The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-15

mordecal had never received anv reward
haman, who had been fixing up a nice "a
lows to hang Mordecai on. was walk 2 on
slde the door Of the Kings sleeping apart
ment and was called in. The King tola hir
tnat he had Just had read to him the accouu
q, some one who had saved his, the King
ne and ne asked what reward ought TO b
! gwen 70 such a one. Self-c0uceited Hannah
! SSupposlng that he himself was to get ia
honor. and not imagining for a momeu
tnat the deliverer of the Kings life ma
! Mordecali says. "Why. your ma iesty ouch
/ 70 make triumph for him, and put /
crown on him, and set him ON
splendid horse, high stepping ami full blood
ed, and then have one Of YOUR prince
lead the horse through the streets. CRYING
BOW the knee, here comes a man who hS
saved the Kings life" Then said Alias
uerus III severe tones TO Haman: II know
al about your scoundrelism. Now you 90
9ut and make a triumph for Mordecai. I'll,
hebrew whom you hate. Put the best
saddle on the finest horse. aud YOU. til,
prince, hold the stirrup whils Mordeca
gets on, and then lead his horse through ths
street. Make hasteg
What a spectaclei A comedy and tragedy
~ ole and the same time. There they 90
aordecai, who had been despised. now
starred and ROBBED in the stirrups, Haman.
tne chancellor, afoot, holding the prancing.
rearingi chanping stallion. Mordecai bends
ais neck at last but tits to looS down at ths
degraded prime minister walking beneath
nm Huzza for Mordecai Alas for Haman
BUT what pity to have the gallows recently
Quilt entirety wasted 1t is fifty cubics high.
ana built with care. And Haman had
erected It for Mordecai, by whose st'-vups he
aoW walks as groom. Strangers more
startlng than any romance, tn 8 SSup the
steps OF the scaffolding, side by side, the
aangman and Haman the ex-chancsllor. so
they hanged Haman on the gallows that he
acd prepared for Mordecai. .
Although 50 many years have passed
SINCE eowardly Ahasuerus reigned, and the
beautiful Esther answered to his whims and
kersia persisted, yet from the life and death
ot Haman we may draw living lessons of
warning and instruction. and, first, we
come TO the practical suggestion that
when the heart is wrong, things vlrr in
ngnliicant will destroy ou= comfort.
W no would have thought that a great
prime minister, admired and applauded by
Millions Of Persians, would have been so
lettled and harassed by anything trivial?
What more could the great dignirary have
wanted than his chariots and attendants,
md palaces and banquets2 II affiuence of
circumstances can make a man eontented
and happy surely Hannah should have been
,ontented and happy. No; Mordecai's re-
,usal of bow takes the glitter from the
gold, and the richness from the purple and
he speed from the chariots. With a heart
2uffed up with every imitation of vanity and
sevenge, it was impossible for him to h
Happy. The silence of Mordecai at the gate
vas louder than the brsying of trumpets in
ihe palace. Thus shall it always be if the
heart is not right. Circumstances the most
rival viii disturb the spirit
1t IS not the great calamities of life that
:reate the most worriment. ] nave seen men,
lelled byrepeated blows Of misfortune, arising
rom the dust, never despondlng' But the
most Of the disquiet which men suffer IS
rom Insignificant causes, as a lion attacked
" some beast of prey turns easily around
md Stays him, yet runs roaringly through
The forest at the slighting on his brawny
neck of a few insects. You meet some great
oss in business with comparative composure,
put you can think Of petty trickeries in
Eictedupon you which rouse all your ca.
city for wrath, and remain in your heart
unbearable annoyance. If you look back
! u your life you viii find that most of
the vexations and disturbances of
spirit which you felt were produced
by circumstances that were not
worthy of notice. II you want to be happy
minute in your inspection of the treatment
you receive from others. Who cares whether
Mordecai bows when you pass, or stands
erect and stiff as a cedars That woodman
would not make much clearing in the forest
who should stop to bind up every little bruise
and scratch he received in the thicket, nor
Will tnss l. ,compSs 8 n flor the world
or the church who is too wstchful and appre-
c.atlve Of petty annoyances. There are null
itudes Of people in the world constantly hsr-
rowed because they pass their lives, not in
searching out those things which are attrac-
tive and deserving, but ia spying out with all
their powers Of vision to see whether they
cannot find Mordscai.
Again. I learn from the life of the man
under our notice that worldly vanity and
sin are very anxious to have piety bow be-
lore them Haman was a fair emblem ot
entire worldhness and Mordecai, the repre-
OF unfinching godliness. Such
we're the uSages Of society in ancient times
that, had this lsraelite bowed to the prime
minister it would have been an acknowledge
nent Of resf-ect for his character and nation.
MordecsI would: thsreiora haz-2 ---is=-,l
q a,i1st ms religion had he made any obeis
.ance or dropped his chin half an inch
before Haman. When, therefore proud
Hannah ATTEMPTED to compel an HON.
age which was not felt, he only did
what the world ever since mas urlea 70 40,
when it would force our holy religion IN any
way to Weld to its dictates. Daniel,n he had
been man of religious compromises, would
never have been thrown into the den oil
lions. He might have made some arrange
meut with King Darius whereby he could
have retained part Of his form of religion
without making himself so completely OBJ
noxious to the idolaters. Paul might have
retained the favor of his rulers and escaped
1nartvrdom if he had only been willing &c
mix up his Christian faith with few errors
His unbending Christian character wa
taken as an insult.
Fagot and rack and halter, in all age
have been only the different ways IN which
the world has demanded obeisance- It wa
once. away up on the top of the temple, tina
Satan commanded the Holy One Of Nazareti
to kneel before him. But it IS not now 81
much on the top Of churches as down IN tn
aisle and the pew and the pulpit that Satai
tennis the espousers Of the Christian faith 4
llneel before him. Why was it that the Pla
tonic philosophers Of early times, as well a
Toland, Spinoza and Bolingbroke o
latter DAYS were so madly opposed
to Christianity? Certainly not becaus
it favored immoralities, or ARRESTED
civilization, or dwarfed the intellect. Tn
genuine WucLutA aAAiAAtIA "a A4Nti "
because the religion of Christ paid 10 respec
to their intellectual vanities. Blount an
Boyle and the host Of infidels Matched out b.
the vile reign of Charles IL, as reptiles craN
out Of a marsh of slime, could not keep thei
patience because. as they passed along, ther
were sitting in the gate Of the church suo
men as Matthew and Mark, and Luke, an
John, who would not bend an inch in respec
to their PHILOSOPHERS.
Satan told our first parents that the
would become as gods if they would onll
reach up and take a taste Of the fruit
They tried it and failed. but their descend
ants ara not yet satisfied with the experi
ment. We have now many desiring to b
rs gods, reaching up after yet anothe
apple Human reason, scornful Of Gofi
word, may foam and strut with the proud
wrath Of Haman, and attempt to compe
the homage of the good, Stit in the prssenc
of men and angels il shall be COMPOUNDED
''iod shall smite thee. thou whited wall
When science began 20 make its briilian
discoveries there were .reat facts brought (
light that seemed to overthrow the trut
of the Bible, The aAiheologist with hi