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ing star Of A0ps. i our glorious Christian
ity osle sliEe2ss Of that stellar ~Pp<&r-
snee kiadied up the s0al Of the slek aud
dyiag college student until the words
dashed from his pale hnSers sad the star
seemed 10 pour its light from liz white
lLgs a, Kirke Waite ~soss these immortal
worcs.
Wan msvsAAi-d os the nightly plata
Ths ElstEering hosts e~sloa Tie s<y.
oas sszr aAose e ali tase TRAN
Can IA the ssnRers sxa<segsng eve.
HsEs AagA 10 tssa ,he eaorsss ereaks
trom every hs@t. frssm every Eem.
Bus ooe zsoae. the saviour. spesks-
IL . the stss vi bethleAsm
oBee oe The raging sess rods
tbs stor4a We loud. the hlght WAS dark
AEl ritdcly Die - the wind that tossed my
laundering bark.
Deep hogFer thea NV yitals frose.
Death struck, ceased the tids TO stem,
Waen suddenly star arose
Il Was tbs star ct Bethlehem.
Notice also ia this scene that other
worlds seemed 10 honor our Lord and mas
ter. Bright star OF the night. wheel on in
thine orbit. No. said the star. II must
come nearer, and l must bend and ! must
watch and see what you do with my
Jesus" Another world that night joined
our world i'm worship. That star made
bow of obeisance. | sometimes hear people
talk of Christ's dominion as though il
were To be merely the few thousand miles
Of the worlds circumference; bat believe
the millions and the billions and the quad
rjllions OF worlds are all inhabited 1T
not by such creatures IS we are, still such
creatures as God designed TO make, and
TIA. al these worlds are part Of Christ's
dominion. Isaac Newton and Kepler and
Herschel only went on Columbus voyage
TO find these continents Of our kings do
main.
ALL IN HARMONY But EARTH
Think all worlds were loyal but this.
The great organ of the universe its pedals,
and its pipes, and its keys all one great har-
mony save one Snjured pedal, save one
broken stop-the vox humana OF the hu-
man race, the disloyal world. Now you
know that however grand the instrument
may Toe. if there DE one key out of order it
SPOTS the harmony. And Christ must
mend this key. He must restore this
broken STOP You know with what bleed
Ing hand, and with what pierced side, and
with what crushed foot ne did the work.
But the world shall be attuned and all
worlds will yet he accordant Isle Of
Wight, larger in comparison with the Brit
ish empire than our island OF world as
compared with Christ's vast domain IL
not, why that celestial escorti Ii not,
why that sentinel with blazing badge above
the caravansary? II not, why that mid
night Waterman in the balcony of heaven!
Astronomy surrendered that night to
Christ This planet for Christ. The
solar system for Christ. Worlds ableze
and worlds burnt out--all worlds for
Christ.
Intensest microscope cannot see the one
side OF that domain. Farthest reaching
telescope cannot find the other side of that
domain. But will tell you how the uni
verse is bounded. 1t is bounded on the
north and south and east and west and
above and beneath by God, and that God
is Christ, and that Christ is God. and that
God is ours. Oh. does it not enlarge your
ideas of Saviour's dominion when / tell
you that all the worlds are only sparks
struck from his anvil? that all the worlds
are only the fleecy ilocks following the one
shepherd? that all the islands of light in
immensely are one great archipelago be-
longing to Our king?
THEY WERE WISE MEN OF THE EAST.
But this scene also imprcsses me with
the fact that the wise men Of the east came
To Christ. They were not fools, they were
not imbeciles. The record distinctly says
that the wise men came to Christ. We
say they were the magi, or they were the
alchemists. or they were the PSYCHOLOGISTS,
and we say it with depreciating accentua-
ton. Why, they were the most splendid
and magnificent men of the century. They
were the naturalists and the scientists
They knew all that was known. You
must remember that astrology was the
mother of astronomy, and that alchemy
was the mother of chemistry. and because
children are brighter than the mother you
do not despise the mother.
IL was the lifelong business of these as
trologers 10 study the stars. Twenty two
hundred and fifty years before Christ was
born the wise men knew the procession of
the equinoxes, and they had calculated the
orbit and the return of the comets. Pro-
fessor Smith declares that be thinks they
understood the distance of the sun from the
earth. We find in the book Of Job that the
men of olden time did not suppose the
world was fat. as some have said. but that
he knew, and the men of his time knew. the
world was globular. The pyramids were
built for astrological and astronomical
study. Then, the alchemists spent their
lives in the study OF metals and gases and
liquids and solids, and in filing the worlds
library with their wonderful discoveries
They were vastly wise men who came from
the east, and tradition sevs the three
wisest casle-Caspsr. a yotA, man; Bal
thazar, a man ia midlife, and MeIchior
an octogenarian. TIE three wisest men
OF all the century. They came 10 the man
ger.
TIP WISE MEy OF TIE wEsr
go IL has always been-the visest men
come 10 Christ, the brainiest men come TO
the manger. Who was the greatest meta
physician this country ever has produced,
Jonathan Edwards, the Christian. Who
was the greatest astronomer Of the worlds
Herschel, the Christian. Who was the
greatest poet ever prodgced' John Milton,
the Christian. Who was the viSost writer
on law blackstone, The Christian. Why
IL IL that very college and university in
tie land has chapel They must have =
place for the wise men 70 worship Come
now. let IA understand in ounces and by
inches sbis whole matter In post rnortem
examination The brain Of distinguished