The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-26

four years there is a complete revolution,
and about five thousand men who ought
| certainly to be the next President are
| shamefully disappointed; while some, who
this day are obscure a. d poverty stricken,
will ride upon the shoulders of the people,
4 and take their turn at admiration and the
spoils of Office. Oh, how quickly the wheel
turnsl Ballot boxes are the steps on which
men come down as often as they go uD. OF
! these VITO were long ago ccessful in the
accumulation of property, how few have
I not met with reversess while many of those
| who then were straitened 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 sac changes her mind,
| and woe to the man who puts anv conf
/ dence in what she promises or proposes. She
| cheers when you go up, and she lau chs when
/ you come down. Oh, trust not a moment
| your hearts affections TO this chapgeful
world Anchor your soul in God. From
| Christ's companionship gather your salts
| faction. Then comes 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.
Again: this Humans history shows us
that outward possessions aud circumstances
cannot make a man happy. While yet
fully vested in authori y aud the chief ad-
wiser 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 affiuence
and gaiety 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 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 a little child is born down in
Bethlehem. Great Felix trembes because
poor minister will preach righteousness,
temperance and judgment to come. From
the time of Louis the Twelfth to Louis the
Eighteenth was there q straw-bottomed
chair in France that did not set more
solidly than the great thrones on which the
French kings reigneds
Were | called to sketch misery in its
worst form, l would not go up the dark
alley of the poor, but up the highway over
which prancing Bucephali strike the spa rks
with their hoofs and between statuary md
parks of stalking deer. Wretchedness is
goblets than from earthen pitcher and
pewter mug. Ii there are young people
who are looking for this position and that
circumstance, thinking that worldly sue
cess will bring peace of the SOUL let them
shatter the delusion. 1t is not what we
get, 1t is what we are. Daniel among the
lions is happier than Nebuchadnezzar on his
throne. And when life is closing, brilliancy
OF worldly surroundings will be no
solace. Death is blind, and sees no
difference between king and
his clown, between the Nazarene
and the Athenian, between a bookless hut
and national library. The frivolities of
life cannot, with their giddy laugh, echoing
from heart to heart, entirely drown the
voice OF a tremendous conscience which
says; II am immortal. The stars shall die,
but am immortal. One wave of etarnity
shall drown time in its depths, but am i'm
mortal. 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
immortal" A good conscience, and as
surance of life eternal through the Lord
Jesus Christ are the only securities.
The souls happiness is too large a craft to
sail up the stream of worldly pleasure. AS
ship carpenters say, it draws too much
water. The earth is a bubble, and it will
burst. This life is a vision. and it will soon
pass away. Timel IL is only a ripple. and
1t breaketh against the throne of Judgment.
Our daysl They fly swifter than shuttle.
weaving for us a robe of triumph or a gar
ment of shame. Begin your life with re-
hgion and for its greatest trial you will be
ready. Every day will be a triumph. and
death will be only kings servant calling
you to 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 morning dawned, amid
grand parade and the sound of comets the
honors of knigthood were bestowed. Thus
1T 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 darkness fly and the
morning break, and 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 will only have to visit for bis
day of triumph. 1t took all the preceding
trials to make proper background 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 winter are signs of good crops
next summer. So, many have yielded won
derful harvests of benevolence and energy
because they were long while showed
under. We must have good many
hard falls before we learn to walk
straight. 1t is on the black anvil
of trouble that men hammer out their
fortunes. Sorrows take up men on their
shoulders and enthrone them. Men. like
fruit trees, are barren, unless trimmed with
sharp knives. They are like wheat-all the
better for the failing. 1t required the
prison darkness and chill to MAKE John
Bunyan dream. 1t took Delaware ice and
cold feet at Valley Forge, and the whizz of
bullets, to make Washington. Pail, when
he climbed up on the beach at Melita, shiv-
ring 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, despised
at the gate, is only predecessor of Mordecai.
grandly mounted.
BATTLES WITH BALL AND BAT.
The Results of the Days Games All
Over the Country