Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-08-12

seems like blight from the other shore
that bounds this great deep of human
pane and woe. If the sun be like
song, full and loud and poured
forth from brazen instruments
that fill heaven and earth with har-
mony, the moon is plaintive and sad,
standing beneath the throne of God,
sending up her soft, sweet voice of
praise, while the stars listen and the
seal No mother ever more lovingly
watched sick cradle than this pale
watcher of the sky bends over the
weary, heart-sick, slumbering earth,
singing TO its silvery music, while it is
rocked in the cradle of the spheres.
Now, says my text, "Who is she, fair
az the moon?' Our answer is the
church. Like the moon, she is bor-
rowed light She gathers up the glory
of Savior's sutferings, Savior's
| DEF tn, a Savior's resurrection, n Saw
ior.s ascension, and pours that light on
palace and dungeon, on squalid heath
enism and elaborate scepticism, on
widows tears and martyrs robe of
flame, on weeping penitence and loud
moutned scorn.
take u step further in my subject
&C ear as the sun" After a season
of storm or Cog, how you are thrilled
when the sun comes out at MONDAY!
The mists travel up hill above hill,
mountain above mountain, until they
are sky lost. The forests are full
of chirp and buzz and song;
honey-malIers on the log, birds
beal5 pounding the bark, the chatter of
the squirrel on the rail. the call of
hawk out of the clear sky, make you
thankful FOR the sunshine which makes
all the world so busy and so glad. The
same sun which in 5he morning lindled
conlagrations among the castles of
clouds, stoops down to paint the lily
white, and the buttercup yellow, and
the forget-me-not blue.
What can resist the sun? Light fol
voyager on the deep; light for shep-
herds guarding the foclls aheld; light
for the poor " no have no lamps to burn;
light for the downcast and the weary;
light for aching eyes and burning
brain and consuming capcive; light for
the smooth brow of childhood and the
dim vision of the octogenarian; light
for queens coronet and sewing girls
needle. LET there be light"
Now, says my text, "Who is she that
loolieth forth clear as the SUM" Oul
answer is, the church. You have been
going along a road before daybreak,
and on one side you thought you saw a
lion, and on the other side you thought
You saw a goblin of the darkness, hut
when the sun came out you found these
were harmless apparitions. And 1t is
the great mission of the church
of Jesus Christ TO come forth
''clear as the SUM-" to illumine
all earthly darkness, to explain, as
far as possible, all mystery, and to
make the world radiant in its bright
ness; and that which you thought was
an aroused lion is found out to be a
slumbering lamb; and the sepulchral
gates of your dead turn out to be the
opening gates of heaven; and that
which you supposed was flaming
sword to keep you out of paradise is
, an angel of light TO beckon you in.
Further, Terrible as an army with
banners" take one more step in this
subject and say that if you were placed
for the defense of feeble town, and a
great army were seen coming over the
/, hills with flying ensigns, then you
, would be able TO get some idea of the
, terror that will strike the hearts of the
! enemies of God when the church at last
! marches on like IAN army with ban
ners."
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With Christ to lead us, and heaven
T to look down upon us, and angels TO
, guard us, and martyr spirits to bend
, from their thrones, and the voice of
9 God to bid us forward into the combat,
our enemies shall fly like chatf in the
whirlwind, and all the towers of
, heaven ring because the day is
ours. divide this army with banners
, into two wings-the American wing
and the European wing, The
American wing will march on across
, the wilds of the West, over the table
, lands, and come to the ocean, no more
stopped by the Pacific than the Israel
ties were stopped by the Red Sea,
marching on until the remaining walls
! of China will fall before this army
! with banners, and cold Siberia will be
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turned to the warm heart of Christ, and
over lofty Himalayan peaks shall go
this army with banners until it halts at
Palestine.
History tells us that one day the ar
, mics of Xerxes shouted all at once, and
the vociferation was so mighty that
, the birds flying through the air dropped
, as though they were dead. Oh, what
| shout of triumph when all the ar
, mics of earth and all the armies of
, heaven shall celebrate the victory of
our King-all at once and all together;
: "Hallelujahl for the Lord God omnipo-
! tent reigneth. Hallelujah! for the
lSindoms of this world have become the
{ kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ"
9 it will be choir TO choir, music to
r music, hosanna to hosanna, hallelujuh
r to hallelujah. Lift up your heads, We
h everlasting gates and let them come in.
e Then will be spread the banquet OF
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