The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

and halted with joy celestial, as though
Christ, in haste TO save the world, had
rushed down without his corOnet, and the
angels of good had hurled it after him!
Not a black cloud of threat, but a gleam-
ing star OF hope, is our glorious Christ
ianity. One glimpse OF that stellar APP
pearance kindled UP the soul of the sick
and dying college student until the words
flashed from his pale fingers, and the star
seemed to pour its light from his white
lips, as Kirk White wrote these i'm
mortal words:
When m%arshaled on the nightly plain,
The glittering hosts bestud the sky.
One star alone OF all the train
Can TX the sinners wandering eye.
Hark. bark TO cod the chorus breaks
From every host, from every gem.
But one alone, the Savior speaks.
Ii is the star of Bethlehem.
Once on the raging sea, 1 rode.
The storm was loud, the night was dark,
And rudely blew the wind that tossed my fOun-
dering bark;
Deep horror then my yitalo froze,
Death struck, | ceased the tide 10 stem;
When suddenly a star arose,
It was the star oil Bethlehem.
Notice also i'll 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 l 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 a bow of obeisance. / sometimes
hear people talk of Christ's dominion as
though il were to be merely the few thou
sand miles of the worlds circum-
ference; but | believe the millions
and the billions and the quadrill-
ions of worlds are all inhabited-if not by
such creatures as we are, still such Great
ures as God designed to make, and that all
these worlds are a part of Christs domin-
ion. Isaac Newton, and Kepler, and
Herschel only went on Columbus voyage
TO find these continents of our Kings do
main.
l think all worlds were loyal but this.
The great organ of the universe. Its ped
ais 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 disloval world. Now,
you know that however grand the instru-
ment 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 word 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 Christ's vast domain.
III not, why that celestial escort?
II not, why that sentinel with blazing
badge above the ~caravansary? IL not,
why that midnight Waterman in the bal
cony of heaven? Astronomy surrendered
that night 10 Christ. This planet for
Christ. The solar system for Christ.
1 lAnr1a ahluyo onI vrnrlIg hrrr,t ont oil
worlds for Christ. Intensest microscope
cannot see the one side OF that domain.
Furthest reaching telescope cannot find
the other side of that domain. But | will
tell YOU how the universe is bounded. 1t
Il bounded on the north and south, and
east and west, and above and beneath bv
God, and that God is Christ, and that
Christ is God, and that God is ours. Oh,
does it not enlarge your ideas of a Savior's
dominion when | tell you that all the
worlds are only sparks struck from his an
vii? that all the worlds are only the feecy
tiOcks following the one Shepherd? that
all the islands OF light in immensely are
n great archipelago belonging to our
King?
But this scene also impressed me with
the fact that the wise men of the East
came to Christ. They were not fools.
| IiitN vel nOb AllDCNltS. Lit IcCOIu us
tinctly saws that the wise men came 10
Christ. We say they were the magi. or
they were chemists, or they were astrol-
ogists, and we say it with depreciating ac-
centuation. 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 as
trology was the mother of astronomy. and
that alchemy was the mother of chem
i-tTy, and because children are brighter
than the mother you do not despise the
mother.
1t was the lifelong business of these as
trologers to study the stars. Twenty-Five
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.
Prof. Smith declares that he thinks they
understood the distance of the sun from
the earth. We find in the book of Job
that the e Olden time did not suppose
the world was flat, as some have said, but
that he knew and the men of his time
knew the world was globular. The pvra-
mids were built for astrological and as
Economical study. Then, the alchemists
spent their lives in the study of metals
and gases and liquids and solids, and in
filling the worlds library with their won
d9rful discoveries. They were vastly wise
men who came from the East, and tradi-
ton says the three wisest came, Caspar, a
young man Balthazar, a man in mid-life,
and MelchiOr, an octogenarian. The three
wisest men of all the century. They came
TO the manger.
So it has always been-the wlsest men
come to Christ, the brainiest men come to
the manger. Who was the greatest meta
physician this country has ever produced?
Jonathan Edwards, the Christian. Who
was the greatest astronomer of the world?
Herschel, the Christian. Who was the
greatest poet ever produced? John Mil
ton, the Christian. Who was the wisest
writer of the law? Blackstone, the Chris
tian. Why is it that every college and
university in the and has a chapel? They
must have a place for the wise men to
worship. Come now, let us understand
in ounces and by inches this whole mat
ter. In pOst-mOrtem examination the
brain of distinguished men has been ex-
amined, and / will find the largest, the
heaviest the mightiest brain ever produced
in America, and / will ask what that brain
thought of Christ. Here it is, the brain
weighing sixty-three ounces, the largest
brain ever produced in America. Now
let me find What that brain thought of
Christ. In the dying moment that man
I .o,I. ct cd I LaIso-o Ill, 49,, -