The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-24
CHRISTIANITY.

The briefest most comprehensive definitions
Of christianity, is Christ. lie Is not only it,
foundation, its fountain head and its onward
flowing stream, its root and Its sweet bios
somins flower, shedding divine fragrance
throughout the earth, but He is its essence
its substance, its superstructure, its begin
ming and its ending. All religions have place
of worship that are sacred, whether it be
that of the Druids amid the oaks Of the for
rest, or that,of tho Mohammedons with its
mosques and minarets, or that Of Bhudda
and Vichpu, with its temples, its cars of jug
gsrnsut, its funeral pyres, its
gurgling Ganges. All have
their inspired books, their orders of priest
hood, their ceremonies of kneelngs and
bowings and genuaections and mean
tations and forms of worship and creeds
OF belief in hereafter and great ruling
spirit, and of rewards and punishments, or
degrees of reward, but it is only christianity
that is the soul of the author, that is the
bright light of His presence, that is the halo
of His glory. 1t is only the christian relig-
ion that teaches what TO believe, who to
love. In the sixth verse of the fourteenth
chapter of John He says 81 am the way,
and the truth and the life" Christianity
teaches that Christ is the way and christian-
" is Christ. 1t teaches that Christ is truth,
and truth is the embodiment Of
all that is pure ald ennobling and
peaceful and divine, and christianity is
truth. Christianity teaches that Christ is
life. God the Father, God the Son and God
the Holy Ghost, ever was and ever will be,
and Christ the Son is God. From the womb
Of darkness, of BLACKLIST night, the stars that
sing hosannas to Christ the son, the melody
whereof flows in sweetest cadences through.
out ilimitsble space the planets that wheel
round His throne and speak one to another
Of the glory of Christi the angels that min
lister unto Him and chant anthems in His
glorifcation, all remember their natal days,
all were born of God, and sun and moou md
the worlds above us will return to God, for
God alone is eternal life, the life that knows
naught but JOY and happiness and peace
and good will, The philosopher Renan it
was who faid, Jesus taught nothing
but Himself, and teaching Him
self tie taught christianity, which
is the way and the truth and the life the
way to peace on earth and peace in tho
realms Of the best the truth which points
only to he Straight and narrow path that
leads through howery meads, beside purling
waters, amid pleasant groves; the life that
knows no ending, no anguish, no sorrow, no
ills, no partings from loved ones, no tears, no
doubts, no fears. Christianity searches for
and finds the heather in his junglcs under
torrid suns; in his mountain fast
nesses amid the saows; on
bright islands in the oceans midst
and it teaches him the gospel of Christ the
word of God as testimony. Christ Himself,
through christianity, stoops down from Hi:
throne of glory with His divine hand to I'M.
seal the heatheu's eyes of darkness, to lead
him into the radiance of blissful hereafter
shining across the abysm of the valley of tho
shadow of d. tn, to the shore, of time.
Christ with His visible kingdom only in,
Heaven, sets up kingdom also in the heart
Of every man and woman and child that
accepts christianity; that accepts Him and
His love, and He imbues that heart with a
divine grace that gloriies this life, and makes
the life to come but the happier.