The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-11-08
ana .niohana mr. and "Ktng Hcar,"2

Standardization, in tho county OF
warwick, Il perfect health and mem
ory, God be praised, do make and or
dain this my last will aud testament
through tho only merits or Jesus
Christ, my Saviour, to be made par
takcr Of life everlasting and my body
to tho earth whereof 1t is made2"
Had Shakespeare lost his reason when
no wrote his faith in Christ and tho
great atonemont? Put your antag-
onist few questions like that, and
you will find him eXcusing himself for
nm engagement ho must meet imme-
dintcly or ho will start on retreat
like that which our northern troops
made for yonder Long bridge after
| the battle OF Manassas. a discourse
OH Gods omnipotcnce and mans lin
| stations would not have had such nm
effect upon Job rs tho interrogation
| Of tho text: "Canst thou bind tho
sweet influence Of the Plciades?"
These words also recognize far
reaching influences. job probably
| had no adequate idea of the distance
OF the worlds mentioned from our
world but he knew them to bo far
of, and we, who havo tho advantage
Of modern sidereal investigation,
ought to be still more impressed
than was Job with tho question Of
tho text, rs 1t puts before us tho fact
that worlds hundreds Of thousands
OF milos distant have grip on our
world. There are sweet influences
which hold us from afar. There may
have been In our ancestral line Por-
haps 200 years ago aome consocrated
| man or woman who has hold over
nll the genera tions since al influence
| for guod which we have no power to
realize, and we In turn, by our
virtue or vice, may influence those
who shall live 200 years from now.
Moral gravitntion is rs powerful as
material gravitation, and II, rs my
text tcnohes aud science confirms,
the Plciadcs, which are ailueRs Of
miles from our enrth, influence tho
Garth we ought to be impressed with
how we may be Influenced by others
far away back and how we may In
Gucncc others far down tho future.
That rll away up among tho Alle-
| ghanies, SO thin you think It will
hardly find its way down the rocks,
becomes tho mighty Ohio relling into
the Mississippi and rolling Into tho
son. That word you utter, that decd
you do, may augment itself as tho
years go by until rivers coaso to roll
and tho ocean itself shall DO d1od
up in tho burning of tho world.
Paul, who was MI tho timo saying
important things. said nothing more
stnrtlingly sugges two than when he
| declared: "None Of US liyeth or
| foil IN 4
actions, haye an eternity Of Eight.
huences Of the Seven Stnrs, as thoy
were called, SO we cannot arrest or
turn aside tho good projected long
ago. Those Influences wero started
centuries before our cradle was
rocked and will reign centuries after
our graves ere dug Oh, It Is tre-
mendous thing to livel God help us
to live Alright.
Astronomers can easily locate the
Plciades. They will take you into
their observatorics on q clear night
and aim their revealing instrument
toward tho part in tho hoavens whore
those seven stars have their habi-
tude, and they will point to the CON
stel1ation Taurus, and you oan soc
for yourself But It Is impossible
to point to influences far back that
have affootod our character and will
affect our destiny. We know the In
fluonocs near by-paternal, maternal,
oonjugal-but by the time wo have
gone back two generations or at
most three our Investigations falter
and fail, Through the modern in
teresting habit Of searching back to
find the ancestral trcc we may find
only names. The conservation or
ago was not recorded. It would not
be SO important If you and by our
good or bad behavior blessed or
blasted only those immediately
around us, but our goodness or our
badnoss will reach as far as the
strongest rays of Alcyono - yea
across the otern1ties. Under this
consideration what do you think OF
those who give themselves up to
frivolity or idlencss and throw away
so years Of their existence as though
they were shells or pebbles or pods
instead Of embryo eternities?
Notice nlso in my text tho infu-
ence OF other worlds upon this world.
We all regard the effect which our
continent has upon other continents
or ono hemisphere upon the other
| hemisphere. Great harvest or drought
Affects tho other side Of our world
A panic In Wall street, New York, has
It's echo in Lombar street and the
bourse. Tho nations Of tho earth
cnblegrammcd together all feol the
samo thrill Of delight or shook Of WOO
But we do not appreciate the inlu-
enco of other worlds upon our world
The author of my text rouses us to
the consideration. It takes NIL the
worlds OF known and unknown as
tronomy to keep our world in its or
Bit every world dependent on other
worlds. The stellar existence Is folt
all through tho heavens. Every con
stellation is sisterRood. Our planet
feels the beDediction Of Aloyono and
all the other stars Of tho Ploiados.
Yea, there are two other worlds that
decide tho fate Of our world, it's ro-
demption or It's demolition. Those
/ two worlds arc tho headquarters Of
angelology and demonology From
4 the one world came Christ, como M
istering spirits, come all gracious In
fluenccs. From the other world riso