The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-08-20

tIlluSS CIldl AEc SblO III Jul Oty Ia IT,
gUrd to it. If one stakeholder can
become q cheat, does that destroy the
whole company? Ii one soldier be a
coward, does that condemn the whole
army? And yet there are SO many in
this day so unphilosophic, so illogical,
so dishonest, and SO unfair as to de-
nounce the entire church of God be-
cause there are here and there bad
men belonging to it. There are those
why say that the church of God is not
up to- the spirit of the day in which we
live; but l have to tell you that, not
outstanding, all the swift wheels,
and the flying shuttles, and the light
ming communications, the world has
never yet been able to keep up with
the church. AS high as God is above
man, SO high is the church OF God
higher than
ALL HUMAN INSTITUTIONS.
From her lamp the best discover
les CT the world haYe been lighted.
sTyhas best OF our inventors have be-
HIN fns the Christian religion-the
elossassathe Whitneys,
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about to be devel0 1&4fth and
the air and the seaf1SCve i16de quick
and magnificent responses 10 Chris
tian philosophers.
Yet there are people who are
ashamed to belong to'the Church OF
Christ, and if you ask. them whether
they are i'll such associations. they
say: eyes, i sometimes attend the
church." instead of realizing the fact
that there is no honorcomparea with
the honor of being a member of the
Church of God. l look back with Joy
to the most honored moment of my
life, when in the old country meeting
house the minister Of Christ announc-
ed my name az q follower of the
Lord. r
I propose to speak Of the threefold
glory Of the church as it is described
IN the text:
First, "Fair us the moon" God,
who has determined that everything
shall be beautiful in it's season, has
not left the night without charm. The
moon rules the night. The stars are
only set as gems in her tiara. Some
times before the sur has gone down
the noon mounts her throne, but it is
after nightfali that she sways her un-
disputed scepter over island and con-
tinent, river and sea. Under her
shining the plainest maple leaves be-
come %shivering silver, the lakes from
shore to shore look like shining mir
rors, and the ocean under her glance
with great tiles comes up painting mp.
on the beach, mingling, as it were,
foam and fire.
Now, says my text, who is she,
fair as the moon?" Our enswe is the
Church. Like the moon, she is a
borrowed light. She gathers up the
glory of a Savior's sufferings, q
Savior's death, a Savior's resurrec-
ton, a Savior's ascension. and pours
that light on palace and dungeon, on
squalid heathenism and elaborate
scepticism, on widows tears and
martyrs robe OF flame, on weeping
penitence and loud-mouthed scorn.
She is the only institution today
that gives any light to the world. In.
to her portal the poor come and get
the sympathy of q once pillowless
Christ, the bereaved come and see
tho bottle in which God saves ali our
tears, and the captives come, and on
the sharp orners of her affairs dash
off their chains, and the thirsty come
and put their cup under the Crock al
Ages which pours forth from it's
sfnitten side living water, sparkling
water, crystalline water, from under
the throne of God aud the Lamb.
Blessed the bell that calls her worship.
srs to prayer. Blessed the water in
which her members are baptized,
Blessed the wine that CLOVIS in her
sacramento cup. Blessed the songs
on which her devotions travel up and
the angels of God travel down.
I take a step further in my subject-
"Clear as the SUM- After q season oil
storm or fog, how you I thrilled
when the sun comes Gut ut noon
ldayl The mists travel mp hill above
hill, mountain above mountain, until
they are sky lost. The forests are
HUH vi CulIp tIAlQ 1AIA DOlSs AlOAlCf'
makers on the log, birds bcak pound.
ing on the bark, the chatter OF tbs
squirrel on tho rail, the, call Of ths
hawk out Of the ~clear.sky, make you
thankful for the sunshine whichmakes
all the world 30 busy and 90 glad.
The same sun which in the morning
kindled colflagrations emong the
castles ofcIoud, stnops down to paint
the lily white, and the brttercnp vel.
low. and the for -get-me-not blue.
The Church Of God will yet come to
full meridian, and III that day all the
mountains Of the world will be sacred
mountains, touched with the glory d
Calvary, and all streams will flow BY
the mount Of God like cool Sloan,
aud NIL lakes be radiant with gospel
memories like Gennesaret, and aa
islands 81 the sea be crowned with
apocalyptic vision like Patlnos, and
All cities be sacred III Jerusalem. and