Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-08


Material world Open the Door to
.cb'ist.
fCopyrlght, 1901. by Louis Klopsch. y. VI
Washington. Oct 6.-The charm OF
i'm exalted religion is by DIR. Talmage
this discourse illustrated and COM
nended; text job xviii. IL, THE cry
al cannot equal IT,"
M Many of the precious stones OF the
isihle have come to prompt recogni-
ION But for the present ! take up
the less valuable crystal. Job. in my
text. compares saving wisdom with
specimen OF topaz. An infidel chemist
or mlneralogist would pronounce the
latter worth more than the former,
hut Job makes an intelligent compari-
son. looks at religion and then looks
at the crystal and pronounces the
former as of far superior value TO the
latter, exclaiming, in the words of my
text, THE crystal cannot equal It.
Now. ID is not part of my sermonic
Z design to depreciate the crystal
whether II be found in Cornish mine
or Harz mountain or Mammoth cave
or tinkling among the pendants OF the
chandeliers OF palace. The crystal
is the star of the mountain; 1t is the
Gueen of the cave; II is the eardrop OF
the hills; It finds it's heaven In the
diamond. Among all the pages of
natural history there is no page more
interesting to me than the page crys-
photographic. But want to show you
= that Job was right when, taking re-
lgion in one hand and the crystal IN
the others he declared that the for
mer is of far more value and beauty
than the latter, recommending 1t to all
people and to all the ages. declaring
THE crystal cannot equal 1t"
" Gods Insutabie Laws
In the first place, remark that re-
1igion is superior TO the crystal In ex-
actness. That shapeless mass OF erys-
tai against which you accidentally
dashed your foot is laid out with more
exactness than any earthly city
There are six styles of capitalization
and all OF them divinely ordained
Every crystal has mathematical pre-
cision. Gods geometry reaches through
It, and 1t is a square. or 1t Is rect
angle. or It is a rhomboid, or in some
way It has mathematical figure. Now.
religion beats that in the simple fact
that spiritual accuracy Is more beauti-
full than material accuracy. Gods at
tributes are exact, Gods laws exact,
Gods DEGREES exact, Gods management
In ~
\ wrong. though he counts tie grass
blades and the stars and the sands and
the cycles. His providences never
dealing with us perpendicularly when
those provinces ought to be oblique,
nor laterally when they ought to be
vertical Everything in our life ar
ranged without any possibility of mis-
take. Each life a six-headed prism.
Born at the right time; dying at the
right time. There are no happen
SOS" in our theology. II ! thought
this was slipshod universe, | would
be in despair God is not an anarchist
Law, order. symmetry. precision, a
= perfect square, a perfect rectangle. q
perfect rhomboid, perfect circle. The
edge of Gods robe of government new
er trays out. There are no loose
screws in the worlds machinery. II
did not just happen that Napoleon was
attacked with indigestion at Borodino
so that he became incompetent for the
day. II did not just happen that John
Thomas, the missionary, on heather
island, waiting for an outfit and orders
for another missionary tour. received
that outfit and those orders in boz
that fioated ashore, while the ship. and
the crew that carried the box wer'
never heard Of | believe in a particu
lar providence. | believe Gods geo
metry may be seen in all our life more
beautifully than in crystallography
Job was right The crystal canno
equal it."
More Transparant Than Crystal.
Again | remark that religion is su
perior to the crystal in transparency
We know not when or by whom glass
was first discovered. Beads of 1t hav'
been found in the tomb of Alexande
Seyerus. Vases of It are brought ul
from the ruins of Herculaneum. Their,
it 5000 years ago-thOse adornment
found now attached to the mummie
OF Egypt A great many commenta
tors believe that my text means glass
What would We do without the crys
tai? The crystal in the window Il
keep out the storm and let In tn
day; the crystal over the watch, de
Tending it's delicate machinery yet al
lowing us to see the hour; the crysta
of the telescope. by which the astrono
mer brings distant worlds so near h
can inspect them. Oh the triumphs O
the crystals in the celebrated window
OF Rouen and Salisbury! But there
nothing so transparent in crystal as 4
our holy religion. 1t is a Transparent
religion. You put It to your eye an
YOU see man-hls sin. his soul. hi
destiny. You look at God and yo
see something of the grandeur OF hi