The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-06

text suggests velocity. All space open
before 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
initerate man knows that these things 10
the sky, looking like gilt buttons, are
great masses of matter. To weigh them.
one would think that it would require
scales with pillar hundreds of thousands
OF miles long, and at the bottom of the
chains basins on either side hundreds Of
thousands of miles wide, and that then
Omnipotence alone could put the mount
aims into the scales and the hills into the
balance. But puny man has been equal
to the undertaking, and has pulled out his
measuring line and announced that Her
schel 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 magma
ton. So all thew who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to a magni-
tude of privilege, and a magnitude of
strength. and a magnitude of holiness,
and a magnitude of Joy; and the weakest
saint in glory become greater than all we
can now imagine of an archangel.
Brethren, it doth not yet appear what
we shall be. Wisdom that shall know
every thing; wealth that shall posses 8
every thing; glory that shall circumscribe
every thing! We shall not be like a taper
set in a sick mans window, or a bundle
of sticks kindled on the beach to warm
shtvering crew; but you must take the
diameter and the circumference 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-like the stars, all Christian
workers shall shine in duration. The
same stars that look down upon us lookeA
down upon the ChaIdean shepherds. The
ms eOr that l saw flashing across the sky
the other night, wonder if it is not the
same one that pointed down to where
Jesus lay in the manager, 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
the garden in the cool of the day he saw
coming out through the dusk of the even
ing the same worlds that greeted US on
our way to church to- night
In Independence Hall is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature of the
Declaration of Independence. You can
not 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 dies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens of our King are century plants
not blooming once in a hundred years,
but through all the centuries.
The star at which the MAJ iner looks to-
night was the light by which the ships of
Tarshish we're guided across the Medi-
terranean and the Venetian hOtilla found
! its way into Lepanto. Their armor is as
| bright to- night as when, in ancient bat
| tie, she 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 in de-
| feat but in the majesties of the judgment.
The stars shall not shine forever. The
| Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
| leaves. It is almost impossible for
| q man to take in a courser going mile in
| three minutes; but God shall take in the
worlds, flying 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 ma
| chinery of the universe, wheel within
| wheel, making revolution of appalling
| speed, shall by the touch of Gods hand
| slip the band of present law and slacken
and stop. That is what will be the mat
/ ter with the mountains. The chariOts
| in which they ride shall halt so suddenly
that the kings shall be thrown cut
| Star after star shall be carried out
to burial amid funeral torches and
burning worlds. Consultations 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 forever 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 the steep of the sky would
resound with the crash of the over
wbelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out of
| Heaven.