St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-03-06

MAhCH b
t. Order. Persistent order. 6ubilae
order. Omnipotent order.
What . sedstive to you and me. TO
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pell-mell, and the
world ruled by some 6snd ut haphas.
ard, and in all directions maladminis-
trationl The God who keeps seven
worlds In right circuit for 5000 years
can certainly keep all the Affairs Of In
dividuals and nations and continents
In adjustment. We had not better
fret much. for the peasants argument
of the text was right II God can take
care of the seven worlds Of the Plei-
ades and the four chief worlds Of
Orion. He can probably take care Of
the one world we inhsbit
So feel very much ~ my father
felt one day when we were going to
the country mill to get grist ground,
and !. . boy of 2 years, sat in the back
part Of the wagon. and our yoke Of
oxen ran away with 40 and along .
labyrinthine road through tho woods.
90 that thought every moment We
would be dashed to pieces, and made
. terrible outcry of fright and my
father turned to me with face per-
fectly calm and said: ..DeWitt, what
are you crying aboat7 Igusss We can
ride - fast - the oxen can run" And,
my hearers. why should We be af-
frighted and lose our equilibrium In
the swift movement Of worldly events,
especially when We arc assured that
this II not . yoke Of unbrolreu steers
that are drawing ~ on, but that order
and wise government are in the yokef
Again, Amos saw, ~ Ne must zee.
that the God who made thess two
groups of the text was the God Of
light. Amoa 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 Plsiades He adds
Orion. II seems that God likes light
90 we'll that He keeps making it Only
ono Being In the universe knows the
statistics Of solar. lunar. stellar. mete-
oric creations, and that II the Creator
Himself. And they have al been low
inRly christened, each one . name -
distinct ~ 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 arc Alcoyne.
Merope. Celaeno, Electra, Sterops.
Taygete and Maia-
But think Of the billions and trillions
Of daughters Of starry light that God
calls by name - they sweep by Him
with beaming brow and lustrous robel
So fond il God Of light-natural light.
moral light, spiritual light. Again
and again II light harnessed for sym
bolization = Christ. the bright and
morning star; evap9elization. the day
break; the redemption Of nations. sun
Of Righteousness rising with healing
in His winga Oh, men and women,
with 30 many sorrows and sins and
perplsxities. II you want light Of COM
fort, light Of pardon, light Of good
meas. in earnest prayer through Christ:
seek Him that maketh the Seven
Stars and Orion"
Again. Amos saw. - We must see,
that tho God who made these two
archipelagoss Of stars must Be IN nm
changing God. There has been NO
change In the stellar appsarance in
this herdsmsn's lifetime, and his IA
ther. . shepherd. reported to him that
there lad been no change in his life
time. Aud these two clusters hang
over the Celestial srbor now just ~
they were the frat night that they
shone on the Edenic lowers. the same
~ when the Egyptians built tbs
pyramids from the top Of which TO
watch them. the tame - when the
Chaldeans calculated the oelipses, the
same n when Elihu, according 70 the
Book Of Job. went ont to study the au-
rora borealis, the same under Ptole-
maic system and Copsrnican system.
the same from Calisthenes to Pythag-
oras, and from Pythagoras 10 Her
schel. Surely, changeleas God must
have fashioned the Pleiades and Orionl
Oh, what an anodyne amid the upa
and downs Of life. and the fux and
reflux Of the tides Of prosperity. "a
know that we havsA . changeless God,
'.ths same yesteri ~, to-day and for
ever"
Xerxes garlanded and knightsd 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 Of the national
capitol. shouting themselves hoarse st
the presidential inaugural, and In foul
months 20 great were the antipsthiea
that . ruffian's pistol In Waahingtou
depot expressed the sentiment Of many
. disappointed od3ce-seeker. Tho world
sits in it, chariot aud drivea tandem
and the horse ahead i Huzxa, and thu
horse behind II AnathemA Lord Cob
ham, In King James time was applsud
ed. and had Sa5,000 . year, but ws,
afterwsrd execrsted, and lived
ON scraps stolen from thu
royal kitchen. Alexander thu
Great after death remained unburiei
for 10 days because NO one would d
the honor Of shoveling him under
The duke Of Wellington, refused 4
have his iron fence n ended because 4
had been broken By m infuriated pop
ulace in some hour Of political excite
msnt. and he left it In ruins that msl
might learn what tickle thing II hu
man favor. But the mercy Of th.
Lord Il from everlasting TO everlast
in9 70 them that fear Him, and Hi
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