The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-02-11

coming and going; order written not
In manuscript that may be pigeon
holed, but with the hand of the Al
mighty on the dome of the sky, so that
all nations may read it. Order. Per-
sistent order. Sublime order. Omnip-
otent order
What sedative to you and to me,
to whom communities and nations
sometimes seem going pell-mell, and
the world ruled by some fiend at hap-
hazard, and in all directions malad-
ministration! The God who keeps
seven worlds in right circuit for six
thousand years can certainly keep all
the affairs Of individuals and nations
and continents i'm adjustment We had
not better fret much, for the PEASANTS
argument of the text was right. II
| God can take care of the seven worlds
| of the Pleiades and the four chief
worlds of Orion, he can probably take
care OF the one world we inhabit.
So I feel very much as my father
| felt one day when we were going to
the country mill to get grist ground,
and ], a boy of seven years, sat in the
|
of oxen ran away with us and along
labyrinthine road through the woods,
so that I thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces, and made
terrible outcry of fright, and my faith
er turned to me with a face perfectly
calm, and said: ode 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
movements of worldly events, especial
ly when We are assured that it is not a
yoke of unbroken steers that are draw
ing us on, but that order and wise gov
eminent are in the yoke?
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
| that the God who made these two
archipelagoes of stars must be an IN
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdsman's lifetime; and his faith
err, a 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 were the first night that they
shone on the Edenic bowers, the same
as when the Egyptians built the Pyra-
mids 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 o.
Job, went out to study the aurora
borealis, the same under Ptolemait
system and Copernican system, the
same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras
and from Pythagoras to Herschel. Sure
Toned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, wha
an anodyne amid the ups and down!
of life, and the flux and reflux of thu
tides of prosperity to know that W.
have changeless> God, 'tthe same yes
terday, to-day, and forever"
Xerxes garlanded and knighted thu
steersman of his boat in the mornins
and hanged him in the evening Of thu
same day. Fifty thousand peopl,
stood around the columns of the ma
tional capital, shouting themselve
hoarse at the presidential inaugural
and in four months so great were tn,
antipathies that a ruffian's pistol il
t Washington depot expressed the senti
, ment of many disappointed Office
: seeker. The world sits in its chario
) and drives tandem, and the hors
ahead is Huzza, and the hors
behind is Anathema Lord Cob
| ham, in King James time wa
2 applauded, and had thilty-ive thou
| sand dollars a year, but wa
afterward eXecrated, and lived OF
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen
: Alexander the Great after death re
l manned unburied for thirty days be
e cause no one would do the honor Q
e shoveling him under. The Duke Q
: Wellington refused to have his iro
y fence mended because it had bee
!? broken by an Infatuated populace j.
h some hour Of political excitement, an
q he left it in ruins that men might lear
: what. a tickle thing is human favor
e But the mercy of the Lord is fro1
! everlasting to everlasting to them tina
), fear him, and his righteousness unit
= the children's children of such as kee
q his covenant, and to those who re
q member his commandments to d
i them" This moment seek him ths
= maketh the Seven Stars and Orion
e And I am glad that so many text
It call us to look off to other world
n many of them larger and grander an
) more respondent. Look there, say
S Job, sat Nazareth and Arcturus an
5 his sonsv' Look there" says st. Joh1
e eat the moon under Christs feet
n SO Look there says Joshua, sat the su
= standing still above Gibeonr' Loo
h there says Moses, cat the .parklin
1t firmament!' Look there" says Amo
e the herdsman, at the Seven Stars ar
Orion" Do not let us be so sad abol
N those who shove off from this wor
: under Christly pilotage. Do not let !
10 be so agitated about our own goiI
e off this little barge or sloop or cana
n boat of a world to get on some Gre
10 Eastern" of the heavens Do not ]
:, us persist in wantinr RI cfav in +h