The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-25


smooth ribbon, and as he passe5, the four
hoofs strike the earth in such quick beat
your pulses take the same vibration. But
all these things are not swift in comparison
with the motion Of which / speak The
moon moves ffty-four thousand miles
In day. Yonder, Neptune flashes
on eleven thousand miles in an
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 some case of suffering that demands
your immediate attention, but it takes you
an hour TO get there. Oh, the joy when you
shall, in fulhllment 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 viii not quit
when death strikes you. You will only
take on more velocity. There is a dying
child in London, and its spirit must be
taken up to God: YOU are there in an instant
to do IT, There is a 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,
OF 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 be
fore 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 litter
ate man knows that these things in the sky,
looking like gilt buttons, are great masses
Of matter. To weigh them, one would
tnlnk that at would require scales with
pillar hundreds OF thousands of miles long,
and at the bottom of the chains basins on
either side hundreds if thousands of miles
wide, and that then omnipotence alone
could put the mountains INTO the scales and
tue 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 imagination. So all
they who have toiled for Christ on earth
shall rise up TO magnitude of privilege,
and magnitude Of strength, and magni-
tude Of holiness, and magnitude of Joy;
and 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 everythingl We
shall not be like taper set in a sick mans
window, or a bundle of sticks kindled on
the beach to warm a shivering crew, but
YOU must take the diameter and the circum-
ference 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-ike 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 | saw flashing across the sky the other
night, l wonder if it was not the same one
that pointed down TO where Jesus lay in
the manger, and if, having pointed out his
birthplace, IL has ever since been wander
ing 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 evening the same worlds that
crested 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 cannot
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 a hundred years, but through all the cen
turtles.
The star at which the mariner looks to
night was the light by which the ships Of
Tarshish were guided across the Mediterra-
mean, and the Venetian fiotilla found its
way into LepantO. Their armor is as bright
tonight as when, i'll ancient battle the stars
in their courses fought against Sisera. To
the ancients the stars were symbols Of eter-
nifty. But here the figure of my text breaks
down-not in defeat, but In the ma jesties of
the judgment. The stars shall not shine
forever. The Bible says they shall fall like
autumnal leaves. 1t is almost impossible
for a man to take in a courser going mile
in three minutes; but God shall take in the
worlds flying a 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 with slower and
slower motion they turn until they come to
full stop, so this great machinery of the
universe, wheel within wheel making revolu-
ton OF appalling speed, shall by the touch
of Gods hand slip the band of present law
anu SldCkoH anu olODs IudJ ID WDaU Will De
the matter with the mountains. The char
lots in which they ride shall halt so sud
denly that the kings will be thrown out
Star after star shall be carried out to burial
amid funeral torches and burning worlds
Constellation shall throw ashes on their
heads, and all up and down the highways
of space there shall be mourning, mourning,
mourning, because the worlds are dead
But the christian workers shall never quit
their thrones-they shall reign for ever and
ever. If, by some invasion from hell, the
attempt were made to carry them off into
captivity 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
tho steep of the sky would resound with the
crash of the overwhelmed cohorts tumbled
headlong out Of heaven.
A. M. e. SUNDAY SCHOOLS.