The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-07-31

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 tbay started.
There are guns that kick!
Furthermore, let the story Of Haman
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 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
which men come down as often as they
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 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-
poses! 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
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 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 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-
f1uence and gayety is only misery in
colors. Many a woman seated in the
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 little
child is born down in Bethlehem. Great
Felix trembles because poor minister
will preach Righteousness, temperance
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 a
craft to sail up the stream of worldly
pleasure. AS ship carpenters say, it
draws too much water. This earth is a
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 it's greatest trial
you will be ready. Every day will be
triumph, and death will only be q
Kings servant calling you to a royal
banquet.
In ohaen times the man who was tS
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 o.
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 wait unit
the darkness fly and the morning break
and aelid the sound of celestial harp
ings the soul shall take the honors Of
Heaven amid the innumerable throne
with robes snowy white streaming ovel
seas of sapph ire.
! Mordecsi will only have to wait fol
his day of triumph. 1t took all the pre-
ceding trials to make a proper back
ground for his after-successes. The
seaffold built for him makes all the
more imposing and picturesque the
horse into whose long white name hC
twisted his fingers at the mounting
You want at least two misfortunes, hare
D as flint to strike fire. Heavy anC
long-continued SHOWS in the win
ter are signs of good crops mex
| summer. So many have yield