Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-26

twenty years ago. were Tue most prominent
how few remain in conspicuity. Politica
parties make certain men do their hare
work, and then, after using them as hacks
turn them out on the commons to die
Every four years there is a complete revo
luton, and ABOUT five thousand men who
ought certainly to be the next president
are shamefully disappointed; while some
who this day are obscure and poverty
stricken, will ride upon the shoulders Of
the people, and take their turn at admira
tion and the spoils of office, Oh, how
quickly the wheel turns Ballot boxes are
the steps on which men come down as Otter
as they go up. OF those who were long age
successful in the accumulation of property
how few have not met with reverses! while
many of those who tlen were straitened in
circumstances now hold the bonds and the
bank keys of the nation Ofall tickle things
in the world, fortune is the most tickle
Every day she changes her mind, and woe
to the man who puts any confidence in
what she promises or prOposesl She cheers
when you go up, and she laughs when you
come down. Oh, trust not a moment your
hearts affections to this changeful world
Anchor your soul in God. From Christ
companionship gather your satisfaction.
Then, come sorrow or gladness, success or
defeat. riches or poverty, honor or disgrace,
health or sickness, life or death, time or
eternity, all are yours, and We are Christ's,
and Christ is Gods.
RICHES DO NOT BRING HAPPINESS.
Again: this Humans history shows us
that outward possessions and circum-
stances cannot make man happy. While
yet fully vesteG in authority and the chief
adviser of the Persian monarch, and every
thing that equipage and pomp and splendor
of residence could do were his, he is an OBJ
ject lesson of wretchedness. There are to-
day more aching sorrows under crowns of
royalty than under the ragged caps of the
houseless. Much of the worlds affluence
an1 gayety is only misery in colors. Many
woman seated in the street at her apple
stand is happier than the great bankers.
The mountains of worldly honor are COW
covered with perpetual snow. Tamerlane
conquered half the world, but could not
subdue his own fears Ahab goes to bed,
sick, because Naboth will not sell him his
vineyard. Herod is in agony because little
child is born down in Bethlehem. Great
Felix trembles because poor minister will
preach righteousness, temperance and judg.
ment to come. From the time of Louis XII
to Louis XVIII was there a straw bot
toned chair in France that did not set
more solidily than the great throne on
which the French kings reigned2
Were l called to sketch misery in its
worst form, would not go up the dark
alley of the poor, but up the highway over
which prancing BucePAali strike the
sparks with their hoofs and between statu-
airy and parks of stalking deer. Wretched-
ness is mere bitter when swallowed from
gemmed goblet than from earthen pitcher
or pewter mug. If there are young people
here who are Looking for this position and
that circumstance, thinking that worldly
success will bring peace of the soul, let
them shatter the delusion. 1t is not what
we get, it is what we are. Daniel among
the lions is happier that Nebuchadnezzar
on his throne. And when life is closing,
brilliancy of worldly surroundings will be
no solace Death is blind, and sees no diff
ference between the king and his clown,
between the Nazarene and the Athenian,
between a boo1less hut and a national
library. The frivolities of life cannot, with
their giddy laugh, echoing from heart to
heart, entirely drown the voice of ire
mendous conscience which says: II am i'm
mortal. The stars shall die, but l am inn
mortal One wave of eternity shall drown
time in its depths, but / am immortal.
The earth shall have a shroud of flame and
the heavens flee at the glance of the Lord,
but am Immortal. From all the heights
and depths Of my nature rings down, and
rings up, and rings out the word i'm
mortal" A good conscience and assur-
ance u me eterllal througn the Lora Jesus
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ceive the honors of knighthood was reuuir-
ed to spend the previous night fully armed,
and with shield and lance to walk up and
down among the tombs of the dead
Through all the hours of that night his
steady step was heard, and when morning
dawncd, amid grand parade and the sound
OF comets the honors of knighthood were
bestowed Thus it shall be with the good
mans soul in the night before heaven.
Fully armed with shield and sword and
helmet, he shall watch and wait until the
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amid the sound of celestial harpings the
soul shall take the honors of heaven amid
the innumerable throng with robes snowy
white streaming over seas of sapphire.
MoRDECAI's TRIUMPH COMING.
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