Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-03-21

star here ard d star there that i'm
| pressed the inspired herds1nan, but
seven III Csle group and seven II the
other group. He saw that night af
ter night and season after season
and decade after decade they lad
kept step Of light, each orc III Its
own place, a sistcrhood neve-. clash
ing and never contestinsT prccet.ence.
From the time Hesiod caIled TIC
Pleiades the seven daughters Of At
las. and Virgil wrote in his L-lnc:d
of Stormy Orion until now they
have observed the order established
for their coming and going; order
written not in manuscript that may
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 q 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 8 Ii 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 [, 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, SO 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
about! guess we can ride as fast
as the oxen can run. And, my
hearers, why should we be afrighted
and lose our equilibrium in the swift
movement of worldly events, espe
cially when we are assured that it is
not a yoke of unbroken steers that
are drawing us on, but that order
and wise governments are in the yokel
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 a 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 all 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 band or
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
IgLt Amos saw that God was not
satisfied with making one star, or two
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 Ii seems that God likes light
SO well that he keeps making it. Only
one being in the universe knows tho
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
dreG 'EIe telleth the number of the
names. 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 tril-
lions of daughters of starry light that |
God calls by name as they sweep by
him with beaming brow and lustrous
robe! So fond is God of light-natu-
raj light, moral light, spiritual light
Again and again is light harnessed
for symboization- Christ, the bright
and morning star; evangelization,
the daybreak; the redemption of ma
tons, Sun of Righteousness rising
with healing in his wings 0 men
and women, with so many sorrows