The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-05-26


/, boy of seven years, sat in the bach
part Of the wagon, and our yoke o1
oxen ran away with MS, and along {
labyrinthine road through the woods
SO that | thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces and made q
terrible outcry of fright, and my father
turned 4Ho--me with a face perfectly
calm, and said: ''De Witt, what are you
crying about? l guess we can ride as
4 fast as the oxen can run" And, my
hearers, why should we be affrighted
anu lose our equilibrium in the swift
movements Qf.worldly events, especial.
ly when we are assured that it is not a
yoke of unbroken steers that are draw
ing us on, but that. order and wise gov
eminent are in 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 edisquieting, and your brain
is hot and your heart sick, get some
one to go outswith you into the star
hight and point7out 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
nsbuia 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 that-the wheel of the con-
stellations, turning in the wheel of
galaXies for thousands of years with
out the breaking of cog or the Slip
ping of band or the snap of an axle
For your placidity and comfort through
the Lord Jesus Christ | charge you
Seek Him that malzeth the seven stars
and Grin"
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 lie makes seven, and having
finished that group of worlds, makes
another group--group after group. To
the Pleiades lie adds Orion. 1t seems
that God likes light SO we'll 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" The seven
Plelades had names given to them, and
they are Alcyone, Merope, Celeno,
Electra, Sterope, Taygete and Maia.
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
archipelagoes of stars must be an I'M
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in this
herdsman's lifetime; and his father, a
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 Ptolemaic system and Cor
pernlcan system; the same from Calls
themes to Pythagoras. and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely a
ehangeless 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 yesterday, to-
day and forever >ssE:
Aerxes garlanded and lnighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening of the
same day. Tie 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 applaudcd and had thirtv-
five thousand dollars a 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
AO '-AD'hi " OolU OO Cllc uOHOr OF shovel
ing him under The duke of YELLING
ton refused to have his IRON fence
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
to do them" This mo-
ment Seek Him that maketh the Sew
en- Stars and Orion
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
the herdsmen and shepherds and hus-
bandmen: Come out and eniov the
mild weather, and cultivate your oar.
lens 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: "Ho;st