The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-10

wonder twirkling constellation: IS tie
residence CT the martyrs; that group OF
12 lunlinaries may Ee the celestial home
of the apostles Perhaps that steep CT
light is the dwelling place Ct angels
chcrutic, scraph:c, archangclic-a m2n-
sion with rs lnaliy rooms as worlds ana
all their windows illuminated for les
tivity.
Worth Of the Soul.
Oh, how this w;dCns ard Lifts and
stimulates our expectation! How little
it makes the present, and how s:upcn-
dous it makes the future! How 1t con-
soles Us about our pious dead, that, III
stead CT being lcxed up ard under the
ground, have the range Of us MANY rooms
as there arc worlds, and welcome every
where, fer It is the Fathers house, i'll
which there are many mansions! .,
Lord God of the seven stars and Or1On,
how can I endure the transport, the &C.
stasy, Of such Il vision! l must obcy my
text and seek him. will seek him. l
seek him now. for l call to nliId that 1t
is not the material universe that is most
valuable, Lat the spiritual, ard that
each Of us has soul worth r!CTc than
all the worlds which the inspired herds
man saw from his loo;h cu tie hills Of
Tekca.
had studied it before, but the cathe-
dral CT Cologne, Germany, never IN
pressed me as it did one summer. 1t is
admittedly the grardcst Gothic struc-
ture in the world, it's foundation laid III
124S, only a few years ago completed.
More than 600 years in building. All
Europe taxed for its construction. Its
chapel of the Magi with precious>stones
enough to purchase a kingdom. Its
chapel of St. Agnes with masterpieces
of painting. It's spire springing 511 feet
into the heavens. It's stained gi2ss the
chorus of all rich colors. Statues cncir-'
cling the pillars and encircllng all.
Statues above statues, until sculpture
can dc no more, but faints and fails
back against carved stalls and down
on pavements over which the kings
and queens Of the earth have walk
ed to confessional. Nave and aisles and
transept and portals combining the
splendors Of sunrise ard sunset. Inter
laced, interfoliated, intercolumned
grandeur. As I stCcd outside, looking at
the double range Of flying buttresses and
the forest of pinnacies, higher and high
er and higher, until I almost reeled from
dizziness, exclaimed: Great doxolcgy
IN stone! Frozen prayer of many ma
tions!'
But while standing there saw q Poor
man enter and put down his pack ard
kneel beside his burden Oh the hard
floor of that cathedral. And tears CT
deep emotion came into my eyes, as l
said 10 myself: "There is soul worth
more than all the material surround
in2s. That man will live after the last
pinnacle has fallen and not one stone
of all that cathedral glory shall remain
uncrumbled. He is LOW Lazarus in
rags and poverty and WEAKNESS, but I'M
mortal and q son of the Lord God Al
mighty, and the prayer he now offers,
though amid many superstitions, be-
lieve God will hear, and among the
apostles whose sculptured forms stand
in the surrounding inches he will at
last he lifted, and into the presence Of
that Christ whose sufferings areirepre-
sented by the crucifix before W; ;ich he
bows, and be raised in due timetout of
all his poverties into the glorious home
built for him and built for US r. him
who makeththe seven stars and Orson. -