Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-20

brated as if 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
Christian worker standing out illustri
Gus, all the story Of earthly achieve
ment adhering to each one, his self de
malls and pains and services and vic
tories published
Before men went out to the last war
the orators told them that they would
all be remembered by their country and
their names be conmenorated in poetry
end in song. But go to the graveyard 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 known, known by accla-
nation, 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.
Family Circles of Stars.
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 a
group. The solar system is only COM
pany 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 work
ers in heaven will dwell in neighbor-
hoods and clusters.
I am sure that some people I will
like in heaven a great deal better than
others. Yonder is constellation of
stately Christians 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 L shall not
long to get into that particular group.
Yonder is q constellation of small heart
ed stitns-asteroids 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 constellation of
martyrs, of apostles, Of patriarchs. Our
souls as they go up to heaven will seek
out the most congenial society.
Yonder is constellation almost
merry with the play Of light. On earth
they were full Of sympathies and songs
and tears and raptures and congratula-
lions. When they prayed, their words
took fire; when they sang, the tune
over worlds woes, they sobbed as if
heartbroken; when they worked for
Christ, they famed with enthusiasm.
Yonder they are-circle of light, con-
stellation of joy, galaxy of fire. Oh,
that you and /, by that grace which can
transform the worst into the best, might
at last sail in the wake of that fleet and
wheel in that glorious group as the
stars forever and ever!
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 thor
oughly fixed flies thousands of miles
minute. The astronomer, using his tele-
scope for an alpenstOck, leaps from
world crag to world crag and finds no
star standing still. The channels hunter
has to fly to catch his prey, but not so
swift is his game as that which the sci
enlist tries to shoot through the tower
Of observatory. Like petrels midatlan-
tic, that seem to come from no shore,
and be bound to no landing place, fly
ing, flying, SO these great focks OF
worlds rest not as they 60 wing and
wing, age after age, forever and ever.
The eagle hastes to it's 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 q
smooth ribbon, and as he passes the
four hoofs strike the earth in such quick
beat your pulses take the same vibra-
ton, but all these things are not swift
in comparison with the motion Of which
I speak. The moon moves "a, 900 miles
in a day Yonder Neptune flashes on
1000 miles in an hour. Yonder Mer-
curry goes 100, 900 miles in an hour So
like the stars the Christian shall shine
in swiftness Of motion
With the Speed of a Star.
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 de-
mands your immediate attention, but it
takes you an hour to get there Oh, the
joy when you shall, in fulfllment 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 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