The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-03-23

IN all directions iuala uIlfadStfauCl'I
The God who keeps seven worlds tn
right circuit for thousand years can
certainly keep ali the affairs of individ-
uals and nations and continents in ad-
justment We had not better fret much,
for the peasants argument of the text
was right. If God can take care of the
seven worlds of the Pleiades and the
four chief worlds Of Orion, He can prob
, ubly take care of the one world we in
habit.
So I feel very much as my father felt
one day when we were going to the
country mill to get grist ground, and
/, a boy of years, sat in the back part
of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran
away with us and along labyrinthine
road through the woods, so that I
thought every moment we would be
dashed to pieces, and made terrible
outcry Of fright, and my father turned
to me with face perfectly calm, and
said Dewitt, what are you crying
about? Iguess we can ride as fast as
the oxen can rum" And, my hearers,
why should we be affriShted and lose
our equilibrium in the swift movement
Of worldly events, especially when we
are assured that it is not a yoke OF un-
broken steers that are drawing us on,
but that order and wise government are
in the yoke?
In your occupation, your mission,
your sphere, do the best you can, and
then trust to God; and II 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, 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 thousand billion times larger
than the sun. o, 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 without the break
ing of cog or the slipping of a hand or
the snap Of an axle. For your placidity
and comfort through the Lord Jesus
Christ charge you, "Seek Him that
malieth the Seven Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, aswe must SEQ, 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 fin
ished that group OF worlds, makes an
other g<oup-group after group. To
the Pleiades He adds Orion. 1t seems
that God likes light so well that He
keeps making it Only ore being in the
universe knows the statistics OF solar,
lunar, stellar, meteoric creations, and
that is the Creator Himself. And they
have all been lovingly christened, each
one name as distinct as the names of
your children. He telleth the number
of the stars, He calleth them all by
their names" The seven Pleaides had
names given to them, and they are Al
cyone, Merope, Celeno, Electra, Ster-
ope, Taygete and Maia.
But think of the billions and trillions
of daughters Of starry light that God
calls by nams 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; tho
redemption of nations, Sun of Right
eouness rising with healing in his wings.
o, men and women, with so many sor-
rows and sins, and perplexities, " you
want light of comfort light of pardon,
light of goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, seek Himthat maketh
the Seven Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, AZ we must see,
that the God who made these two arch.
ipelagoes Of stars must DO an unchang-
ing God. There had been no change In
the stellar appearance in this herds
mans lifetime, and his father. shep-
herd, reported to him that there had
been no change in his lifetime. And
these two clusters hang over the celes-
tial arbor now just as they were the
first night that they shone on the
Edenic bowers the same as when the
Egyptians built the Pyramids from the
top of which to watch them, the same
as when the Chaldeans calculated the
eclipses, the same as when Elihu, nc-
cording TO the Book Of Job, went out TO
study the aurora borealis, the same
under Ptolemaic system and Copernican
system, the same from Calisthenes 10
Pythagoras, and from Pythagoras TO
Herschel. Surely, changeless God
must have fashioned the Pleiades and
Orion. o. what an anodyne amid the
ups and downs of life, and the huX and
rellux Of the tides Of prosperity, TO know
that we have u changeless God, the
same yesterday, 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
and drives tandem, and the horse ahead
| Is HuzEa, and the horse behind is Ana
thema- Lord Gotham, in King James
time, was applauded, and had thirty.
five thousand dollars a year. but was
afterwards execrated, and lived on
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen.
Alexander the Great, after death, re-
mained unburied for thirty days be-
cause no one would do tho honor OF
shoveling him under The Duke of
Wellington refused to have his iron