The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-16


lieve he had seen Twelve minutes OF thor
ough satisfaction. Napoleon /. said; ~
turn with disgust from the cowardice and
selhshness of man. hold life horror;
death a repose. What have suffered the
last twenty DAYS Is beyond human compre-
hension." While, on the other hand, TO
show how one may be happy amid the
most disadyrntagcous circumstances, Just
after the Ocean Monarch had been wrecked
In the English channel a steamer was
cruising along In the darkness, when the
captain heard n sony asweetsong coming
over the water, and he bore down toward
that voice, and found IL was a Christian
woman on q plank Of the wrecked steamer,
singing TO the tune OF st. Martins
.Io.,. tov., n ,ov San,
Lot me TO Thy bcsom dy,
while The billoss near me roll
WIN" "n''e 'nV e'"'es' sun Is n'sn'
The heart right toward God and man we
are happy; the heart wrong toward God
and man we are unhappy.
Another reason why we should come 10
this spirit incuicated in the text is the fact
that all the differences of earthly condi-
/ ton are transtory. The houses YOU build,
| the land YOU cultivate. the places In which
Won barter. arc soon 10 90 into other
hands. However hard YOU NAV have il
now. II Won are Christian the scene will
soon end. Pain, trial, persecution never
knock at the door of the grave. A coffin
made out Of pine boards Is Just as good q
resting place as one made out Of silver
mounted mahogouy or rosewood. Go
down among the resting places OF the dead
and you will ind that though people there
had q great difference OF worldly circum-
stances, now they are all alike uncon-
scious. The hand that greeted the
senator, and the President, and the
King Is still ~ the hand that
hardened on the, mechanics hammer
or the manufacturer wheel. II does not
make any difference now whether there Il
n plain stone above them from which the
traveller pulls aside the weeds TO read the
name, or a tall shaft springing into the
heavens rs though 20 tell their virtues 10
the skies.
In that silent land there are no titles
for great men, aud there are no rumblings
of chariot wheels aud there Is never heard
the foot of The dance. The Egyptian
guano, which Is D. own or the fields In
the east for the enrichment OF the soil, IL
the dust rslxed out from the sepulclrep q
kings and h.o.smit tnighty mcl. . Oh,
chagrin OF those men II they had evel
known that in the after agcs OF the world
they would have been called Egyptian
guano.
OF how much worth now Is the crown o.
Cesar Who bids for Il? Who cares nov
ANYTHING about the Amphictyonic council
or the laws OF Lycurgus? Who trcmblc,
now because Nerxes crossed the Hollcspon,
ON a bridge of boats7 Who fears because
Nebuchadnezzar thunders at the gates o.
Jerusalem? Who cares now whether Of
NOT CLEOPATRA marries Antony? Who
crouchcs before Ferdinand, or Boniiacc. Oi
AlaricP Can Cromwell dissolve the Eng
lish Parliament now2 Is William, prime,
of Orange, King OF the Netherlands No
no, However much Elizabeth may Low,
the Russian crown, she must pass Il {,
Peter. and Peter 10 Catherine, and Cath
erine 10 Paul. and Paul 10 Alexander, anC
Alexander % Nicholas. Leopold puts the
German sceptrc into the hand OF Joseph
and Phillip comes down of the Spanisi
throne 10 let Ferdinand 90 on. House o
Aragon, house OF llapsburg, house OF Stu
I art, house OF bourbon, quarreling abou
, everything else, but agreeing u
this: The fashion oi this worl,
passcth away but have all these dignl
iaries gone? Can they not be called back
/ have been IN asseihblagcs where ! nav
, heard the roll called, and many disun
| guished men have answered; II ] shoul'
! call the roll today oi some oi those might!
= ones who have gone, wonder II tho!
would not answer; ! wlli call the ron;
: viii call the foii oi tlie hings INST Allrc,
J the Great, William the Sonqueror' fred
erick H., LOUIS ANl' NO answer: Wll
, call Tie roll ol ,he poets Robert Sonthey
Thomas campbell, John Meats, 1eJrg
Crabbe, Robert Burns. 10 answer
} call thc ron OF artisG Mlchael Ahgolo
. Paul Neronese, William turner, Chrlste
{ pher wren NO answer Eyes cl9-eI
} cans deai Ups SILENT hanus pals'ed
. sccpter, pcncl,, pen, sNorl pu, d9wn ioi
! ever, why snouiu We suuSgio ior sue
/, Daubles
, Another reason why We should cultur
this spirit OF checiulncss is The iact tha
, God knows what y best Tor his creature,
Q You know what h best Tor your child
lie thinks you are not AZ liberal with hif
] rs You ought to be. lie criticises you
D discipline, but yon look over the Who'll
= field, and you, loving that child, DO wha
0 in your deliberate Judgment Is best Tor hin
Y Now, God Is The best OF iaihGrs' som'
8 times his children mink that nc n mar
g on them, and that he n not as liberal vii