| HE CENTRE Di MOCRANT, BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,
THE STARS.
How Amos Interpreted the Cone
gtellations of the Heavens.
God's Displeasare Jas
Manifested by Them
Been
Heen Frequently
Astrology May
Have More Than a
Brilllant Heathenism.,
ermon Dr,
Amos of
In his latest Washington
Talmage the
Tekoa, an ancient
from it some useful
was Amos 5: 8: “Seek Him that maketh
the Seven Stars and Orion.”
A country farmer wrote this text
Amos of Tekoa
and threshed the grain by a new thresh-
ing machine just invented, as formerly
the cattle trod out the grain. He
gathered the fruit of the sycamore
tree, and scarified it with an iron comb
just before it was getting ripe, as it was
necessary and customary in that way to
take from it the bitterness. He was the
son of a poor shepherd, and stuttered;
but before the rustic the
nd Phoeni-
Ammonites,
of
farmer, and draws
lessons. His text
tells story
He plowed the earth
stammering
Syrians, and
cians, and Moabites, and
and Edomites, and lsraclites trembled.
Moses was a law-giver, Daniel was a
prince, Isaiah a courti David a
king; but Amos, the author of my text
Was a ped t might be
parallelisms
Nis pro} 'y full
of W Im n li , and the r
locusts, and t rumble of arts
devouris e floc) hile the shep
cam tin t | . He wat
the herds by day, and by night
habited a 1 I
that thro
see
more familiar with them than
our houses
tars except among
mneys of the great
towns jut at seasons of the yea:
when the herds were
and
d, as sup-
ar
the odor
posed, near
pastoral,
ttle of
shea
» out of bushes, so
branches
long, 1
he dounl
to N
in the open field all
his only shel
heaven, wit
been
ant
Amos
two
vn the
nen and
hand and cut and
pen of proj
reant people of
ying Seek
and
Amos
fst as
Amos wm
y God
On must
as we
made the
be the God of
much a star
vho
Pleiade
order. It was
here and =» that ime
pressed the herdsman, but
meven in one group, and seven in the
other group. He saw that night after
night and season after season and de-
eade after decade they had kept step of
ght, each one in its own piace, a sis-
8)
not so
star there
inapired
terhood never clashing and never con- |
testing precedence. From the time
Hesiod called the Pielades the “Seven
Dau ghters of Atlas” and Virgil wrote
in his Aeneid of “Stormy Orion” until
now, they have observed the order es.
tablished for their coming and going;
order not written In manuseript that
may be pigeonholed, but with the hand
of the Almighty on the dome of the
sky, so that all nations may read it
Persistent order. Sublime or-
Omuaipotent order,
Order.
der
What a sedative wo you and me, to
whom communities and nations somes
times seem going pellamell, nnd the
world ruled hap-haz
ard, and in all directions maladminis
tration! The God who
worlds in right circuit for year
certainly keep nll the affairs of
individuals and nations and continents
in adjustment. We had not better fret
much, for the peasant's argdment of
the text was right, If God «
care of the worlds of
Pleiades and the four chief
Orion, He can
the one world we inhabit
In
your sphere, do the best vou can, and
by some flend at
keeps seven
GG 000
can
take
the
ids of
take care
mn
seven
wo
f
Of
probably
your occupation, your mission,
then trust to God: and if things are all
mixed and disquieting, and your brain
is hot and your heart sick, get some
you into the
light and point out to you the Pleiades,
or, better than that, get into some ob-
servatory, and through the telescope
see further than Amos with the naked
could—namely, 200 stars in the
Pleiades, and that in what is called the
sword of Orion there is a nebula com-
puted to be two trillion, two hundred
thousand billions of
the sun.
who made
one to go out with star-
eve
times larger than
Oh, be at peace with the God
that and controls all that
the wheel of the constellations tu ing
in the wheel of galaxies for thousands
of years without the breaking of a cog
slipping of a band or the snap of
r your placidity
2 the Lord Jesus
Him that
Com
“Seek maketh
rs and Orion.
SAW, as wo
who made
text
r that Go
God
was not sat
groups of the was the
light, Amos ss
seven: and
naving finished that group of world
group—group after
leiades He adds Orion
It seems that God light so
hat He keeps making it. On one
knows the sta
makes another
group. To the
likes wel
sing in the universe
and
and ; Orion was
inl, and sald Reef sall,
make things snug, or put harbor,
NUrricanes unr getting their
it were the
veel ev
the w
ange Orion was
arning propnet of th winery
Oh, now | get the of God |
had! 1
! two sermons |
want to
the
indulgent
ere are
preach one that
presents God so kind, so 80
that men may do
Him
every law, and put the pry of
lenient, so imbecile
what they will and frac.
ture His
their impertinence and rebellion under
against
His throne, and while they are spitting
in His face and stabbing at His heart,
He takes them up in His arms and
kisses their infuriated brow and cheek,
saying, "Of such is the kingdom of
Heaven." The other kind of sermon I
never want to preach is the one that
represents God as all fire and torture
and thundercloud, and with red-hot
pitchfork tossing the human race Into
ptroxysms of infinite agony.
| You must remember that the winter
{is just as important as the spring, Let
{one winter pass without frost to kill
| vegetation and jee to bind the rivers
and smow to enrich our fields, and then
you will have to enlarge your hospitals
and your cemeteries. “A groen Christ
mas makes & fat graveyard,” was the
| old proverb. Storms to purify the air
| Thermomaoter at three degrees below
goro to tone up the system, December
1897.
| and January just as important as May
and June. 1 tell you need the
{ storms of life as muck as we do the
| sunshine, There are more men ruined
| by prosperity than by adversity, If
| wo had cur own way in life, before
| this we would have been impersona-
tions of selfishness and worldliness and
disgusting sin, and puffed up until we
would like Julius
who was made by sycophants to be-
lieve that was divine, and the
freckles on his face were sald to be as
we
have been Caesar,
he
the firmament.
Lhe
made
the stars of
One of swiftest trans-Atlantic
voyages one summer by the
Etruria was because she had a stor my
wind abaft, chasing her New
York to Liverpool. But to those going
in the opposite direction the storm was
| a buffeting and a hindrance. Itisa
bad thing to have a storm ahead, push-
ing us back; but if we be God's chil-
| dren and aiming toward Heaven, the
storms of life will only chase us the
| sooner into the harbor. I am so glad
{ to believe that the monsoons, typhoons
and mistrals and siroccos of the land
and sea are not unchained maniacs let
loose upon the earth, but are under d§-
vine supervision! I am so glad that the
God
It was out ot Dante's suffer.
the Divina Comme-
dia, and out of John Milton's blindness
. and out of
from
{ God of the Seven Stars is also the
of Orion!
ing came sublime
came Paradise Lost
infidel
water Treatise
and out of David's exile
‘ i
ana
able attack came age
in favor of Ch wmnity,
the
the
Cun
n 4’
ongs ofl out
Msoin
bereavy
pover
Ye come
your
your
Oh, what
text
Cod
and
rene
Psalt
ust obey n te
will scek Him
call to mind that it is n
universe shat is most valuable
. And that each of us
worth more than all the worlds. whie
the
booth on the hil
spiritual has a sou
inspired herdsman saw from his
* of Tekoa
I had studied §
and falls
K against carved % and down
fH pavement
Ove hich the kings
nd
to «
transept
queens of the earth have w
Nave
portals
alked
and
the
In-
intercoluined
onfessional and aisles
and combining
splendors of sunrise and sunset
teriaced, interfoliated
As 1 stood ng
st the double range of flying buttresses
grandeur outside. look
andl the forest of pinnacies, higher and
higher and higher, until I almost reel !
from exdinimed
HOXO ogy
dizziness, 1 Groat
in stone Frown praver of
many nations
But while standing there | saw =»
poor man enter and put down his pack
and kneel beside on the
hard floor of And
tears of deep emotion came into my
eyes, as I said to myself: “There is a
{ soul worth more than all the material
| sarroundings. That man will live after
the last pinnacle has fallen, and not
{tne stone of all that cathedral
glory shall remain uncrumbled.
{He is now a Lazarus in rags
{and poverty and weariness, but
| immortal, aad a son of the Lord God
| Almighty; and the prayer he now of-
| fers, though amid many superstitions,
| T believe God will hear; and among the
| apustios whose seulptured forms stand
i In the surrounding nitches he will at
last bo lifted, and into the presence of
that Christ whose sufferings are rep
resented by the crucifix before which
| ho bows; and bo raised in due time
| out of all his poverties into the glori-
ous home built for us by ‘Him who
maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.’ ®
his burden
that cathedral,
| exhibited
| occupants of passing vessels
| Ils
| the
| vero
[ and
| whale
| later the
TAME OCEAN FISHES,
WHALES AND PORPOISES ARE BOME-
TIMES PAINFULLY SOCIABLE,
Good Natured Bob, an Acquaintance on the
Florida Coast — Nome Interesting Experi.
ences With Whales In the Pacific Ocean,
Travelers the
certain
coast of
por-
and up to 1851]
and down
up
Fiorida will remember a
poise
the remembrance of the writer, paraded
that for years, in
and down a quarter section of the
He
rarely answered to
up
Florida peninsula, known
Bob,
his name he was well known to all sail
Wis ns
and though he
ors in those parts
by a peculiar cut in his dorsal fin, giv
ing it che appearance of having a win
dow in it. Some thoughtless passenger,
wishing to practice on all animate na
ture with his revolver, had inflicted this |
injury, and the porpoise apparently was |
it was |
the |
it. In any
every opp
very proudiof
at
event,
ritunity to
It would
How it at times
but
100 yards
come near the vessel, fo
r gambol about the bow or stern,
chief wition was about
r consider
r whale
mwas well iliustrated
by a whale
h evidently took the ship Plymouth
eo of ita kind, This whale was a
ur bottom, about 90 feet in length,
the Golden
and re
igh the itire voyage
ith Ameri he big
fWam
1" ship off
left San Fran
i thine
ity that
m alo
the crew In
ft might
os dismast the
St every device
it came '
It went on “key
intil the ship finally entered such shoal
water that it was obliged to sheer off
The sociability of dolphins and por
poises is well known, their graceful
gambols about the prow of vessels being
Nn YOryY No matter how
rapid the pace, these attractive creatures
s0 time their motions that they pass and
the with the
:
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ff ns
ail tO no par
ng company'’
shit
Hnmon mEn
ress filving ocutwater
’
groatos
The close proximity of such large ani
mals to vessels might suggest a possible
danger, yet fatalities are rare and few
are known where the whale has not
been attacked. The terrible incident of
the Essex is perhaps the only one, Here
the whale was run down by the ship,
shock from the contact being so se.
as 10 throw the crew to the deok
almost dismast the vessel. The
swam oil and a
lookout cried out that
coming for them on the surface. The
animal was inspired by revenge, and at
full ¥peed struck the ship in the bow so |
powerful a blow that the bow was crush-
od in, and the vessel went to the bot-
tom ten minutes later, leaving the men
in boats 700 miles from
Bouth America. A survivor of the adel.
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