New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
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e1ito ieheYoS Woik idsciHtiulhS5 TO Ineeye OF any
artist, vases and Yestments encrusted with
all manner of precious stones Four walls
on fire with indescribable splendor Though
labor was cheap the building cost $780,
600. Ecclesiastical structure almost
supernatural in pomp and majesty But
Mohammedanism tore down from the
walls OF that building all the sanity and
Chrlstly images, and high up in the dome the
inquire OF the cross was rubbed out that the
crescent OF the barbarous Turk might be sub
stituted. great church but no Christ! a
gorgeous candlestick but no candle Ten
Thousand such churches would not give the
world as much light as one homemade tai
law candle by which last night some grand
mother in the eighties put on her spectacles
and read the Psalms of David in large type.
UP with the churches, by all meansI Hun
dreds OF them, thousands of them, and the
more the better. But let each one be a blaze
OF heavenly light making the world brighter
and brigh ter till the last shadow has disap-
peared, and the last of the suffering children
OF God shall have reached the land where
they have no need of candlestick or stof cam
die, neither light of the sun, for the Lord
God giveth them light and they shall reign
forever and ever"
Turn now in your Bible to the seven stars.
We are distinctly told that they are the min
listers of religion. Some of them are large
stars, some of them small stars, some ofthem
sweep wide circuit and some of them small
circuit, but SO far as they are genuine they
get their light from the central sun around
whom they make revolution. Let each one
keep his own sphere. The solar system
would soon be wrecked if the stars. instead
ofkeeping their own orbit, should go to
hunting down other stars. Ministers of re-
hgion should never clash But in all the
centuries ofthe Christian church some of
these stars have been hunting an Edward
Irving or a Horace Bushnell or an Albert
Barnes; and the stars that were in pursuit of
the other stars lost their own orbit, and
some of them could never again find It,
Alasl for the heresy huntersl The best
way to destroy error is to preach the truth.
The best way to scatter darkness is
to strike a light. There is in immensely room
enough for all the stars, and in the church
room enough for all the ministers. The min
listers who give up righteousness and the
truth will get punishment enough, for they
are ''the wandering stars for whom is reserved
the blackness of darkness forever" But I
should like as minister when | am dying to
be able truthfully to say what a captain of
the English army fallen at the head of his
column and dying on the Egyptian battle
field said to Gen. Wellesley, who came to con-
dole with him. 81 led them straight; didn't
lead them straight, general?" God has put
us ministers as captains in this battlefield of
our chagrin if we fail leading the people the
wrong way; but great will be our gladness
if when the battle is over we can hand our
sword back to our great Commander, saying:
"Lord Jesus We led the people straight,
didn' we lead them straight" Those min
listers who go off at a tangent and preach
some other gospels are not stars but co NETS,
and they flash across the heavens a little
while and make people stare. and throw
down a few meteoric stones, and then go out of
sight if not out of existence. Oh, brethren
in the ministry, 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 darkness
of this world we will wheel into higher
spheres, and in us shall be fulfilled the prom
Use, "They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever and ever"
All! the ministers are not all Pecksniffs and
canting hypocrtes. as some would have you
Think Forgive me if, having in your pres
ence at other times glorifed the medical pro-
fession and the legal profession and the liter
airy profession glorify my own I have
seen them in their homes and heard
them in their pulpits, and a grander array
of men never breathed, and the Bible figure
is not strained when it calls them stars; and
whole consultations of glorious ministers
have already taken their places on high
where they shine even brighter than they
shone on earth; Edward N. Kirk. of the Con-
gregational church. Stephen Fl. Tying, of
the Episcopal church; Matthew Simpson, of
the Methodist church; John Dowling of the
Baptist church; Samuel K. Talmage, of the
Presbyterian church; DR.. Dewitt, of the Re
formed church; j ohm chambers, of the indie
pendent church and there stop, forit so
happens that have mentioned the seven
stars of the seven churches,
Ipass on to another mighty Bible seven,
+hnHy L., I<1~, -,
vision saw scroll with seven seals, and he
heard an angel cry: Who is worthy to
loose the seals thereof?''
Take eight or ten sheets of foolscap paper,
paste them together and roll them into
scroll, and have the scroll at seven different
places sealed with sealing wax. You unroll
the scroll till you cometo one of these seals,
and than you can go no further until you
break that seal; then you go on until all the
seven seals are broken, and the contents Of
the entire scroll rs revealed. Now that scroll
with seven seals held by the angel was the
prophecy ofwhat was to come on the earth;
it meant that the knowledge of the future
was with God, and no man and no angel
was worthy to open it; but the Bible
says Christ opened it and broke
all the seven seals. He broke the first seal
and unrolled the scroll, and there was paint
ing of a white horse, and that meant pros
perity and triumph for the Roman empire,
and SO it really came to pass that for 80
years virtue Emperors succeeded each other,
Nerva, Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in a
vision broke the second seal and unrolled
again and there was a painting ola red horse,
and that meant bloodshed, and SO it really
came to pass, and the next 80 years were red
with assassination and wars. Then Christ
broke the third seal and unrolled it,
and there was a painting of a black
horse, which in all literature means
famine, oppression and taxation; and
so itreally came to pass. Christ went on un-
til he broke all the seven seals and opened
all the scroll. Well, the future of all of us is
a sealed scroll and I am glad that no
one but Christ eau open it, Do not let us
join that class of Christians in our day who
are trying to break the seven seals of the
future. They are trying to peep into things
they have no business with. They try to
forteI what Is going to come to them and
what is going to come on the earth. They
know nothing about it,
Christ is the only one who can break the
seal of the future. Bible prophecy was not
written to help us to tell things in the future,
but to have us, when the things actually do
come to pass, compare them with prophecy,
and 30 learn Gods fore knowledge. and the
inspiration of the Scriptures. But you go
into the study of the prophecies in order to
find out what is going to happen year from
now or 20 years from now, or l, 900 years
from now, and will make prophecy of my
own and that is that you will
have YOUR brain added if Won