The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-31

die with great joy. Glorious church,
lamp, this Biblei Luther found it in the
clolster at Erfurt, and he lifted it until the
monasteries and cathedrals of Germany
and Italy and France and England and the
world saw the illumination. 1t shone un-
der the breastplate of sacerdotal authority;
and in the mosques of Turkey and in the
pagodas of India and In the ice-huts OF
Greenland and In the mud-hovels of Africa
and in the temples of China, Gods regen-
Grated children in musical Tamil and sweet
italian and nasal Chinese and harsh Choc-
taw cried out: "Thy Word is lamp" 1t
throws its light on the pulpit, making a
bulwark Of truth; on the baptismal cup
until its waters glitter like the crystals Of
Heaven. 1t strikes penitence into the
prayers and gladness into the thanksgiv-
| ing.
Begone, ye scoffers! Down to the lowest
pit, ye emissa,ies Of darkness for by the
throne of an omnipotent Judgment de-
clare 1t that all iniquity shall fail, and all
bondage be broken, and all wounds be
healed, and all darkness be dispelled when
Gods truth shall go forth "as a lamp
that burneth." We want no sappers or
miners to level the wall; we want no ak
men or engineers to prepare the way; we
want no glittering steel or booming gun,
or bowling Hotchkiss shell to get us the
victory, for the mountains are full Of
horses and chariots of fire. Hallelujah
for the kingdoms Of this world are to be-
come the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
| Christ.
Still further, the Bible is a sepulchral
lamp. You know that the ancient Egyp-
tians used to keep lights burning in the
tombs of their dead. These lights were
kept up for scores, even hundreds of years.
Friends would come from generation to
generation and put oil in the lamps,
and it was considered O disaster If
those lamps went out. You and / will
some day go down into the house of the
dead. Some have looked upon it as an un-
known land, and when they have thought
| of ii their knees have knocked together
and their hearts tainted. There were
| whole generations Of men that had no
comfort about death, no view of the eter-
nal world; and whenever they brought
their friends and put them away into the
dust, they said, without any abbreviation:
"This is horrid This is horridW And it
was. The grave is the deepest, ghastliest
| pit that man ever looks into, unless the
lamp of Gods Word flashes into 1t. For
whole ages men thought that the sepul-
cher was a den where great monster
gorged himself on human carcasses. 81
! will put an end TO that" said Jesus Of
Nazareth; ~ will with Mine own voice go
down and make darkness fiee." And as He
stepped out from the gate Of Heaven all the
| grave-yards OF earth cried "Come ComeW
I And he came down, bringing great many
beautiful lights; and above this babes
! grave He hung q light, and over this
mothers tomb He hung a light, and
over this wife's grave He hung light.
Then He uttered His voice, and It ran along
under the ground from city to city, and
along under the sea from continent to con-
tinent, until mausoleum and sarcophngus
and sepulcher throbbed with the joy: 81
am the resurrection and the life; he that
believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live" And now IL Greenwood
and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn could
break their beautiful silence and should
|
would break forth in the strains of my
text: "Thy Word is a lamp"
Oye bruised souls o ye who have been
cutting yourselves among the tombs o
ye who have been sowing seed for the res
direction day! Oye of the broken hearts
l come out tonight and put into your hand
this glorious Gospel lamp. Il will throw a
glow Of consolation over your bereft spirit.
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning." "They that sow
in tears shall reapin joy"
| Rabbi Mier went off from home TO be
gone few days, and left two beautiful
boys. While he was gone the two lads
died. Rabbi Mier returned, not knowing
that anything had happened. His Chris
tian wife knew he would be overcome with
| grief, and she met him at the door and said
TO him: "My husband, l once had two
beautiful jewels loaned to me; had them
for little while. And do you know, while
you were gone the owner came for them
Ought l to have given themp "of
course" said Rabbi Mier, "you ought to
have given them up; you say they were
only loaned" Then she called her hus-
band TO the side room and removed the
cloth that covered the dead children.
After Rabbi Mier had for few moments
given way to his grief, he rose up and said:
snow know what you meant by the bor-
rowed jewels. The Lord gave and the
Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the
name Of the Lord.p And SO Rabbi Mier
was comforted. Hl.4
Let this sepulchral light gid all the
graves Of your dead May this lamp Of
the text be set in all your parlors, in all
your streets, in all your stores, in all
your churches, in all your sepulchers!
Amenl