The Brookhaven leader., 1886-12-02

Take hint from astronomy ans
Ptolemaic system made the earth the cen
ter of the solar system, and every thing
was thought TO turn round the earth. But
the Copernican system came, and made
the sun the center, around which the
planets revolved. The bigot makes his
little belief the center of every thing, but
the large Christian makes the Sun OF
Righteousness the center, and all denomr
nations, without any clashing, and each al
its own light and in its own sphere, re
volving around it.
over the tomb Of Dean Stanley, in West
minister Abbey, is the passage OF Script
ure: THY Commandments are exceeding
broad" Let no man crowd US on to path
like the bridge AL Sirat, which the Moham
mcdan thinks leads from this world over
the abyss Of hell into paradise, the breadth
CT the bridge less than the web of astarved
spider, or the edge of a sword or razor,
Of the edges of which many fall. No; while
the way is not wide enough TO take with US
any OF our sins, it is wide enough for all
Christian believers TO pass without peril
into everlasting safety
But do not any OF you depend upon what
you call a sound creed for salvation. A man
may own all the statutes Of the State Of
New York, and vet not be lawyer, and
man may own all the best medicine treat
iscs, and not be a physician; and a man may
own all the best works on painting and
architecture, and not be either painter or
architect; and man may own all the
sound CrcedS in the world, and yet not be
Christian. Not what you have in your head
or on your tongue, but in your heart and in
your life, will decide every thing.
In oldcn times in England, before the
modern street lamps were invented, every
mol OIL IN "a
suspended in front of his house, and the
cry of the watchmen in London as they
went along at eventi1c was: Hang out
your lights!' Instead of disputing in your
| house about the different kinds of lantern,
| as a Waterman on the walls of Zion l cry
Let your light 50 shine before men that
they, seeing your good works, may glorify
| your Father which is in Heaven"
Hang out your lights. You may have a
| thousand IDEAS about religion, and yet not
| the great idea of pardoning mercy. 1t is
| not the number of your ideas. but the
| greatness of them. y mouse hath ten of.
! spring in her nest, while the liones5 hath
! one in her lair. All ideas about forms and
ceremonies and church government put TO,
| gcthcr are not worth that one idea of get
! ting to Heaven yourself and taking your
! family with you.
But do not reject Christianity, as many
do, because there are so many scots. Stand
lh3 III W es'illnSter hotei' l2Iooh' IooAe''
out oil inc "lhuo" anu saw tlree cioChS' d.
he"' as can tllleItloeF-ohG Oh Tue alI.r
Chanel. another on Westminster Abbey.
ana 'hey were al uIilerc','. Olo san
WE'VE CLOCK at noon dio'I'cr 9alu ~ 90
aho'hef s"ld l2:Vo. might as wen haV'
concluued 'haI thcre IS ITO Sucn thiiS ~
ulhc, because 'he three 'iile- pieces
were olHcrtA'' as loT you 10 coH IC,li!'
lha' mere Is no suth lhlnS as pure C urn
'anlly' oecauSe Tue t'iuIcueS ''lier III t,let
statement % IT, IL Is doout WE'VE cL !.
noon Of lhe glorious .'oSpel Misrepresentation
aI'hou3h liG ci!ul'I elo'As sIli' M'I"' vi
Ief' aHa "i"eF tlie Pr'9Cnt lgnC YOU nav
hoeXc''so lor neg lectii'2 your outg pccauS'
you 40 not IKE lili' or 90 mo- lAS TIC
now shaIl we escape Il VIC neglect -
great adiFatlon!'
| But let us all reJol'e That, although part
of our family may worship on earth in one