Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-03
SERMONS
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Rev. DR.. Call1a s. s
Subject: Pillars of fSmoke-Trials OF Truth
Expressed With biblical Symbols
The Suffering of the Church of God
Powerfully Set Forth.

Subject: Pillars of moke-Tria1s of Truth
Expressed With u Biblical Symbol
The Suffering of the Church of God;
Powerfully Set Forth.
downright Louis Klopsch lssal
WASHINGTON, d. C.-The trials through
which the truth has struggled are ty DR..
Talmage here set forth under "A Bible SYM
Dol OF great suSgestiveness and power;
text Solomon's Song, ill.,. 6, "Who Is this
that cometh our of the wilderness like
pillars of smoker"
The architecture OF the smoke is won
drous, whether God with His finger
curves it into cloud, or rounds 1t into
a dome, or points 1t in spire, or
spreads 1t in wing, or, as IN the text,
hoists it in a pillar. Watch 1t winding
up from the country farmhouse in the
early morning, showing that the pas
torai industries have begun, or see 1t
ascending from the chimneys OF tn
city, telling of the homes fed, the fac
tories turning out valuable fabrics, the
printing presses preparing book and
newspaper and all the 10000 wheels
of work in motion. On a clear day this
vapor spoken of mounts with such buoy
apcy. and spreads such delicate veil
across the sky, and traces such graceful
lines of circle and semicircle, and waves
and tosses and sinks and scars aud scatter5
with such affiuence OF shape and color and
suggestiveness that, II you have never no.
ticed it, you are like a man who has all his
life lived in Paris and yet never seen tho
Luxembourg, or all his life in Rome and
never seen the Vatican, or all his life at
Lockport and never seen Niagara. Forty
four times the Bible speaks OF the smoke,
and 1t Is about time that somebody
preached sermon reco ;nizing this
strange weird, beautiful, elastic, charm
ing, terrific and fascinating vapor. Across
the Bible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the
smoke of Sodom, the smoke OF Al, the
smoke of the pit, the smoke OF the volcanic
hills when God touches them, and In my
text the glorious church of God coming uI
ou. of the wilderness like pillars OF smoke
In the first place, these pillars oil smoke
in nv text indicate the suffering the
church OF God has endured. What do !
mean by the church? L mean not a build
ing, not sect, but those wh0 in all ages
and all lands and OF all beliefs love Col
/ and are trying to do right. For many CEN
turies the heavens have been black with
the smoke of martyrdom. III set side by
| side, you could girdle the earth with the
| fires of persecution-Rowlart Taylor
/ burned at Hadeigh Latimer burned at
! Oxford, John Rogers burned at Smithleld,
John Hooper burned at Gloucester, John
| Huss burned at Constance, Lawrence
! Saunders burned at Coventry, Joan OF Arc
burned at Rouen.
Protestants have represented Catholics
/ as having a monopoly of prosecutors, but
! both Protestant and Catholic have prac-
! ticed Infamous cruelties. The Catholics
! during the reign of Hunnerc We're by Pro-
| testants put to the wors. tortures, stripped
| of their clothing, hoiSted in the air by
pulleys with weights suspended from their
| feet, then let down, and ears and eyes.
nose and tongue were amputated. and red
| hot plates of iron were put against the ten
derest part OF their bodies.
George Bancroft, the historian, says oil
| the State of Maryiand: "In the land which
Catholics had opened to Protestants mass
might not be said publicly, no Catholic
priest or bishep night utter his faith in u
| voice OF persuasion, no Catholic ans tht
teach the young. II wayward child o
| a papist would become an apostate, th
law wrested for him from his parents
| share of IL ~@art -ere tn.
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