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flashed from his pale fingers, and the star
seemed to pour Its light from his whito lips as
Kirke White wrote these immortal words

seemed to pour It's light from his Whito lips as
Kirke White wrote these immortal words
When marshaled on the nightly plain,
The glitterlng hosts bestud the sky,
One star alone OF all the train
Can fix the sinners wandering eye.
Harkl harkl to God the chorus breaks,
From every host, from every gem,
But one alone the Savior speaks
II 10 the star Of Bethlehem.
Once on the raging seas rode,
The storm was loud, the night was dark
And rudely blew the wind
That tossed my founder ing bark;
Deep horror then nay vitals froze.
Deathstruck ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly star arose
1t was the star OF Bethlehem.
Notice, also, in this scene that other worlds
seemed to honor our Lord and Master. Bright
star of the night, wheel on in thine orbit
NO" said the star. ~ must come nearer, and
l must tend, and Imust watch and see what
night Joined our world in worship. That star
made q bow of obeisance. sometimes hear
people talk of Christ's dominion as though It
were to be merely the few thousand miles of
the worlds circumference; but l believe the
millions and the billions and the quadrillions
of worlds are inhabited, fnot by such crea-
lures as we are, still such creatures as God de-
apart of Christ's dominion. Isaac Newton and
Kepler and Herschel only went on Columbus's
voyage to find these continents of our Kings
this. The great organ of the universe. Its ped.
ais and Its pipes and Its keys. are all one great
harmony, save one injured pedal, save one
race. the disloyal world.
Now you know that however grand the in
strument may be, II there be one key out OF or.
mend this key. He must restore this broken
stop You know with what bleeding hand.
and with what pierced side, and with what
shall be attuned, aud all worlds will bo yet ac-
cordant. Isle Of Wight, larger in comparison
with the British Empire than our Island Of a
il not, why that celestial escort? II not why
that sentinel with blazing badge above the car
ayansary? If not, why that midnight watch
that SeS u ohTs Ss nSne
for Christ. The solar system for Christ. Worlds
ablaze and worlds burnt out-all worlds for
Christ.
Intensest microscope cannot see the one side
of that domain. Farthest reaching telescope
cannot find 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 aud
that Christ Is God, and that God is ours. o,
does 1t not enlarge our ideas of Saviour's do
minion when tell you that all the worlds are
only sparks struck from His anvil; that all the
worlds are only ileecy locks following that
one Shepherd; that all the islands OF light in
immensity are one great archipelago belong
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
imheciles The record distinctly says that the
wise men came TO Christ. We say they were
the naRi, or they were the alchemists, or they
ciating accentuation. Why, they were the
most splendid and magnificent men Of the
century, They were the naturallSts aud the
mns that nsroSsy %y was the
mother of astronomy, and that alchemy was
the mother OF chemistry, and because children
are brighter than the mother You do not
It was the lifelong business Of those as.
trologeTs to study the stars. Twenty two hun
dred and fifty years before Christ was born
the wise men knew the procession of the
equinoxes, and they had calculated the orbit
and the return OF the comets Prof Smith de.
clarcs that he thinks they know the distance
OF the earth from the sun. We find In the
Book OF Job that the men OF olden time did
not suppose the world was fiat, as some have
said, but that he knew, aud that the men Of
his time knew. the world was glObular. the
Pyramids were built for astrological and astro-
Then the alchemlsts spent their lives In the
study Of metals, and gasses, and liquids, and
solids, and In filing the worlds library with
their wonderful discoveries. They were vastly
wise men who come TO the cast. They under
cannot understand H. After tho world has
gone on studying hundreds of years II may
come up TO the point where the anelents
mighty as the living arts,
They were wise men that came from the
east, and tradition says the three wlsest came
-Caspar, a young man: Balthazar, a man In
middle life, and MelchiOr, an ootOgenarian.
The three wlsest men of all the century. They
came 10 the manger, So II has always been
the wisest men come TO Christ the bralnlest
men come to the mnnger. Who was the great
est metaphysician this country has ever pro-
duced2 Jonathan Edwards the Christian.
Who was the greatest astronomer Of the worldl
Herscbel, the Christian. Who was the greatest
poet ever produCed2 John Milton, the Chris