Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-25

wnen death strikes you You Will only TAX.
on more velocity. There is dying child IN
London, and its spirit must be taken up tC
God: you are there in an instant to do IL
There is young man in New York to be ar
rested 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 thai
| shall hurl you to the spot where you wouls
go, know not; but my text suggests veloc
ity. All space open before you, with nothing
to hinder you in mission Of light and love
/ and joy, you shall shine In swiftness Of mo
ton as the stars forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers, like the stars
shall shine in magnitude. The most iIliterate
man knows that these things In the sky
looking like gilt buttons, are great masses Of
matter. To weigh them, one would think that
it would require scales with q pillar hun
dreds Of thousands of miles high, and chains
hundreds of thousands of miles long, and al
the bottom Of the chains basins on either side
hundreds of thousands Of miles wide, and
that then omnipotence alone could put the
mountains into the scales and the hills into the
balance But puny man has been equal to ths
| utiucf lk1kulk, anu uhS sot . uttlo D4laQce Oh
his geometry, and weighed world against
world. Yea, he has pulled out his measur-
ing line, and announced that Herschel b
thirtysix thousand miles in diameter, Saturu
seventy-nine thousand miles in diametsr
and Jupiter eighty-nine thousand miles IN
diameter. and that the smallest pearl on the
beach of heaven is immense beyond all i'm
agination. So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to a magnitude
| Of privilege, and magnitude Of strength,
and a magnitude of holiness, and q mag.
nitude Of joy; and the weakest saint in
glory becomes greater than all that We can
now imagine of an archangeL
Brethren, it doth not yet appear what we
shall be. Wisdom that shall know every.
thing; wealth chat shall possess everything;
strength that shall do everything; glory that
shall circumscribe everythingl We shall
not be like a taper set In a sick mans win
dow, or q bundle Of sticks kndled on the
beach to warm a shivering crew; but you
must take the diameter and the circumfer.
ence of the world IL 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 contemplation
Like the stars, all Christian workers shall
shine in duration The same stars that look
down upon us looked down upon the Chal-
dean shepherds The meteor that saw fash
ing across the sky the other night, wonder
If it was not the same one that pointed down
to where Jesus lay in the manger, and II,
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 evening the same
worlds that greeted Us on our way to church
tonight
In Independence hall Is an old cracked bell
that sounded the signature Of the Declare
tion of Independence. You cannot 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 lilies that bloom In all the hanging
gardens of our King are century plants-not
blooming once in hundred years, but
through all tho centuries
The star at which the mariner looks to-
night was the light by which the ships of
Tarshish were guided across the Mediterra-
mean and the Venetian hotilla found its way
into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright to-
night as when, in ancient battle, the 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 defeat, but In the majesties of
the Judgment The stars shall not shine for
ever. The Bible say they shall fall like
autumnal leaves 1t is almost impossible for
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 nightfaIl
from the main wheel, all the smaller wheels
slacken their speed, and with slower and
slower motion they turn until they
come to q full stop, so this great
machinery 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 matter with the mount
aims The chariot in which they ride shall
halt so suddenly that the kings shall be
thrown out Star after star shall be carried
out to burial amid funeral torches and burn
ing worlds. Consultations shall throw ashes
on their heads, and all up and down the high
ways Of space there shall be mourning,
mourning, mourning, because the worries ara
dead. But the Christian workers shall
never quit their thrones-they shall
reign forever and ever. II, by some in
vasion from he'll, the attempt were made to
carry them of 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 re-
deemed, on white horses Of victory, would
ride down the foe. and all the steep Of the
sky would resound with the crash of the
overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out
Of heaven.