Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-31

sword Of Orion there is nebula computed
to be two trillion two hundred thousand
billions times larger than the sun. Oh, be
at peace with the God who made all that
and controls all that-the wheel Of the con.
stellations turning in the wheel Of galaxies
for thousands Of years without the break
ing of cog or the slipping of band or the
snap of an axle. For your placidity and
comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ ]
charge you, Seek him that maketh the
Seven Stars and Orion"
THE LIGHT OF GOD.
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 stars 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, meteoric creations,
and that is the Creator himself. And they
have all been lovingly christeaed each one
name as distinct as the names of YOUR
| children. 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,
CelRno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete and
Maia.
But think of the billions 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-natural light moral light, spiritual
light. Again and again is light harnessed
for olization-Christ, the bright
morning star; evangelization, the day.
break; the redemption of nations, 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"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that
the God who made these two archipelagoes
OF stars must be an unchanging God
There had been no change in the stellar
appearance in this herdsman's lifetime
and his father, shepherd, reported to him
that there had been no change in his life
time. And these two clusters hang over
the celestial arbor now just as they wert
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 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 Ptolemaic system
and Copernican system; the same from
Calisthenes to Pythagoras, and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely, a change
less God must have fashioned the Pleiades
and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid
the ups and downs of life, and the flux and
retiux of the tides of prosperity, to knov
that we have changeless God, the same
yesterday, today and foreverr"
FICKLENEss OF EARTHLY MoNARCHs.
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning and
hanged him in the evening of the same
day. The world sits in it's 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 thousand
dollars year, but was afterward execrated
and lived on scraps stolen from the royal
kitchen. Alexander the Great after death
remained unburied for thirty days, because
no one would do the honor of shoveliny
him under. The Duke of Wellington re-
fused to have his iron fence mended because
it had been broken by an infuriated pop.
ulace in some hour of political excitement.
and he left it in ruins that men might
learn what tickle thing is human favor.
But the mercy of the Lord is from ever
lasting to everlasting to them that fear
him, and his righteousness unto the chill,
dren's children of such as keep his cove.
nant, and to those who remember his COM
mandments to do them" This moment
Seek him that maketh 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 God of
love and kindly warming, The Pleiades
rising in midsky said to all the herdsmen
and shepherds and husbandmen, Come
out and enjoy the mild weather and culti-
vate your gardens and fields" Orion, COM
ing in winter, warned them to prepare for
tempest. All navigation was regulated by
these two consultations. 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
getting their wings out" AS the Pleiades
were the sweet evangels of the spring,
Orion was the warning prophet of the
winter.
LESSONS OF THE SEASONS.
Oh, now get the best view of God ever
hadl There are two kinds of sermons
never want to preach-the one that pre-
sents 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 arms
and kisses their infuriated brow and cheek,
saying, "Ofsuch is the kingdom of heaven"
The other kind of sermon l never want to
preach is the one that represents God as all
fire and torture and thundercloud, and
with red hot pitchfork tossing the human
race into paroxysms of infinite agony. The
sermon that am now preaching believes
in God of loving, kindly warming, the God
of spring and winter, the God of the Plei-
AIDES and Orion
You must remember that the winter is
just as important as the spring. Let one
winter pass without frost to kill vegeta-
tion and ice to bind the rivers and snow to
enrich our fields and then you will have to
enlarge your hospitals and your cemeteries.
"a green Christmas makes fat grave
yard" was the old proverb. Storms to
purify the air. Thermometer at ten de-
grees above zero to tone up the system.
December ami January just as important
as May and June. tell you we need the |
storms of life as much as we dc the sun
shine. There are more men ruined by |
than by adversity. If we had |
our own way in life, before this we would |
have been representations of selfshness |
and worldliness and disgusting SIM and |
puffed up until I'VE would have been like