Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-02-15

ton century after century and millen-
Mum after millennium. Sir William
Thomson, the celebrated mathematician
and physicist, says that the sun will
burn at least FIVE or six million years
longer. When one estimates the fact
that the suns volume or bulk is at
least 100000 times larger than the
earth he begins partly to realize the
enormous heat which this stars light Is
giving forth. What causes all this light
Of the star? "Oh," you answer, II can
not explain it upon any rational
grounds. Let US say 1t comes from
God" Thus say we in reference to that
spiritual light which shall make us
shine as the stars forever and ever.
Friend. no earthly light will make you
thus shine forever and ever. Have you
the spiritual light? Have you that light
which comes only from touching the
living Goals OF the spirits Ere? If you
have not that spiritual light within you,
will you let God put 1t there now?
Their influence Lasting.
But there is still another fact to
which | want to call your attention to
these spiritual stars. Though they may
shine forever and ever in heaven, their
spiritual light will not be lost to earth
as long MS this world lasts. My text
reads thus They that be wise shall
shine as the brightness Of the frma.
ment. and they that turn many 10
righteousness as the stars forever and
ever Do you not see It? AS the i'm
mortal soul winner leaves this planet
he will not only shine in the other
world, but also in this world. NO"
says some one, Il do not see it." will
| explain it in the words Of a great as
tronomer. Listen. Some stars are So
distant that their beams may have oc-
cupied thousands Of years in journey
ing to the earth vet these bodies, IL
suddenly annihila ted. would still con
tinue to shine upon us for thousands Of
| years TO come" So there are great men
whose existence has long since termi-
mated, but the influence of whose spirit
still irradiates our world Milton.
! Shakespeare and the great poets and
historians and philosophers, though
| gone from our sphere, still shine upon
! it az stars OF the first magnitude. IL
, our light for good or evil Is TO shine
and continue to shine after we have
! gone into the eternities, how can We
neglect to make that light the spiritual
| light it ought to be!
| 10 show the length of time the light
of some of the stars would continue to
shine upon the earth after the star it,
self was dead I would quote from au
address which DR.. Gill, the astronomer,
delivered before the Royal institute Of
London few years ago. Among 9TH
| or things he said 80 far as all existing
| researches go, Centauri is the rearest
! of the fixed stars. 10 get some idea OF
its distance we will imagine a railroad
reaching from the earth TO that lumi-
nary. Travelling at the rate of sixty
miles per hour it would yake 4S, GG3. 900
years for the train to each this L earest
star" The brain syaggers under such
a computation. but it is enc still moro
! profound that the prophet makes when
he tells us that the winner OF souls
shall shine forever and ever. Our lights
for good or evil will shine longer :han
| N''h t'AN ica ehSL hlSol otoi VI ppdCo
whose light now touches this earth.
They will shine on and on as the win
ners OF souls, or their evil results will
continue to be felt as the destroyers OF
souls who will never reach heaven, be-
cause we have been false bsacons to
those lost ones.
Would you not be a spiritual star.
winning souls for Christ? Sir David
Brewster gives an account of lost
star. In the astronomical system to
which our earth and sun belong there
Is certain comet which has gone as
tray. The astronomers can fad no
trace Of this vagrant comet BY their
mathematical calculations this comet
has appeared at least thirteen times
since il was lost in ITO. But amid the
spiritual stars which come to God IN
Christ's name there shall lie no lost
stars. All shall shine forever and ever.
Friend. would you not be one? Would
you not turn many to righteousness and
have their effulgence shine by your side
through all the eternties. st5r 4
star! Thou canst be a living eternal.
spiritual star, shining forever for Sod.
Copyright. 1906 by Louis Klopschl