Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-26

mighty on the dome of the SHY, so that
all nations may read It Order Per-
sistent order. Sublime order Om-
nipotent order
What a sedative to you and me, to
whom communities aud nations some.
times seem going pell nell, and world
ruled by some fiend ut haphazard, and
in all directions INSTRUMENTATION!
The God who keeps seven worlds In
right circuit tor six thousand years can
certainly keep oil the affairs Of individ-
uals and continents In adjustment. We
had not better fret much, for the
peasants argument of the tax was
right. II 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 il things are all
mixed and disquieting, and your brain
is hot and your heart sick, get some
one to 60 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 q nebula COM
puted to be 2, 200, 600, 600, 900 times larg-
err than the sun. o. be at 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 years with
out the breaking Of a cog or the slip
ping Of band or the snap OF an axle.
For your placidity 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 Orion.
It seems that God likes light SO well
that he keeps making il. 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
christened, each one q name as dis
tinct as the names OF your children.
HE telleth the number OF the stars; he
calleth them all by their names"
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 robe!
So fond is God of light-natural light
moral light, spiritual light. Again and
again is light harnessed for symboliza-
tion-Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the daybreak; the
redemption of nations, Sun OF Right
eousness rising with healing in His
wings. o, men and women, with SO
many sorrows and sins and perplexi-
ties. il 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"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
archipeligos of stars must be an un-
changing God. There had been nc
change in the stellar appearance In
this herdsman's life time, and his
father, a shepherd, reported to him
that there had been no change in his
life time. And these two clusters hang
over the celestial arbor now just as
they were the first night that they
shone on the Edenic bowers. Surely,
a changeless God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orion! o. what an
auodyne amid the ups and downs oil
life, and the fiux and refiux OF the
tides of prosperity, to know that we
have changeless God, the same yes
terday, to-day and forever.
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening OF the
same day. The world sits in its chariot
aud drives tandem and the horse ahead
Is Huzza and the horse behind Is Anathe'
ma But the mercy of the Lord ID
from everlasting 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 dc
them" This moment seek Him thai
malxeth the seven stars and Orion"
Again Amos saw, as we must see,
that God who made the two beacons OF
the oriental night sky must be a God
of love and kindly warning. The
Pleiades rising in mid sky said to all
the herdsmen and shepherds and hus'
bandmen: "Come out and enjoy the
mild weather and cultivate your
gardens and fields" Orion, coming in
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