The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-20
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In earnest PRAYER through Christ. 'sSeek Him (,
that maketh the seven stars and ORION.
Again, Amos saw, as We must see. tnat tue
God who made these two archipeagoes Oh
stars must be an unchanging God' ihero
had been no change in the stellar appearance
in this herjsman's lifetime, and ms latner,a
shepherd, reported TO him that there nad
bsen no change in his lifetime. And these TWO
clusters hang over the celestial aroor now
lust as they were the frat night tnat they
shone on tho E ienic bowers: the same as
when the Egyptians built the pyramids rom
ihetop OF which to watch them; me same
as when the Chadeans calculated the
ec,ips.s: tho same as when Elihu, ACCORDING
TO the book OF Job, went out to study Tue
aurora boreaiis; the same under PtoiemMc
svstern and C0nernican syS,emi tue Same
from Calsthene5 to PytDagoras ani houi
Pythacoras to Hsrsehel. Surely cnause-
less God must have fashioned the rie,aues
and Orion oh. what an anoayhe nu,'u 80 ,nS
ups and downs of life and the hux ana rehuA
! of the tides of prosperity to know ,ha1 We
| nave changeiess Col, "the same yesterday,
| to-day and forever"
Nerves garlanded and knighted the steers.
man of his boat in the morning and nangea
| him in the evening OF the same Gay. nn.y
| thousand people stool around tna columns
| Of the National Capitol shouting themselves
| hoarse at the Presidential inaug urai, ana N
| four months so great Wero tne Hntipatnios
| thata ruffian's pistol In a Washington depot
| expressed the sentiment oil many olsap-
! pointed Office seeker. The worid sits ~ ilS
| chariot and drives tandem, and the hofs9
| ahead is Huzza and the horse behind Is Ana
thema Lori Gotham, in King Jamss's time.
| was apnlauied and had S35 600 year, Dut
was of,erward execrated aud lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen Alexander
| the Great after death remained unpuried ior
! thirty DAVIS because no one would do the
| oFo IL, N m under
| of Wellington refused to have his iron fence
mended because it had been broken by an IN
furiated popuIace in some hour OF poiticai
excitement. and he left it In ruins that men
might learn what o nckie thing is human
favor. rsBut the mercy of the Lord i5 from
everlasting to everlasting to them that fear
| Him. and His righteousness unto me cnH-
dren's children OF such rs keep His coven-
ANT. and TO those who remember HIS COM
mandments to do them. This moment
"seek Him that maketh the seven stars ana
Orion"
Again. Amos saw, as We must see, that the
God who made these two beacons OF the ORR
entail night sky must DO GOD OF love " .. ana
kindly warming The Pleiades rising In MD
sky said to all the herdsmen and shepherds
I and htsbandmen. "Come oct and enjoy the
T mild weather and cultivate your gardens ana
, fields" Orion. coming in winter. warned
I, them to prepare for tempest. All Navigation
r was regulated by these two considerations
D The one said to shipmaster aud crew,
r "Host sail for the sea aud gather merchln-
3 dise from other lands But Orion was the
storm signal and said, "Reef sail, make
e things snug or put into harbOr fot the hui III
Q canes are getting their wings out. AS the
' P!eiades were thesweet evangels OF the spring,
4 Orion was the warning prophet ofthe winter.
V on. now get the best view of God l ever
i had! There are two sermons never want
II TO preach-the one that presents God go
i kind. so fndulgent, SO lenient. so imbecle
: that men may do what they will against
Him, and fracture His every law, and put
Q the pry Of their impertinence aud rebellion
= under His throne. and while they are splitting
s in His face and stabb ng at His heart He takes
b them Up 10 His arms and kisses their infurt
a ated brow and cheek. saying, "Of such Is the
10 kingdom OF heaven" The other kind o.
- sermon / never want to preach is the one
. that represents God as all fire aud torture
it and thundercloud, and with redhot pitchfora
= tossing the human race into paroxysm- o
II Infinite agony. The sermon that am nov
" preaching believes in a God Of loving. kind!
J. warning, the God of spring and winter, th'
d God of the Pleiades and Orion.
Is You must remember that the winter is
g. lust as important as the spring Let ons
% winter pass without frost to kill vegetation
)r and ice to bind the rivers and snow to enrict
" our fields, and then you will have to enlarg,
your hospitals and your cemeteries. .!
i green Christmas makes a fat graveyard,
was the old proverb. Storms to purifyth'
e. air. Thermometer at three degrees below
10 zero TO tone up the system. December an'
I'd January Just as important rs May and June
IN | I tell YOU we neel the storms OF life as mucl
I'd as we do the sunshine. There are more me-
nd ruined by prosperity than by adversely.
L. we had our own way in life, before this "
re- would have been representations OF selfish
III ness aud worldliuess and disgusting sin an
d, puffed up cntilwe would have been Ike Jullu
as Caesar, who was made by syeophants 10 bt
lieye that he was divine, and the freckles
lst his face were said to be as the stars OF th
nd armament.
lot One ofthe swiftest transatlantic voyage
M made one summer by the Etruria was b
in cause she had stormy wind abaft, chasin
he her from New York TO Liverpool. But
ter those going in the opposite direction th
ad storm was buffetIng and hindrance.
, o is had thing to have storm ahead, pusl
St ing US back, but IL we be Gods children an
led aiming toward heaven the storms OF life wi
D." only chase us the sooner into the harbor.
nv am so glad to believe that the monsoon
he typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of Il
go land and sea are not unclaimed maniacs l.
nat loose upon the earth, but are under Divii
nd supervision! am so glad that the God
so the seven stars Is also the God OF Orion!
ST. was out OF Dantes suffering came the 50
er. lime "Diyina Commedia," and ont OF job
ON Millions blindness came paradise Lost
EN- ana out OF miserable infldel attack came Il
me '.Bridgewater Treatise" in favor OF Christ
,ai anity. and out of David's exile came the SON
ven CT consolation, and out OF the sufferings
can Christ came the possibility OF the worlds r
ais demptioE, and out OF your bereavement
mt. your persecution, your poyerties. your mi
as fortunes, may yet come an eternal heaven.
Tod Oh, what a mercy it is that in the text al
the all up and down the Bible God induces
on. to look out toward other worlds! Bible q
rid tronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job,
the Psalms, in the prophets, major al
one minor: in ST. Johns Apocalypse, practical
mill saving: "Worlds! Worlds! Worlds! G
ven ready for themt' We have nice lit
and world here that we stick TO, as though iosi
and that we lose all. We arc afraid OF ialli
the off this little raft of q world. We are afra
We that some meteoric iconoelast will sol
ie a | night smash it, and We want everything
her revolye around ii aud are disappointed VIII
and we find that it revo!ves around the sun
,ut? stead of the sun revolving around It. WI
can a fuss we make about this little bit of
) be world, its existence only a short time
the tween two spasms, the paroxysm by Will
ally it was hurled from ehoas into order and
Q of patoxysm of IFS demolition.
but Aud am glad hat so many texts call
the 20 look Off to other worlds, many OF tn
larger AMI grander aud more resp!ende
our sIlook there" says Job. sat Nazareth a
rust Arcturus AMI his sons!'' ''Look Their
dis says st. John, ''at the moon un'
ronr Christs feet!'' .'LooS there" $.
Won | Joshua lat the sun stanlin still abe