The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19
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tind Paul singing in a dungeon. | find
Kirg Ahab going to bed at noon through
melancholy, while near by is Naboth
contented in the possession Of a vine.
yard. Haulan, Prime Minister OF Persia,
frets himself almost to death because a
poor Jew will not tip his hat; and
A ithophel, one of the greatest lawyers
OF Bible times, through fear of dying,
Gangs himself. The wealthiest man,
forty years ago, in New York, when con
graduated over his large estate, replied
"Ah you don't know how much trouble
/ have in taking care of it," Byron de-
clares in his last hours that he had never
seen more than twelve happy days in all
his lie. | do not believe he had seen
twelve minutes of thorough satisfaction.
Napoleon |. said: 81 turn with disgust
from the cowardice and selfshness Of
m-n. | hold life q horror death is re-
pose. What l have suffered the last
twenty days is beyond human compre-
tension" While, on the other hand, to
show how n may be happy amid the
most Instantaneous circumstances, Just
alter the Ocean Monarch had been
wrecked in the English Channel, a
steamer was cruising along in the dark
ness, when the captain heard a song, a
sweet song, coming over the water, and
he bore down towards that voice, and
found it was a Christian woman on a
plank of the wrecked steamer, singing to
the tune Of st. M~artin's:-
o.. .Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high"
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
TO this spirit inculcated in the text is the
fact that all the difference OF earthly con-
dition are tr%ansitory. The houses you
build, the land you culture, the places in
which you barter, are soon to go into
other hands. However hard you may
have it now, if you are a Christian the
scene will soon end. Pain, trial, perse-
cution, never knock at the door OF the
grave. A coffin made out of pine boards
is just as good a resting place as one
made out OF silvermounted mahogany or
rosewood. Go down among the resting
places OF the dead and you will find that
though people there had a great differ
nee OF worldly circumstances, now they
are all alike unconscious. The hand that
greeted the Senator, and the President,
and the king, is still as the hand that
hardened on the mechanics hammer or
the manufacturers wheel. 1t does not
make any difference now whether there
is a plain stone above them from which
the traveller pulls aside the weeds to
read the name, or a tall shaft springing
into the heavens as though to tell their
virtues to the skies.
In that silent land there are no titles
for great men, and there are no rumb-
lings OF chariot wheels, and there ia
never heard the foot of the dance. The
Egyptian guano which is thrown on the
fields in the East for the enrichment OF
the soil, is the dust raked but from the
sepulchres Of kings and lords and mighty
men. Q, the chagriD of those men II
they had ever known that in the after
ages OF the world they would have been
called Egyptian guano.
OF how much worth now is the crown
of Caesar? Who bids for it Who cares
now anything about the Amp ictyonic
Council or the laws of Lycurgus =? Who
trembles now because Xerxts crossed
the Hellespont on a bridge of boats ?
Who fears because Nebuchadnezzar
thunders at the gates OF Jerusalem ?
Who cares now whether or not Cleopatra
marries Antony? Who crouches before
Ferdinand, or Roniface, or Alaric? Can
Cromwell dissolve the English Parlia-
ment now? Is William, Prince OF
Orangr, king OF the Netherlands No:
no! However much Elizabeth NAV
love the Russian crown, she must pass
it to Peter, and Peter to Catherine, and
Catherine to Paul, and Paul to Alexan-
der, and Alexander to Nicholas.
Leopold puts the German sceptre into
the hand OF Joseph, and Philip comes
down on the Spanish throne to let Fer
dinand go on. House of Aragon, house
OF Habsburg, house of Stuart, house OF
Bourbon, quarreling about everything
else, but agreeing in this !. THE fashion
of this world passeth away" But have
all these ~dignitaries gone? Can they
be called back l have been in as
semblages where I have heard the roll
called, and many distinguished men
have answered. If l should call the roll
today of some OF those mighty ones who
have gone, l wonder if they would not
answer. l will call the roll. l will call
the roll of the kings first Allied the
Great William the Conqueror! Fred
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