The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-01-09
Ing and consuming power, and the

but IL was star, ana that means Joy,
that means hope, that means good
cheer, that means ascendency. A star!
That means creative power, for did not
the morning stars sing together when
the portfolio of the worlds was opened?
A starI That means defense, for did
not the stars fight in their courses
against Sisera and for the Lords peo-
pie? A star! That means brilliant
continuance, for are not the righteous
to shine as the stars forever and ever?
A start That means the opening of
eternal joy. The day star is the heart.
The morning star of the Redeemer.
The unusual appearance that night
may have been a strange CONJUNCTION of
worlds. AS the transit of Venus in our
time was foretold many years ago by as
tronomers, and astronomers can tell
what will be the conjunction of worlds a
thousand years from now, so they can
calculate backward; and even infidel as
tronomers have been compelled to testify
that about the year one there was very
unusual appearance in the heavens.
The Chinese record, of course entirely
independent of the word of God, gives
as matter of history that about the
year one there was a strange and unac-
countable appearance in the heavens.
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, sI 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 in wor-
ship. That star made a bow of
obeisance. I sometimes hear people
talk of Christ's dominion as though it
were to be merely the few thousand
miles of the worlds circumference; but
believe the millions and the billions
and the quadrillions of worlds are all
inhabited-if not by such creatures as
we are, still such creatures as God de-
signed to make, and that all these
bworlds'are a part of Christ's dominion.
Isaac Newton, and Kepler, 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, its
pedals and it's pipes and its keys all one
great harmony save one injured pedal,
save one broken stop-the vox humana
of the human race, the disloyal world.
Now you know that however 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
known 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 world S
will yet be accordant. Isle of Wight
larger in comparison with the British
Empire than our island of world as
compared with Christ's vast domain.
If not, why that celestial escort?
If not, why that sentinel with blazing
badge over the caravansary? If not,
why that midnight watchman in the
balcony of Heaven? Astronomy surren-
dered that night to Christ. This planet
for Christ. The solar system for Christ.
Worlds ablaze and burned out-all
worlds for Christ. Intensest microscope
can not see the one side of that domain.
Furthest reaching telescope can not
find the other side of that domain.
But viii 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 domin-
ion when I tell you that all the worlds
are only sparks struck from His anvil?
that all the worlds are only the fleecy
f1ocl1s following the one Shepherd? that
all the islands of light in immensity are
one great archipelago belonging to our
King? =
But this scene also impresses 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 astrologists, and we say it with
depreciating accentuation. Why, they
were the most splendid and magnificent
men of the century. They were the nat
uralistsiand the scientists They knew
all that, was known. You must remem-
ber that astrology was the ruother of
astronomy and that alchemy was the
mother of chemistry, and because chill
dren are brighter than the mother you
do not despise the mother.
So it has always been-the wisest men
come to Christ, the brainiest men come
to the manger. Who was the greatest
produca1? Jonathan Edwards, the Chris
tian. Who was the greatest astrono-
mer of the world? Hersche1, the CHS
tian. Who was the greatest poet ever
produced2 John Milton, the Christian.
Who was the wisest writer on law?
Blackstone, the Christian. Why is it
that every college and university in the
land has a chapel? They must have
place for the wise men TO worship.
Come inow, let us understand in
ounces and by inches the whole
matter, In post-mortem examination
the brain of distinguished men has been
examined, and / will find the largest,
the heaviest, the mighttest 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
mement that man said: Lord, believe;
help Thou mine unbelief. Whatever else
Ido. Almighty God, receive me to Thy
self for Christ's sake. This night I shall
be- in light and JOY and blessedness-"
80 Daniel Webster came to the manger.
The wise men of the East followed by
the wise men of the West.
Know, also. in this scene that it was
a winter month that God chose for His
Sons nativity. Had it been the month
Of Mar-thaf Is the season of hlns-