The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-24
THE UNITED OPINION FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER a. 1897

Herschel is SO, 900 miles III diameter,
Saturn 70, 900 miles in diameter and
Jupiter SO, 900 miles in diameter and
that the smallest pearl on the beach Ct
heaven is immense beyond all magma
ton. So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to a mag
nitude of privilege, and magnitude of
strength, and a magnitude of holiness,
and magnitude of joy, and the weak
est saint in glory become greater than
all that we can imagine of ali archangel.
Brethren, 1T doth not yet appear
what we shall be- - Wisdom that shall
know everything, wealth that shall pos
sess everything, strength that shall do
everything, glory that shall circum-
scribe everything! We shall not be like
taper set in a sick man s window, or
bundle of sticks kindled on the beach
to warm shivering crew. but you must
take the diameter and the circumfer-
ence of a world if you would get any
idea of the greatness of our estate when
we shall shine as the stars forever and
, ever,
The Reign without End.
Lastly-and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the
contemplation-like the stars all Chris
tian workers shall shine in duration.
The same stars that look down upon us
looked down upon the Chaldean shep-
herds The meteor that l saw flashing
across the sky the other night Won
der if it was not the same one that
pointed down to where Jesus lay in the
manger, and if, having pointed out his
birthplace, it has ever since been wan
dering through the heavens, watching
to see how the world would treat him!
When Adam awoke in the garden in
the cool of the day, he saw coming out
through the dusk Of the evening the
same worlds that greeted us last night.
In Independence hall is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature of tho
Declaration Of Independence. You can
not ring it now, but this great chime Of
silver bells that strike i'll the dome CT
night ring out as sweet tone as when
God swung them at the creation. Look
up at night and know that the white
lilies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens of our King are century plants
hot blooming once in 100 years, but
through all the centuries. The star at
which the mariner looks tonight was
the light by which the ships Of Tarshish
were guided across the Mediterranean
and the Venetian flotilla found its way
into Lepanto Their armor is as bright
tonight as when, in ancient battle, the
stars i'll their courses fought against
Sisera
To the anCients the stars were sym
bols of eternity But here the figure of
my text breaks down-not i'll defeat,
but in the majesties of the Judgment.
The stars shall not shine forever. The
Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
leaves. AS when the connecting factory
band slips at nightfall from the main
wheel all the smaller wheels slacken
their speed and with slower and slower
motion they turn until they come to a
full stop, so this great machinery of the
universe, wheel within wheel, making
revolution of appalling speed, shall, by
the touch of Gods hand, slip the band
Of present law and slacken and stop
That is what will be the matter with
the mountains. The chariots in which
they ride shall halt so suddenly that
the kings shall be thrown out. Star
after star shall be carried out to burial
amid funeral torches of burning worlds
Consultations shall throw ashes on
their heads, and all up and down the
highways of space there shall be mourn
ing, mourning, mourning, because the
worlds are dead. But the Christian
workers shall never quit their thrones
they shall reign forever and ever.