New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-04

wing, OF Dy bne IoKc6s OF some new law thai
shall hurl you to the spot where. you should
go, knownot; but my taxi suggests Ycloc.
ity. ALL space open before you, with moth,
ing TO hinder you in mission of light and lovs
aud JOY, you shall shine in sWiftness of mo.
ton as the Stars for ever.and ever.
Again, Christian workers, like the stars
shall shine in magnitude. The most
1llIterate man knows that these things II
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 thousandso Of miles high
and chains hundreds OF thousands OF milet
long, and at the bottom OF the CHAINS basins
on on etiner sue hundreds Of thousands
OF miles Wide,. and that then ON.
Impotence alone could put the mountain,
into the scales and the hills into the bal.
ance. But puny man has. been equal to the
undertaking. and has seta little balance on
his geometry and weighed world against
world. Yea, he has pulled out his measure
lng-line and announced that Herschel is S..
900 miles in diameter, Saturn 79. 900 miles IN
diameter, and Jupiter $4,000 in miles diam.
eter, and that the. smallest pearl on the
peach OF heaVenfis immense beyond all i'm.
ag1natlon. So all they who have toiIed fol
Christ on earth shall rise up to magnitude
OF privilege and a magnitude of Strength
and magnitude of holiness and magni-
tude OF JOY, and the weakest saint in glory
become greater than all that we can now
imagine of an archangel.
Brethren, it does not yet appear what it
shall be-. Wisdom that shall know every.
thing; wealth that shall possess every thing;
glory that shall c1rcumscribe eyerythingl
We shall not be like taper set i'll sick
mans window, or bundle OF sticks KIN
dled on the beach to warm a shiyering crew:
but you must take the diameter and the cir.
cumference OF the world if you would get
any idea OF the greatness of our estate when
"a q 1CIl ctaI 1, oJ,k~. So.
Lastly-and coming to this point my mind
almost breaks down under The contempla.
tlon-llke the stars, all Christian workers
shall shine in duration. The same stars that
look down upon us looked down upon the
Chalflean shepherds. The meteor that I
saw flashing across the sky the other night,
wonder II it was not the same one that
pointed down to where Jesus lay in the,
manager, and II, having pointed out his
birthplace, 1t has ever since been wandering
through the heavens, watching to see how
the world would treat him. When Adam
aWoke in the gardenin the cool of the dap
he saw coming out through the dusk of the
our way to church Tonight.
In Independence hall IS an old cracked
bell that sounded thessignature of the decla-
ration 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
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 a hundred
years, put through all the centuries.
The star at which the mariner looks To-.
night was the light by which the ships of
Iarshish were guided across the Mediterra.
mean and the Venetian fotiIla 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 70 the
anclents 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 forever.
The Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
leaves. It is almost impossible for man to
take in courser going mile in three min
utes; but God shall take in the worlds.
flying hundred thousand miles an hour. by
one pull of his little finger. AS when the
factory bands slips at nlghtfall from .the
mainWheel.a all the small wheels slacken their
speed, and with slower and slower motion
they turn until they come to full stop, SO
this great machinery of the universe, wheel
within wheel, making revolution of appalI-
ing speed. shall by the to UGH OF Gods hand
slip the band Of present law and slacken and
stop. That is what will be the matter with
the mountains. The chariots 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 burning worlds. Consultations shall
throw ashes on their heads, and all up and
down the highways of space there shall be
mourning, mourning, because the
worlds are dead. But the Christian work.
ers shall never quit their thrones-they shall
reign for ever and ever. Ii, by some 1nya-
sion 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 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 t''mbled headlong out
Of heaven.