The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-12-04

ION tdDle since your lHOller uleu on
have not made one earnest prayer for
ten years. II was today 10 count
over the list OF your intimate friends
] would find them without exception to
be men aud women who have not been
IN the past and are mol now living
Christian lives. OH. my brother. my
poor sin sick brother. yon have Il long
distance 10 come back 10 God. But
.oa can come BY divine grace, You
tan come now. You can come as quick
IS rs the new converts of the church
which Isaiah saw in vision came 10
the mercy seat. You can come with Il
superlatlye swiftness. You can came
with the lightning velocity Of flying
dove.
But why talk about Isaiah's church
Of the future? Why caption this SER
mon with the title THE Coming Awak-
ening| When Isaiah saw this miglut-
ing dove and used ii rs an emblem was
he abiding only TO a future church: |
think not | think rs the Hebrew
prophet was standing there OH the
mountain of inspiration looking off on
what was 10 come he kept saying 10
himself. "Why is it mol possible for
this vision of Gods church 10 he nate
rallied now - Is not God willing 70
bsing this beatihc condition 10 present
man if the members Of the children Of
God viii today cooperate with the
Holy Spirit? Yes, he can. he will. WAS
the prophets thought | know this is
many Christians mind. God can and
God will make the prophetic vision OF
Isaiah come true now If we, the
church members, will only truly yield
ourselves and c0nsecrate our minds
ana hearts TO Christ's will. O man.
D woman, the greatest enemy of
Jesus Christ today is not the inhdel
aud sc0ffer outside of the church. Ii ia
the man and the woman inside the
church who do not cooperate with
Jesus in his purpose 10 save the world
for Christ through the agency of his
church. If we yield ourselves TO his
will even the smallest and the most
can become mighty for
God, for, Ms Joshua hath said: "0ne
man of you shall chase Il thousand. for
the Lord your God he ii is that fight
eth for you, as he hath promised you.
Take good heed. therefore, unto your
selves that We love the Lord your God"
ST. Marks of Venice.
The symbol OF the dove which Isaiah |
uses to describe the church could not |
be better illustrated than by the spec
tacle in the great square of Venice. /
which is fianked on the one side by the |
famous Cathedral Of ST Mark. With /
but few exceptions | have seen all Tie
great cathedrals of the world. | have /
seen some as white as that Of st. Pc !
ter's, whose wallis, even though they (
may be hundreds of years old, seem 10 I
be as white as the whitest of alabas- /
ter. have seen some dark as an Afri |
cans skin. others red as an Indians /
| have seen some cathedrals which i'm
pressed me by their gigantic size The /
higher | climbed on the roof OF Mil I
ms greatest structure the more my
I'VE and bewilderment. | hive seen
come that were perfect poems in stone,
But, take ii all in all, though it cost
lot nearly as much as some others, the
nost Impressive cathedral ever saw
vas ST. Marks of Venice.
Like unto natural scenery, st. Mark 3
3 the Yellowstone park not the Yo
emite or the Gothard pass, among the
athedrals Ii impressed me not with
is size so much as its exquisite color
ngs. its roof. its walls, its arcade5
III blended rs the colors Of rainbow
rozen in stone The tops Of its lofty
olumns were not hide0us with grimy
They were chiseled into
lower gardens, which grew at your
Get or with their leaves hung down
rom above. These different flower
ardens were so perfectly chiseled that
seemed as IL the winds, sweeping up
rom the Venetian canals were gently
waying them as the rosebushes bend
d under the touch Of summer breeze
a your fathers garden
over the front doorway were the
our massive bronze horses which Ma
oleon carried away TO Paris after his
onquest In Italy. but which the over
brow OF the BOnaparte dynasty re- ,
iored to their places With arched
eek and sinewy limb like creatures of
fe they seemed just ready for Il bat
elield charge or n run over the hills
ftcr the hounds or q gentle caress by
Mistress or chlvalric knight There.
-ithin those walls. the chanccl and au-
itorium blend in such perfect har-
lony that when | stood before the al :
IRIS picture of the dying Christ | felt
N the first time in European cathe-
ril that | was in the presence of God
nd in the place Of prayer
Gods Fenthered Loved Ones.
But. though | saw many places I'm
le Venice cathedral that enhanced
e, after all. my greatest lesson learn
| there was outside the cathedral
ais, and not within. | learned that
Ss0n there not from the cold stones g
building, but from the warm
carts of living doves. There, from
mind the towers and from within the
'cesses down from the roof and the
iur great bronze horses. from pillars =
Id yestibules, the doves gather around
,u by the hundreds. They came rs
to my side as my little chill
'cm might come They perchpd on my