Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-25

sure t0st some people l Will Ike II
! heaven great deal better than others
Yonder is g constellation of stately
Clristi.ns. They lived on earth by
rigid rule. They 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 to get into that particular
group. Yonder is a constellation Of
snall-hesrted Christisns-asteroids IN
THE ETERNAL ASTRONOMY.
While some souls go up trsm Christian
battle, and blaze like msrs, these ssyer-
cids dart feeble r.Y Ike Festa. Yonder
is 8 constellation of martyrs, OF apostles,
of patrisrchs. Our souls, as they 90 up
to heaven, will GEEK out the most con-
genial society. Yonder is s constellation
almost merry with the plsy Of light. Ga
earth they were full Of sympsthies sad
songr, and tears, and raptures, and con-
gratulations. When they prayed their
words took Are; when they ssng the tune
could not hoia then; when they Wept
over worlds woes they sobbed as if
heart broken; when they worked for
Christ they famed with enthusiasm.
Youder they sre-Circle of light! conetel
lstion Of Joy! galaxy Of are! On, that
you and l, by that grace which can trans
fern the worst into the best, might ct
last sail IN the wake of inst deet, and
wheel in that glorious group, as TIE
stars for ever and ever!
Again: Christian workers will shine
ike the stars in sWiitness of motion.
The worlds do not stop 10 shine. There
are no fixed stsTs save as to relative posi-
ton. The star most thoroughly fixed flies
| thousands OF miles e Mlrute. The
Astronomer, using his +eles cope for eas
| AIpirestock, leaps from world craig 10
world crEig, and dnd5 no star et3ndfPg
still. The Chsnoi5 hunter hss TO fly 10
catch his prey, but not so swift is his,
game IS that which the gcIeuast tries TO
saoOt through the tower of "a obssIFE
tory. Like petTelE in mid-Atlaptic flat
seem 10 come and 60 from no s1ors, and
ba bound to 10 landing piace-fying,
! nying-5o these great a1cks OF worlds
rest not SIS they go-wing on wirs, age
sf.er age, for ever and ever. The esgle
hastes TO its prey, but We shall ia speed,
GcEt~the eagles. You have noticed tie
velocity Of the swift horse, under whose
feet the miles slip like smooth ribbon,
snd as ne passes the four hcofs strike
the eArtl in such quick best your pulses
take the same vibration. But al these
things GIe not swift in comparison with
the motion of which I speak. The moon
moves 81, ESQ niles in day. YondeI,
NEPTUNE FLAsHas
on II 900 nNe3 in an hour. YOnder Msr-
curry goes 109 geo mill in an hour. SO
ike the stars TIE Christian worker shall
SHINE IN swift2ess Of motion. You hear
now al father, or mother, or cdild sick
1000 miles away, aad Il tskes yo1 two
days to get 80 them. You hear OF some
case Of suffering inst demands your in
mediate attention, but takes you an hour
TO gel there. o., the joy when yoa shalI,
in fulflimeDt Of The teXt, lake etarrY
speed, and be equal &c 100 0J0 milesi sn
hour. Having on e1.tl got used to
! Clristiau work, you will not gus WREN
death strikes you. You vii! oniy take GU
more velocity. There Is dying child in
London, aui its spirit mus: be takes up
10 God: You are there in sn instant 10
de it. There is young nan in New
York to be arrested fJr going into inst
gate Of siH: You are there in al instant
to arrest lin. Whether With spring CT
foot, or stroke CT wing, Or BY the force
Of some new law that SHALL hurl you to
the spot Th5re you would go, l know
not; but my tex. suggests velocity. All
space open before you, with nothing to
hinder you IN mission o. light, end love
aud Joy, you shall shine Ia sWiitness Of
motion IS the stsrs forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers, like the
stars, ehall shine in magnitude. TIE
most iiliterste msn knows that these
things ia the sky, looking like gilt but
tons, are great masses Of n3!ter. To
weigh them, ore would think that it
wouldrequire scales with pillar hundreds
OF thousands Of miles high, and chains
hundreds g thousands Of miles long, and
ST the bottom of the chains basins en-
either side hundreds OF thousands Of miles
wide, and that then OnIipotenCc slOne
could put the mountains izto the scales
sid the hills into the balance. But puny
man mss been equal to the undertaking,
and has set little bAIsnce on his geoRe-
| try, and weighed world against world.
Yes, he has pulled out his measuring
| line, and announced that Herschel is &c.
in diameter, and Jupiter 80 600 miles in
diameter, and thst the smallest pesrl on
THB BEACH OF HEAVEN
is immense beyond all Imagination. So
all they who have toiled for Christ on
t-esrth shall rise up to magnitude OF
priyiie &c, ard magnitude Of strength,
and magnitude Of holiness, and mag
Litude Ot joy; and the weakest sainl in
glory become greater thsn al that we
can now imsgine Of an sTchangel.
Brethren, it doth not yet sppesE Whist
we shall be. Wisdom that snail Enow
everythiGg; wealth that shall possess
everything; strength inst shall do everys
thing; glory that shall circuRscribe
everything! We shall not be ike taper
set ia Il sick mans window, or bundle
OF STICKS ki1dIed on TIE beach to warm
shivering crew; bu. you must tske the
diameter and the circumference o! tie
world il you would get any idea OF the
greatness Of cur estate when We shsu
! SHINE IS the StsEs FOR ever and ever.
Lssrly-sna coming to this point my
mind almost bresks down uader the con-
templatioI-like the stars, sll Christian
workers shall shine in duration. The
same stars thSt look down upon us locked
down upon the CAaldean shepherds. The
meteor thst saw flashing across the sky
| the otbaT riEht I wonder If Il yHS not fhe