Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-01
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weigh them, a WOUND lAll1 lIaII II would
require scales with a pillar hundreds of
thousands of miles high, and chains hun
dreds of thousands of miles long, and at
the bottoms of the chains basins on either
side hundreds of thousands Of miles wide,
and that then o~mnipotence alone
could put the mountains 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. Yea, he has pulled out
his measuring lineSand announced that
Herschel is thirty-siX thousand miles in
diameter, Saturn seventy-nine thousand
miles in diameter and Jupiter eighty
nine thousand miles in diameter, and
that the smallest pearl on the beach Of
HEAVIER, s immense beyond all imagina-
ton. So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise w TO a magni-
mdc of privilege, and Il magnitude Of
Of strength. and n magnitude Of ~holiress,
and magnitude Of joy; and the weakest
saint in glory becomes greater II 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 a taper
set in q sick mans window, or a bundle
of sticks kindled on the beach 10 warm a
shivering crew; but you must take the
diameter and tho circumference Of the
world if you would get any idea Of the
greatness 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 shepherds.
The meteor that | saw flashing across
the sky the other night, ] wonder if il
was not the same one that pointed down
to where Jesus lay in the manger, and
if, having pointed out his birthplace, it
has ever since been wandering through
the heavens, watching TO see how the
world would treat 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
that 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 u with as sweet a tom 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 our King are century plants
not blooming once in q hundred years,
but through all the centuries.
The stars at which the mariner looks
tonight was the light by which the ships
Of Tarshish were guided across the Medi-
~terranean, and the Venetian ilotilla found
its way into Lepanto. Their armor is
as bright tonight as when, in ancient
battle, the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera. To the ancients the stars
were the symbols of eternity.
But here the figure Of my text breaks
down-not in defeat. but in the majes-
ties Of the judgment. The stars shall
not shine forever. The Bible says they
shall fall like autuInnai leaves. II is
almost impossible for a man TO take in a
courser going a mile in three minutes,
but God shall take in the worlds, flying
a hundred thousand miles an hour, by
! one pull of his little finger. As, when
/ the factory band slips at nightfall from
the maiI wheel, all the smaller wheels
slacken their speed, and with slower
and slower motion they turn until they
come to a full stop, so this great
machinery of the universe, wheel within
wheel, making revolution of appalling
speed, shall by the touch of Gods hand
slip the band Of present law and slacken
and stop. That is what will be the mat
ter with the mountains. The chariots in
which they ride shall halt so suddenly
that the kings shall be thrown out. Star
after star shall be carried out 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, mourn
ing, mourning, because the worlds are
dead. But the Christian workers shall
never quit their thrones-they shall
reign forever and ever. If by some in
vasion from hell, the attempt were made
to carry them of into captivity from
heaven, the souls they have saved would
rally for their defense, and all the angels
Of God would strike with their sccpters,
and the redeemed, on white horses Of
victory. world rifle down the foe. and all
the steep VI the Say would resound with
the crash Of the overwhelmed cohorts
tumbled headlong out of heaven.