Connecticut western news., 1892-03-24

T1luSeu lO nlNS HIS HUI lCuNt luCIlu- ed, because it had been broken by an infuriated populace in some hour of political excitement, and he left 1t in ruins that men might learn what fickle thing is human favor. But the mercy of the Lord is from ever lasting 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 do them" This moment Seek him that malSeth the Seven Stars and Orion.
 Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two bcacons of tho oriental night sky must be q God of love and kindly warning. The Plciades rising in mid sky said to all tho herdsmep and shepherds and husbandmen, Como out and enjoy tho mild weather, and cultivate your gardens and fields" Orion, coming in winter, warned them to prepare for tempest. All navigation was regulated by these two cancellations. Tho one said to shipmastor and crew, Hoist sail for tho sea and gather merchandise from other lands" But Orion was tho storm signal and said. Reef sail, make things snug, or put into har- Dor. for the hurricanes arc getting their wings out" As the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the spring, Orion was the warning prophet of the winter. 4 .- ...
 GODS LOVE AND JUSTICE.
 Oh, now get the best view of God I ever hadl There are two kinds of sermons 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 are splitting in his face and stal bing at his heart, he takes them up in his arms and kisses their in flniatcd brow and check. saying, Of such is tho kingdom of heaven" The other kind of sermon I never want to preach is the ono that represents God as all fro and torture and thundercloud, and with red hot pitchfork tossing tho human race into paroxysms of infinite agony. The sermon that 1 am now preaching be- heves in q God of loving, kindly warning, the God of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and | Orion. ....... You must remember that the win ter 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 fat graveyard" was the old proverb Storms to purify the air. Thermom- eter at ten degrees above zero to tone up the system. December and January 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 adyersity. If we had our own way in life, before this we would have been impersonations of selfshness and worldliness and dis gusting sin, and puffed up until we would have been like Julius Caesar, who was made by sycophants to be lievo that he was divine, and the frec.els on his face were us the stars of tho Armament.
 One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages made last summer by our swiftest steamer was because she had stormy wind abaft, chasing her from New York to Liverpool. But to those going in the opposite direction tho storm was buffeting and hindrance It is bad thing to have storm ahead, pushing us back; but if we be Gods children and aiming toward heaven, the storms of life will only chase us the sooner into the harbor. nm so glad to believe that the monsoons and ty. phoons and mistrals and siroccos of the land and sea arc not unclaimed maniacs let loose upon the earth, but arc under divine supervision! I am so glad that the God of the Seven Stars is also the God of Orion
 Itwas out of Dante's suffering came thesublime "Divina Commedia, and out of John Milton's blindness came Paradise Lost, and out of miser- abls infidel attack came the Bridge water Treatise" in favor of Christian ity, and out of David's exile came tho songs of consolation, and out of the suiTerings of Christ came tho possi- bility of the worlds redemption, and ont of your bereavement vour perse- | cution, your poverties, your mistor- tunes, may yet come an eternal he.ven. #.
 THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE.
 Oh, what mercy it is that in the text and all up and down the Bible God induces us to look out toward other words! Bible astronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in the Psalms, in the prophets, major and | minor; in St. Johns Apocalypse, practically saying: "Worlds ! worlds 1! worlds Get ready for themr We havc a nice little world here that we stick to, as though losing that we lose all. We are afraid of falling of this little raft of a world. We are afraid that some meteoric iconoclast will some night smash it, and we want everything to revolve around it. and are disappointed when we find that it revolves around the sun instead of tho sun revolving around it, What fuss we make about this little bit of world, its existence only short time between two spasms, the par oxysm by which it was hurled from