The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-05-31

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off by that horrid instrument. The evil
you practice on others will recoil upon
your own pate. ISLANDERS 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 /, who had de-
stroyed Strafford, was about to be be-
headed, he said: 81 basely ratified an
unjust sentence and the similar inius-
tice I'M now to undergo is a sensible
retribution for the punishment inflicted
on an innocent man,"
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 the next day, a lackey. So we
go up int SC 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 Ger
tain 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 q complete revolution,
and about 5000 men who ought certain
ly to be the next President are shame
fully disappointed; while some, who
this day are obscure and poverty
stricken, will ride upon the shoulders
Of the people, and take their turn at ad-
miratiop and the spoils of office. o,
how quickly the wheel turnsl Ballot
boxes are the steps on which
men come down as often as
they go up. OF those who were long
ago successful in the accumulation Of
property, how few have not met with
reverses! while many of those who then
were straitened in circumstances now
hold 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 proposes! She
cheers when you 90 up, and she laughs
when you come down. o, trust not a
moment your hearts affection to this
changeful world! Anchor your soul in
God. From Christ's companiOnship
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 circum-
stances can not make a man happy.
While yet fully vested in authority and
the chief adviser Of the Persian monarch,
and every thing that equipage and pomp
and splendor OF residence could do were
his, he Is an object lesson OF wretched-
ness. There are to-day more aching
sorrows under crowns Of royalty than
under the ragged caps Of the houseless,
Much Of the worlds afiuence and gaiety
Is only misery In colors. Many a woman
seated in the street at her apple stand
is happier than the great bankers.
Were ] called To sketch misery in it's
worst form, | would not go up the dark
alley Of the poor, but up the h ghway
over which prancing Bucephali strike
the sparks with their hoofs and between
statuary and parks OF stalking deer.
WretchedDess is more bitter when
swallowed from gemmed goblets than
IrOm ehTbuch piOShoS PO"N"i mug -
there are young people here who are
Looking for this position and that cir
cumstance. thinking that worldly suor
cess will bring peace OF the soul, let
them shatter the delusion. 1t Is not
what we get, it is what we are. Daniel
among the lions is happier than Nebu-
chadnezzar on his throne. And when
life is closing, brilliancy OF worldly sur
roundings will be no solace. Death Is
blind and sees no difference between
a King and his clown, between the
Nazarene and the Athenian, between .
bookless hut and a national library,
From all the heights and depths OF my
nature rings down and rings up and
rings out the word Immortal" A good
conscience and assurance Of life eternal