Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-06-30

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Brothers aud sistcrs--they take hold oil
each others hands and dance In groups
Orion In group. The Pleiadcs in q
group. The solar system is only com.
pany Of children. with bright faces, gath.
cred around one great fire. place. The
worlds do not struggle or They go in
squadrons and fleets. sailing through i'm.
mensity.
dROuPs ~ HEAVEN.
So Christian workers In Heaven will
dwell In neighborhoods aud clusters. !
am sure that some people in Heaven !
will like great deal better than others.
Yonder Is constellation Of stately Christ
ians 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; aud yon.
der they shine in brilliant constellation.
Yet shall not long To get into that par
ticular group. Yonder Is constellation
Of small-hearted Observation-Disclosures in
the eternal astronomy. While some souls
go up from Christian battle and blaze like
Mars. these asteroids dart feeble ray like
Vesta. Yonder Is constellation Of mar.
tyrs, Of apostles, ofpatriarchs. Our souls,
as they 60 10 Heaven, will seek out
the most congenial society. Yondcr is u
constellation almost merry with the play
flight. On earth they were full Of sym
hies. and songs, and tears, and rap.
!, and congratulations When they
Ip. d their words took fire; when they
sang u tune could not hold them; when
they wcpt =, IA worlds woes they sob
bed rs II heart.o. y; when they work
cd for Christ they H. with enthusi-
assn. Yon,lcr they arcA SSSlc of ligh,
constellation Of joy 1. galaxya IRE! Oh!
tina, you aud !, by that grace Neh can
transform the worst into the best, tight
at last sail in the wake Of tina, flcct% j
wheel in tina, glorious group, as the st
forever and ever.
Aagain: Christian workers will shine
like the stars swiftness Of motion. The
worlds do not stop 10 shine. There are
no fixed stars save rs to relative positions
The star most thoroughly fixed flies thou-
sands of miles minute. The asirono-
mcr. using his telescope for an Alpip'
stock, leaps from world.crag to W, -.
crag, and finds no star standing sti' The
channels htnt ar haa Ia ny IN c.fgcl Lii.
prey. but not so swim is his gang rs that
which the scientist tries To shdbt through
the tower Of his observatory. Like pet
rcls mil Atlantic, that seem Ia come from
M shore, and he bound to no landing.
pinic flying. flying so these great iiocks
of worlds rest not as they go-wing and
wing-agc after agc-inrcvcr and ever.
The eagle lastcs To lis prey. but We shall
in speed beat the eagles. You have no
liccd The velocity Of the swift horse, under
whose feet miles slip like smooth
ribbon. and rs he passes the four hoois
strike the earth in such quick heat your
pulses take the same vibration. But all
these things are not swift in comparison
with the motion Of which | speaks The
moon moves $1,000 miles in II day. Yon.
der. Neptune flashes an II ,0nD miles in an
hour. Wonder mercury goes 10y, 900 miles
nm hour. so like the stars the Christian
worker shall shine IN the swiiincSs of
motion. You hear now of II father or
mother or child sick 1000 miles away,
and il takes sou two days To re, 10 them.
You hear Of some case of suffering tina,
demands your immediate attention hut il
takes you an hour to get there. Oh the
joy when you shall, in the fulfillmcnt of
the text, take starry speed, and he equal
To- 100000 miles an hour. Having on
earth got 'fTi To Christian work, you
will only take an more velocity. There is
n dying child in London. and its spiri,
must be taken up To God: you arc there
in nm instant tn do il. There Is u young
man in New York 10 bc arrested from
going into that gate of sin; you are there
in an instant 10 arrest him. Whether
with spring Of foot. or stroke OF wing. or
10y the force of some new law tina, shall
hurl you To the spot where you would go.
know not hut my text suggests velocity.
All space open before you, with nothing
to hinder you in mission of light, and love
and joy, you shall slime in swiflness Of
motion rs the stars forever and ever.
PUNy MAN.wEIGuED WORLDS.
Again: Christian workers. like the stars,
shine. shine in magnitude. The most
illicraic man knows that these things in
the sky, looking like gil, buttons buttons,
are great masses of matter. To weigh
them, one would think that IL would re-
quirc scales with II pillar hundreds of
thousands of miles high and chains hun.
,lrc,ls Of thousands of miles long. aud at
the bottom nf the chains basins on either
side hundreds of thousands or miles wide,
and that then omnipotencc alone could
put the mountains into the scales and the
hills into the balance But puny man has
been equal Ia the undertaking. and has
sci little balance on his geometry and
weighed world against world. Yea he has
pulled out his measuring line. and nm.
nounccd that lirrschrl is $4,000 miles in
diameter, Saturn .9,000 miles IN diameter
aud Jupiter $4,000 miles in diameter. and
that the smalIcs, pearl an the bench "f
heaven is immense beyond all imngina.
Tim. - all they who have ,oile,l for
Christ an earth shall rise up To II magni-
turc III privilege, AMI magnitude Of
strength. aud magnitude Of holiness
and magnitude of joy aud The weakest
saint in glory hccomc greater lhan all
that We can now imagine Of an arclnnslc.
Brrihcrcn, II doth not yet appear what
We shall hc. Wisdom that shall know
everything; wealth that shall pnssess
everything strength shall ,lo everything;
glory llml shall circumscrihc everything