News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-03-24

to me with a face perfectly calm and
said: DE Witt, what are you crying
about2 guess we can ride as fast
as the oxen can run" And, my
hearers, why should we be affrighted
and lose our equilibrium in the swift
movement of worldly events, espe-
cially when we are assured that it Is
not a yoke of unbroken steers that
are drawing us on, but that order
and wise governments are in the yoke!
GODS INFINITE ORDER.
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 n to go out with you into the
starlight and point out to you the
Pleiades, or, better than that, get into
some observatory 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
billions times larger than the sun.
Oh, be at peace with God who made
all that and controls all that-the
wheel of the consultations turning
in the wheel of galaxies for thou
sands of years without the breaking
of a cog or the slipping of a band OF
the snap of an axle. For your pla-
cidity 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, ortwo
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 he keeps making it. Only
one being in the universe knows the
statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, me-
teoric creations, and that is the Crea-
tor himself. And they have all been
lovingly christened, each one a name
as distinct as the names of your chill
dren. 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, Celeno, Electra,
Sterope, Taygete and Maia.
But think of the billions and tril-
lions of daughters of starry light that
God calls by name as they sweep by
him with beaming brow and lustrous
So fond is God of light-natu-
raj light, moral light, spiritual light.
and again is light harnessed
for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the bright
and morning star. evangelization,
the daybreak; the redemption of ma
tons, Sun of Righteousness rising
with healing in his wings. o men
md women, with so many sorrows
md sins and perplexities, if you want
light of comfort, light of pardon,
light of goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, Seek him that
naketh the Seven Stars and Orion"
WITHOUT vARIABLENEss.
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
hat the God who made these two
archipelagoes of stars must be an I'M
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdrnan's lifetime, and his ia
Their, a shepherd, reported to him
that there had been no change in his
lifetime. And these two clusters
hang over the celestial arbor now
Just as they were the first night that
hey shone on the Edenic bowers;
he same as when the Egyptians
quilt the Pyramids, from the top of
which to watch them; the same as
when the Chaldeans calculated the
,clipses; the same as when Elihu,
ccording to the Book of job, went
ut to study the aurora borealis; the
anne under PtOlemaic system and
'opernican system; the same from
'alisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
'ythagoras to Herschel. Surely a
God must have fashioned
he Pleiades and Orionl Oh, what
n anodyne amid the ups and downs
f life and the fux and refux of the
ides of prosperity to know that we
ave q changeless God, the same yes
today and foreverT'
XerXes ~garlanded and knighted the
teersman of his boat in the morn
ng and hanged him in the evening
f the same day. The world sits in
is chariot and drives tandem, and
he horse ahead is Huzza and the
lorse behind is Anathema. Lord
;obham, in King James time, was
and had thirty-fve thou
and dollars a year, but was after
ward execrated, and lived on scraps
tOlen from the royal kitchen. Alex
lnder the Great after death remained
lnburied for thirty days, because no
me would do the honor of shoveling
i'm under. The Duke of Wellington
efused to have his iron fence mend
d, because it had been broken by an
~populace in some hour of
excitement, and he left it in
uins that men might learn what a
ickle thing is human favor. but
he mercy of the Lord is from ever
to everlasting to them that
ear him, and his righteousness unto
he children's children of such as
,eep his covenant, and to those who
emember his commandments to do
This moment "Seek him
hat maketh the Seven Stars and
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
hat the God who made these two
)eacons Of the oriental night sky
must be a God of love and kindly
warming. The Pleiades rising in mid
ky said to all the herdsmen and
hepherds and husbandmen, Come
nut and enjoy the mild weather, and
ultivate your gardens and fields
orion, coming in winter, warned
hem to prepare for tempest. All
was regulated by these
wo consultations. The one said to
hipmaster and crew, 'Hoist sail for
he sea and gather merchandise from
Their lands" But Orion was the
torn signal and said, Reef sail,
make things snug, or put into har-
or, for the hurricanes are getting
heir wings out" AS the Pleiades
we're the sweet evangels of the
Orion was the warming
Of the winter.
GODS LOVE AND JUSTICE.
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