Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-03-31

storms OF iiie as lIi.en as We 40 Tine sur
shine. There are more men ruined by
prosperity than by adversely. If we had
our own WAY in life before this we would
have been representations of selfshness
and worldlness and disgusting sin, and
pulled up until We would have been like
julius Cesar who was made by syco-
plants TO believe that he WIS divine, and
the freckles on his face were as stars of the
armament.
One OF the swiftest transatlantic voyages
made last summer by ourswiftest steamer
was because she had II stormy wind abaft
chasing her from New York to Liverpool
l5ut to those going in the opposite direc
| lion the storm was a bufieting and a hin
drance. 1t is y bad thing to hive storm
| ahead, pushing us back: bur if we he Gods
| children and aiming toward heaven the
storms of life will only chase US the sooner
INTO the harhor. | am so glad to believe
that the monseoas and typhoons and mis-
| trails and siroccos of the land and sea arc
/ not unclaimed maniacs let loose upon the
earth, but ar. under divine supervision |
| am so glad hat the God of the Seven Stars
is also the tod OF Orionl 1t was out OF
| Dante 8 suffering came the sublime "Di-
VIVA Commedia." and out of John Millions
blindness came Paradise Lost and out
/ OF miserable iniidel attack came the
'Brldgewater Treatise" in favor of Chris.
iianity, and out Of David's exile came the
songs OF consolation, and out of the suffer
| lngs OF Christ come the possibility of the
worlds redemption, and out of your b.
reavement, your persecution, your power
ties, your nitfortunes may yet come az
eternal heaven
THE ROLLING WORLDS on HIGH.
Oh, what Il mercy il is that in the text
and all up and down the Bible God induces
us to look ont toward other worlds. Bible
astronomy in Genesis, in Joshua. in Job, IN
the Psalms ia the prophets, major and
minor, in ST. Johns Apocalypse, practical
ly saying; Worlds. worldsl worlds! Gel
ready for theml' We have nice little
world here that we stick to, as though los
ing that we lose all We are afraid of fall
ing off this little raft Of world We ar,
afraid that some meteoric ieonoclast viii
some night smash it, and we want every
thing TO reyolye around it, and are dsap
pointed when we find that it reyolve.
around the sun instead of the sun revolv
ing around it, What fuss we make about
this little bit OF n world its existence only
a short time between two spasms the par
oxysm by which it was hurled from chao.
into order. and the paroxysm of it's demo
lition.
And am glad that so many texts cal
us to look OF to other worlds, many OF
them larger and grander aud more re
splendcnt. Look there" says Job, "ai
Nazareth and Arcturus and his sonsf'
Look there, says 81. John, ''at the moon
under Christ's fecti' Look there SAYS
Joshua, "Gt the sun standing still above
Gibeonp' Look there" says Moses, 'at
the sparkling ornament Look there,
says Amos, the heirlsman. .at the Sever
Stars and Orionl' Don't let us be so sad
about those who shove Off from this world
under Christly pilotage. Don't let MS be
so agitated about our own going OF this
little barge or sloop or canal boat of
world 10 get on some Great Eastern OF
the heavens. Don't let MS persist in want
ing to stay in this barn, this shed, this out.
house Of world when all the kings palaces
already occupied by many Of our best
friends are swinging wide open their gates
TO let us in
When read, I'm my Fathers house are
many mansions. do not know but that
each world is a room, aud as many rooms
as there are worlds, stellar stairs stellar
galleries. stellar Railways. stellar windows,
stellar domes How our departed friends
must pity us shut up in these cramped
apartments, tired IL we walk fifteen miles,
when they some morning. by one stroke of
wing, eau make circuit Of the whole stellar
system and be back in time for matinsl
Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is
the residence Of the martyrs; that group
Of twelve luminaries is the celestial home
OF the apostles Perhaps that steep OF
light is the dwelling place Of angels cheru
bic. seraphic. archangelic. A mansion |
with as many rooms as worlds, and all
their windows illuminated for festivity.
THE STIMULUS TO CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Oh. how this widems and lifts aud slim.
ulates our expectations How little it |
makes the present and how stupendous Il |
makes the futurel How il consoles as |
about our pious dead. who. instead OF be-
ing boxed up and under the ground, have /
the range Of rs many rooms as there are |
worlds. and welcome everywhere, for it is |
the Fathers house, in which there are |
many mansions! Oh. Lord God of the I
Seven stars and Orion, how can endure /
the transport, the ecstasy Of such a visionl
must obey my text and seek him. viii |
seek him | seek him now, for call to
mind that il Is not the material universe
that + most valuable. but the spiritual,
and that each o. us has soul worth more
than all the worlds which the inspired
hertisman saw from his booth on the hills
of Tekoa
had studied II before, but the Cathe
dral Of Cologne, Germany, never i'm
pressed me A. ii did the last time saw il.
il is admittedly the grandest gothic strue
ture in the world, its foundation laid in
Is4s. only eight or nine years ago com
pleted. More than six hundred years IN
building. All Europe taxed for its con
struetion Its chapel Of the Magi with
precious stones enough 10 purchase king
dom. Its chapel Of 81. Agnes with master
pieces OF painting Its spire springing five
hundred and eleven feet into the heavens
Its stained glass the chorus OF all rich
colors. Statues eneircling the pillars aud
encircling all Statues above statues. until
.s,,infstr.. can do no more. but faiutS and