West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-07-05


promises 10 all the faithful eternal luster.
They that turn many to Righteousness shall
shine as the stars forever
As stars, the redeemed have n borrowed
| light What makes Mars and Venus and
Jupiter so luminousl When the sun throws
down his torch I'm the heavens the stars pick
| up the scattered brands and hold them in
| procession as the queen OF the night adj
vances: so all Christian workers, standing
around the throne, will shine i'm the light Dor
rowsd from the Sun OF Righteousness-Jesus
In their faces, Jesus in their songs j estis i'm
their triumph. Christ left heaven once for a
tour OF redemption on earth, yet the
| glorified ones knew he would come back
again. But let him abdicate his throne,
and go away TO stay forever the music
, would stop: the congregation disperse; the
temples OF God be darkened: tho rivers OF
| light stagnate, and every chariot would be-
] come hearse. and every bell would toll and
there would not be room on the hill sides 70
bury the dead Of the great metropolis, for
there would be pestilence in heaven. But
Jesus lives, and so all the redeemed live
with Him. He shall recognize them as His
! comrades in earthly toll, and remember what
they did for the honor OF His name and for
the spread OF His kingdom All their pray
ers and tears and work will rise before Him
as He looks into their faces. and He will
divide His kingdom with them His peace
their peace; His holness-their holiness; His
Joy-ther JOY. The glory of the central
throne reflected from the surrounding
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Christian orb. and the entire nature atrem-
bic and flash with light. they shall shine as
the stars forever and ever
Again; Christian workers shall be like the
stars I'm the fact that they have light indie
pendent OF each other Look up at the night
and see each world shows it's distinct glory
IL is not like the conflagration, I'm which you
cannot tell where one flame stops and another
begins. Neptune, Herschel and Mercury are
rs distinct as III each one OF them were the
only star; so our individualism will not be
lost I'm heaven. A great multitude--yet
each one as observable. as distinctly recog-
nized. as greatly celebrated, as IL I'm all the
space from gate TO gate, and from
hill TO hill, he was the only inhabitant: no
mixing up-no mob-no indiscriminate rush;
each Christian worker standing out illus
trious-all the story of earthly achieve
ments adhering to each one; his self denials.
and pains, and ser vices. and victories
published. 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 commemorated in poetry
and in song; but go 20 the graveyard in Rich
mond and you will find there six thousand
graves, over each one of which is the inscrip-
ton, Unknown The world does not re-
member its heroes; but there will be no I'M
recognized Christian worker in heaven.
Each one known by all; grandly known;
known by reclamation; 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 Ike
the stars In clusters. In looking up, you find
the worlds in family circles. Brothers and
sisters-thoy take hold of each others hands
and dance in groups. Orion in a group.
The Pleiades in a group. The solar system
is only company of children, with bright
faces, gathered around one great fireplace
The words do not struggle of. They go in
squadrons and fleets, sailing through inn
mensity
So Christian workers in heaven will dwell
in neighborhoods and clusters / am sure
that some people will like in heaven great
deal better than others Yonder is a con-
stellaton Of stately Christians They lived
on earth by rigid rule. They never laughed.
They walked every hour, anxious lest they
should lose their dignity. But they loved
God, and yonder they shine In brilliant con-
stellation. Yet shall not long TO get into
that particular group Yonder is a constel-
lation Of small hearted Chistians- asteroids
In the eternal astronomy. While some souls
go up from Christian battle and blaze like
Mars, these asteroids dart n feeble raw like
Nesta. Yonder is n constellation of martyrs
OF apostles, OF patriarchs. Our souls as they
go up to heaven, will seek out the most con-
genial society. Yonder is "a constellation
almost merry with the play of flight On earth
they were full OF sympathies aad songs, and
tears and rnptures and congratulations.
When they prayed their words took fire
when they sang the tune could not hold
them; when they wept over worlds woes,
worked for Christ, they famed with enthu-
siasm. Yonder they are-circle of light
Constellation OF joy Galaxy OF frel 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 ever
Again: Christian workers will shine like
the stars in swiftness of motion. The worlds
do not stop to shine. There nre no fixed
stars save as TO relative position. The star
most thoroughly fixed flies thousands Of miles
minute. The astronomer, using his tele-
scope for an Alpine stock, leaps from world
crag to world crag, and finds no star stand
ing still The chamois hunter has to fly to
catch his prey, but not so swift Is his game
as that which the scientist tries to shoot
petres mid Atlantic. that seem to come
from no shore, and be bound to
no landing place-hying, hying-so
these great hocks of worlds rest not as they
and ever The eagle hastes TO its prey,
but we shall in speed beat the eagles You
have Boticed the velocity Of the swift horse
under whose feet the miles slip like a
smooth ribbon, and as he passes tho 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 fifty-four thousand miles in day.
onder, Neptune flashes on eleven thousand
Iliiea IN an EOur. On0er, 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 10 takes
you two days 20 get 10 them You hear
ot some case of suffering that demands
your immediate attention. but IL takes
you an hour 10 get there Oh the JOY when
you shall. In the fuliillment Of the text take
starry speed, and be equal % one hundred
thousand miles an hour. Having on earth
got used 70 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 70
Tod; you are there in an instant 20 do Il.
There Is n young man In New York to be ar
rested from going into that gate Of sin: you
are there In an instant 20 arrest him.
whether with spring Of foot, or stroke Of
wing, OF by force Of some new law that
snail hurl you u the spot where you would
90, know not but my text suggests veloc-
ity. All space open before you, with moth
ing 70 hinder you In mission OF light and
love and Joy, you shall shine iu sWiftness Of
motion as the stars forever and ever
Again: Christian workers like the stars
shall shine in magnitude The most iillterate
man knows that these things in the sky.
looking like gilt buttons. are great masses Oh
matter. TO weigh them, one would think that
~ would require scales with a pillar hun
dreds OF thousands Of miles high, and chains
hundreds Of Thousands Of M les long and at
the bottom Of the chains basins on either side
hundreds n thousands OF miles wide and
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