Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-26

| by the very structure of the earth. Inc as
tronomer wheeled round his telescope until the
heavenly bodies seemed to marshal themselves
against the Bible. as the stars in their courses
| fought against Sisera. Observatories ana uni
versities rejoiced at what they considered the
extinction of Christianity. They gathered
new courage at what they considered past VIC
tory. and pressed on their conquest into the
kingdom of nature until, alas for them! they
| discovered too much. Gods word had only
been lying in ambush that, in some unguarded
moment, with a sudden bound, It might teal
| Infdelity to pieces.
1t was as when Joshua attacked the city OF
| Al He selected 80 600 men, and concealed
most of them; then with few men he assailed
| the city, which poured out its numbers and
| strength upon Joshua's little band. According
to previous plan. they fell hack in seeming De
| city had been brought out of their homes ano
| had Joined in tie pursuit of Joshua, suddenly
| that brave man halted in his flight, and with
| his spear pointing toward the city. 80, 600 mer
| bounded from the thckets as panthers spring
| to their prey. and the pursuers were dashed to
| pieces, while the hosts of Joshua pressed up to
the city and with their lighted torches tossed II
| into fame. Thus it was that the discoveries OF
| science seemed to give Temporary victory
| against God and the Bible, and for while the
church acted as if she were on retreat; pu !,
| when all the opposers of God and truth had
| joined in the pursuit, and were sure OF the
| field, Christ gave the signal to His church,
and, turning, they drove back their foes in
| shame. There was found to be no antagonlsm
| between nature and revelation. The universe
| and the Bible were found to be the work of the
same hand. Two strokes of the same pen, their
| authorship the same God.
| Again, learn the lesson that pride goes before
fall. Was any man ever so far up as Haman,
| who tumbled so far DOWN. Yes on q smaller
scale every day the world sees the same thing.
| Against their very advantages men trip into
| destruction. When God humbles proud men,
it is usually at the moment of their greatest
arrogancy. If there be a man in your commu-
nifty greatly puffeu up with worldly success, you
have but to stand little while and you will see
HIM come down. You say, wonder that God
allows that man to 90 on riding over others
heads and
MAKING GREAT ASSUMPTIONS
of power There is no wonder about it. Haman
has not yet got to the top. Pride is CON-
mander, well plumed and caparisoned, but it
leads forth a dark and frowning host. We
have the best of authority for saving that
Pride goeth before destruction, and naughty
spirit before fall" The arrows from the
Almighty's quiver are apt to strike man when
on the wing Goliath shakes his great spear in
defiance but the small stones from the brook
Elah make him stagger and fall like an OK un.
der the butchers bludgeon. He who is down
cannot fall. Vessels scudding under haze poles
do not feel the force of the storm, but those
with all sails set capsize at the sudden descent
of the tempest.
Again: This Oriental tale reminds us of the
fact that wrongs we prepare for others return
upon ourselves. The gallows that Haman
built for Mordecai became the Prime Minister'S
strangulation. Robespierre who sent SO many
to the guillotine. had his own head chopped of
by that horrid instrument. The evil you prac-
tlce on others will recoil upon your own pate.
Slanders come home. Oppressions come home.
Cruelties come home. You will yet be a lackey
walking beside the very charger on which you
expected to ride Others down. When Charles
411o irSf xrhn hod StraH
about to be beheaded, he said Il basely ratified
an unjust sentence, and the similar injustice
am now to undergo is a sensible retribution for
the punishment l inflicted on an innocent
man." Lord Jeffries, after incarcerating many
innocent and good people in London Tower,
was himself imprisoned in the same place.
where the shades of those whom he had mall
treated seemed to haunt him so that he kept
crying to his attendants: Keep them off.
gentlemen for Gods sake. keep them off P'
The chickens had come home TO roost.
The body Of Bradshaw the English Judge,
who had been ruthless and cruel in his deci-
sions was taken from his splendid tomb in
Westminster Abbey, and at Tyburn hung on a
galows from morning until night in the pres
euce of jeering multitudes. Haman's gallows
came little late, but they came. Opportuni-
ties fly in straight line, and just touch us as
they pass from eternity to eternity, but the
wrongs we do others fly IN circle and how
ever the circle may widen out, they are sure to
come to the point from which they started.
There are guns that kick!
Furthermore, let the story Of Haman teach
us how quickly turns the wheel of fortune.
One day, excepting the king, Haman was the
laCkey. So we 60 up, and so VIC come down.
You seldom find any man ~ years in the same
circumstances. of those who, in political life
20 years ago, were the most prominent, how few
remain in consplculty.
THE POLITICIANS FATE.
Political parties make certain men do their
hard work, and then, after using them as hacks,
turn them o ut on the commons to die. Every
four years there is a complete revolution. and
about 5000 men who ought certainly to be the
next President are shamefully disappointed;
while some, who this day are obscure and pow
erty stricken, will ride upon the shoulders of
the people, and take their turn at admiration
and the spoils of office. oh, how quickly the
wheel turns! Ballot-boxes are the steps on
which men come down as often as they 70 up.
OF those who were long ago successful in the
accumulation Of property. how few have not
met with reyersesl while many of those who
then were straiteneG in circumstances now hold
the bonds and iEe bank keys of the nation. OF
all 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 prOposesi She cheers
when you 60 up, and she laughs when you come
down. oh, trust rot moment your hearts
affections to this chaDgeful worldi Anchor
your soul in God. From Christ's companion
ship 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 ye are Christ's. and Christ is Gods
Again: this Haman's history shows us that
outward possessions and circumstances cannot
make man happy While yet fully vested in
authority and the chief adviser of the Persian
monarch and everything that equipage and
pomp and splendor of residence could do were
his. ne is an object 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 affiu-
ence and gaiety is only misery In colors. Many
a woman seated in the street at her apple stand
is happier than the great bankers The noun
tains OF worldly honor are covered with per-
petual 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 be-
cause 4 little child is born down in Bethlehem.
Great Felix trembles because poor minister
will preach righteousness temperance and
judgment to come From the time of Louis
Mi to Louis XVIII was there a straw -bottomed
chair in France that did not set more solidly
than the great throne on which the French
Kings reignod?
COMPLETE EwRETCHEDNESS.
Were 1 called TO sketch misery in its worst
form, would not 60 up the dark alley of the
poor, but up the highway over which prancing
Bucephali strike the sparks with their hoofs
and between statuary and parks of stalking
deer. Wretchedness is more bitter when
swallowed from gemmed goblets than from
earthen pitcher or pewter mug. II there are
young people here who are looking for this DO
sltion and that circumstance. thinking that
worldly success will bring peace of the soul. let
them shatter the delusion. 1t is not what we
get, 1t IL what we are. Daniel among the lions
is happier than Nebuchadnezzar on the throne,
And wnen life is closing. brilliancy of worldly
surroundings will be no solace. Death is blind,
and sees no difference between KING ana mis-
clown. betMeen The Nnzarana 49, IL