Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-22

attractive. Many people feel that in
church they must look dull in order to De
revereEtiN, ind many whose faces IN
other kinds of assemblsge show 81 the
different phases OF emotion, have in
church no more expression than the back
wheel of hearee. Brighten up and be
responsive. II you feel like weeping,
weep. II yon feel like smiling, smile. II
you feel indignant ut some wrong as
called from the pulpit, froH1. Do not
leave your Eeturalness and resiliercy
home because it is Sunday morning Ifssss
eff ;ers of q church you meet psople ct the
church door with black look, land have
the music black, and the minister in black
preach black ser non, and from invoca-
ton to benediciion have the impression
black, few will come, and those VINO do
come will wish they, had not come at all.
Golden candlesticks Scour up the six
lilies CT each branch and know that the
more
LOVELY AND BRIGHT
they are, the more dt they are to hold the
light. But Christless church i3 dam.
age to the world rstner than q good.
Cfom well stabbed his cavalry horses n ST.
Paul's cathedral, aud many now use the
charch az g plsca In which 10 sts Dis heir
vanities and woridlinesa. Aworl6)y chu!ch
is caDiles'ick wi.oou. the candle, snd
Ii had its prototype In 81. Sophis, in Con-
stsnticcp,e, butt 70 TIE glory or God 5y
Constantine, bu. transformed 10 base
uses by MJhsmmed II. BQi.t on: OF COL
ored ma. Bile; c7pols Win twenty-iour
windows soaring 10 the height Of $50 feet;
the c3iiing one great bswilder,1ent OF
mosaic; galleries supported by eight
columns ef porphyry and sixty-seV3a
columns Of green jasper; nine croIza
doors with aito-reliaVo WoCk fascinating
TO the eye OF any artist; vases and vast
merts ehcrusted with all msnDe. Of pre-
cious stones. Four walls or fire. With ID
describable splendor. Though labor wss
cheap the building cost 81 SOC, 600 Ec
clesiss.i csl structure almost supernatural
in p1mp and msj sly. But Mohammedal-
ism tore down from the walls Of that
building all the sanity and Christly
images, and high up 10 the dome the
figure Of the Cross was rubbed Gu. that
the crescent Of the osrbsrous Turk might
be substituted. A great church but no
Christi A gorgeous csndlestick but no
csndle, Ten thousand such churches
would not give the world as mIc2
light as one home made t.iloS
some gr.n us r''i in the eighties
put OF her apectaclas end resd the
Psalms Of D ivid n large type. Up with
the chrr. he's by all means. Hundreds
of them, t. ousands Of than, snd the more
the better. Bal let each oCe' be q blazs
OF heavenly light
MAKING THE WORLD BRIGHTER
and brighter till the last shadow has
disappeared and the las! Of the suffering
children OF God shall have reached ths
land where they have no need Of candle
stick or "oi candle, neither light OF the
sun, for the Lord God glvsth them light
and they shall rsign forever and ever"
Turn now in your Bible to the seven
Stars. We are distinctly told tfst they
are the ministers OF religion. Some of
them are i.rge stars, some OF them small
s.srs, some Of them sweep vide circuit
and some Ct them small circuit, but 80
far as they are genuine they get their
light from the gIeat central sun sround
whom they make revolution Let each
one keep in his own sphere. The solar syE
TEN would soon be wrecked II the stars
instead OF Keeping their own orbit should
go to hunting down other stars. Minis
ters of religion should never Clash. But
in sill the centuries of the Christian
church some of these stars have been
huatiDg AZ Z iWArd Irving or Horace
Bushnell or 81 Albert Barnes: and the
stars tnst were in pursuit Of the other
stars lost their own orbit, and some of
them could never sgsin fad 1t. Alas for
the heresy hunters. The best Way to
destroy error is to preach truth. TIE
best way to scstter darkness is to strike
light There Is il iDmensity room
enough ID: al the STATS, and IN the church
room enough for all the ministers.
The ministers who give up righteous
ness and the truth Will get
punishment enough anyhow, for they are
"Ghe wandering stars for whom is re-
served tho blackness Of darkness fcr-
ever" But should like as & minister
when am dying to be sole tr1thiuuy to
say Whist captain OF the English srmy
fallen st the head of his column sud dy-
ing on
THE EGYPTIAN BATTLEFIELD
ssid to General Wellesley, who came to
condole with him: ~ led them straight;
didn't lead them straight, Gelersl?"
God hiss put Us ministers as captains in
this battlefield of truth sgainst error.
Great st last will be our chagrin If We
fsll leading the people the wrong way;
but gTsa. will be ous gladness II when the
battle Is over we can hand our sword
back 30 our great Commander, saying:
"Lord Jesus! We led the people straight;
didn't we lead them straight" Those
ministers who go of at tangent and
preach some other gospel &re 10. s'ars,
but comets, and they fash ACROSS the
heavens little while and make people
stare, and throw down q few meteoric
store s, al then 90 out Of sight II nosou
OF existence Ga, brethren in the minls-
try, let us remember that God calls Us
stars, and our business is to shine and to
keep our own sphere, and then when We
get done trying to light up the dslk1ess
OF this world, We will wheel into higher
spheres, and in Us shall be fulfilled the
promise ".hey that turn many to righte-
BUSINESS shall shine ss the stars forever
and ever" An! the ministers nre not all
Pecksniffs and canting nypocrites, as
some would have you think! Forgive
me, If having in your presence at other
times glorifsd the medical profession
xnd the legal profession and the literary
prcfassioE-I giorify my own. l have
seen them in their homes and heard them
in their pulpiss. and grander array Of