The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-26

line, and announced that Herschel is thirty
SIX thousand miles in diameter, Saturn seven
ty-nine thousand miles in diameter. and Jul
pier eighty-nine thousand miles in diameter,
and that the smallest pearl ON the beach of
heaven is immense beyond all imagination.
so all they who have toied for Christ on
earth shall rise up to a magnitude of privilege,
ana magnitude OF strength, and magnitude
OF holiness, and magnitude OF joy aud the
weakest saint in glory become greater than all
that we can now imagine of an archangel.
Brethren, 1t doth not yet appear what we
shall be. Wisdom that shall know every
thing; wealth that shall possess everything;
strength that shall do everything; glory that
shall circumscribe everything! We Shall not
be like taper set in sick mans window, or
bundle of sticks kindled the beach to
warm shiyerlng crew; but you must take tho
diameter and the circumference of the world
II you Would get any idea of the greatness of
our estate when We shall shine as the stars for
ever and ever.
Lastly-and coming to this point my mind
almost breaks down under the contemplation
like the stars, all Christian workers shall
shine in duration. The same stars that look
Gown upon us locked down upon the Chaldean
shepherds. The meteor that ! saw flashing
across the sky the other night, wonder il it
was not the same one that pointed down to
where Jesus lay in the alauger, 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 tho
garden, in the cool of the day,
nc saw coming out through tho
dusk OF the evening the same worlds that
greeted Us our way to church tonight.
In Independence hall is an Old cracked bell
that sounded the signature of the declaration
of independence. You cannot ring it now;
but this great chime of silver bells that strike
in the dome of night ring out with as sweet
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 hundred years, but through all the
centuries.
The star at which the mariner looks tonight
was the light by which the ships of Tarnish
were guided across the Mediterranean, and the
Venetian totila found its way into Lepanto.
Their armor is as bright tonight as when, in
ancient battle, 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 i'll defeat, but i'll the majestes of the
Judgment The stars shall not shine forever.
The Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
leaves. 1t is almost impossible for man to
take in courser going mile in
three minutes; but God shall take
in the worlds, flying hundred thousand miles
an honr, 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 with slower and slower mo-
ton they turn until they come to q full stop,
within wheel, making revolution of appalling
speed, shall by the touch of Gods hand slip
the bandsof present law and slacken and stop.
That is what will be the matter with the
mountains. Tho chariots 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 and burn
ing worlds. Consultations Shall throw ashes
on their heads, and all up and down the high
ways of space, there shall be mourning, mourn
ing, mourning, because the worlds are dead.
But the Christian workers shall never quit
their thrones-they shall reign forever and
ever. If, by some invasion from hell, the at
tempt were made to carry them off into cap
tiyity from Heaven, the souls they have saved
would rally for their defense, and all the
angels of God would strike with their scepters,
and the redeemed, on white horses of victory,
would ride down the foe, and all the steep of
the sky would resound with the crash OF the
overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out Of
heaven.