Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-03-24

+bonobt every moment we should DC
dosnod IA nieces. and I made terrible
cutlery If fright, and my father turned 10
mo with a face perfectly calm, and salu:
uDa Witt. what are you crying ABOUT:
oness we can ride as fast as the oxen
can run" And, my hearers, why shoulu We
he affrighted and lose our equilibrium al
the swift movement or Worloly eVonO.'
especially when we are assured thaC IL -
not a woke of unbroken steers thab are
drawing us on, but that ofder ana WISE
government are in the yoke?
In your occupation, your mission, youl
spbere, do the best you can, ana tl1en
trust to God; and if things are all lnlNeu
and disouieting, and your Drain Is hoo
and YOUR heart sick, get some one 10 w
ont with you into the starlight ana point
ont to you the Pleiades, or, better thal,
that. get into some observatory anu
through the telescope see further than
Amos with the naked eve could-hahels'
200 stars in the Pleiades, and that IN
what is called the sword of Orion there
is a nebula computed to be two trllilon
two hundred thousand billions times
larger than the sun. Oh, be at peace
with the God who made all that and con-
trolls all that-the wheel Of the constella-
tions turning in the wheel of galaXles
for thousands of years without the
breaking of a cog or the slipping OF
band or the snap of an axle. For vonr
placidity and comfort through the Lord
Jesus Christ I charge you, seek him
that maketh the Seven Stars and ORION.
Again. Amos saw, as we must see, THAI
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 stars, or three
stars, but He makes seven: and having
finished that group of worlds. makes an
other .group-group after group. 10
the Pleades He adds Orion. 1t seems
that God likes light so well that lie
keeps making it. Only one being IN the
universe knows the statistics OF solar,
lunar, stellar, meteoric creations, ana
that is the Creator Himself. And they
have all been lovingly christened, each
one q name as distinct as the names OF
YOUR children. ''He telleth the number
of the stars; He caleth them all by their
names" The seven Pleiades had names
given TO them, and they are Alcyone,
Merope, Celano, Electra, Sterope, lay
gete, and Maia. ,St
Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that
the God who made these two archipela-
goes of stars must be an unchanglng
God. There has been no change in the
stellar appearance during this herds
mans lifetime, and his father, shep-
herd, reported to him that there had
been no change in his lifetime. And
these two clusters hang oyer the celestial
arbor now just as they were the first
night that they shone On the Edenic bow
ers; the same as when the Egyptians
tt,nf 0r Nf Io
to watch them; the same as when the
Chaldeans calculated the eclipses; the
same as when Elihu, according to the
book of job, went out to study the aurora
borealis; the same under the Ptolemaic
system and Copernican system; the same
from Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and
from Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely, a
changeless God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, what an
anodyne amid the ups and downs of life,
and the fiux and retluX Of the tides of
prosperity, to know that we have a
changeless God, the same ''yesterdaY.
to-day and foreyerv'
Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that
the God who made these two beacons of
the oriental night sky must be q God of
loYe and kindly warning. The Pleiades
rising in n4idsky said to all the herds
men 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 constella-
tiOns. The one said to shipmaster and
crew. "Hoist sail for the sea and gather
merchandise from other lands But
Orion was the storm signal, and said,
':Reef sail, make things snug or put into
harbor for the hurricanes are putting
their wings OUT AS the Pleiades were
the sweet evangels of spring, Orion was
the warning prophet Of winter.
Oh, now get the best view of God I
ever had! There are two kinds of SER
mons l never want to preach-the one
that presents God so kind, so indulgent,
SO lenient, so imbecile that men may do
what they will against Him and fracture
His every law and put the pry of their
impertinence and rebellion under His
throne. and while they are splitting in
His face and stabbing at His heart, He
takes them up in His strong arms and
kisses their Infatuated brow and cheek,
saying, ''Of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven. The other kind of sermon I
never want to preach represents God as
all tire and torture and thundercloud.
and with redhOt pitchfork tossing the
human race into paroXysms of infinite
agony The sermon that I am now
preaching believes in a God of loving.
kindly warning. the God of spring and
winter, the God of the Pleiades and
Orion.
You must remember that the winter is
just as important as the spring. Let one
winter pass without frost TO kill vegeta-
ton and ice to bind the rivers and snow
to enrich our fields and then YOU will
nave to enlarge your hospitals and your
cemeteries. IA green Christmas makes
lat graveyard was the old proverb.
Storms to purify the air. Thermometer
at ten degrees above zero to tone up the
system. December and January just as
important as May and June / tell Won
we need the storms of life as much as we
40 the sunshine. There are more men
ruined by prosperity than by adversely