The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-22

| your christ IN Kitchen. These seven
candlesticks Of which | speak were not
made out of pewter or iron. They were
| golden candlcsticks, and gold is not only q
valuable, but bright metal. Have every
thing about your church brght-your
ushcrs with smiling faces, your music
| jubilant your handshaking cor
dial, your entire service attrac-
tive. Many people feel that in
church they must look duh in order to be
reverential and many whose faces in
| other kinds of assembagc show all the
| different phases of emotion have in church
no more expression than the back wheel
of hcarse, Brighten up and be re-
sponsiye II you feel like weeping, weep
II you feel like smiling, smile. II you
feel indignant nj some wrong assniled from
| the pulpit, frowu. Do not leave your
naturalness and rosilicncy home because
IL is Sunday morning. II as officers OF q
| church you meet people ut the church
door with a black look, and have the
music black, and the minister in black
| preach black sermon, and from invoca-
uon TO bcnediction have the impression
black, few will come, and those who do
come will wish they had not come at ALL
Golden candlcsticksl Scour up the six
| lilies on each branch aud know that tho
moro lovely and bright they are, the
more fit they are 10 hold the light. But q
Christlcss church is damage to the
world rather than good. Cromwell
stabbed his cavalry horses In st. Paul s
| cathedral, and many now use the church
as u place in which 10 stable their vani-
ties and worldincss A worldly church is
a candlcstick without the candle, and IL
! had its prototype in st. Sophia in Con-
| stantinoplc, built TO the glory oi God by
| Constantine, but transformed To base uses
| 10y Muhammcd the Second. Built out OF
/ colorcd marble, u cupola with twcnty.lour
| windows soaring to the hight of $50 feet.
/ the ceiling one great bcwildcrmcnt Of
/ mosaic; galleries supported hy eight
/ columns OF porphyry and siNtyscNrn
| columns OF green jasper, nine bronze
! doors with alto.rclicvo work iascinal-
! ing to the eve ui any artist;
vases aud vcstmcuts incrustod with all
manner OF precious stones. Four
walls ON fire with indcscrihablc splundor
Though labor was cheap the building cost
! el,JOO,OO. Ecclesiastical structure almost
supernatural in pomp and majesty. But
! Mohummcdanism tore down from the
! walls ol that building all the sanity aud
Christy images, and high up in the dome
the figure ul ihc cross was rubbed out that
the crescent oi the hlrhnrnus Turl, might
be- substituted. \ great church but no
! Christ gorgeous Cludlrstlck but no
! Gudlcl Ten thousand such churches
/ would not give the world as much lgh, ns
/ one homemade tllluW cinllt hy which
/ last night some grandmother iu the
/ eighties put on her spccluuigs and read tie
| psalms ol David ia lHrsr type Up with
| ihr churches by lll m,Jns' Hundreds Ui
| them, thousands ul thnm, AMI the more
/ Use better liut Def every one hr q blaze
! ul heavenly light, making the world
/ brighter mud brighter 900 the lIst shallow
| has Disappeared, l., uud thg lgst ui the HulIrr-
| iug children ui Oud shall have reached tnc
land whore they have no ucui Ui cluuic'
stick Dr "ui candle. neither lgit ol th,
fuu, lUr The lord Gud mycth taom lirhl
aud they shn. rcinn forever and cvcr'
fum now in your Bblc 60 the seven
/ siru W. lw distinctly told that they
arc the ministers oi religion. some "l
! them arr nrgr st1fs. s'mC oi them small
I uJu,, SOME oi them sweep % wide circuit,
| beat sI lr as they are genuine they get
/ ih,r light from the HrHut central sun
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