The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1892-04-13

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VIRGIL wrote in his Eneido of "Stormy
Orion" until now, they have observed
the order established for their com
ing and going; order written not IN
manuscript that may be pigeonhoIed,
but with the hand Of the Almighty
on the dome of the sky, so that all
nations may read it. Order. Per
sistent order. Omnipotent order.
What a sedatiye to you and me, to
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pellmell, and world
ruled by some fend at ~haphazzard
and in all directions maladministra-
ton! The God who keeps seven
worlds in right circuit for six thous-
and years can certainly keep all the
affairs of individuals and nations and
continents in adjustment. We had
not better fret much, for the peasants
argument of the text was right. II
God can take care of the seven worlds
of the Pleiades and the four chief
worlds of Orion, he cal probably
take care of the one world we in
habit.
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 IS sick,
get some one to go out with you into
the starlight and point out to you
the Pleiades, or, better than that, get
into some observatory, and through
the telescope see further than Amos
with the naked eye could-namely,
| two hundred stars in the Pleiades,
| and that in what is called the sword
of Orion there is a nebula computed
to be two trillion two hundred thous-
and billions times larger than the
sun. Oh, be at peace with the God
who made all that and controls all
that-that wheel of the consultations
surning IN the wheel Of gaIaxies for
thousands 81 yeargwishout thgbreak
# a cog Or the ppiS Of 9
4-.s'
through the Lord -
charge you, aseek keith
the Seven Stars and
Again, Amos, saw - see'
that the God who two
groups of the text W. 9SGod of
light. Amos saw that God was not
satisfied with making n star, or
two stars, or three stars, but 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
loves light SO well that he keeps max
ing it. Only one being in the uni
verse knows the statistics of solar,
lunar, stella, metoric creations, and
that is the Creator himself. And
they have all been lovingly christened
each one a name as distinct as the
names of your children. He tell
eth the number of the stars; he call
eth them all by their names" The
seven Pleiades had names given to
them, and they + Alcyone, Merope,
Celeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete
and Maia.
But think of the billions and tril-
lions of daughters of starry light
God calls by name as they sweep by
him with beaming brow and lustrous
robe! So fond is God of ight-nat-
ural light, moral light, spiritual light.
Again and again is light harnessed
for symbolization-Christ, the bright
morning star; evangelization, the day
break; the redemption of nations,
Sun of Righteousness rising with
healing in his wings. O men and
women, with so many sorrows and
sins and perplexities, if you want
light of comfort, light of pardon,
light of goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, Seek him that max
eth the Seven 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 had been
no 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
lifetime. 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
as when the Egyptians built the pyra-
mids, from the top Of which
to watch them; the same as when the
Chaldeans calculated the eclipses;
the same as when Elihu, according to
the book Of Job, went out to study
the aurora borealis; the same under
Ptolemaic system and Copernican
system; the same from Calisthens to
P~ythagoras, andfrom the Pythagoras
to Herschel. Surely, a changeless