The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-23
miles nsnute The astronomer, using hi.

miles riaute. The astronomer, using his
telescope for an alpenstock, leaps from
world-crag to world-cras, and finds no star
standing still The chanois hunter has to ny
to catch his prey, bat not 50 swift Is his
game as that which the scientist tries 70
shoot through the tower Of observatory.
Like pstrels nid-Atlantic, that seem to come
from no shore, and bound to no landing-place
-Hyine, fving-so these great dooks OF
worlds rest not as they go-wing and
wing-age after age-foreVar and ever.
The eagle hastes to It's 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 smooth ribbon, and as ne passes, the.
four hoofs strike the earth in such beat your
pulses take the same vibration. But all
these things are not swift in comparison
with the motion Of which l speak. Ths
moon moves ffty-four thousand miles in
day. Yonder, Neptune flashes on eleven
thousand miles In an hour. Geuder Mer-
curry goes one hundred and nine thousand
miles in an hour. So like the stars the
Christian worker shall shine In sWlftness OF
notion You hear now Of father, or mother,
or child sick one thousand miles away, and
it takes you two days to get to them You
hear Of some case Of suffering that demands
your immediate attention, but u taxes
YOU an hour 20 get there o, the Joy when
YOU shall, in Fulfnment OF the text, take
starry speed, and be equal to one hundfeo
thousand 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 dying
child in London. and It's spirit must be
taken I'D to God; you are there in an instant
to do It, There Is 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 by the force Of some
new law that shall hurl you to the spot
where YOU would 20, know not: but my
text, suggests velocity. AL space open be-
fore YOU, with nothing to hinder you in
mission of light, and love, and Joy, you
shall shine ia swiftness CT motion es the
stars forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers, Ike fse stars,
! shall shine in magnitude. The most litter
ate man knows that these things in the sky,
looking like silt buttons, ere great masses
OF matter To weigh them, one would think
that it would require scales with pillar
hundreds OF thousands of miles high, and
chains hundreds of thousands OF miles long,
and at the bottom Of the chains basins on
either side hundreds of miles wide, and that
then Omnipotence alone could put the
mountains into the scales and the hills into
the balance. But puny man has been equal
to the undertaking, and has set little
balance on his geometry, and weighed world
against world. Yea, he has pulled out his
measuring line, and announced that
Eerschel is $1,000 miles in diameter, Saturn
| e, 900 miles in diameter, and Jupiter $4,000
miles in diameter, aud that the smallest
pearl on the beach Of Heaven is immense BE-
yonG al imagination. So all they who have
| toilel for Christ on earth shall rise up to
magnitude OF privilege, and a magnitude CT
strength. and magnitude Of holiness. a@c
magnitude OF Joy; and the weakest saint II
glory become greater than all that we can
now imagine Of an archangel
Brethren, it doth not yet appear what we
shall be- Wisdom that shall know every
thing: wealth that shall possess every thing;
strength that shall do every thing; glory
that shall circumscribe every thing We
shall not be like taper set in sick mans
window, or bundle Of sticks kindled on
the beach to warm shiveriug crew; but
YOU must take the diameter and the circum-
ference OF the world if you would get any
idea of the greatness Of our estate when we
shall shine as the stars forever and ever.
Lastly-and coming to this point my mind
almost breaks down under the contempla-
tion-like the stars, all Christian workers
shall shine in duration. The same stars
that look down upon Us looked down upon
the Chaldean shepherds. The meteor that
saw flashing across the sky the other night,
I wondered if it was not the same one that
pointed down to where Jesus lay in the
manger, and if, having pointed out his birth
place, it has ever since been wandering
through the heavens, watching to see how
the world would treat Him. When Adam
awoke in the garden IN the cool of the day,
he saw coming out through the dusk Of the
evening the same worlds that greeted US on
our way 10 church tonight.
In Independence Hall there = an old
cracked bell that sounded the signature OF
the Declaration of Independence. You can
not ring It now; but this great chime Of sill
YER bells that strike in the dome Of night
rings out with as sweet q tone as when God
swung them at the creation. Look up at
night, and know that the white lilies that
bloom in all the hanging gardens OF our
King are century plents-not blooming
once in hundred years, but through all the
centuries.
The star at which the mariner looks to-
night was the light by which the ships Of
Tarshish were guided across the Medlter-
rauean, and the Venetian fotilla found its
way into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright
tonight, as when, in ancient battle, thestars
in their courses fought against Sisera. To
the ancients the stars were aym5ols Of eter-
nifty.
But here the figure Of my text breaks
6own-not in defeat, but IN the maiesties Of
the Judgment. The stars shall not shine
forever The Bible says they shall fall Ike
autumnal leaves. 1t is almost impossible
for man to take in a courser going a mile
IN three minutes, but God shall take in the
worlds. flying hundred thousand miles an
hour, by one pull Of his little finger. As
VIXEN the factory band slips at nightfall
from the main wheel, all the smaller wheels
slacken their speed, and with slower and
slower motion they turn until they come
! to full stop, 80 this great machinery O.
the universe, wheel within wheel, making
revolution Of appalling speed, shall, by
the touch Of Gods hand, slip the band
Of present law and slacken and stoy.
That is what will be the matter with
the mountains. The chariots in which they
ride shall halt so suddenly that the kings
shall be thrown out Star after star shall be
carried out to burial amid funeral torches
and burning worlds. Consultations shall
throw ashes on their heads, and ell up and