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I have to deal now with the meaning and lessons of this golden lampstand, and it teaches us I. The office manwards of the Church and of the individual Christian. Let me just for a moment recall the various instances in which this symbol reappears in Scripture.
The smallest taint of making self your end, your law, or your strength, mingling with your lives, and manifest in their actions, will dim the light which shines from them, and men will be very quick to find out and say, 'He calls himself a Christian; but he lives for himself. Neither the light, which is the radiance of a Christian life manwards, can be sustained without the offering of the life in its depths to God, nor can the activities of the life be acceptably offered to Him, unless the man that offers them 'lets his light shine before men. The lamp and the table must go together.
It lingered on the gunwale with an appealing turn manwards until a red arm was offered on one side, a black arm on the other, whereupon it hopped ashore with a coy wag to the right and to the left. It was not hard to see why the boatmen had christened her the "chicadee-woman." Young Joe, catching a glimpse of the face beneath, muttered "School-marm!" impolitely.
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