Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-25

HI7 st!!-htuIdlH' auu pdlut, ana SERVICES,
and victories published.
Again: Christian workers shall shine
LIKE THE STARS IN CLUsTERs.
In looking up, you find the worlds in fam
lily circles Brothers and sisters-they
take hold Of each Others hands and dance
i'll groups. Orion in a group. TIE Plea-
des in a group. The solar system IL only
c-mpsny Of children, with bright faces,
gathered around one great fireplace The
worlds do nOt straggle of They 20 in
squadrons and Lets sailing through i'm
mensity.
so Christian workers in heaven will
dwell III urIghh0rhu0ds and clusters. am
sure that some pe0pl, will ike IN heaven
great deal hetttr th ~ others lunder il
constellation 0l stately Christians They
lived on earth hy rrid rule. They never
laughed. They walked every hour anxious
lest they should lose their dignity. Bnt
they loved God; and yondec they shine in
brilliant cons 'ellatiUn. Ir, | shall not
long TO get into that particular group
londer Is Il constellation of aii-he4rted
Christians in the eternal as.
trOnOmy. While some souls 20 M
from Christian battle, aud hiaz" like
Mars, the-t asteroids dart Il feeble ray like
Nes:a. HoDder IL constellation of
martyrsr o! apostles, Of patTiafch-. Oar
souls, az trey 70 up to heaven, VIII seek
out the most cougenial society. YOndrr
| u u constellation almost merry with the
play Of light Ga earth they were full Of
symp4thies and 'ongs, and tears. and rap
aud Ia l..
prayed their words took lire; when thev
sIng. the tune could not hold them; when
they wapt over worlds woes, they
9Ohbci as if heart-broken, when they
worked for Christ they lltmed with en-
thusiasm. londer they are-CiTcle Of
light constellation ofioyl galaxy OF fire,
On, that You and by that grace which
can transform the worst into the best
might az larl in the wake OF that fleet and
wheel in that glorious group, ~ the stars
for ever AMI ever!
Again: Christian workers will shine
LIKE the STARS IL swIFTNESS
of motion. The worlds do not stop to
shine" There are no fixed stars save ~ to
r-latiye position. The star most thorough
Is fixed ll'aS thousands Of miles a minute
Tue astronomer, u~ing his telescope tor au
ALPINE stock, leaps from woILd-yrag 10
wOrld-2rag, nod finds no star standing
still The chAmols hunter has to H. to
catch his pTry, but not ~ swift IL h's
game ~ that which the scieuts; tries to
shoot through the tower OF observatory
Like p-iIcls mid-Atlantic, that seem to
come from no shore, AMI be bound to no
H.. -. I..,v IL,
great iiocks OF worlds rest not ~ they go
wing and wing-age after are forever
and ever. The eagle hNsIcs To its Prey,
but wC 4hall ~ speed bsAt She eagles The
moon moves lilly-lOur thnusard miles
IN day Yondcr Neptune
| flashes on eleven thousaud miles
/ IN an hour. l1nder Mercury goes one
| hundred and nine thousand miles I'm hour.
/ 81 Ike III nlafs the ChrjS'itn rkrr
/ shall -hi4" IN swji'ny.s Of motion (On
! hear low ci Nthnr or mother ur child
/ lick nnr thousand miles away, aud il takes
son two days Ia ct 10 them. lon hear ot
! spmr case 0t suffering that demands your
immediate attention. hnt il takes vou an
| hour To uct there. Oh, ne Joy when ven
| Shall, IN fuliiIment ui the text. take starry
! speed, and be equal 10 enc hundred th0us.
and mica an hour. Having On earth got
used 10 Christian wo-k you will not quit
when death strikes yGu. You will only
take on more velocity.
Again: Christian workers. like the starr,
SHALL SHINE IN MAGNITUDE.
The most ilIiterate man knows that these
things in the sky, looking like gilt buttor-
are great misses Of matter. To weigh
them, one would think that it would re-
guir- -gslcs with pillar hundreds thpu-
sands OF miles high, and chains hundred,
OF Thousands OF miles long, and at the bot.
tom OF th" chains basins on either side
hundreds Of thousands Of miles wide, and
that then OmnipotenCe alone could put
the mountains into the scales and the
hills into the balance. But puuy
man has been equal 10 the I'M
dertaking, and has set little balance
on his geometry, and weighed world agains;
world. Yea, he has pulled out his meas
urug line, and announced that NprsUhel -
thiriy-siN thousand miles in diameter,
Saturn seyeuty-nIne thousand miles in
diameter, and Jupiter eighty-nine thOus.
and miles in diameter, and that the small
est pearl on the beach of heaven is i'm
mcn-a beyond all Imagination. s, - they
VINO have tOiled Tor Christ on earth shall
rise mp to q magnitude Of privilege, and
magnitude OF strength, and magnitude OF
holiness, and a magnitude OF lny; and the
weakest saint in glory becomes greater than
nll that we can now imagine OF an arch
angel.
Lastly-and coming to this point my
mind, almost breaks down under the con
templation-like the stars, all Christian
workers
SHALL SHINE ~ DURATION.
The same stars that look down upon NJ
Looked down upon the Christian shepherds !
The meteor that saw ilIshing across the |
sky the other night, | wonder II II was not |
the same one that pointed down to where |
Je-us lay il the manger, aud il, having |
pointed ont his birthplace, il has ever since |
bzeu wandering through the heavens, |
watching 20 see how the world would treat |
Him. When Adam awOke in the garden .
in the cool 0i the day, he saw coming out /
through the dusk of the evening the same .
worlds that greeted Us on Our way to
church tonight.
The stars at which the mariner looks to-
night vas the light by which the ships OF
Tar-hizh were gnlded across the Meditcr-
raneln, aud the Venetian tlotilla lound its
way into Lspanto. Their armor il "a
bright to night ~ when, in ancient battle,
The stars in their courses fought against
Sr4era. To the ancicnt- the stars were
symbols Of eternity. But here the figure
nj my text breaks dOwn-nOt IN defeat,
bn' in the mgiss'ies OF the Judgment. The
stars sh. ] not shine for ever. The Bible
says they hall fall like autumnal leaves
II il almost impossible for man to
take in a cOurser going mile in
three minutes; but cod shall take
in the worlds flying hundred thousand
miles an hour, by one phil Of his little i'm
ger ~, when the factory band sips at
niahttAIl from the main wheel, all the
smaller wheels slacken their speed. and |
with slower and clover motion they turn !
until they come to full stop, 20 this |
great machinery OF the universe, wheel |
within wheel, making revolution OF ap-
pal.iug speed, shall by the touch Of Gods |
hand slip the band Of present law and |
slackeu and stop. That Is what will he
the matter with the mountains. The char
lots in which they ride shall halt 80 sud
denly that
THE KINGS SHALL BE THRuWS OFT.