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REY. DR TALMAGE
The Eminent Washington Divine's
Sanday Sermon.
Subject: A Farmer's Counsel.”
Him that maketh ths seven
~-Amos v,, 8
A country farmer wrote this text, Amos of
Tekon, He plowad the earth and threshed
the grain by a new threshing machine just
fnveuted, as formerly the eattle trod vut the
grain, He gathersd the fruit of the syca-
more tree and soariflel it with an iron comb
Juat before it was getting ripe, as it Was nec.
wasary and customary in that way to take
from it the bitterness. He was the son of a
poor shepherd and stuttered, but before the
BE es the Philistines and Syrians
and Phoenfeians and Moabites and Ammon-
ites and Edomites and [raslites trembled.
Moses was an law giver, Daniel was a
rince, [salah » courtier and David a king,
Texr: “Seak
stars and Orion.
t Amos, the anthor of my text, wasa poss.
ant, aad, as might Le supposed, nearly all |
bis pacallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy |
full of the odor of new mown hay, and the |
rattle of locusts, and the rumble of carts
with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts de- |
vouring the flock while the shepherd came |
out in their defence. He watched the herds |
by day, and by night inhabited a booth made
out of bushes so that through these branches
he could stars all night long, and
was more familiar with them than we who
t fs t wd
gone the
havo tight roofs
aver the star
briek chimney
seasons of
special danger}
open fleld all the
ganelter the carla
the stellarfembrol
g6H
tH Vist
the von
of lunar light
What a life i
herds! Poor Amos!
night hark to th
roar, and the be
whit, te-who, nn
unwittingly
through the
hardsmen, go
of the heavens |
time spread 1 !
some stars advancing and
He associated t dawn
certain seasons of the year
nature, and he ad
month by mouth, t
of the oconstalia livinity rhythmie
But two rosettes socially attracted
his attention while se mt r
lving on his ba 1 Opt t
the mid-night
seven stars, and Orion
this rustic prophet
us it rises about ths 1st of May
be associated with the as it
the meridian ia nuary. The Pleiades, or
saven stars, © wed with all sweetness
and joy; Orion, t oral
The anclents wers the :
hysiognomy and f
ieavanly bodies because they thou
had a special influancs ug
perhaps they ware right.
tew hours lifts and iets down
the Atlantic ocean and the sisetric
the sun, by all selentifle admissio
the earth, why not the stars Lave
tionate affect?
Aud there are some things which make me
thiok that it mav not have been all super. |
stitution which conneetsd the movements
and appearance of the heavealy bodies with
great moral events on earth. Did not a
meteor run on evangelistic srrand on the
first Christmas night and designate the
rough cradle of our Lord? Did not the stars |
in their course fight againgg Bisera’ Was it
merely coincidental that before the destruc.
tion of Jerusalem the moon was hidden for
twelve consecutive nigh Did it merely
Bappvn so that a new star appeared (n
staliation Cassiopeia,
just before Charles 1X
responsible for the Si,
’
recoding
sotting with |
otic
ind
Wm
fier 1nd
He had a p
night by }
year by 3
SEAS BARD
former
associated with spring,
The latter
to
winter omes
tom past
nrOnOr.
propor
ta
Yon
aad then disappeared
f France, who was
Jartholomew mas.
sacre died? Was it witho significance
that in the Jays he Boman Emg
Justinian war and amine were preceded by
the dimness of whizh for nearly a
it than
4
aror
YEAr ZAYe No more
though there wars no clouds to
Astrology, after al!, may have been
thing
more than a bri t heathenlsm
wonder that Amos
yf the text, having bes
these two anthems of the stars,
the stout, rough staf
took icto his )
knotted {Ingers tha pe
vised the reoreant {
turn to God,
the seven stars
which Amos gave 7
appropriate for
In the first place
sea, thal the G
Orion must be the
so mich a star here an
pressed the in+pire
one group and
saw that hight
SEASON, AD
kept stop
sisterhood
ing precedence. From y time Hesiod ¢
the Pleiades the “ses Inughters
and Virgil wrote in b Y.asid
Orion,” until n have
order establish
ing: order
they may be pigeon! ‘
of the mighty on the do }
that all Nations may read i persist.
ent order, sublia t teat
What a sedative to vou an me, to whom
eommunitied and Natio netimes
going pellmeli, and ti ruled
flend at haphazard, »
administration!
worlds in
certainly keep all
and Nations and
We had not better fret
ant's argument of the te
oan take care of
Pleiades and the four
He can probably
wa inhabit,
Bo 1 feel very m
day when we were going in
to get a grist ground, and I, a boy ¢
years, sat in the back pa he wagon, and
our yoke of oxen ran away with us, and |
along a labyrinthine road through the |
woods, so that I thought avery moment we |
would be dashed to pleces, and I madea |
terrible outery of fright, and my father |
turned to me with a face perfestly calm and
said: “De Witt, what are you crying about?
I guess we ean ride a3 fast ag the oxen can
run.” And, my hearers, why should we be |
affrighted and lose our equilibrium fn the |
swift movement of worldly events, especially
when we are sssured that it is not a yoke of
uobrokeq steers that are drawing us on, bat
that order and wise goverument are in the
yoke?
In your occupation, your mission, your
spaere, do the best you oan and thea trust
to God, and {f things are all mixed and dfs. |
quieting and your brain is hot and your
Beart sick get some one to go out with you
into the starlight and point out to you the
Pleiades, cr, b-tior than that, get into some
observatory, and through the telescope see
farther then Amos with tae naked eye could
«namely, 200 stars in the Pleiades and that
in whet is called the sword of Orion thers is
a nebunia computed to be two trillion two
bundred thousand billion of times larger
than theeun., Oh, be at peace with the God
who made that and controls all that, the
wheel of the constellations turning in the
wheel of galaxies for thousands of venrs
without the breaking of a cog, or the slipping
of a band, or the snap of =n axle, For your
lactdity and comiort through the Lord
esus Christ I charge you, “Sesk Him that
sonketh the seven stars ana Orion,”
ft, Amos saw, ns wo mast sof, that the
God who made these two groups of the text
wis the God of Light. Amos saw that God
was Bot satisfied with making ons 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
ek
un
herdaman
a Pisiades an
It was not
yn piace,
never contest.
wile
f Atlas
writte
slog
rider,
fone
Ther
em
keeps
ATA
the seve:
The
to the ¢
seven
$ of
rt o
Pleiades Ha adds Orion. It seems that God
Hikes light so well that He keeps making It
Only ono being in the universes knows the
statistées of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric
ereations, and that is the Creator Himself,
And they have all been lovingly christened, |
sach on» a name as distinct as the names of |
your children. ‘He telleth the number of |
the stars. He calloth them all by their |
names The saven Pleiades had names |
given to them, and they are Aloyone, Merops,
Coleno, Electra, SBierope, Taygets and Mala,
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 robs! Bo foud is God of
light--natural light, moral light, spiritual
light! Again and again is light harnessed
for symbolization—Christ, the bright and
morning star; evangelization, the daybreak
the redemption of Nations, sun of righteous.
neas rising with healing in His wings. Oh, |
men and women, with 30 many sorrows sad
sins and perplexities, if you want light of
comfort, light of pardon, light of goodness,
{n earnest prayer through Christ, ‘Seek Him
that maketh the seven stars and Orion."
Again, Amos saw, as we must ses, that the
God who made these two archipelagoss of
stars must be an nnchauging God. There
had been no change in the stellar appearance
in this herdsman’'s lifetime, and his father, a
shepherd, reported to him that there had |
heen no change in his lifetime, And these two |
clusters hang over the celestial arbor now
just as they wore the first wight that they
shons on the Edenic bowers; the same as
when the Ezyptians built the pyramids from
the top of which to wateh them; the same |
18 when the Chaldeans ealoulated
aclipses: the same as when Elihu, according |
wk of Job, want study
the same Ptol
the
to tha bo the |
borealis inder
and C
Calisthenas
rns to Hearse
perni
$y
Pisiades
tha
14
{the National Capit
rae at the Presidents
four months so great werd the antipathies
that a roffian’s pistol in a Washington depot
expressed the sentiment ol many Hsap-
fated off he worid
wmriot and drives tar and the h
vad is Huzza, and ti
thema. Lori Cobham,
lauded And had $35.0
rward exeorated aad liv
! the royal
the Great after remained unburied for
thirty days bso n nas would do the
honor of shoveling him under. The Duke |
f Wellington refused to have his {ron f
mended because it had been broken by an in-
furiated populace in somes hour of political
axcitemeant, and he left it in ruins that
might learn what a flekle thing is human
favor But the mercy ol the L
1g to everlasting to t
His righteousness :
fron’s children of such as keep
sunt, and t who remember
mandments to do the This
‘soak Him that makath the seven stars
Orion
Again,
i who
108 sank er, 4it8 in its
rae |
WAS AD]
was aft
stolen from
YOar,
SOA
Alexander
on
Kile
jeath
RIA
anos
men
Him, and
y those
momant
snd
mos Baw, a8 wo must soe, that the
mada thesa two beacons of the ori.
antal night aky must be & God of love and
kindly warning. The Pleiades rising ln mid.
sky sald to ail the herdsmen aod shepherds |
aad husbandmen, “Come oot and spjoy the |
mild weather and cultivate your gardens and |
fields.” Orion, coming ia winter, warned
them to prepare for tempest. All navigation
was rogulated by thess two constellations.
ons sald to shipmaster and crew,
Holst satl for the =a and gather merchan-
{iss from other innda."’ But Orion was the
storm sigoal and said, Reel satll, make
things snug or put into harbor, for the hurrei- |
canes are gettiog their wings out As the
Pielades were thesweet avangels of the af
waz the warning prophet ofthe wi
now [ get the best view of God [| «
Thera are two sermons [ never want
h--the one that tod y
#0 lenient, =
n » what they will
racture His every law it
impertinence and n
indear His throne, and while they arm apittiog
in His face and stabb ng at His heart He takes
th His arms aad
and chesk, saviog
{ heaven The
want (o preact
God as all fire
underciond, and wi
human Se
ny. The
he
non
Oh,
had
presents
i MAY
{
rabalil
Kimoes their (nfuri-
tM su
thar
the
on up in
ated brow
” i
LInRGOm
I never
roprosonts
and th
tossing the
infloite ag
prea
WArning
God
You winter
Lat
varatat!
azntat!
i mu MDL
just as important as the sg
winter pass without
sid {es to bind the rivers an
war fisida, u wi
your apitals and your
Christmas
frost t
anr
i then ¥
mass: a ial
rms to
green
was the old
Ther
tans un tha
y tons up Lhe 5
proverh Ht
iomatar at three dagrooes fn
Dessmber
¥
as May and J
*
AS 7
stam
ust as important
wo neal the st & of life
Theres are Nt
5 A
I tell you
as wz do
ruined by prosperity t
we had our own way
would have bean imperscaations
ness and worldlineas and disgasting sin and
puffed up catilwe would have been xe J
Cassar, who was made by sycophants to be.
liava that he was divine, and the freckles on
his face were said to be :
the sunshine
in life, bet
ins
as the stars of the
One of the
summer
awiltest transatiantic voyages
by the Etruria was be. |
aus#e she had a stormy wiad abaft, chasing
New 1} Eiverpoo
going io the opposite direction the
storm was a buffeting aod a hindranos, It
fsatad tning to have a stor ahead, push-
us back, but if we be Go childron and
toward heaven the sto ! life will
y canse ua the sooner int
m 80 giad to believe that
and and
and and sea ars not usnchaloed maniacs (ee
#0 upon the earth, but are under Divine
supervision! Iam so glad that the God of
the seven stars ia also the God of Orion’ It
yit of Dante's suffering came the sub.
lime “Diving Commedia,” and out of John
Milton's blindness came “Paradise Lost
ani out of miserable infidel attack cams the
‘Bridgewater Treatise” in favor of Christi
anity, and out of David's exile cams thesongs |
cf consolation, and out of the sufferings of |
ads one
her fron jut
i
the
misirais &iraod
was
demption, and out of your bereavement.
your persecution, your poverties, your mis
fortunes, may vet come an sternal heaven.
Oh, what a mercy it is that fu the text and
all up aad down the Bible God induces us
to look out toward other worlds’ Dible as-
tronofny in Genesis, In Joshua, in Job, in
the Psalne, in the prophets, major and |
minor; in 8t, Joha's A ocalypse, practicaiiy
saying: “Worlds' orids! Worlds! Get
ready for them!” We have a nice little
world here that we atick to, as though losing
that we lose nll. We ars alradd of fallin
off this little raft of a world. We are afrai
that some meteoric iconoclast will some
night smash it, and we wanl everything to
revolve around it asd ars disappointad when
wo find that it revolves around the sun in.
stead of the sun revolving around it. What
a fuss we make about this little bit of a
world, {ts existence only a short time be
tween two spasms, the paroxysm by which
it was hurled from choas into order and the
"And 1 am glad that so many texts oall us
io look off to other worlds, many of them
larger and grander and mors resplendent.
“Look there,” says Job, "at Mazaroth and
Arcturus and his sons!” “Look there”
gays Bt, John, “gt the moon under
Christ's fost!" “Look there’ says
Joshun, “at the sun standing stil above
Gibmon!” “Look there,” says Moses, “at
the sparkling firmament” ‘Look there”
gays Amos, the herdsman, “at the seven
wtnrs and Orlon'” Do not let us be so sad
about those who shove off from this word
undar Christly pliotage. Do not Isat us bam
agitated about our own going off this little
barge or sloop or onnal boat of nworld to
got on some Great Eastern of the heavens,
Do not let us persist in wanting to stay in
this barn, thisshed, this outhouses of a world
when all the King's palaces already oceupio
by many of our best friends nre swinging
wide open thelr gates to let ns in,
When I read, “In My Father's house are
many mansfons,” I do not know but that
ech world is a room, and as many rooms ns
thers are worlds, stellur stairs, stellar gal.
lories, stellar hallways, steliar windows,
stallar domes, How our departed friends
must pity us shut up in thess eram pod apart.
monts tired If we walk fifteen miles, when
they somo morning, by one stroke of wing,
can make circuit of the whole stellar system
for goatins! Perhaps
vonder twinkling constellation is the resi.
group of twelve
luminaries may be the celestial home of the
aposties, Perhaps that steep of light is the
dwelling place of angles cherable, seraphic,
archangelic. A mansion with as many rooms
ns worlds, and all thelr windows (Hluminated
tor festivity!
Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimu.
lates our expectation! How little It makes
the present, and bow stupendous it makes
the future! How it consoles about our
plous dead, that, instead of being boxad up
and under the ground, have the range of as
rooms as there are worlds and wel.
everywhere, for it is the Father's
in which thers are many mansions!
God of the seven stars and Orion,
the GCsIAsY,
text and
seek Him
104
come
¥
ia
0 Lord
JER
f such a vision? I must obey my
spook Him, I will sesk Him, 1
now, y mind that it is not the
’"
for 1 eall t«
s that
and that
worth 1 # than all
inspirad herdsman
'
nn
each of
Fekon.
iad studied it}
gue, Germany,
itils
Moro than #0
irops taxed for its o
f the Magi, with pr
urchase a kKingd
Agnes, v masterpiec
ire springing 511 fost
i ginss tha oh
slog the pil { noireling
: i seuipture
falls back
Its a}
ts stainsa
It
Statues ane
1 Statues above statu
san do no m faints and
against vad stalls and down on pavements
which the kings and quesns of the sarth
waal., Naveand a
ortals combining U
Interiaced,
As
8 inti
wre, but
and transept and §
of sunrise and sunset,
intercolumned grandeur,
itside, looking at the d¢
oases and the forest «
higher and higher and higher, u:
dizziness, I exclaimed
ioxoiloey in stone! Frozen pr
reciad Ir “Groat
many
it while standing thers I saw a poor
wad put down his pack and
his burden ono the nard floor of
ral. And tears of deep on
vy aves a* [ said to myself, “Theres ua
more than all the material
That man will live after ths last
*
man
Knoe, lw.
that
ris
“ion
¥
soni rth $Ure
roundings
pinnacle has fallen, and not one stoas of all
sathedral glory shall remain un
Ho is now a Lazarus in rags and
wad weariness, but immortal, and a
the Lord God Almighty. And the
prayer he now offers, though amid many
su parst iti ns, I believe God will bear, and
among the aposties whose soniptured forms
stand in the surrounding niches he will at
last be lifted and into the presence of thm
Christ whose sufferings are represented by
the orucifix before which he bows aad
raisad due time out of sil his
home
in a
srious built for
#
t
the wil him
{ato
stars and Orion.’
VIEWS OF BIMETALLISTS.
of the Movement.
uary number of
Nagarins wii
yf the timetallio
he leaders
# an | Germany, and arranged
{ the visit to Eur
Sra
A prominsnst
ntalin an imp
situation in }
rian?
irope
vf the
pe of Bepator Ed
faleott, of Col io, who isn
Secretary
League, contrib
the situation and the steady
wement in Franee, In it be
: the French
if the
Artois
ihe
tas a
Les bn
Goung
that
majority
bh Partiament are in favor of him
(ito Arendt, a mem of thie Redohetag
Prussian Diet, Honorary
German Bimetallie League, de
England blocks the way
. will parti Wh
by any other P
win leretics
5 great
etailiam
{f the Baar
{ the
ipate in a
Way
Foan
Pariis
ha to be ila slrong sup
ord Aldenbam =a DI i )
Lagland, says “There iano d
United States by agron
soitid themeelives maintain a bi
the
the German
who ye of t
a aud the
for
wld
Ea
be reasonsble that
PHOTOCRAPHIC TELESCOPE.
ot
fostrament at Asequipa, Pero.
Word haa § received Profes
sor Batley at Harvard Observatory,
aipa. Peru, of the entire f
there with the
telaacog “,
#t been from
the
BOOBS |
Bruce ph
sixty centimetres and a foonl length of 541.4
entimetrea, It was constructed bv Alvah
Clark & Sons, and then sent to Peru, where
it was moanted and used by Professor Balley,
With this telescope the Harvard Observatory
was preparing fo issue a map of the entire
but as the Astro-photographic Congress
has undertaken the ame task, the Harvard
confine its work to smalley
such as the Magellanic
*Ky
parts of the sky,
douds,
A number of the completed plates have
just arrived in Cambridge and are being ex.
amined with much interest by the local
astronomers, The images are formed of
black dots on a white background. Plates
have also arrived of the spectra of very faint
stars photographed with prisms pisced over
the object.giass of the instrument.
UNITED STATES CATTLE LEAD,
Interesting Figures of Tmpaortations Late
England During 1890.
The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try of the Agricultural Department, Wash.
ington, Lis receipt of a circular from a
commission agent of London, giving the
total number of cattle and sheep recsived at
Deptford, Eogland, during the year 1808,
and the average prices, besides the prices on
sach market gay for cattle from the United
States, South America and Canada, respec
tiveiy. The total cattle ressived from the
three gestions wars qa follows, with the sven.
age prices in pennies per pound
United States, cattle, 146,965, 5.13 per
pound, sheep, 19,597, 5,21 per pound.
South America, osttle, 42.792, 4.28 per
pound: sheep, 234,028, 5.36 per pound.
Caunnda, cattle, 26.873, 4.94 per pound;
sheep, 30.286, 5.20 per pound.
The details present a condition most grat.
fying tothe United Btates cattle growers
Continuously throughout the year United
States cattle have commanded the highest
prices, ;
Long Wait for an Eelipee.
Tha only total eclipse visible in England
235 yours to come will ba in 1990,
A WMA OR 0 a le
Violent Deaths in 1896,
There wore 652) deaths by suicide in the
United States (ast year.
LIFE IN HAVANA.
MUCH MILITARY DISPI
BAN CAPITAL.
Cafes and
Caudily Uniformed Spanish Soldiers-
Evening
Promenades Filled With
The Cay City’s Morning ar
Sights
While iin ax a whole
HE pieiely «
shores
sitnnlit and odorons
3
et ring but harinless dress
full marching soldiers
pat plex, ff detachments and He
Hike The Cll nard still form oi
Prado and sweep down In
eng
€uthian youths
i fas
tithe of
of
youl
hard
Han fav
Ciles witl
fa
witlow bars along his
are all away 10 the wars
ow the Iwas
and the makls have no sweethearts
A bots the average (nban
Icoines toa sirong fog Work
poont ime
He must
and the world may wag
will while he makes if, Each
member of an has
particular spot in which to take
and if is a very ride thing fog
have his «lest,
on n= i
establishment? his
own
a nap.
another to preempt iL
ass anywhore
Resin fine
!
i
iimeedf and business
left off a
erin
few hours fore
SIretifies
where it
their lesia, begin to «how signs of al
most inan intelligenie
aint’ from thelr varioos aims and begin
languid'y to ply their trade
The Bllad girl, who pat ipr own eves
ont in a fit of plgie, adls on Aer sun
Ht joney In tow of her breather. ae
man with the horrible leprons
pare and terrifying, strelohies hiinsell
ont in the shade of a des
Taine,
in thels
amd they
GN hiss
Slow, ragged amd
{ 111
ed face, like
t Havava landmark
in
gin 1 !
the eyeing
L{ }id 1a ing
wloow, «11rd
nei heard
Northern climes Mug an
notgh bh with a 1 } A
see testi hig
A nglo-Sax
this grave)
Carmets
“ i ©
84 sripriod
fav
foosdiand m0 ®
«ial
versal, are vers
3
ihe fet in Bhs Bot
floors and broad
AWMEOE apartments
ciate,
glass, the Cuban &
are weil adapted to the
Queen Pours a Coachman’s Tea
“The coachman who drives the Queen
at Windsor, Balmorad and Osborne, and
who Bkewise accompanies her the
Thaymnas
lime been long in the service and is a
favorite. The Queen greets him
tiv
great
aiways with a
Frequently when the drives are loug
the Queen causes the carriage to be
stopped and tea brawed. This is done
hy means of 4 spird lamp, and in par.
taking of the gentle stimalant with her
taellom in attendance thie Queen doos
not forge hier conchipan, On one of
her daughior, the wid
friendly
spider,
Hired to order ii Spain or the Canary
i
her. and attempted to pour out the tea
for the coachman, the Queen took the
cup away from her pader the pretext
that she did not know “how Thomas
to have his tea sugared and
ervamed,” and did 9 Tor him herself.
Pearson's Wowekly.
Six-Day Bicycle Contests Stimulated to
Break Records.
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY
Rules for People Hand
Firgarms
ng
ution 8 the
you hear abot
ge ix believing.
The Business of Writing.
“A: the age twenty 1 found my.
a married man, father of a
a family, with po resources but my la.
bor, amd Hving from hand 0 mouth,
lke a workman, wifile Pendinand VIL
bad sequestrated and was spending
my property. Now. from hat time—and
in fact §t is, perhaps, mnisoal enough
for ww to be proud of H-—-having been
obliged fo live by my pen and to sup
port my family with 0 { have Kept
free from all speculative transactions,
from all mercantile eangagoments, 1
have done llerary work more or leds
well, nl pover 1ierary speciation. A
poor man, 1 have ca dyated an Hike a
rook man for its own sake, thinking
mere of the fotnre than of the presen,
Forced by Dard tines i» make a bus
ness of writing, 1 ean $mly say that
basinees coped erations have never in
paiesd fhe value of my work, From
tha Lanior of Victor Hauge,
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