Milford chronicle., 1892-03-25


sword Of Orion there is a nebula compute
{ to be two trillion two hundred thousan
billions times larger than the sun. oh, b
peace with the God who made all tina
afa controls all that-the wheel of the COL
steiA2tions turning in the wheel of galaxie
for Thousands Of years without the break
ing Of aSaQg or the slipping of a band or tn
snap Of aflsaxle. For your placidity an,
comfort thrt,l ugh the Lord Jesus Christ
charge you. Seek him that maketh tn
Seven Stars AMI Orion"
THEN LIGHT OF GOD
Again, Amos tew, as we must see, that
the God who mad these two groups Of tn,
text was the God of light Amos saw that
God was not satisfied with making one
star, or two stGrs or three stars, but ht
makes seven; and having finished that
group Of worlds, makes another group
group after group. To the Pleiades he
adds OrioE.~ Il 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, meteoric creations
and that is the Creator himself And they
have all been lovingly christened, each one
name as distinct as the names of your
children. "He telleth the number Of the
stars; he calleth them all by their names. y
/ The seven Pleiades had names given to
them and they are Alcyone, Merope,
Cel@no, Electra, Sterope, Taygete and
Maia.
But think of the billions and trillions OF
/ daughters Of starry light that Gcl calls by
name as they sweep by him with beaming
brow and lustrOus robel So fond is God OF
light-natural light, moral light, spiritual
light Again and again is light harnessed
for symbolization-Christ, the bright
morning star; evangelzatiOn, the day
break; the redemption of nations, Sun of
Righteousness rising with healing in his
wings o men and women, with so many
sorrows and sins and perplexitiea, 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 see, that
the God who made these two oarchipelagoes
of stars must be an puohanging God
There had been no change in the stellar
appearance in this herdsman's lifetime
and his father, shepherd, reported to him
that here had been no change in his life
time And these two clusters hang over
the celestial arbor now just as they wera
the first night that they shone on the
Edenic bowers; She same as when the
Egyptiahs built the pyramids from the
top Of which to watch them; the same as
when the Chaldeans calculated the eciipses;
the same as when Elihu, according TO the
book Of job, went out to study the aurora
bprealis; the same under PtOlem8io system
and COperncan system; the same from
Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
PythagoTas to Herschel. Surely, change
less God must have fashioned the Pleiades
and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid
the ups and downs of life, and the flux and
Tetiug pf the tides OF prosperity, 10 know
that we have chapgeless God, the same
yesterday, today and foreveTp
FICKLENEss OF EARTHLY MONARCHs.
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersnan 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, ard the horse ahead is
Huzza and the horse behind is Anathema
Lord Gotham, in King James time, was
applauded, and hGd thirty-five thousand
dollars a year, hut was afterward execrated
and lived on scraps stolen from the royal
kitchen. Alexander the Great after death
remained unburied for thirty days, because
no one would do the honor Of shovcling
him under. The Duke of Wellington re
fused to have his iron fence mended because
it had been broken by an infuriated pop
ulace 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 chill
dren's children of such as keep his cove
pant, ami to those who remember his com !
mandments 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 God of |
love and kindly warning. The Pleiades |
rising in midsky said to all the herdsmen |
and shepherds and husbandmen, Come 1
ont and enjoy the mild weather and culti- |
vate your gardens and fields" Orion, COM
Ing in winter, warned them to prepare for
tempest. All navigation was regulated by
these two consultations. The one said to
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 evangels of the spring,
Orion was the warning prophet of the
winter,
LESSONS OF THE SEASONS.
Oh, now get the best view of God ever
hadl There are two kinds of sermons l
never want to preach-the one that pre-
sents God so kind, so indulgent, so lenient,
80 imbecile that men may do what they
will against him and fracture his every
law and put the pry of their impertinence
and rebellion under his throne, and while
hey are splitting in his face and stabbing
It his heart, he takes them up in his arms
md kisses their infuriated brow and cheek,
iaying, "Ofsuch is the kingdom Of heaven"
The other kind OF sermon / never want to
preach is the one that represents God rs all
ire and torture and thundsrcloud, and
gith red hot pitchfOrk tossing the human
ace into phroxysms Of infinite agony. The
ermOn that | am now preaching believes
n a God Of loving, kindly warning, the God
# spring and winter, the God of the Plei-
ides and Orion
You must remember that the winter is
ust az important as the spring. Let one
winter pass without frost to kill vegeta-
ion and ice to bind the rivers and snow to
nrich our 1clds and then you viii have to
nlarge your hospitals and your cemeteries
a green Christmas makes fat grave
ard" was the old proverb, Storms 20
,urify the air. Thermometer at ten de-
frees above zero TO tone up the system,
and january Just as important
= BAy and June. tell you we need the
tor1ns Of life as much as we do the sun
hine There are more men ruined by
irosperity than by adversely. II we had
ur own way in life, before this we would
AVE been impersonations of selfshness
nd worldliness and disgusting sin, and I
uffed up until we would have been like
ulius Cesar, who was made by sycO-
,hants to believe that he was divine, and {
he freckles on his face were as stars Of the
ornament
One of the swiftest transatianticv voyages
made last summer by our swiftest steamer ,
vas because she had a stormy wind abaft, ,
hasing her from New York to Liverpool, !
But to those going in the opposite direc- {
ion the storm was a buffeting and him I
rance. It is a bad thing to have a storm (
head, pushing us back; but if we be Gods ,
hildren and aiming toward heaven the {
torins Of life will only chase us the sooner ,
1tO the harhor. am so glad to believe I
hat the monsoons and typhOons and mis- {
rails and siroccos Of the land and sea are 7