Milford chronicle., 1891-01-02

know thaD howeYe-
may be, if there be one
spoils the harmony. Ant
mend this key, He must res
broken stop. You know with what
ing hand, and with what pierced sid.
with what crushed foot he did the
Bat the world shall be attuned ant
worlds win yet be accordant. Isle
Wight. larger in comparison with the Brit
ish empire than orr island of a world as
compared with Christs vast domain. II
not. why that celestial escort? If not,
why that sentinel with blazing badge above
the caravansary? If not why that mid
night watchman in the balcony of heavenl
Astronomy surrendered that night to
Christ. This planet for Christ. The
solar system for Christ Worlds ablaze
and worlds burnt out-ah 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 viii tell you how the uni
verse is bounded. 1t is bounded on the
mouth and south and east and west and
above and beneath by God, Al tl'"r God
is Christ, and that Christ is CT
God is ours. Oh, does it not
ideas of a Sayiour's dominion
Won that all the worlds are
struck from his anvilY that all
are only the feecy flocks following
shepherdg that all the islands of
imniensity are one great archip'
longing to our king?
THEY WERE WISE MEN OF =
But this scene also imprec
the fact that the wise men of the
to Christ, They were not fools, they
not iInbeciles The record distinctly sa
that the wise men came to Christ We
say they we're the magi, or they were the
alchemists. or they were the astrologists,
and we say it with depreciating aceentua-
ton. Why, they were the most splendid
and magnificent men of the century. They
we're the naturalists and the scientists.
They knew all that was known. You
must remember that astroiOgy was the
mother Of astrOnOE ~, AID that alchemy
was the mother of chemistry, and because
children aIe brighter than the mother you
do not despise the mother.
It was the lifelong business Of these as
trologers to study the stars. Twenty-Five
hundred and fifty years before Christ was
horn the wise men knew the procession OF
the euuinoxes, 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 sOHe 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
4 liauids and solids, and in filling the worlds
library with their wonderful discoveries.
They were vastly wise men who came from
the east, and tradition says the three
yisest cane-Caspsr, young man; Bal
thsyar a man in midhfe, and Meiehior,
ar Jctogenariun. The three wisest men
Of all the century. They came to the man
-ger.
So it has always been-the wisest men
come to Christ the brainiest men come 70
the manser. Who was the greatest meta
phvsician this country ever has produeedt
Jonathan Edwards the Christian VINO
was the greatest astronomer Of the woridt
{ Herschel, iihe Christian. Who was the
greatest pti It ever producsdY John Milton
the Christian. Who was the wisest winter
GA lAws Blackstone, the Christian Why
is it Chat every college and university IN
,he land, has a chapel? They must have
olaeat Ns wise men to worship. Come
now. 'arstand in ounces and BY
inches Aer- In post-mortem
exs IF distinguished
men and viii find
the the mic