The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-02

whom communities ana nations some
times seem going pell-mell, and world
ruled by some fiend at hap-hazard,
and in all directions maladn1inistra-
ton! The God who keeps seven worlds
In right circuit for six thousand years
can, certainly keep all the affairs Of
individuals and nations and con.
tlnents in adjustment. Oh, be at peace
with the God who made all that and
controls all that--the wheel OF the
consultations turning in the wheel of
galaxies for thousands of years with
out the breaking of a cog or the slip
ping OF a hand or the snap of an axel,
For your placiditv and comfort
through the Lord Jesus Christ Icharge
you, ."Seek him that maketh the Sew
en- Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
~archipelagoes OF stars
MUST BE AN UNcHANGING GOD.
"There has been no change in the
stellar appearance in this herdman's
lifetime, and his father, q shep-
herd, 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, the same
al when the Egyptians build the Pyra-
mids from the top OF which to watch
them, the same as when the Chaldeans
calculated the eclipse, the same as
when Elihu, according to the Book Of
Job, went out to study the aurora
borealis, the same, under Ptolemaic
system and Copernichn system, the
same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras
and from Pythagoras to Herschel.
Surely, a changeless God must have
fashioned the Pleiades and Orionl
Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups
and downs of life, and the fax and re-
fux of the tides o. gerity, to
know that we have Ea(ESxgeless God,
the same yesterday, today and for
ever"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these 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
h~usbandmen: "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 regulat-
ed 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 harbor, 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.
Oh, now l get the best view of God I
ever had! There are two kinds Of
sermons l never want to preach-the
one that presents God so kind, so in
dulgent, SO 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 r splitting in his face and stab
bling at his heart, he takes them up in
his arms and kisses their Infatuated
brow and cheek, saying, "Of such is
the kingdom OF heaven" The other
kind of sermon Inever want to preach
is the one that represents God as all
FIRE AND TORTURE AND THUNDER CLOUD
and with red hot pitch forks tossing
the humun race into paroxysms OF
infinite agony. The sermon that l am
now preaching believes lin a. God of
loving, kindly warning, the God OF
spring and winter, the God of the
Pleiades and Orion.
You must remember that the winter.
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 a fat
graveyard was the old proverb.
Storms to purify the air. Thermon-
eter at 10 degrees above zero to tone
up the system. December and jan
uary just as important as May and
June. I 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 way in life, before
this we would. have been
representations Of selfishness
and worldliness and disgusting
sin, and pulled up until we would have
been the like Of Julius Cesar, who
was made by sycophants to believe
that. he was divine, and that the
freckles on his face were q the stars OF
the armament. sa. S.
One of the .swiftest transatlantic
voyages made last summer by our
swiftest steamer was because she had
q stormy wind abaft, chasing her from
New York to Liverpool. But to those
going in the opposite direction the
storm was a buffeting and a hindrance.
it is q bad thing to have a storm
ahead, pushing Us back, but
IF WE BE GoD's CHILDREN
and aiming toward heaven, the storms
of life will only chase us the sooner
into the harbor.
And I am glad that so many texts
call us to look of to other
worlds, many Of them larger
and grander and more respondent.
"Look there" says Job, "at Mazar-
9th and Arcturus and his sons!''
'Look there" says st. John, cat the
moon under Christ's feetl'' Look
there" says Joshua, lat the sun
standing still above Gibeonl" Look
there" says Moses, tat the sparkling
firmament!""Look there says Amos,
the herdsman, tat the Seven Stars
and Orionl" Don't lot US be so sad