The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-05-28

Against their very advantages men trip
into destruction. When God humbles
proud men it is usually at the moment
Of their greatest arrogancy. II there
be man in your community greatly
puffed up with worldly success, you
have but to stand q little while and
you will see him come down. You
say, l wonder that God allows that
man to 60 on riding over others heads
and making great assumptions Of power.
There is no wonder about 1t. Haman
has not yet got to the top. Pride is
commander, we'll plumed and capari-
soned, but 1t leads forth dark and
frowning host. We have the best Of
authority for saying that pride goeth
before destruction, and a naughty spirit
before fall" The arrows of the AL
mighty's quiver are apt to strike man
when on the wing. Goliath shakes his
great spear in defiance, but the small
stones from the brook Elah make him
stagger and fall like an OK under the
butchers bludgeon. He who is down
can not fall. Vessels scudding under
bare poles do not feel the force Of the
storm, but those with all sails set cap
size at the sudden descent of the tenn
pest.
Again: This Oriental tale reminds us
OF the fact that wrongs we prepare for
others return upon ourselves. The
gallows that Haman built for Mordecai
became the prime minister's strangula-
ton. Robespierre, who sent 80 many
to the guillotine, had his own head
chopped of by that horrid instrument.
The evil you prac tice on others will re-
coil on your own pate. ISLANDERS come
home. Expressions come home. Cruel
ties come home. You will yet be q
lackey walking beside the very charger
on which you expected to ride others
down. When Charles the First, who
had destroyed Stafford, was about to be
beheaded, he said: 81 basely ratified an
unjust sentence, and the similar injus'
tice / am now to undergo is a sensible
retribution for the punishment ! in
flicted on an innocent man." Lord
Jeffries, after incarcerating many
innocent and good people in Lon
don Tower, was himself impris-
oned in the same place, where
the shades OF those whom he had NAL
treated seemed to haunt him 30 that he
kept crying to his attendants: "Keer
them of, gentlemen! for Gods sake,
keep them off, The chickens had come
home to roost. The body OF Bradshaw,
the English Judge, who had been ruth
less and cruel in his decisions, was taken
from his splendid tomb in Westminster
Abbey, and at Tyburn hung on gallows
from morning until night in the pres
ence OF jeering multitudes. Haman'i
gallows came a little late, but they
came. Opportunities fly in straight
line, and just touch as they pass from
eternity TO eternity, but the wrongs w
do others fly in circle, and however
the circle may widen out, they are SURF
to come back TO the point from which
they started. There are guns that kick
Furthermore, let the story Of HamaI
teach us how quickly turns the wheel o
fortune. One day, excepting the King
Haman was the mightiest man In Persia
but the next day, lackey. SO we r
up, and so we come down. You seldom
find any man twenty years in the sam
circumstances. OF those who, In politi
cal life twenty years ago, were tn
most prominent, how few remail
in conspicuity. Political parties max
certain men do their hard work
and then, after using them a
hacks, turn them out on the common
TO die. Every four years there is q com
plete revolution, and about 5000 mel
who ought certainly to be the next Pres
ident are shamefully disappointed; Will
some, who this day are obscure an
poverty-stricken, will ride upon tn
shoulders Of the people, and take thei
turn at admiration and the spoils Of Of
fce. o, how quickly the wheel turns
Ballot-boxes arc the steps on whicI
men come down as often as they go up
OF those who were long ago successful
In the accumulation OF property, HOY
few have not met with reversesl Will
many Of those who then were straight
ened in circumstances now hold th
bonds and tho bank keys Of the nation
or all flckle thinSs in the world, fol
tune is the most tickle. Every day sh
changes her mind, and woe TO the ma
who puts any confidence in what sh
promises or proposes. She cheers whe
you 70 up, and she laughs whom 20
come down. o, trust notA moment you
hearts affections to this changeiul world
Anchor your soul in God. From Christ
sompanionship gather your satisfaction
Then, come sorrow or gladness, success
or defeat, riches or poverty, honor Q
disgrace. health or sickness, life or deatf
time or eternity, all are yours, and ,
are Christ's, and Christ is Gods
Again: This Haman's history show
US that outward possessions and circun
stances can not make q mnn happ1
While yet fully vested in authority an
the chief advisor Of the Persian MOI
arch, and every thing that equipnSe IN
pomp and splendor Of residence coul
do were his, he is the objectlosson {
wretchedness. There are to-day NOR
aching sorrows under crowns Of royalt
than under the ragged caps Of the hous,
less. Much Of the worlds afflusnos an
gayety is only misery in colors. Man
woman seated in the street at he
apple-stand is happier than the gres
bankers. The mountains OF world
honor arc covered with perpetual snow
Tamerlsne conquered half the worlC
but could not subdue his own fear
Ahab goes 10 bod, sick, because Nabot
will not sell him his vineyard. Hero
Is in agony because little child is Dor
down In Bethlehem. Great Felix treu