Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-03

CONDUCTED RY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
THE SEVEN CROWNS OF VICTORY.

and the concluding lines in each as the tele-
graphic signals for battles. Each of these
churches was a regiment under marching or
ders to fight its way to the Celestial city, and
accordingly he offers crowns to the most wor-
thy. There is no appeal to selfshness in the
offered recompense Of reward, but needed
address to wisely.regulated self:love. Let us
consider each Of them.
l. The "Crown of Satisfaction" To Eph-
esus: "To him that overcometh will give to
eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of
the paradise of God" Rev. Q: 7. Whoever
eats of this will be so satisfied that he will
hunger less and less for earthly qualifications.
The soul out of Christ is like the tabled Wan
dering Jew seeking happiness, yet never find
ing it; while religion brings it into the centre
of contentment The worship of God, prayer,
Christ, and all the objects of piety bring re-
Cancellation to the powers of the mind with
all the conditions Of existence, so that the
believer can say with Paul, 81 have learned
in whatsoever state | am therein to be con.
tent" This satisfaction draws nutriment
from the glory yet to be revealed.
2. The "Crown of Security" TO Smyrna:
"He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the
second DEATH" Rev: II. If man could
wear an adornment on his head securing him
from all possible evils, from storms earth
quakes, fires, and losses, he would regard 1t
as the greatest acquisition. "He that walketh
uprightly walketh surely" aud the rewards
of Righteousness become the diadem OF eternal
safety. Those soul-triumphs in danger with
which the records of life have been illumina.
ted, making prisons palaces, inquisitions and
racks endurable, and scaffolds thrones, gath
cred all their successes from the acquisition
of this invisible crown.
8. The "Crown of Experience" TO Per-
gamos ITO him that overcometh will | give
to eat of the hidden mama and l will give
him a white stone, and in the stone new
name written which no man knoweth saving
he that receiveth it." Rev. 2: II. Religion
will give man hidden food to feed upon,
bread to eat of which the world is ignorant,
and reveal the secrets Of the Lord, which
curious scientists take not within their range
of search. The joy of moral forces comes
not by mathematical or logical testing. The
most favored man is not he who has Mozart
knowledge of music, or Herschel acquire
ment of astronomy, or Tyndall insight into
chemical forces, but he who has risen to the
attainment of religious experience, the con.
sciousness Of enjoying Gods love, sense of
forgiveness, and recognition Of spiritual real
tiles.
4. The "Crown of Success" To Thyatira:
"He that overcometh and keepeth my works
unto to the end, to him will 1 give power
over the nations, and he shall rule them with
a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall
they be broken to shivers, even as received
of my Father; and 1 will give him the morn
ing star" Rev. 2: 1928. The meaning is,
that he who works for Jesus shall have power
over the world all successful opposition to
the church shall be broken and as if Venus,
the morning star, was the gem of his crown,
that beautiful harbinger Of day shall ever be
the prophecy of success in his godly underta.
king. Every Christisn wears the helmet Of
hope previous to the immortal crown, and
hence he knows that his work is not in vain
in the Lord Wanting this, the vast multi
tudes of mankind are mere Babel-builders.
There is but one way to make the whole of
life a success, and that is enlistment in the
cause of the great Captain of salvation.
5. The "Crown of Justification" 10 Sar-
dis "He that overcometh, the same shall be
clothed in white raiment; and will not blot
his name out of the book of life, but l
will confess his name before my Father, and
before his angels" Rev. 8: 5. He shall be
accounted worthy to enter the heavenly city,
his name shall be enrolled among the justified,
and Jesus shall confess him as honorable
among the most exalted of celestial beings.
When Justice, or Satan, or sin may attempt
to overwhelm him in doubt and despair, he
can show the motto on his promised crown,
"No condemnation to them that believe"
The love connecting him with the Saviour
casts out all fear, and rejoices in the con-
temptation of heaven as if it we're already in
assured possession.
6. The "Crown of Honor" To Philadel-
phia "Him that overcometh will make
pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall
20 no more out and will write upon him
the name of my God, and the name of the
city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,
which cometh down out of heaven from my
God: and I will write upon him my new
name." Rev. 8: IL. Among certain class
of the ancient Romans, the temple of virtue
led to the temple of honor; but with them
virtue meant fortitude; with Christians it
should mean piety; and before future exal-
tation must be practical obedience. The
crown of Christs approval may not be seen
when the good are engaged in unostentatous
labor; when in humility, retirement, or pri-
vate usefulness but it is ever gathering bril-
liancy to reward the wearer when his NOR
tality is laid aside.
7. The "Crown of Royalty" To Laodicea:
"To him that overcometh, will | grant to sit
with me in my throne, even as also over
came, and am set down with my Father ID
his throne" Rev. 3: 81. There are varie-
ties of earthly crowns, as there are stars dit.
fering in glory-ducal, kingly, imperial and
papal crowns. Some may be very glad to get
plain one; but God is pleased to see his
children get the best; and by all good deeds
and godlness, put as many jewels and stars
into it as they can. Who knows what a
magnificent coronet may be yours through
consecrated life? How many crowns have
been lost, brighter than those which James
II forfeited by wrong conduct, forever missed
through neglect! Paul had benevolent re-
gard for Timothy, so he wrote to him, saying,
"Let no man take thy crown" A lady in
dream saw in the crownroom of heaven one
exceedingly bright "Whom is that for%
she as ked Of the angel. "It was intended for
you," he replied "but you did not labor for
it, and now another will wear it." Let the
reader decide if he will be guilty of such fol-
ly.-American Messenger.
HARMONY WITH Cons WILL.-Certain
il is that God is manifested in his will in
peculiar sense. We can more easily make
distinction between God and his power, and
hetueen God and his wisdom, that we can