New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
HAVE MORE LIGHT.
What DIR. ssTaImage Has to Say Abont
Melancholy Music, Pecksnifing
Ministers and Canting
Hypocrites.

Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. 21-This morning
at the Tabernacle the Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage d. D., gave running commentary on
the Chanting of the Old Dragon. The con-
gregation joined in singing the familiar
hymn of Paul Gerhart, beginning:
Give to the wind thy fears,
Hope and be nndismayed''
Dr. Talmages sermon was on Seven in
The Bible" and his text, Genesis, oh. 9, 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
tevrve 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
it would profit a man if he
gain the whole world and lose his soul" But
there is one mathematical figure thati is CROWN
ed above all others in the Bible. 1t is the
mineral seven. which the Arabians got from
andia 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 /
use my text because there this numerical is
for the first introduced in q journey which
halts not untilin the close of the Book of
Revelation it's monument is built into the
wall ofheaven in crysolite which in the strata
the Bible we find that Jacob had
to serve seven years to get Rachel,
but she was worth it; and foretell-
ingthe 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 or. seven pillars; and the
ark was left with the Philistines seven years;
and Naaman for the cure of his leprosy
plunged iii the Jordan seven times; the dead
child, when Elisha breathed into his mouth,
7Fiigaalled it's arrival back into consciousness
oy sneezing seven times; to the house that
Ezekiel saw IN his vision there were seven
steps; the walls of Jericho before they fell
i down We're passed seven days; Zachariah
describes a stone with seven eyes; to cleanse
"a Ieprous house the door must be sprinkled
were overthrow seven nations; on one occa-
Rion Christ cast out seven devils; on a noun
tain he fed o multitude ofpeople with seven
toaves, the fragments left filing seven bas-
ketsi and the dosing 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
Tlais, and seven plaques, and seven thunders.
Yea, this mineral seven seems fayorite
with the Divine mind, outside as well as in
size SFc Bible, for are there not seven pris-
s.Iatic colors? And when God with the rain
Sow would never have another deluge, he
S'wrote3it on the scroll of the sky in ink of
seven colors. he grouped into the Pleiades
seven stars, Rome, the capital of the world,
s,sat on seven hills. When God would make
Che most intelligent thing on earth,
4he 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
numeral seven ranges through nature and
through revelation. 1t is the umber of per-
fection, and SO use it while Ispeak OF the
seven eandlestic the seven stars, the seven
Meals and the seven thunders,
y TheIseven golden candlesticks were and are
s5aesahurches. Mark you, the churches never
scanibe, candles. They are only candlestcks
They are not the light. A room in the night
might have in it five hundred candlesticks,
4 and yet you could not see your hand before
your face. The only use of candlestick,
and the only use of a 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-
tor, the night of poverty, the night of sick
ness, the night of death, aye about SO nights
have interlocked their shadows. The whole
race goes stumbling over FRUSTRATED hopes
FALLEN fortunes, and empty -four barrels, and
NF'9solated cradles, and death beds. Oh, how
iFyuch we have use for all the seven candle
Hgicks, with lights blazing from the top of
{beh one of theml The light of Pardon for
lli sinI Light of comfort for all trouble!
Light of encouragement for all dependency!
Light Of eternal riches for all poverty!
Gight of rescue for all persecution Light of
ssqnion for all the bereft 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 say
churches ore not candles, but candlesticks,
cast no slur on candlesticks. / believe in
beautiful candesticks. Thecandlesticks that
Sod 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 a foot of
gold and had six branches of gold blooming
y all along in six lilies of gold each, and lips OF
a god from which the candles lifted their
4 hosg fire. And the best houses in any
city ought to be the churches-the
best built, the best ventilated the best
swept, the best windowed and the best
chandeliered Log cabins may do in neigh
isborhoods where most of the people live in
dog 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 parlor and put your Christ in q
kitchen These seven candlesticks OF which
speak we're not made out of pewter or iron;
they were golden candlesticks, and gold is
not only available but bright metal. Have
everything about your church bright-your
,ushers with smiling faces, your music jubl-
.ant;your Misunderstanding cordial, your entire
service attractive.
Many people feel that in church they must
look dull in order to bereyerential, and many
whose faces in other kinds of assemblage
show all the different phases of emo
&ion, 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 resiiency home because it is Sunday
Arm iT,tr offinor of oh,1roh Won