The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-10

world ruled by some Iend at hapnaZard,
and in all directions NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The God who keeps seven worlds III
right circuit for 6, coo years can certainty
keep all the affairs of individuals ana
nations and continents in adjustment.
We had not better fret much, 1or the
peasants argument Of tie text was
right. If God can take care OF the seven
worlds of the PleiaGes ard the four cl.lof
worlds of Orion, he can probably take
care of the one world We iuhahit.
So 1 feel very much as MY father felt
one day when we were going to the
country mill to get a grist ground, and
I, a bov of years, sat il tie back part
of the wagon, and our yoke OF cXen ran
away with rs and ::long labyrlnthlan
road through the woods, so that l
Thought every moment we would he
dashed to pieces, ard I made terrible
outcry of fright, ard NY father turned
to me with face perfectly calm and
said: DE Witt, what arc you crying
about? guess we can ride as fast as the
oxen can run" And, my hearers, why
should we be afiri2hted ard lose Our
equilibrium in the swift movement OF
worldly events, especially when we are
assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken
steers that are drawing Us Gil, but that
order and wise government are Ill the
yoke?
In your occupation, your MISSION,
your sphere, do the best you can and
then trust to Gcd, ard if things are all
mixed and disquicting and your brain is
hot and your heart sick, get some one
to 90 out with you into TIE starlight and
point out to you the Pleiades, CT, better
than that, get into some observatory, and
through the telescope see farther than
Amos with the naked eye could-name-
", 200 stars in the Pleiades, and that
in what is called tie sword Of Orion
there is a nebula computed to be two
trillion two hundred thousand billions
of times larger than the sun. Oh, be
ct peace with the God who made that
and controls all that, the wheel Of
the consultations turning in the wheel
cf ealaxies for thousands Of years
without the breaking cf q cog, or the
slipping cf band, CT the snap of an
axle! For yonr placidity and comfort
through the Lord Jesus Christ charge
you, Seek him that maketh the seven
stars and Orion"
The God OF Light.
Again, Amos saw, as we must sec,
that the God who made these two groups
of the text was the Gcd OF light. Amos
saw that God was Lot satisfied With
making one star Or two or three stars,
but he makes seven, and having finished
that group of words makes another
group-group after group TO the
Pleiades he adds Orion. 1t seems that
God likes light so we'll that he keeps
making it. Only one being Ill the uni
verse knows the statistics Of solar, lu-
mar, stellar, meteoric creations, and that
is the Creator himself And they have
all been lovingly christened, each one
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 Alcyone,
Merope, Celano, Electra, Sterope, Tay.
gete and Msia.
But think of the billions and trillions
of daughters of starry light that God
calls by name as they sweep by him
with beaming brow and lustrous robe!
So fond is God of light-natural light,
moral light, spiritual light! Again and
again is light harnessed for symbollza-
tion-Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the daybreak; the
redemption Of nations, sun Of righteous
ness rising with healing in his wings.
Oh. mon and women, with so many scr-
rows and sins and perplexities, if you
want light of comfort, light Of pardon,
light of- goodness, in earnest prayer
| through Christ, "Seek him that maketh
the seven stars and Orione'
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that The God who made these two archl-
pelagces of stars must be an unchang-
ING God. There had been no change III
the stellar appearance in this herdsman's
lifetime, and his father, a shepherd, re-
ported to him that there had been no
change in his 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 ont to study the aurora bore
alis; the same under Ptolemaic system
and Copernican system; the same from
Calisthenes to Pythagoras and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely
changeless God must have fashioned the
Pleiades and Orion. Oh, what an ano-
dyne amid the ups and downs Of life
and the fiux and refux of the tides OF
| prosperity to know that we have
changeless God, 1.-The same yesterday,
today 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 cf the national cap
itol shouting themselves hoarse at tbs
presidential inaugural, and III four
months, so great We're the antipathles,
that a ruffan's pistol in Washington de-
pot expressed the sentiment OF many
disappointed Office seeker. The world
sits in it's chariot and drives tandem,
and the horse ahead is Huzza, and the
horse behind is Anathema Lord Cob
ham, in King James time, was applaud
ed and had s35, 900 year, but was aft
erward execrated and lived on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexan~
| der the Great after death remained un-
buried for 80 days because no one would
do the honor of shoveling him under.
| The Duke of Wellington refused to have
his iron fence mcnded because it had