The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-28

but there will be no unrecornizei Chris.
tan worker in heaven. Each one known
BY all; grandly known; known by accla-
nation; all the past story of work for
God cleaning in cheek, and brow. and
foot and palm. They shall shine with
distinct light as the stars, forever and
ever.
Again: Christian workers shall shine
like the stars in clusters. In looking up
you find the worlds in family circles.
Brothers and sisters-they take hold of
each others hands and dance in groups,
Orion in a group. The Pleiades in a
group. The solar system is only a CON-
pany of children, with bright faces.
gathered around one great fireplace. The
worlds do not straggle off. They 90 in
squadrons and fleets, sailing through i'm
mensity.
So Christian workers in heaven will
dwell in neighborhoods and clusters. 1
am sure that some people I will like in
heaven a great deal better than others.
Yonder is a constellation Of stately
Christians. They lived on earth by
rigid rule. The never laughed. They
walked every hour anxious lest they
should lose their dignity. But they
loved God; and yonder they shine in
brilliant constellation Yet I shall not
long to get into that particular group.
Yonder is a constellation of small hearted
Christians asteroids in the eternal as
tronomy. While some souls go up from
Christian battle, and blaze like Mars,
these asteroids dart a feeble ray like
Vesta. Yonder is q constellation of
martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs.
Ou1 souls, as they go up to heaven,
will seek out the most congenial society.
Yonder is a constellation almost merry
with the play of light. On earth they
were full Of sympathies and songs, and
tears and raptures, and Congratulations.
When they prayed their words took
fire; when they sang, the tune could
not hold them; when they wept over a
worlds woes, they sobbed as if heart
broken; when they worked for Christ,
they famed with enthusiasm. Yonder
they are-circle of light constellation of
joyl galaxy Of firel Oh, that you and
I, by that grace which can transform the
worst into the best, might at last sail in
the wake of that feet, and wheel in that
glorious group, as the stars forever and
everi
Again: Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness of motion. The
worlds do not stop to shine. There are
no fixed stars save as to relative position.
The star most thoroughly fixed flies thou
sands of miles q minute. The astrono-
mer, using his telescope for an Alpine
stock, leaps from world crag to world
crag. and finds no star standing still.
The chamois hunter has to fly to catch
his prey, but not SC swift is his game as
that which the scientist tries to shoot
through the tower of observatory. Like
petrels mid Atlantic, that seem to come
from no shore, and be bound to no land
ing place-fying, fying-sc these great
focks of worlds rest not as they go
wing and wing-age after age-forever
and eyer. The eagle hastes to its
prey, but we shall in speed beat the
eagles. You have noticed the velocity
of the swift horse under whose feet
the miles slip like a smooth ribbon, and
as he passes the four hoofs strike the
earth in such quick beat your pulses take
are not swift in comparison with the mo-
tion of which speak. The moon moves
fifty-four thousand miles in day. Yon-
der, Neptune flashes on eleven thousand
miles in an hour. Yonder, Mercury goes
one hundred and nine thousand miles in
an hour, So like the stars the Christian
worker shall shine in swiftness of motion.
You hear now of father, or mother or
child sick one thousand miles away, and
it takes you two days to get to them
You hear of -sense -Gasesof suffering that
demands your immediate attention, but
it takes you an hour to get there.
Oh, the joy when you shall.
in the fulfllment of the text, take starry
speed, and be equal to one hundred thou
sand miles an hour. Having on earth
got used to Christian work, you will not
quit when death strikes you. You will
only take on more velocity. There is
dying child in London, and its spirit
must be taken up to God; you are there
in an instant to do it. There is young
man in New York to be arrested from
going into that gate of sin; you are there
in an instant to arrest him. Whether
by the force of some new law that shall
hurl you to the spot where you would
go, know not; but my text suggests
velocity. All space open before you,
with nothing to hinder you in mis-
sion of light, and love and joy. you shall
shine in swiftness of motion as the stars
forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers, like the
stars, shall shine in magnitude. The
most illiterate man knows that these
things in the sky, looking like gilt but
tons, are great masses Of matter. To
weigh them, one would think that it would
require scales with pillar hundreds of
thousands of miles high, and chains hun
dreds of thousands Of miles long, and at
the bottoms of the chains basins on either
side hundreds of thousands of miles wide,
and that then omnipotence alone
could put the mountains into the
scales and the hills into the balance.
But puny man has been equal to the
undertaking, and has set a little balance
on his geometry, and weighed world
against world. Yea, he has pulled out
his measuring line. and announced that
Herschel Is thirty-six thousand miles in
diameter, Saturn seventy-nine thousand
miles in diameter and Jupiter eighty
nine thousand miles in diameter, and
that the smallest pearl on the beach of
heaven is immense beyond all imaglna-
ton. So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to magni.
tude of privilege, and magnitude OF
of strength, and magnitude of holiness,
and magnitude of joy; and the weakest
saint in glory becomes greater than all
that we can now imagineof an archangel.
Brethren, it doth not yet appear what
we shall be. Wisdom that shall know
everything; wealth that shall possess
everything; strengthth that shall do every
thing; glory that shall circumscribe
everythingi We shall not be like taper
set in a sick mans window, or bundle
of sticks kindled on the beach to warm a
shivering crew; but you must take the
diameter and the circumference of the
world if you would get any idea OF the
greatness of our estate when we shall
shine as the stars forever and ever.
Lsstly-and coming to this point my
nird almost breaks down under the con-