Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-03-21
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COpern1can system the same from
Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
Pythagoras to Herschel Surely a
changeless God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
Of life and the fiux and ref1ux of the
tides Of prosperity to know that we
have a changeless God, the same yes
tart.ay. today and forever!''
NerXes; Garlanded and knighted the
steesrs1nan Of his boat in the morn
inc and hanged him in the evening
Of the same day. The world sits in
its chariot and drives tandem, and
the here ahead is Huzza and the
horse behind is Anathema. Lord
Gotham, in King James time, was
applauded, and had thirty-five thou
sand dollars a year, but was after
ward execrated, and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alex
ander the Great after death remained
unburied for thirty days, because no
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 an
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 children's 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 herds,nen 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 to
shipmaster 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
l ever had! There are two kinds of
sermons 1 never want to preach-the
one that presents God so kind, so in
dulgent, SO lenient, so imbecile that
men may do what they will against
him, and fracture his every law, and
put the pry of their impertinencea and
rebellion under his throne, and while
they are splitting in his face and
stabbing at his heart, he takes them
up in his arms and kisses their in
furiated brow and cheek, saying, 'sOf
such is the kingdom of heaven" The
other kind of sermon [ never want
to preach is the one that represents
God as all fire and torture and
thundercloud, and with red hot
pitchfork tossing the human race into
paroxysms of infinite agony The
sermon that | am now preaching be-
lieves 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
ter is just as important aS the spring.
Let one winter pass without frost to
kill vegetation and ice to bind the
rivers and snow to enrich our fields,
and then you will have to enlarge
your hospitals and your cemeteries
"a green Christmas makes a fat
graveyard" was the old proverb
Storms to purify the air Thermom-
eter at ten degrees above zero to
tone up the system. December and
January just as important as May and
June. tell you we need the storms
of life as much as we do the sunshine.
There are more men ruined by pros
pe1ity than by adversely. If we had
our own way in life before this we
would have been impersonations of
and worldliness and dis
gushing sin, and pulled up until we
would have been like Julius Caesar,
who was rnade by sycophants to be-
lieve that he was divine, and the
freckels OH his face were as the stars
of the armament
One Of the swiftest transatlantic
voyages made last summer by our
5wifteSt steamer was because she |
had stormy wind abaft, chasing
her from New York to Liverpool.
But to those going in the opposite
direction the storm was a buffeting
and hindrance. It is bad thing |