The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-02

troops mounted on Cappadocian horses
Attila swept everything from the Adriatic
% the Black sea. He put his iron heels
on Greece and Macedonia and Ihrace.
He compelled Milan and Padua and
Verona and other cities to beg for mercy
which ne never bestowed. 1t is said that
the grass never grew again in any place
where the heels of Attiia'S horses trod.
His armies Redeemed the Seine, the Mos
ellie and the Rhine with carnage, and on
the Catalonian plains fought the fercest
battle since the world stoOd-300,000 dead
left on the field. Tie was so brilliant in
attire that his enemies could not look at
him. They shut their eyes or they turned
their heads away. Slain on the evening
of his marriage by his bride IldicO who
had been hired for the assassination, his
followers mOurned him not with tears but
with blood, cutting themselves with
knives and lancets. He was put in three
cCtflns, one of iron, another OF silver and
another Of gold. He was buried at mid
night and into his grave was poured
valuable coins and precious stones amount
ing TO the wealth of q kingdom Thus the
grave-diggers and all who assisted at the
burial were horribly put to death so that
the story might never be told OF where the
wealth was entombed. All, he rightly
called himself the scourge, but not the
scourge of God. He was the scourge of
hell. Because of his brilliancy and his
bitterness the commentators were right
when they called him the star Norwood
OF the text. And as he worked his great
est devastatiOns in regions where there
were fountains and streams and rivers
you Will observe the potency of the text
when 1t sIvs: A great star fell from
heaven, burning as it were Il lamp, and it
fell upon the ..thlrd part OF the rivers and
upon the fountains OF water; and the
name OF this star is called Norwood"
Have YOU ever thought how many embit-
tered lives there are all about us?
30 embittered that they are misan-
throplc, morbid, acrid, saturnine
The European plant from which
norwood Is extracted, drieDisid dbSiRth-
iant was perennial plant and it yielded
Its oil ali the year round and there are in
thousands OF lives perpetual Installations
OF acf1d experience. Ave, there are peO-
pie whose only business it is TO shed bale
iul influences upon others and they poison
One-tnlrd 81 the waters and sometimes
three-thirds OF the waters, and they are
the fallen star Norwood. Ii is no COM
plIment To human nature that most men
when they get great power become over
bearing and arrogant. The more power a
man gets the better If he uses it for right
eOusness. The more power Il man gets the
worse, il lac uses it Tor evil. Some of YOU,
50 Tar rom being the star WOmwOOd are
the morning star, and YOU are shedding
light upon daWning infancy and YOU
are beauing upon all the opening en-
terprises oil Christianity and phian-
thTOpy, and you are heralding the
dawn OF gospelization which shall vet
flood ali the mountains and valleys of our
sln-cursed world. Hail, morning star.
Shine on with your words of encourage
Mcnt-and cheer. Some of You are even
ing stars, and you are shining upon the
last hours of old age, making the evening
OF life beautiful. Though sometimes the
star may have cloud on it arising from
the querulousness or unTeasOnableness of
an aged father or mother, soon the cloud
Is gone and you are shining on, and YOU
are deserted from ali the balconies of the
neighborhood. Hail, evening star, hail.
Hang on the darkening sky your diamond
cOrOnet But are some of You the star
WomwoOd2 Is the influence that you
shed from the parental throne bale
full Are your children everlastingly
picked at? Do you cry "hushb
to their merry voices and their
swift feet and their laughter. which some
times trlckles through at inappropriate
times. and they try TO hold It back and
suppress it but after q while it bursts
forth again, carrying away all the barriers
with irresistible gufaw and exclamation,
a. when the water trickles through a mill
dam Tor little time but widens the
breacf until, after n while all goes down
under the swoOp Of the freshet What is
the influence upon the childrenl How
do You carry yourself every day in your
home3 Do not be too much disturbed by
thc noise your children make in the house
hold. Your house viii be quiet enough
when one Of them is dead. Then YOU
would give your night arm to hear
the shout of the silent voice or
lac step 81 the still foot You will not
have any 81 YOU To wait very long until
your honse will be stllcr than you want
t. Mas, that there are 50 many homes not
known ~ the society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty TO Children where children put
Oh the limits and are suppressed and
whacked and culied and har-puled and
uujustIy csnsured and psf through a