The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-12-20
New Windows Dedicated.

troyed by the cyclone of a year ago,
were dedicated with appropriate SER
vices.
w. L. Parker of the board of trus.
tees made statement covering the
cost of the windows and the pastor
Rev. j. G. York preached a sermon in
harmony with the occasion. At the
close OF the sermon he read the fol-
lowing tribute:
o, beautiful windows, we dedicate
you this morning to an honorable
task. You are channels of light
the light that God has made. When
first CLEANS of the rising day drive
from before them the shadows of the
night, through which you have wait.
ed in silent patience, an example to
us when shadows conceal our way,
you brighten with smile as you are
kissed by the sun, and bid her come
in as a welcome guest within these
walls. Throughout the day you stand
IN bowed reverence before your
guest and give her unlimited access
within these gates and unquestioned
sovereignty over this altar. You
join your vari-colored beauty to her
golden rays and flood this sanctuary
with an irridescent charm that will
brighten and beautify the life Of
many a weary worshiper. When the
day draws to close, you and your
guests separate in sweet peace and
in unbroken friendship.
o, happy servants of light, morn
ing, noon and night, in eloquent sic
ience you bear witness to the trans.
forming power of the light God mas
made. We have builded you into
this temple as crown of light. We
have placed you there to direct the
light within. Without you this would
be place Of morbid darkness, with
you it is house of glorious light,
with the constant passing of day
and night, you are unwearied in
your greetings 10 the sun and en-
brace to the night. You will never
break friendship with the light OF
day and the peace of night. In your
faithful attendance upon your duty,
we trust that you may be able to re-
sist every storm. Though silent. in
animate and dead, and the handi.
work of man, you have. a divine mis-
sion, work that God has given YOU,
You are an instrument in the econ
omy of the kingdom of heaven, and
to your task We happily dedicate you
today.
%, joyful channels of blessing, be
thou an example to them that wor-
ship here of patience and dutiful-
ness. Be thou constant witness to
rs of the Transforming power of the
divine light. AS we sit here under
the blessing of the light that shines
through you, do thou thus show to
us that our lives may become true
blessings in this world only as we
allow divine light to shine through
us--to pierce us through and
through. Teach us by your example
how to reflect and direct t1e rays OF
light that come to us from above.
Say thou to us, "Ye are lights in the
world" Help us like you not only
to receive the light, but also to share
H. by allowing it to pass through us
and give to our lives a varied beauty
also. Help us to seek light only that
we ourselves may become lights.
For we know that to cover our light
is only to lose 1t and only by sharing
may we really possess it. M
Thou are lesson to us of the
Great Light, whom we may greet
with a smile at the rising OF our day,
and whom We may embrace at the
fading away of our little day. That
Light is the Light of the world. We
open toward Him the windows or
our souls and they are transformed
by his wonderful power. Our souls
are but windows in the great temple
OF light. That temple lifts its spire
unto the throne in the midst Of tie
heavens and there it is crowned with
honor and glory. Some of the win
dows are great and beautiful, some
are small and unseemly. But each
| performs the same function, eac.1
| helps to flood the temple with light
Wy IltlT OWN SulHlHB. EdCu is HeiO
responsible for the diffusion of light.
Each will be counted great or small
! according as each attends to it's task,
Magnitude of dimensions Is not
Gods measure of greatness. If we
fall beneath the weight of the stress
and storm Of sin, God will have to
replace us with other souls, who may
with stronger faith and truer hearts
fight the fight and win the crown.
To dedicate a piece of glass IL
nothing. Thus to display the art ol
mans handicraft Is of no worth. I,
is only as these windows represent
love, service and sacrifice that theil
dedication is like sweet incense UNITS
heaven. They may have inscribed
upon them the names of the dead o,
the living, or of some organization
whom We have delighted to honor
but therein Is not their true worth
Their worth Is in the consecrated
heroic effort back Of them.
o God, we give these windows q
thee, and with them we give our
selves. Accept it all as thine owl
, and sanctify unto thy glory, W