The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-12-18

souls go up from Christian battleii
and an blaze like Mars these asteroids dart
a feeble ray like Vesta. Yonder Isl d.
constellation of martyrs, of apostles, OF
patrlarchs. Our souls, as they go up to-
heaven, will seek out the most con-:
genial society. @,. n r.s
Yonder is constellation almost merss
~ with the play of light. On earth
they were full of sympathies and songs
and tears and raptures and congratu1a1
I tions. When they prayed their words
took fire; when they sang, the tune
could not hold them; when they wept.
over worlds woes, they sobbed as il
heart-broken :; when they worked for
: Christ, they famed with enthusiasm.
Yonder they are---circle of light! cons
stellation Of joy! galaxy of fire! oh ];
that you and I, by that grace which can
transform the worst into the best,l
might at last sail in the wake of that
sheet, and wheel in that glorious group,l
as the stars for ever and ever! II. "a
Again: Christian workers will shinel
like the stars in swiftness of notion
The worlds do not stop to shine. There
are no fixed stars save as to relative
position. The star apparently most,
fixed flies thousands Of miles minutes
The astronomer, using his telescope for
an alpenstock, leaps from world-crag.
to World-crag, and finds no star stand:
ing 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 through the tower of OBJ
serVatory. Liks petrels mid-Atlantic,'
that seem to come from no shore, and.
be bound to no landing place-fying,
fiying-so these great focks of worlds
rest not as they go--wing and wing
age after age-for ever and ever. The
eagle hastes to it's 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
a 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 the motion
of which speak. The moon moves
$4,000 miles in a day. Yonder, Nep-
tune flashes on II 900 miles in an hour
Yonder, Mercury goes 100000 miles in
an hour. So like the stars the Chris
tian shall shine in@swiftness OF notion.
= 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 attention, but it takes
you an hour to get there. Oh, the Joy
when you shall, in fulflment of the text
take starry speed ,and be equal to 100000
miles an hour! Having on earth got
used to Christian work, you will not
quit when death strikes you. You will
only take on more velocity. There is
dying child in London and it's 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 arrested
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, T know not; but
my text suggests velocity. All space
open before you with nothing to hinder
you in mission of light and love and
joy, you shall shine in swiftness of mo-
tion as the stars for ever and ever. <,~s
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 matter. To weigh
them, one would think that it would re-
quire scales with pillar, hundreds of
thousands of miles high, and chains
hundreds of thousands of miles long,
and at the bottom the chains basins on
either side hundreds Of thousands of
miles wide, and that then omnipotence
alone could put the mountains into the
scales and the. hills into the balance.
But puny man has been equal to the
undertaking, and has set little bal
ance on his geometry, and weighed
world against world. Yea, he has pull
ed out his measuring line, and an
nounced that Herschel is $4,000 miles
in diameter, Saturn 79, 1000 miles in
diameter, and Jupiter $4,000 miles in
diameter, and that the smallest pearl
on the beach of heaven is immense be-
yond all imagination. So all they who
have toiled for Christ on earth shall
rise up to a magnitude Of privilege, and
a magnitude of strength, and magni-
tude OF holiness, and a magnitude of
joy; and the weakest saint in glory he
come greater than all that we can i'm
agine Of an archange1 .s=. #.
Brethren, 1T doth not yet apnears
Whatswe shall be" Wisdom that. shall
know. everything wealth that shall
possess everything; strength that shall
do eEeryt thing; glory that shall circuDn-
scribe evrything! We shall not be like
a taper set in q sick mans window Or
a bundle Of sticks kindled on the beach
to warm a shiVering crew but Won /
must take the diameter. and the cir
cumference OF the world if you Wonld
get any idea OF the greatness of our
estate when we shall shine as the stars
for ever and ever. 8.