The Yale expositor., 1897-02-05

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 Pleiades and the four cher
worlds of Orion, he can probably take
care of the one world we inhabit.
So l feel very much as my father
felt one day when we were going TO
the country mill to get grist ground
ana l. boy of seven years, sat In the
back part of the wagon, and our yoke
of oxen ran away with us and along
labyrinthine road through the WOODS
so that 1 thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces, and l mace
a terrible cutlery of fright, and my fath-
er turned to me with face perfectly
calm, and said: de Witt, what are you
crying about? l 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
movements of worldly events. especial
ly when We are assured that 1t is not
yoke of unbroken steers that are draw
ing us on but that order and wise gov
eminent are in the yoke?
Again, Amos saw, as We must see,
| that the God who made these two
archipelagoes of stars must be an un-
changing God. There had been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdsman's lifetime. and his faith
er, a shepherd, reported to him that
there had been no change In his life
time. 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 Pyra-
mids 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 or
Job, went out to study the aurora
borealis, the same under Ptolemaic
system and Copernican system, the
same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras,
and from Pythagoras to Herschel. Sure
ly, a changeless God must have fash
toned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, what
an anodyne amid the ups and downs
of life, and the flux and reflux OF the
tides of prosperity, to know that we
have a changeless God, "the same yes
terday, to-day, and forever"
Xerxes 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 ma.
tional capital, shouting themselves
hoarse at the presidential inaugural
and in four months so great were the
antipathies that a ruffian's pistol il
Washington depot expressed the senti
ment of many a disappointed office
, seeker. The world sits in it's chario
, and drives tandem, and the horse
ahead is Huzza, and the horse
behind is Anathema. Lord Cob
, ham, in King James time wa
, applauded, and had thirty-five thou
, sand dollars year, but wa
afterward execrated, and lived OF
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen
Alexander the Great after death re
NAMED unburied for thirty days be
= cause no one would do the honor o
o shoveling him under. The Duke o
Wellington refused to have his irol
y fence mended because it had bee
. broken by an Infatuated populace i
!, some hour of political excitement, an
. he left it in ruins that men might lear
what a tickle thing is human favor
. But the mercy of the Lord is fror
= everlasting to everlasting to them tina
: fear him, and his righteousness unit
:. the children's children of such as kee
his covenant, and to those who RI
member his commandments to d
;. them" This moment seek him thu
:. maketh the Seven Stars and Orion"
And I am glad that so many tex
:, call us to look off to other world
n many of them larger and grander an
more resplendent Look there" say
. Job. "at Nazareth and Arcturus an
his sonsv' Look there" says st. ,Ioh
- "at the moon under Christ's feet
- Look there" says Joshua, 'at the 81
standing still above GibeonT Loo
n there" says Moses, cat the :parklir
- ARMAMENT Look there" says Amo
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Orionv Do not let us be so sad abo
those who shove off from this wor
! under Christly pilotage. DO not let
"a be so agitated about our own goiI
&C. off this little barge or sloop or cana
~ boat of a world to get on some Gre
20 Eastern of the heavens. DO not
al us persist in wanting to stay In tn
A. barn. this shed, this clubhouse or
no world, when all the kings palaces
m ready occupied by many of our be
"A friends are swinging wide open the
ne gates to let us in.
a. When I read, in my fathers hou
are many mansions" do not know
We that each world is a room, and as ma
he rooms as there are worlds, stell
of Railways, stellar windows. stell
re domes. How our departed frien
n must pity US shut up in these cramp
ne apartments, tired IL we walk fife
IN. miles. when they some morning. by o
"a stroke of wing, can make circuit of Z
Ie- whole stellar system and be back