Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-07

their names be commemorated in poetry
ana IA sony; bat 20 90 the graveyard IN
Richmond and yCu will find there G 0O0
graves, over each one Of which is the in.
scription. "Unknown." The world does
not remember It's heroes; but there will
be 40 u~nrccOgnized worker ia heaven.
Each one known bYall -grandlv known,
known by aCclamation; all the past story
Of work Tor God cleaning in check aud
brow anc foot and palm. They snail
shine with distinct i gAt as the stars, for.
ever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall shine
like the stars in clusters. In looking up
you find the worlds in family circles.
Brothers and sisters they take hold Of
each other hands Ind dance in groups.
Orion IN "a group. The Pleiadcs in "a
group. The solar system is only a con-
pany Of children with bright faces gath
cred around one great trepiacc. The
worlds DO not stragglc of. They go in
squadrons and fleets sailing through in
meEslty.
ANenLrc CONSTELLATION.
80 Christian workcrs in heaven will
dwell in nCighborhoods IN clusters. | am
sure that some people will ike heaven a
great deal better than others. Wonder is
a constellation of stately Christians. They
lived on earth by rigid rule. They never
laughed. They walked every hour nnX-
i"us lest they should lose their dignity.
But they loved God, and Wonder they
shine in brilliant constellation. Yet |
shall not long to get INFO that particular
group. Wonder is a constellation Of
small hearted observation-disclosures in the
eternal astronomy. While some souls 90
up from Christian battle and blaze like
Mars. these asteroids dart "A feeble ray
like Ncsta. Wonder is a constellation Of
martyrs, OF apostles, Of patriarchs. Our
souls az they 20 up to heaven will seek
out tho most congenial society.
1onder is constellation al
most merry with the play
Of light. On earth they were full OF
sympathics ond songs, and tears, and rap
lures, and congratulations. When they
prayed their words took fire; when they
wept over a worlds woes, they sobbed as
If heart broken, when they worked for
Christ they famed with enthusiasm.
Goudcr they are-circlc of light! c~onstel-
lation Of joy! galaxy Of fire. Oh, that
you and |, by that grace which can trans
form the worst into the best, might AT
last sail in the wake Of that fleet, and
wheel in that glorious group, as The stars
for ever and ever
Again: Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness and motion.
The worlds do no stop TO shine There
are no fixed stars save as to relative
position. The star most thoroughly fixed
flies thousands Of miles "a minute. The
astronomer, using his telescope for AN
alpine stock. leaps from world-crag 10
worid-crag, and finds no star standing
still, The cham0is hunter has to fly TO
catch his prey, but not so swift is his
game as that which the scientist tries 10
shoot through the tower Of observatory.
Like Pctrcls mid Atlantic. that seem to
come from no shore, and he bound To no
landing placc-tiying. fyiny-so these
great tlocks of worlds rest not rs they 70
wing and wing-agea after agc-ior ever
and ever.
hastes 10 its prey, but we Shall in speed
beat the eagles. You have noticed the
velocity of the swift horse under whose
feet the miles slip Ike a smooth ribbon.
and "a be passes, the four hoofs strike
the earth in such quick beat your pulses
take the same vibration. But al! these
things are not swift in comparison with
the motion Of which | speak. The
moon moves fifty four Thousand
miles in u day. Wonder Neptune
flashes ON eleven thousand miles
ia an hour. Wonder Mercury goes 1o9.
600 miles in an hour. 50 like the stars the
Christian worker shall shine in swiftness
in motion. You hear now Of father, or
mother, or child sick 900 miles away
and it takes you two days 70 get to them.
You hear of some case Of suffering that
demands your immediate attention. but it
takes you an hour 10 get there. Oh, The
JOY when YOU shall in fulillmont OF the
text Il starry speed and be equal 10
100, 00o 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 a
dying child in London 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 for going
that gait Of sin. You are there in an in
slant 10 arrest him. Whether with
spring Of foot, or stroke af wing, or by
the force CT some new law that sLolld
hurl you 10 the spot where you would 90
| know not, but my text suggests We
iocity. All space open before you with
nothing 10 hinder You in the mission OF
light, and love and JOY you shall shine ia
swiftneSs of motion like stars forever ana
over.
HEY SHALL SHINE.
Again, Christian workers like the stars
ehall shine ia magnitude. The most IL
|literate man knows that these ,hirgs in
the sky looking ike gilt buttons are great
ma,sc, Of matter. 10 weigh them one
would think that it required scales with
n pillar hundreds Of thousands Of miles
high and chains hundreds cf thousands