The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-23

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We may turn to righteousness BY Chris.
tian admonition. Do not wait until you
can make q formal speech. Address the
one next to you. You will not go home
alone to-day. Between this and your place
OF stopping you may decide the eternal des.
tiny OF an immortal spirit. Just one sen.
teuce may do the work, just one question
just one look. The formaltalk that begins
with sigh and ends with a cantlng snufie
is not what Is wanted, but the heart throb
OF man In dead earnest. There Is not a
soul on earth that YOU may not bring to
God IL you rightly go at 1t. They said Glib.
ralter could not be taken. 1t Is u rock 1000
feet high and three miles long, but the Eng.
lish and Dutch did take 1t. Artillery and
| sappers and miners and fleets pouring out
volleys Of death and thousands OF men reck.
less OF danger can do anything. The estoutest
heart OF sin, though Il be rock and sur.
rounded by an ocean of transgression, un-
der Christian bombardment may hoist the
flag Of redemption.
But Is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? Nv text
promises to all the faithful eternal luster.
They that turn many TO Righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever" As stars
the redeemed have borrowed light.
What makes Mars and Venus and Jupiter
| his torch in the heavens. the stars pick up
the scattered brands and hold them Ia
procession as the queen Of the night ad- :
vances. so all Christian workers, stand
ing around the throne, Will shine in tho
light borrowed from the Sun of Righteous
ness-Jesus IN their faces, Jesus in their
| songs, Jesus in their triumph.
Again, Christian workers shall be like
the stars in the fact that they have a light
Of a, NL,.. a.
the night and see each world show its dis
tlnct glory. 1t is not like the conflagra-
ton, In which you cannot tell where one
lame stops and another begins. Neptune.
Herschel and Mercury are rs distinct as II
| each one OF them were the only star. So
our individualism will not be lost in
heaven. great multitnde--yet each ono
as observable, rs distinctly recognized as
greatly celebrated, as II in all the space,
from gate to gate and from hill to hill, he
were the only inhabitant-no mixing up. no
mob. no indiscriminate rush. each Chris
tian worker standing out illuskrious. all
tlfe story OF earthly achievment adherlng
TO each one, his self-deniAls and pains and
services and victories published.
Before men went out to the last war the
orators told them that they would all be re.
membered by their country and their names
be commemorated In poetry and in song.
But go to the graveyard in Richmond and
you will find there 60OO graves, over each
OF which is the inscription, Unknown"
The world does not remember its heroes.
but we're will be no rnrecognized Christian
worker In heaven. Each one known by all
-grandly 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 q
group. The Pleiades in group. Tho
system Is only company Of children with
bright faces, gathered around ono great
fireplace. The worlds do not straggle Off.
They go In squadrons and fleets, sailing
through immensity. SO Christian workers
In heaven will dwell in neighBorhoods and
clusters.
am sure that some people will like in
heaven great deal better than others.
Yonder Is q constellation OF stately Chris
tians. They lived on earth by rigid rule,
They never laughed. They walked every
hour. anxious lest they should lose their
dignity. But they loved God. and yonder
they shine in brilliant constellation. Yet I
shall not long TO get into that particular
group. Yonder is constellation Of small
hearted Christians-asteroids in the eternal
astronomy. While some souls go up from
Christian battle and blaze like Mars these
asteroids dart feeble ray like Vesta. Yon-
deris constellation Of martyrs OF apostles.
OF patrlarchs. Our souls as they 90 up to
heaven will seek out the most ongenial So
ciety.
Again, Christian workers, like the stars.
shine in magnitude. The most illiterate
man knows that these things In the sky,
looking like gilt buttons, are great masses
OF matters. To weigh them one would
think that 1t would require scales with q
pillar hundreds OF thousands Of miles high
and chains hundreds Of thousands Of miles
long. and at the bottom OF the chains
basins on either side hundreds OF thousands
Of miles wide, and that then Omnipotenco
alone could put the mountains into the
scales and the hills into the balance, but
puny man has been equal to the under
taking and has set a little balance on his
geometry and weighed world aganst
world. Yea, he has pulled out his measur-
ing line and announced that Herschel Is
81, 1000 miles In diameter, Saturn 79, 900 miles
in diameter and Jupiter $1,000 miles In dia-
meter and that the smallest pearl on the
beach OF heaven Is immense beyond all
luioS Nhhtiou. Co uil tHty WHO nave tOileu
for Christ on earth shall rise up to a mag
nitude OF privilege, and magnitude Of
strength, and magnitude OF holiness, and
a magnitude Of joy, and tho weakest saint
in glory become greater than all that We
can imagine OF an archangel.
Lastly-and coming to this point nv
mind almost breaks down under the con-
templation-like tho stars, all Christian
workers shall shine in duration. The samo
stars that look down upon US looked down
upon the Chaldean shepherds. The meteor
that saw flashing across the sky the other
night wonder II 1t was not tho same ono
that pointed down to where Jesus lay In
the manger, and II, having pointed out His
birthplace, 1t has even since been wander
ing through the heavens, watching to SEQ
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 the Dec
laration OF Independence. Yen cannot ring
1t now, but this great chime OF silver bells
that strike In the dome Of night ring out
as sweet a tone as when God swung them
at the creation. Look up at night aud
know that the white lilies that bloom In all
the hanging gardens Of our King are GEN.
tury plants-not blooming once In 100 years,
but through all the centur rles The " ar nj