Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05

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a. ~, ne anu Tor The spread OF hrs kiredor,
a.. sneir prayers, and tears and vyork viii
- Deiote hsm As he looks info their e..
III IA. ne VIII dive bis kingdom with then,
Ths peLee. MS holiness; his JOY, their low
frar, o.y OF the central throne reflected
ar ~ '..e surrounding thrones tho last snot
=. sin struck from tue Chr,st,an orh ~ IA
i ,e eh.lre nature a-tremble and a-aflash wi ~
and ever. ssais forever
again. Christion workers shall be like Tho
lar s IN the fact that they have a light inds.
mi asn' ~ each other. Look UP at the nirbt
r. IL .c e ,ss world show its distinct glory.
~ - nor IKE the confiagntion, in which vo,,
sa "a, not telt where one fame stops and a.
otiler begins. Neptune, Herschei. and aa.-
euI5 are as distinct rs II each one of IT,,
MI, wvno u.e only star; so our indiyidual,sm
nj, nj. NOT 20 lost In heaven. A great mutt
l., set each Que as observable, as Distinct
:. Z, i,vcognized, a. greatly celebrated as II in
s a., tue space, from gate 10 gate ana f-o,n
aln 20 NH we were the only fnhabitant. NJ
mixing up-no mob-no intilscrimin 4 te r,,,. \.
each Cnrisfion worker standing ont IIl,ssr;
Vus-all the story of earthly achievement sd.
nealiog 70 each one; his seif-denials and
BA.ns ana services and victories pubIisbe,i
BEFORE men went out to the last war the ~
ators told them that they would ali he re-
memDered bv their country aud their name.
~, ,'o eou'melnorated In poetry and ia SONG .
, ~. ~ 70 me graveyard in Richmond and
40. VIII nna there six thousand graves, over
e~cn one OF Which Is tho inscription: aTIn.
hnown.' Tho world does not remem h.r a..
heroes; hut there viii be no unrecognized
.hristian worker in heaven. Each ono
known by all grandly known; known nv
ace,amation; all the past story Of work Tor
ooa gieaming In cheek and brow and foot
anu PAIN. They shall shine with distinct
light as the stars. forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall shina IN.
"a. .ne stsrs IN clusters. In looking UP You End
tne worlds In family circles. Brother and
sisters, they take hold OF each othe p hands
ana dance In groups Orion In group. The
only company of children. vii brieh.
lnces gathered around one great tireplaca'
The worlds do not straggle off. Thee 90 -
mensity. Hni-
80 Christian workers In heaven will dwell
IN neighborhoois and clusters. am snrs
mere are some people will like in heaven
great deal better than others. Yonder i a
constellation OF stately Christians Thai
iiYed on earth by rigid rule. They never
laughed They walked every hour anxions
least they should lose their diguitx. Rut
they loved God; and yonder thev shine m
=. eIilliant constellation. Yet shall not long
:" gea .nno lhat particular group. Yonder Is
constellation OF smalLhearted Christian
asteroids In the eternal astronomy. While
some ,ouis go up from Christian battle, and
oiaze IKE Mars, these asteroids dart a feenle
ray like Nesta. Yonder is a consteIIation Of
martyrs, OF apostles, of patriarchs Our
seu's as they go up TO heaven, will seek out
the most congeniat society. Yonder "a n
constellation almost merry with the play of
ighI On earth they were full OF syrlpa-
thles anu songs and tears, and raptures ard
congratulations. When they PRAYED, their
MorJs look hre; when they sang, the tune
eould hot rod them; when they wept over
a worlds woes, they sighed as If heart-brok.
en- when they worked for Christ they
named with enthusiasm. Yonder they are
circle OF light! constellation OF ioyl GALAXY
or fre! oh, that you and I, by that grace
~nieh can transform the worst into the best,
might at LIST sail IN the wake Of that fee /,
and wheel In that glorious group, as the
stars for ever and for ever!
Again, Christian workers will shine like
the stars In swiftness of motion. The worlds
90 not stop 10 shine. There are no fixed
stars save as 70 relative position. The star
most thoroughly fixed flies thousands of
miles minute. The astronomer. using
ms telescope for an Alpine stock, leaps from
stanuiug sui. Ine cniinois hunter mas 20
nv 70 catch his prey. but not 80 swift Is his
game as that which the scientist tries to
shoot through the tower OF observatory. Like
petrels mid-Atlantic, that seem 20 come
place flying. nyiug-so these great hocks OF
worlds rest not as they go-wing and wing
age after age--for ever. and ever The
eagle hastes to its prey, but we shall In
speed beat the eagles. You have noticed
the yenocity Of the swift horse uLder whose
feet the miles slip like smooth ribbon, and
as he passes the four hoofs strike the earth
in such quick beat your pulses take the same
vibration. But all these things are not swift
IN comparison with the motion of which
speak. The moon moves fifty-four thousand
miles day. Yonder Neptune fasnes on
eleven thousand miles in an hour Yonder,
Mercury goes 109. 900 miles in an hour So
shine In swiftness of motion. You hear now
Of father, or mother, or child sick one thous-
and miles away, and 10 takes you two days
to get 70 them. leu hear Of some case OF
suffering that demands your immediate at
tention. but il takes you an hour to get
there. oh. the JOY when you shall, in full
filIment Of the text take starry speed and
be equal TO 100000 an hour. Having on earth
got used n Christian work. VOC will not quit
when death strikes you. You will only take
on more velocity. There Is dying child in
London and lis spirit must be taken up 70
God Won are there in an instant to do IL
There Is a Young man in New York to be
arrested from going into that gate Of sin (;
you are there IN an instant to arrest him.
Whether with spring Of foot. or stroke Of
wing, or uy tne ,orce OF some new law tna
shall hurl you TO the spot where you should
go, know not; but my text suggests vsloc-
fly. All space open before You, With moth.
ing to hinder you In mission OF light and love
and joy, you shall shine in swfftness OF mo-
ton as the ssaIs for ever and ever.
Again, Christian workers, like the stars
shalt shine I'm magnitude. The most
illiterate man knows that these things In
the sky, looking like gilt buttons, are great
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think that II would require scales with
pillar hundreds OF thousands OF miles high
and chains hundreds Of thousands OF miiei
long, aud at the bottom Of the CHAINS basins
on either side hundreds Of thousands
Of miles wide, and that then ON
impotence alone could put the mountain
into the scales and the hills into the BAL
ance. But puny man has been equal TO the
undertaking. and has set q little balance on
his geometry and weighed world against
world. Yea, he has pulled out his measure
INCLINE and announced that Herschei Is 3o,-
900 miles in diameter, Saturn 10000 miles 10
diameter, and Jupiter $1,000 in miles diam.
eter, and that the smallest pearl ON the
beach Of heaven is immense beyond all i'm
agination. So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to magnitude
OF privilege and a magnitude OF strength
and a magnitude OF holiness and magni-
tude Of joy, and the weakest saint in glory
imagine Of an archaugel.
Brethren, II does not yet appear what IL
shall be. Wisdom that shall know every.
thing; wealth that shall possess everything;
glory that shall clrcunssribe everythingl
We shall not be like taper set IN SICK
mans window, or a bundle OF sucks KIN
dIea ON the beach to warm ashiyertng crew !
hui Won must take the diameter and the cir
conference OF the world il you wound get
auy idea OF the greatness Of our estate when
VIC shall shine ms the stars forer"~ snd ever:
Lastly-snd coming to this ny mino
almost breaks down under IL einpie'
tion--lIke the stars, all Cbri-. Sorhen
shall shine in duration. The same II irs tnal
look down upon us looked down upon the
Chalf,ean shepherds. The meteor that
saw flashing across the sky the other night
I wonder If it was not the same one that
pointed down TO where Jesus lay IN the
manager, and il. having pointed OUT MS
birthplace. IL has ever since been wandering
through the heavens, watching 70 see now
awoke in the garden in the cool OF the Gay
he saw coming out through the dusk OF the
evening the same worlds that greeted Us on
our way to church tonight.
In Independence ball Is an OLD crackeu
bell that sounded the signature OF the decia.
ration of independence. You csnno. IihS =. -
now. bat this great chime OF silver bells tnat
strike in the dome Of night ring out VIII a.
SWEEP a tone as when Goo swung them at
the creation Look up at night and Know
that the white lilies that tioom In All the
hanging gardens Of our king ara century
pIantsEnot blooming once In hunorso
wears. out through all the centuries;
The star at which the mariner looks 70.
night was the light by which the ships OF
Tarshish were guided across the Meaiterra-
mean and the Venetian fotiIla found Us way
in,a Ienanto. Their armor is as bright To-
night. as when in ancient battle, the stars IN
their courses fought against sisera. TO the
sncients the stars were symbols OF eternity.
R,t here .he figure Of my text breaks down
rot in defeat. but in the maiest'es Oh inc
,ndyment. rne stars shall not shine forever;
Tbe bible says they snail fail Ike autumnal
10 n a co,,rser going mile in three min
utes; but God shall take IN the worid a.