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! table and go down TO find out which ship
starts first for America
Not one of us yet knows how to pray
All we have done as yet has only been pot
tering. A boy gets hold Of his fathers saw
and hammer, and tries to make something
but it is poor affair that he makes. The
father comes and takes the same saw and
hammer, and builds the house or the ship.
in the childhood OF our Christian faith, we
make but poor work with these weapons
of prayer, but when we come 20 the stat
ure of men in Christ Jesus. then, under
these implements, the temple of God will
rise. and the worlds redemption viii be
launched. God cares not for the length of
our prayers or the number of our prayers,
or the beauty OF our prayers or the place
of our prayers; but it is the faith in them
that tells. Believing prayer scars higher
than the lark ever sang; plunges deeper
than diving-bell ever sank; darts quicker
than lightning ever flashed. Though we
have used only tho back of this weapon in
stead of the edge what marvels have been
wrought! II saved, we are all the captives
of some earnest prayer. Would God that,
in desire for the rescue of souls. we might
in prayer lay hold of the resources of the
Lord OmnpOtentl
We may turn many to righteousness by
Christian admonition. Do not wait until
you can make a formal speech. Address
the one next TO you. You will not 20
home alone to-day. Between this aud
your place of stopping you may decide the
eternal destiny of an immortal spirit Just
one sentence may do the work. Just one
question. just one look The formal
talk that begins with a sigh, and ends with
a canting shuttle is not what Is wanted,
but the heart throb of a man in dead
earnest. There is not a sou. on earth that
you may not bring 10 God if you rightly
go at it, They said Gibraltar could not
be taken. 1t is a rock, sixteen hundred
feet high. and three miles long. But the
English and Dutch did take it. Artillery,
and sappers and miners, and fleets pour
ing out vOlleys of death, and thousands of
men reckless Of danger, can do anything.
The stoutest heart of sin, though it be
rock and surrounded by an ocean of
transgression under Christian lombard
ment may hoist the flag of redemption.
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My text
promises to all the faithful eternal lus-
ire. They that turn many to righteous
ness shall shine as the stars forever" As
stars the redeemed have a borrowed light.
What makes Mars and Venus and Jupiter
so luminous? When the sun throws down
his torch ia the heavens, the stars pick I'D
the scattered brands, and hold them in
procession as the queen of the night ad-
Vances; so all Chritian workers. stand
ing around the throne, will shine in the
light borrowed from the Sun of Righteous
ness-Jesus in their faces Jesus in their
songs Jesus in their triumph.
Christ left heaven once for a tour of
redemption on earth, yet the glorifed ones
knew he would come back again. But let
him abdicate his throne, and go away TO
stay forever, the music would stop. the
congregation would disperse, the temples
OF God be darkened, the rivers of life
stagnate; and every chariot would become
a hearse, and every bell would toll and
there would not be room on the hillsides
TO bury the dead of the great metropolis.
for there would be pestilence in heaven
But Jesus lives, and so all the redeemed
live with him. He shall recognize them
as his, comrades in earthly toll and re-
member what they did for the honor of
his name, and for the spread of his king
dom. All their prayers and tears and
work will rise before him as he looks
into their faces, and he will divide his
kingdom with them; his peace-their
peace; his holiness-their holiness; his Joy
their joy. The glory of the central
throne reflected from the surrounding
thrones, the last spot of sin struck from
the Christian orb and the entire nature
a tremble and a flash with light they
shall shine as the stars forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers shall be like
the stars in the fact that they have light
independent of each other. Look up at
the night, and see each world show it's
distinct glory. 1t Is not like the confia-
grafton, in which you cannot tell where
one flame stops and another begins. Nep-
tune, Herschel, ana Mercury are as dis
tinct as If each one of them were the only
star; so our individualsm will not bea lost
in heaven A great multitude--yet each
one as observable, as distinctly recogniz-
ed, as greatly celebrated as If in all the
space, from gate to gate, and from hill TO
hill, he We're the only inhabitant no mix
ing up-no mob-no indiscriminate rush;
each Christian worker standing out Illus
trious-all the story of earthly achieve
ment adhering to each one; his self-denials
and pains and services and victories pub
lished Before men went out to the last
war, the orators told them that they
would all be remembered by their country,
and their names be commemorated in poe
try and in song; but go TO the graveyard
in Richmond, and you will find there six
thousand graves, over each of which is
the inscription, Unknown" The world
does not remember its heroes: but there
will be no unrecognized Christian worker
in heaven. Each one known by all: grand
ly known; known by acclamation; all the
past story of work for God cleaning in
cheek and brow and foot and palm They
shall shine with distinct light as the stars,
forever and ever.
Again: Christian workers shall shine
like the stars in clusters. In looking up,
you find the worlds in family circles.
Brothers and sisters-they take hold of
each others hands and dance in groups.
orion in a group. The Pleiades in a
group The solar system is only a COM
pany of children, with bright faces, gath
cred around one great fireplace. The
worlds do not straggle off. They so in
squadrons and fleets sailing through i'm
mensity So Christian workers in heaven
viii dwell in neighborhoods and clusters.
/ am sure thar some people I will like
in heaven a great deal better than others.
Yonder is a constellation of stately Chris
tians. They lived on earth IN rigid rule.
lauphel