The Globe-republican., 1897-02-04

thor~and years can certainly keep all
the affairs of individuals and nations
and continents in adjustment. We had
not better fret much, for the PEASANTS
argument of the text was right. II
Gfd 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 l feel very much as my father
felt one day when we were going to
the country mill to get grist ground.
and I, a boy Of seven years. sat in the
back part Of the wagon, and our yoke
OF oxen ran away with US and along q
labyrinthine road through the woods.
SO that I thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces. and I made
terrible outcry Of fright, and my faith
er turned to me with q face perfectly
calm, and said: de Witt, what are you
crying about? guess we can ride as
fast as the oxen can rum" And. my
hearers. why should we be afrighted
and lose our equilibrium In the swift
movements Of worldly events. especial
ly when We are assured that 1t is not q
yoke OF unbroken steers that are draw
ing us on. but that order and wise gov
ernment are in the yoke?
Again, Amos saw. as we must see.
that the God who made these two
archipelagoes Of stars must be an un-
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdsman's lifetime, and his faith
er. 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 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. Sure
ly, changeless God must have fash
ioned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
of life, and the flux and reflux of the
tides Of prosperity. to know that we
have changeless God, ''the same yes
terday, to-day, and forever"
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening of the
same day. Fifty thousand people
stood around the columns of the ma
tional capital. shouting themselves
koarse at the presidential inaugural.
and in four months SO great were the
antipathies that a ruffian's pistol in
ment of many disappointed Office
seeker. The world sits in it's chariot
and drives tandem, and the horse
ahead is Huzza, and the horse
behind is Anathema. Lord Cob
ham, in King James time was
applauded. and had thirty-five thou
sand dollars year, but was
afterward execrated. and lived on
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen.
Alexander the Great after death re-
mained unburied for thirty days be-
cause no one would do the honor of
shoveling him under The Duke of
Wellington refused to have his iron
fence mended because it had been
broken by an infuriated populace in
some hour of political excitement, and
he left it in ruins that men might learn
what a tickle thing is human favor.
But the mercy of the Lord is from
to everlasting to them that
fear him, and his Righteousness unto
the children's children Of such as keep
his covenant, and to those who re-
member his commandments to do
them" This moment seek him that
maketh the Seven Stars and Orion
And I am glad that so many texts
call US to look of to other worlds,
many of them larger and grander and
more resplendent. Look there" says
Job, "at Nazareth and Arcturus and
his sons!" Look there" says st. John.
"at the moon under Christ's feet!"
Look there" says Joshua, "at the sun
still above Gibeon! Look
there" says Moses, "at the sparkling
Look there" says Amos,
the herdsman. "at the Seven Stars and
Orionw Do not let us be so sad about
those who shove OF from this world
under Christly pilotage. Do not let us
be 50 agitated about our own going
OF this little barge or sloop or canal
boat Of a world to get on some Great
Eastern" Of the heavens. Do not let
Us persist in wanting to stay In this
barn. this shed, this clubhouse Of
world, when all the kings palaces l.
ready occupied by many Of our best
friends are swinging wide open their
gates to let US in.
When I read. In my fathers house
are many mansions" do not know but
that each world Is q room, and as many
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