The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-29


kitchen. Alexander the Great after
days because no one would do The honor
of shoveling him under. The Duke of
Wellington refused to have his iron
fence mended because IL had been
broken by an Infatuated populace in
some hour of political excitement, and
he left IL in ruins that men might learn
what 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 children's children of such rs keep
His covenant and 20 those who re-
member His commandments TO do
thorn" This moment seek Him that
made the Seven Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the god who made the two beacons
of the Oriental night sky must be God
of love and kindly warning. The
Plciades rising in mid sky said to all
the herdsmen and shepherds and hus-
bandmen: "Comc out and enjoy the
mild weather, and cultivate your gar
dcns and fields" Orion, coming in win
ter, warned them to prepare for tenn
pest
All navigation was regulated by these
two consultations. 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: "Reef sail, make
things snug, or put into 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
Oh, now | get the best view of God
ever had! There are two kinds of SER
mons | never want to prcach-the one
that presents God so kind, so indulgcnt,
so lcnient. so imbecilc that men may
do what they will against Him, and
fracture His every law and put the pry
of their impertincnce and rebellion
under His throne, and while they are
splitting in his face and stabbing at His
heart lie takes them up in His arms
and kisses their Infatuated brow and
cheek. saying, "Of such is the King
dom of Heaven"
The other kind of sermon i never
want to preach is the one that repre-
sents God as all fire and torture and
thundcr.cloud, and with red-hot pitch
fork tossing the human into paroXysms
of infinite agony. The sermon that |
am now preaching believes in n God of
loving, kindly warning, the God of
Pleiades and Orion.
tltat l,a xxriYN tat.
is just as important rs the 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 Christ
mas 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
January just as important as May and
June. | tell you we need the storms
of life as much as we do the sunshine.
There are more men ruined by pros
perity than by adversely. If we had
our own way in life before this we
would have been representations of
sclfshness and worldlincss and disgust.
ing sin, and pulled up until we would
have been like Julius CAESAR, who was
made by sycophants to believe that he
was divine and the frecklcs on his face
were as the stars of the armament.
One of the swiftest transatlantic voy-
ages made last summer by our swiftest
steamer was because she had a stormy
wind abaft, chasing her from New York
to Liverpool. But to those going in
the opposite direction the storm was a
bulTeting and hinderance. 1t is
bad thing to have a storm ahead, push
ing us back: but if we be Gods chill
dren and aiming toward Heaven, the
storms of life will only chase us the
sooner into the harbor. am so glad to
believe that the monsOons and typhoons
and mistrals and siroccos of the land
and sea are not unclaimed maniacs
let loose upon the earth, but are under
divine supervision! am so glad that
the God of the Seven Stars is also the
God of Orion. 1t was out of Dante's
suffering came the sublime "Divana
Commedia," and ont of John Millions
blindness came Paradise Lost" and
out of miserable infidel attack came
the "Bridgcwater Treatise" in favor of
Christianity, and out of David's exile
came the songs of consolation. and out
of the sufferings of Christ came the
possibility of the worlds redemption,
and out of your bereavement, your per-
secution, your poverties, your misfor-
tunes may yet come an eternal Heaven.
Oh what Il mercy it is that in the
text and all up and down the Bible,
God induces us to look out toward other
worlds! Bible astronomy, in Genesis,
l Inch..n L., tln ID a Inns In the nrAnh.