The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-07-06

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from going Into thas g1Ae q stas you are
there N q instant 70 arrest him. whether
with spring Of foot or stroke Of wing. e
BY the force Of some new law that shall
huri you TO the spot where you would 90.
l know not; but my text suggests velocity.
AL space opea before you, with nothing %
hinder you In mission Of light. and love.
and JOY. you shall shine in swiftuess OF
motion as the stars forever and ever
Again: Christian workers, like tho
stars. shall shine in magnitude. The most
illiterate man knows that these things In
the sky, looking like gilt buttons, axe great
masses Of matter. To weigh them one
would think that it would require scales
with . pillar hundreds Of thousands OF
miles high and chains hundreds OF thco-
sands OF miles long, and at The bottom q
the chains on either eide hundreas of thoS-
sands OF miles wide, and that then Omn,po-
teuce alone could pot the mountains into
the scales and the lids into the balance.
But puny man has been equal to the I'M.
dertaking and has set Q little balance ON
his geometry and weighed world against
world. Yes, he has pulled out his measur-
ing line and announced that Herschel IL 81
00O miles in diameter, Saturn 1000 miles in
diameter and Jupiter 5000 thousand
miles In diameter. and that the smallest
pearl on the beach Of Heaven IL immense
beyond all Imagination. 30 all they who
have toiled for Christ On earth shall rise up
10 magnitude Of privilege, and q magni-
tude Of strength. and magnitude Of holi-
ness and magnitude Of joy; and the
weakest saint in glory become greater thsn
we can now imagine Of an archasgel.
Brethren, it doth not yet sppear what we
shall be. Wisdom that shall know every
thing; wealth that shall possess avery
thing; strength that shall do every thing;
glory that shall circumscribe every thjngi
We shall not b like taper set In q sick
mans window, or . bundle Of sticks
kindled on the beach to warm .hiverinG
crew; but you must take the d ameter and
the circumference Of the world il you
would find any idea Of the greatness Of our
ever and ever.
Lastly-and coming down to this point
my mind almost breaks down under the
contemplatiou-like the stars, all Chris
tian workers shall shine In duration. The
same stars that look down upon MS looked
down upon the Chaldean shepherds. The
meteor that saw flashing across the sky
tho other night, wonder il It was not the
same one that pointed down to where
Jesus lay in the manger, and If, having
pointed out HIS birthplace, IL has ever
since been wandering through the heav-
ems. watching to see how the world would
treat HIM When Adam awoke in the
garden in the cool Of the day, he saw COM
ing out through the dusk Of the eveoing
the same worlds that crested US ON Sur
way to church tonight.
In Independence Hall Is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature Of :he
Declaration Of Independence. You can
not ring ID now; but this great chime Of
silver bells that strike in the dome Of MINT
ring out with a. sweet q 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 cur
King are century plsnts-not blooming
once in q hundred years, but through all
the centuries.
That star at which the mariner looks To-
night was the light by which the ships Of
Tarshish were guided across the Mediter-
ranean, and the Venetian fotilla found Its
way into Lepanto. Their armor ID a.
bright tonight rs when, in ancient battle,
the stars in their courses fought against
Sisers. 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
forever. The Bible says they shall shine
like autumnal leaves. It is almost impos-
sible for man to take in courser going .
mile in three minutes; but God shall take
in the worlds, flying lOO, OOO miles an hour,
by one pull OF hrs little finger. As when
the factory band slips at nightfall 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 rev.
olutions Of appall ng speel, shall by the
touch Of Gods hand slip the band OF pres
ent Law and slacken and stop. That is
what will be the matter with the mount
aims. The chsriots In which they ride
shall halt SO suddenly that the kings shall
be thrown out. Star after star shall b
carried ont 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. mour, ing, because the
worlds are dead. But the Christian workers
shall never quit their thrones-they shalt
reign for ever and ever. II, BY some in.
vssiOn from hell, the attempt were made t.
carry them on 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 tho
redeemed, 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 head
long out Of Heaven.