The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-29

OF storm Orion" until now, they have
observed the order established for their
coming and going; order written not in
manuscript that may be pigeon holed,
but with the hand of the Almighty on
the dome of the sky, so that all ma
tions may read it. Order Persistent
order Sublime order omnipotent
order.
What a sedative to you and me, to
whom communities aud nations some
times seem going pcll-mell, and world
ruled by some fiend at hap-hazard, and
In all directions maladministration
The God who keeps seven worlds in
right circuit for six thousand years can
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 Pleiadcs
and the four chief worlds Of Orion, lie
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 grist ground, and
!, boy of seven years, sat in the back
part of the wagon, and four yoke of
oxen ran away with us and along a
labyrnthine road through the woods,
SO that | thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces, and l made
terrible cutlery of fright, and my
father turned to me with face per-
fcctly calm, and said: Dewitt, what
are you crying about? guess we can
ride as fast as the oxen can run" And,
my hearers, why should we be alright
cd and lose our equilibrium in the swift
movement of worldly events, especially
when we are assured that it is not a
yoke of unbrolien steers that are draw
ing us on, but that order and wise gov
eminent 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 starlight and point out to
you the Plciades or better than that
get into some observatory, and through
the telescope see further than Amos
with the naked eye could-namely, 200
stars in the Pleiades, and that in what
is called the sword of Orion there is
a ne bula computed to be 1900 600 Co.,
900 times larger than the sun. Oh, be
at peace with the God who made all
that and controls all that-thc wheel
of the consultations turning in the
wheel of galaXics for thousands of
years without the breaking of n cog or
the slipping of a band or the snap of
an axle. For your placidity and com
fort 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
finished that group of worlds, makes
another group-group after group. To
the Plciades he add Orion. 1t seems
that God likes light so well that He
keeps on making it. Only one being in
the universe knows the statistics of
solar stellar meteoric creations, and
that is the Creator himself. And they
have all been christcned, each one Il
name as distinct as the names of your
children. ale telleth the number the
stars; He calleth them by all their
names" The seven Pleiadcs had names
given them, and they are Alcyone, Me-
rope, Cel@no, Electra, Sterope, Tay-
gcte and Maia.
But think of the billion and trillions
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 light,
moral light. spiritual light. Again and
again is light harnessed for symboliza-
tion-Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the day break; the
redemption of nations, sun of Right
eousness rising with healing in His
wings Oh, men and women, with so
many sorrows and sins and perpleXi-
ties, II 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 arch
ipelagocs of stars must be an unchang-
ing God. There had been no change in
the stellar appearance in this herds
mans lifetime, and his father, a shep-
herd, reported to him that there had
been no change in his lifetime. And
these two clusters hang over the celes-
tial arbor now just as they were the
first night that they shone on the Eden
ic bowers, the same as when the Egypt
ians built the Pyramids from the top