The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-30

billions times larger than the sun. Oh, be
at peace with the God who made all that
and controls all that-the wheel of the con-
stellations turning in the wheel of galaxies
for thousands of years without the break
ing of a cog or the slipping of band or the
snap of an axle. For your placidity and
comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ
charge you. Seek him that maketh the
Seven Stars and Orion"
THE LIGHT OF 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
God 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. 1t seems that God likes light
so well that be 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
a 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 Pleiades had names given to
them, and they are Alcyone, Merope,
Celano. Electra, Sterope. Taygete and
Maia
But think of the billions and trillions of
daughters of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep by him with beaming
brow and lustrOus robel So fond is God of
hght-natural light. moral light spiritual
light. Again and again is light harnessed
for Observation-Disclosures, 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 maketh
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 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 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. according to the
book of job, went out 70 study the aurora
boreals; the same under Ptolemaic system
and Copernican system; the same from
Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
PythagOTas TO Herschel Surely, a change
less God must have fashioned the Pleiades
and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid
the ups and downs of life, and the flux and
rellux Of the tides of prosperity, to know
-
yesterday, today and forever
F-CELENESS or EARTHLY MONARCHs.
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman CO hiz boat in the morning and
hanged him in che evening of the same
day. The world sits in its chariot and
drives tandem, and the horse ahead Is
Huzza and the horse behind is Anathema
Lord Gotham, in King James time, was
applauded and had thirty-five thousand
dollars year, but was afterward eEecrated
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 shOveling
him under. The Duke of Wellington re-
fused to have his iron fence mended because
it had been broken by an infuriated pop
ulace il some hour of political excitement,
and he left it in ruins that men might
learn what 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
dren's children of such as keep his cove
nant, and to those who remember his COM
mandments to do them" This moment
Seek him that maketh the Seven Stars
and Orion"
Again, Amos saw. as we must see, that
Il - l. -
the oriental night sky must be a God of
love and kindly warning. The Pleiades
rising IN niidsky said to all the herdsme1
and shepherds and husbandmen, "Como
ont and enjoy the mild weather and Guilt
waite your gardens and fields" Orion, COM
ing in winter. warned them to prepare for
tempest. All navigation was regulated by
these two consultations. The one said 70
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.
LESSONS OF THE SEASONS.
Oh, now | get the best view of God ever
had! There are two kinds of sermons
never want To preach-the one that pre-
sents God so kind so indulgent, 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 stabbing
at MS 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 | never want 10
preach Is the one that represents God as all
fire and torture and thundercloud, and
with red hot pitchfork tossing the human
race into paroxysms of infinite agony. The
sermon that / am now preaching believes
in a God of loving, kindly warning. the God
of spring and winter, the God of the Plei-
AIDES and Orion.
You must remember that the winter is
just as important as the spring. Let one
winter pass without frost to kill vegeta-
tion 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 grave
yard" was the old proverb. Storms to
purify the air. Thermometer at ten de-
grees above zero 20 tone up the system.
December and January just as important
as May and June. tell you - need the
storms of life as much as we do the sun
shine. There are more men ruined by
prosperity than by adversely If we had
our own way in life, before this we would