The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-29

wheel Of fortune turns several times and
you are in q crisis ths, you never could
have anticipated. Now. all tie powers
of darkness come around, and a ey
chuckle, and they CRATER, and they .ay:
"Aha! here is the old fellow who was
SO proud of his integrity, and who brag-
ged he couldn't he overthrown by temp
tation. and was so uproarious in his
demons trations of indignation at the de-
falcation fifteen years ago. Let US SEQ.
God les the man go. God. whe had
kert that man under His protecting
care. lets the man go, and try for hin-
self the majesty Of his integrity. God
letting the man go. the powers ef dark
ness peunce upon him. I see you some
One Of two things you can do. BIZ
honest. and be pauperized, and have
your children brought home from school,
your family dethroned In social inilu-
ence. The other thing is, you can step
a little aside from that which Is right,
you can only just go half an inch out OF
the proper path, you can only take lit
tie risk, and then ycu have all your
finances fair and right. You have n
large prof. erty. You can leave for
tune for your children, and endow col
lege, and build public library in your
native town. You halt and wait, and
halt and wait until your lips get whit.
strokes of tue pen now. But oh, how
your hand trembles. how dre;ldfuily it
trembleSi The die is cast. By the
strangest and moot awful conf notion "f
circumstances any one could have mag
ined, you are Frustrated. Bankruptcy,
commercial humiliation, eXposur-, ami
crime. Good men mourn and devils
held carnival and you see your own
name at the head of the newspaper col
umn in whole congress OF exclamat on
points and while you are reading the
anathena in the reportOrial and editor nj
paragraph. it occurs to you how much
this story is like that of the defalcation
fifteen years ago, and clap of thunder
shakes the window-sill, saying: With
what measure ye mete. it shall be meas
ured to you again
You look in another direction. There
is nothing like an ebullition OF temper to
put a man to disadvantage. You. a man
with calm pulses and a fine digestion,
an. perfect health, cannot understand
how ANYBODY should be capsiZed in tenn
per by an infiniteSimal annoyance. You
say: Il couldn't be unbalanced in that
way" Perhaps you smile at a provoca-
ton that makes another man swear
You pride yourself on your imperturba-
bility You Say with your manner,
though you have too much good taste
to sly it with your words: '' I have a
great deal more sense than that man
has 1 have great deal more equipoise
of temper than that man has, I never
could make such a puerile exhibition of
myself as that man has made"
MY brother, you do net realize that
that man was born with a keen nervous
organization. that for forty years he has
been under depicting process, that
sickness and trouble have been helping
undo what was left of original healthful-
ness, that much of his time it has been
with him like filing saws, that his nerves
have come to be merely a tangle Of dis
| orders, and that he is the most pitiable
object on earth who. though he is very
| STICK, does not look sick and nobody
| sympathizes. Let me See. Did you not
say that you could not be tempted to ar
ebullition of temper? Some September
| you come home from your summer
watering place and you have inside
away back in your liver or spleen. wha
we call in our day malaria, but what tn
old folks called chills and fever. Yo'
take quinine until your ears are first buzz
| zing beehives and then roaring Niagaras.
| You take roots and herbs. you take
everything. You G. well. But the next
| day you feel uncomfortable, and you
yawn and you stretch, and you shiver,
| and you CONSUME. and you suffer. Vexed
| more than you can tell, you cannot sleep.
| you canno: ca, vCu cannot bear to see
anything that looks happy. you 20 out
to kick TIE cat that is asleep in the sun.
| Your chiidren's mirth was once music to
| you; now it is deafe:. ing. Yo,. say
Boys. stop that r"cket!' You turn
back from June to March. In the family
and in the neighborhood your popularity
is nin-ty-five per cent off. he world
| SAYS: What is the matter witt hat
disagreeable man? What a woebegone
c,untcnance" You have your pay at last
got your pay. You feel just as the man
felt, that man for whom you had nc
Ia Grey, and my text comes in with mar
vellous appositeness With what meas
ure ye metz, it shall be measured to you
| again
In he study of society have come to
this conclusion. that the most of the
pc pl want 10 be good but they do not
exactly know how to make it out. They
make enough good resolutions to lit
them into angelhood. The vast ma ority
of people who fall are t. e ctllns OF cir
Gums tances they are captured 10y am
bu=cade. If their temptations shoulC
come out in a regiment and fight then
in ii fair field they wo,ld go out IN the
strength and the triumph OF Davit
against Goiah. But they do not SET
the giants and they do not see the regi
ment. The vast ma joriiy of men ant
women who IL destroyed by opium ano
by rum first take them as medicines
In making up your dish OF criticism II
regard to them, take from the caStO
the cruet OF sweet oil and not the crue
of cayenne pepper. Be easy on them
Ny friends, hi, text will come to full
fluent in some cases in this world. Tn
huntsman in Farmsteen was shot b.
some unknown per II. Twenty year
after the son of the hunt man was liz n
same forest, and he accidentally shot
man and the man in dying said: - CO.
is just; l shot your father Just her
twenty years ago." A bishop said t.
Louis III of France: Make an iro
cage in which the captive can neither Ii
down nor stand straight up" 1t wa
fashioned. The bishop offended Loui
TX, and for fourteen years he was kept
that same cage. 1t is u poor rule tina
will not work both ways. g With wha
measure ye mete, it shall be measure
to you again."
oh my friends let us be resolved