Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-21

must see, that tho God wlie uolc
the Pleiades and Orion must be tae
God of order. II was not 80 much q
star here and star there that in
pressed the inspired herdsman, but
seven in one group and seven III the
other group. He saw that night af-
ter night and season after eoason
md decade after decade they had
kept step of light, each one in it's
own place. a sisterhood never clash
ing and never contesting precedence.
from tho time Hesiod called Dle
pIeiades the "seven daughters Of At
las, I" and Virgil wrote in his Hncid
Cf stormy Orion" until now. they
have observed the order established
for their coming and going; order
written not in manuscript that ray
be pigeonholed, but with the hand
Almighty on the dome of the sky, so
that all nations may read it, Order
Persistent order Sublime order
Omnipotent order.
What a sedative to you and me, to
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pellmell, and world
ruled by some fiend at haphazard,
and in all directions maladminstra-
ton The God who keeps seven
worlds in right circuit for six thou
sand years can certainly keep ell the
affairs of individuals and nations
and continents in adjustment. We
had not better fret much, for the
peasants argument of the text was
right. If God can take care Of the
seven worlds of the Pleiades and the
four chief worlds of Orion, he can
probably take care of the one world
we inhabit.
So feel very much as my father
felt one day when we were going to
the country mill to get the grist
ground, and l, a boy of seven years,
sat in the back part of the wagon,
and our yoke of oxen ran away with
us and along a labyrinthine road
through the woods, 30 that | thought
every moment we would be dashed
to pieces, and made terrible out
cry Of fright, and my father turned
to me with a face perfectly calm and
said: DE Witt, what are you crying
about2 guess we can ride as fast
as the oxen can run" And, my
hearers, why should we be affrighted
and lose our equilibrium in the swift
movement of worldly events, espe-
cially when we are assured that it is
not yoke of unbroken steers that
are drawing us ON, but that order
and wise governmentare in the yokei
GODS INFINITE ORDER.
In your occupation, your mission,
your sphere, do the best you can and
then trust to God, and if things are
all mixed and disquieting, and your
brain is hot and your heart sick, get
some one to 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, two
hundred stars in the Pleiades, and
that in what is called the sword of
Orion there is nebula computed to
be two trillion two hundred thousand
billions times larger than the sun.
Oh, be at peace with God who made
all that and controls ell that--the
wheel of the consultations turning
in the wheel of galaxies for thou
sands of years without the breaking
of a cog or the slipping of a band OF
the snap of an axle. For your pla.
cidity and comfort through the Lord
Jesus Christ charge you, Seek him
that maketh 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 he makes seven I;
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
so well that he keeps making it. Only
one being in the universe knows the
statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, me-
teoric creations, and that is the Crea-
tor himself. And they have all been
lovingly christened, each one a name
as distinct as the names of your chill
dren. HE telleth the number of the
stars; he calleth them all by their
names. The seven PleiAdes had
names given 10 them, and they arc
Alcyone, Merope, Celmno, Electra
Sterope, Taygete and Maia.
But think of the billions and tril-
lions of daughters of starry light that
God calls by name as they sweep by
him with heaming brow and lustrous
robol So fond is God of hght--natu-
raj light, moral light, spiritual light
Again and again is light harnessed
for symboligalon- Christ, the bright
and morning starr evangelization,
tho daybreak, the redemption of ma
tions, Sun Of Righteousness rising
with healing in his wings. o men
aud women, with 80 many SORROWS
and sins and perplexities, II you want
light Of comfort light Of pardon,
light OF goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, Seek him that
malSeth the Seven Stars and Orion"
WITHOUT vARlABI.ENEss.
Again, Amos saw, as We must see,
that tho God who made these two
archipelagoes OF stars must DO an un'