Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-08


sstruction - 10 shine In the family circle
and IRA iate every apartment OF the
house. Its bsams are to fall "a All the
genial warmth and gentlenere Of the |
sun in the early days OF spring, thawing
the icy coldnees OF obstinacy and indif-
ference; winning ana drawing the
hearts OF our children first to UNDER
stand, and then to love the ways Of
righteousness and truth.
England has spent In fifty years more
than 6 so. 900. 600 for the restoration and 4
repair OF her churches and cathedrals,
but Archbishop Benson said that the res
viving of the ancient practice Of cate
chising the children In home and Sum
day school in the mysteriessof the king
dom Of God is the wisest OF all restora-
tons. This is pre-eminently our duty
as a church, believing in Christian
training asswe do. This was the practice
of the Christian church in its earliest
days. This was the strength and glory
of the Jewish church: they nurtured.
and trained their children. This is the
very essence and fiber OF true patriot
isan. training in good citizenship at the
foundation.
Be lights then in your own homes, and
let Christianity shine thru you in the.
home. Let them be gathered. every one
OF them into the Sunday school and
church to supplement there the good
work begun In the home.
(2) Let the light OF Christianity shine
in you again in its tonic, strengthening,
energizing power, Its bright and buoy
ant hopefulness, its strong inspiring
faith. In the daily round Of household
duty, in the pressure Of commercial
cares, and especially In the path of
church work, and parochial duty. let 1t
be seen and felt that the blessed sun-
shine of the gospel has found its way
to your heart and that ii could not be
buried there but found expression in
the sunny radiance of the face, in the
sympathetic grasp Of the hand in the
genial, hopeful words and spirit that
spring from the tongue. How many
restless spirits are there to whom to
bear the rest ulness of a Christian faith
and spirit ? How many chafed and
wounded ones, fretful, sore and unre-
conctled over the bereavements and af-
| 5f1ictions OF life to whom to carry the
healing balm of Christian patience and
resignation? How often too has a we'll
balanced. sympathetic. consistent, up
1 right life been a legacy most precious
in the family, an example most elevat-
| ing and inspiring in the community? 1t
I has said with quiet voice to the young,
There is, there Is nobility in virtue,
i in uprightness, in Christian loyalty and
/ love" and it has touched and inspired
| them. It has comforted the aged and
| those beset with cares.
4 cd Let again the light of Christian
iity shine in you as a light of gentleness
and peace. In the heat Of politics, in
| the competitions Of business, in the
/ risalries of society, everywhere let your
light shine forth clearly on the side OF
4 generosity, of largeness, Of forbearance.
of forgiveness. dispelling all the fogs
and mists of prejudice and hate; Of
wilful Misrepresentation and error.
But you are absorbed in secular oc-
i cupation; You are completely engrossed
lin the everyday business and hustle
/ of the world. Say not. II have made nc
4 religions professions: am no priest OF
minister; my lips have uttered no re-
8ligious vows: Christianity has no claims
4 on me. We may no more abjure. the
light and brightness Of Christianity
H than we may abjure the light and
q brightness of the sun. We may no more
81 escape allegiance to its laws than we
Il can escape allegiance to the laws of tn,
81 land, tho We have never been presen
q at trial or looked into a statute book
4 On the other hand do not grieve becaus
q You are not directly engaged in thu
!. Lord = work. Remember you may dc
most good, as one says, b., the rhetoric
of a good example.
8 The most eminent have often found
I inspiration from the humblfst. Poo
Il and humble in his tenement. scanty tn,
a pittance on which he lived. yet how
4 3envied his mind and heart? How h
comforted and cheered me when dee
! pondent? He was one of the most Low;
able old men ever knew. His min,
was pure as the snow-drop.'''
7 Such was the language of one o
q earth's great ones about one of Thu
;humblest. whose light vas shining mos
FeffectivelS by a holy, pure and lovabl,
example
I. 4) Dear fellow christians of ever,
name, he adnonition is to all \ we mus
all be lights in the world. How man.
& there are who are ambitious to shin
among their feilowsBin society, in liter
azure. in craftsmanship and politics
81 But there IS. a shining to which al
y learning and all Accomplishment, ever.
ii ability and every gift may be nobl.
Il cansserated, when they shine, not il
their cwp name but hold forth the pre-
eious Word of Life.
Delivered by Rev w T.. Jackson
pastor Trinity church. Emmet sburg, a
Christ church, Waterloo. Aug. 49, 1906
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