Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30

| Jupiter so luminous! When the sun throws
down his torch in the lnavens the stars pick
up the scattered brands and hold them in
procession rs the queen of the night adj
vanceS: so all Christian workers, sanding
nroun the throne, Will shine in the light bor-
rowed from the Sun OF Rc!lteousnos5-Jesus
in their faces, Jesus in their songs j esus in
their triumph. Christ left hcaven once for
tour of redemption on earth, yet thu
glorified ones knew he would come back
again. But lei him a5licate his throne,
and 90 away to s5ay forever. the music
woull stop. the congregation disparse; the
temples Of Col he ,lar;cnil: the rivers OF
| light stnSnate and every char OF wntlld he
| come n hearse and every bill wOnld toll, and
there would not b, room on tho hill sides to
| bury tho dead Of tho great metropolis, for
there would he pestance in heaven. But
Jesus lives. and so I'll the redeemed live
with Him. E[e shall recognize them as HIS
comrades in earthly toll, AMI remember what
| they did for the honor of His name and for
the spread OF His Kingdom. All their pray
ers and tears and WORK will riss before Him
| as Flo looks into their faces, and lie VIII
divide His kingdom with them: HIS peace
their peace; His holiness-their holiness; HIS.
joy-ther Joy. The glory of the central
throne reflected from tho surrounding
thrones. the last spotof sin struck from the
Christian orb, and the entire nature atrem-
bic and a-flash with light, they shall shine as
| the stars forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers shall be like the
| stars in the fact that tlny have light lnde-
pendent of each other. Look up at the night,
and sea each world shows its distinct cory.
1t is not like The con1agration, in which you
cannot tell where ono flame stops AMI another
begins. Neptune, Hcrsche and Mercury ara
as distinct rs il each one Of them were the
only star; SO our individun!ism will not lie
lost in heaven. A great multitllde--yet
each one as Observable. rs distinctly recog-
nized, as greatly celebrated, rs If in all tile
space from cato to gate. AMI from
hill 10 hill, he was the only inhaoltant: no
mixing up-no mob--no indiscriminate rush,
each Christian worker standing out illus
! trious-all tho story Of earthly achieve
ments adhering TO each one; his self denals,
| and pains and services and victories
published Before men went out TO the
last war the orators told them that they
would all be remembered by their country,
and their names be conmeinoratcd Ill poetry
and in song; but go To the graveyard in Rich,
mond and you will find there six Thousand
graves over each ono OF which is the iTscrip-
ton. "Unknown.n The world does not re-
member its heroes: but there will be no I'M
recognized Christian worker IN heaven
Each ono known 10y all; grandly known;
known by ncclamatiOn; all the pist story OF
work for God cleaning i'll check, and brow,
and foot, and PALM They shall shine with
distinct light us the stars, forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall shine ike
tho stars in clusters. In looking up, you find
the worlds in family circles. Brothers and
sisters they take hold Of each others hands
and dance in groups Orion in a group.
The Pleiades in group The solar system
is only u company of children, with bright
faces, gathered around one great fireplace.
The words do not struggle oil. They so IN
.tc fltf1or
mensity. 80, :,
So Christian workers in heaven will dwell
in ncighborhoods and clusters. am sure
that some people will We in heaven great
deal better than others. Wonder is con,
stel!ation of stately Christians. They lived
on Garth by rlgid rule. They never laughed.
They walked every hour, anxious lest they
| shonld lose Their dignity. But they loved
God, anu yonder they shine III brilliant con-
ISOLATION Yet / shall not long to got into
that particular group Ionder is constel-
| Intion of small hearted Christians asteroitls
| III the eternal astronomy. While some souls
go Up from Christian battle and blaze like
Mars, these asteroids dart feeble ray like
Vestl. Yonder is a constellation OF martyrs.
of APOSTLES Of patrlarchs. Our souls, as they
60 up to heaven, will seek out the most con-
genial society. Yondcr is n constellation
almost merry with tile play of light. On Garth
they were full of sympathies aad songs, and
tears and raptures and congratulations.
When they prayed their words TOOK IRE;
when they sang the tune could not hold
them: when they wept over worlds woes,
they sobbed as If heart broken; when they
worked for Christ. they famed with enthu
siasn Wonder they are-circie of light!
Constellation Of joy Galaxy OF lire, On,
that YOU and l. by that grace which can
transform the worst into the oest, misht at
| last snil in tile wake of that fleet and wheel
in that glorious group, as the stars, forever
and ever! ,,
Again: Christian workers will shine like
the stars in swiftness of motion The worlds
do not stop to shine. There are no fixed
| stars save as to relative position. The star
most thoroughly fixed flies thousands of miles
minute. The astronomer, using his tele.
scope for an Alpine stock, leaps from world
crar to world crag, and finds no star stand
| inc still. Tie channels hunter has to lily to
| catch his prey, but not so swift is his game
as that which tie scientist tries to shoot
through the tower Of observatory. Like
petrels mid Atlantic, that seem to come
! from no shore, and he bound to
these great locks of worlds rest not as they
20. wing and wing age after age, forever
and ever. The eagle tastes to 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 like
liz
boots strike tho earth i'll such quick beat
your pulses take the SAME vibration. buG all
these things are not swift in comparison
with the molten Of which speak. The moon
moves fifty-four thousand miles IN q DAY;
| Wonder. Neptlne flashes on eleven thousahi
miles i'm nm iour. Nontier Mercury goes one
hundred and nine thousand miles i'll an h3lT our;
So, like the stars, the Christian WORKER S'i'.iI
shine in swiftness OF motion. on n:aL
now of father or mother or cn:iu s,ch
one THOUSAND miles away, and it taxes
Won two dnvs 10 get to them. You hear
of some case of suffering chat demands
your Immediate attention. hut it takes
YOU an hour to get there. Oh. the JOY wneh
| you shall. in the fuliillment of the text, take
starry speed, and be equal to one hundred
| thousand miles an hour. having on eilrtu
got used to Christian work, you VII nos Iuis
when death strikes you. You will only take
on more velocity. There is a dying chlid IN
London and its spirit must he taken up 10
! God: YOU are there in all instant to 90 It.
There is young man in New York to be ar
rested from going into that gate oil sin: you
are there in an instant to arrest him:
Whether with spring of foot, or stroke Oh
wing, or by force of some new law tnag
/ shall hurI-you TO the spot where you would
90, know not; but my text suggests reloc-
ity. All space open before you, with moth,
ing to hinder you in mission OF light ana
love and Joy, you shall Slime in swiftncss OF
motion as the stars forever an! ever
Again: Christian workers, like he stars,
shall shine in magnitude. The most illiterate
man knows that these things i'll the sky.
looking like gilt buttons, arc Srrat masses OF
matter To weigh them, one would think that
it would require scales with a pillar hun.
dreds OF thousands of miles high, and chains
hundreds of thousands of IN los long, and at
the bottom of the chains basins OH either side
hundreds of thousands of mics wide, and
that then omnipot,nce alonn could put the
mountains into the scales and the hills into Inc
balance. But puny man has been equal TO the
undertaking, and has set 4 little balance on
his geometry, and weighed wcrm against
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