The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-04-01

country mill to get grist ground, and
i. 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,
SO that i thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces and made a
terrible outcry of fright. and my father
turned to me with N 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 affrighted
and lose our equilibrium in the swift
movements of worldly events. especial
ly when we are assured that it is not
yoke of unbroken steers that are draw
ing us on, but that order and wise gov
eminent are i'm the yoke?
In your occupation, your mission,
your sphere, do the best you can. and
then trust to God; and il 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 star
light and point out to you the Pleiades,
or, better than that, get into some OBJ
servatory, 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
nebuia computed to be two trillion two
hundred thousand billions times larger
than the sun. Oh, be at peace with
the God who made all that and con-
trolls all fthat-the wheel of the con-
stelIations,f turning In the wheel of
galaxies for thousands of years with
out the breaking of a cog or the slip
ping of a band or the snap of an axle.
For your placidity and comfort through
the Lord Jesus Christ 1 charge you:
seek Him that maketh the seven stars
and Orin."s 5 SEGFEBllef -tf q.
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, and having
finished that group Of worlds, makes
another group-group after group. To
the PIeiades 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, meteoric creations,
and that is the Creator Himself. And
they have all been lovingly christened,
each one a name as distinct as the
names of your children. HE telleth
the number of the stars; He calleth
them all by their names-" The seven
Pleiades had names given to them, and
they. are Alcyone, Merope, Cel@no,
Electra, Sterope, Taygete and Maiaa J ]
But think of the billions and trillions
ofdaughters of starry light, that God
calls by name, as they sweep by Him
with bearning brow and lustrous robel
So fond is, God of ,light-natural light,
moral light, spiritual light. Again and
again is light harnessed for symboliza-
tiOl-Christ the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the day break; the
redemption Of nations; Sun of Right
eousness, rising with healing In His
wings. Oh, men and women, with so
many sorrows and sins and perplexities,
IL 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
archipelagoes of stars must be an un-
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in this
herdsman's lifetime; and his father,
shepherd, reported to him that there
had been no change in his lifetime.
And these two clusters hang over the
celestial arbor now just as they were
the,first night that they shone on the
Edenic bowers; the same as when the
Egyptians built the pyramids, from
the top of which to watch them; the
same as when the Caldeans calculated
the eclipses; the same as when Elihu,
according to the Book of Job, went out
to study the aurora borealis; the same
under fPtolemaic system and Cor
pernican system; the same from Calls
themes to Pythagoras, and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely a
changeless God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orionl Oh, what an
anodyne amid the ups and downs of
life. and the flux and refiux of the tides
of prosperity to know that we have
changeless God, the same yesterday, to-
day and forever. ft
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
same day. The world sits in its chariot
and drives tandem, and the horse ahead
is Huzza, and the horse behind is Anath-
ema- Lord Gotham, in King James
time, was. applauded and had thirty
five thousand dollars year, but was
afterwards execrated and lived on
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen.
Alexander the Great after death re-
manned unburied thirty days because
no man would do the honor of shovel
ing him under. The duke of Yelling
mended 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 everlasting
to everlasting, to them that fear Him, /
and His righteousness, unto the chill
dren's children of such as keep His COW
enant, and to those who remember His
commandments to do them."i This mo-
ment Seek Him that maketh the Sew
en- Stars and Orion."2 Gaal6 3at SIS 49,
Again, Amos saw as we must see,
that the God who made these two bea-
cons of the oriental night sky must be
God of love and kindly warning. The
Pleiades rising in mid-sky said to all
theeherdsmen and shepherds and hus-
bandmen: Come out and enjoy the
mild weather, and cultivate your gar
Gens and fields" Orion, coming in
winter, warned them to prepare for
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