Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-06-29

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49, PILLS
taken every night will regulate your liver,
stomach and bowels, and your breath will be
sweet. They strengthen and fortify the
whole system The eyes become brighter
and the complexion clearer. They are purely
vegetable and kept for two years before selling.
No other pills are SO good. Sold through-
out the world, both sugar-coated and plain.
| worldly church is a candlestick without
the candle, and it had its prototype in
ST. Sophia, in Constantinoplt. built to the
glory of God by Constantine, but trans.
formed to base uses by Mohammcd the
second. Built out of colored marble, n
cupola with "a windows soaring to n
height of $50 feet, the ceiling one great
bewildcrment of mosaic, galleries sup
ported by eight columns OF porphyry and
81 columns of green jasper, nine bronze
doors with alto relieve work. fascinating
to the eye of any artist, vases and vest
ments incrusted with all manner of pre-
cious stones. Four walls on fire with in
describable splendor.
Though labor was cheap, the building
cost 81 100000. Ecclesiastical structure,
almost supernatural in pomp and majes-
ty But MOhammcdanism tore down
from the walls of that building all the
sanity and Christly images. and high up
in the dome the figure of the cross was
rubbed ont that the crescent of the bar
barous Turk might be substituted. A
great church, but no Christ A gorgeous
.,,I. ln' th,,,, a
such churches would not give the world
as much light as one homemade tallow
candle by which last night some grand
mother in the eighties put on her specta-
cles ard read the Psalms OF David in
large type. Up with the churches by all
means. Hundreds Of them, thousands of
them, and the more the better. But let
each one be n 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 candlestick or 'of can
die neither light Of the sun, for the Lord
God gveth them light, and they shall
reign forever and ever" Seven candle
sticks the complete number of lights.
Let your light shine before mon, that
they, seeing your good works, may glori-
fy your Father which is in heaven.
To Destroy Error.
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 small circuit. but so far
as 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 he soon wrecked if the stars, in.
stend of keeping their own orbits, should
go to hunting down other stars. Minis
tiers of religion should never clash. But
in all the centuries of the Christian
church some of these stars have bee1
hunting an Edward Irving or a Horace
Bushnell or an Albert Barnes, and the
stars that We're in pursuit OF the other
stars lost their own orbit, and some o!
them could never agap find it. Alas for
the heresy hunters. Inc best way to de-
stroy error is to preach the truth The
best way to scatter darkness is TO strike
light. There is in immensely room
enough for all the stars and in the church
room enough for all the ministers The
ministers who give up righteousness anC
the truth will get punishment enough
anyhow. for they are the wandering
stars for whom is reserved the blackness
of darkness forever"
| should like as minister, when I an
dying to be able truthfully to say what &
captain of the English army, fallen Mt the
head of his column and dying on the
Egyptian battlefield. said to Genera
Wolseey, who ca me to condoe with him
Il led them straight. Didn't lead then
straight general?' God has put us min
listers as captains in this battlefield o,
truth against error. Great at last will b,
our chagrin il we fall leading the people
the wrong way, but great will be oul
gladness if when the battle is over W,
can hand our sword back to our grea
commander. saying: Lord Jesus. W,
led the people straight. Didn't we leat
them straightT Those ministers who &,
, off at tangent and preachs some othe
gospel are not stars, but comets, and the.
fash across the heavens little while ant
make people stare ond throw down q few
meteoric stones and then go out Of sigh
If not ont of existence. Brethren in tn
ministry, let us remember that God call
us stars, and our business is to shine an,
to keep our own sphere, and then whel
we get done trying to light up the dark
ness Of this world we will wheel int
higher spheres, and in us shall be futile,
the promise, "They that turn many t
! righteousness shall shine as the stars for
ever and ever"
The ministers are not all Pecksniff
! and canting hypocritcs, as some woul
g have you think, Forgive me if, havin
e at other times glorfed the medical pro
fessiOn and hc-legal profession and tn
literary profession, | glorify my own.
; have seen them in their homes and hear
them in their pulpits, and a grander ar
@ ray of men never breathed and the Bibl
figure is not strained when it calls theI
0 stars, And whole consultations of gor
q Gus ministers have already taken thei
D places on high, where they shine eve
!. brighter than they shone on earth. Ed
l ward n. Kirk of the Congregations
. church, Stephen ii. Tying of the Episcc
4 pal church, Matthew Simpson of tn
. Methodist church, John Bowling of tn
D Baptist church, Samuel X. Talmage O
y the Presby terian church, Thomas De
8 Witt of the Reformed church, job
: Chambers of the Independent church
and there | stop, for it so happens tina
|, | have mentioned the seven stars of tn
I seven churches
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q in vision saw scroll with seven seal
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