The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-01
Sublime order. Om-

whom communities and nations some
times going pell nell, and world
ruled by some fiend at haphazard, and
in all directions maladministration
The God who keeps seven worlds in
right circuit tor six thousand years car
certainly keep all the affairs of individ.
uals and continents in adjustment. We
had not better fret much, for the
peasants argument of the tax 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
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 star
light and point out to you the Pleiades,
or. better than that, get into some OBJ
servatory, and through the telescope
see further than Amos with the naked
eye cOuld-namely, 200 stars in the
Pleiades. and that in what is called the
sword of Orion there is a nebula COM
puted to be 2, 200, 900, OOO, 900 times larg-
er than the SUI o. be 1t peace with
the God who made all that and con-
trolls all that-the wheel of the con-
stellations turning in the wheel of the
galaxies for thousands of year with
out the breaking of a cog or the slip
ping of a band or the snap of an axle.
For your placidity and comfort through
the Lord Jesus Christ / charge you,
seek Him hat 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 be makes seven; and
having finished that group of worlds.
makes another group-group after
group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion.
1t seems that God likes light SO we'll
he keeps making it Only one
being in the universe knows the statis-
tics of solar. lunar, stellar, meteoric
creations, and that is the Creator him.
self. And they have all been lovingly
each one a name as dis
tinct as the m Of your children.
"He telleth the number of the stars; he
them all by their names"
But think of the billions and trillions
daughters of starry light that God
calls by name as they sweep by Him
with beaming brow and lustrous robe!
So fond is God of light-natural light.
moral light spiritual light Again and
again is light harnessed for symboliza-
.ion-Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the daybreak; the
of nations, Sun of Right
rising with healing in His
wings. o, men and women, with SO
many sorrows and sins and perplexi-
lies, if you want light of comfort light
# pardon, lightof goodness, in earnest
,raver through Christ, "Seck Him that
naketh the seven stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
hat the God who made these two
lrchipeligos of stars mast be an I'M
changing God. There had been no
in the stellar appearance in
his herdsman's life time, and his
ather, a shepherd, reported to him
hat there had been no change in his
life time. And these two clusters hang
,ver the celestial arbor now Just as
hey were the first night that they
hone on the Edenic bowers Surely,
changeless God must have fashioned
he Pleiades and Orion! o. what an
amid the ups and downs of
ife, and the fiux and refiux of the
ides of prosperity, to know that we
ave a changeless God, the same yes
to-day and forever.
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
of his boat in the morning
nd hanged him in the evening of the
aEe day. The world sits in its chariot
md drives tandem and the horse ahead
S Huzza and the horse behindis Anathe-
But the mercy of the Lord is
rom everlasting to everlasting to them
hat fear Him. and His Righteousness
INTO the children's children of such as
His covenant and TO those who
emember His commandments to do
hem. IRIS mOTltut SSch HiLu tudI
the seven stars AMI Orion"
Again Amos saw, as we must see,
hat God who made the two beacons of
ne oriental night sky must be a God
( love and kindly warning. The
'leiades rising in mid sky said to all
he herdsmen and shepherds and hus-
andmen: Come pat and enjoy the
lid weather and cultivate your
ardeus and fields" Orion, coming in
inter, warned them to prepare for
,mpest. All navigation was regulated
v these two consultations. The one
aid to shipmaster and crew: Hoist
all for the sea and gather merchandise
.om other lands" But Orion was the
.orm signal and said: Reef sail.
lake things snug or prt into harbor,
u the hurricanes are getting wings
ut" AS the Pleiades were the sweet
of the spring, Orion was the
-arning prophet of the winter.
O, now / get the best view OF God I
yer had! There are two kinds OF SER
IONS I never want to ~preach-the one
rat presents Gods so kind. S , indulgent,
lenient, so inbeci,e that men may do
hat they will against him, and tract
re his every law, and put the pry OF
Heir impertinence aud rebellion under
.ll- a. r-,tti,V II