Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-02-10

for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, the bright and
morning star: evdngeiization, the daybreak
the reisn p, ion Of Nations. sun OF righteous.
ness rising with healing in His wings. Oh
men and women. with SO many sorrows and
sins ani perptex,tics, IL you want light oil
comfort, light of pardon, light of goodness,
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 archipeiagoes of
stars must be an unchanging God. There
hal been 10 change in the stellar appearance
In this her lsman's lifetime, and his father, a
shepherd, reported to him that there had
been no change in his lifetime. And these two
clusters hang over the celestial arbor now
just as they vera the first night that they
shone on the E lenic bo wers; the same as
when the f ,vrtians built the pyramids from
the top OF which to watch tAem the same
as when the Cbaldeans calculated the
eciipses; the same AS when Elihu, according
to the book OF job. went out to study the
aurora borea'is; the same under Ptolemaic
system and Copernican system; the same
from Calisthenes to Pythagoras and from
Pythagoras to H-rschel. Surely a change
ess God must have fashioned the Pleiades
and Orion, Oh, what an anodyne amid the
ups and downs OF life and the fux and reflux
OF the tides of prosperity to know that We
have changeiass God, 'the same yesterday,
to-day and foreverr'
Xerxes garianded and knighted the steers.
man Of his boat in the morning aud 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 antipathies
that . ruf1an's pistol In Washington depot
expressed the sentiment OF many a disap-
pointed office seeker. The world sits in its
chariot and drives tandem, and the horse
ahead is Huzza, and the horse behind is Ana
thema. Lor Gotham, in King Jsmes's time,
was applauded and had S35, 900 year, but
was afterward execrated and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander
the Great after death remained unburied for
thirty days b cause no one would do the
honor OF shoveling him under. The Duke
of wellington refused to have his iron fence
mended because it hat been broken by an in
furiated populace in some hour of political
excitement. and he left 1t in ruins that men
might learn what fickle thing Is human
favor. But the mercy OF the LORD is from
everlasting to everlasting to them that fear
Him, and His righteousness unto .he chill
dren's children OF such as keep His cOven-
ant, and to those who remember His COM
to do them" This moment
"seek Him that msketh the seven stars aud
Orion
Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the
God who made these two beacons OF the ori-
kindly warning. The Pleiades rising in mid
sky said to all the herdsmen and shepherds
and husbandmen. "Come oct and enjoy the
mild weather and cultivate your gardens and
fields" Orion. coming In winter, warned
them to prepare for tempest. All navigation
was regulated by these two consultations
The one said to shipmaster and crew,
"Hoist sail for the sea and gather menchan-
disc from other lands" But Orion was the
storm signal and said, Reef sail, make
things snug or put into harbor, for the hu,ri-
Canes are getting their wings out" As the
P.eiades were the sweet evangels of the spring,
Orion was the warning prophet ofthe winter
Oh, now ,s,t the best view of God | ever
had! There are two sermons / never want
10 prelch-the one that presents God so
kfnd, SO indulgent. so lenient. so imbecile
that men may do what they will against
Him, and fracture His every law, and put
the pry Of their impertinenee and rebellion
under His throne. and while they are splitting
tn His facs anil stabbing at HIS heart He takes
ther rpt n dsgrrns -oa Il kzs tholr-mfurs
otsi br02 aud cheek, sayf14 OF such is the
kingdom Of heaven" The other kind OF
sermon / never want to preach Is the one
that represents God as all fire aud torture
and thundercloud. and With redhot pitchfork
tossing the human race into paroxysms OF
preacring believes in a God Of loving. kindly
warning, The God Of spring and wiIeer, the
God Of the Pleiades and Orion.
You must remember that the winter Is
just as important as the spring. Let one
winter pass without frost to kill vegetation
AMI ice to bin the rivers and snow to enrich
,ur fields, and then you will have to enlarge
your hospitals and your cemeteries. "A
green Christmas makes fat graveyard" ="
Was the old proverb. Storms TO purify the
air. Thermometer at three degrees below
zero to tone up the system. December and
January jus; rs important rs May and June
I tell you we nee the storms of life as much
IS We do the sunshine. There are more men
ruined by prosperity than by adversely. II
We had our own way in life, before this we
wouii have been impersonations of selfish
oess aud worliliuesS and disgusting sin and
puffed up rniilwe would have been like julius
Cesar, who was made by sycophants to be-
iiev. that he was divine, and the freckles on
his face were said to be as the stars of the
ornament.
One ofthe swiftest transatlantic VOYAGES
made one summer by the Etruria was be-
cause she had stormy wind abaft, chasing
her from New York TO Liverpool. But to
those going in the opposite direction the
storm was a nuffetIng and hindrance. 1t
Is ia thing to have storm aheai, push
ing US back, but if we be Gods children and
aiming toward heaven the storms OF life will
only chase US the sooner into the harbor.
am so glad TO believe that the monsoons
typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of the
land and sea are not unclaimed maniacs let
loose upon the earth, but are under Divine
supervision. l am so glad that the Goi of
the seven stars is also the God OF Orion! 1t
was out OF Dante's suffering came the sub
lime 'Divina Comnedia," an 4 out OF John
Millions blindness came "Paraiise Lost. :"
an out Of miserable infldel attack came the
'' ''Bridgewa er Treatise in favor of Christi
anity. and out of Davi6's exile came the songs
81 consolation, and out Of the sufferings OF
Christ came the possibility OF the worlds re-
deDption. and out OF your bereavement,
your persecution, your pogerties. your mis-
fortunes. may vet come An eterua! heaven.
Oh, what a mercy tt Is that in the text and
all up and down the Bible God induces US
to look out toward other worlds! Bible as
troDomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in
The Psalms, in the prophets. major and
.aytng: "world4! Worlds! Worlds! Get
ready for them,' We have a nice little
world here that We stick to- as though losing
hat We lose all. We ara afraid OF falling
on this little raff OF a world. We ar. afraid
thar some meteoric icOnocast will some
night smash it, and We want everything 10
revolvs around II aud are disappointed when
va find that II revolves around ths sun in
stead OF the sun revolving around II. What
4 fuss We make about this little bit of a
world, IT'S existence only n short time be-
.ween two spasms, the paroxysm by which
il was hurled from choas into order and the
paroxysm Of its demolition.
And am glad that SO many texts call US
o look on TO other worlds, many OF them
larger AMI graader and more resplendent
Look there" SAYS job. ''at Nazareth aud
Arctutus and his Honsi' Look there, 8"
SAYS st. John, ''at the moon under
Christ's feet 'J.oox there" says
Joshua. .'at the SUI standing still above
G.beonr' Look there. says Masses, "at
the sparkiing rirmament. Look there, -
says Amos. the hsrdsmHn. "6t the seven
stars and Orion" Do not lei us be SO sad
Ibout those who shove OF from this world
under Christly piiotsge. Do not let us be s.
agitated about our own going on this litti
barge or s,oop or canal boat OF aworid Il
get on some Great Eastern OF the heavens
Do not let us persist in wanting to stay II
this barn, this shed. this clubhouse OF world
when all the Kings palaces already occupiec
by many of our best friends are swinging
vide open their gates to let US in.
When read, In My Fathers house art
manv mansions" do not know but thai
each world is & room, and as many rooms as
there are worlds, stellar stairs. stellar gal.