Milford chronicle., 1888-06-29
Acain. Chrlstlan workers Vii shir


most thoroughly fixed flies thousands Of miles
a 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 10 ay to
catch his prey, but not so swift is his game
as that which tho scientist tries to shoot
through the tower of observatory Like
petres mid Atlantic, that seem to come
from no shore, and be hound to
no landing place dying, flying so
these great fiocks of worlds rest not
as they go, wing and VIM, 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 tho foul
hoOfs strike the earth i'm such quick beat
your pulses take the same vibration. But all
thes' things are not swift in comparison
with the motion Of which l speak. The moon
moves tifty-four thousand miles in day
Norder, Neptune flashes on eleven thousand
miles in an hour Yonder, Mercury gaas 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 il takes
you two days to get b them. Yoa bear
Of somo case of suffering that demands
your immediate attention. but it takes
you an hour to get there. Oh. the joy when
you shall, in fulfllment of the text, take
starry speed, and be equal TO one hundred
thousand 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 in an instant to do it,
There is a yOlng man ia New Yor; 10 be ar
rested from going into that gate Of sin; you
are there IN an instant 70 arrest him
Whether with spring of foot, or stroke Of
wing, OF by the force Of some new law that
shall hurl yOa to the spot where you would
go ! know not; but my text suggests veloc
ity. All space open before you, with nothing
to hinder you in mission OF light aud love
and JOY, yoa shall shine in swiftness OF mo
tion as the stars forever and ever
Again: Christian workers. ike the stars,
shall shine in magnitude The most ilhtcrate
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 pillar hun-
drcds of thousands OF miles high, and chains
hundreds Of thousands Of miles long and at
the bottom Of the chains basins on cithcr side
hundreds OF thousands Of miles widc, and
that then omuipotence alone couid put the
mountains into the scales and the hills intothe
balance. But puny man has been equal 10 the
undertaking, and has set little BALANCE ON
his geometry, ana weighed world against
world. Yea, he has pulled ont his mcasur
ing line, and announced that llerschel is
thirty-six thousand miles in diameter, Saturn
seventy-uine thousand mics in diamcter
and Jupiter eighty-nine Thousand miles in
diameter and that the smallest pearl on the
beach of heaven is Immense beyond al in
aSination. So all they who have toilel for
Christ on earth shall rise up to magnitude
of privilege, and magnitude of strength,
and a magnitude of holiness, and 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 that shall possess everything;
strength that shall do everything. glory that
shall circumscribe everythinsi We shall
not be like a taper Sci in sick mans win
dow, or a bundle Of sticks kindied OF the
beach TO warm shivcring crew, Int YOU
ence 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 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 flash
q. q
if it was not the same one that pointed down
to where Jesus lay in the manger, and IT,
having pointed out his birthplace it ha ever
since been wandering through the heavens.
watching to see hosg 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 tho signature of the Declara-
ton 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 Col 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 il hundred years, but
through all the centuries
The star at which the mariner looks to-
night was the light ty which the ships Of
Tarshish were guided across the Mediterra-
mean and the Venetia dotilla found its way
into Lepanto. Their .rmor is IS bright to
night as when, in ancient battle, the stars in
their courses fought against Sisera. To the
ancieuts the stars were symbols of eternity.
But here the figure Of my toXt breaks
down--not in defeat, bat in the majestics Of
the judgment The stars shall not shine for
ever. The Bible says they shall fan like
autumnal leaves. 1t Is almost impossible for
a man to take in "A cOulser going ii mile in
three minutes; bat God shall take in the
worlds, flying a hundred thousand miles an
hour, by enc pull Of his little finger As,
when The factory band slips at nightfall
from the main Wheel eil the smaller wheels
slacken their speed, r1d with slower and
slower motion they turn until they
come TO a 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 s,aeSen and stop. That
is what win be the nistter with the mount
aims Tho chariot in which they ride shall
halt so suddenly tb.t the kings shall be
thrown out Star afioi star shall be carried
out TO burial amid fu;eial torches and burn
ing worlds Consultations shall throw ashes
on their heads, aid all up and down the high
ways Of space there shall be mourning.
mourning, mourning, ccause the worlds are
dead But the CHI stian workers shall
never quit their thrones-they shall
reign forever and ev-. II, by some in
vasion from hell the sempt were made to
carry them Off into captivity from heaven.
the souls they have savel would rally for
their defense, and all the angels Of God
would strike vita their scepters, aud the re-
deemed, on white horses Of victory, would
ride down the foe, and all the steep Of the
sky would resound wish the crash Of the
overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out
Of heaven.
Greatly as tho pope was pleased with his
jubilee gifts, be says that none Of them gave
him so much pleasure as' the news Of the alb
olition Of slavery il Brazil.
Substitute for Novel.
A Bangor youna woman one Saturday