Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-02

northern sky star shoot and fall with
such brilliancy and precision that II
had been OH hill as high as that Of
Bethlehem, ON which the shepherds
stood, could have marked within
short distance the place of the alighttng.
The University Of Iowa and the British
Museum have specimens Of meteoric
stones picked up in the fields, fragments
flung of from other worlds, leaving q
fiery trail on the sky. So that it is not
to me ut all improbable the stellar or the
meteoric appearance on that night of
which we speak. l only care to know
that it was bright, that it was silvery,
that it flashed and swaycd and swung
and halted with joy celestial, as though
Christ In haste to save our world had
rushed down without His coronet, and
the angels of God had hurled it after
Him!
Notice in this scene that other worlds
seemed to honor our Lord and Master.
Bright star of the night, wheel OH in
thine orbit. "No," said the star, 81
| must come nearer. and must bend and
l must watch and see what you do with
my Jesus" Another world that night
| joined our world in worship. That star
| made o bow of obcisancc. sometimes
hear people talk OF Christ's dominion as
though it were to be merely the few
| thousand miles Of the worlds circumfer-
ence; but believe the millions and the
billions and the Quadrillions of worlds
are all inhabited-if not by such crca-
lures 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 Keplcr and Herschel
only went on Columbus voyage to find
these continents of our Kings domain.
think all worlds were loyal but this.
The great organ of the universe, it's
pedals, and its pipes, and it's keys all one
great harmony save one injured pedal,
save one broken stop-tho voN humana
OF the human race, the disloyal world.
Now you know that, however grand the
instrument may be, il there be one key
out Of order it spells the harmony. And
Christ must mend this key. He must re-
store 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 ac-
cordant. Isle Of Wight, larger in COM
parison with the British empire than our
, island of world as compared with
, Christ's vast domain. II not, why that
celestial escort? Ifnot, why that senti-
, mel with blazing badge above the car
avansary? II not, why that midnight
, Waterman 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 for Christ
) Intensest microscope cannot see the one
D side Of that domain. But I will tel
a you how the universe is bounded. 1t il
: bounded on the north and south ant
: east and west and above and beneath b.
God, and that God is Christ, and tina
d Christ is God, and that God is ours. Oh
. does it not enlarge your ideas of o Sa
viour's dominion when tell you that al
9 the worlds are only sparks struck frol
/, his anvil? that all the worlds are onl
It the feecy fiocks following the one shcr
It herd? that all the islands Of light in In
j. mcnsity are one great archipelago IL
e longing to our King?
d But this scene also impresses me wit
t, the fact that the wise men Of the ca!
ys came to Christ. They were not fool
,r they were not imbeciles. The recGl
'e distinctly says that the wise men can
If to Christ. We say they were the mag
IF or they were the alchemists, or the
g were the astrologists, and we say 1t wit
y depreciating accentuation. Why, the
o were the most splendid and magnifceI
IL men Of the century. They were tn
1t naturalists and the scientists. The
20 knew all that was known. You must re
member that astrology was the mothe
&c of astronomy, and that alchemy was til
y mother of chmistry, and because chi
l. dren are brighter than the mother yo
@ do not despise the mother
Epnvy o)ro In fI,io eoono That woo
$! winter month that God chose for hi
q sons nativity. Had it been the mont
e of May-that is the season of blossoms
II Had he been born in the month of Jun
h that is the season of roses. Had h
r been born in the month of July-that
It the season of great harvests. Had h
= been born in the month of September
Y that is the season of ripe orchards. Ha
r he been born in the month of October
q that is the season of upholstered forests
But he was born in q winter month.
d 1t was in closing December that h
!, was born to show that this is Christ 70
/ people in sharp blast, for people unde
# clouded sky, for people with froste'
8 hopes for people with thermometer be
It low zero. That is the reason he is S,
Q often found among the destitute. Yol
a can find him on any night coming off tn
It moors. You can see him any night com
|. ing through the dark lanes Of the city
d You can see him putting his hand unde
b the fainting head in the pauper's cabin
q He remembers now the wind whistles
IL around the caravansary In Bethlehem
# that night, and he is in sympathy wit
g. all those who in their poverty hear th
Q shutters clatter on. cold night.
vi 1t was this December Christ tina
J. Washington and his army worshiped q
n Valley Forge when without blanket
d they lay down in the December snow
Q 1t was this Christ that the Pilgrir
i. Fathers appealed to when the Mayflowe
y wharfed at Plymouth Rock, and in tn
It years that went by the graves digge
It were more in number than the house
o built Oh, tell you we want a Dccem
II Der Christ, not Christ for fair weather
s but Christ for dark days clouded wit
sickness, and chilling with disappoint
Z, ment, and suffocated with bereavement