The Robesonian., 1897-02-03


Xerxes garlanded and knighted the steers
man of his o oat in the morning and hanged
him in the evening of the same day. FIFTY
thousand people stool around thh colunnS
of the National Capitol shouting themselves
hoarse at the Presidential inaugural. and In
four months so great were the antipathle5
that ruffian's pistol in Washington depot |
expressed the sentiment OF many dlsap-
pointed Office seeker. The weird sits in It's
chariot and drives tandem, and the morse
ahead is Huzza, and the horse behind is Ana
,hema. Lor Cobhan, in King Jamns's time,
was app!auled an had 5000 IL year, but
was aflerwarl execratel anu lived on SCRAPS
stolen from tho royal kitchen. Alexander
the G., eat after death remained unburled for
thirty days cause no ons woult do the
honor OF shoveiins him unler. The Duke
OF Wellington refused to have his iron fencs
menied because it hal been broken by an in
furiated populace in some hour of political
excitement, and he left it in ruins that men
might learn what fick'e thing is human
favor. "But the me- cy of the Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting to them that fear
Him, and His righteousness unto the chill
.lren's children of snch rs keep His coyen-
ant, and to those who remember His COM
mandments to do them" This moment
'seek Him that makath the seven stars and |
Orion
Again. Amos saw, as wo must see that the |
God who made these two beacons Of the ori |
en-! al QlgnC SKY HuSt Dc u TO OIL lON0 dul |
kindly warning. The Pl ,iades rising in mid |
sky said to all the herlsmen and 81" pherls |
and husband linen. "Come oct and enjoy the
mill weather and cultivate your gar lens AMI
fields" Orion. coming in winter. warned
them to prepare for tempest. All navigation
was regulated by these two consultations.
The one sail to shipmaster and crew,
"Hoist sail for the sen and gather merch N.
disc from other lands" But Orion was the
storm signal and said, "Reef SAIL make
things snug Or put into harbor. for the hu ii.
Canes are getting their wings out" As the
P ,eiades We're the sweet evaEgels OF the spring
Orion was the warning prophet ofthe winter
Oh, now get the best view Of God l ever
had! There are two sermons l never want
to preach-the one that presents God sc
kim, so induigent SO lenient. so iInbec lie
that men may do what they will against
Hin. an fracture His every law, and put
the prv of their inpertinHnce and rebellion
under His throne. and while they are splitting
in His laca and stabb ne at His heart He takes
them up in His arms and kisses their infuri-
ntei brow and cheek, saying, "Of such is the
kingdom OF heaven" The other kind OF
sermon l never want to preach IS the one
| that represents God as all fire aud torture
| and thundercloud, and with redhot pitchfork
tossing the human race into paroxysms ci
infinite agony. The sermon that am now
| preacting believes in a God Of loving, kindly
warning, the God of spring and winter, the
| Goa OF the PlelaQeS ana orion,
| You must remember that the winter Is
just as important as the spring. Let one
| winter pass without frost to kill vegetation
| AMI ice to bin the rivers and snow to enrich
| our fields, and then you will have to enlarge
| your hospitals and your ceme cries. "a
| green Christmas makes q fat graveyard" :"
| was the old proverb. Storms to purify the
air. Thermometer at three degrees be ow
zero to tone up The system. December aud
| January just as important as May and June.
| tell you we nee the storms of life as much
as we do the sunshine. There are more men
ruined by prosperity than by adversely. II
we had our own way in life, before this we
woul have been inpersonations of selfish
ness and wordliness and disgusting sin and
puffed up rntilwe would have been Ii ,e Julius
Caesar, who was made by sycophants to be.
liev that he was divine, amt the freckles on
his face we're said to be as the stars of the
armament.
| One ofthe swiftest transatlantic voyages
made one summer by the Etruria was be
cause she had a stormy wiud abaft, chasing
her from New York to Liverpool. But te
those going in the opposite direction the
storm was puffetlng ami hindrance. Il
is a bad thing to have storm ahead, push.
ing US back but If we be Gods children and
aiming toward heaven the storms OF life vii
only chase US the sooner into the harbor.
| am so glad to believe that the monsoons
| typhoons and miStralS and SiroccoS of tht
land and sea are not unclaimed man acs le
loose upon the earth, but are under Divin,
supervision! I am SO glad that the Col o
the seven stars is also the GOD OF Or oni
was out Of Dante's suffering came the sub
lime "Divina Comnedia," an out of Johl
Millions blindness came "ParadiSe Lost
an! out of miserable infdel attack came tn,
''Bridgewa, er Treatise in favor of Christi
/ anity, and out of Davld's exile came the song
CT consolation, and out of the SufferIngs 0
Christ came the possibility of the worlds re
, demption, and out OF your bereavement
r | your persecution, your poverties. your mis-
l foi tunes, may yet come an eternal heaven.
, On, what mercy it is hat in the text an,
: all up and down the Bible God induces u
4 To look out toward other worlds! Bible as
. tronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, il
Y the Psalms, in tue prophets, major en-
. | m, nor; in st. Johns Apocalypse, PRACTICAL
= saying: ''Worlds! Worlds! Worlds! Gr
t ready for them!" We have nice Iittl
Il world here that we stick 10, as though losin
n that we lose all. We are afraid OF lallin
= off this little raft OF u world. We are afrai
:. that some meteoric iconoclast will som
n night smash it, and We want everything t
n rrvolve around it and are disappointed whe
10 we find that it revolves around the sun il
l. stead of the sun revolving around it. Whs
II Il fuss We make about this little bit of
II world, its existence only short time b;
5 tween two spasms, the paroXysm by whic
: | it was hurled from choas into order and th
,- paroxysm of its demolition.
d And am glad that SO mauy texts call u
10 10 look off to other worlds, many of the,
!, iarger ana grauder and more resplenden
d "Look there" says Job. ''at Mazaroth an
Arcturus and his sons!' "Look there,
le says st. John, Sat tho moon undo
IL Christ's feet!'' ''Look there sa,
n Joshua. ''at the SUI stan lug still abo1
ID G'beon!'' "Look there" says Moses, 90;
ID the sparkling tirmament::" 'Look there,
hnr a.,
70 stars and Orion!" Do not let US be SO So
about those who shove off from this worI
er under Christly pilotage. Do not let us be
Id agitated about our own going on TINS ,nt
II barge or oop or canal boat 0! aWorid
IN get on some Great Eastern OF the heaven
,e Do not let US persist in wanting to stay :
10 this barn, this shed, this outhouse OF wo' |
ly | when al the Kings pa aces already ocrupi'
of | by many of our best friends are swlnglr
ut wi e open their gate to let us in:
be When I read, "In My Fathers house a
many mansions" do not know bnt tn
ur each world is a room, and rs many rooms
Isl there are worl s, stellar stairs, stellar ga
is- leres, stellar hallway, stel ar window
ur stellar domes. How our departed frlen
)u must pity US shut up in these crampad apal
he mnnts tired If we walk fifteen miles. VIII
ne they some morning, by one stroke OF win
lea can make circuit Of the whole stellar syste
Id aud he back in time for mathis! Perha
lat yonder twinkling constellation is the re
Is dence of the martyrs; that group OF twel
wo luminaries may be the celestial home OF t
,er apostles. Perhaps that steep of light Is t
cd dwelling place of angles cherubic, seraph
he archangelic. mansion with rs many roo
he as worlds, and all their windows illumlnat
ars tor fesivity!
ny Oh, how this widens and lifts and stir
,ur lates our expect atm! How little it max
,rd t'e present, AMI how stupendous it MAX
nat the future! How it consoles US about 0
pious dead, that, instead of being boxed
the aud under the ground, have the range of
ext | many rooms rs there are worlds and W
Tod .ome everywhere, for it is the Fathe
or house, in which there are many mansio
nd, Lord Col of the seven stars and Or,t
kes now can endure the transport, the ecs. q
the Of such vision? must obey my text a
lod seek Him. I will seek Him. L seek ii
, 1t. now for l eall to mni that it is not the n
the ;arial universe that is most valuable, but
brio sDiritual, and that each of us has a 81
elf. | worth more than all the worl,is which
led. inspired herisnan saw from his booth
s OF the hills of Tekoa.
OF I ma studied it before, but the cathed
heir Of Cologne, Germany, never impressed
mes IS it did one summer, 1t is admittedly