Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06

ton almost merry with the play of light.
On earth they We're full of sympathy and
songs, and tears and rapture and con-
CALCULATIONS. When they prayed, their
words took fire; when they sang, the
tune could not hold them; when they
wept over worlds woes, they sobbed as
If heart broken; when they worked for
Christ, they famed with enthusiasm.
fonder they are-circle of light! Con-
stellation of joy! galaxy of fire! Oh, that
you and 1, by the grace which can trans
form the worst into the best, might at
last sail in the wake of that feet and
wheel in that glorious group, as the
stars, forever and ever!
Again: Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness of motion.
The worldsdo not stop to shine. There
are no fixed stars save as to relative po-
sition. The star most thoroughly fixed
flies thousands of miles minute. The
astronomer, using his telescope for an
Alpen-stock, leaps from world crag to
world crag, and finds no star standing
still. The chamois hunter has to fly to
catch his prey, but not so swift is his
game as that which the scientist tries to
shoot through the tower of observatory.
Like petrels mid Atlantic, that seem to
come from no shore, and be bound to
no landing place-hying, fying-so
these great hocks of worlds rest not as
they go, wing and wing, age after age,
forever and ever. The eagle hastes to
it's prey, but we shall in speed beat the
eagles. You have noticed the velocity
of the swift horse, under whose feet the
miles slip like smooth ribbon, and as
he passes the four hoofs strike the earth
in such quick beat your pulses take the
same vibration. But all these things
are not swift in comparison with the
motion of which I speak. The moon
moves ffty-four thousand miles in a
day. Yonder, Neptune flashes on eleven
thousand miles in an hour. Yonder,
Mercury goes one hundred and nine
thousand miles in an hour. So, like the
stars, the Christian worker shall shine
in swiftness of motion. You hear now
thousand miles away, and it takes you
two days to get to them. You hear of
some case Of suffering that demands
your immediate attention, but it takes
you an hour to get there. Oh, the JOY
when you shall, i'll fulfllment of the
text, take starry speed, and be equal to
one hundred thousand miles an hour.
Having on earth got used to Christian
work, you will not quit when death
strikes you. You will only take on
more velocity. There is dying child
in London, and its spirit must be taken
up to God; you are there in an instant
to do it. There is a young man in New
York to be arrested 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 hurl you to
the spot where you would go I know
not; but my text suggests velocity. All
space open before you, with nothing
to hinder you in mission of light and
love and Joy, you shall shine in swift
ness of motion as the stars forever and
ever.
Again: Christian workers, like the
stars, shall shine in magnitude. The
most illiterate man knows that these
things in the sky, looking like gilt but
tons, are great masses of matter. To
weigh them, one would think that it
would require scales with pillar hun
dreds Of thousands Of miles high. and
chains hundreds of thousands Of miles
basins on either side hundreds of thou
sands of miles wide, and that then
omnipotence alone could put the noun
tains into the scales and the hills into
the balance. But puny man has been
equal to the undertaking, and has set a
little balance on his geometry, and
weighed world against world. Yes, he
has pulled out his measuring line, and
announced that Herschel is thirty six
thousand miles in diameter, Saturn
seventy nine thousand miles in diane
ter, and Jupiter eighty nine thousand
miles in diameter, and that the smallest
pearl on the beach of Heav en- is immense
beyond all Imagination. So all they
who have toiled for Christ on earth
shall rise up to q magnitude Of privilege,
and magnitude of strength, and o mag
nitude of holiness, and a magnitude of
Joy; and the weakest saint in glory be-
comes greater than all that we can now
imagine Of an archangel.
Brethren, it 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 circumscribe
everything! We shall not be like taper
in sick mans window, or q bundle of
sticks kindled on the beach to warm q
shivering crew; but you must take the
diameter and circumference of the world
if you would get any idea of the great
ness of our estate when we shall shine
as the stars forever and ever.
Lastly-and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the con-
templation-like the stars, all Christian
workers shall shine in duration. The
same stars that look down upon us
looked down upon the Chaldean shep-
herds. The meteor that l saw flashing
across the sky the other night, wonder
if it was not the same one that pointed
down to where Jesus lay in the manager,
and if, having pointed out his birth
place, it has ever since been wandering
through the heavens, watching to see
how the world would trent Him. When
Adam awoke in the garden in the cool
of the day he saw coming out through
the dusk of the evening the same worlds
hat greeted us on our way to church to-
night.
In Independence Hall is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature of the
Declaration of Independence. You can
not ring it now; but this great chime Of
silver bells that strike in the dome Of
night ring out with as sweet tone as
when God swung them at the creation.
Look up at night, and know that the
white lilies that bloom in all the hang
ing gardens Of our King are century
plants-not blooming once in hundred
years, but through ali the centuries.
The star Mt which the mariner looks
tonight was the light by which the