Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-27

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MoIios are inhaoited-if not by enot
s,les.uIes as we are, still such creatures
d. ~ uou designed to make, aud that an
1850 $3.50 moiiqs are part OF Christ's
u ,H'iu o, isaac Newton, and Kepler, and
~ s only went on Columbus voyage
n ~ nau 'hese continents OF our Kings
~. IAN think all worlds were loyal
put this. The great
ORGAN or rHR UNIVERSE.
us pedals and its pipes and its KEYS. ars
al one great harmony, save one ipiure
peual, save one broken stop--thr vox
world. 'ne oisioysi
Now you know that, however grand
.ne instrument may be, II there be one
Key OUT OF order 1t spells the harmony.
anu Carlst must mead this key. He
must restore this broken stop. You
Know with what bleeding hand, and with
mAat pierced side, and with what crushed
lVoS ne dlu the work. But the world
snail De attuned, and all worlds XIII be
yes aceoroant. Isle of Wight, larger in
comparison with the British empire than
OUT Island OF world IA compared with
OnIists vast domain. II not, why that
celestial escort? II not, why that senti.
mel win blazing badge above the cara
Vanssryf IL not. why that midnight
Waterman 10 the balcony of heavenP As
tronomy surrendered that night 10 Christ
This planet for Christ. The solar system
for Christ Worlds abiaze and worlds
burnt out--all worlds for Christ.
Intensest microscope cannot see Che
one side Of that domain Fartheat reach
Ing telescope cannot fud the other side OF
that domain. But will tell YOU how the
universe is bounded. 1t is bounded on
the north and south and east and west by
God, and that God is Christ, and that
Christ is God, and that God is ours. on.
does 1t not enlarge our ideas of a Savior's
dominion when | tell you that all the
worlds
ARE ONLY SPARKS
struck from his anvil, that all the worlds
are only iieecy focks following the one
shepherd, that all the islands OF light in
immensely are one great archipelago be-
longing to our King
But this scene also impresses me with
the fact that the wise men OF the East
came to Christ. They were not fools,
they were not imbeclles. The record dis
tinctly says that the wise men came to
Christ. We say they were the magl, or
they were the alchemists, or they were
the astrologists, and we say ii with de-
preciating accentuation. why, they
were the most splendid and
magnificent men OF the cen.
fury. They were the naturalists and the
scientists. They knew all that was
known. You must remember that astrol
ogy was the mother of astronomy and
that alchemy was the mother OF chemistry,
and because children are brighter than
the mother you do not despise the mother.
1t was the lifelong business of these
astrologeTs to stuiy the stars. Twenty
two hundred and Atty years before Christ
was born the wise men knew the process
sion OF the equinoxes, and they had cal.
culated the orbit and the return OF the
comets Prof. Smith declares that he
thinks they knew the distance OF the
earth from the sun. We fnd in the book
of job that the men of olden time did not
suppose the earth was nat, as some have
said, but that he knew, and the men Of
his time knew the world was globular.
The pyramids were built for astrological
and astronomical study.
Then the alchemists spent their lives In
the study of metals, and gases, and
liquids, and solids, and in filling the
worlds library with their wonderful dis
coveries They were vastly wise men
who came TO the East. They understood
embalment as our most scientific meu can
not understand il. After the world has
gone on studying hundreds of years 1t
may come up to the point where the an-
clients began To forget. | believe the lost
arts are as mighty as the living arts.
They were wise men that came from
the East, and tradition says the three
wisest came-Caspar, young man; Bal
thazar, man in midlife, and Melchior,
an octogeneriau. The three wisest men
OF all the century. They came to the
manger. So 1t has always been-the wis
est men come to Christ, the
BRAINIEsT MEN COME
to the manager, Who was the greatest
metaphysician this country has ever
produced? Jonathan Edwards, the
Christian. Who was the greatest as
tronomer OF the world? Herschel, the
Christian. Who was the greatest poet
ev produced? John Milton, the chris
tian. Who WAS the wisest writer on law?
Blackstone, the Christian. Why is it that
every college and university In the land
has chapel? They must have a place
for the wise men to worship
Come now, let us understand In ounces
and by inches this whole matter In post
norton examination the brain of dis
tinguished men has been examined, and
will tlud the largest, the heaviest, the
mightiest brain ever produced in Amer-
ca, and | will ask what that brain thought
of Christ. There it Is, the brain weigh
ing sixty-three ounces, the largest brain
ever produced In America. Now, let me
find what that brain thought OF Christ.
In the dying moment that man said
"Lord, believe; help Thou nine unbe-
lief. Whatever else do, Almighty God,
receive me to Thyself for Christs cake.
This night shall be In life, and JOY, and
blessedness." SO Daniel Webster came
to the manger. The wise men Of the east
followed by the wise men OF the west.
{ Know also In this scene that 1t was a
winter month that God chose for His
Sons nativity. Had II been the month OF
May that is the season OF blossoms.
Had 1t been in the month Of June-that is
the season OF roses. Had it been In the
month of JulY--tbat is the season Of
great baryests Had II been In the month