The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21

forever.
But, as I already limited In the first
sentence OF this sermon, nothing can be
more beautiful than the figures OF smoke
on clear sky. You can see what you will
in the contour OF this volatile vnpor, now
enchanted castles, now troops OF horse
men, now hammered procession, now
winged couriers, now black angel OF
wrath under II spear oil the sunshine
turned to an angel Of light, and now from
horizon to horizon the air Is picture
gallery filled with masterpieces of which
God Is the artist, burning clouds OF smoke
born In the sunrise and evening clouds
OF smoke laid In the Furnished sopulchers
OF the sunset.
lThe beauty OF the transngured smoke is
a divine symbol OF the beauty OF the
church. The falrest OF all tho fair is She
Do not call those prosecutors of whom
spoke the church. They are the parasites
OF the church, not the church Itself. Her
mission is to cover the earth with n superna.
tural Rladness, to open all the prison doors q,
to balsam all tho wounds, to moss all the
graves,to burn up the night In the fireplace
OF n great morning, to change iron hand.
IFS into diamonded wrlstlets. to turn the
whole race around and whereas it faced
death, commanding 1t, fright about face
for heavenl" According TO the number of
the spires Of the churches In all our cities.
towns and neighborhOods nro the good
homes, the worldly prosperties and tho
pure morals and the happy souls.
Meet me at any depot the world over, and
with my eyes closed take me by the hnnd
and lead me no that my feet will not Stun
BILE, and without my once looking down or
looking on tho level take me to some high
roof or tower and let me see the tops Of
the churches, and | will tell you the pro-
portion OF suicides. OF arsons, of murders
OF thefts. According us the churches are
numerous are the crimes few. According
nc I,a ain D. fam .
merous The most beautiful organization
the world ever saw or ever will see Ia the
much mallgncd church tho friend OF all
good, the foe OF all evil "fair as the moon
and cloar as the sun" Beautiful in het
Author, beautiful In her mis- ion, the hero
inc OF the centuries, the bride of Christ
the queen OF the nationsl
Men may desecrate 1t, as Cromwell. who's
ho stabbed his cavalry horses in st. piurs
Cathedral; or break of tho image OF
Christ, as did the iconoclasts In York min
ster; or hurl against it august literary an
tipathies, rs did Gibbon; or plot its over
throw, rs do some in every community
whose pride and hate and debauchcry arc
reproved by tho Ten Commandments
which 1t thunders and the sermon on the
mount which its brenthes. But It will
stand as long as the earth stands, tho
same unique and wonder working and
beatinc and miraculous thing for
their brain TO say things that will put
her at disadvantage, but many OF them
will send for its coincidence when dy-
ing, and their children will be gathered up
under its benedictions after the parental
curse has been removed. Through her
gates will march oil the influences for good
that shall over reach our world. Take her
membership ns mass. not speaking OF the
acknowledged exceptions, they nre the
noblest, grandest, kindest best men and
women of the ages. But for them the
earth would long ngo have been Il burned
out volcano. They have been the salt that
has kept the human raco from putrefHc.
tion insufrerable either to human or angelic
olfactories.
You lying and hypocritical world, shut
up those ISLANDERS about the church of
Christ, an institution which, far from being
what 1t ought to be and never pretending
to be perfect, Is 500 times better than any
other institution that the world ever saw
Or ever dreamed Of. The highest honor
ever Ind aud the highest honor l shall
ever receive and the highest honor | ever
want Is to have my name on her records
rs member. At her altars | Iepented.
At her sacraments l believed. In her SER
vice let me die. From her doors let mo be
buried. o church OF Godl Thou home OF
the rghteousl Thou harbor from tempest
Thou refuge for the weary Thou light
house OF many nationsl Thou tyre OF
heayenl l could kiss thy very dust with
ecstasy OF affection.
For her my tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend
To her my tolls and cares be given
Til tolls and cares shall end.
oh, come into the church through Christ
the door, door more glorious than that
OF the temple OF Hercules, which had two
pillars, and one was gold and the other
emerald Como in today The world
you leave behind is poor world, and 1t
Will burn and pass off Ike pillars OF
smoke. Whether the final conhagration
will start In the coal mines OF Pennsyl.
Vania, which in some places have for many
years been burning and eating into the
heart of the mountains, or whether it shall
begin near the California geysers, OF
whether from out the furnaces of Cotopaxi
and Vesuvius' and Stromboi 1t shall
burst forth upon the astonished nations
make no prophecy, but nl geologlsts
tell us that we stand on the lid OF u world
the heart OF which is u raging, roaring, aw.
ful flame, and some day God will let the
red monsters out OF their Imprisonment OF
centuries, and New York on fire in 1885,
and Charleston on fire In 1865, and Chicago
on fire in 1872, and Boston on fire in 1873
were only like one spark from black.
smiths forge as compared with that
last universal blaze which will be seen
In other worlds. But gradually the
nHmeS Will lessen, and the world will
become grent living coal, and that
will take on ashen hue, and then our ruined
planet will begin to smoke. and the mount
aims will smoke, and the valleys will smoke,
and the islands will smoke, and tho seas
will smoke, and the cities will smoke, and
the Ave continents will be Ave pillars OF
smoke. But the black vapors Will begin to
lessen in height and density, and then will
become hardly visible TO those who look
upon 1t from the sky galleries. and after
awhile from just one point there will curl
up thin, solitary yapor, and then even
that will vanish, and there will be nothing
left except the charred ruins OF burned
out world, the corpse OF dead star, tho
ashes OF m extinguished planet, q fallen
pillar of.smoke.
But that will not interfere with your in
vestments II you have taken Christ us your
Saviour. Secure heaven as your eternal
home, and you can look down upon II dis
mnntled, disru pied and demolished earth
without any perturbation.
When wrapped in fire the realms OF ether
glow,
And heavens last thunders shake the earth
below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins
smile
And light thy torch at Natures funeral
pile.
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