The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-02-06

Die 1or the eu. bartholomew 'ns,sss'ere uas1'
Was ie without significance that In the
davs NJ the Roman Emperor Just1nian wo1
and famine were preceded by the dinness
If the sun. which for nearly year gave
no more light than the moon, although
there were no clouds to obscure III
Astroloay. after all, may have been some
ching more than q brilliant heethenisIn.
No 1vonder that Amos of the text, having
hoard these two anthems of the stars, put
down the stout, rough stan OF the ne9os-
man and took into his brown hand ana Gus
and knotted fingers the pen OF phophes
md advised the recreant people OF his time
to return to God, saying, seek him that
1naketh the seven stars and Orion 1nD
command, which Amos gave 7S5 years y.
G.. Ia lust as appropriate for us, 1870 A. y.
In the first place, Amos saw, Us We Mes
400 that the God who made the Pieiadee
and Orion must be the God OF order. IL
| Was not so much star here and ssaf
there that impressed the INSPIRED he1s
man, but seven In one group ana seven IN
the other group. He saw that night aa1ee
| NIGHT and season after season ana oecaoe
affer decade they had kept step OF light,
each one in its own place, q sisterhooo new
or clashine and never contesting pfeoed
ence. From the time Hesiod called the re
fades the "seven daughters OF Atlas ana
Virgil wrote in his "Eneid" OF s'ofy
| Orion until now, they have observed she
, order established for their coming ana f.
ina: order written not in manuscripts tnas
, may he p,geon I1oled but with the hano o.
Tho Almighty on the dome OF the SKY, %
3 that all nations may read n-or0e1, -.
= sistent order, sublime oroer' o'nnilD'''
! order. Ao,,
4 communities and nations sometimes seem
d going pellmell. and the worlo fu,e0 ~
j. some fend ut haphazarti, and In an "IS
d tions maladministration! The Zoo VIZ
d keeps seven worlds In r1gh1 clrTuis ~. ~
u 600 wears can certainly keep all the a.
n fairs of individuals and nations and como
h nents in adjustments We had not oet9er
,r fret much, for the PEASANTS argumens VI
pt lhe text was right II God can Jake CAY
at of the seven worlds Of the Pleiades ana soe
IN four chief worlds OF Orion ne can n,.
Id take care of the one world we inhaoit
he So feel very much as my father feas one
of dav when we were going to the coun@A!
ID mill to get grist ground ana :, q oos =.
wears, sat in the back part OF the WaeoA:
tn and our yoke of oxen ran away WIN w. -. ~
ok along a labyrinthses Load through .o,
he woods. so that thought every moment VI
he would be dashed to pieces, and mace
t's terrible outcry of fright, ana my i8t.e
lie turned to me with a face perfecsiy c1n'
os, and said: Ode Witt. what are you e1S ~
dy- abouts guess we can ride as fast a. U
vas oxen can rum And, my hearers, WI
Inn. should we be affrighted and lose our equ
tn librium In the swift movement OF worial
wn events, especially when we are assured Tn.
the II is not o yoke OF unbroken steers thaS o.
cad drawing us on, but that order ana WI
and governments are in the yokes
lla- In your occupation, your mission, yo'
ties sphere do the best you can and then tEu
ton to God, and If things are all mixed oil
: on disquieting and your brain Is hot ana go
MD heart sick get some one to go out wlen J,
wen into the starlight and point out 70 you
this Pleiades, or, better than that, get Into eoi
IS 1t observatory, and through the teiesoope
r he farther than Amos with the nakeo
- to oould-namely, 600 stars in the Pieiao
.des, and that in what is called the swotu
rect Orion there is q nebu1a computed 10
the two trillion two hundred Thousand DIN
apt OF times larger than the sum- On, DC
posi- peace with the God who made thae
they controls all that, the wheel OF the cons
upon lations turning In the wheel OF ealnA
2 IL | %or thousands Of wears without the DrS'