The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-07

Then shy DO you Use e. II you don :
understand q great many things about
ftT" Why Because I want 20 see.
How dark Il 10 getting COW. Let me show
you / just take this match and scratch
IL OF the stove It'd so. then wait a mo-
ment. Their turn up the wick little and
Ixar Il. then pat on the chimney and tx
the wick just right. and IL 81 all done.
That Is all I know about IT, When do
my part right. II does its part right Some
day Il viii be nice 10 know al about these
things you speak Of but just nov I must
go down into the cellar 10 get some po-
tafoes for breakfast. so please excuse
me- And of she goes. carrying her
light with her and leaving me In the semi
darkness. and I cannot help saying TO
myself: God bless the child: I wish
her father would use one-hslf her good
sense with regard 70 that best OF all
lamps. Gods Holy Word Stop criti-
cisinz and picking 70 pieces the Hoy
Book o doubrer. and in cellar and gar
ret. everywhere IL viii give thee light.
DensminationsI Interpretations.
AZ denominations. sometimes think we
do little better. We are apt 10 come
pre5udfced 70 this source OF all knowledge.
having our IDEAS OF what we want TO
find. and then try 10 read IL into the text.
And even II we are willing 20 accept the
plain truth as stated. We show our pref
efences 80 clearly that il does not take
long 10 detect our theological position.
The Roman Catholic church says, in ef-
feet. that this lamp Is a good one. but IL
Is dangerous TO handle. 1t win not do for
every one TO attempt TO use IL IL gives
iight. but IL Is likely 70 explode. The
church Ia trained 10 take care of It, IL
must De exclusively in the hands OF the
priests Ordinary people may benefit by
It's Illumination. but clerical fingers must
turn the ratchet that regulates the wick.
The Protestant denominations give this
Bible lamp 10 the people. but each shows
its peculiar way of treating it. or course
am always speaking Of extremists. There
are some Episcopalians who seem 20 pay
more attention 10 its external beauty
than It's internal radlance-more 20 ritual
than to righteousness. There are some
Presbyterians who keep this lamp I'M
lighted a good part of the time. IN
order to prove that the oil forces its
way up the wick. rather than ac-
knowledge that the threads OF the
wick by capillary attraction invite the
ascending fud-irresistibe grace versus
free choice. There are some Baptists who
are ever uneasy about the quantity OF oil
In the lamp. They want the wick com
pletely submerged, and do not expect
much light II IL isn't. There are some
Methodists who are always turning up
they have TO take a little smoke with II.
They believe in fire and plenty of 1t. And
as for US Gongregationalists, We are SO
sharply divided that the philosophy OF the
light Is continually being stated in oppo-
site ways. Our Unitarian faction con-
tends that IL Is the wick that burns be-
cause 1t is saturated with the oii-human-
ity charged with divinity; while our Trim
itarlan faction claims that IL IS the oil
that burns merely using the wick as a
nedium-divinsty manifest in humanity.
let US quit all this, and as one church OF
the living God use this Book. His glorious
lamp. 20 light up the path OF the sinful,
showing chem first their degradation and
danger. and then so trridiating with II the
dying form on Calvsry's cross. that hope
may send its CLEAN into the darkness and
make plain the road 10 heaven. Let US
turn the brightness OF this glowing lamp
into every sorrowinz heart and home and
bring comfort where once there was de-
SPAR. Let Us lower this lantern into ev-
cry open grave that the tomb may become
but the lighted hallway OF heaven. Let
as present the truth OF this old book every
Sunday from this platform, that lethargic
lives shall wake up. and indifferent lives
become interested. and hesitatinE lives
take now courage. and disappointed lives
display new hope. Then shall the church
come 10 her true vocation, Then shall the
apostles desire for the church az Philippi
be satisfied In Us. in that. oiameless and
harmless. the sons OF God without rehuke,
IN the midst OF a crooked and perverse
generation. we shall shine as lights In this
world. holding forth as a cleaning torch.
or a glowing lamp. the word OF life which
is the Hight OF God
For tho Truth-seeker, Also
This lamp Of God lights up the pathway
OF the truth--eeker. do not care how
well-read q man may he. he is ignorant
unless ne has studied the divine revels-
tgona We do not reckon q mans inteili-
gencs by the amount. but by the charac-
ter 81 his knowledge. lie who grovels viii
always be a worm. no matter how much
surface he covers. The fun development
of mankind cannot be accomplished while
the higher spiritual nature Is neglected.
Truth born OF earth IS a material tang,
with narrow limitations. gross propensi-
ties and unsatisfactory resuts Having
acquired all its acts. historic. scientific,
artistic. commercial the earnest seeker
stands az the end OF very short lane. and
looks out upon infinite darkness CUES
lions innumerahie rise Up in his mind.
but there is no answer Cor them. Riddles
Of life over which hs has puzzled FOR year.
remain only half solved. He becomes en-
;ranced with The beauties that have been
80 lavishiy scattered about him. and which
point 20 3 henedcent and wise Creator
and al they pale ard wither away he
doubts the beuehcence and questions the
wisdom He gazss ~ wonder at the evil
dence % power on every ssde. and fol-
lows back their ancestry rutn he rnds
their source IN the omnipotence OF God
Himself: and then as these servants OF
the Most High become in n. hands O:
sinful man rebellioDS. defiant. insurrsc-
tionsry oveTthroWinE human rights
trampinE under foot the poor and weak.
debssinx and degrading principles ard
{ persons that they we're created 60 ennoh.e,
+ hs asks IN equal sstouisnment: Car
+ that "a emnipotenCs which r. 20
I easily overthrowns Tie finds himself
I surrounded ny loves deep. pure. absorb
ing Heart thr0hs toward heart. and ten,
+ ertl winds about tcndTiL The glow in this
eukiuGled holy passion seems too bright
4 for earthly origin. No spark OF merely
sensual affection could ever burn 60
brightly. 80 unselashlv. SO sscrifcfaIlv. II
E mast have come from above. Il IS Gods
heart % love overlooking among huusa =
+ Kind. 50 be reasons from nature and ex-
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Z eorA that bjaAs heart 20 heart. and then
with wild cry 30 bursts oct In ovefs fvr.
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part q Cod that causes loves anguish
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