The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-20

not ana your nedrg SICK, get some one 70
go out with you into the starlight and
point out to you the Pleiades, or, better
than that, get into some observatory and
through the telescope see further than
Amos with the naked eye could, namely,
900 stars in the Pleiades, and that in
what is called the sword of Orion there is a
nebaia computed to be two tTillion two
hundred thousand billions of times larger
than the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God
who made all that and controls oil that;
the wheel of the consultations turning in
the wheel of gaiaxies for thousands Of
years without the breaking of cog or the
slipping of band or the swapping Of IN
axle. For yeur placidity and comfort
through the Lord Jesus Christ l charge
you, "Seek him that maEeth 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 be makes
seven, and having flashed that group of
worlds makes another group, grcap after
group. To the Pleiedes he adds Orion. 1t
seems that God likes light so well that he
keeps making it. Only one being in the
universe knows the statistics of solar, lu-
mar, stellar, metecric 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
calieth them all by their names" The
seven Pleads had names given to them,
and they are Alcyone, Merepe, CelenO,
Electra, Sterope, Taygete and Maia.
But of the billions and trillions Of daugh-
tiers of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep by him with BEAM
ing brow and lustrous and robe. So fond
lis God of light, natural light, moral light,
spiritual light. Again and again is light
harnessed for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, the
bright and morning star; evangelization:
the daybreak; the redemption of nations,
sun of righteousness rising with healing
in his wings. Oh, men and women, with SO
many sorrows and sins and perplexities!
If you want light of comfort, light Of par
don, 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 archipelc-
goes of stars must be an exchanging God.
There had been no change in the stellar
appearance in this kerdman's lifetime,
and his father, shepherd, reported to
him that there had been ne change in his
lifetime. And these two clusters hang over
the celestial arbor now just rs they were
the first night that they shoae 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 Chal-
deans calculated the eclipses, the same as
when Elihu, according to the Book
of Job, went out to study the aurora
borealis, the same under Ptolemaic sys-
tenn and Copernican system, the same from
Callisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely change
less God must have fashioned the Pleiades
and Orion. Oh +! what an anodyne amid the
ups and downs of life, and the flux and re-
flux of the tides of prosperity, to know
that we have a changeless God, the same
yesterday, to-day and forever. Xerxes
garlanded and knighted the steersman of
his boat in the morning, and hanged him
the evening of the same day. Fifty thou
the National Capitol shouting themselves
hoarse at the Presidential inaugural, and
in four months so great were the antipa-
thies, that ruf1ian's pistol in Washington
depot expressed the sentiment of great
multitude. The world sits in its chariot
and drives tandem, and the horse ahead is
Huzza and the horse behind is Anathema.
Lord Gotham, in King James time, was
applauded and had $35, 900 year, but was
afterward execrT.ed and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander
the Great after death remained unburied
for thirty days, because no one would do
the honor of shoveling him under. The
Duke of " wellington refused to have his
iron fence mended because it had been
broken by an Infatuated populace in
some hour of political excitement,
and he left it in ruins, that
men might learn what tickle
thing is human favor. "But the mercy of
the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
to them that fear him, and his righteous
ness unto the children's children of such as
keep his covenant and to those who remem-
Der his commandments to do them" This
moment "Seek him that maketh the seven
stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, rs We must see, tina
the God who made these two beacons of
love and kindly warning. The Pleiades
rising in mid-sky said to all the herdsmen
and shepherds and husbandmen: "Come
out and enjoy the mild weather and culti-
vate your gardens and fields" Orion COM
ing 10 winter warned them to prepare for
tempest. All navigation was regulated by
these two consultations. The one said to
shipmaster and crew: "Hoist sail for the
sea, and gather merchandise from other
lands" But Orion was the storm signal
and said: "Reef sail, make things snug, or
put into harbor, for the hurricanes
are getting their wings out" AS
the Pleiades were the sweet evangels
of the spring, Orion was the warn
ing prophet of the winter. Oh, now I
get the best view Of God l ever had.
There are two kindsD sermons I never
want to preach-the enc that presents God
so kind, so indulgent, SO lenient, SO imbe-
Gle, that men may do what they will
against him, and fracture Ills every law
and put the cry of their impertinence and
rebellion under his throne, and, while they
are splitting in his face and stabbipg at his
heart, he takes them up in his arms and
kisses their Infatuated brow and cheek,
saying: "Of such is the kingdom of Heav-
en.'' The other kind of sermon never
want to preach is the one that represents
GeA as all fire and torture and thunder
cloud, and with red-hot pitchforks tossing
the human race in paroxysms of infinite
agony. The sermon that am now preach
ing believes in a God Of loving, kindly
warning; the God of spring and winter;
the God of the Pleiades and Orion. You