The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-14

udt IucdHS CrCdtNS poWSi, lOE ulu uoe
the morning stars sing together when
the portfolio of the worlds was opened?
A star! That means defense, for did
not the stars fight in their courses
against Sisera and for the Lords people?
A star! That means brilliant continu-
ance, for are not the righteous to shine
as stars forever and ever? A star! That
means the opening of eternal joy. The
day star in the heart The morning
star of the Redeemer.
The unusual appearance that night
may have been strange conjunction
of worlds. As the transit of Venus in
our time was foretold many years ago
by astronomers, and astronomers can
tell what will be the conjunction of
worlds thousand years from now, so
they can calculate backwards; and even
infidel astronomers have been COM
PEELED to testify that about the year
there was very unusual appearance
in the heavens The Chinese record, of
course entirely independent Of the
word of God, gives as matter OF his
tory that about the year there was a
strange and unaccountable appearance
in the heavens.
But it may have been meteor such
as you and have seen flash to the hori-
zon. l saw few years ago in the
northern sky star shoot and fall with
such brilliancy and precision that if l
had been on hill as high as that of
Bethlehem on which the shepherds
stood, l could have marked within a
short,distance the place of the alighting.
The University of Iowa and the British
Museum have specimens of meteoric
stones picked up in the fields, frag-
ments thrown off from other worlds,
leaving a fiery trail on the sky. Sc
that it is not to me at all improbable,
the stellar or the meteoric appearance
on that night of which we speak, I only
care to know that it was bright, that il
was silvery, that it flashed and swayed
and swung and halted with joy celes-
tial, as though Christ, in haste to save
our world, had rushed down without his
coronet, and the angels of God had
hurled il after him.
Notice also, in this scene, that other
worlds seemed to honor our Lord and
master Bright star Of the night, whee.
on in thine orbit. NO." said the star
II must come nearer and must benz
and must watch and see what you dc
with my Jesus" Another world that
night joined our world in worship. Thai
star made bow of obeisance. some
. times hear people talk of Christ's do
minion as though it were to be merely
the few thousand miles of the world.
circumference: but I believe the mil
lions and the billions and the quadril
. lions of worlds are all inhabited-if moi
by such creatures as we are, still sucf
, creatures as God designed to make, ant
THAT all these worlds are a part O.
Christ's dominion. Isaac Newton, ant
Kepler, and Herschel only went on Co
lumbus voyage to find these continent.
of our Kings dominion.
think all worlds were loyal but this
The great organ of the universe, it.
, pedals and pipes, and its keys ak3apt
, great harmony, save one injured pedal
, save one broken stop-the vox humane
, of the human race, the disloyal world
: Now you know however grand the
instrument may be, if there is one key
$ out Of order it spoils the harmony
And Christ must mend this key
I He must restore this broken stop. Yor
know with what bleeding hand, will
, what pierced side and with what crush
2 cd foot He did the work. But tn,
s world shall be attuned, and all world
s will yet be accordant. Isle of Wigh
larger in comparison with the British
? Empire than our island of world a
E compared with Christ's vast domain. l
, not, why that celestial escort? If not
s why that sentinel with blazing badg,
r above the caravansary? If not, VIII,
that midnight Waterman in the balloon,
9 of the heavens? Astronomy surrender
' ed that night to Christ. This plane
: for Christ. This solar system for Christ
Worlds ablaze and worlds burnt out
/. all worlds for Christ. Intensest Inicro
. scope can not see the one side of tina
e domain. Further-reaching telescop
q can not find the other side of that do
n main.
h But will tell you how the univers
r is bounded. 1t is bounded on the mort
{ and south AMI east and west and abov
= and beneath by God, and that God i
v Christ, and that Christ is God, and tina
i God is ours. Oh, does it not enlarge you
|. ideas of a Saviour's domai
when l tell you that al
S the worlds are only sparks struc
l. from his anvil? That all the worlds ar
n only the fleecy fioclss following the on
= Shepherd? That all the islands of ligh
S in immensely are one great archipelag
l. belonging to our King?
t But this scene also impresses me wit
/. the fact that the wise men of the Eas
n came to Christ. They were not fools
they We're not lmbeciies. The recor
/, distinctly says that the wise men cam
|. to Christ. We say they were the mag
Y or they were the alchemists, or the
e were the PSYCHOLOGISTS, and we say
g with dcpreciating accentuation. Why
n they were the mostsplendid and magni
= icent men of the century. They wer
: the naturalists and the scientists. The
p knew all that was known. You mus
y remember that astrology was the mothe
n of astronomy, and that alchemy wa
s the mother of chemistry, and becaus
k children are brighter than the mothe
e you do not despise the mother.
c 1t was the, lifelong business of thes
r, astrologers to study the stars.
e Twenty-Five hundred and fifty yea,