The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-11-12
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TIE SEVEN srhas AHo omon
Ehs TaJanstion 81 Ames' the Peasant
Author Expanded by islsihE" 80
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music NJ tho BrooklYu rsb'rrhelo lhi'
by Professor Henry Eyre
Bro ,ln, vas more than usually excel
ont IL consisted 81 The orenu tol'
Sa,s, No. 1, IN q minor, By lhlole. The
Rev. n. De Witt Talmage, D. D., eA'
pounded the twentieth chspier OF iht
Fir, Book OF Samuel, whore it rs told
how David wife deceived her nus
bands enemies by al ehsy. The
ore, cher showed thKt the poorest way
90 get OUT Of trouble was 10 lie out
The opening hymn was;
asnn Of my soul. thou Saviour, dear,
It Is OF uight IL thou ART near
The subisctof tho sermon was; "rho
Piciades and Orion" AID the text was
from Amos V. s: "Seok Him thai
Mas,eth me Seven Stars aud Orion"
Following Is DR.. Tslmago's sermon ~
full:
A country farmer wlote this text
Amos OF Tekos. He plouEhet the
earth sud thIeshed the grsin by q new
throshing machine Just invented, ss
formerly she cattle lrou out tho grain,
Ho gsthered thu fruit OF tho syehuort
tree and sceritied it win an IRON conn
lust before IL Was gsulng ripe, az II
wns necessary and oustoiosry IN ina
ygsV % take from IL the bitterness. be
yVi.s, the son OF a poor shepherd and
s.utiered, but before the stammerin9
rustic tho Phllislpes and Syrisns suo
Pho, nieians and hosbites ard Am
moultes and Edomitea an IsraeliteH
trtnbled. Moses was lEN-givor,
Dauiel was prince, Isaiah u
courtier, and David q king but
Amog, the author OF my text,
was a peasant, and, an nigh
be supposed nearly oil his psruielisae
are pastoral, his prophecy fuli or lhe
odor az new mo~n Asy sna tbs rattle
OF Ioeusts and no rumble OF eAr's WIN
sheaveS, and the roar OF villa bssats
doyouring he flock while the shspherd
csulo outi their defeyEe. He watched
the herd By day and by night, inhab-
itod u booth made out ei buhhea,.o thEt
through these branches he could san
the stars all wight long, aud was moro
familiar with them than We who have
tight roofs to our hourss and hardly
ever see the stars eXcSps among iho
tail brick chimneys OF the great towns
But at seasons OF the year when the
here's ~ere in special danger ne Tcein
STAY ont ia tho open dSlds all through
lhe d srkuess, hIs only sheitsr the cur
taia OF the night, heaven with the
stell ar emoroidsries Gns silyeros tAa-
sells OF lunar light. What life OF SOL
itude, ali alone with his herds! Poor
Amosi and at IL O'CLOCK rs highs, bark
to the VOLTS bark and the lions rosr
and the bears growl ana thu oEPs
te-whit-te. hos, and tho 6erpsnts hiss
as he unwittinBly stops too uear Whils
moving through the thiokets! 80
Amos, like other hordsmeD, GOT the
habit of studying
THE MAP OF THE HEAVsNSi
because it was 70 mlob OF She time
bread out before him. he noticed
,rna stars advancing and othors re-
4. ding. He associated their dawn and
=, ting With certain seasons Of lhe
ia hsd poetic q allure and he
, d. Il &c by night and month by
4, II md year by year the
o. ,,nl of the CONSULTATIONS, diyinsly
,ythnic. But two roaettes OF Stars
especially attracted his attention while
seated on tho ground or lying on ma
back under the open scroll OF ths MD
night heavens-the Pisiades, or ssvsn
stars. and Orion. Tho former group
this rustic prophet assoolsted
shout the lat Of May. The
1ecter he associated with the winter, a.
~ com ca to tho meridian in January.
The Pleiades or Seven Stars, con-
nected with all sweetness and Joy;
orion, the herald Of the tempest. The
ancients were tho more apt to study
the nhyeiognomy am J sxsapositicn Oh
the heavenly bodies because thoy
thought they had a spacisl lnauencs
rnarhQne ihHV uQTA
ripht. II the moon every few bours
lifts and let's down tho tideo OF tho At
lnutic ocean ana the elestric storms OF
last year in the sun, by all fcienDnc
Admission, affected the earth, why
NOT the stars have proportionnee ef-
fect7 And there are some tniDga
which mako me think that 1t Navy not
have been all superatition which con
nected The movements and appearance
of Che heavenly bodies with great
neral events on earth. Did not
meteor run on evangensslc e5r"nu
on the fIrst Christmas night and dcaig-
nate tie rough cradle OF our I0rdY
MID NOT the stars in their couraes fight
agsinst Sisera? Was It merely coin.
oid.utal that before the destrusHen or
Jarusalem the moon was collapsed Tor
10 ,,onsocutiye nights? Did 1t merely
hannsn 90 that q new star appeared In
Capitalization Cassiopeia. and then dis
apueared, lust before King Charles
TX, OF France, who was Responsible
for the st. Bartholomew massacre,
died. Was it without Significance thab
in tho days of tho Roman Emperor
Instjnisn war and famine were pre-
cee,ed by the dimness OF tho aun,
WI,7ch Tor nearly ayear gave no more
II than the moon, although there
no clouds to obscure it? Az
after all NAV have been some
=, more than q brilliant heathen-
-. No wonder that Amos Of the
L.. ,ayiug heard these two anthems
o. stars, put down the stout rough
st,a Fl the herdsman ano toK
into his brown hand ana
out and knotted finsers the pen
OF prophet, ara ,, sov.sou
tnrn 10 God, saws: "Seek him that
mGketh
TIVE SEVEN STARS AND ORION.
This command, which Amos gave
705 years b. c.. is just as appropriate
Tn the fist place, Amos ssw, as we
must gae, that the God who maao the
Piei lad 81 and Orion must be the goo OF
order. It WAS not 30 much esar mere
and star there that impressed the M
spired herdsmau, but seven IN o1e
group and four in the ctbergroup. ne
49, That night after night, aud season
oftar sssson, and decade after decade,
thsv had kept step OF light, each one In
~ Gvn pI ace, sisterhood never clsah-
mo and never contesting. precedence.
From the time Heslod called the Plsia.
Han The nssyen daughters OF Atlas
IN Virgil wrote In his Aeneid OF
sStor,nv @ rion" until now, they have
chservad the order established ter their
somine and going; order written not
NJ manuscript that may pc pigeon
holcd. but with the HAND OF ing a..
mighty on the dome OF tne sny, - n ,
eistant order, sublime order, omnipo.
ee,,s ordar. what q sedative to you ana
sous Chc,n cornuunities and nations