Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-09
The One Synonymous Of the Sweet
ness and Joy Of Life, the Other
the Herald Of Tempest
- Seek Him That Makeih the Seven
STARS and Orion" Talmage's Text
From the Shepherd Lad.
\. AsiroIogy After All More Than Hrh-
bnnt Hoathenism f--Trulsms In TIE
Poetry Of Tho stars.
mn rAnnnNNcLr srnN0N.

BHOOKLYN, N. - NOV, b. Nc music
Mt the Brooklyn tabernacle this morning
by Prof.. Henry Eyre Brown, was more
than usually excellent. IL consisted OF
the organ solo Satz, No, |, In minor, by
Thclc. Tho Rev. Y. Dewitt Talmagc,
ID. d., cxpounded the twentieth chapter
Of the first book OF Samuel, where 1t Is
told how Daylds wife deceived her hus-
bands enemies by an cfigy, The preach
or showed that the poorest way to get
ont Of trouble was TO lie out. The open
ing hymn was
'snn Of my soul, thou savior dear,
" Ia not night " luOu art near
The subject Of the sermon was "Ihe
Ileadcs aud Orion" and the text was
from Amos VS.; "Scck him that makcih
the Seven Stars aud orion" Following
Is Dr. TnlmagG's sermon IN iull!
4 country farmer wrote this text
Amos Of Tekoa. He plowcd the earth
and thrcshed the grain by "A now thresh'
ing machine Just invented, as formerly
the cattle trod out the grain. lie gath
cred the fruit Of the sycamore tree and
scarihcd II with an iron comb Just before
IL was getting ripe, as 1t was necessary
aud customary IN that way 10 take from
II the bitterness. He was the son of a
poor shepherd and suffered, but before
the stammcring rustic the Philistincs and
Syrians aud Phmnicnns aud MOubltes ana
Ammonitos and EdomItes aud lstaclitcs
trcmblcd. Moses was u law-glYcr Dan
lol was n prince, Isaiah n courlier and
David king; but Amos, the nuthor OF
my text,
WAS PEASANT,
aud as might be supposed, nearly all
his pnrallclsms arc pastoral, bis proph-
ocy full of the odor of ncw.mown hay and
the rattle OF loCusts ana the rumble ol
carts with shcaycs, and the roar OF Wild
beasts dcy0urlng the iiOCk while the shop
herd came out in their defense. He
watched the herds by day aud by night
Inhabited u booth made out of bushes, SO
that through these branches he could see
the stars all night long, and was more ia
mllinr with them than we VINO have tight
roots 10 our houses and hardly ever sec
the stars except among the tail brick
chImncls OF the grrnt towns. But at
seasons OF the ycur when the herds were
In special danger ne would stay ont IN the
open leld all through the darkness, his
only shelter the curtain OF the night,
heaven with the stellar cmDroidcrcs and
silyorod tasscls of lunar light. What
life Of soltuc, all alone with his herds.
loor Amos! and at twelve O'Clock at
night, bark to the VOLTS bark and
tho Hons roar and the
bears growl and the OWLS tc-whlt-te-
who's, aud the serpentS hiss MS he unwit-
tiugly stops too near wbilo moving
through the the tllicketsl So Amos, like
The other hcrdstncn, got the habit of
studying
rlE Mar or 1llE HEAVENS
because II WtS SO much Of the time spread
ont before him. lie noticed some stars
advancing aud others recodiug. He assoc
clatcd their dawn aud setting with certain
seasons of the year. lie had poetic na-
ture, aud he read night by night aud
month IVY month and year by year the
poem OF the consultations, diyncly
rhythmic. But two roscttes OF stars cs-
pcrially attracted his attention while
seated on the ground or lying ON his back
under the open scroll Of the midnight
heavens the Pleades, or Seven STARE,
and Orion. The former group this rustic
prophet associated with the spring, as It.
rises about the first OF May The
latter he associated with the winter az 1t
comes to the meridian in January. The
llcladcs, or Seven star, connected with
nll sweetness and joys Orion, the herald
IT tho tempest The Auclpnts we're the
more apt TO study the physiognOmy and
inXtaposillon OF the heavenly bodies, he.
cause they thought they had u special IN
llucncc upon thc earth, ana perhaps they
were right. II the moon every few hours
lifts and let's down the tihos OF the At
lantic ocean, ANA tho electric storms OF
aat gear IN the sun, by all scientific ad.
an A,sI ,sI,, D a.,
stars have proporuonatc oifectg And
there are some things which make mc
think that II may not have been all su.
perstitlon which connected the move.
ments and appearance OF the heavenly
bodies with great
MORAL, EVENTS uN EARTH.
Did not meteor run on cvangelistlt
crrand ON the first Christmas night ant
designate the rough cradle o
oar lord2 Did not the star.
IN their courses Gght against
Slscrat Was Il merely coincidcnml thaI
before the destruction of Jerusalem tn,
moon was cclipSed for twelve consccu
tive nghtsY Did It merely happen 4,
that new star appeared In constellation
CaSsi0pcla and then disappeared Just be
fore King Charles IN OF France, viii,
was responsible for ST. bartholomew
massacre, dicdY Was IL without slgmn
caucc that in the days of the Roman en-
pcrOr JustInlm war and famine wei,
preceded by the dlmncss Of the sun
witch for nearly year gave no mon,
light than the moon, although there wei,
no clouds to obscure itY Astrology ultc
all may have been something moro than d
Militant heathenism No wonder tha
Amos oi The text, having hoard these tyl
anthems of the stars, put down the stout
rough stan OF the hordsmau and tool
into his brown huud and Gu
ami l,uotted nugers the pc,
OF d prophet, and advise,
the rccrtant people Of his time To return
60 GOD, saying "Seek Him that makctl
the Seven stars and Ohonh
This command which Amos gave rs
years y G., Is Just as appropriate Tor Us
$50 a, h.
Ia The trst place, Amos saw. as W.
must see, that the God VINO made a.
Pleiaaes and uriau must BE the God q
order IL was mol so much star her,
and a star tAero that Impressed the IN
SplNd hcrdsman, but seven IN one groul
a n