Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-03-26

las" and Virgil wrote in his Aneid
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 a sedative to you and me, to
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pellmell, and world
ruled by some fend at haphaZard,
andin all directions maladminstra-
toni The God who keeps seven
worlds in right circuit for six thou
sandIyears can certainly keep all the
affairs of individuals and nations
and continents in adjustment. We
hadnot 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 l feel very much rs my father
felt one day when we were going to
the country mill to get the grist
ground, and l, boy of seven years,
sat in the back part of tho wagon,
and our yoke of oxen ran away with
us and along 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 eturned
to me with a face perfectly calm and
said: DE Witt, what are you crying
about2 guess we can ride rs fast
as the oxen can run" And, my
hearers, why should we be affrightcd
and lose our equilibrium in the swift
movement Of worldly events, espe-
cialy when we are assured that it is
not yoke of unbroken steers that
are drawing us on, but that order
and wise government are in the yolSe7
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
Plciades, 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 Plciades and
that in what is called the sword of
Orion there is nebula computed to
be two t1illion two hundred thousand
billions times larger than the sun.
Oh, be at peace with God who made
all that and controls ell 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
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 Pleiades he adds
Oricn. 1t seems that God likes light
SO well that he keeps makingit it. Only
one being in the universe knows the
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
dren. He telleth the number of tho
stars; he calleth them all by the
names" The seven Pleiades had
names given to them, and they are
Alcyone, Merope, Celano, 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
robel So fond is God of light-natu-
raj light, moral light, spiritual light.
Again and again is light harncssed
for symbolization-Christ, the bright
and morning star; evangelization,
the daybreak; the redemption of ma
tons, Sun of Rightcc yless rising
with healing in his wiat5. o men
and women, with SO nifty sorrows
and sins and pcrplexitics. if 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"
WITHOUT vARIABLENEss.
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these Two
archipelagocs of stars must be an un-
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance IN
this herdman's lifetime, and his IA
Their, 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 Chaldeans calculated the
eclpses; the same as when Ehhu,
according to the Book of Job, went
out to study the aurora borealis; the
same under Ptolemaic system and
Copornican system; the same from
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