Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-09-25


miles wi1, -! hat then Om:nlpot2nce
a.one could ~ ,ic Iaountains into the
scales and TIE hills into the balance,
but puny n!an has been equal to the un-
dertakiug and has set Il little balance
on his geometry and weighed world
against world Yea, he has pulled out
his measuring line ard announced that
herschel is $4,000 miles in diameter,
Saturn 70, 900 miles in diameter and
Jupiter 80, 600 miles in diameter and
that the smallest pearl on the beach of
heaven is immense beyond all inlagina-
ton So all they who have toiled for
Christ OH earth shall rise up to mag
nitude of privilege and magnitude Of
strength, and a magnitude Of holiness,
and magnitude of JOY, and the weak
est saint in glory become greater than
all that we can imagine of an archangel.
Brethren, sit doth not yet appear
what we shall be {" Wisdom that shall
know ever ing, wealth that shall pos
sess everything, strength that shall do
everything. glory that shall circum-
scribe everything We shall not be like
taper set in 4 sick mans window, or
bundle Of sticks kindled on the beach
to warm shivering crew, bat you must
take the diameter and the circumfer-
cnce of world if you would get any
idea Of the greatness of our estate when
we shall shine rs the stars forever aud
ever
The Reign Without End.
Lastly-and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the
contemplation-like the stars all Chris
tan workers shall shine in duration.
The same stars that look down upon US
looked down upon the Chaldean shep-
herds The meteor that saw flashing
across the sky the other night | Won
der if it was not the same one that
pointed down to where Jesus lay in the
manger, and if, having pointed out his
birthplace, it has ever since been wan
dering through the heavens, watching
to see how the world would treat him!
When Adam awoke in the garden in
the cool of the day, he saw coming out
through the dusk of the evening the
same worlds that greeted us last night.
In Independence hall is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature of the
Declaration of Independence. You can
not ring it now, but this great chime Of
silver bells that strike il the dome OF
night ring out as sweet tone as when
God swung them at the creation. Look
UP at night and know that the white
lilies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens of our King are century plants
not blooming once in 100 years, but
through all the centuries The star at
which the mariner looks tonight was
the light by which the ships of Tarshish
were guided across tho Mediterranean
and the Venetian fotilla found its way
into Lepanto. Their arlnor is as bright
tonight as when, in ancient battle, the
stars in their courses fought against
Sisera
To the ancients the stars were sym.
bols of eternity But here the figure of
my text breaks down-not in defeat,
but in the majesties Of the Judgment.
The stars shall not shine forever. The
Bible says they shall fall like autumnal
leaves. AS when the connecting factory
band slips at nightfall from the main
wheel all the smaller wheels slac ken
their speed and with slower and slower
motion they turn until they come to a
full stop, so this great machinery of the
universe, wheel within wheel, making
revolution Of appalling speed, shall, by
the touch of Gods hand, slip the band
of present law and slackcn and stop.
That is what will be the matter with
the mountains The chariots in which
they ride shall halt So suddenly that
che kings shall be thTcwn out. Star
after star shall be carried out to burial
amid funeral torches Of burning worlds.
Consultations shall throw ashes Oh
their heads and I'll up and down the
highways Of space there shall be mo1rn.
ing, mourning, mourning, because the
worlds are dead But the Christian
workers shall never quit their thrones
they shall raii;:l forever and ever