News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-01


meteoric stones picked up in the fields,
fragments flung off from other worlds.
leaving a fiery trail on the sky. SO
that it is not to me at all improbable
the stellar or the meteoric appearance
on that night of which we speak. |
only care to know that it was bright,
that it was silvery, that it flashed and
swayed and swung and halted with joy
celestial. as though Christ in haste to
save our world had rushed down with
out his coronet and the angels of God
had hurled it after him!
GLORIOUS CHRISTIANITY.
Not black cloud of threat, but a
cleaning star of hope, is Our glorious
Christianity. One glimpse of that stel-
lar appearance kindled up he soul of
the sick and dying college student I'M
til the words flashed from his pale fin
gers and the star seemed to pour its
light from his white lips as kirl1o White
wrote these immortal words:
When marsh2leI on the nightly plain
The gttcring hosts bestGd the sky,
One star alone Of ali the train
Harll. harh, to God! the chorus br AXIS
From every hest, from every gem;
But one alone, the Saviour, speaks
1t is the Star of Bethlehem
Once on the raging seas rode.
| The storm was loud, the night was dark,
And rudely blew the winds that tossed my
! laundering bark
! Deep horror then my vitalS fro2a
Death struck, ceased the tide to stem,
| When suddenly Il star arose
1t was the star OF Bethlehem
Notice also in this scene that other
worlds seemed to honor our Lord and
master Bright star of the night, wheel
on in thine orbit No" said the star,
| Il must come nearer, and | must bend
and | must watch and see what you do
with my Jesus" Another world that
night Joined our world in worship.
| That star made bow Of Obeisance. !
sometimes hear people talk of Christ's
dominion as though it were to be mere
ly the few thousand miles of the worlds
circumference; but l believe the mill
ions and the billions and the Quadrill-
ions of worlds are all inhabited-if not
by such creatures as we are still such
creatures as God designed to make,
and that all these worlds are part of
Christ's dominion Isaac Newton and
Kepler and Hcrschel only went on
| Columbus voyage to find these CONT
nents of our Kings domain.
ONLY ONE DIsCORD.
l think all worlds We're loyal but
this. The great organ of the universe,
its pedals and its pipes, and its keys all
one great harmony save one injured
pedal, save one broken stop-the vox
! humana of the human race, the dis
| loyal world. Now you know that, how
ever grand the instrument may be, if
there be one key out Of order it spoils
the harmony. And Christ must mend
this key. He must restore this broken
stop. You know with what bleeding
hand, and with what pierced side, and
with what crushed foot he did the
work. But the world shall be attuned
and all worlds will yet be accOrdant.
Isle of Wight, larger in comparison
with the British empire than our
island of a world as compared with
celestial escort2 If not, why that sen
! tinel with blazing badge above the car
avansary? If not, why that midnight
watchman in the balcony of heaven?
Astronomy surrendered that night to
! Christ. This planet for Christ. The
solar system for Christ Worlds ablaze
and worlds burned out-all worlds for
| Christ. Intensest microscope cannot
see the one side of that domain. Far
thest reaching telescope cannot find
the other side of that domain. But |
will tell you how the universe is bound
ed. 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 Saviours dominion
when | tell you that all the worlds are
! only sparks struck from his anvil?
that all the worlds are only the heecy
flocks following the one shepherd
that all the islands of light in i'm
mensity are one great archipelago be-
| longing to our king?
ALL WISE MEN BOW TO HIM.
But this scene also inpresses me
with tine 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 astrologists, and we
say it with depreciating accentuation.
| 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 be
/ cause children are brighter than the
mother you do not despise the mother
1t was the lifelong business of these
astrologers to 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. Professor Smith
declares that he 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 fiat. as some have said, but
that he knew, and the men of his time
knew, the world was gIobular The
pyramids were built for astrological
and astronomical study Then the al
chemists spent their lives in the study
of metals and gases and liquids 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
wisest came-Caspar, q young man;
Balthazar, a man in midlife, and Mel
chior, an Octogenarian - the three
wisest men of all the century. They
came to the manager.
SO it has always been-the wisest
men come to Christ, the brainiest men
come to the Manager Who was the
greatest metaphysician this country
ever has produced? Jonathan Edwards,
the Christian. Who was the greatest
astronomer Of the world2 Uerschel. the
Christian. Who was the greatest poet
ever produced? John Milton, the Chris
tan. Who was the wisest writer on
law Blackstone, the Christian. Why
is it that every college and university
IN the land has chapel? They must
have place for the wise men to wor-
ship Come now, let us understand in
ounces and by inches this whole matter