The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-21

heart sick. get some one TO go out with you
into the starlight and point out TO you the
Pleiades. OF. better than that, get into some
Observatory, and through the telescope see
further than Amos With the naked eye
c0uld-namely. two hundred stars in the
Pleiades, and that in what is
called the sword Of Orion the is a
nebula computed to be two trillion, two
hundred thousand billions times larger than
the sun. o, be at peace With the God who
made all that aud controls all that-the
wheel Of the consultations turning in the
wheel Of galsxies for thousands of years
without the breaking Of a cog or the slipping
of band or the snap of an axle. For Y Iur
placidity and comfort through the Lord
Jesus Christ / charge you. 80 Seek him that
msketh the seven stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, we must see, that
the God who made these two groups OF the
text wes the God of light Amos saw that
God was n { satisfied with making one star,
or two or three stars. but he MAKES seven;
and having finished that group Of worlds,
makes another-group after group. To the
Pleiades he adds Orion. 1t seems that God
likes light so we'll that be keeps making it.
Only one being IN the universe knows the
statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric
and that is the creator himself. Aud they
have all been lovingly chrIstened, each one
q name as distinct as the names OF your
children. "He uelleth 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.
Celeuo, Electra, Sterope. Taygete, 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 beaming
brow and lustrous robel So fond is God OF
light-natural light, moral light, spiritual
light. Again and again is light harnessed
for symbolizaJion Christ, the bright and
morning star; evangelizatlon, the day
break; the redemption Of nations, sun Of
Righteousness rising with healing in his
wings o, men and women, with so
many sorro VS. and sins and perplexiti 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 o ion.n
Again. Amos sew. as we must see, that
the God who made these two archipelagoes
of stars must be an unchanging God. There
had been no change in the stellar appear
ance in this herdsman's lifetime, and his
father, shepnerd, reported to him that
there had been no change in his lifetime.
And these two clusters hang over the celes-
tial arbor now just as they were the first
night that they shone or the Edenic bowers,
the same as when the Egyptians built the
pyramids from the top OF which to watch
culated 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 Copernican system,
the same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras,
and from Pythagoras TO Herschel. Surely,
a changeless God must have fashioned the
Pleiades and 0rionl o, what an anodyne
amid the UPS aud downs of life. and the
flux and refux of the tides of prosperity. to
know that we have ohangeless God, the
same vest erday, to-day and forever.
Xerxes garlanded aud knighted the steers
man of his boat in the morning, and hanged
him in the evening of the same day. The
world sits in its chariot and drives tandem,
and the horse ahead is Huzza, and the horse
behind is Anathe ma. Lord Gotham, In
King James time was applauded, and had
thirtytive thousand dollars year, but was
afterward execrated, and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander
the Great after death remained unburied
for thirty days. because no one would do
the honor of shovehng him under. The Duke
of Wellington refused to have his iron
fence mended because it has 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 chidren's children of such as keep
his covenant, aud to those who remember
his commandments TO do them" This
moment ''seek him that maketh the seven
stars and Orion"
Ag in, Amos saw, as we must
see, that the God who made these
two beacons OF the Oriental night
sky must be God of love and kindly warm
ing. The Pleiades rising in mid-sky said to
all the herdsmen and shepherds and hus-
handmen: Come out and enjoy the mild
weather. and cultivate your gardens and
fields" Orion, coming in winter. warned
them to prepare for tempest. All naviga-
tion was regulated by these two oonstella-
tions. The one said to the shipmaster and
crew: "Hoist sail for the sea, and gather
merchandise from other lands" But Orion
was the storm signal and said: "Reet sail
make things snug, or put into the harbor,
for the hurricanes are getting their wings
out" As the Pleiades were the sweet evan
gels OF the spring, Orion was the warning
prophet of the winter.
o, now get the best view of God ever
had There are two kinds Of sermons |
never want to preach-the one that presents
God so kind, so indulgent. so lenient, so inns
beetle that men may do what they will
against him, and fracture his every law,
and Tut the pry OF their impertinence and
rebellion under his throne, and while they
hk0 spllblLk lace anu SLaODlnR at MS
heart, he takes them up in his arms and
kisses their Infatuated brow aud cheek, say.
ing, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven u
the other kind of sermon | never want &c
preach is the one that represents God as all
fire and torture and thunder-cloud, and
with red-not pitch-fork tossing the human
race into paroxysms of infinite agony. The
sermon that am now preaching believes In
a God of loving, kindly warning, the God
of spring and winter, the God Of The Pleiadel
and Orion.
You must remember that the winter il
just as important as the spring. Let one
winter pass without frost TO kill vegetation
and ice to bind the rivers and snow to en-
rich our field, and then you will have t.
enlarge your hospitals and your cemeteries
A green Christmas makes a fat grave
yard" was the old proverb. Storms tc
purify the air. Thermometer at ten de-
grees above zero 10 tone up the system
December and January just as important
as May and June. l tell you we need the
storms of life as much as we do the sun
shine. There are more men ruiaed by pros
peritY than by adversely. If we had our
own way IN life, before this we would have
been i'm PRESENTATIONS OF selfishness and world
illness and disgusting sin, and pulled up un
til we would have been like julius Caesar
who was made by sycophants to believe
that he was divine, and that the freckles on
his face were as the stars OF the armament
One CT the swiftest transatlantic voyages
made last summer by our swlftest steamer
was because she had a stormy wind aoaft
chasing her from New York TO Tivarpool