Connecticut western news., 1897-02-04

tqulllUrluu Ill tDe SW1It InCNeIueut Nu worldly events, especially when we are assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken steers that are drawing us on, but that order and wise government are in the yoke?
 In your occupation, your mission, your sphere, do the best you can and then trust to God, and if things are all mixed and disquieting and your brain 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 tho telescope see farther than Amos with the naked eye could-name- ly, 200 stars in the Pleiades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion there is a nebula computed to be two trillion two hundred thousand billions of times larger than the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God who made that and controls all that, the wheel of the cancellations turning in the wheel of galaxies for thousands of years without the breaking of cog, or the axle! For your placidity and comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ charge you, Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion.
 The God of Light.
 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 or three stars, but he makes seven, and having finished that group of words makes another group-group after group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion. It seems that God likes light so well that he keeps making it. Only one being in the uni verse knows the statistics of solar, lu- mar, stellar, meteoric creations, and that is the Creator himself. And they have all been lovingly christened, each one a 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, Cel@no, Electra, Sterope, Fay. gete 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 rebel So fond is God of light-natural light, moral light, spiritual lightl Again and again is light harnessed for symboliza- tion-Christ, the bright and morning star; evangelization, the day break; the redemption of nations, sun of righteous ness rising with healing in his wings Oh, men and women, with so many sor- rows 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 Orionp'
 Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two archi- pelagoes of stars must be an unchang- ing God. There had been no change in the stellar appearance in this herdsman's lifetime, and his father, shepherd, re- ported to him that there had been no change in his lifetime. 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 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 bore alis; the same under Ptolemaic system and Copernican system; the same from Caltsthenes to Pythagoras and from Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely a changeless God must have fashioned the Pleiades and Orion. Oh, what an ano- dyne amid the ups and downs of life and the Aux and reflux of the tides of prosperity to know that we have a changeless God, "the same yesterday, today and forever!''
 Xerxes garlanded and knighted the and hanged him in the evening of the same day. Fifty thousand people stood around the columns of tue national cap itol shouting themselves hoarse at the presidential inaugural, and in four months, so great were the antiquities, that ruffian's pistol in Washington de- pot expressed the sentiment of many a 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 applaud ed and had $35, ,000 a year, but was aft erward execrated and lived on scraps stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexan- der the Great after death remained un- buried for 80 days because 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 m infuriated populace in some hour of political excitement,
 and he left it in ruins that men might learn what Q fckle thing is human fa-
 vor. But the mercy of the Lord is
 from everlasting 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.
 A God of Love.
 Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two bea- cons of the oriental night sky must be
 a God of love and kindly warning. The Pleiades, rising in midsky, said to all the herdsmen and shepherds and husband
 men, Come out and enjoy the mild weather and cultivate your gardens and fields. /" Orion, coming in winter, warn ed them to prepare for tempest. All
 navigation was regulated by these two cancellations. The one said to shipmas-
 ter and crew, Hoist sail for the sea
 and gather merchandise from other
 lands. But Orion was the storm sig
 nal and said Reef sail; make things snug or put into harbor, for the hurri
 canes are getting their wings out" ]" As the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of
 the spring, Orion was the warning
 prophet of the winter.
 Oh, now get the best view of God l
 ever hadl There are two sermons I nev-
 CT want to preach-the onethat presents
 God so kind, so indulgent, so lenient, Sc
 imbecile that men may do what they xvfD l. ..