The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-08

hashed and swayed and swung and halted
With JOY celestial. as though Christ in haste
10 save ourworld had rushed down without
MS coronet and tho angels of God had
hurled it 'nftrr him
Not black cloud of threat, but CLEAN.
ing star of hope is our glorious Christianity.
Ohe glimpse OF that stellar appearance kim
oird up the soul of the sick and dying college
STUDENT until the words dashed from his pale
niger and the star seemed to pour it's light
rom his white lips as Kirkie White wrote
these immortal words: IL"
Wnen marshaled on the nightly plain
Inc glttering hosts bestud the sky,
one star alone of all the train
Can fix the sinners wandering eye.
Hnrk, bark to God, tbs chorus breaks,
from every host, from every gem,
But one alone the Savior speaks,
1t IL the Star of Bethlehem.
once on the raging seas l rode,
Inc storm was loud, this night was dark,
AND rudely blew the wind that tossed my
laundering bark;
deep horror then my vitals freeze,
~, Death struck, ceased the tide to stem:
" NJ suddenly star arose
II 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, II must come
nearer and must bend and must watch
and see what yon do with my Jesus"
Another world that night joined our world
IN worship. That star made q bow of
ooeisance. sometimes hear people talk OF
Cirist'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
IRE all inhabited-if not by such creatures
as we are, still such creatures as God design
fN -11x IL
part of Christ's dominion. Isaac Newton,
and Kepler, and Hsrschel only went on Col.
umbus 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 har-
mony save one injured pedal, save one
broken stop-the vox humana OF the human
race. the disloyal world. Now you know
lhat however grand the instrument may be.
1t there be one key out OF order it spoils the
harmony. And Christ must mend this key.
de must restore this broken stop. You
know with what bleeding hand, and with
foot. he did the work. But the world shall
be attuned and all worlds shall yet be &C.
cordant. Isle Of Wight larger in COMPARE
son with the British Empire than our is.
land Of the world as compared with Christ's
vast domain. II not, why that celestial es-
cort? II not, why that sentinel with blaz-
ing badge above the caravansery? If 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 worlds for Christ.
lntensest microscope cannot see the one
side of that domain. Furthest reaching tel
escope cannot find the other side OF that d.
main. But l will tell you how the universe
is bounded. 1t is bounded on the north and
south and east and west and above and be.
| meath bv God, and that God is Christ and
that Christ is God, and that God is ours.
On, does it not enlarge your ideas of a Saw
worlds are only sparks struck from his an
vii? That all the worlds only the feecy
fiocks following the one Shepherd? That all
the islands Of light in immensely are one
great archipelago belonging to our King?
h 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 alchemsts
or they were the astrologists and we say it
with depreciating accumulation. Why, they
were the most splendid and m agnifcent 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
because children are brighter than the moth
er you do not, despise the mother.
1t was the lifelong business of these astrol-
ogers to study the stars Twenty two hun.
dred 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
i'm h@ l~1 - 1~h
time did not suppose the world was fat as
some have said, but that he knew and the men
of his time knewthe world was globular The
pyramids were built for astrological and as
Economical study. Then. the alchemsts spent
theirlives in the study ofmetals and gases and
liquids and solids, and in tillingthe worlds IL
brary with their wonderful discoveries. They
were vastly wise men who came from the East,
and tradition says three wisest came, Casper
young man: Balthazar a man in mid~life,
and Melchoir, 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 m en-, come to
the manager. Who was the greatest meta
physician this country ever has produced?
Jonathan Edwards the Christian. Who1was
the greatest astronomer of the world?
Herschel, the Christian. Who was the great.
est poet ever produced? John Milton, the
law? Blackstone, the Christian. Why is
it that every college and university in the
land has q chapel? They must have place
for the wise men to worship. Come now.
let US understand by ounces and by inches
this whole matter. In post norton ex-
animation the brain Of distinguished men
has been examined, and will find the larg-
est, the heaviest, the mightiest brain ever
produced in America, and l will ask what
that brain thought of Christ. Here it is,
the brain weighing 63 ounces, the largest
brain ever produced in America Now let
me find what that brain thought of Christ
| In the dying moment, that man said:
:'Lord I believe, help Thou mine un belief.
Whatever else l do, Almighty God receive
me to Thysef for Christ's sake This night
shall be in light and joy and blessedness.
SO Daniel Webster came to the mangar.
The wise men OF the East followed by the
wise men of the West.
Know also in this scene that it was a win
ter month that God chose TOR His Sons no.
tivity. Had it been the month OF May
that ia the season of blossoms. Had he
been born in the month Of June-that is the
season OF roses. Had he been born in the
month Of July-that ia the season OF great
harvests Had he been born in the month of
September-that is the season of ripe or
chards. Had he been born in the month of
tober-that is the season of upholstered
forests. But he was born in winter m onth.
1t was in closing December that he was