The Brookhaven leader., 1890-06-05


became the Prime Minister'S strangula-
ton. Robespierre, who sent so many to
the guillotine, had his own head chop
ped of by that horrid instrument The
evil you practice on others will recoil
upon your own pate. ISLANDERS come
home. Expressions come home.
Cruelties come home. You will yet
be lackey walking beside the very
charger on which you expected TO ride
others down. When Charles l., who
had destroyed STAFFORD, was about to
be beheaded, he said: II basely ratified
an unjust sentence, and the similar in
justice ! am now to undergo is sensi-
BILE retribution for the punishment | in
flicted on an innocent man" Lord JEFF
fries, after incarccrating many innocent
and good people in London Tower,
was himself imprisoned in the same
place, where the shades of those whom
he had maltreated seemed to haunt him
so that he kept trying to his attend
ants: Keep then off, gentlemen! for
Gods sake, keep the m off, The chick
ems had come home 20 roost The body
of Bradshaw, the English Judge, who
had been ruthless and cruel in his de-
cisions, was taken from his splendid
tomb in Westminster Abbey, and at Ty-
burn hung on gallows from morning
until night in the presence of ieering
multitudes. Humans gallows came a
little late, but they came. Opportuni-
ties fly in straight, and just touch us
as they pass from eternity to eternity,
but the wrongs we do others fly in
circle, and however the circle may
widen out, they are sure to come back
to the point from which they started.
There are guns that kick!
Furthermore, let the story of Hannah
teach us how quickly turns the wheel of
| fortune. One day, excepting the King,
| Haman was the mightiest man in Per-
STA; but tho next day lackey. So we
| go up, and so we come down. You sell
dom find any man twenty years in the
same circumstances. OF those who, in
political life twenty years ago. were the
most prominent how few remain in con-
spicuity. Political parties make certain
men do their hard work, and then, after
using them as hacks, turn them out
on the commons to die. Every
four years there is a complete
revolution, and about five thou
sand men who ought certainly to be the
next President are shamefully disap-
pointed, while some, who are obscure
and povertY-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
oh Il
go up. OF those who were long ago sue
cessful in the accumulation of prop
erty, how few have not met with re-
verses; while many of those who then
were straigtened in circumstances
now hold the bonds and the 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 pro-
poses! She cheers when you go up, and
she laughs when you come down. Oh,
trust not moment your hearts affec-
tions to this changefll world! Anchor
your soul in God. From Christ's COM
partnership gather satisfaction. Then,
come sorrow or gladness, success or de-
feat, riches or poverty, honor or dis
grace, health or sickness, life or death,
! time or eternity, all are yours, and We
| are Christ's, and Christ is Gods.
Again, this Humans history shows us
| that outward possessions and circum-
| stances can not maze a man happy.
While yet fully vested in authority and
the chief adviser of the Persian mon
| arch, and every thing that equipage
and pomp and splendor of residence
could do were his, he is an object
lesson of wretchedness. There are to-
day more aching sorrows among crowns
of royalty than under the ragged caps of
the houseless. Much of the worlds af-
| fluence and gayety is only misery in
| colors. Many a woman seated in the
street at her applestand is happier than
| the great bankers The mountains
| 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, be-
cause Naboth will not sell him his vine
yard. Herod is in agony because little
| child is born down in Bethlehem. Great
Felix trembles because poor minister
Will
and Judgment to come From the time
| of Louis XII. 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
reigned?
The souls happiness is too large
craft to sail up the stream of worldly
pleasure. AS ship carpenters say, it
draws too much water. This earth is
bubble, and it will burst. This life is
vision, and it will soon pass away.
Time! 1t is a ripple, and it breaketh
against the throne of judgment. Our
days! They fly swifter than shuttle,
weaving for us a robe of triumph or a
garment of shame. Begin your life
with religion and for its greatest trial
you will be ready. Every day will be
triumph, and death will only be
Kings servant calling you to royal
| banquet.
Mordecsi will only have to wait fGr
his day of triumph. 1t took all the pre-
ceding trials to make proper back
ground for his after-successes. The
scaffold built for him makes all the
more imposing and picturesque 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 fire. Heavy and
long-continued SHOWS in the win