Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-01


than the sun Oh, beat peace with tne zoo
! who made all that and controls al. tnat-tne
wheel of the consultations turning In Tue
| wheel of ga!axIes for thousands or years
without the breaking OF cog or tns snpp onE
| of band or the snap of an axle. FOR your
! placidity and comfort through the Loro
Jesus Christ charge you, Seek him That
| maketh the Seven Stars and Orion
| Again, Amos saw, as we must see, tnae tne
! God who made these two groups or the text
| was the God of light. Amos saw that God
was not satisfied with making one star or
three stars, but He makes seven; and having
| fipished that group of worlds makes announcer
| group-group after group. To the Pleiades
| He adds Orion. It 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 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, Ceiano, Electra,
Sterope, Tavgete and Maia.
But think of the billions and trillions of
daughters of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep by Him with beaminy
brow and lustrous robe! So fond is God of
I!ght-natural light, moral light, spiritual
light. Again and again is light harnessed
for symbohzation Christ, the bright
morning star: evangelizat;on the dav-break:
the redemption OF nations, Sun OF
RIghteousnes rising with healing in His
wings. I'm en- and women, with SO many
sorrows and sins and perpIexities, if you
want light of comfort, light of pardon, light
OF goodness, in earness prayer through
Christ, Seek Him that maketh Tie Seven
Stars and Orion >
Again, Amos saw as we must see, that
the God who made thes> two archipelagoes
of stars must be an unchanging God. There
had been no change in tle stellar appear
ance in this herdsmanS 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 ceIes-
tlal arbor now just they were the first
night that thew shone OIL the Edenic bowers:
the same as when the Egyptians built the
pyramids, from the top OF which to watch
hem: the same as when the Chaldeans cal
culate1 the eclIpses; the same when
Eihu, according to the book OF Job, went
out to study the aurora borealis; the same
under Ptelenlaic system and Copernican sYs.-
TEN; the same from Cali sthene5 to Pythag-
oras and from Pytha -oras to Herschel.
Surely, a changeless Go must have fash
Toned the Plelades and Orion Oh. what an
anodyne amid the ups an downs Of life, an
5he dux and refux of the tides of prosperity,
TO know that we have a chaugelesS God thu
same yesterday, to-day and forever"'
Xerxes garlauded and knighte1 the steers
man of his boat In the morning AMI hanged
ulu III Gu0 evening Oh Un9 same Gay. Inc
world sits in its chariot AID drives tandem,
and the horse ahead is Hpzza and the horse
behind is Anathems. Lord Gotham, in
King James time was appiauded, and had
5hrty-five thousand dollars a year, but was
atterward execrated and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander
The Great after death remained unbured for
thirty days, because no one would do the
aonor of shoveling him under. The Duke of
Yelling ton refused to have his iron fence
Ind hnno Lo,I
nfuriated populace in some hour Of political
excitement, and he left it in ruins that men
night learn what tickle thing is human
-avor. 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 covenant,
md to those W hO remember His command
nents to do them" This moment 'sSeek
Him that maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion
Again, Amos saw, as we must see that
6he TOD who made these two beacons OF the
oriental night sky must BE- a God of love and
Kindly warning. The Pleiades rising in
nidsky said to all the herdsmen and shep-
herds and husbandmen, ''Come out ana en-
Joy the mild weather and cultivate your
gardens and fields" Orion coming in win
ter, warned them to prepare for tempest.
All navigation was regulated by these two
consultations. The one said to shipm aster
and crew, ''doist 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 ara getting their wings out" AS
the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the
spring, Orion was the warning prophet OF
the winter.
On, now get the best view of Col ever
had! There are two kinds of sermons [
never want to preach-the one that presents
God so kind, SO indulgent, so lenient, SO i'm
beetle that men may do what they will
against Him and fracture His every law and
put the pry OF their impertinence aud re-
beion under His throne and while they are
splitting IN His face and stabbing at His
neart He takes them up in His arms and
kiss S their Infatuated brow and cheek, say
ing, OF suca is the kingdom OF heaven"
The Otler kind OF sermon l never want to
preach is the one that represents Cos as all
tire and torture and thunderclOud, an with
red hot pitchtOrk tossing the human race
into paroxysms Of infinite agony. the ser
| mon that 1 am now preaching believes in
| God ofloving kindly warning, the God OF
! spring ard winter, the God OF Pleiades AMI
| Orion.
| You must remember that the winter is just
| as important as tho 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. Thermometer at ten degrees above zero
| to tone up the system. December and jan
| uary just as important as May and June.
| tell you We need the storms OF life just as
| much as we do the sunshine. There are mora
| men ruined by prosperity than by adversely.
| II we had our own way In lite before this we
would have been representations OF selfish
ness and wOrldiinesS and disgusting sin, and
| pulled up until we would nave been like