The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-10-25

have better place for yourself than for
your Lord and King. Do not live in
parlor and put your Christ in q kitchen.
These seven candlesticks OF which speak
were not made out of pewter or iron;
they were golden candlesticlzs, and gold
is not only valuable but bright metal.
bright-your ushers with smiling faces,
your music jubilant, your hand shaking
cordial, your entire service attractive.
Many people feel that in church they
must look dull in order to be rever-
ential, and many whose faces in other
kinds of assemblage show all the differ
ent phases of emotion, have in church no
more expression than the back wheel Of
hearse. Brighten up and be respcn-
sive. If you feel like weeping. weep.
II you feel like smiling, smile If you
feel indignant at some wrong assa1led
from the pulpit. frown. DO not leave
your naturalness and resiliency home be-
cause it is Sunday morning. If as
officers of church you meet people at
the church door with a, black look, and
have the music black, and the minister
in black preach a plack sermon. and
from invocation to benediction have the
impression black, few will come, and
those who do come win wish they had not
come~at all.
Golden candlesticlel Scour up the six
lilies on each branch and know that the
more lovely and bright they are. the
more fit they are to hold the light. But
a Christless 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 place in which to stable their vani-
ties and worldliness. A worldly church
is candlestick without a candle, and 1t
had its prototype in st. Sophia. in Con-
stantinople, built to the glory Of God by
Constantine, but Transformed to base
uses by Moliammed the Second. Built
out Of colored marble; a cupola with
twenty -four windows soaring to the
height of 180 feet; the ceiling one
great bewilderment of mosaic; gal
ieries supported by eight columns of
porphyry and sixty-seven columns Of
green jasper; nine bronze doors with alto
relievo-work fascinating to the eye of
any artist; vases and vestments encrusted
with all manner of precious stones. Four
| Though labor was cheap the building
cost one million five hundred thousand
dollars. Ecclesiastical structure almost
supernatural in pomp and majesty. But
| Mohammedanism tore down from the
walls of that building all the sanity and
christly images, and high up u, the dome
| the figure Of the cross was Sibbed out
that the crescent of the barbarous Turk
might be substituted. A great church
but no Christi A gorgeous candlestick
but no candlel Ten thousand such
churches would not give the world
as much light as one home made
tallow c;lndle by which last night
some grandmother in the eighties
| put on her glasses and read the Psalms
of David in large type. Up with the
churches, by all meansl Hundreds of
them, thousands of them, and the more
the better. But let each one be q blazo
of heavenly light making the world
has disappeared, and the last of the suf-
| fering children of God shall have reached
the land where they have no need of
: aandlesticls or s'of candle, neither light
ihe sun, for the Lord God giveth them
ss-Sght and they shall reign forever and
ever" Seven candlesticks, the complete
number of lights! ''Lct your light SO
shino before men that they seeing your
goods works may glorify your Father
which is in heaven"
Turn now in your Bible to
TILE SEVEN STARS.
We are distinctly told that they are
| ,cto g
are large stars, some of them small stars,
some of them sweep wide circuit and
some of them small circuit, but SO faI
as they are genuine they get their light
from the great central sun around whom
they make revolution. Let each one
keep in his own sphere. Tho solar sys-
tenn would soon be wrecked if the stars
instead Of keeping their own orbit should
60 to hunting down other stars. Minis
ters of religion should never clash. Bu
in all the centuries of the Christian ciurcl
some of these stars have been hunting ar
Edward Irving or Horace Bushnell or al
Albert Barnes, and the stars that We're il
pursuit of the other stars lost their owl
orbit and some of them could nevel
again find it.. Alas for the heresy hunt
ersl The best way to destroy error is Il
preach the truth. The best way to scat
ter darkness is to strike light. Their
is in immc1lsity room enough for all tn,
stars, and in the church room enough
for all the ministers. The ministers win
give up Righteousness and the truth vii
get punishment enough anyhow, for the.
are 1.-The wandering stars for whom /
reserved the blackness of darkness for
ever" But should like as minister
when am dying, to be able TRUTHFUL
to say what a captain of the Englis
!, army, fallen at the head of his col
umn and dying ON the Egyptian battl
field, said to Gen. Wolseley, who came t
. condole with him: 81 led them straight
didn't / lead them straight. generals
God has put us ministers as captains i
this battlefield of truth against error
Great at last will be our chagrin if W
, fall leading the people the wrong way
but great will be our gladness if whe
the battle is over we can hand our swor
back to our great Commander, saying
, "Lord Jesus! We led tho people straight
didn't we lead them straightT' Thos
ministers who go off at tangent an
} preach some other Gospel are not star
1 Oub tOiIStc, diiNt tiiCy htpi eNiScNS oki
, heavens little while and make peopi
stare, and throw down a few meteori
! stones, and then so out of sight if not on
of existence, Oh, brethren i'll the mir
} istry, let us remember that God calls u
) | stars, and our business is to shine and t
keep our own sphere, and then when w
/ get done trying to light up the darknes
. of this world, we will wheel into highe
t spheres, and in us shah be fulfilled th
] promise ''they that turn many to right
] eousness shall shine as the stars foreve
Q and ever" All! the ministers are nc
Q all Pecksniffs and canting hypocrites, q
Q some would have YOU think! Forgiv
q me, If having in your presence at othe
!, times glorifed ths rsedical professio
t and the legal profession and the literar
. profession-I glorjfy my own. hay
o seen them in their homes and hear
q them in their pulpits. and grander a
y ray of men never breatned, and the Bib
y | figure is not strained when it calls thel
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