The Monitor-register., 1897-02-05

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was made by sycophants to believe that
he was divine, and the freckles on his
face were said to be as the stars of the
armament.
The God of Orion.
One of the swiftest transatlantic voy
ages made one summer by the Etruria
was because she had stormy wind
abaft chasing her from New York to
Liverpool But to those going in the op-
posite direction the storm was buffet
ing and hindrance. 1t is bad thing
to have storm ahead, pushing us back,
but if we be Gods children and aiming
toward heaven the storms of life will
only chase us the sooner into the har-
bor 1 am so glad to believe that the
monsoons, typhoons and mistrals and
siroccos of the land and sea are not IN
chained maniacs let loose upon the
earth, but are under divine supervision.
I am SO glad that the God of the seven
stars is also the God of Orion. 1t was
out of Dante's suffering came the SUBJ
lime "Divina Commedia, and out of
John Milton's blindness came para
disc Lost and out of miserable infdel
attack came the Bridgewater Treatise"
in favor of Christianity, and out of
David's exile came the songs of conso-
lation, and out of the sufferings of Christ
came the possibility of the worlds re-
demption, and out of your bereavement,
your persecution, your poverties, your
misfortunes, may yet come an eternal
heaven.
Oh, what mercy it is that in the
text and all up and down the Bible God
| induces us to look out toward other
worlds! Bible astronomy in Genesis, in
Joshua, in Job, in the Psalms, in the
prophets, major and minor, in St.
Johns Apocalypse, practically saying:
Worlds, worlds, worlds! Get ready
here that we stick to, as though losing
that we lose all We are afraid of falling
off this little raft of world. We are
| afraid that some meteoric iconoclast
will some night smash it, and we want
| everything to reyolye around it and are
| disappointed when we find that it re-
| wolves around the sun instead of the sun
revolving around it. What fuss we
make about this little bit of world, its
existence only short time between two
spasms, the paroxysm by which it was
hurled from chaos into order, and the
paroxysm of its demolition.
| And I am glad that so many texts call
us to look off to other worlds, many of
them larger and grander and more re-
splendent. "Look there" says Job, sat
Nazareth and Arcturus and his sons!''
"Look there" says st. John, ''at the
moon under Christ's feetP" ''Look
there" says Joshua, sat the sun stand
ing still above Gibeonp' "Look there"
says Moses, sat the sparkling firma-
ment!" 'Look there" says Amos, the
| herdsnan, sat the seven stars and
Orionw Do not let us be SO sad about
those who shove off from this world un-
der Christly pilotage Do not let us be
70 agitated about our own going off this
little barge or sloop or canalboat of
world to get ON some Great Eastern of
the heavens. Do not let us persist in
wanting to stay in this barn, this shed,
! this outhouse of a world, when all the
king palaces, already occupied by many
of our best friends, are swinging wide
open their gates to let us in.
! When I read, "In my Fathers house
are many mansions, do not know but
that each world is room and as many
rooms al there are worlds, stellar stairs,
stellar galleries, stellar Railways, stel-
lar windows, stellar domes. How our
departed friends must pity us, shut up in
these cramped apartments, tired if we
walk 10 miles, when they some morn
ing, by one stroke of wing, can make
circuit of the whole stellar system and
be back in time for matinsl Perhaps
yonder twinkling constellation is the
residence of the martyrs; that group of
IL luminaries may be the celestial home
of the apostles. Perhaps that steep of
light is the dwelling place of angels
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic-a man.
sion with as many rooms as worlds and
all their windows illuminated for fes.
tivity.
worth OF the Soul.
Oh, how this widens and lifts and
stimulates our expectation! How little
1t makes the present, and how stupen-
dous it makes the futurel How it con-
soles us about our pious dead, that, in
stead Of being boxed up and under the
ground, have the range of as many rooms
as there are worlds, and welcome every
! where, for it is the Fathers house, in
which there are many mansionsl o,
Lord God of the seven stars and Orion,
how can endure the transport, the &C.
stasy, of such visionl must obey my
text and seek him. will seek him.
seek him now, for 1 call to mind that it
is not the material universe that is most
valuable, but the spiritual, and that
each of us has a soul worth more than
all the worlds which the inspired herds
man saw from his booth on the hills of
Tekoa
, I had studied it before but the cathe-
dral of Cologne, Germany, never i'm
pressed me as it did one summer. It is
admittedly the grandest Gothic struc-
ture in the world, its foundation laid in
124S, only few years ago completed.
More than 600 years in building. All
Europe taxed for its construction Its
chapel Of the Magi with precious stones
enough to purchase kingdom Its
I chapel of st. Agnes with masterpieces
of painting. Its spire springing 511 feet
into the heavens Its stained glass the
chorus of all rich colors Statues encir-
cling the pillars and encircling all.
Statues above statues, until sculpture
can do no more, but faints and falls
back against carved stalls and down
on pavements over which the kings
and queens of the earth have walk
ed to confessional. Nave and aisles and
transept and portals combining the
| splendors of sunrise and sunset Inter-
laced, interfoliated, intercolumned
| grandeur. As stood outside, looking at
the double range of flying buttresses and
the forest of pinnacles, higher and high
er and higher, until almost reeled from
dizziness, I exclaimed: "Great doxology
in stone) Frozen prayer of many ma
tionsl''
But while standing there I saw poor
man enter and put down his pack and
! kneel beside his burden on the hard
| floor of that cathedral. And tears of
deep emotion came into my eyes, as
said to myself, "There is soul worth
more than all the material surround
ings. That man will live after the last
pinnacle has fallen and not one stons
, of all that cathedral glory shall remain
pncrumbled. He is now Lazarus in
rags and poverty and WEAKNESS, but inn
mortal and O son of the Lord God Al,
mighty, and the prayer be now offers,