The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-05

60 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 smooth ribbon, and rs h,
passes the four hoofs strike the earth In
such quick beat your pulses take the same
vibration. But all these things are no
swift in comparison with the motion OF
which l speak. The moon moves fifty
four thousand miles in a day. Wonder
Neptune flashes on eleven thousand miles
in an hour. Wonder, Mercury goes Gne
hundred and nine thousand miles III
an hour. so, like the stars, the Christian
worker shall shine in swifness OF
motion. You hear now of father, Of
mother, or child sick one thousand miles
away, and il takes you two days to get ia
them. You hear OF some cases OF suffer-
ing that demands your immediate atten-
tiOn, but il takes you An hour to get there.
Oh. the joy whom you shall, in fulfillmeut
of the text, taxi starry speed, and be
equal 10 one hundred thousand miles an
hour. Having on earth got used e
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 VI
to God; you are there in an instant TO dc
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 sugg 'sts velocity. All space open
before you, with nothing 10 hinder you in
mission of light, AMI love, and joy, yov
shall shine in swiftness &C 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 q 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 puuy man has been equal
to the undertaking, and has pulled out his
measuring line aud announced that Her
echel is thirty-six thousand miles in
diameter, Saturn seventy-nine thousand
pliles in diameter. and Jupiter eighty
nine thousand miles in diameter, and
that the smallest pearl on the beach OF
Heaven is immense beyond all imagina,
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 a magnitude OF Joy; and tl4e weakest
saint in glory become greater than all We
can now imagine OF al archauscl.
Brethren, il doth not yet appear wla
we shall be- Wisdom that shall knOA
every thing; wealth that shall posses =
every thing; glory that shall crcumSrribe
every thing! We shall not be like a taper
set in a sick maa's window, or a bundle
of sucks kiudlcd on the beach to warm a
shiyariug crew; but you must take the
diameter aad the circumference Of the
world if You would get any idea of the
greatness Of our estate when W. shall
shine Us the stars, forever and ever.
Lastly, and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the con.
temllation-like the stars, all Christian
workers shall shine i'll duration. Tn
same stars that look down upon Us looked
dowA upon the Challeau shepherds. Tie
meteor that | 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 manger, and if, having
pointed out his birthplace, it has ever
since been wandering through The
heavens, watching to soc how the world
would treat Linn. When Adam aWoke il
the garden in the cool o, the day he saw
coming out through the dusk Of the tTcu-
ing the same worlds that greeted III on
our way TO church tonight.
In rpenlencc Hall is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature os the
Declaration of Independence. You ca.
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 as
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 q hundred years,
but through all the centuries.
The star at which the mariner looks to.
night was the light by which the ships OF
Tarshish were guided across the Medi.
terranean and the Venetian flOtilla fount
its way into LepantO. Their armor is
bright to- night 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 i'll the majestic; of the Judgment
The stars shall not shine forever. The
Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
leaves. 1t is almost impossible fol
q man to take in courser going a 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 smalle
heels slacken their speed, and witt
slower and slower motion they turn unit
they come to a full stop, so this great ma
chinery of the universe, wheel within
wheel, making revolution of appalling
speed, shall by the touch Of Gods hand
slip the band OF present law and slacken
and stop. That is what will be the mat
ter with the mountains. The chariot
in which they ride shall halt so suddenly
that the kings shall be thrown out
Star after star shall be carried out
to burial amid funeral torches am
burning worlds. ConSteil atOns shall
throw ashes on their heads and all N
and down the highways of space ther.
shall be mourning, mourning, mourning
because the worlds are dead. But the
Christian workers shall never quit theil
thrOnes-they shall reign forever a2d
ever If, by some invasion from hell, the
attempt were made to carry them off into
captivity from Heaven, the souls thel
have saved would rally for their defense
and all the angels of God would strike
with their scepterS, and the redeemed, OIL
white horses of victory, would ride down
the foe, and all the steep of the sky woHlG
resonnd with the crash of the OYer-