The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-11-09
SEEK BIN THAT MAKETH
THE SEVEN STARS AND ORION.
The injssctisn OF Amos. tho Peasant
Author rxpeunded by rAMage at
the srookiya Tabernacle Yss-
terday---A Fuu Report
Of the Sermon. Kite.

BsooKLYN, N. Y, Nov. s.-TAs
music at the Brooklyn n Tabernacle tAis
morning, by Professor Henry Eyre
Brown, was moro thxn usually excel
ent. 1t consisted Of the organ solo
Sstr, No. l, in q minor, BY Thielc. The
Rev. t. De Witt Talmsss, ID. d., ex-
pounded the twentieth chapter OF the
Firat Book OF Samuel, where it il told
how David'a wife deceived her hus-
band's enemies by an efhsy. The
preacher saowed that the poorest way
to get out of trouble. was to lie out.
The opening hymn visa:
"Sun Of my soul, thou Saviour, dear,
tits lot night II thou art near"
The subiecto of the sermon was: "Ths
Pleiades and Orion" AID the text was
from Amos V. s: "Sesk Him that
Maketh the Seven S;ars and Orion"
Following ID DR.. Talmage's sermon in
full:
A country fermar wloie this text
amos OF Iekos. He plouahei the
earth end thTeshed the grain by o new
!Srcshing machine just invented, ~
formerly the catlls trod out the grain.
Nc gathered the fruit OF tho sycamore
tree an0 scsrifled 1t with an iron comb
just before 1t was getting ripe, al 1t
was necessary al custolnary in that
way TO tsko from II the bitterness. Hc
was tho son OF poor shepherd and
suffered, but before tho stamu.Sring
rustic the Philis.ines and Syrians and
PhWDiclaDs and Moapites and An.
monites aud Edomites and Iaraelites
rem sled. Moses WIS law-giysr,
Daniel wss prince, Issish q
oourtior, and David q king; hut
Amos, tho author Of my text.
WA peasant, and, as might
he supposed, nearly all his parallels IN a
are pastoral, his prophecy full of the
oaor OF new nown hay and the rattle
OF iocusts aud tbs ,nmbls OF carts " ith
sheaves, snd tho roar Of wild beasts
d5voufiNs tle flock ,Whiic III" shepherd
came out In their dsfeIao. Ho watched
the herd by day are sy night, inhab-
tied boo.h made out ol buahes,sO that
through theso branches he could scs
the stars all night long, and WAS more
familiar With them tnsn wo who have
light roofs 10 our houses and hardly
ev9r see tue ssars except among the
~ orisk ohlmnayt Of tho great towns.
Bat at seas0ns OK tue J ear when tho
hetos we're In special danger be would
stay out Ia .he open folds sll through
lhe darkness, Ills only shelter the eur
taie Of the night, heaven with the
stellar embyoidsries and slvered sss-
sells OF lunar lighs. What q life of aol-
itude. all slone with his herdsl Poor
Amos! and OF II O'Clock At night, bark
to the uoli'a bark and the lions rosr
and the bsss's growl and the owls
te-W bit-tc-whos, and ths serpent's hjss
IS lac unrittipgly Steps too near whils
moving through the thickuts! So
Amos, Ike other herGsmen, got tho
habit Of stndyipG
THE MAP OF THE HEAvEns,
bec2use II was 80 much OF thu time
spreSs out before him. He noticed
some stare advancing aud others re-
cshing. He associated their dawn and
setting with certain scasona Of the
year. Hs had poetis nature and no
read night by night sud month By
month and year4 by year Tho
p lem Of the cancellations, dlvinriy
fnytbmic. Eut tT0 r1ss,tss OF slarx
pcciaily attracted his siteution while
seated ON the ground on lying on bi.
back nndcr Tho opea sJ.nlI OF tbs Iaid-
night heavens the Pl,iades, or Seven
Stars, and Orion. Ton former group
,his Tusiic prophft associated
with the spring, 70 IT ri'e,
about the 1st Of Nay. The
latter he aasooletej with the wintsr, AZ
il comes to tho meridisn In Jgnuary.
Tbs fleisdeb or Seven Stare, cpn-
neeted .viyh all sveetness aud joy;
Orion, tho herald OF tho tempeat, The
snclents were the 1oro apt 10 etuJy
The ahysiognomy ana jsxtaposition OF
a, tho heavenly bodies because thay
thonght they had q eprcisi iihuencs
upon ihe earth, and pefasps they were
right. If tho moon every few nuurp
| iilis ana lets down rhe iides Of tho At
| .sbtiC ocean ana the eleetfio storms of
laas year In ;be tuu, by oil scientific
sdnlissou, sffSct.r tho earth, why
not tho tlsIs have proporlionste Of.
tect2 And there sre some lhiugs
wbi IN make me think that IL may not
| havo been all superstition whicn con
nectec tbs movements and sppsarsnce
OF the heavenly bodies with great
| moral evonts on earth. Did not a
meteor ran on svanselis 10 errssd
on the ilcst Chrlatmas night aud dts,g.
nate the rough crsde of our Lord?
Did not the siafs in their courses Il at
| sSeiDst SlaersY Was IL mer,l, coin
| cidog;sl that before the destrucueu of
| JSrussiem tho moon was ec.ipseo for
II con secudye nigbts? DID " merely
happen no mat a pOw star appeared IN
constellation CasBit pe,a. ana than dis
bpDbareu. jIaL ba,ure kjnG Charles
| az NfAQas MhN . A..
fur tho 81. BGrlh1lsmsv macs Gre,
ciad. Was IL WITHOUT s,gnificancs that
IN tho Gays ot iho Roman Emperor
Jus,in'ao war NnG famine were pre-
coded by the dinna-s of tho eun,
waich Tor nearly year save no mofv
| iisN Chan thu moun, although there
| Woro no CLOUDS TO obscure its Aa-
| iroiosy q ter alt may, have besn some-
| hing more than trlliiNut hoathen-
Ism. No WoudVr thu. AmOa tf the
text, having heard thesr tno anlhem,
| ui The stats, put duwo tho stOus rough
atNn II tho herdsman aud toos
INTO hia brown hand aud
ent and knot.sd hnsers tbe pou
lm prophet, aud ssvised
the recreaut people of his tiuie 20 re.
turn 10 Gjd, aays: "Seek him ihs'
msseth
TuV sRvny STARS AND ORION.
This cumm no, which Amos nav,
7s5 yecrs ,. q IL jJss ss ayplopriat,
Tor u, 1885 A, ID
Iu the hfeS plsc', Amoa sSw, ~ ",
must tssU, that ,ne upu who msds ths
Pleiadse and 0rinu must loo toe Goa %
oI0er. II wau not no muru sster h n
epd Sslr thefe that 10, pr.sssd tho Ia.
!spifod lt,dHasD, tut seven IA on,
gloup and four IN III. o,hargruup. II,
saw that night eftsr nigh, and ssasor
Lter .s-.sop, and decaGa after d@eade
they had sept Ntp o, ght, each onn 1,
its own pace, a els erhJod never clash
,np aud never con'esipg precedence
From tho tims Hesiod called tho p Ella
ues ihs seven dau, ,hl.rs OF Atlas,
and Virpil wrote ~ hls Aenpid d
'St1rm, 0iDun until now, tusy hsv,
ubsrrved The order estsblishsd isr thsti
coming aud golul; order wri,ton MOI
in manuscript that NAV be pigeon
holed. hut with tue hand of tho AL
mighty ON the doms ~ tho sky. ao that
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