The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-03-11
It, Order. Persistent order. Sublime


ard. and in all directions maladminis-
tration! The God who keeps seven
worlds in right circuit for 5000 years
can certainly keep all the affairs OF in
dividuals and nations and continents
in adjustment. We had not better
fret much, for the peasants argument
of the text was right. If God can take
care Of the seven worlds of the Plei-
AIDES and the four chief worlds of
Orion, lie can probably take care of
the one world we inhabit.
So | feel very much as my father
felt one day when we were going to
the country mill toget grist ground,
and |. a boy of years, sat in the back
part of the wagon, and our yoke Of
oxen ran away with us and along a
labyrinthine road through the woods,
SO that l thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces, and 1 made
terrible cutlery of fright, and my
father turned to me with face per-
fectly calm and said: "DeWitt, what
are you crying about? guess we can
ride as fast as the oxen can rum And,
my hearers, why should we be af-
frighted and lose our equilibrium In
the swift movement of worldly events,
especially when we are assured that
this is not yoke of unbroken steers
that are drawing US on, but that order
and wise government are in the yoke?
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
worlds, makes another group-group
after group. To the Pleiades lie adds
| Orion. 1t seems that God likes light
SO well that He keeps making it, Only
one Being in the universe knows the
statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, mete-
| ORIG creations, and that is the Creator
| Himself. And they have all been low
| ingly christened, each one name as
distinct as the names of your children.
ale telleth the number of the stars;
lie calleth them all by their Names
The seven Pleiades had names given
| to them, and they are AlcOyne,
Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope,
Taygete 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 robe!
So fond is God of light-natural light,
moral light, spiritual light. Again
and again is light harnessed for SYM
bolization - Christ, the bright and
morning star; evangelization, the day
break; the redemption of nations, sun
of Righteousness rising with healing
in His wings. Oh, men and women,
with SO many SORROWS and sins and
perplexties, if you want light of COM
fort, light of pardon, light of good
ness, in earnest prayer through Christ:
seek Him that maketh the Seven
Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
archipelagoes of stars must be an I'M
changing God. There has been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdsman's lifetime, and his IA
Their, a shepherd, reported to him that
there had been no change in his life
over the Celestial arbor now just as
they were the first night that they
shone on the Edenic lowers, 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 au
rOra bOrealis, the same under PtOle-
maic system and Copernican system
the same from Calisthenes to Pythag
oras, and from Pythagoras to Her
schel. Surely, changeless God must
have fashioned the I1eiades and Orion,
oh, what an anodyne amid the ups
and downs of life. and the hux anC
reflux of the tides of prosperity, tc
know that we have a changeless God
"the same yesterd ay, to-day and for
ever"
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
> steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening of tn,
same day. Fifty thousand people stoo(
around the columns of the nationa
capitol, shouting themselves hoarse a
| CHc DTcSlueHtldi luduS uTdt, anu III lou
months SO great were the antipathie
that a ruffian's pistol in Washington
depot expressed the sentiment of man,
a disa appointed oftice-seeker. The worlt
sits in it's chariot and drives tandem
and the horse ahead is Huzza, and tn,
horse behind is Anathema. Lord Cob
ham, in King James time was applaud
ed, and had S35, 900 year, but wa
afterward execrated, and livet
; on scraps stolen from tn
royal kitchen. Alexander tn,
Great after dea tn RENAME unburie,
for so days because no one would d,
the honor of shoveling him under
The duke of Wellington, refused t.
have his iron fence IN ended because i
had been broken by an Infatuated pop
ulace in some hour of political excite
ment, and he left it in ruins that me-
might learn what tickle thing is hu
man favor But the mercy of tn
Lord is from everlasting to everlas,
ing to them that fear Him, and Hi
! righteoU sness unto the children's chi
dren of such as keep His covenant, an
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