Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-01

SohhaSldtiol, III WHICH you cannot Uel
where one flame stops and another be-
gins. Neptune, Herschel and Mercury
are as distinct rs if each one of them
were the only star; so our individualism
will not be lost in heaven. A great null
titude-yet each one as observable, as
distinctly recognized, as greatly cele-
brated, as II in all the space, from gate
70 gate, and from hill TO hill, he were the
only inhabitant; no mixing up-no mob
no indiscriminate rush; each Christian
worker standing out illustrious-all the
story of earthly achievement adhering 20
each one; his self denials, and pains,
and services, and victories pub
lished. Before men went out to
the last war, the orators told them that
they would all be remembered by their
country, and their names be commemo-
rated in poetry and in song; but go TO
the graveyard in Richmond and you will
find there 5000 graves, over each one Of
which Is the inscription, Unknown.
The world does not remember its heroes;
but there will be no unrecognized Chris
tian worker in heaven. Each one known
by all; grandly known; known by accla-
nation; all the past story of work for
God cleaning in cheek, and brow. and
foot and palm. They shall shine with
distinct light as the stars, forever and
ever.
Again: Christian workers shall shine
like the stars in clusters In looking up
you find the worlds in family circles.
Brothers and sisters-they take hold Of
each others hands and dance in groups.
Orion in a group The Pleiades in a
group. The solar system is only COM
pany of children, with bright faces.
gathered around one great fireplace The
worlds do not straggle off. They 60 in
squadrons and fleets, sailing through i'm
mensity.
So Christian workers in heaven will
dwell in neighborhoods and clusters. 1
am sure that some people ! will like in
heaven a great deal better than others.
Yonder is a constellation of stately
Christians. They lived on earth by
rigid rule. The never laughed. They
walked every hour anxious lest they
should lose their dignity. But they
loved God. and yonder they shine in
brilliant constellation. Yet shall not
long tc get into that particular group.
Yonder is a constellation of small hearted
Christians-asteroids in the eternal as
tronomy While some souls go up from
Christian battle, and blaze like Mars.
these asteroids dart a feeble ray like
Nusfa N,n1,r fs o1,gfallotta,, -
martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs.
Our souls, as they so up to heaven,
will seek out the most congenial society.
Yonder is a constellation almost merry
with the play Of light. On earth they
were full Of sympathiec and songs, and
tears and raptures, and congratulations
When they prayed their words took
fire; when they sang, the tune could
not hold them; when they wept over
worlds woes. they sobbed as II heart
broken: when they worked for Christ,
they famed with enthusiasm. Yonder
they are-circle of light constellation of
joyl galaxy of firel Oh. that you and
|, by that grace which can transform the
worst into the best, might at last sail in
the wake Of that fleet, and wheel in that
glorious group, as the stars forever and
everl
Again: Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness Of motion. The
worlds do not stop to shine. There are
no fixed stars save as to relative position.
The star most thoroughly fixed flies thou
sands Of miles a minute. The astrono-
mer, using his telescope for an Alpine
stock, leaps from world crag TO world
crag, and finds no star standing still.
The chamois hunter has 10 fly to catch
his prey, but not sc swift is his game as
that which the scientist tries TO shoot
through the tower of observatory Like
petrels mid Atlantic, that seem TO come
from no shore, and be bound to no land
ing place-hying, fying-sc these great
tlocks Of worlds rest not as they go
wing and wing-age after age-forever
and ever. The eagle hastes to 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 a smooth ribbon, and
as he passes the four hoofs strike the
earth in such quick beat your pulses take
the sane vibration. But all these things
are not swift in comparison with the mo-
tion of which | speak. The moon moves
fifty.four thousand miles in day. Yon-
der, 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, 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
Il takes you an hour TO get there.
oh, the JOY when you shall,
in the fuliillment 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 will 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
i'm an instant TO do ii. 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, or stroke Of wing. or
by the force Of some new law that shall
hurl you TO the spot where you would
go, l know not; but my text suggests