The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-06-30

III IiittANtNs ~ mo- uuNt a. httltI pace
for yourself than for your Lord and
King. DO not live in II paror and put
your Christ in Il kitchen.
These seven candlesticks of which |
speak were not made of pewter or iron.
They were golden candlesticks. and
god is not only valuable, but a bright
metal. Have everything about your
church brght-your ushers with sml-
ing faces, your music iubilant. your
handshaking cordial. your entire serv-
ice attractive. Many people feel that
in church they must look duh. in or
der to be reverental, and many whose
faces in other kinds of assemblage show
all the diEetent phases of emotion have
in church no more expression than the
back wheel of "a hearse. Brighten up
and be responsive. If you feel ike
weeping, weep. If you feel like smil-
ing, smile. If you feel Indignant at
some wrong assailed from the pulpit.
frown. Do not leave your natura ness
and resiiency home because il is sun
day morning. II as officers of church
you meet people at the church door
with black look, and have the music
black and the minister in black preach
II black sermon, and from invocation to
benediction have the impression black.
few will come, and those who do come
will wish they had not come at all.
Golden candlssticks! Scour up the
six lilies on each branch and known that
the more lovely and bright they are the
more fit they are TO hold the light. Eut
Christless light is damage TO the
world rather than Il good. Cromwell
stabbed his cavalry horses in ST. Paul's
cathedraland many now use thechurch
in which TO stable vanities and wordi-
ness. a worldly church is caudlestick
without the candle, and il had it's proto-
type in ST, Sophia, in Constantnople,
built to the glory of God by Constantine.
but transformed to base uses by Mo.
manned the second. Built out of col
ored marble, cupola with "a win
dows soaring to height of $50 feet. the
ceiling one great bewilderment of mo-
sale. galleries supported by eight col
umns of porphyry and G. columns of
| green jasper. nine bronze doors with
alto relieve work fascinating 10 the eve
of any artist, vases and vostmeuts in
crusted with all manner Of precious
stones. Four walls on fire with indie.
scribable splendor
Though labor was cheap. the building
cost Sl.jJo,0o0. Ecclesiastical structure,
almost supernatural in pomp and ma ies-
| ~. But MuhamWodauism tore down
/ from the walls of that building all the
sanity and Christly images, and high
/ up i'm the dome the figure of the cross
was rubbed out that the crescent OF the
! harbarous Turk might be substituted.
/ \ great church. bur no Christ, \
/ gorgeous caudlcs,ick. but no candle.
/ Ten thousand such churches would not
| give the world Us much light as one
/ homemade ta..ow candle hy which last
( night some grandmother i'm the eighties
/ put on her spectaclcs and read the
Psalms OF David in large type. Up with
| he churches 10y all means, Hundreds
of them, thousands of them. and the
| more the better. Bun let each one be a
/ blaze Of heavenly light, making the
world brighter and brighter, till the
! last shadow has disappeared and the
last of the suffering children of God
shall have reached the land where they
| have no need Of caudlestick or "of can
die, neither light OF the sun, for the
| Lord God giveth them light, and they
| shall reign forever and ever Seven
cundlesticks the complete number Of
lights. Let your light shine before
men, tina, they, seeing your good works,
may gorify your Father which is in
Heaven.
Turn now in your Bible TO the seven
stars. We are distinctly told that they
are the ministers Of religion. Some are
large stars, some Of them small stars,
some of them sweep wide circuit and
some of them a small circuit, but so far
rs they are genuine they get their light
from the great central sun around
whom they make revolution. Let each
one keep In his own sphere. The solar
system would be soon wrecked if the
stars, instead Of keeping their own or
bits. should 20 10 hunting down other
stars. Ministers of religion should
never clash. But in all The centuries Of
the Christian church some Of these
stars have been hunting an Edward
Irving or a Horace Bushnell or an Al
bert barnes, and the stars that were in
pursuit of the other stars lost their own
orbit. and some Of them could never
again find il. Alas for the Aeresy hunt
trs! The best way 10 destroy error is
to preach the truth. The best way 10
scatter darkness is to strike light.
There is in immeuSity room enough for