The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1890-06-05

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cisions, was taken from his splendid
tomb in Westminster Abbey, and at Ty-'
burn hung on a gallows from morning
until night in the presence Of ieering
multitudes Hamans gallows came
little late, but they came. Opportuni-
ties NY in a straight, and just touch us
as they pass from eternity TO eternity,
| but the wrongs we do others fy 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 kicki
Furthermore, let the story OF Haman
teach us how quickly turns the wheel oil
fortune. One day, excepting the King,
Haman was the mightiest man in Per-
STA; but the next day lackey. SO we
go up, and so we come down. You sell
dom find any man twenty years in the
political life twenty years ago, we're 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, tura them out
on the commons to die. Every
four years there is complete
revolution, and about FIVE thon-
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 tho
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
60 up. or those who were long ago sue
cossful in the accumulation of prop
erty. how few have not mot with re-
verses; while many of those who then
we're Strengthened 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-
posesl She cheers when you go up, and
she laughs when you come down. Oh,
trust not a moment your hearts affec-
tions to this changeful world! Anchor
your soul in God. From Christ's COM
panionship 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
I! are Christ's, and Christ is Gods
Again, this Humans history shows US
| that outward possessions and circum-
stances can not make 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 Indebtedness. 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 woman seated in tho
street at her apple-stand 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 a little
child is born down in Bethlehem. Great
Felix trembles because a poor minister
will preach righteousness, temperance
and Judgment to come From the time
of Louis XII. to Louis XVIII. was there
straw bottomed chair in France that
did not set more solidly than the great
throne on which the French Kings
reigned?
Were / called to sketch misery in its
worst form, would not coup 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 position and that cir
cumstance, thinking that worldly sue
cess will bring peace of the soul, let them
shatter the delusion. 1t is not what we
get il is what we are. Daniel among
the lions is happier than Nebuchad-
nezzar on his throne. And when
life is closing, brilliancy of worldly
| surroundings will be no solace.
Death is blind, and secs no difference
between King and his clown, between
the Nazarene and the Athenian, be-
tween bookless hut and national
library. The frivolities of life can not,
with their giddy laugh, echoing from
heart TO heart, entirely drown the voice
OF tremendous conscience which says:
II am immortal. The stars shall die,
but ] am immortal. One wave of eter-
nifty shall drown time in its depths, but
| am immortal. The earth shall have
shroud OF fame and the heavens fee
at the glance of the Lord, but / am inn
mortal. 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 as
surance of life eternal through the
Lord Jesus Christ are the only securi-
ties
In olden times 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 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 .Yait until
the darkness fly and the morning break,
and amid tho sound of celestial harp
ings the soul shall take the honors Of
Heaven amid the innumerable throng
with robes snowy white streaming over
seas OF sapphire.
Mordecai win only have TO walt for
his day Of triumph. 1t took all the pre-
ceding trials 10 make proper back
ground for his after-suecesses. Tho
scaffold built for him makes all the
more imposing and picturesque inc