New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
HAVE MORE LIGHT.
What DR.. s.Ta1mage Has to Say About
Melancholy Music, Pecksnifffng
Ministers and Canting
Hypocrites.

BROOKLYN, IN. L., OCU. ll-InlS morning
at the Tabernacle the Rev t. De Witt Tai.
mage D. D., gave running commentary on
the Doth chapter of Revelation concerning
the claiming OF the Old Dragon. The con-
gregation joined in singing the familiar
hymn Of Paul Gerhart, beginning:
"Giye to the wind thy fears,
Hope and be undismayed.'
DR.. Talmage's sermon was on tsSeven in
The Bible" and his text, Genesis, ch 2, v.
22: God Blessed the Seventh Day." The
preacher said:
The mathematics of the Bible is noticeable;
the geometry and the arithmetic; the square
Ezekiel; the circle spoken of in Isaiah; the
.curre alluded to in Job; the rule of fractions
mentioned in Daniel; the rule of loss and
gain in Mark where Christ asks the people
TO cipher out by that rule what
1T would profit man if he
gain the whole world and lose his soul" But
there is onemathematical figure that is crown
ed above all others in the Bible. 1t is the
nunlerai seven, which the Arabians got from
India and all following ages have taken from
the Arabians. 1t stands between the figure
six and the figure eight. In the Bible all the
other numerals bow to it. Over 800 times is
1t mentioned in the Scriptures, either alone
or compounded with other words In Genesis
the week is rounded into seven days, and I
use my text because there this numerical is
for the first introduced in O. Journey which
halts not until in the close of the Book of
Revelation it's monument is built into the
wall ofheaven in crysolite which in the strata
oil precious stones is the seventh. In
the Bible We find that Jacob had
to serve seven years to get Rachel,
but she was worth it; and foretell-
ing the years of prosperity and famine in
Phoraoh's time the seven fat oxen were
eaten up of the seven lean oxen: and wisdom
is said to be built on seven PILLARS and the
ark was left with the Philistines seven years.
land Naaman for the cure of his leprosy
plunged i'll the Jordan seven times; the dead
child, when Elisha breathed into his mouth
TFigaalled its arrival back into consciousness
i by Bneezing seven times; to the house that
Z Ezekiel saw in his vision there were seven
i steps; the walls OF Jericho before they fell
D down were comprised seven days; Zachariah
describes a stone with seven eyes, to cleanse
"a lepTous house the door must be sprinked
with pigeons blood seven times; in Canaan
were oYerthrOWn seven nations; on one occa-
pon Christ cast out seven devils; on a noun
Gain he fed multitude of people with seven
9cayes, the fragments left filing seven bas-
kets; and the closing passages Of the Bible
+. are magnificent and overwhelming with the
Imagery made up of seven churches seven
stars, seven candlesticks, seven seals, seven
angels, and seven heads, and seven crowns,
and seven hOrnS and seven spirits, and seven
Flals, and seven pjagues and seven thunders.
Yea, this mineral seven seems a favorite
with the Divine mind, outside as well as in
size the Bible, for are there not seven pris-
yIatic cOlOTs? And when God with the rain
29ow would never have another deuge, he
wrote it on the scroll Of the sky in ink of
seven eolors. He grouped into the Pleiades
seven stars. Rome, the capital of the world
l.sat on seven hills. When God would make
che most intelligent thing on earth,
the human cOuntenance, he fashions
it with seven features-the two ears, the
two eyes. the two nostrils and the mouth,
Yea, our body lasts only seven years, and we
gradually shed it for another body after an
other seven years, and so on, for we are as
TO our bodies, septennial animals. So the
snumeral seven ranges through nature and
through revelation. 1t is the number of per-
lection, and SO l use it while speak of the
seven candle sticks, the seven stars, the seven
f calls and the seven thunders,
\ The seven golden candesticks were and are
GPe&hurches. Mark you, the churches never
.canrbe, candles. They are only candlesticks.
They are not the light. A room in the night
might have in it five hundred candlesticks
and yet you could not see your hand before
your face. The only use of candestick,
and the only use of church. is to
hold up the light. You see it is a dark world,
the night of sin, the night of trouble, the
.night Of superstition, the night of prosecu-
ton, tile night of poverty, the night of sick
,,ir.1,+ IF 4 oh n IL
have interlocked their shadows. The whole
Face goes stumbling over FRUSTRATED hopes
Gallon fortunes, and empty -four barrels, and
@L'2sQlated cradles, and death beds. Oh, how
lEuch we have use for all the seven candle
Eicks, with lights blazing from the top of
EIch one of them! The light of Pardon for
Ill sin Light of comfort for all trouble!
Light of encouragement for all dependency!
Light of eternal riches for all poverty!
Light of rescue for all persecution! Light of
reunion for all the bereftl Light of heaven
for all the dyingl And this light is Christ,
who is the Light that shall yet irradiate
the hemispheres. But mark you, when l say
churches are not candles, but candlesticks, I
cast no slur on candesticks. | believe in
beautiful candlesticks The candlesticks that
God ordered for the ancient tabernacle were
something exquisite. They were dream of
beauty carved out Of loneliness. They were
made of hammered gold, stood in foot of
gOlu ana nSId SIX branches OF SOlu blooming
all along III six lilies of gold each, and lips Of
geld from which the candles lifted their
hoig fire. And the best houses in any
city ought to be the churches-the
best built, the best ventilated, the best
swept the best Widowed and the best
chandeliered. Log cabins may do in neigh
Sborhoods where most of the people live in
log cabins; but there be palatial churches
for regions where many of the people live in
palaces. Do not have a better place for
yourself than for your Lord and King. Do
you live in a parlor and put your Christ in q
kitchen These seven candlesticks of which l
speak we're not made out of pewter or iron;
they were golden candesticks, and gold is
mot only valuable but bright metal. Have
everything about your church bright-your
tushers with smiling faces, your music jubl-
sant;your Misunderstanding cordial, your entire
service attractive. ~
Many people feel that in church they must
look dull in order to be reyerential, and many
whose faces in other kinds of assemblage
show all the different phases of emo
rtion, have in church no more expression than
the back wheel of a hearse. Brighten up and
be responsive. If you feel like weeping, weep.
Ifyou feel like smiling, smile Ifyou feel in
@dignant at some wrong assailed from the
pulpit, frown Do not leave your natural
mess and resiiiency home because it is Sunday
morning. If, as officers of church, you