Telegram-herald., 1888-06-25

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horse. uader whose feet ths miles slip like
smooth ribbon, and as be passes tho four
boots strike the earth ia such quick beat
your puisss take the same vibration Bat all
these things are rot swift in comparison
with the notion q whsch speak The MON
moves ffty-four thousand miles In a day.
Yonder, Neptune flashes on eleven thousand
miles IN sn hour. Yonder, Mercury goes one
hundred and nine thousand uilss IA an hour.
So like rhe stars. the Christian worker shall
shine IN swifrness of motion You hear
now Of father or mother or child sick
ons thousand miles away, and it takes
yoa two days 10 get 20 them You hear
Of some case Of suffering that demands
your immediate attention, bat il takes
you an hour 70 get there Oh the joy when
you shall, in fulfllment Of the text. take
starry speed, and be equal 10 one hundred
thousand miles an hour. Having on earth
got used 70 Christian work, you viii not quit
when death strikes YOU You viii only take
ON more velocity. There Is dying child in
London, and is spirit must DO taken up 10
God: you ars 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 that
shall hnrl YOU 10 the spot where you would
60, know not. but my text suggests vcloc-
ity. All space open before you, with nothing
70 hinder you in mission Of light and love
and Joy, you shall shine In swiftncss OF mo-
ton as the stars forever and ever.
AGAIN: Christian workers, like the stars,
shall shine in magnitude The most illiterats
man knows that these things in the sky,
looking like gilt buttons, are great masses OF
matter. To weigh them, ono would think that
10 would require scales with q pillar hun
dreds Of thousands Of miIss high. and chains
hundreds Of thousands of miles long, and at
the bottom OF the chains basins on either side
hundreds Of thousands Of miles wic>, and
that then omnipotencc alone could put the
mountains into the scales and the hills into the
balance But p1ny man has been equal to tho
undertaking, and has set little balance on
bis geometry, and weighed world against
world Yen, he has pulled out his measur-
ing line and announced that Herschel is
thirty-six thousand miles in diameter, Saturn
scvsnty-nine thousand miles in diameter
and Jupiter eighty-nine thousand miles in
diameter and that the smallest pearl on the
beach Of heaven is immense beyond all i'm
aginetion. So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to a magnitude
Of privilege, and magnitude OF strength,
and magnitude of holiness. and a mag
nitude OF JOY; and the weakest saint in
glory becomes greater than all that we can
now imagine OF an archangel
Brethrca IL doth not yet appear what we
shall be Wisdom that shall know every
strength that shall do everything; glory that
shall circumscribe evcrythingi We shall
not be like taper set in a sick mans win
dow, OF a bundle Of sticks kindled on the
beach to warm snivering crew; but you
must take the diameter and the circumfer-
snce of the world II you would get any idea
Of the greatness OF our estate when we shall
shine as the stars forever and ever
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almost breaks down under tho contemplation
like tho 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 Cash
ing across the sky the other night, wonder
II 10 was not the same one that pointed down
to where Jesus lay in the manger, and il,
having pointed out HIS birthplace. it has ever
since been wandering through tho heavens,
watching 70 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 o: the evening the same
worlds that greeted Us on our way 20 church
tonight
In Independence hall Is an old cracked bell
that sounded the signature Of the Declsra-
ticn Of Independence. You cannot ring i:
now; but this great chime Of silver bells that
strike ia the dome Of night ring out With as
sweet a tone rs when God swung them at the
crsation. Look up at night, and know that
the white lilies that bloom IN all the hanging
gardens Of our King are century plants-nos
blooming oDcs in hundred years, but
through ell the centuricx
The star at which tho mariner LOOKS To-
night was the HIGHT by which the ships of
TarShsh were guided across the Mcditerra-
mean and the Venetian fotilla found its way
into Iepanto. Their srrnor is as bright to-
night a. when. in ancient bsttie, tho 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 Bibls SAYS they shall fall like
autuunnal leaves. II IL almost impossible for
a man TO take in courser going a mile in
three minutes. but God shall take in The
worlds. fyinz hundred thousand miles an
hour. by ono pub Of Ms littls fneer. A.
when the factory band slips at niehtfall
from the main wheel. al toe smaller wheels
slacksa their speed, snd with slower and
slower motion they turn until they
come 20 a fn1 stop, 50 this rr-at
machinery q the universe. wheel within
wheei. making revolution Of appalling speed.
stafi 6y the touch o. Gods hand slip ths baue!
/ of present. isv and sisckrn and stop. That
I Is vhak vi bs the uastter with the mount
ara The ehsrios IN which they ride shall
halt 50 suddenly that the kings shall bs
I thrown cut. STAR after star sfall - carri~i
or % burial amid funeral torches AMI burn
I iax worlds Conseailations ssail throw sshes
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