The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-05

daughters of Atlas" and Virgil wrote
in his Aeneid of stormy Orion" until
now. they have observed the order es-
tablished for their coming and going;
order written not in manuscript that
may be pigeOn-hOled. but with the
hand of the Almighty on the dome of
the sky. so that all nations may read
it. Order Persistent order. Sublime
order. OmnipOtent order.
What a sedative TO You and me, to
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pell-mell. and the
world ruled by some fiend at haphazard,
and in all directions maladministra-
ton, The God who keeps seven worlds
in right Circuit for 5000 years can Ger
tainly keep all the affairs of individuals
and nations and continents in adjust
ment 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 | feel very much as my father felt
one day when we were going to the
country mill to get grist ground. and
/. boy of seven 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.
50 that l thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces. and l made
a terrible cutlery OF fright. and my
father turned to me with a face per-
fectlv 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 alright
ed and lose our equilibrium in the
swift movement of worldly events.
especially when we are assured that
this is not a 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 Won the Pleiades. or,
better than that, get into some Obser-
vatory. and through the telescope see
further than Amos with the naked eve
could-namely, 200 stars in the Plei
AIDES. and that in what is called the
sword of Orion there is a nebula com
puted to be two trillion two hundred
thousand billion of times larger than
the sun. O. be at peace with the God
/, Il, 10 l. 81 ho4
the wheel of the consultations turning
in the wheel of galaxies for thousands
of years without the breaking of cog
or the slipping of band or the snap of
an axle. For your placidity and com
fort through the Lord Jesus Christ [
charge you, Seek Him that maketh
the Seven Stars and Orion"
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. meteOric creations.
and that is the Creator Himself. And
they have all been lovingly christened.
each one a name as distinct as the
names of your children. He 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.
Again, Amos saw. as we must see,
that the God who made these two
srchipelagoes 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
father. a shepherd, reported to him
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 borealis, the same under Ptole- /
naic system and COpernican system,
the same from Calisthenes to Pytha- /
goras, and from Pythagoras to Her
schel. Surely. a changeless God must |
have fashioned the Pleiades and Orion /
Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups and 1
downs of life, and the Aux and refux
Of the tides of prosperity, to know that
we have changeless God. the same
yesterday, to-day, and forever
Again, Amos saw. as we must see,
that the God who made these two
Oeacons of the oriental night sky must
be God of love and kindly warning.
The Pleiades rising in midsly said to
Ill the herdsmen and shepherds and
Come out and enjoy
-he mild weather. and cultivate your
gardens and fields" Orion. coming in
winter, warned them to prepare for
tempest. All navigation was regu-
ated by these two consultations. The
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