Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-12-10

OF your salvation L fear some OF you that I
know very well are making that mistake. A
man may own ell the statutes OF the Stats
Of New York and yet not be a lawyer.
A man may own all the medical
treatises ever written and yet not be
physician. A man may own whole libraries
Of works on painting and statuary and yet
not be an artist man may own great vol
umes about architecture ana yet not be an
architect And man may own all the sound
creeds on earth and not be Christian. II
Is not what we have in the head and on
the back, but what we have in the heart
aud In our life that decides every
thing In olden times, in England,
before the modern street lamp was invented,
il was expected that every householder would
hang a lantern at his front door in the night,
and when the watchmen at the eventi1c went
through the streets they cried: Hang out
y,ur light hang out your light" Oh, brothers
and sisters, instead of angrily and excitsdly
discussing different styles OF lanterns-ons
liking this lantern better, another liking that
lantern better-as watchman on the
wall of Zion l this day cry out; "Let your
light SO shine before men that Others
seeing your good works may glorlty your
Father who is ia heaven. Hang out
your light, hang out your lightm Aud, above
all, do not, as some of you, my friends, l fear
are doing, excuse Ourself from accepting
kinds OF religionists. People say to me:
"This church believes so, and this other
church believes so, and am completely be-
wildered about the whole thing, and 50 |
shall not take this religion at all.n Standing
in Westminster Hotel, London. looking out
of the window. l saw three clocks. and as
near as can remember, one was on West
minister Abbey, and another was on the
Parliament House and another was on st.
Margaret's Chapel, and they were al differ
ent, and one clock said IL. and another CLOCK
said five minutes before II, and
another clock said five minutes after H.
Standing there l might just as we'll have
said: "Well there is no such thing as time
because the time pieces differ, as for you to
sit and stand there and say there is nothing
in religion because religionists differ aud
the clocks in tho church steeples
are so different, one saying one thing
aud another saying another thing: 1 tell
you it is about noon, it is about II o'clock of
the glorious day of gospel dispensation, aud
there is enough light for all-the noon lay
light. how shall we escape If we neglect so
great salvation. But Oh, the glorious thought
comes over me, that Tough now our families
are parted in their worship, worshiDinJ
partly in one church aud partly
in another, or wors aiping at the same
altar, they have to'sacrifiGe theirpreferences,
if we are redeemed we are on the way to a
perfe It church where all our preferences will
be gratlQeQ. JfeaI 'dUneuFdi OF ebef0lbV,
with arches of amethyst aud pillars of sup
phire aud floors of emerald and win
dows aglow with tue sunset of earth and
the sunrise of heaven. What wide aiSles,
spacious enough to allow whole en-
piras to enter. What amphitheatre,
with splendor above splen1or, gallery above
gallery princes and prince Sses, king and
queens bending over them What stupeudou4
towers, with chimes angel hoisted an angel
rung. What multitudes of worShipeEs, white
ROBBED and coronatel. What walls hung
with shields AMI flags captured by church
militant now become church triumphant.
What oficator at the altar, the great high
priest of our profession. what doxology or
nations Cornct to cornet, cymbal to cymbal,
harp to harp organ to organ. Pull out the
tremulant stop to recall the suffering past.
Pull out the trumpet stop to celebrate the
victory.
When shall those eyes thy Heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong
And streets of shining gold!