The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of ChristianityOrr, Charles Ebert
Religion
The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity
Orr, Charles Ebert
Christianity
Christianity should be full of interest to all mankind. She not only cools
the heated brow, cheers the drooping heart, and strews life’s pathway with
flowers of peace, but she deals with man’s eternal destiny. She will
smooth the rough places all along his journey of life, and when he has
come down to the end, it is she that will bear him across the valley and
welcome him to the home prepared for his eternal inhabitancy.
Since the day of her nativity she has had a bitter obstinate foe, Satan,
and wicked men have combined to bespoil her white robes and mar her fair
form. They have struggled long and hard to bring her low. They have
endeavored to extinguish her radiant light and defame her true character.
We have only to take a stroll through the halls of denominationalism to
learn how far they have succeeded. To many pews and pulpits our virgin has
no excellence or beauty. In the pulpit orator’s exposition of her she is
not exalted one whit above the coarse, vulgar world. Satan has succeeded
in veiling her fair form and true virtues from the hearts of many. In the
opinions of many she is reduced to a mere nothing. Angels weep to see her
fair robes trailed in the dust. Those who pretend to love her have brought
her to shame. The low, degrading opinions entertained regarding her
throughout the realms of sectarianism grieves the souls of her true
admirers. They have brought her down from her pure, high throne and
mingled her with the lives of ordinary sinful men. They have stripped her
of her clean, white garments and covered her with a cloak of many colors.
They have robbed her of her virtues and have stained her fair name until
to-day all that is seen of Christianity in the aristocratic circles of
Christendom is a maiden weeping over her stained vesture, lost virginity
and reproached name. Thank God, such is true only in appearance. True
Christianity is seen by her few devoted followers to-day the same pure,
spotless virgin, the same queen of peace and light, as when she crowned
the brow of the lowly Nazarene and his immediate followers. She has lost
none of her virtuous charms. She is true. She reigns a lovely queen,
glorious in power, pure in principle, “Clear as the sun, fair as the moon,
and terrible as an army with banners.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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