Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-24

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flag Of redemption.
But + all this admOnitio1 aud prayer
aud Christian work Tor nothings Nv text
promises 20 all the faithful eternal luster.
"They that turn many 10 righteousness
shall shine a. the stars forever A stars
the redeemed have a borrowed light.
What makes Mars and Venus aud jupiter
50 luminouss When the sun throws down
his torch In the heavens. the stars pick up
the scattered brands and hold them In
procession n the queen Of the night al
yances. So all Christian 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.
Again, Christian workers shall be- IKE
the stars 10 the fact that they have light
independent Of each other. Look up Al
the night and see each world show tts dis
tinct glory. II Is not like the coniagra-
tiOn, in which YOU cannot tell where one
flame stops and another begins. Neptune,
Herschel and Mercury are as distinct as II
each one Of them We're the only star. SO
our indiyidualism will not be lost In
heaveh great multitnle-yet each one
as observable, as distinctly recognized, as
greatly celebrated, a. Il In all the space,
from gate to gate and frosI hill to hill he
were the only inhabitant no mixing M, no
mob no indisrriminate rush. each Chris
tian worker standing out illustrlous, all
the story Of earthly achievement adhering
TO each one. his seli-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 COCO 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 known, known by acclamation
! all the past story Of work for God cleaning
| IN cheek aud brow aud 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 n group. The
/ system is only a company OF children with
/ bright faces. gathered around one great
/ fireplace The worlds do not struggle of
! They go In squadrons and fleets, sailing
/ through immensely SO Christian workers
/ In heaven will dwell In neighborhoOds and
| clusters.
! | am sure that some people will like in
] utdNtI u great utul iflltT lluu blNtTS.
! Yonder is a 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
shall not long to get into that particular
| group. Eondcr is a constellation of small
/ hearted Christians Asteroids In the eternal
/ astronomy. While some souls 90 up from
Christian l., Iluga Ma
asteroids dart feeble ray like Nesta. lon-
der is constellation Of martyrs OF apostles,
/ Of patriarchS. Our souls as they 90 up TO
/ heaven will seek out the most congenial So
ciety.
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 a. to relative position.
/ The star apparently most thoroughly fixed
flies thousands Of miles a minute. The AS
| tronOmer using his telescope for an Hlpen-
stock. leaps from world crag to world crag
| and finds no star standing still. The
chamois hunter has to fyto catch his prey,
| but not so swift is his game as that which
the scientist tries to shoot through the
tower OF observatory. Like pctrels midat-
| lantic, that seem to come from no shore
and be bound to no landing place, flying
| flying, so these great flocks OF worlds rest
not as they go. wing and wing, age after
age, forever and forever. The eagle hasten-
/ to its prey. but we shall in speed beat the
| eagles. You have noticed the velocity OF
the swift horse under whose feet the miles
slip like n smooth ribbon, and as he passes
the four hoofs strike the earth in such
quick beat your pulses take the same yibra-
ton, but all these things are not swift in
comparison with the motion of which !
speak. The moon moves 81 900 miles in u
day. GOnder Neptune flashes on II ,00C
miles in an hour Yonder Mercury goes
100000 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 il takes
you two days to get to them. You hear OF
some case Of suffering that demands your
immediate attention. but 1t takes you an
hour to get there. Oh, the Joy when you
shall in fulilllment Of the text, take starry
speed and be equal to 100 900 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,
spirit must be taken up to God. You are
there in an instant to do it. There is Il
young man in New York to be arrested for
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 hur
you to the spot where you would 90,
know not, but my text suggests velocity
All space open before you with nothing e
hinder you in mission of light and love and
Joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motor
as the stars forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers like the stars
shine in magnitude. The most illiteratt
man knows that these things in the sky
looking like gilt buttons, are great masse,
of matters To weigh them one would
think that it would require scales with 1
pillar hundreds of thousands of miles higl
and chains hundreds of thousands of miles
long, and at the bottom of the chain.
basins on either side hundreds of thousand.
of miles wide and that then OmnipOtenct
alone could put the mountains into tn,
scales and the hills into the balance but
puny man has been equal to the under
taking and has set a little balance on hi.
geometry and weighed world agains
world. Yea he has pulled out his measur
ing line and announced that Hersche Il
SO 900 miles in diameter, Saturn 79, 900 miles
In diameter and Jupiter $4,000 miles in dia
meter and that the smallest pearl on tn,
beach of heaven is immense beyond al
imagination. SO all they who have toileC
for Christ on earth shall rise up to a mag
nitude of privilege, and a magnitude o
strength, and magnitude Of holiness, anC
d lndSulI uuo VI Joy, anu tht WcdkcSt SHln
in glory become greater than all that W.
can imagine of an archangel.
Lastly-and coming to this point m,
mind almost breaks down under the con
mplatlon-like the stars all Christian
workers shall shine in duration. The sam
stars that look down upon us looked dow
upon the Chaldean shepherds. The meteo
that | saw flashing across the sky the othe
night l wonder If it was not the same ont
that pointed down to where Jesus lay II
the manger, and If, having pointed out Hi
birthplace, 1t has even since been wander
ing through the heavens, watching to Sc,
how the world would treat Himl Whe1
Adam awoke in the garden in the cool O.
the day, he saw coming out through thu
: dusk Of the evening the same worlds tina
greeted us last night.
In Independence Hall is IN old cracked
bell that sounded the signature Of the D ec
laration of Independence. You cannot rims
| it now but this great chime Of silver hall,