The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-03-25

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CaIisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely. a
changelees God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orion Oh, what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
of life and the fuX and rehux of the
tides OF prosperity to know that we
have a changeless God, the same yes
,3rday, today and forever!''
Aerxes garlanded and knighted the
Eteersman of his boat in the morn
ing and hanged him in the evening
of the same day. 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 thirty five thou
sand dollars year, but was after
ward execrated, and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen Alex
ander the Great after death remained
unbulied for thirty days, because nc
one would do the honor Of shoveling
him under. The Duke of Wellington
refused to have his iron fence mend
ed, because it had been broken by al
Infatuated populace in some hour of
political excitement, and he left it in
ruins that men might learn what a
tickle thing is human favor. 'But
the mercy Of the Lord is from ever
lasting to everlasting to them that
fear him, and his righteousness unto
the childrens children Of such as
keep his covenant, and to those who
remember his commandments to do
them This moment Seek him
that maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion.
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
beacOns of the oriental night sky
must be a God 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
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 tC
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 har-
Dor, for the hurricanes are getting
their wings out" AS the Pleiades
were the sweet evangels of the
spring, Orion was the warming
prophet of the winter.
GODS LOVE AND JUSTICE.
Oh, now get the best view of God
| ever had There are two kinds of
sermons l never want to preach-the
one that presents God so kind, so in
dulgent, so. lenient. so imbeQlk that
men may do what they will against
him, and fracture his every law, and |
put the pry Of their mpertinence and
rebellion under his throne, and while |
they are splitting in his face and |
at his heart, he takes them
up in his arms and kisses their in
furiated brow and cheek, saying, "Of |
such is the kingdom of heaven" The |
other kind of sermon | never want |
% preach is the one that represents
God as all fire and torture and |
jhundercloud, and with red hot
tossing the human race into
)aroxysms of infinite agony The
sermon that am now preaching be
ieves in a God of loving, kindly
warming, the God of spring and
winter, the God of the Pleiades and |
Orion.
You must remember that the win
er is just as important as the spring.
Let one winter pass without frost to
ill vegetation and ice to bind the
'ivers and snow to enrich our fields,
md then you will have to enlarge
your hospitals and your cemeteries
"A green Christmas makes fat
was the old proverb.
storms to purify the air. Thermom-
ter at ten degrees above zero to
one up the system. December and
January just as important as May and
Tune. tell you we need the storms
# life as much as we do the sunshine.
There are more men ruined by pros
'erity than by adversely If we had
'ur own way in life, before this we
would have been impersonations of
and worldliness and dis
-usting sin, and pulled up until we
would have been like Julius Caesar,
Who was made by sycophants to be
leve that he was divine, and the
reckels on his face were as the stars
f the armament.
One of the swiftest transatlantic
oyages made last summer by our
wiftest steamer was because she
ad stormy wind abaft, chasing
er from New York to Liverpool.
'ut to those going in the opposite
ERECTION the storm was a buffeting
nd hindrance. 1t is bad thing
D have storm ahead, pushing us
ack; but if we be Gods children {
nd aiming toward heaven, the {
forms of life will only chase us the
Ooner into the harbor. l am so glad !