Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-09


every moment we would be dashed TO
pieces, and l made terrible outcry Of
fright, and my father turned to me with a
face perfectly calm and said: "DeWi lit,
what are you crying ab0utI | guess we
can ride as fast as the oxen can run"
And my hearers, why should we be af-
trlghted and lose our equilibrium in the
swift movement of worldly events,
especially when we are assured that It is
drawing us on, but that order
and wise government are in
the yoke? In your occupation,
your mission, your sphere, do the best
you can and then trust God, and II things
are all mixed and disquietng and your
brain is hot and your heart sick, get some
one to 30 ont with you into the starlight
md point out TO you the Plelades, or,
better than that, get into some Observa-
tory, and through the telescope see further
than Amos with the naked eye could;
namely; two hundred stars in the Plei-
AIDES, and that in what is called the sword
of Orion, there is n nebula computed to
be two thrilllon two hundred thousand
billions of times larger than the sun. .,
be at peace with the God who made all
that and controls all that! The wheel of
the consultations turning In the wheel
or galaXies for thousands OF years With
out the breaking of q cog or the slipping
OF band or the snap of an axle. For
your placidity and comfort through the
Lord Jesus Christ, l charge you, "Seek
Him that maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion"
Again Amos saw, as we must see, that
the God who made these two groups OF
the text was the God of light. Amos saw
that God was not satisfied with making
one star or two or three stars, but He
makes seven, and having finished that
group OF worlds makes another group,
group after group. To the Pleiades He
adds Orion. 1t seems that God likes
light 80 well that he keeps making it.
Only one being in the universe knows
the statistics Of solar, lunar, stellar,
meteOric creations, and that is the Creator
himself, and they have all been lovingly
christened, each one name as distinct
as the names of your children. "He telleth
the number of the stars. He calleth them
all by their Names" The seven Pleiades
had names given to them. and they
are Alcyone, Merope, Celakeno, Electra,
Sterope, Taygete and Maic. But think OF
the billions and trilliOns OF daughters of
starry light that God calls by name as
they sweep by him with beaming brow
and lustrOus robe. So fond Is God Of
light-natural light, moral light, spiritual
light. Again and again is light harnessed
for capitalization. Christ, the bright and
morning star; evangelization, the day
break the redemption OF nations; Sun Of
righteousness rising with healing in his
wings. o men and women with 80 many
sorrows and sins and perplexitiesl If you
want light OF comfort, light Of pardon,
light of goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, "Seek Him that maketh
the Seven Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that
the God who made these two archipela-
goes OF stars must be an unchanging God.
There had been no change in the stellar
appearance in this herdsman's lifetime,
and his father, a shepherd, reported to
him that there had been no change in his
lifetime. And these two clusters hang
over the celestial arbOr now, just as they
were the first night that they shOne on
Edenic bowers; the same as when the
Egyptians built the pyramids from the
top OF which TO watch them; the same as
when the Chaldeans calculated the
eclipses; the same as when Elihu, accord
ing to the book Of Job, went out TO study
the aurora bOrealis; the same under PtOl-
emaic system and COpernicqn system;
the same from Callisthenes to PythagOras,
| and from PythagOras to HeTschel. Surely
a changeless God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orion. 0 what an
anodyne amid the ups and downs of
life, and the fiux and refluX Of the tides Of
a
chanReless God the same yesterday, to-
day and foreverl XerXes garlanded and
knighted the steersman OF his boat in the
morning, and hanged him the evening Of
the same day. Fifty thousand people
stood around the column OF the national
capitol shouting themselves hOarse at the
presidential inaugural, and in four
months 80 great we're the antipathies,
that a ruflian's pistol I'm Washington
hn mt of
multitude. The world sits in its chariot
and drives tandem, and the horse ahead
is Huzza and the horse behind is Anath-
ema. Lord Gotham, In King James
time, was applauded and had $4,000 a
year, but was afterwards execrated and
lived on scraps stolen from the royal
kitchen. Alexander the Greh after
death remained unburied for thirty days,
because no one would do the honor Of
shovelng him under. The Duke of We'll
lIngtOn refused TO have his iron fence
mended because II mad been broken by an
infuriated populace ia some hour Of politi-
cal excitement, and he left IL in ruins that
men might learn what a fckle thing Is
human favor. "But the mercy Of the Lord
is made from everlasting 10 everlasting to
them that fear Him and His righteous
ness unto the chlldren's children Of such
as keep his covenant, and TO those who
remember His commandments 10 do
them" This moment "seek Him that
maketh the Seven Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, rs we must see, that
the God who mad9 these two beac0ns OF
the Oriental night sky, must be z God OF
love and kindly warning. The Plelades
rising TO mid-sky, said TO all the herds
men and shepherds and husbandmen:
"COme out and enjoy the mild weather
and cultivate your gardens and fields"
Orion coming In winter warned them TO
prepare for tempest. All navigation was
regulated by these two consultations.
The one said to shipmaster and crew:
"Ioist sail for the sea and gather mer-
chandize from other lands" But Orion
WAS the storm signal and said: "Reef
sail, make things snug or put into harbor,
for the hurricanes arc getting their wings
out.V As the Pleiados were the sweet
eYangels OF the spring, Orion was the
warning prophet or the winter. o, now /
get the best view OF God / ever had
There are two kinds OF sermons / never
want 10 preach--the one that presents
God 80 Kind, 30 indulgent, so lenient,
50 imbeoile, that men may do
what they will against him aud
fracture his every law, and put the cry Of
their impertinence ana rebellion under
His throne, and while they are splitting in
His face and stabbing at His heart, He
takes them up In his arms and kisses their
infuriated brow and cheek, saying: "Oi
such Is the kingdom OF heaven" The
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