Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-21

out to etrfiy tie aurora D-EtabSs lltr
same under Ftolenaie sy stem and
Copc,7ican system; the same from
Calisthencs to Pytbagoras. and from
Pythaeoras to Herschel Surely a
changeless God must have fashioned
the pleiades and Orion Oh, what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
Of lie and the fiux and rcfiux of the
tides of prosperity to know that we
have a chaugcless God, the same yes
t,rlay, today and foreyer"
Xerxcs garlanded and knighted the
stee1snan Of his boat in the nom.
ing 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 Anathema. Lord
Gotham, in King James time, was
applauded. and had thirty-five thou
sand dollars a year, but was after
ward execrated, and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alex
ander the Great after death remained
unbunied for thirty days, because no
one would do the honor of shoveling
him under. The Duke Of Wellington
refused to have his iron fence mend
ed, because it had been broken by an
infuriated populace in some hour Of
political excitement, and he loft il in
ruins that men might learn what
tickle thing is human favor. But
the mercy of the Lord is from ever
lasting to everlasting to them that
fear him, and his righteousness unto
the children's children of such as
keep his covenant, and TO those who
remember his commandments to do
them" This moment "Seek him
that maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion.
Again, Amos saw, as we must zee,
that the God who made these two
beacons OF the oriental night sky
must be a God of love and kindly
warming. The Pleiades rising in mid
sky said to all the herdsmen and
shepherds and husbandmen, Come
out and enjoy the mild weather, and
cultivate your gardens 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, 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 har-
Dor, for the hurricanes are getting
their wings out" AS the Pleiades
were the sweet evangels of the
spring, Orion was the warning
prophet of the winter.
GODS LOVE AND JUSTICE.
Oh, now l 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, 80 in
dulgent. 80 lenient, so imbecile that
men may do what they will against
him, and fracture his every law, and
put the pry of their impertinence and
rebellion under his throne, and while
they are splitting in his face and
stabbing at his heart, he takes them
up in his arms and kisses their in
furiated brow and cheek, saying, "Of
such is the kingdom of heaven" The
other kind of sermon never want
to preach is the one that represents
God as all fire and torture and
thundercloud, and with red hot
pitchfoTk tossing the human race into
paroxysins of infinite agony. The
sermon that am now preaching be-
lieves in a God of loving, kindly
warning, the God of spring and
winter, the God Of the Pleiades and
Orion
You must remember that the win
ter is just as important as 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 Christmas makes fat
graveyard" was the old proverb.
Storms to purify the air. Thermom-
eter at ten degrees above zero to
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 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 impersonations of
selfishness and worldliness and dis
gusting sin, and puffed up until we
would have been like julius Caesar,
who was made by sycophants to be-
heve that he was divine, and the
freclxels ON his face were as the stars
of the armament.
One of the swiftest transatlantic
voyages made last summer by our
swiftest steamer was because she
had stormy wind abaft, chasing
her from New York TO Liverpool
But TO those going in the opposite
direction the storm was a buffeting
and hindrance. 1t is bad thing
TO have n storm ahead, pushing us
back; but II we be Gods children
and aiming toward heaven, the
storms of life viii only chase us the
sooner into the harbor l ann 30 glad
10 believe that the monsoons and ty-
phoons and mistrals and sirocoos of
the land and sea are not unclaimed
maniaos let loose upon the earth, but
are under divine supervisionl l am
30 glad that the God of the Seven
Stars is also the God of Orion
TWAS out of Dante's suffering came
the sublime "Divina Commedia, and
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