The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-25
VOL. XLVIII---NO. $50

dwell in neighborl and clusters.
am sure that some people will like in
heaven great deal better than others.
Yonder is constellation Of stately Christ
ians They lived ON earth by rigid rule.
never laughed. They walked every hour
anxious lest they should lose their dignity.
But they loved God, and yonder they
shine In brilliant constellation. Yet /
shall not long 10 got into that particular
group. Yonder is u constellation OF small
hearted Christians--asteroids In the eter-
nal astronomy. While some souls 90 up
from Christian battle, and blaze Nike Mars,
these asteroids dart feeble ray like Nesta.
Iondcr il a constellation OF martyrs, OF
apostles, of patriarchs. Our souls, as they
90 up to heaven, will seek out the most
congenial society. Ionder Is con
stellation almost merry with the play
Of light. On earth they were full OF SYM
pathies and songs, and tears, and faptnres,
and congratulations. When they prayed
their words took fire; whenthey sang, the
tune could not hold them; when they wept
over worlds woes, they sobbed rs II
heart broken; when they workodior Christ
they famed with enthusiasm. Yonder
they are circle OF light constellation OF
Joy galaxy OF fire 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 glo-
rious group, Us the stars forever and ever
Again: Christian workers will shine like
tho stars in swiitness Of motion. The
worlds do not stop 10 shine. There are no
fixed stars save as TO relative position Tho
star most thoroughly fixed flies thousands
OF miles minute. The astronomer, using
his telescope Tor an Alpine stock. leaps
from world crug 10 world crag, and finds
no star standing still. Tho chamois hunter
has 10 fly 10 catch his prey, but not 40
swift is his game as that which the scien.
tist tries 10 shoot through the tower OF
observatory. Like petrels mid Atlantic,
that seem 10 como from 10 shore, and be
bound 10 no landing place--ilying, flying
so these great flocks Of worlds rest not as
| they go-wing and wing-ago after ago
prey, but we shall in speed beat tho eagles.
horse under whose feet tho miles slip like
smooth ribbon, and as he passes tho
four hools strike the earth In such quick
beat your pulses take the same vibration.
But all these things are not swiit in com
DNNihou WIN Nut inOllul VI WHICH rltdhs
| The moon moves "a, 1000 miles In a day.
Yonder, Neptune flashes on 1900 miles
In an hour. Yondcr Mercury goes l00, 900
miles In an hour. So like tho stars the
Christian worker shall shine in swiiincss
Of motion. You hear now Of father, or
mother, or child sick 1000 miles away,
and II takes you two days TO get 10 them.
You hear OF some case OF suffering that
demands your immediate attention, but II
takes you an hour 10 get there. Oh, the
10y when you shall. IN iuldlment Of the
text, take starry speed, and be equal 20
l00,0 miles an hour. Having on earth
got used 10 Christian work, YOU will not
quit when death strikes YOU. You will
only take more velocity. There IL dying
child In London. and i,s spirit must be-
taken up V God yor nre There In an In
siant 10 do H. There Il a young man IN
! New York 10 bc arrested hon going into
that gate Of sin; you are there IN an in
slant 10 arrest him. Whether With spring
Of foot, or stroke Of wing, or by the force ol
some new law that shall hurl you 10 the spot
where you would 90. know not but my
text suggests velocity. All space open be-
foo YOU, with nothing 10 hinder You In
mission Of light aud love aud joy, yon shall
shine In swiiincSs Of motion m the stars for
ever and ever.
Again, Christian workers, Ike tho stars,
shall shine In magnitude. The most illit.
erato man knows that thcso things IN the
sky, looking like gilt buttons, are great
masacs Of matter. To weigh them, one
would think that II would require scales
with a pillar hundreds Of thousands OF
miles high, and chains hundreds OF thou.
sande Of miles long, and al the bottom Of
tho chains basins on either side hun.
drcds II thousands Of miles vide,
aud that then Omnipotcncc alone
could put the mountains into the
scales aud the hills into the balance.
But puny man has been equal 10 the
undertaking and has vet a little balance
ON his geometry, and weighed world
against world. Yea, he has pulled out
his measuring line, and announced that
lIcrschcl is $4,000 miles In diameter. Sat.
urn 1900 miles ln diameter, and Jupiter
~, 600 miles in diameter, and that the
smallest pearl on the beach OF heaven IL
immense beyond all Imagination. So all
they who have toilod for Christ on earth
shall rise up 10 magnitude Of privilege.
and n magnitude Of strength, and q mag
nitude OF holiness, and u magnitude Of
Joy, aud the weakest saint In glory become
greater than all that we eau now Imagine
Of an archangel.
Brethren, II doth not yet appear what
we shall be. Wisdom that shall know
everything wealth that shall possess
everything; strength that shall do every
thing glory that shall cifcumscrbc every
thing We shall not be like taper set
In a sick mans window, " bundle OF
sticks kindlcd on the beach 10 warm n
shiycring crew. but you must take the
diameter and the circumference Of the
world II you would get any idea OF the
greatness Of our estate when we shall
shine NJ the stars for over and ever.
Iastly-and coming 10 this point my
mind almost breaks down under the CON
temptation the stars, all Christian
workers shall shine In duration. The
same stars that look down upon ~ looked
down upon the Chaldesn shepherds. Tho
meteor that ! saw flashing across the sky
the other night, ! wonder II Il was not
the same one that pointed down 10 where
Jesus lay Ia the manger, and u, having
pointed out his birthplace, Il has ever
since been wandering through the heavens,
watching 10 sec how the world would
troat him. When Adam awoko In the
garden In tho cool OF tho day, no saw
coming out through the dusk Of the even.
ing the same worlds that greeted us on our
way 20 church tonight.
In Independence ball Is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature Of the Dec.
laraton Of Independence. You cannot
ring Il now; but this great chino OF silver
bells that strike In the dome OF night ring