Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-02-06
ACCOMAC G 4 VA, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 6 1897

nations AMI continents III adjustment
We had rot better fret much, for the
PEASANTS argument of the text was
right If Gcd can take care of the seven
worlds Of tic Plciadcs and the four chief
worlds Of Orion, he can probably take
care OF the one world we inhabit.
So feel very much us my father felt
one day when we were going to the
country mill to get Il grist ground, and
I, u 10y Of T years, sat i'll the back part
of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran
away with us and along IL labyrinthian
road through hlc woods, so that l
Thought every moment we would be
dashed to pieces, and made terrible
outcry of fright, and my father turned
to me with face perfectly calm and
said: Ode Witt, What are you crying
about? j guess we can ride rs fast us the
oxcn can run. And, my hearers why
should we he ;,ifrightcd and lose our
equilibrium i'll the swift movement of
worldly events, especially when we are
assured that it is not yoke of unbrolen
steers that are drawing us on, but that
order and wise government are i'll the
yoke:
In your occupation, your mission,
your sphere, do the best you can and
then trust To God and if things arc all
mixed aud disquicting and your brain is
hot and your heart sick, get some one
to so ont with you into the starlight and
point out to you the plciades, or, better
than that, get into some observatory, aud
through The telescope see farther than
Amos with the naked eye could-namc-
", 200 stars in the Pleiades, and that
in Whit 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 consultations turning i'll the wheel
of galaxies for thousands of years
without the breaking of Il cog, or the
slipping OF band, or the snap of an
axle For your placidity and comfort
through the Lord Jesus Christ | charge
ou, "Secl, him that makcth tic 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
Plciades he adds Orion 1t seems that
God likes light so well that he keeps
making it, Only one being i'll the uni
verse knows the statistics of solar, lu-
nar, stellar, neteoric creations, and that
is the Creator himself. And they have
all been lovingly clristcned, each one Il
lame us distinct as the names of your
children. "Hc telleth the number of the
stars he callcth them all by their
names. The seven Plciades had names
given to them, and they are Alcyone,
GIerope Celpno, Electra, Sierope, Tay-
getc and Maia.
But !hinkof the billions and trillions
of daughters of starry light that God
calls by name as they sweep by him
with bcaming brow and lustrous robel
So fond is God of light-natural light,
moral light. spiritual light Again and
again is light h;lInessed Tor synlboliZa-
tion-Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangclization, the daybrcall; the
redemption Of nations, sun of righteous
ness rising with healing i'll 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, III earnest prayer
through Christ, "Seck him that maketh
the seven stars ard Orionn'
Again Amos saw, as We must see,
that the God who made these two archi-
pclacocs of stars must be an unchang-
ing God. There had been no change in
the stellar appearance III this hcrtlsman' S
lifetime and his father, a 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 Us they We're 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 Chaldcans
calculated the eclipses; the same IS
when Eliha, according to the book OF
Job. went out to study the aurora bore
ais; the same under Ptolemaic system
and Copcrnican system; the same from
Calisthencs TO Pythagoras and from
Pvthaeoras to Hcrschel Surely Il
chanccless God must have fashioned the
Plciades and Orion. Oh, what an ano-
dync amid the ups aud. downs of life
and the flux and refux of the tides of
prosperity TO know that we have a
changeless God, "ihc same yesterday,
today and forever"
Xelxcs garlandcd and llnightcd tie
stecrsman of lis boat in the morning
and hanged him i'll the evening of the
same day. Fifty thousand people stood
around the columns of the national cap
itol shouting themselves hoarss at the
presidential inaugural, and in four
months, 50 great were the antiquities,
that ruffian's pistol in Washington de-
pot expressed the sentiment of many Il
disappointed office seeker The world
sits in its chariot and drives tandem,
and the horse ahead is Huzza, and the
horse behind is Anathcr Lord Cob
ham, in King Jalnes' L {, was applaud
ed and had $50. 900 { gear, but was aft
,rward exccrated and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexan-
der the Great after death remained IN
burie1 for 30 days because 10 one world
do the honor of shoveling him undcF.
The Duke Of Wellington refused to have
his iron fence me1dpd because it had