The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-06-28

worlds woes, they sobbed as II heAtE-
broken when they worked for ehnSt
they famed with enthusiasm. Yonder
they are-circle of light constellahonof
Joy galaxy of fire oh, that you and 4,
by that grace which\ca transform the
worst into the best, night at last sail IN
the wake of that feet, and wheel in that
group, as the stars forever and
ever
Again: Christian workers will shinlS
like the stars in swiftiess Of motion.
The worlds do not stop b shine. TheEe
are no fixed stars saveAas to relative
position. The star most thoroughly fixed
fies thousands OF miles aNminute. ThS
astronomer, using his Telescope for an
alpenstock, leaps from Vorld-crag to
world-crag, and finds no tar standing
still. The chamois hunter Aas to fly to
catch his prey, but not go swift is his
game as that which the scientist tries to
shoot through the tower OF observatory
Like petr Is d-Atlantic, that seem 10
come from no shore, and bound to no
landing-plaoe flying, iyingtso these
great tiocks OF worlds rest not rs they 60
wing and wing age after age II for ever
and ever. The eagle hastes . its prey,
but We shall in speed beat tie eagles
You have noticed the velocity OF The
swift horse under whose feet tie miles
slip like a smooth ribbon, AMI ?s ne
passes, the four hoofs strike the earth in
such beat your pulses take thP same
vibration. But all these things IRE not
swift in comparison with the Holon OIL
which | speak. The moon moveS hity-
four thousand miles in a day. lPndsr,
Neptune flashes on eleven thousand
miles in an hour. Yonder Mercurt goes
one hundred and nine thousand Mills IN
an hour. So like the stars the Christian
worker shall shine in swiitness OF motion.
You hear now of father, or mother, or
child sick one thousand miles away, ana
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 ioy when you shall, in 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 q dying child in Lon
don, 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 youE
would 90, l know not but my text sug-
gests velocity. All space open before
YOU, with nothing to hinder you in mis-
sion of light, and love, and JOY, you shall
shine in swiftness OF motion as the stars
for ever 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 but,
tons, are great masses OF matter. Io
weigh them, one would think that il
would REQUIRE scales with a pillar hum
dreds of thousands OF miles high, and
chains hundreds of thousands OF miles
long, and at the bottom Of the ehaint
basins on either side hundreds of mile:
wide, and that then ~omnipotence alone
could put the mountains into the scalel
and the hills into the balance. But punJ
man has been equal to the undertaking
and has set a little balance on hi
geometry, and weighed world agains
world. Yea, he has pulled out his meas
uring line, and announced that Hersche
is $4,000 miles in diameter, Saturn
7a,OOj miles in diameter, and Jupitel
$4,000 miles in diameter, and that TIN
smallest pearl in the beach OF heaven ]
immense beyond all imagination. So III
thew who have toiled for Christ on earsl
shall rise up to a magnitude OF privilege
and q magnitude of strength, and a mag
nltude of holiness, and a magnitude @
ioy and the weakest saint in glory be
come greater than all that we can nov
imagine OF an archangel.
Brethren, it doth not yet appear Wha
we shall be. Wisdom that shall know
everything, wealth that shall posses
everything strength that shall do every
thing: glory that shall clrcumscrln
everything! We shall not be like a tape
set in a sick mans window, or a bundl
of sticks kindled on the beach to war;
> a shivering crew; but you must take Tn
diameter and the circumference OF %
! world if you would get any idea OF tn
; greatness of our estate when we ana
! shine as the stars for ever and ever.
! Lastly-and coming to this point m
| mind almost breaks down under the col
! templation-like the stars, all Chrlstla
> workers shall shine in duration. Th
} same stars that look down upon I
! looked down upon the Chaldean She
herds. The meteor that | saw 1ashiT
across the sky the other night, l wondere
1 il it was not the same one that polnts
4 down to where Jesus lay in the mango
. and il, having pointed out his birthplace
! it has ever since been wandering throug
> the heavens, watching to see how II
u world would treat him. When Ada
: awoke in the garden in the cool OF Il
y dav, he saw coming out through Il
! dusk OF the evening the same worlds tn
d greeted US on our way to church t
night.
!, In Independence Hall there is an O
y cracked bell hat sounded the Declar
- ton of independence. You cannot m
~ it now but this great chime OF sliy
y bells that strike in the dome OF mig
70 ing out with as sweet a tone as Wnt
- Sod swung them at the creation. Lot
up at night, and know that the viii
lilies that bloom in all the hanging q
II dens of our King are century plants
~ not blooming once in a hundred yea
but through all the centuries.
y The star at which the mariner loo
tonight was the light by which 1
ships of Tarshish were guided across d
~ Mediterranean, and the Venetian iOti
- found its way into Lepanto. Their
y MOI is as bright tonight as when, in
- Gent battle, the stars in their cours
fought against Sisera. To the anciel
" the stars were symbols OF eternity.
u But here the figure OF my text brea
oo down-not in defeat, but in the majesti
NJ OF the judgment. The stars shall 1
a shine forever. The Bible says they shi
n fall like autumnal leaves. 1t is almC
!, impossible for a man to take in a Courl
. going a mile in three minutes; but q
lie shall take in the worlds y &c fying gal a hu II,h
p his little finger. As, when the iactc
OF band slips at nightiall from the mi