The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17
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And then he falls"
And when he falls he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
1t is but few years ago that the Liberal
party in England were entertaining Mr.
PARNELL in Kilmainham jail, with prison
fare and bed. To-day he is the political
lion of that same party, admired, almost
loved by his former iailors. At the banquet
lately given in London by the Eighty Club,
in honor of Lord SPRINGER, Mr.. PARSBLL
was a guest, and not only divided the
honors of the evening with Lord SPENCER,
but monopolized them. Everywhere he
appears, he receives an ovation; and the
Liberal leaders who imprisoned him are
now heaping honors thick upon him. In
view of this change of fortune, which few
wears have brought him, may we not say
This is the state of man; to-day grim sorrow
Claims him for his own; and hope,
The best Of heavens gifts 10 man, in chains sits
weeping:
Fierce, black dispair grin's hu gely at his woe,
And mocks his groans, his silent tears, and
And when when he thinks, poor wretched man, full
The heaT'n above his head is brass, and all his
efforts vain.
The third day comes, and opens wide
The prison door, and gives MIN lame ana
freedom.
Even erst, while foes are turn'd to friends,
And vie with friends to do him justice
While sweet success sits smiling on his prov.
What revolutions take place both in the
experiences of men and of nations! Eigh-
teen centuries ago Rome was the imperial
mistress of the world; and about as much
was known by the civilized world of the
British Islands as is now known of the
Samoa Islands, and they were regarded as
of no more Importance. For many centur-
les, however, Rome has been stripped OF her
imperial purple, her boundaries, her power,
her magnifcence areknown only in history
while the little islands in the distant sea,
inhabited in the days Of Rome's pride and
power by a few savage tribes, are now the
centre of an empire more extensive, more
wealthy, and possessing more power than
imperial Rome in all her glory could boast.
Nearly nineteen centuries ago JESUS Of
Nazareth was driven bare-footed over the
hard pavements of the streets of Jerusalem,
bending beneath the weight of His cross.
The brutal rabble Knocked His agony, and
dashed the thorn-crowned King with a
scourge of ropes. No friendly hand
stretched out its aid to help Him; no voice
spoke out in His behalf in all that mighty
throng. Alone He stood beneath his bur
den. and bore it without murmuring, amid
the excavations of those it was his dearest
wish to bless. What change has time
wrought! The God-like man is now hon
ored, worshiped by millions Of those in
habiting the fairest and most civilized por-
tions of the earth; while the people who
crucifed Him are broken, driven from
their homes, and their temple, their pride
and boast, has passed away, and their very
city given over to the possession Of
strangers.
1t was in 1910 that the question OF the
abolition of slavery first entered into the
national politics of the United States. At
that time slavery was supposed to be en-
trenched behind both the word OF God and
the constitution; and those VINO talked OF
abolition were regarded as rash disturbers
of the peace of their country. A little
more than a fifth of century passed, and
the shackles of slavery fell from the limbs
of three million souls; and the rude dis
turbers of the peace were hailed as the
benefactors of their race.
Thus it is throughout human experience.
Civilized nations are thrown back by
mighty revolutions, or sink by slow decay
into barbarism, and barbarous peoples be-
come civilized, and generally carry civiliza-
ton to a higher point of perfection than
did their predecessors. The rebels of one
generation become the patriots of the next
The heretics of one age are regarded
either as martyrs or orthodox in the one
following; and the presidential fellows"
"5he movers of sedition'' that threaten the
peace of the earth today are regarded as
reformers tomorrow.
Since time brings to pass such strange
mutations, may it not be hoped that com
munities which are distrusted, unloved, op
pressed because they are not understood
will yet have justice done them, and they
honored the more because of the very pa
thence with which they bore affection and
injustice? We think so. Old Time, turn on
thy wheel, and let it come to pass.
AND so Secretary PROCTOR will PROBABLY
order the discontinuance of the Sunday
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