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Instantly from two miles away came the next verse, the sound of those splendid words rolling down the old church like echoes of some lesson read generations since. "'Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
Now that the costly "function" has funked itself into howling farce, an uncomfortable failure, and the infuscated revellers recovered somewhat from royal katzenjammer, we find that the majestic earth has not moved an inch out of its accustomed orbit, that the grass still grows and the cows yet calve that the law of gravitation remains unrepealed, and Omnipotence continues to bring forth Mazzaroth in his season and guide Arcturus with his sons.
"Bless me, I believe that's so!" laughed the old gentleman. "But tell me, Sylvia: 'Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or guide Arcturus with his sons?" Sylvia, with brightening eyes and a smile on her lips, answered:
The pompous policeman yonder: I longed to go and say to him that there had been policemen before; that he was only the ephemeral example of a world-old type, and needn't take himself so seriously. It was an irresistible temptation to ask him: 'Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?
He sees GOD in all. "This," says he, "is his creation this the work of his fingers these the productions of his skill" "by his spirit he hath garnished the heavens" he hath appointed "the sweet influences of the Pleiades, and looseth the bands of Orion" he "bringeth forth Mazzaroth in his season, and guides Arcturus with his sons."
The Lord, speaking to Job, refers to the "measures" of the earth, the "lines" which He has stretched upon it. He asks, concerning the heavenly bodies: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" And Job answers: "I know that Thou canst do everything."
A future age that has leapt from one planet to another, or even from one system to another sun and its dependants, that has 'called forth Mazzaroth in his seasons, and loosed the bands of Orion', that has covered the earth with peace as with a garment and pierced the veil that cuts us off from the dead, will look back to us as groping blindly in darkness.
"Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" Long years ago children were taught to admire a god who created a leviathan, a unicorn, and "Behemoth." Children of the future will be told: You live on a globe twenty-five thousand miles round. It travels ceaselessly through space at a speed of eighteen miles a second.
Swinburne is said to have known by heart; and as we read it even the stars themselves seemed less wonderful than this description of their marvel and mystery: Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the hands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
"Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or loose the bands of Orion?" Each angel standing in front of the symbol is dimly outlined and transparent. Through the angel's form is seen its symbol. FIRST A luminous something, which gives the impression of sleep. SECOND Something moving, like an ocean. THIRD A storm, and lightning. FOURTH A mist. FIFTH An animal moving, resembling a turtle.
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