The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06

We nave useu only Tue pack OF LnlB weapon
instead OF the edge, what marVels have been
wrought IL saved we are all the oaptiyes
OF SOM earnest prayer. Would God that IN
desire for the rescue Of souls, we might in
prayer lay hold ofthe resources Of the Lord
omnipotent
We may turn many to Righteousness by
Christian admonition Do not wait uatil
you can make a formal speech. Address the
next one to you. You will not 90 home
alone to-day. Between this aud your place
OF stopping you may decide the eternal des-
tiny Of an Immortal spirit. Just one SEN
tence may do the work. just one question.
just one look. The formal talk that begins
with a sigh, and ends with a canting shuttle
Is not what is wanted, but the heart throb
of q man In dead earnest. There is not a
soul on earth that you may not bring to God
If you rightly 60 at Il. They said Gibral-
ter could not be taken. 1t Is 4 rock sixteen
hundred feet high and three miles long.
But the English and Dutch did take It. Ar
tllery and sappers and miners aud fleets
pouring out volleys Of death, and thousands
Of men, reckless Of danger, can do anything.
The stOutest heart Of sin, though it be rock,
and surrounded by an oceanof transgression.
under Christian bombardment. may be made
to hoist the flag Of redemption.
But is all this admonitSon and PRAYER, and
Christian work for nothing2 My text prom.
ises TO all the faithful eternal luster. "TheY
that turn many to righteousness shall shine
as the stars forever"
AZ stars the redeemed have a borrowed
light. What makes Mars, and Venus, and
Jupiter 50 lumiBousp When the sun throws
down his torzh in the heavens the stars pick
up the scattered brands and held them in
procession as the queen Of the night adj
vances; 50 all Christian workers standing
around the throne will shine in the light
borrowed from the sun of righteousness
Jesus IN their faces, Jesus in their songs,
Jesus in their triumph.
Christ left heaven once for a tour Of re-
demption on earth, yet the glorifsd ones
knew be would come back again. But let
hun abdicate his throne and go away to stay
forever the music would stop, the cougrega-
! ton dRperse, the temples OF God be dark
ened, the rivers OF light stagnate, and every
chariot would become q hearsa, and every
bell would toll, and there would not be room
on the hillsides to bury the dead of the great
metropolis, for there would be pestilence In
heaven. But Jesus lives, and SO all the re-
deemed live with him.. He shall recognize
them as his comrades In the honor OF his
name and for the spread of his kingdom.
AL their prayers, aud tears, and work will
rise before him as he looks into their faces
and he will dive his kingdom with them.
His peace: his holiness; his JOY, their joy.
The glory of the central throne reflected
from the surrounding thrones, the last spot
Of sin struck from the Christian orb, and
the entire nature a-tremble and a-alash with
light they shall shine as the stars forever
and ever.
Again, Christion workers shall be like the
stars in the fact that they have a light inde-
pendent Of each other, Look up at the night
and see each world show its distinct glory.
1t Is not like the c~onlagration, in which. you
can not tell where one lame stops ana an
other begins. Neptune, Herschel, and Mer.
curry are as distinct as il each one Of them
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will hot be lost in heaven. A great multi
tude-yet each one as observable, as distinct
" recognized, as greatly celebrated as IL in
all the space, from gate to gate and from
hill to hill, we were the only inhabitant; no
mixing up-no mob-no indlscriminate rush;
each Cbristion worker standing out iliustri-
ous--all the storyof earthly achievement adj
hearing TO each one; his seltdenials and
pains and services and victories published.
Before men went out to the last war the or
ators told them that they would ali be re-
membered by their country and their names
be commemorated In poetry and in song;
but 60 to the graveyard in Richmond and
you will find there six thousand graves, over
each one of which is the inscription; ffUn-
KNOWN The world does not remember its
heroes; but there viii be no unrecognized
Christian worker in heaven. Each one
known by alli graudly known; known by
reclamation; all the past story of work tor
God cleaning In cheek and brow and foot
and palm. They shall shine with distinct
hight az tae 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 othe = hands
and dance in groups. Orion Ia group. The
Pleiades in a group. The solar uyStem is
only a company of children, wita bright
faces, gathered around one great fireplace.
The worlds do NOT struggle Cd. They go in
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mensity.
80 Christian workers in heaven will dwell
in neighborhoods and clusters. / am sure
there are some people 1 will ike In heaven.
q great deal better thar others. Yonder is q
constellation OF stately Christians. They
lived on earth by rigid rule. They never
laughed. They walked every hour anxious
least they should lose their dignity. But
they loved God; and yonder they shine IN
brilliant constellation. Yet i shall not long
10 get into that particular group. Yonder is
q constellation OF s~malLhearted Christian
asteroids In the eternal astronomy. While
some souls 20 up from Christian battle, and
blaze like Mars, these asteroids dart a feeble
ray like Vesta. 1onder is a constellatiOn Of
martyrs, OF apostles, of patriarchs Or
souls, as they 90 up to heaven, will seek out
the most congenlal society. YOnder Is a
conste ilation almost merry with the play Of
light On earth they were fu | OF sympa-
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congratulations. When they pra ed, their
7 words took fire; when they sang, the tune
could not hold them; when they wept over
q worlds woes, they sighed as ii heart-brok.
en-; when they worked for Christ they
famed with enthusiasm. Yonder they are
circle OF light constellation Of joyl galaxy
Of frel Oh, that you. and !, by that grace
which can transit rm the worst into the best
might at last sail IN the wake OF that feet
and wheel in that glor1ons group, - the
stars for ever and for everl
Again, Christian workers will shine like
the stars Ia swiltness 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 thousands OF
miles a minute. The astronomer, using
his telescope for an Alpine stock, leaps from
worl9.crag 20 wogld-crag, and nds no stB
standing sfglI. rha chaEhois hunter has to
ny TO catch his. prey, but not 50 swift Il his
game al that which the scientist tries to
shoot through the tower Of observatory. Like
petrels mid-Atlanfle, that seem 10 come
from no shore and be bound to TO iandingr
~place-fytng, 6yfug-so these great liocks Of
worlds rest not as they go-wInR and wing
age after age-for ever and ever. The
eagle hastes 10 is prey, but we shall 10
speed beat the eagles. You have noticed
the velocity Of the swift horse uEdsr whose
IS he passes the fonr hoofs strike the earth
in suchqulck beat your pulses take the same
vibration. But all these things are not swift
In comparison with the motion OF which I
( speak. The moon moves fity-four fhnusand
miles q day. Tonder Neptune flashes on
eleven thousand miles IN m hour. Wonder,
Mercury goes l09.c09 miles In an hour. So
like thc stars, the Christian worker shall
shine ii swittness Of motion. You hear now
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