The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

affairs of individuals and nations
and continents in adjustment, 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
probably take care of the one world
we inhabit.
So feel very much as my father
felt one day when we were going to
the country mill to get the grist
ground, and |, a boy of seven years,
sat in the back part of the wagon,
and our yoke of oxen ran away with
us and along labyrinthine road
through the woods, so that / thought
every moment we would be dashed
to pieces, and / made terrible out,
cry of fright, and my father turned
to me with 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 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 one 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 band or
the snap of an axle For your pla-
cidity and comfort through the Lord
Jesus Christ l 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
OF 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 makingit. 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, Celano, 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
robe! So fond is God of light-natu-
raj light, moral light, spiritual light.
Again and again is light harnessed
for symbolization-Christ, the bright
and morning star; evangelization,
the daybreak; the redemption of ma
lions, 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.
WITHOUT VARIABLENESS.
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that 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 herdman'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
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 Cbaldeans calculated the
eclipses; the same as when Elihu,
according to the Book of Job, went
out to study the aurora borealis; the
same under Ptolemaic system and
Copernican system; the same from
Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
PythagOras to Horschel. Surely a
changeless God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orion Oh, what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
of life and the huX and refux of the
tides of prosperity to know that we
have changeless God, the same yes
terday, today and forevery"
Xerxes garlanded and lznighted the
Steersman of his boat in the morn
ing and hanged him in the 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-fve thou
sand dollars a year, but was after
ward eXecrated, and lived ON scraps
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
al Hppo,1co hoI hoD,1 1,,.p1yp,, lr- nv,