National Republican., 1888-04-23

Is II bcsmirchCd with profanity and unclCln
Seal defects for Which the victims are not 'G re-
y onsiblcl Arc your powers of miniCry used
to- ut religion in contcmnt: Is Il bunch of
ncttlesOme invcctivc: Is II Il bolt Of uniu't
sgoiny is il fun at others misfortune! Is i
gCe at their disappointment and defeat; Isit
littciness Put drop by drop into cup Is II
nto G thG SrangGi mSGGiHg nTcn 81 isi Normm
Then you are the star WOrmwDll. your, Is
TIC fun OF Il rattlesnnkc trying how well 1t can
sting. II Is the fun of a hawk trying how
quick i can strike out the eye Of Il dove.
But will change this and will suppose you
are Il star Of worldly prosperity. Then you
i.hayc large opportunity; lo,i can encourage
mIroN the fields. The stables. the highway.
10y Introducing higher style or fowl and horse
and COW and sheep. Nou can bless the wOrli
with ION u,CciCal achievement In the orchards.
lOu can advance arburCu'turC and arrest this
doHthiul iCunOCusin of the American forests.
You can put piece of sculpture into the niche
oi that public academy. You can eudow u
college, You can stocking Q. Thousand hare
feet from the winter frost You can build
church. You can put Il missionary of Christ
world; rich man with his heart right-can
you tell ne how much good 4 James Lennon
or q George Peabody or a Peter Cooper or
now that lie sdead: There ismot city, town,
or neighlclhuod that has not glorious snCci.
mems OF cons0tratcd wealth
hut suppose yOu grind the face of the poor.
SUI pose Wlltn u man wages arc Ouc You
make him wait for them because he cannot
help himself. suppose that because his fam
lily Is sick and he has had extra expenses he
should politely ask you to False his wages for
better place To 10 and get il. suppose by
your manner you act us though he were notli.
ing and you were everything. suppose you
alc selfish and overwhelming. and arrogant.
Your first name ought to he Attila, and your
last name .lttila. because you are the star
Mnlmwoo9' and You have einbittered one.
third, II not thrCe.thirdS. of the waters that
roll past your employees and operatives and
dependents and associates, and he long line
OF carriages which the undertaken orders FOR
respectable will be filed with twice as many
dry. fearless eyes as there are persons occupy
ing them. Tie clumsy, pallbcdrcrs may make
the gates OF your scpulcher quake by striking
Solr silNcr-handlcd coffin against them, but
tic world will feel no jar Us you 20 out of il.
There Is an erroneous idea aabroad that there
are only II few eeniuscs. There are millions
especial adaptation and quickness for some
one thing. IL may lie great, II may be small.
the earth, or, Iu larger than a thimble. There
| are Thousands Ut genuscs here this morning,
ana i'll some one thing you are star. What
KIM % 2i Ia, sthr ;n are your You Will be N ihs
| eternity the stay of the longest life on earth
| Is not more than minute. What are We
| doing with that minute. Are. We cinbitterlng
| the domestic or social OF political fountains,
| or are we like Moses, who, when the ,fsraclitcs
| IN the wilderness complained that the waters
| Of Lake Marah were bitter and they could not
drink them, their leader cut on the branch of
| certain tree and threw that branch into the
| water, and il became sweet and slakcd the
| thirst of the suffering hostE Are we, with
| branch Of the Tree of Life sweetening all the
brackish fountains that we can touchs Dear
| Lord, send us all ont on Thy mission. All
| around us ombittered lives, empittcrcd by per-
| Filtered by poverty, embittorcd by pain, en-.
| bittcrcd By injustice, embittered by sin. Why
| not go forth and ,swcetcn them by smile, by
| inspiring, words, by ,benefactions, by hearty
counsel, by prayer, by gOSIclZcd behavior.
| Let Us remember that If we are wOrmwOod TO
Others we are Wormwoou TO ourselves. and
Sour life will be bitter and our eternity bitter.
| The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only sweet
| ening power that is sufficient. II swcetcn'
| the DISPOSITION II sweetens the manners. II
| sweetcns life, II sweetcns mysterious Prov
| idcncc. II swcctens alliiclions. II swectens
| death. II sweetens everything. have heard
| people asked in social company, "lf You
could have three wishes gratiiled, what
| would your three wishes bcs" II / could
| have three wishes met this morning | tell You
grace Of God. second: Moro.or The grace of
the, door yard of my brother John, missionary
| in Annoy, China, there is u tree called the EN-.
| peror tree, the two characteristics of which
are that It always grows higher than its sur.
OF u crown. If this emperor tree be
planted by rosebush 1t grows Il little higher
than the PUSH and spreads out M above i a a
tree, II grows little higher than that tree and
| spreads above II a crown. Would God that
| this religion OF Christ, n more wonderful en-
| pcror tree, might oyershadow all your lives;
| areyou lowly in ambition or circumstance,
| putting over you its crown: are You high in
talent and position, putting oyer. you its
| crown. oh, for more of the saCcharlne in our
| lives and less of the wormwood.
What is true of individuals is true of ma
| tions. God sets them up toreyolvc as stars, but
| they may fall wormwood
| Iyrc--the atmosphere of the desert fragrant
| with spices coming in cal avuns to her fairs:
| all seas cleft into foam by the keels of her
| laden merchantmen, her markets rich with
horses and camels from, ,'rogarm9h, her, bazars
| filled with upholstery from nedan, with en-
| raids and corals and agate from Syria, with
| wines from Ilelbon, with embroidered work
from Ashur and Chilmad. Where now the
| CLEAN of her towers, where the roar of her
| chariots, where the masts OF her ships. Let
| the fishermen who dry their nets where once
she stood, let the sea that rushes upon the
bqrenness where once she challenged The
| admiration of all nations, let the barbarians
who set their rude tents where once her pal
| aces Uttered, answer the question. She was
a star, but by, her own sin turned to worm
| Iundred.gated Thcbes-for all time to be
the study of antiquarian and hicrogyphlst;
her stupendogs ruins, spread over twenty.
| seven miles; her sculptures presenting in
figures of warrior and chariot the victories
with which the now forgotten kings of Egypt
shook the nations; her obelisks and columns;
CaInacG and Luxor, the stupendous temples Of
her pride. Who can imagl glne the greatness of
| Thcbes In those days when the hippodrome
rang with her, sports and foreign royalty
| bowed at her shrines and her avenues rOared
with the wheels of professions in the wake of
| returning ConquerOrsy What dashed down
the vision Of charots and temples, and
Of her soy what ss GT DE-
| faced her sculptured wall and broke obelisks
and left her indescribable temples, great
tion spread the lair Wild beasts in her royal
| sepulchers, and taught the miserable cot
tagers OF to-day to build huts IN the courts Of
her temples, and sent ,desolation and ruin
| skulking behind the obelisks and dodgng
among the sarcoplagi and leaning aga inst the
columns and 'stooping under the arches and
weeping in the waters which go mournfully
al agesy Let the mummies break their long
silence and come up TO shiyer In the de 'o'a:
tion, and point to fallen gates and shattered
! statues and defaCcd sculpture, responding !:
| "rhcbes built not one temple to God. Thebes
| hated righteousness and loved sin. ThebeS
was a star, but she turned 10 NORWOOD and
| has fallen"
Babylon--with her two hundred and fifty
towers, and her brazen gates and her cmbat.
| tied walls, the splcndor of the earth gathered
within her palaces; her hanging gardens, built
by INe,buchadneezzar tt to please his bride hrld
| mountainous country. and could not endure
the HAT country round Babylon these hang,
| ing gardens; Dullt, terrace above terrace, III
| AZ tie height OF 100 feet there were woods
| waving and fountains, playing, the vcrdure,
the foliage, the glory looking ns II a mountain
were. on the, wing. ON the tip'top king
| walking with his queen, among statues snowy
| white, looking up at birds brought from dis.
tant lands, and drinking out OF tankards of
| solid gold, or looking of over rivers and lakes
| upon nations Subducd and tributary, crying:
| is not this great Babylon which have builtS'
| What battering ram smOte the wallsf What
| plouglshare uptumed the gardenst What
| army shattered the bra2en gatess What long
| ilumined the werldS What crash of dscord
| drove down the music that poured from palace
| window and garden grove and called the ban
| feety walk upon the scene of dcsOlatiOn to
| find m unsMnr and mink Mlnnns nf hlInfnnn