Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-29

lstion of Joy ssisXy OF fire! o.. tbst
you and l, By that grace which can trans
form the worst into the bes', might 81
| LIST sail IN the wake CT inst feet, snd
wheel in that glorious group, IS the
stars for ever and ever!
Agsin: Christian workers will shine
! like the stars in sHjftness Of motion
| The worlds do not step 10 shine. There
are 70 fixed stars save as to relative posi-
/ ton. The star most thoroughly fixed 5es
| thousands Of miles minute. The
astI onomer, using his telescope for On
| Alplnestock, leaps from world craig TO
| world craig, and snds no star standing
| still. The chamols hunter has to fly TO
catch his prey, but not so swift is his
game as that which the scientist tries to
shoot through the tower Of 81 observe
tory. Like petrels in mid-Atlsntic tnat
seem to come ana 60 from no slore, and
| be bound to no landing piace-hying,
hyiug-so these CREST focks OF worlds
rest not as they gO-Wing on win, age
after Ege, for ever and ever. TIE eagle
h1stes 20 its prey, but We shall in speed
| beat the eagles. You have noticed the
velocity Of ihe SWIFT horse, under wlose
feet the miles slip ike s smooth RIBBON,
and IS ne passes the four hoofs strike
the earta in such squick test your puiaes
take the same vibration. But all these
things .re not sw +. in comparison with
the motion Of whiCn I speak. The moon
moves 81 600 miles in q day. Yonder,
NEPTUNE FLAsHz
On IL, 900 miles in Cd hour. Yonder M5r
curry goes lO9, 900 miles in en- hour. So
/ Ike the stars the Christian worker shall
SINE in swiltness Of motion. You hear
/ now Of father, or mother, or child sick
| 1000 miles away, and it takes you two
days TO get TO them, You hear OF some
case Of suffering that demands your i'm
mediate attention, bat takes you an hour
10 get there. o., the Joy when you shall,
in fulhllment Of! the text, take starry
speed, and be equal to le0 600 milesl an
hour. Having en- 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, snd its spirit must De taken up
! 10 God: You are there in an instant TO
| do It. There is young msn in New
/ York to be arrested for going into that
gSte of sin: You are there in sR instant
| 10 srrest him. Whether with sp-irg Il
| foot, or stroke CT wirg, or by the fierce
! of some Gew law thst shall hUrl you to
.
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 slsI shine in sWiftress Ct
notion SIS the stars forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers, like The
stars, shall shine in magnitude. TIE
most uIiterzte msn knows that these
things IN the sky, looking ike gilt out
Of ~
weigh them, one would think tdAt i.
wOuldreQuire sclle With pillar hundreds
q thousands Of miles high, and chains
huudreds o. thousands CT miles long, ani
st ire bottom Of the chains basins on
either side hundreds OF thousands OF miles
wide, and that then OmDipoteICe alone
could put the mountains into the scales
and the hills into the oslsLce. But puny
msn h5s been tquhl to the undertaking,
end has set little beISnce on his geCme-
try, and weighed world against world
Yes, he has pulled out his measuring
line, and announced that Herschel is So
0C0 miles in diameter, Saturn 70 ,0,0m
in diameter, and Jupiter 50 600 miles IN
diameter, Snd thst tae smallest pearl On
THE BEACH OF HEAVEN
/ is immense beyond all Imagination. 50
3 J
earth shall rise up to g magnitude Of
privilege, and magnitude Of strength,
/ and magnitude Of holiness, and 8 mag
nitude OF joy; sud the weakest saint in
/ glory become greater than ell that we
can now imagine CT an srchangel.
! Brethren, it doth not yet appear what
we shall be. Wisdom that shall know
everything; wealth that shall possess
! gyysrvfbioU. hst ban IN evarT.
| thing; glory that shall CirCumscribe
everythingi We shall not be like q tsper
! set in sick mans window, or bundle
/ of sticks kipdled on the beach to warm :
! shiyering crew; but you must take the
/ diameter snd the circumference OF the
world il you would get any idea OF the
greatness Ct our estate when we snail
shine SIS the stars for ever Snd ever.
| Lastly-snd coming to this point my
mind smost breaks down under the con-
templatioL-Lke the stsrs, all Christian
/ workers shall shine in duration. The
/ sane Stars that lock down upon US locked
down upon the Chsldeen shepherds. The
meteor that I ssW flashing across The sky
/ the other Eight,I wonder II i vas not the
/ same one thai pointed down to where
Jesus lsy in the manger end, Il having
. t'OGLLNt Nus LID III I'll l'-1LSt ~ -iSS CNCI
since been wandering through the hes
Vdns, watching to see how the weird
would t.ea. Him. When At&m aWoke IL
the garden IN he cool Of the Day he say
coming cut through th3 dusk Of the eve
Mig the same worlds that greeted u or
cur wsY 10 church tonight.
Ia IEdspG GdenCe Hall iSSap old, cracked
bell that sounded the signature of the
Declaration Of IndeoendepCES; You csn-
not ring IT Pow; but this great chime q
silver balts; inst strike in tha done OF
night riIgaut with Rs sweet TONG Es
when God tSFaRg th9El8t the ,creatioh.
Look mp sc night, and know Gnat the
white lilies thst bloom in Ill the hanging
gardens Of cur King sre century plants
not blooming orce ia q hundred years,
but through al the centuries.
The ss6tiaS which the mariner looks to
night IVES the light by which the ships of
Tsrshish were guided across the Mediter-
ranean, ard the Venetian fotills found its
way into Lepaato. Their amor is as
bright tonight as wheu,
IN ANCIENT BATTLE,
the stars in their courses fought egairst
Sisera. To the sncients the stars were
symbols Of eternity. But here the figure
OF my text breaks doWn-n0t in defest,
out in the msiesties Of the judgment. The
stars shall not shine forever. The Bible
says they shall fall like autumnal leaves