The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-02


services and victories published. Be-
fore 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 grave.
yard in Richmond, and you will find
there 5000 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; grandly KIN own; known
by reclamation; all the past 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 cir
cles. Brothers and sisters-they take
hold of each others hands and dance
in groups. Orion in group. The
Pleiades in a group. The solar system
is only a company of children, with
bright faces, gathered around one
great fireplace. The worlds do not
struggle off, They go in squadrons
and fleets, sailing through immensely.
So Christian workers in Heaven will
dwell in neigh borhoods and clusters.
am sure that some people l will
like in Heaven a great deal better than
Others. Yonder is u constellation Of
stately Christians. They lived Oh 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 l shall
not long to get in that particular
group. Yonder Is n constellation of
small-hcarted NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in
the eternal astronomy. While some
souls go up from Christian battle, and
| blaze like Mars, these asteroids dart
feeble ray like Vesta. Yonder is con-
stellation OF martyrs, of apostles, of
patriarchs. Our souls, as they go up
to Heaven. will seek out the most con-
genial society.
Again: Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness of motion.
The worlds do not stop to shine. There
are no fixed stars save as to relative
position. The star apparently most
thoroughly fixed hies thousands of
miles a minute. The astronomer US
ing his telescope for an alpenstock,
leaps from world-crag to world-crag,
and finds no star standing still. The
chamois hunter has to fly to catch his
prey, but not SO swift is his game as
that which the scientist tries to shoot
y, % oh
like petrels mid-Atlantic, that seem to
come from no shore, and be bound
to no landing place-aying, flying
SO these great fiocks Of worlds rest not
as they go-wIng aud wing-age after
age-forever and ever. The eagle
hastes to its prey. but we shall in
speed beat the eagles. You have no.
ticed the velocity of the swift horse,
under whose feet the miles slip like
smooth ribbon, and, as he passes, the
four hoofs strike the earth in such
quick beat, your pulses take the same
vibration. But all these things are
not swift in comparison with tho mo-
ton of which l speak. The moon
moves 81, 900 miles in day. Yonder,
| Neptune flashes on 1000 miles an
hour. Yonder, Mercury goes 100. 900
miles in an hour. So like the stars the
| Christian shall shine in swiftness of
motion.
You hear now of father or mother or
child sick 1000 miles away, and it
takes you two days to get to them.
You hear of some case of suffering that
demands your immediate atten ton,
but it takes you an hour to get there.
Oh, the joy when you shall, in fulfil
ment OF the text take starry speed and
be equal to 100, 900 miles an hour Hav.
ing on earth got used to Christian
work, you will not quit when death
strikes you. You will only take on
more velocity. There is a dying
child in London, and its spirit
must be taken up to God; you are
there in an instant to do it. There is
young man in New York to be ar
rested from going into that gate of sin
you are there in an instant to arrest
him. Whether with spring of foot, or
stroke of wing, or by the force of some
new law that shall hurl you to the
spot where you would go, know not;
but my text suggest velocity. All space
der you in mission of light and love and
joy, You shall shine in swiftness of mo.
ton as the stars forever and ever.
Brethren, at doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" Wisdom that shall
know everything; wealth that shall
possess everything; strength that shall
, do everything; glory that shall cir
, cumscribe every thing! We shall not be
like taper set in sick mans window
, or bundle of sticks kindled on the
, beach to warm shlvering crew; but
you must take the diameter and the
: circumference of world II you would
get any idea OF the greatness of our es
> tate when we shall shine as the stars
: forever and ever.
l To the ancients the stars were sym
3 bols Of eternity. But here the figure
5 of nay text breaks down-noti in defeat
a but in the maiesties of the iudpmen Z