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cry of fright, and my father turned
to me with a face perfectly calm and
said: DE Witt, what are you crying
about? I 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 woke of unbroken steers that
are drawing us on, but that order
and wise government 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
al mixed and disquieting, and you1
balm 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 t,illion 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 galaNies 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 nm
that maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion.
Again. Amos saw as we must see,
that t.le 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 be 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 ne keeps makingit. Only
one being in the universe hnows 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 teIleth the number of the
stars; he calleth them all by then
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 TIL
lions Of daughters of starry lghtthat
God calls by name as they sweep by
INN with beaming brow and lustrous
robe. So fond is God of light-natu.
raj light. moral light. spiritual light.
Again and again is light barnessed
for symboHzation-Christ, the bright
and morning star; evangeIizatlon,
the daybreall; the redemption Of ma
tons. Sun of Righteousness rising
with healing in his wings. 0 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
vi HoJT EARIABLENESS.
AGAIN. amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
srchipelagoes of stars must be an IN
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdnan's lifetime, and his IA
ther. 4 shepherd, reported to him
that there had been no change IN his
lifetime. And these two clusters
hang over the celestial arbor now
Just * they We're the first night that
they sl.lne on the Edenic bowers;
tae- same as=when the Egyptians
built the Pyramids, from the top Of
which to watch them; the same as
when the Chaldeans calculated the
aclipses; the same as whe.- EhhlS
according 10 the 81 of job, Went
out to s57iartAea ns borealis; the
same under Ptoiemaic system aid
Coperican system; the same from
Calis1henes TO Pv7tla@oras. and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely a
changeless God must have fashioned
the Pieiades and Orion. Oh. what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
of life and the lnx and relux of the
vles of prosperity to know that we
have a chanSeless God. the same yes
terday. today and forever
Nerxes sarlanded and knighted the
steersman Of his boat in the morn
me- 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
Cobham=in King James time, vas
applauded. and had thirty-fve thou
sand dollars q year, but was after
ward execraled, and lived on scraps
stolea from the royal kitchen. Alex
arGerthe Great after death remained
unbuaied Cor thirty days, because no
one would DO the honor of shoveling
him under. The Duke of Wellington
refused TO have his IRON fence mend
ed. because it had been broken by an
infmiated populace in Some hour OF
political excitement. and he left it in
ruins that men might learn what a
fcale thing is human favor. But
the mercy of the Lord is from ever
lasting to everlasting to them that
fear him. and his rishteousness unto
the clildrens children of such as
keep his covenant, and to those who
remember his commandments to do
them. This moment Seek him
that maseth the Seven Stars and
Orion.
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
beacons of the oriental night sky
must be a God of love and kindly
warning. Tie Pleiades rising in mid.
sky said to al the herdsmen and
shepherds and husbandmen, Come
out and ENJOY the mild weather, and
cufIa1.ate Your gardens and fields
Orion. coming in winter, warned
them . D,sp&re Cor tempest. AL