Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-09
DR.. Talmags's Discourse Upon the
Stars.
YESTERDAYS TiBERNscLE SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine Draws a Beautiful
Spiritual Lesson From the
Stars,
BEAUTIES OF BIBLE ASTRONOMY
sDseia, b De ReSi1te,

sisted Of the organ solo Sstz, No. /, In c
Minor, by Thaele.
The Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, D. D..
expounded the twentieth Chapter Of the
First Book Of Sahuel where it is told how
David's wife deceived her Fnsbsbd's enc
mics by kn efigy. The preacher showed
that the poorest way to get out of trouble
was 10 lie out. The opening hymn was
"s,u Of my soul, thou Saviour desr,
1t is not night ii thou art near"
The subject of the sermon was: The
Pleiades and Orion, and the text was from
Amos v s: Seek him that maketh the
Seven Stars and Orion" Following is
DIR. TALNAGE's SERMON
in tnll:
A country farmer wrote this text-AmoH
of Tekos. He plowed the earth and
threshed the grain by new threshiug ma
chine just invented, as formerly the cattle
rod out the grain. he gathered the fruit
of the sycamore tree and scsrifed it with
an iron comb just before it was getting
ripe, as it was necessary and customary in
that way to take from it the bitterness. He
was the con of poor shepherd and slut
tered, but before the stammering rustic the
Philis,ines and Syrisns and PtGnicians
and Moahites and Ammonites and Edo
mites and Israelites trembled. Moses was
a lsw.giver, Daniel was prince, lssiah q
courtier andDavid sking; but Amos the Gu
thor ef my text, was a peasant and as might
be supposed, nearly all his psrallelisms are
pastoral his prophecy full of the odor OF
new.mown hay and the rattle Of locusts
and the rumble OF carts with shesveS, aud
the roar of wild beasts devouriDg the flock
while the shepherds came out in their de-
fense. He watched the herds by day and
by night, inhabited booth made out OF
bushes, go that through these branches he
could see the stars all night long, and was
more familiar with them than we who hsve
tight roofs to our houses and hardly ever
see the stars except among the tall brick
chimneys of the great towns. But at SEQ
sons of the year when the herds were in
special danger be would stay out in the
open field all through the darkness, his
only shelter the curtain of the night,
heaven with the stellar embroideries and
silvered tassels of lunar light. What
LIFE OF SOLITUDE,
all alone with his herds Poor Amos
and at twelve o'clock at night, bark to the
VOLTS bark and the lions roar and the
bears grogl spa the owls te:Witie.vhos
and the serpent's biss as he gnwit,ingly
steps too near while moving through the
thicketsI So Amos, ike other herdSnen,
got the habit of etudyipg the map Of the
heavens; because it was SO much OF the
time spread out before him. lie noticed
some stsrs advancing and Others recedips.
he associated their dawn end setting with
certain seasong of the year. He had o
poetic nature and he read night by night
aud month by month and year hy year the
poem of The consultations, divinely
rhythmic. But two rosettes Of stare
especially attracted his attention while
seated on the ground or lying on his back
under the open scroll Of the midnight
hea7ens.--the Rleiades. or Seven Stars, and
Orion. The former group this rustic
prophet associated with the spring, ss ii
rises about the first OF May. The
latter he associated with the winter, as il
comes to the meridian in January. The
Eeiades, or Ssven S srs, connected with
all sweetness and Joy; Orion, the herald oi
the tempest. The sncients we're the more
apt to study the pbysioguomy and juxtapo'
sition of the heavenly bodies, because they
thought they had spsoial influence upon
the earth, and perhaps they were right. II
the moon every few hours lifts and lets
down the tides of the Atlantic ocean, and
the electric storms of last year in the sun
by all gcientifss admission. affected the
earth,
WHY NeT THE STARS
have proporiionats effect? And there ara
some things which make me think that i
may not have been al superstition which
connected the movement aud appearance
of the heavenly bodies with great Hora
eyouts On earth bid not u meteor run On al
evaugelistic eIrand on the frat Christmat
night and designate the rough
cradle Of our Lord2 Did not th'
stars in their course fight agains
Sissrs. Mas it merely coiucidentci ths
before the destruction Of Jerusalem th'
moon was ecliped for twelve consecutive
nights2 Did it merely happen so that ne'
star appeared in constellation Cassioueit
and then disappeared just before KIM
/ Charles IA of Eranes, Yho vss respensi
/ be for the st Bartholon sW massacrS died
Was it without significance that in tn
days OF the Roman Emperor, Justiniau
was and famine were preceded by the dim
ness of the sun, which for nearly yea
gave no more light than the moon, al
though taers we're no clouds to obscure il
Astrology after ell may been something
more than brilliant hsathenism. NJ
wonder that Amos, of the text, hsvinI
heard these tVo anthems of the stars, bI
down the stout, rough staff OF the herds
man and took into his brown band ca
ct anl Sretted singers the pen OF
prophet, and sdVised the recreant people c
his time TO return 80 God, saying. See
Hin that Raksth ths UeEeR EEars an
Orion"
This command, which Amos gave 10
years B. G, is
/ JUST As APPROPRIATE FOB Us,
1895 A. D. In tie first place, Amos saV
as we m1st see, that the God who mad
the Pieiades aud 0IiOn must be the God I
order. 1t was pps go much star her
and staF there that impressed the inspi
ed herdsmsn, bot seven in one group an
four in the other group He saw thI
night after night and season after sesso
and decade after decade they had keI
step of light, each one in Its own place,
sisterhood rever elashing and never ccl
testing precedence From the time thI
Hesiad called the Pleiades the ''sevt
daughters Of Atlas" and Virgil wrote
bis Eneid OF Stormy Orion" until no
they have observed the order establilht
for their coming and going; order writ,
, not in manuscript that may
pigeon bol.d, but With the hel
: Of the Almighty 90 the dome :
. the sky 90 that all nations may resd it Q
der. Persistent order. Sublime oEdt
> 0mnipotent order. What q sedative 10 u
and me- tn whom communities and natio