Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24

ment of wordA events, especially when
we are assured that it is not n yoke of I'M
broken steers that are 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
to Cod: and if things are all mixed and
disQuieting, and your brain is hot and your
hrart sick get some one to 20 out with you
into the starlight and point out to you the
plciades, or, better han that, get into some
observatory, and through the telescope see
further than Amos with the naked eye
could-namcly, two hundred stars in the
Pleiadcs, and that in what is called the
sword of Orion there is nebula computed
to he two tlilliOn two hundred thousand
billions times larger than The sun. Oh, be
at peace with the God who made all that
and cont ols all that-the wheel of the con-
stellatons turning in the wheel of galaXies
for thousands of years without the break
ing of II cog or the slipping of band or the
snap of an axle. For your placidity and
comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ
charge you, Seek him that maketh the
Seven Stars and Orion"
THE LIGHT OF GOD
Again, Amos say, as we must see that
text was the God of light. Amos saw that
God was not satisfied with making one
star. or two stars 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
50 well that he keeps making it. Only one
being in the universe knows the statistics
of solar, lunar, stellar, metcoric creations,
and that is the Creator himself. And they
lEIyc all been lovingly christened, each one
y name as distinct as the names Of your
children. "He telleth the number of the
stars lie calleth them all by their Names"
The seven Pleiades had names given to
them, and they are Alcyone, Merope,
Ccl@no, Electra, Sterope, Taygete and
Maa
But think of the billions and trllons Of
daughters Of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep by him with beaming
crow and lustrous robe! So fond is God of
'-ht-natural light, moral light, spiritual
.lht Again and again is light harnessed
or bolzation-Christ, the bright
morning Star; ovangelization, the day
Freak; the redemption of nations, Sun of
Righteousness rising with healing in his
@iugs O men and women, with so many
7orrows and sins and perplexities, 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 sec that
the tod who made these two archipelagoes
II stars must be an unchanging God
There had been no change in the stellar
appearance in this herdsmans lifetime
ird his father, a shepherd, reported to him
hat there had been no change in his life
iinr. And these two clusters hang over
he celestial arbor now Just as they were
lhc first night that they shone on the
,dcnic bowers; the same as when the
Egyptians built the pyramids, from the
top of which to watch them; the same as
when the Ci.aideans calculated the eclipses;
the same rs when Elihu, according to the
book Of dob went out to study the aurora
toreulis: the same under Ptolemaic system
end Copernican system; the same from
Cai,theues to Pythagoras, and from
HAC4.aworas to lIerschel. Surely, a change
ess Gud must have fashioned the Pleiades
nd Orion oh, what an anodyne amid
he ups and downs of life, and the iux and
io.iitN Of the tides of prosperity, to know
hat we have changeless God, the same
yesterday, today and forever!'
FlCKLENESS or EARTHLY MONARCHS.
AerXes garlanded and knighted the
strersman OF his boat in the morning and
hanged him in the evening of the same
day. The world sits in its chariot and
drives tandem, and the horse ahead is
luZla and the horse behind is a nathema
Lord Gotham, in King James time, was
applauded, and had thirty-fve thousand
dollars year, but was afterward eXecrated
and lived on scraps stolen from the royal
kitchen. Alexander the Great after deat In
remained unburied for thirty days, because
no one would do the honor of shovelng
him under The Duke of Wellington re-
fused to have his iron fence mended because
it had been broken by an Infatuated pop
ulace in some hour of political excitement,
isd lie left 1t i'll ruins that men might
learn what It tickle thing is human favor
Put the mercy of the Lord is from ever
lasting to everlasting to them that fear
him, and his Righteousness unto the chill
drcn's children OF such as keep his cove
nant, and to those who remember his COM
mandmcnts 70 do them" This moment
"Seck him that maketh the Seven Stars
and Orion"
Again. Amos saw, as we must see that
the God who made these two beacons Of
love and kindly warning. The pleiades
rising in midslly said to all the herdsmen
and shepherds and husbandmen, Come
out and enjoy the mild weather and cult
vatc your gardens and fields" Orion, com
ing in winter, warned them to prepare for
tempest. All navigation was regulated by
these two considerations. The one said ia
shipmastcr 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 evanges of the spring
Orion was the warning prophet of the
| winter
LESSONS or TIE SEASONS.
/ Oh, now get the best view Of God ever
! had, There are two kinds of sermons
never want to preach-the one that pre-
sents God so kind, SO indulgent so lenieut
/ so imbecile that men may do what they
will against him and fracture his every
law and put the pry Of their impertinenct
and rebellion under his throne, and while
they are splitting in his face and stabbinq
vt his heart. he takes them up in his arm,
/ and kisses hair infuriatpd brow and chpnl