The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-02-05

may be pigeonholed, but with the sant
of the Almighty on the dome OF the sky
so thit all nations nay read lt-Crder
persistent order, sublime oruer, omnlpo
tent order.
What a sedative to you and me, tt
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pcllmeIl and the
world ruled by some fiCnd at haphazard,
and in all directions maladminlstratlon
The GCd who Keeps seven worlds IL
right circuit fer 6, coo years can certainly
keep all the affairs Of individuals ano
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 Pleiades and the four chief
worlds of Orion, he can probably take
care of the one world we inhabit.
So 1 feel very much as my father felt
one day when we were going to the
country mill to get grist ground, and
l. boy of years, sat in the back part
of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran
away with us and along labyrinthlan
road through the woods, SO that /
thought every moment we would be
dashed to pieces, and I made terrible
outcry of fright, and my father turned
to me with face perfectly calm and
said: Ode Witt, what are you crying
about? 1 guess we can ride as fast as the
oxen can run" And, my hearers, why
should we be affrighted and lose our
equilibrium in the swift movement Of
worldly events especially when we are
assured that it is not 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 the 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 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 in the wheel
of galaxies for thousands of years
without the breaking of a cog, or the
slipping Of band, OF the snap of an
axlel 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. 1t 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
name as distinct as the names of your
children. "He telleth the number of the
stars; he calleth them all by their
The seven Pleiades had names
given to them, and they are Alcyone,
Merope, Cel@no, Electra, Sterope, Tay-
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 robel
So fond is God of light-natural light,
moral light spiritual light! Again and
again is light harnessed for symboliza-
tion-Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the daybreak; the
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 Orionr'
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
ilis; the same under Ptolemaic system
md Copernican system; the same from
Jalisthenes to Pythagoras and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely a
,hangeless God must have fashioned the
oleiades and Orion. Oh, what an ano-
lyme amid the ups and downs Of life
md the f1ux and rehux of the tides of
to know that we have a
,hangeless God, "the same yesterday,
oday and foreverl"
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
pf l,iC IN he /