Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-11-01


rocks. becomes the mighty Ohio, roll
Ing into the Mississippi and rolling
into the sea. That word you utter,
that deed you do, may augment itself
as the years go by until rivers cease
10 roll and the ocean itself shall be
dried up In the burning OF tie world.
Paul. who was all the time saying i'm
portant things. said nothing more star
tlingly suggestive than when be de-
clared. "None OF us liveth or dieth to
himself" Words, thoughts, actions.
have an eternity OF flight. As Job
could not bind the sweet influences OF
the Seven Stars, as they were called,
so we cannot arrest or turn aside the
good projected long ago. Those infiu-
eDces were started centuries before
cur cradle was rocked and will reign
centuries after cur graves are dug.
oh, 1t is tremendous thins to live!
God help Us TO live Alright.
Importance of Good Actions.
Astronomers can easily locate the
Plelades. They viii take you into their
observatories on clear night and aim
their revealing instrument toward the
part in the heavens where those seven
stars have their habitude, and they
will point to the constellation Taurus,
and you can see for yourself. But IL is
impossible to point to influences far
back that have affected our character
and viii AFFECT our destiny. We know
the influences near by-paternal, ma
ternal, conjugal-but by the time we
have gone back two generations, or, at
most, three, our Investigations falter
and fail. Through the modern inter-
esting habit Of searching back to find
the ancestral tree we may find a long
list of names. but they are only names,
The conservation or abandonment OF
some one 200 years ago was not record
ed. 1t would not be so important IL
you and |, by our good or bad behavior,
blessed OF blasted only those immedi-
ately around us, but our goodness or
our badness will reach as far as the
strongest ray Of Alcyone-yea, across
the eternlties. Under this considera-
ton, what DO you think OF those who
give themselves up TO frivolity or idle
ness and throw away fifty years OF
their existence as though they were
shells or pebbles or pods instead of en-
bryo eternitles?
i suppose one OF the greatest sur
prises of the next world will be to see
what wide. farreaching influence for
good or evil we have all exerted. am
speaking OF ourselves, who are only
ordinary people. But who can fully
appreciate the farreaching good done
by men Of wealth In Great Britain for
the working classes = Mr.. Lister of
Bradford, Edward Akroyd OF Halifax,
Thomas Skies OF Huddersheld, Joseph
Wentworth and Josiah Mason and Sir
Titus Salt? This last great soul, with
his vast wealth, provided 756 houses
ut cheap rent for 1900 working people
aud chapel and cricket ground and GRO
quet lawn and concert hall and saw
ings bank. where they might deposit
some Of their earnings, and life insur-
snce for those who looked further
ahead and lighthouses and parks and
museums and lecture halls with philo-
sophical apparatus, the generous ex-
ample Of those men of n previous gen.
Grafton being copied I'm many places I'm
Canada and the United States, making
life, which would otherwise be a pro-
longed drudgery, an inspiration and q
Joy.
Two Mighty Worlds.
at Dunfernliue. Scotland. is n stone
house the room on the second floor
twelve feet by fourteen In size. The
annual rent OF that room years ago was
$3.50. That was the one room In which
the father and mother of Andrew Car
negie lived with the whole family. In
HnnnpnC 60 80.
Andrew Carnegie the most distinguish
cd ph!lanthropist of ell time, and what
his gifts OF great libraries on both sides
the sea vii! 90 for the coming genera
lions do not think any angel of God
would have enough capacity TO calcu-
late. Who could bind the sweet iutiu-
ences OF that plelades?
After awhile there will be n man who
viii do for churches and missionary So
cietics and Bible distribution what An
drew Carnegie has done for libraries.
aud then the millennium wiz be here.
The millennium Is herei The shower of
uncounted millions OF dollars for all
good purposes / think Is the first step
OF that golden thousand years of peace
and holiness which have been predict
ed and for which the world has SO long
waited. As The snowdrops belong 30
January, and the violet to March. and
the honeysucEle 20 June, and the chrys-
anthemum to November. so this bloom
and fragrance OF generosity on the part
or the worlds wealth mean the ad-
vancing summer OF the worlds release.
OF Eden restored, OF paradise regained.
You say there are things to discourage.
Know ii. But am not now exploring
sepulchers full OF dead mems bones
and all uncleanness. j am watching
the daybreak. am studying the light
that streams into the darkness. / am
considering the sweet influences OF the |
Pielades.
Notice also in my text the influence
or other worlds upon this world. We
all regard the effect which our CONT |
hent has upon other continents or one |
hemisphere upon the other hemisphere. |
Great harvest or drought on one side |
or our world affects the other side of |
our world. y panic In Wall street. New |
York. has its echo in Lombard street |
ana the bourse. The nations Of the earth |
together all feel the |
same thrill OF delight or shock of woe.
But we do not appreciate the influence
or other worlds upon our world. The
author OF my text rouses us to the con-
sideias'on. 1t takes all the worlds OF
known and unknown astronomy to
Keep our world in its orbit. Livery
world dependent on other worlds. The
stellar existence is felt oil through the
heavens. E,ecy constellation is sis
terhood- Oar rianet feels the benedic-
ton OF Alcyone and al the other stars
or the Pie!ades. Yea, there are two
other worlds that decide the fate of our
worid-its redemption or its demoli-
hon. Those two worlds are the head
quarters of angeiology and demonolo-
sy. From the one world came Christ.
come ministering spirits, come all gra-
;ious influences. From the other world
Use all satanic and diabo,ic influences.
from that world OF moral night rose
he power that wrecked our poor world