Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-03-26
ACOOMAC C. Il. VA. SATURDAY, MARCH 96, 1892

stolen from the royal kitchen. Alex
ander the Great after death remained
unburied for thirty days, because no
( one would do the honor of shoveling
him under. The Duke of Wellington
refused to have his iron fence mend
ed, because it had been broken by an
infatuated populace in some hour Of
political excitement, and he left it in
ruins that men might learn what q
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 childrcn's children of such as
keep his covenant, and to those who
remember his commandments to do
them" This moment "Sccl1 him
that rlaketh the Seven Stars and
Orion.
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that tho God who made these two
beacons of the oriental night sky
must be a God of love and kindly
warming The Pleiades rising in mid
sky said to all the herdsmen- and
shepherds and husbandmen, Come
out and enjoy the 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 consultations. The ono said to
shipmaster and crew, Hoist sail for
the sea and gather merchandise from
other lands" But Orion was the
orm signal and said, Reef sail,
make things snug, or put into har-
Dor, for the hurricanes are getting
their wings out" AS the Pleiades
were the sweet evangels of tho
spring, Orion was the warning
prophet of the winter.
GODS LOVE AND JUSTICE.
Oh, now I get the best Wow of God
I ever had There are two kinds of
sermons 1 never want to preach-the
one that presents God SO kind, SO in.
dulgcnt, so lenient, so inbecile that
n ,ay do what they will against
hin, and fracture his every law, and
put the pry of their inpertinence and
rebellion under his throne, and while
they arc splitting in his face and
stabbing at his heart, he takes them
up in his arms and kisses their in
furiated brow and cheek, saying, "Of
such is the kingdom of heaven" The
other kind of sermon l never want
to preach is the one that represents
God as all fire and torture and
thundercloud, and with red hot
pitchforll tossing the human race into
paroxysms of infinite agony. The
sermon that l am now preaching be-
heves in a God of loving, kindly
warning, the God of spring and
winter, tho 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 a 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
pe1ity than by adversely. If we had
our own way in life, before this we
would have been representations of
selfshness and worldlincss and dis
gushing sin, and pulled up until we
would have beer, like Julius Caesar,
who was made by sycophants to be-
ievo that he was divine, and the
freckels on his face were as the stars
of the armament.
One of the swiftest transatlantic
voyages made last summer by our
swiftest steamer was because she
had a stormy wind abaft, chasing
Aer from New York to Liverpool
But to those going in the opposite
direction the storm was butfeting
and hindrance. 1t 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. I am 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
are under divine supervision! I am
SO glad that the God of the Seven
Stars is also the God Of Orionl
twas out of Dante's suffering came
the sublime "Divina Commedia, and
out of John Milton's blindness came
paradise Lost" and out of miser-
able infdcl attack came the Bridge
water Treatise" in favor of Christian
ity, and out of David's exile came the
songs of consolation, and out Of the
sufferings Of Christ came the posi-
bility of the worlds redemption, and
out of your bereavement, your perse-
cuton, your poverties, your nisfor-
tunes, may yet come an eternal
heaven.
THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE.
Oh, what a mercy it is that in the
text and all up and down the Bible
God induces us to look out toward
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