Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

that outward possessions and circmu-
stances cannot make Il man happy. While
yet fully vested in authority. and the chief
advisor of the Persian monarch. and every
thing that equipage and pomp and splcndor
of residence could do were his. he is am OBJ
ject lesson of Indebtedness. There are to-
day more aching sorrows under crowns of
royalty than under the ragged caps of the
houseless. Much of the worlds nf1ucnce
and gayety is only misery in colors. MANY
IL woman seated in the street ut her apple
stand is hapIier than the great bankers.
The mountains of worldly honor are
covered with perpetual snow. Tamcrlane
conquered half the world. but could not
sick, because Naboth would not sell him his
vineyard. Herod is in agony because a little
child is born down in Bethlehem. Great
Felix trembleS because Il poor minister will
Judgment to come. From the time of Louis
the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was
there Il straw bottomed chair in France that
did not set more solidly than the grca:
throne on which the French kings reigned?
Were l called TO sketch misery in it's
worst form, would not go up the dark al
ley 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. Wretchcdness is
more bitter when swallowed from gemmcd
soblcts than from earthcn pitcher or pew
ter mug. Ii 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 shutter
the delusion. 1t is not what we get, ii is
! what we are. Daniel among the ions is
happierthan Nebuchadnczzaro on histhrone.
And when life is closing, brilliancy of
worldly surroundings will be no solace.
Death is blind. and sees no difference be-
tween Il king and his clown. between the
N.azarene and the Athenian. between a
bookless hut and a national library. The
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laugh. echoing from heart to heart. entirely
drown the voiceot Il tremendous conscience
which says: Il am immortal. The stars
shall die, but l am immortal. One wave of
am immortal. The earth shall have a
shroud of flame and the Heavens fee at the
glance OF the Lord, but | am immortal.
From all the heights and depths of my ma
,ure rings down, and rings up. and rings
out the word immortal" A good con-
science and assurance of life eternal through
the Lord Jesus Christ are the only securi-
. ties.
The souls happiness is too large a craft
to sail up the stream Of worldly pleasure.
water. This earth is IL bubble. and it will
burst. This life is Il vision, and it will soon
pass away. Time! 1t is only a ripple. and
It bre;lketh against the throne of Judgment.
weaving for us a robe of triumph or a gar
ment of shame. Begin your life with re-
ligion and for its greatest trial you will be
Il triumph, and death will be only a kings
servant calling you to Il royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to receive
the honors OF knighthood was required 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 the morning dawned,
amid grand parade and the sound of coro-
nets, the honors of knighthood We're be-
stoWed Thus it will be with the good mans
soul in the night before heaven. Fully
armed with shield and sword and helmet,
ne shall watch and wait until the darkness
lily and the morning break, and amid the
sound OF celestial harpings the soul shall
take the honors OF heaven amid the innu-
merable throng with snowy white streaming
over the seas of sapphire.
Mordccal will only have to wait for his
day OF triumph. 1t took all the preceding
trials to make IA proper background for his
after successes. The scatrold built for him
makes all the more imposing and pictur-
csque the horse into whose long white name
he twisted his fingers at the mounting. You
want at least two misfortunes, hard as flint,
TO strike lire. Heavy and long continued
SHOWS i'll the winter are signs of good crops
i next summer. So. many have yielded Won
uerful harvests of bencvolencc and energy
because they were Il long while showed
under. We must have Il good many l.ard
falls before we learn to walk straight. 1t is
on the black anvil Of trouble that men ham
mer out their fortunes. Sorrows take up
men on their shoulders and enthrone them.
Tonics arc nearly always bitter.
Men, like fruit trees, are barren unless
trimmed with sharp knives. They are like
wheat-all the better for the failing 1t re-
quired the prison darkness and chill to
make John Bunyan dream. 1t took Della
ware ice and cold feet at Valley Forge, and
the whizz of bullets, to make Washington.
Paul. when he climbed up on the beach of
Melita, shivering in his wet clothes. was
more of a Christian than when the ship
struck the breakers. Prescott. the historian.
saw better without his eyes than he could
ever have seen with them. Mordecai, de-
spiscd at the gate, is only predecessor of
Mordecai, grandly mounted.