Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-22
special to the Gazette.


X/M y L the tanilisr hymn Of
lE< Paul Gernsrt, be-
"Giye to the winds ting fears,
Hope and be mayed"
Dr.. Talmsge's sermon was on "Seven
IN the Bible" and his text Genes;R l., %
"God blessed the seventh day." The
preacher said:
The mathematics OF the Bible is notice
able: the geometry and the arithmetic
the square in Ez 3kiel; the circle spoken
OF ii IssiEa; the curve alluded to IL Job;
the rule OF fractions mentioned in Daniel
me rule Of loss and gain ia Marx where
Clrist asks the people TO cipher GU! by
taE. rule what it would "protiE man II
he gain the whole world and lose his
soQl." Bat there Is one mathematical
figure tbs. ID crowned above all others ia
the Bible; II Is the mineral seven, which
the A:ab!sns got from Iadis, and al fol-
lowing ages have taken from the Ara
hianS. II stands between the figure six
and the fgure eight. In the Bible eli the
other numerals bow to 1t. Over 500
times Is it mentioned in the scriptures,
either alone or compounded with other
words. Ia G enesis the week Is rounded
into seven days, and use my tex be-
cause there this mum erEi Is for the first
introduced IN q journey which halss not
until in the close OF the book OF
r .velstions its monument is built
iato the wall OF heaven In
crysoiite which in the strata OF pre- cious
stones is the seventh. Ia the Bible We
fad thst jacob had TO serve seven years
to get r schel, but she WAS We'll worth 1t;
and foretelilng
THE YEARS OF PROPERTY
aud famine In Phnrauh's tina the seven
fat oxen were eaten up OF the seven lean
oxen; sud wisdom is ssid &c be bull. on
seven pillsrs; aud the ark was LET: with
the Pl!i!stiles seven years; and N1amsn,
FOR the cate OF leprasy, plunged IN the
Jordan seven times; the dead child, when
Elisha brefthed into its mouth, signsled
its arrival bsck into consciousness By
sneezlng seven times; 10 the house thst
Ezekiel ssw IN vision there were seven
steps; the walls Of jericho, before they
felR iowa, were comprised seven days;
Zicharikh describes stone with seven
eyes; 70 cleanse leprous house the door
must be sprirkled with pigeons blood
seven times; IN CInnsl were overthrown
seven n.tions; OF oae OCCASION Christ
cast out seven devils; on 8 mountsin he
fed multitude of people with
seven loaves, the fragments lief!
Il ling seven baskets; and the
closing passages OF the Bible are mag.
nifcent and overwh Ginning with the i'm
agery made up Of ssven churches, seven
stars, seven candlesticks, seven seals,
seven angels, sad seven heads, sud seven
crowns, and seven horne, sld seven spir-
its, and seven walls, and seven plsguee,
ard seven thunders.
Yea, this numeral seven seems favor
tie with the Divine mind outside as well
as inside the Bible, for are there moi
seven priSmatic colorsi And when God
with the rainbow wrote the comforting
thought that the world would never have
another deluge, he wrote IL DC the scroll
OF the SKY in ink OF seven colors He
grouped into the Pieisdes seven stars
Rome, the cspltsI Of the world, sat on
seven hills. When God would make
the most intelligent thing on
esrtr, the human coun.engrce, Ee fash.
lone it with seven festures-.he two ears,
the two eyes, the TWO nostIiis and the
mouth. Yea, cur body lasts only seven
yarrs, ana we grsdusllY shed II for an,
other body after another seven years, and
50 or, for we are, as to our bodies, sep.
tenniAl an!msls. So the mineral seven
RANGES THROUGH NATURE
and through revelation. 1t is the NUN
Der OF perfection, and 30 use 1t while
speak Of the seven csndlestIcSs, the seven
stars, the seven seals and the seven thun-
ders.
The seven golden cspdlesticks we're
and are the churches. Marx you, the
churches never were, and never can be,
candles. They are only caudlesticks.
They are not the light, but they are 20
hold the light. A room in the night
might have in 1t five hundred CANDLE
sticks, and yet you could not see your
hand before your face. The only use OF
candlestck, and the only use of q
church, ls To hold up the light. You see
it is q dark world, the night Of sin, the
night Of trouble, the night CT supersti-
ton, the night Of persecution, the high!
OF poverty, the night Of sickness, the
night OF death; aye, about fifty nights
have interlocked their shadows. The
whole race goes stumbling over pros
trsted hopes and fallen fortunes, and
empty -four barrels, and desolased era
dies, end death beds. On, how much we
have use for sli the seven candlesticks,
with lights blazing from the top Of eecn
one of them! Light Of pardon for all
sin! Light of comfort for sll trouble
Light of encouragement. for al dsspon-
dency! Light of eternal riches for all
poverty! Light of rescue for all perse-
cution. Light of reunion for all the be.
.reft! Light of heaven for all the dying /!
And thst light is Christ, who is the
Light that shall yet irradiate the
hemispheres. But mark you, when
say churches are not candles, but candles
sticss, cast no slur on csndlesticks.
believe in beautiful caudlesticks. The
caudlestfcks th1t God ordered for the
ancient tabernacle we're something tx
quisite. They were
A DREAM OF BEAUTY
carved cut CT loneliness. They were
made OF hammered golc, stood in foot
Of gold and had six branches Of gold
blooming all along In six lilies OF gold
each, and lips Of gold from which the
candles lifted their holy fire. And the
best houses In any city ought to be the
churches-the best built, the best venn-
lated Ehe best swept, the best Widowed