The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06

certainly keep all the affairs OF individ-
uals and nations and continents in adj
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
ably take care of the one world we in
habit.
So 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 a labyrinthine
road through the woods, so that /
thought every moment we would be
dashed to pieces, and / made terrible
cutlery of fright and my father turned
to me with face perfectly calm, and
said: Dewitt, what are you crying
about? guess we can ride as fast as
the oxen can rum" And, my hearers,
why should we be affrighted and lose
our equilibrium in the swift movement
of worldly events especially when we
are assured that it is not yoke of I'M
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 if 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
maketh the Seven Stars and Orion"
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 or three stars,
but he makes seven; and having fin
ished that group of worlds, makes an
other group-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, ldySeIe anu Mild
But think of the billions and trillions
of daughters of starry light that Goo
calls by name as they sweep by Hin
with beaming brow and lustrous robe
So fond is God of light-natural light
moral light, spiritual light Again ant
again is light harnessed for symboliza
tion-Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the day break: the
rede ,nption 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, if yol
want light of comfort, light of pardon
light of goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, Seek Him that maketl
the Seven Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see
that the God who made these two arch
ipelagoes of stars must be an unchang
ing God. There had been no change il
the stellar appearance in this herds
mans lifetime, and his father, shep
herd, reported to him that there ha,
been no change in his lifetime. Ant
these two clusters hang over the celes
tial arbor now just as they were thu
first night that they shone on tn,
Edenic bowers the same as when tn,
Egyptians built the Pyramids from tn,
top of which to watch them, the sam,
as when the Chaldeans calculated tn,
eclipses, the same as when Elihu, &C
cording to the Book of Job, went out tt
study the aurora borealis, the sam,
under Ptolemaic system and Copernical
system, the same from Calisthenes t,
| Pythagoras, and from PythagoraB t,
Herschel. Surely, "A changeless Coo
must have fashioned the pleiades ant
Orion. O. what an anodvnc amid tn,
ups and downs of life, and the flux ant
retiuy of the tides of prosperity, to know
that we have a changeless God, tn
same yesterday, to-day and forever"
NerXes garlanded and linighted tn
stcersman OF his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening of tn
same day. The world sits in its chario
and drives tandem. and the horse ahea,
is Hu2Ga, and the horse behind is Ana
thema. Lord Gotham, in King James
time, was applauded, and had thirty
five thousand dollars u year. but wa
afterwards eXecrated, and lived o.
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen
Alexander the Great, after death. re
manned unburied for thirty days be
cause no one would do the honor q
shoveling him ',nder The Duke o
Wellington refused to have his iro
fence mcnded because it had bee
broken by a Infatuated populace i
some hour of political excitement, an
he left it in ruins that men might lear