The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-09-24

an no fixed stars save as 10 relative
position. The star apparently most
thoroughly fixed flies thousands Of
miles minute. The astronomer,
using his telescope for an alpenstock. I,
leaps from world-crag 70 world
crag, and finds no star standing
still. The chamois hunter has TO
fly TO catch his prey, but not 50
swift Is his game as that which the SCI
entist tries to shoot through the tower
Of his observatory. Like petrels mid
Atlantic. that seem 70 come from no
shore. and be bound TO no landing
place living. flying--so these great
nocks OF worlds rest not as they
go-wing and wing-age after age
forever and ever. The eagle hastes
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 iisSe q
smooth ribbon. aud as he passes. the
four hoofs strike the earth in snch
quick beat, your pulses take the sans
vibration. But all these things are not 4
swift in comparison with the motion |
Of which speak The moon moves
$1,000 miles in a day. Yonder, Nep-
tune flashes on II. 900 miles an hour. /,
/ Yonder, Mercury goes 100. 900 miles in |
an hour. So, like the stars the Chris
tian shall shine in swiftness and mo-
ton.
You hear now Of father OF mother or
child sick i.0OO 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 it takes
Won an hour TO get there. Oh, the joy
whcr Won shall, in fulfihment Of the
text. take starry speed and be equal to
100, 600 miles an hour Having on earth
got used TO Christian work, you will not
quit when death strikes you You viii
only take ON more velocity. There IS a
diving child in London, and its spirit
must be taken up to God; you are there
in an instant 70 do il. There Is young
man in New York TO be arrested from
going into that gate of SIM you are
there in an instant 10 arrest him.
, Whether with spring Of foot, or stroke
OF wing. or by force Of some new law
that shall hurl you 10 the spot where
you would 60 know not; but my text
suggests velocity. All space open be-
fore you. with nothing TO hinder you
in mission OF light and love and JOY,
YOU shall shine in swiftness of motion
as the stars forever and ever.
Again; Christian workers, like the
stars. shine in magnitude. The most
. iIliterate man knows that these things
! in the sky, looking like gilt buttons
! are great masses Of matter. To weigh
them one would think !. wOald re
, ouire scales with pillar hundreds o
/. thousands of miles high, and chains
hundreds OF thousands Of miles long
and al the bottom Of the chains basin
on either side hundreds Of thousands 0
I miles wide, and that then Omnipotene
alone could put the mountains into tn
scales and the hills into the balance
hut puny man has been equal 70 IN
: undertaking, and has set a little bal
= anee on his geometry, and weighe'
world against world. Yea, he has pulle'
out his measuring line. and announce
= that IIerschel is 5000 miles in d
= ametcr. Saturn 10000 miles in diam'
ter. and Jupiter $1,000 miles in diam'
a ter. and that the smallest pearl on n
= beach Of Heaven is immense beyond a
- imagination. So all they who hay
M toiied for Christ on earth shall rise u
- TO a magnitude Of privilege. and ma
M nitude Of strength. and magnitude {
n holiness. and magnitude Of joys an
1. the weakest saint in glory becon
n greater than all that we can imagiI
81 Of an archangel
"a brethren, 1T does not appear VIII
- we shall be- Wisdom that shall lrno
Ia everything: wealth that shall posse
h. everything; strength that shall I
!. everything; glory that shall circuI
No. scribe everything, We shall not
- like taper set in sick mans windol
- or bundle of sticks kindled on q
Il. beach to warm a shivering crew; b
- you must take the diameter and q
- circumference OF a world If you won
get any idea Of the greatness of o
i. estate when we shall shine as the sta
w. forever and ever
j. Lastly-And coming TO this point n
,eb mind almost breaks down under (
= contemplation the stars.
~ Christian workers shall shine in dun
-. ton. The same stars that look dOv
=. upon the -Chaldean shePher'
~, The meteor that saw fashi
NE across the sky the other nigl
-, wonder II it was not the same Q
,cb that pointed down 20 where Jesus
- in the manger. and II, having point
III ont His birthplace. il has ever sin
nm been wandering through the heavel
at. watching to see how the world woJ
inn. treat Him When Adam awolze in
ler garden. in the cool Of the day. he S
ore coming out through the dusk Of
~ evening the same worlds that greet
inns u last night
"a IN Independence hall IS an
- cracked bell that sounded the signatl
MD OF the declaration Of independence y
nv can not ring it now; but this gr
;n chime Of silver bells that strike in I
w. dome Of night rings out with as sw
e,d a tone as when Co swung them at
,;ch creation Look up at night, and KIN
The that the white lines that bloom in
-. the hanging gardens OF our King
ized century PIants-not blooming once
hundred years, but through ali
,5lv centuries. The star at which the n
the liner looks tonight was the hght
. in which the ships Of Tarshish were q
I'm ed across the Mediterranean, and
!, ,s Vcnrt,an fiOtilla found its way
LepaDto Their arInor IS as bri
hin. tonight as when, in ancient battle.
-ing STAR in their courses fought agai
clcs. sisera.
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