The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-02-13

order. Omnipotent order.
What sedative to you and me, to
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pell-mell, and the
world ruled by some fiend at haphaz
ard, and in all directions maladminis
trationi 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. Ii God can take
care of the seven worlds of the Plei-
AIDES and the four chief worlds OF
Orion, He 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 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 a
labyrinthine road through the woods,
SO that thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces, and 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 run" 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 He 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-
oric creations, and that is the Creator
Himself And they have all been low
ingly christened, each one a name as
distinct as the names of your children.
ale telleth the number of the stars;
He 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-natura 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
perplexities, if you want light of com
fort, light OF pardon, light of good
ness, in earnest prayer throuph Christ:
seek Him that malieth 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 un-
changing God. There has been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdsman's life time, and his fa-
Their, a shepherd, reported to him that
there had been no change in his life
time. Aud these two clusters hang
over the Celestial arbor now just as
they were the first night that they
Al
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 Pleiades and Orion.
Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups
and downs of life, and the hux and
retluX of the tides of prosperity, to
know that we have changeless God,
"the same yesterday. to-day and for
ever.
Nerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning,
and hanged him in the evening of the
same day. Fifty thousand people stood
around the columns of the national
capitol. shouting themselves hoarse at
the presidential inaugural, and in four
months SO great were the antipathes
that ruflian's pistol in Washington
depot expressed the sentiment of many
disappointed office-sceker. The world
sits in its 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 $4,000 year, but was
afterward execrated, and lived
on scraps stolen from the
royal kitchen. Alexander the
Great after death RENAME d unburied
for 80 days because no one would do
the honor of shoveling him under.
The duke of Wellington, refused to
have his iron fence m ended because it
had been broken by an Infatuated pop
ulace in some hour of political excite
ment, and he left it in ruins that men
might learn what tickle thing Is hui.