Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-03-31

| ana lose our equilibrium in the swift nava
ment OF WORLDLY events, especially when
we are assured that it is not yoke Of nm
broken steers that are drawing us on lint
that order and wise government are in the
yokei
In your occupation, your mission. your
| sphere, do the best you can, and then t,ust
to God; and if things are all mixed and
disquieting, and your brain is hot and vonr
heart sick, get some one to go out with Won
llto the starlight and point out to You the
Pleiades, or, better than that, get into some
observatory, and through the telescope sep
further than Amos with the naked eve
/ could-namely, two hundred stars In tile
| Pleiades, and that in what is called the
sword OF Orion there is nebula computed
TO he two triilion two hundred thousand
billions times larger than the sun. Oh. he
at peace with the God who made all that
and controlsall that-the wheel Of the con.
stellations turning in the wheel of ealaxies
for thousands of years without the break
ing of cog or the slipping of a band or the
snap of an axle. For your placdity and
comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ |
charge you, Seek him that maketh the
Seven Stars and Orion"
THE LIGHT or GOD.
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
tod was not satisfied with making one
star, or two stars 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. II seems that God likes light
so well that he keeps making it, Only one
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. "lIe telleth the number of the
stars; he calleth them all by their names. -
The seven Pleiades had names given to
them, and they are Alcyone, Merope,
Celeno. Electra, Sterope, Taygete and
Maia.
But think of the billions aud trillions OF
daughters of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep 10y him with beaming
brow and lustrous robel- So fond is God of
light-natural light. moral light, spiritual
light Again and again is light harnessed
for ymbolization-Christ, the bright
morning star. evangelzation the day.
'itoNt AhN ttNtiAHAiOu VI iidtlOilNt gun Oh
Righteousness rising with healing in his
wings. o men and women, with so many
sorrows and sins and perplexties, If 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 twoarchipelagoes
60. 10.
There had been no change in the stellar
appearance in this herdsman's lifetime
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: the same rs 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 rs when Elihu, according to the
book Of job went out to study the aurora
borealis; the same under Ptolcmaic system
and Copernican system; the same from
Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely, "a change
less God must have fashioned the Pleiades
and Orionl Oh, what an anodyne amid
the ups and downs Of life, and the fiuN and
reflux Of the tides Of prosperity, to know
that we have a changeless God, the same
yesterday. today aud forever
FIcKLENEss or EARTHLY MoNAECHs.
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, aud the horse ahead i
IIuzza and the horse behind is Anathema
Lord Gotham, in King James time, was
applauded and had thirty-iiye thousand
dollars year, but was alterwaId execrated
and lived on scraps stolen from the royal
kitchen. Alexander the Great after death
remained unburied for thirty days, because
no one would do the honor Of shoveliug
him under The Duke Of Wellington re
fused TO have his iron fence mended because
il had been broken by an Infatuated pop |
ulace in some hour Of political excitement, |
aud he left !, IN ruins that men might I
learn what "A tickle 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 chill 1
dren$ children OF such as keep his cove |
mani. and TO those who remember his com.
mandments To do them. This moment /
-Seel. him that maketh the seven Stafs /
and Orion.
Ayr,in. Amos saw. as we must see, that /
the God who made these two beacons oil
the oriental night sky must be God OF /
love and kindly warning. The Pleiades
rising in midsky said to all the herdsmen /
and shepherds and husbandmen, Come /
out and enjoy the mild weather and cult
vate your GARDENS and fields. Orion, com
ing IN winter. warned them to prepare Tor
temDest. All navigation WAS regulated by
these two consultations. The one said to
shipmaster aud crew, Hoist sail Tor the
sea and gather merchandise from other
lands But Orion was the storm signal,
and said. Reef sail, make things snug
s. mi into harbor. for the hurricanes are
getting their wings out" As the Pleiaaes
were the sweet eyangels Of TIE spring,
Orion was the warning prophet OF lhe
LESSONS or THE SEASONS
oh. now get the best view Of God eve,