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ton az the stars forever and ever.

and Joy, you shall shine IN swiftueo Il mo
ton a. the stars forever and ever
Again. Christian workers, Hike tie star,.
man knows that these things In The sky.
matter To weigh them. one would think that
Il would require scales With pillar hun
dreds Of thousands Of miles high, and chains
hundreds OF thousands Of miles long, and e
the bottom Of the chains basins on either do
hundreds Of Thousands Of miles wide. and
that then omnipotencs alone could put Tie
mountains into the scales and the hills intoth
balance But puny man has bean equal 70 ths
undertaking, and has ut Q little balances On
his geometry, and wsighed world aeainGt
world Yea, BE- has pulled out his meaaw.
Ing line, and announced that Hasschso =
tAirty-six thousand miles IN diamehr. Scum
ssveuty-nine thousand miles In diamsAw
and Jupiter eighty-nins thousand mils q
diameter. and that the smallest pearl ON ths
beach Of heaven ID immense beyond IN I'M
agination. 30 all they who have toiled Tor
Christ on earth shall rise up to magnituds
Of privilege, and Q magnitude Of strsueth,
and q magnitude Of holiness, and Q me-.
nituds Of Joy; and the weakest saint in
glory becomes greater than Ill that w can
now imagine Of an archangel
Brethren, Il doth not yet appear what -
shall ba Wisdom that shall know svry.
thing; wealth that shall posses everything;
strength that shall do everything; glory that
shall circumscribe everythingi We ahsn
not b Ike . taper set In dck mans win
dow, or Q bundh Of sticks kindlsd On the
beach to warm Q shivering crew, but ycu
must take the diameter and thu circumfr-
snce Of the world II you would get any tdsa
Of the greatness Of our estate whsn ~ shall
hine as the stars forever and ever
Lastly-and coming TO this point my mind
almost breaks down under the contemplated
like the stars, all Christian workers shaIl
shine In duration. The same stars that look
down upon us looked down upon the Chal-
dean shepherda The meteor that NV nash-
Ing across the shy the other night woodar
Il IL was not the sams ons that pointsd down
10 whore Jesus lay In The manager, and n,
having pointed out HIS birthplace, u has sv4
hnce been wandering through the heavsna
watching to go bow the world would trsaS
him. When Adam awoks IN the garden in
the cool Of the day b. saw coming out
through The dusk Of the evening The ame
we-sds <haA sraakAd m On nnr nay - shmRuA
tonight
In Independence ball b an old cracked ben
that sounded the signature Of the Declare
ton Of Independence You cannot ring h
now; but this great chime Of silver bells that
strike In the dome Of night ring out with q
sweet . tone as when God swung them as 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-noe
blooming once In . hundred years, but
through all the centuriea
The star at which tho mariner loon %.
night was the Light BY which the shtps a
Tarshish were guided across the Asdtteera.
mean and the Venetian dotilla found tn way
into Lepanto Their armor b q BRIGHT To-
night a. when, In ancient battle, the stars In
their courses fought against SiserA To tie
ancients the stars were symbols Of eternity.
But here the figure Of my tsxt hrsa,3
down-not In defeat, but In the majesties ot
the Judgment The stars shall not shins tor
ever. The Bible says they shall fan lhs
autumnal leaves Il b almost impossible Tor
q man to take In q courser going mile in
three minutes; but God shall take In ~
worlds, flying hundred thousand miles q
hour, by one pull Of bis little finger. A,
when the factory band slips ct nighffah
from the main wheel. all the smaller wheels
o41hSACo SAoh oksOcOp oAu WIN olOWex mo-
slower motion they turn until they
come to q full stop, 90 this great
machinery Of the universe, wheel within
wheel, making revolution Of appalling spssd,
shall by the touch Of Gods hand slip tie band
of present law and slacken and stop That
Is what win be the matter with the mount
alma The chariot In which they ride shatl
halt 30 suddenly that the kings shall b
thrown out Star after star shall b cax1isd
out to burial amid funeral torches and burn
ing worlda CONSULTATIONS shall throw ashss
on their heads, and all up and down the high
ways Of space there shall b mourning,
mourning, mourning, because the worlds aFs
dead. But the Christian workers shan
never quit their throna-they shall
reign forever and ever. II, by some In
vaaou from ball, the attsmpt were made 10
carry them OF into captivity from heaven,
the souls they have saved would rally Tor
their defense, and ell the angels Of God
would strike with their scepters, and the ~
deemed, on white horses Of victory, would
ride down the Toe, and all the steep of the
sky would resound With the crash Of TIE
overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong ont
OF k~,av wan