Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-26

ChFlSlsnityS Certainly not because it fsYersd
dEarfed the intellect. The genuine reason
wEETHEE ADMITTED OR NOT,
was because the religion of Christ paid no re-
spect to their intellectual vanities- Blount and
Boyle, and the host Of inddels Matched out by
the vile reign Of Charles the Second, a. reptiles
crawl out OF 3 marsh of slime. could not keep
their patience because, as they passed along,
there were sitting in the gate OF the church such
men Matthew and Mark and Luke and John,
who would not bend an inch In respect to their
PHILOSOPHERS.
Satan told our nrst parents that they would
become q gods il they would only reach up and
take q taste of the fruit. They tried IL and
failed, but their descendants are not yet salts
fed with the experiment We have now many
desiring to be as gods, reaching up after yet an
other apple. Human reason, scorntul Of Gods
word, may foam and strut with the proud wrath
of a HsmGn, and attempt to compel the homaGe
OF the good, but in the presence or men and
angels il shall be COMPOUNDED. "God shall smite
thee thou whited wall - When science began
TO make its brilliant discoveries there we've great
facts brought to light that seemed to overthroE
his crowbsr, and the geologist With his
hammer and the chemist with his batteries
charged upon the Bible Noses account OF me
creation seemed denied by the very structure or
the earth. The astronomer wheeled roU nd his
telescope until the heavenly bodies seemed to
marshal themselves against the Bible, as the
st1rs in their courses fought against Sisers.
ObserVatories and universities reioiced at what
they considered the extinction of Christianity
cred past victory, and pressed on their conquest
into the kingdom OF nature until, alas for them!
\ they discovered too much. Gods word had
only been lying in ambush that, IN some I'M
guarded moment, with sudden bound, II might
tear inhdelity to pieces.
It was when Joshua attacked the city OF Al.
He selected 81, 600 men, and concealed most or
them; then with few men he assailed the city,
which poured out its numbers and strength
upon Joshua's little band. According to pre-
vious plan, they fell back in seeming defeat,
but, after all The proud inhabitants OF the city
heI hvln1 rrt,F ~ fHnfr M arNh
Joined in the pursuit OF Joshua, suddenly that
brave man halted in his flight, and with his
spear pointing toward the city, 81. 900 men
BOUNDED FROM THE THIcxETs
as panthers spring to their prey, and the pursu-
ers were dashed to pieces, while the hosts OF
Joshua pressed up to the city, and with theig
lighted torches tossed it into flame. Thus it wac
that the discoveries of science seemed to Civ
temporary victory against God and the Bible
and for q while the church acted as if she wer9
on q retreat but, when all the opposers of God
and truth had joined in the pursuit, and were
ssre OF the field, Christ gave the signal to HIS
church and, turning, they drove back their foes
in shame. There was found to be no antagonlsm
between nature and revelation. The universe
and the Bible were found to be the work Of the
same hand, two strokes Of the same pen, their
authorship the same God.
Again: Learn the lesson that pride goes before
8fRll. Was any man ever so far up "a Hannah, who
tumbled SO far down? Yes, on smaller scale,
every day the world the same thing.
Against their very advantages men trip into
dsstruction When God humbles proud men it
is usually at the moment Of their greatest ar
rogancy. II there be man IN your community
but to stand little while and you will see him
come down. You say, wonder that God allows
that man to go on riding over others heaaS ana
wonder about it. Hannah has not yet got
to the top. Pride il commandeE.
well plumed and cAparisoned. but It leads forth
. dark and frowning host. We have the best OF
authority for saying that Pride goeth before
fail - The arrow from the Almighty's culver
ant 70 afr il-H ma han IN
Hath shakes his great sp Jar in defiance, but the
small stones from the brook Elah make him stag
ger and fall like OK under the butcher's
bludgeon. he who is down cannot fall. Yes
sells scHdding under bare poles do not feel the
fprce Of the storm. but those with all sails set
cspsize ct the sudden descent OF the tempest.
Again: This oriental tale reminds rs OF the
fact thai wrongs we prepare for others return
upon ourselves. The gsllows that Haman built
for Mordecai became the prime minister's
strsngplation. Robespisrre, who sent 80 many
to the guillotine,
had HIS OWN HEAD CHOPPED OFF
by that horrid instrument. The evil you prac-
tico on others will recon upon your own pate.
slanders come home. Expressions como home.
Crusltiss come home. You will yet be lacksy
walking beside the very charger on which you
expected to ride others down. When Charles l.,
who had destroyed STAFFORD, was about to be be-
headed, ne said: II bsSsly ratified an
Injustice am now to undergo is a sensible retri-
button for the punishment inflicted an in
nOCent man LOru JeuEleS, AIEeE luCAfCeIAbAn6
many innocent and good. people IN London
tower, was himself Imprisoned in the same
place, where the shades of those whom he had
maltrested seemed to haunt him 80 that he Kept
crying to his attendants: keep them of, gen
tlemenI for Gods sake, keep them on ~ The
chickens had come home to Eoost. The body Of
Bradshaw, the English Judge, who had been
ruthless and cruel in his/decisionE, was taken
from his splendid tomb in Westminster abbey,
until nj ht in the presence Of jeering multtudes.
Haman's gAllows came 4 little late, but they
came. opportunitie. fly in straight line,
and Just touch NC - they pass from eternity to
eternity, but the wrongs we do others hy 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 kick!
FurtAsrmoro, let the story Of Haman teach US
how quickly turns the wheel Of fortune. One
day, excepting the king, Haman was the might
lest man in Persia; but the next day, laekey.
So we go up, and so we come down. Yo1 sell
dom nnd any man twenty years IN tne ZANE iit
twenty years ago.. were tbs most prominent,
how few FsInsn in conspicuity. Political parties
make certain men do their hard WORK, and then,
after using than as hacks, turn them out on the
commons to die. Every four pears there Is q
compete revolution, and about 5000 men who
ought certainly to be the n0xt president are
shamefully disappointed; while some, who this
day are obscure and poverty stricken, viii ride
upon the shoulders Of the people, and take their
turn at admiration and the spoils OF ONCE. Oh,
how quickly the wheel turns! Ballot-boxes are
the steps on which men come down a. often as
they go up. OF those who were long ago sue
cessful in the accumulation of property, how
few have not met with rsveTsesl while many OF
those who then were straitened in circumstances
now hold the bonds and the bAnk-keys Of the
nation. OF AL fckss things in the world.
FORTUNE Is TEz MOST FIcKLE.
Every day she changes her mind, and woe to
the man who puts any confidence in what she
promises proposesl She cheers when you
20 up, and she laughs when you come down.
Oh, trust not moment your hearts affections
to this changed 81 world Anchor your soul in
God. Frog <chrisps companionship gather
your sstisf 4stion. Then, come sorrow or glad
ness, success or defeat, richss or poverty, honor
or disgrace, health or Sickness, life or death,
time eternity. all are yours, and ye are
Christ's. and Christ is Gods.
Again: This Haman's history shows Us that
outward possessions and circumstances cannot
make man happy. While yet fully vested in
authority and the chief adviser Of the Persian
monarch, and ever 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 under
crowns of royalty than under the ragged caps OK
the houseless. Much Of the worlds afduenee
and gaiety il only misery IN colors. Many
woman seated IN the street at her apple stand IS
happier than the great bankers. The mountains or
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 viii not sell him his
vineyard. Herod ia in agony because little