN To the ken-hearted Siberian exile
there come a few short days i'm his life
when The rOse-comforters rise from the
| frozen Garth to greet him. like messengers
| from his lost home and friends 49,. Every
where has God planted the rcse--and
with the early association of Eden ever
clInging about the eloquent We ce of the
rose, The queen of the flowers, the Church
including natures Incarnate thoughts of
divine wisdom and love, ard ascending
from nature up to natures Goo has trans
ferred the ornamental and suggestive
lessons Of the rose 10 her altar of sacra-
mental presence and sweet communion
The "ROse of Sharon the Christians mys>
Tic rose, blooms above the lily oi annun>
citation on the thOrnscrow cross......
Even the color Of a rose has a Christian
Specification. The color for the day Of
Peniecost is red, from the color of the
"roinls Of fame and means efficiency.
The lesson OF The red rose i'm Whitsun-
tide is suggested IN the following words:
"Whitsuntde was the time, the season Of love:
McihOught the Liest Spirit had chose
To leave for av lille the mi lid form Of the dove
And come in The blush e the rose"
Flowers have meaning on Church affairs
and in all The floral ritual of the Church |
The history of the world. The Church, and |
Christian art and song are full of thoughts |
connected with flowers. They are the |
embems of mans own great resurrection |
-emblcms of the bright and better land. |
They also speak language of sympathy. |
They were the silent sympatLisers on |
Geihsemane's night of woe. Beneath the |
great shifting sky ahove-with the elo- |
quent calm of its silver stars, through |
which floated clear and luminous The am
gel comforters-fowt RS bent down by the |
weight of tears. Sweet fiowers--bright
thoughts incarnate dropped down from
heaven. But o, sweet queen of the flow
ers-the rose. Everywhere thou art ap-
pearing amid the thorny trials of this SIN
cursed wOrld--the beautiful herald of the |
Rose of Sharon" bloc saing above the |
lily Communication on the thorn-crowned
cross.
"0h, may every that blooms forth evcruorc,
Enkinslle tie spirit Of those
Who see IL. wear il. to bless and adore
The hand that created the rose"