Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-20

Herschel is SO, 600 miles in diameter,
Saturn 20, coo miles in diameter and
Jupiter SO, 600 miles in diameter and
that the smallest pesirl on the beach Of
heaven is immense beyond all magma
ton So all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up to mag
nitude af privilege, and magnitude of
strength, and magnitude of holiness,
and magnitude of joy, and the weak
est saint ID glory become greater than
all that we can imagine of an archangel.
Brethren, cit 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
a taper set Ill sick man S window, or
a 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
ntemplation-liket 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 saw flashing
across the sky the other night l won
der if it was not the same one that
pointed down to where Jesus lay in the
manager, 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 himl
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 the
Declaration of Independence. You cam
not ring it now, but this great chime Of
silver bells that strike in the dome of
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
NOT 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 it's way
into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright
tonight as when, in ancient battle, the
stars in 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 in 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 slaclzen
their speed and with slower and slower
motion they turn until they come to
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.