Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-04-01

seven Plelades had names given 70 them an /
theJ are Alcyone, Merope. Ce'eno, Electra,
Sterope, Taygete and Maia.
But think OF the billions AMI trillions OF
daughters OF starry light that Col cIIl5 by
name as they sweep by Him with belmin Z
brow and lustrous robel So fond is Gol of
lght-natural light moral light, spiritual
light. Again and again is light harnesSel
for synbolization - Christ, the bright
morning star; evangelizaton the day-break ::
the redemption of nations, Sun of
Righteousness rising with healing in His
wings. men and women, with so many
sorrows and sins and pcrplexities, il yol
want light OF comfort, light of pardon. liz ght
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 thess two archinelacoes
OF stars must be an unchanginy Col. There
had been no change in the stellar APPEAR
ance in this herdsman's litetimn, anl his
father, shepherd, reported TO him tn 1t
there had been no change in his lifetime.
And these two clusters han, over the caes.
tial arbor now just as they were the first
night that they shOnb on the F. lcnic bowers;
the same as when the Egyptians built the
pyramids from the topof which to wAtcl
them; the same as wheu the ChaUieans ca
cu'atei the eclipses; the sane as when
Elihu, according TO the book OF JOB, wea,
out TO study the aurora borealis; the same
under Ptelemaic system aud Copernicln sys.
tenn; the same from Callsthenes to Pythlg-
oraS and from Pythagoras TO Hersshel.
Surely, changeless God must have fash.
ioned the Pleiades AMI Orionl Oh. what an
anodyne amid the ups and downs of lie, an
tie tiux and reiiux OF the tides OF prosperity
to know that we have a chan yeleSs Col, tins
same yesterday, to-day and foreverm
Xerxes garlandei aud kni Slte the st,erS-
man OF his boat in tho m)gnin; aul hangel
him in the evening OF ths sane day. The
world sits in its chariot AMI drives tandem,
and the horse ahead is Huzzt and the horse
behind is Anataenl. Lord Cobham, in
King JameS'S time, was appIau lei, and had
thirty-hye thousand dollars a year, but WAS
atterward eXecrltel and lived on SCRAPS
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alex inler
the Great after daatn remlined unouriei for
thirty days because no one would do the
honor Of ShOveling him under. TAe Du - OF
Wellington retu-ei II have his lrOl ielce
mende1 because II had heen bro,icu b. an
nturlated populace IN soma hour OF political
excitement AN he lett 1t in RUNS that men
might learn what a ticSl5 th!ny is human
favor. "Brt the mercy OF tn, LDTI is from
everlasting to everl istinL t. taa;n that fear
Him, and His riShteousn IS unto tho chil.
dren's children OF such as keep Il S c ,veaant,
aud TO those who re member His clmmlui-
ments TO do them." THIS momenC ".S,ai
Him that maketh tae Seven Stars aud
Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we mus: sea-, that
the God who made III ,se two beacons Of the
oriental night sky mus; b God OF love and
Kindly warning. The Pleiqdes rising in
nj isEy said to all the her Isnen AMI shpO-
herds and husbandmen, GONE ont ami en-
Joy the mild weather AMI cultivate your
gardens and flellsn Orion, coming in win.
Ter, warned them to prepare for tempest.
All navigation was regulated by these two
>onstellatiDns. The one sail 70 shipmlster
and crew, Hoist sail for the sea and gather
merchandise from oth3r lands" But Orion
vas the storm signal, and sail, "Re,t salt,
make things snug or put into harbor, for tho
hurricanes are getting their wings out.n As
the Plelaies were the sweet evange.s of the
spring, Orion was tle warning prophet OF
the winter.
Oh, now get the best view OF Col ever
hail There are two kinds of sermons |
never want to preach-the one that presents
God so kind, 50 inlulycnt, SO lenient SO inn
Oecle that men may do what they Will
against Him and fracture His every law aud
put the pry Of their impert.nsncs AMI re.
6elhon under His throne, AMI wllle they are
splitting IN His faC9 uui stibhns at His
heart, He takes them up III His arms aud
kiss their inturlated brow and cheek, say
ing, ''Ot suca IS the king Ion OF heaven
The other kin OF sermon | never want TO
preach is the one that represents Cos as ali
ire and torture AMI thuuiercloui, an vita
red rot pitchtork tossing the human ra .
into paroxysms Of infinite agony. The SER
mon that am now preaching believes in
God ofloving, kindly warning, tho Col OF
spring and winter, the Col OF PIelldeS an
Orion.
\ on must remember that the winter is lust
as important as the spring, Let one winter
pass without frost TO Kill vegetation AMI ice
TO bind the rivers and snow t. euricl our
fields and then you will have to enlarge
your hospitals and your csmetaries. "A
green Christmas makes a fat graveyard "
was the old proverb. Storms 10 purify the
air. Thermometer at ten de5rees above z5ro
to tone up the system. December and Jan
uary just as important as May and June. |
tell you we nssl the storms OF life just as
much as we do the sunshine. Ihere are more
men ruined by prosperity than by adversely
IL we had our own way IN lie before this we
would have been inpersCnations OF selfish
ness and worldhness and dis yustlug SIN, and
pufed up until we would nave been like
julius Cesar, vino was made by sycophants
to believe that he was divine, and that the
freckles on his face were as stars OF the firm.
ament.
One of the swirtest transatlantic voya yes
made last summer by our swiftast steamer
was because she had "A stormy wini abaft,
chasing her from New YORK to Liverpool.
But 10 those going in the opposite direction
the storm was buifeting and hindrancn.
1t is bad thing to have a storm ahead,
pushing us back; but il we be Coils children
and aiming toward heaven the storms OF
life will only chase us the sooner into the
harbor. | AN 50 glad to believe thlt the
monsoons and typhoons AMI mlstrals AM
sroccos Of the lanl and sea are not un-
chained maniacs let loose upon tho earth,
but are under divine supervlsionl 1 am so
glad that the God of the Seven Stars Is also
the God of Orionl IL was out OF Danta's
suffering came the sublime "Divina Com
media" and out of John Miiton's blindness
came paradise Lost" and out OF miserable
infdel attack cane the Bird 5ewater
Treatise in favor of Christianity, and out
of Davips exile came the songs OF conso!a-
ton, and out of the suif1rInys of Christ
come the possibility of the worlds relemc'
ton, and out OF your bereavement. your
, persecution your povertles, your misior-
tunes may yet come an eternal heaven.
Oh, what mercy 1t is that in the text aud
all up and down the Bible God induces us TO
look out toward other worlds Bible astron-
omy in Genesis, in joshua in job, in the
Psalms II the prophets, major and minor,
in st. Johns Apocalypse, practically saying:
"World'sl worldsl worldsl Get ready Tor
themm We have nice little world here
that we stick to, as though losing that we
lose all. We are afraid OF failing oif this
little raft Of a word We are AFRAID that
some meteoric iconoclast will some night
smash 1t, and we want everything to revoIvt
around 1t, and are disappointe when We
find that it revolves around thu sun inst lad
of Uhe sun revolving around it. What q
fuss We make about this little Oit Of world
its existence only a short timo between two
spasms. the paroxysm by which it was hurled
from chaos into order, and the paroxysm o.
| its demolition.
And am glad that so many texts call u
to look Off to other worlds, many of then
larger and granier and more resplendent
Look there" says job "at MazIroth ant
Arcturus and his sons !" "Look there" say