The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-07-26


such quick beat your pulses take the same
vibration. But all these things are not
swift in comparison with the motion OF
which I speak. The moon moves fft".
four thousand miles in a day. Yonder,
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, of
mother, or child sick one thousand miles
away, and it takes you two days to get to
them You hear of some cases of suffer-
ing that demands your immediate atten-
ton, but it takes you an hour to get there.
Oh. the joy when you shall, in fulfillment
of the text, take starry speed, and be
equal to one hundred thousand 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 with spring of foot, or
stroke of wing, or 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
mission of light. and love, and joy, you
shall shine in swiftness of motion as the
stars, for ever 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 buttons, are
great masses of matter. To weigh them,
one would think that it would require
scales with pillar hundreds of thousands
of miles long, and at the bottom of the
chains basins on either side hundreds of
thousands of miles wide, and that then
Omnipotence alone could put the mount
aims into the scales and the hills into the
balance. But puny man has been equal
to the undertaking, and has pulled out his
measuring line and announced that Her.
schel is thirty-si thousand miles in
diameter, Saturn seventy-nine thousand
miles in diameter, and Jupiter eighty
nine thousand miles in diameter, ed
that the smallest pearl on the beach of
Heaven is immense beyond all magma
ton. So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to a magni-
tude of privilege, and magnitude of
strength. and a magnitude of holiness,
and magnitude of joy; and the weakest
saint in glory become greater than all we
can now imagine of an archangel.
Brethren, it doth not yet appear what
we shall be. Wisdom that shall know
every thing; wealth that shall posses S
every thing; glory that shall circumscribe
every thing! We shall not be like taper
set in 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.
Lastly, and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the con-
templation-like the stars, all Christian
workers shall shine in duration. The
same stars that look down upon us looked
down upon the Chaldean shepherds. The
meteor that I saw flashing across the sky
| the other night, | wonder if it is not the
same one that pointed down to where
| Jesus lay in the Manager, and if, having
| pointed out his birthplace, it has ever
| since been wandering through the
| heavens, watching to see how the world
would treat him. When Adam awoke in
| the garden in the cool of the day he saw
| coming out through the dusk of the even
| ing the same worlds that greeted us on
our way to church tonight.
| In Independence Hall is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature of the
Declaration of Independence. You can
not ring it now; but this great chime of
silver bells that strike in the dome of
night ring out with as sweet a tone Ok
when God swung them at the creation
Look up at night, and know that the
white lilies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens of our King are century plants
not blooming once in a hundred years,
| but through all the centuries.
The star at which the MAJ iner looks to,
night was the light by which the ships Of
Tarshish were guided across the Medi-
| terranean and the Venetian hotilla found
| its way into Lepanto. Their armor is a;
bright tonight as when, in ancient bat
tie, the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera. To the ancients the stars
were symbols of eternity. But here the
figure Of my text breaks down-not in de-
feat, but in the majesties of the Judgment
The stars shall not shine forever. The
Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
| leaves. 1t is almost impossible fol
a man to take in courser going mile il
three minutes; but God shall take in the
worlds, flying hundred thousand miles
an hour, by one pull of his little finger
AS. when the factory band slips at night.
fall from the main wheel, all the smaller
wheels slacken their speed, and witt
slower and slower motion they turn unit
they come to full stop, so this great ma
chinery of the universe, wheel within
wheel, making revolution of appalling
speed, shall by the touch of Gods hani
slip the band of present law and Stacker
and stop. That is what will be the mat
ter with the mountains. The chariots
in which they ride shall halt so suddenl!
that the kings shall be thrown out
Star after star shall be carried on
to burial amid funeral torches ant
burning worlds. Consultations shall
throw ashes ON their heads, and all III
and down the highways of space ther'
shall be mourning, mourning, mourning
because the worlds are dead. But the
Christian workers shall never quit thei1
thrones-they shall reign forever AND
ever If, by some invasion from hell, the
attempt were made to carry them off int