Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-29

that outward possessions and clromu-
stances cannot make a man happy. While
yet fully vested In authority. and the chief
advisor Of the Persian monarch. and every
thing that equipege and pomp and spIendor
Of residence could do were his, he Is an OBJ
ieet 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 ufIiucnee
and gayety is only misery in eolors. Many
a woman seated in the street at her apple
stand is happier than. the great bankers.
covered with perpetual snow. Tamerlane
conquered half the world, but could not
subdue his own fears Ahab goes t0bed.
sick because Naboth would not sell him his
vineyard. Herod is in agony because little
cnild is born down in Bethlehem. Great
Felix trembles because poor minister will
preach righteousness, temperance and
judgment to come. From the time Of Louis
the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was
there a straw bottomed chair In France that
did not set more solidly than the great
throne on which the French kings reigned2
Were / called TO sketch misery In its
worst form. would not 90 up the dark al
ley Of tho 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
goblcts than from earthen 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 shatter
the delusion. II is not what we get. it is
what we are. Daniel among the lions Is
happier than Northumberland on his throne.
And when life is closing brillianey Of
worldly surroundings win be no solace
Death is blind. and sees no difference be-
tuvaan n Eino and his alnxun hatmaav, tho
Nazarene and the Athenian. between a
bookless hut and a national library. The
friyolities OF life cannot, with their giddy
laugh. echoing from heart to heart, entirely
drown the voice Of a tremendous conscience
which says: Il am immortal, The stars
shall die, but am immortal. One wave of
eternity shall drown time in its depths, but
am immortal. The earth shall have a
shroud OF flame and the Heavens fee at the
glance of the Lord. but 1 am immortal.
From all the heights and depths Of my ma
ture rings down, and rings up, and rings
out the word immortal" good con-
science and assurance of life eternal through
the Lord Jesus Christ are the only securi-
ties.
The souls happiness is too large craft
to. sail up the stream of worldly pleasure.
A$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. Timel 1t is only ripple. and
It breaketh against the throne Of Judgment.
Our daysl They fly swifter than a shuttle.
weaving for us robe of triumph or u gar
ment Of shame. Begin your life with re-
ligion and for its greatest trial you 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
w 70 trfolk mn and
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 were be-
slowed Thus it win be with the good man s
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 innu-
merable throng with snowy white streaming
| over the seas of sapphire.
Mordecai will only have to wait for his
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 pictur-
esque 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 fre. Heavy and long continued
SHOWS in the winter are signs OF good crops
| next summer. So. many have yielded won
derful harvests of benevolenee and energy
because they were q 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 ham
mer out their fortunes. Sorrows take up
| men on their shoulders and enthrone them.
Tonics are 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 a Washington.
| Paul, when he climbed up on the beach of
Melita. shivering in his wet clothes, was
more Of o 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-
! spised at the gate, is only predecessor Of
Mordecai. grandly mounted.