Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-20

beasts were roaring to get out, LET them
come on" All, yes, it is persecution to put
you IN glorious company; and while there
are many things that you will have to
postpone to the future world for explana-
ton, tell you that it is the whole tendency
of your religion to unravel and explain
and interpret and illumine and irradiate.
Job was right. 1t is glorious transpar-
ency "Ihe crystal cannot equal it."
/ remark again that religion surpasses
the crystal in its beauty. That lump of
crystal is put under the magnifying glass
Of the crystallographer, and he sees in it in
describabe beauty-snowdrif and splint-
ers of hoar frost and corals and wreaths
and stars and crowns and oscillations OF
conspicuous beauty The fact is that
crystal is so beautiful that can think of
but one thing in all the universe that is so
beautiful, and that is the religion of the
Bible. No wonder this Bible represents
that religion as the daybreak, as the apple
blossoms, as the glitter of kings ban
quet. 1t is the joy of the whole earth.
TOO MUCH TALK OF THE CROSS.
People talk too much about their cross
and not enough about their crown. Do
you know the Bible mentions cross but
twenty-scven times, while it mentions a
crown eighty times? Ask that old man
what he thinks of religion. He has been q
close observer. He has been culturing an
aesthetic taste He has seen the sunrises of
IA half century. He has been an early riser
He has been an admirer of canoes and
corals and all kinds of beautiful things.
Ask him what he thinks of religion, and he
will tell you, at is the most beautiful
thing | ever saw" "lhe crystal cannot
| equal it."
Beautiful in its symmetry. When it
presents Gods character it does not pre-
sent him as having love like great pro-
tuberauce on one side of his nature, but
makes that love in harmony with his
| justice "A love that will accept all
those who come to him, and justice that
will by no means clear the guilty. Beauti-
full religion in the sentiment it implantsl
Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles
Beautiful religion in the fact that it pro
poses to garland and enthrone and empar-
adise an immortal spirit. Solomon says
it is Il lily. Paul says it is II crown The
! Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed of
the sun. Ezekiel says it is "A foliaged cedar.
Christ says it is bridegroom come to fetch
home bride. While Job in the text takes
up a whole vase of precious stones-the
| topaz, and the sapphire, and the chryso-
! prasus-and he takes out of this beautiful
vase just one crystal, and holds it up until
| it CLEANS in the warm light of the eastern
sky, and he eXclaims, "The crystal cannot
! equal it,"
Oh, it is not a stale religion, it is not a
! stupid religion, it is not a toOthless hag,
as some seem to have represented it; it is
not a Meg Merriles with shriyeled arm
come to scare the world. 1t is the fairest
! daughter of God, heiress of all his wealth.
Her cheek the morning sky; her voice the
music of the south wind her step the
| dance of the sea. Come and WOO her. The
! Spirit and the bride say come, and whose
| ever will, let him come. Do you agree with
| Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck
it and wear it over your heart. Do you
agree with Paul and say it is crown?
! Then let this hour be your coronation. DO
| you agree with the Apocalypse and say
it is Il springing fountain? Then come
and Stake the thirst of your soul. Do you
believe with Ezekiel and say it is foil
aged cedar? Then come under its shadow
! Do you believe with Christ and say it is a
| bridegroom come to fetch home a bride?
| Then strike hands with your Lord the
| King while | pronounce you everlastingly
one. Or if you think with Job that it is a
| jewel, then put it on your hand like ring
on your neck like n bead, on your forehead
like IA star, while looking into the mirror
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