Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-15

oy Constantine, but transformed "a has,
uses BY M0hammed Il Built out Of coIoraF
marble: a eupola with tweutv-for,,
windows, soaring to the height 3.
$50 feet; the ceiling one great bewilder
nent Of mosaic; galleries suppsrtei bv
eight columns Of porphyry and sixtv-seven
columns Of green jasper nine bronze door.
with alto-relievo-worz. fascinating 10 the
eye OF any artist; vases aud vesfneuts IN.
crusted with all manner Of precious stones
Four walls on fire with indeseribable
splendor Though labor was CHEAP the
building cost 81 .5Jo.000. Ecclesiastical struc.
ture almost supernatural ia pomp and
majesty. But Mohammedanism tore down
from the wallsof that building all the sanity
ahd Chrl tly images, and high IN in the
+ dome the figure Of the cross was rubbed out
that the crescent of the barbarous Turks
might be substituted. A great church.
but no Christi A gorgeous candle
stick, but no candlel Ten thousand
/ such churches would not give the
world as much light as one home made tai
/ low candle By which last night some grand.
mother in the eighties put Oh their specta.
cles and read the Psalms Of David Ia large
type. Up with the churches. by all means =
Hundreds Of them. thousands Of them. aud
the more the better But let each one be a
blaze OF heavenly light, making the world
brighter and brighter till the last shadow
has disappeared and the last Of the suffer
ing children OF God shall have reached the
land where they have no need Of candle
stick or 'of candle, neither light Of the sun.
for the Lord God giveth them light and
they shall reign for ever and ever
Turn now in your Bible 10 the seven stars.
We are distinctly told that they are the min
isters Of religion. Some Of them are large
stars, some of them small stars, some OF
them sweep a wide circuit. and some Of them
a small circuit, but so far as they are gauu-
inc they get their light from the great cen
trail sun, around whom they make revolu-
ton Let each one keep in his own sphere.
The lar syst m would soon be wrecked II
the stars, instead Of keeping their own orbit
should go IN hunting down other stars. Min
listers Of religion should never clash But in
all the centuries 81 the 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 IL pursuit Of the other stars lost their
orbit and some 81 them could never again
find il. Alas. for the heresy hunters The
best way 10 destroy error is 70 preach the
truth. The best way 10 scatter darkness is
TO strike light There i 10 space room
enough for all the stars. ant in the church
room enough for ali the ministers. The MN
listers who give the righteousness and the
truth viii gel punishment enough any how.
for they are 'the wandering stars for whom
is reserved The blacknes Of darkness forev-
err But / should Ike as a minister when
am dying to be able truthfully TO say what
a captain Of the English army fallen
4
on the Egyptian battlefield said TO
General Wolsely who came 10 condole
with him: led them straight; didn't
lead them straight Generalf' God has put
Us ministers as clptlins in this battlefield
Of truth against error Great at last will
be our caagrin # we fail leading the people
the wrong way; but great will be our glad
uess If, when the battle is over. we can
hand our sword back to our great com.
mander, saying lord Jesus We led the
people straight. didn't we lead shem
straightf' These ministers who 20 of at a
tangent and preach some other gospel are not I
stars, but comets, auithey fash across the /
heavens a little while and make people stare I
aud throw down a few meteoric stones /
aud then go out Of sight If not out Of exist I
ence. o. brethren in the ministry. let US
remember that God calls Us stars and our
business is T. shine aud % keep our own I
sphere. aud then when we get done trying 4
u light IN the darkness OF this world, we /
win wheel into higher spheres, and IN Us 4
shall be fulfilled the promise 'they that /
turn many to righteousness shall shine as
the stars forever and ever All the min I
listers are not all Pecksniffs and canting 4
hypocrites. as some would have YOU think 4
Forgive me, il having in your presence at I
other times glorified the medical profession 4
and legal profession and the literary profess
sion-I glorify my own. lhave seen them in
their homes and heard them in their puipits,
and 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 Congregational Church;
Stephen II. Tying, Of the Episcopal Church;
Matthew Simpson Of the Methodist Church;
John Bowling, Of the Baptist Church;
Samuel K Talmage, Of the Presbyterian
Church; DR.. Dewitt, Of the Reformed
Church; John Chambers, Of the Independ-
emit Church; and the e l stop. for it so hap
pens that have mentioned the seven stars
Of the seven churches.
j pass on 10 another ullEutl DauAS ScNcuf
and they are the seven seals. st. John in
vision saw a scroll with seven seals, and he
heard an angel cry: "Who is worthy to
loose the seals thereofl' Take eight or ten
sheets of foOlscap paper, paste them togeth-
er and roll them into a scroll, and have the
scroll at seven different places sealed with
sealing wax. You unroll the scroll till you
,ome to one of these seals, and then you can
20 no further until you break that seali
hen unrOll again until you come to another
zeal and you can go no further until you
Freak that seal; then you go on until all the
,even seals are broken aud the contents OF
he entire scroll is revealed. Now, that scroll
With seven seals held by the angel was the
prophecy of what was 10 come on the earth;
I meant that the knowledge Of the future
vas with God. and no man and no angel was
worthy to open it; but the Bible says Christ
lpened it and broke all the seven seals He
,roke the first seal and unrolled the SCROLL
nd there was a painting Of white horse,
nd that meant prosperity and triumph Tor
ne Roman empire. and so il really came to
Gee tho. for ninety wears Nirtuous en-