The Seven Golden Lamps***e*** Poem by Mary Wismer

The Seven Golden Lamps***e***

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II. The MATERIALS of which
the candlesticks are made.
They are of GOLD. Generally in scripture
gold symbolizes the holy, the perfect,
the divine. 'Be holy, for I am holy;
' 'be perfect, as your Father
who is in heaven is perfect;
'partakers of the divine nature;
' 'as we have borne the image of the earthly,

We shall also bear the image of
the heavenly, '—these are some of
the passages which help to illustrate
the meaning of 'gold.' The Churches
are 'in God the Father, and in Christ Jesus,
our Lord.' They are not from beneath,
but from above; they are not of the world,
even as Christ is not of the world.

They are composed of men born from above.
With divine glory they shine;
with divine beauty they stand
forth before the world, 'perfect with
the loveliness which God
has put upon them, ' and representing
the surpassing and all-precious
excellence of Him in whose beauty
they are beautiful, and in whose
perfection they are perfect.

How noble the lesson which
we are thus taught! How holy
and unworldly ought the Churches to be,
and each saint in them!
As gold cannot rust, so neither
ought they to take on
the world's rust or defilement,
but to stand in the midst of it as a witness against its evil;

'Holy, harmless, and undefiled,
separate from sinners; ' 'unspotted
from the world.' If the iron and clay
cannot mingle, how much less
the gold and the clay! What a rebuke
to the Churches—'How is the fine
gold become dim! ' Where is the church
now that could claim the symbol, and say,
'I am a golden candlestick? '

15. January 2008

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