Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-09-29

nifty. lint they loved God. and Wonder
the shine in brilliant constellation.
Yet ] shall rot long to- get into .ha,
particular group. Yonder is n cnnstel.
lation of ST Err CnriStians-as-.roid
in the eternal astronomy. While Some
souls go up from Christian battle. and
blalc like Mars. these asteroids dart q
feeble ray like Vcsta Iondcr is "A con.
stcllation OF martyrs, of apostles. OF
patriarchs. Orr souls. as they 90 uu
TO Heaven, will seek out the most con.
genial society.
1ondcr is "A constellation almost mer.
ry with the play of light On earth
they were full of sympathy and songs
and tears and raptures and congratti.
lations. When they prayed. their
words took fire; when they sang. the
tune could not hold them: when they
wept over a worlds woes. they sobbed
as if heart-brollcn: when they worked
for Christ, they famed with cnthusi.
assn. Iondcr they arc-circle of light
constellation of joy. galaxy Of fire. oh.
that You and i, 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 for ever 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 "a to relative
position. Tn" star apparently most
thoroughly fixed flies thousands of
miles II minute. The astronomer.
using his telescope for an alpcnstocll,
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 s.
swift IL his game as that which tie sci
enlist tries To shoot through the tower
of his observatory. Like pctrcls mid.
Atlantic. that seem to come from no
shore. and Toe bound to no landing.
place flying, hviag-so these great
hockN OF worlds rest not aS they
go-wing and wing-agc after age
forever and ever The ca-lc hastcs
To its prey. bu; we shall in
speed beat the eagles. You have
noticed the velocity Of the swift horse
under whose feet the miles slip like a
smooth ribbon. AMI a he passes, the
four hoofS strike thu earth i'm such
quick beat your pulls $ take the same
vibration. But all these things are not
swift in comparison with the motion
of which | speak. The moon moves
$1,000 miles i'll Il day. Wonder. Nep-
tune flashes on 1000 miles an hour
londer. Mercury gocS 100 900 miles in
an hour. so. like the stars the Chris.
tian shall shine in swiftness and mo-
tion.
You hear now Of father or mother or
child Sick 900 miles away. ard il 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 low
when you shall. in fulfillment of the
text. take starry speed and be equal tn
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 moro velocity. There Is q
dying child in London. and its spirit
must he taken up To God: YOU are there
in an instant To do it, There is a younr
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 force of some new law
that shall hurl YOU to the spot where
YOU would go. know not; but nv text
suggests velocity. All space opcn be-
fore YOU. with nothing to hind ~ Won
in mission of light and love and iov.
YOU shall shine in swiftncsS Of motion
rs the stars forever and ever.
Again; Christian workers. like the
stars. shine in magnitude. The most
lllitcratc man knows that these things
in the sky. looking Ike gilt buttons.
are great masses of matter. To weigh
them one would think il would re-
quirc scales with pillar hundreds of
thousands uf miles high. and chains
hundreds of thousands of miles LONG.
and at the bottom OF the chains basin,
on either side hundreds of thousands of
miles wide. and that then Omnipotcnce
alone could put the mountains into the
scales and the hill, into the balance.
f'ut puny man has been equal to the
undertaking. and ha, set little bal.
lnce on his geometry. and weighed
world against world. Yea ne has pulled
out his measuring line. and announced
that lIcrochel is 80. 600 miles in di
hmCtCr. Saturn ~. 600 miles in dianc-
ter, and Jupiter ~. 600 miles i'm Diane.
ter. and that the smallest pearl on the
beach 81 Heaven is immense beyond all
imagination. 80 all they who have
toIlcd for Christ ON earth shall rise un
To magnitude OF privilege. and a MAG.
htudc OF strength. and magnitude Of
holiness. and magnitude of ioy. and
Tin" weakest saint i'm glory become
greater than AN that we can imagine