The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-15

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advantages men trip into destruction.
Whsn God humbles proud men, it is usu-
ally at the moment of their greatest AFRO
ganey. II there be a man In your com.
munity greatly pulled up with worldly
success, YOU have but to stand a little
while and you will see him come down.
You say, l wonder that God allows that
man to on riding over others heads
and making great assumptions Of power.
( There Is no wonder about it. Haman has
not yet got to the top. Pride is q com
'mander, we'll plumsd and csparisone1 but
Z it leads forth dark and fr0wniug host.
We have the best OF authority for saving
shat pride g0eth before destruction, and
I naughty spirit before fail the arrows
! from the Alulighty's quiver are apt to strike
a man when on the wing. Goliath shakes
his great spear IN defiance, but the small
/ stones from the brook Elah make him stag
/ ger and fall like an OK under the butcher
bludgeon. He who is down cannos fall.
Vessels scudding under bare poles do not
feel the force of the storm, but those with all
sails set capsize at the sudden descent of the
tempest.
Again This oriental tale reminds us of
the fact that wrongs we prepare for others
return upon ourselves. The gall0ws that
Hannah built for Mordecai became the prime
ministers strangulation. Robespierre, who
sent so many TO guillotine, had his own head
chopped off by that horrid instrument The
evil you practice on others will recon upon
your own pate. ISLANDERS come home. OPP
pressions COME home. Crueltiss come home.
You will yet be lackey 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, he said Il basely ratified an unjust
sentence and the similar injustice l am now
to undergo is a sensible retribution for the
I ff.1
Lord Jeffries, after iAcarcerating many
innocent and good people in London
tower, was himself imprisoned in the same
place, where the shades of those whom he
had maltreated seemed to haunt him 50 that
he kept crying to his attendants; Keep 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 ruthless and cruel in his de-
eisions, was taken from his splendid tomb in
Westminster Abbey, and at Tyburn hung on
gallows from morning until night in the
presence Of Jeering multitudes. Hamsn's
gallows came little late, but they came
opportunities fly in a straight line, and Just
touch us as they pass from eternity TO eter-
nifty, but the wrongs we do others fly in a cir
Gle, 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
Furthermore, let the story of Hannah
teach US how quickly turns the wheel of
fortune. One day, excepting the King.
Heman was the mightiest man in Persia:
bUC the next day, lackey. So we 20 up,
and so we come down. You seldom find
any man tfrnty years in the same circum-
stances. Ct those who in political life
twenty yeasslago were the most prominent,
how few remain in conspicuity. Political
parties make certain men do their hard
7rrL- nd rlaar,
hacks, turn them out on the commons to die.
Every four years there is a complete revolu-
ton, and about five thousand men who ought
certainly 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 admiration and the spOils of
Office. Oh, how quickly the wheel turnsi
Ballot boxes are the steps on which men come
down as often as they 90 up. Of those who
were long ago successful in the accumulation
of property how few have not met with re-
verses while many of those who then
were Strengthened in circumstances now
of the nation. OF all tickle things
in the world, fortune is the most tickle.
Every dsy she changes her mind, and woe to
the man who puts any confidence in what she
promises or propossst She cheers when YOU
90 up, and she laughs when you come down.
Oh, trust not moment Your hearts affec-
tions to this changeful world Anchor your
soul in God. From Christ's companionship
gather your satisfaction. Then, come sor-
row or gladness. success or defeat, riches or
poverty, honor or disgrace, health or sick
ness life or death, time or eternity, all are /
yours, and We are Christ's, and Christ is
Gods.
AGAIN. this Hamans history shows US that
outward possessions and circumstances can
n vat N
vested in authority and the chief adviser of
the Persian monarch, and everything that
eduipage and pomp and splendor of residence !
could do were his, he is an object lesson Oh /
Indebtedness. There are to-day more ach-
ing sorrows under crowns Of royalty than /
under the ragged caps of the houseless.
Much of the worlds affiuence and gayety /
is only misery in colors. Many woman
seated in the street at her apple /
stand is happier than the sFsakzbaaksrs. !
The m.Isatzz-z< q ~ nonOr are covered
with per7et,1al snow. Tamerlane conquered
half the World. but could not subdue his own
fears. A,ab goes to bed, sick, because Ma
both will Aot sell him his vineyard. herod
is in aSmy because little child Is porn
down in Bethlehem. Great FellX treiholes
becausea DOOR minister will preach righteous
ness enperance and Judgment to come
From t1e time of Louis XII to LOUIS ANlll
was th,rs a straw bottomed chair IN france
that dill not set more solidly than the great
throne m which the French Kings relgnedf
Were l called to sketch misery In It's
worst form, would not 90 up the DARK aHey
of the Dor, but up the highway over Wnicn
prancins Bucephah strike the sparks WIN
their h,ofs and between the statuary ana
marks Il stalking deer. WretchedneSs Is
more bitter when swallowed from gemmeo
goblet tan from earthern pitcher or pew
ter mug If there are young people mere
who are looking for this position anu
that Circumstance, thinking that worldly
s,,ccces ,riII brine peace OF the soul let
them shutter the delusion. IL Is not WnaD
we get, il IS what we are. Daniel among
| the lions is happier than NebuchadneZzor
IN his throne And when life Is closing,
brilliancy of worldly surroundings VIII De
| no solace Death is blind, and sees no III
| ference between the King and his clown,
| between the Nazarine and the Athenian,
| between a booklcss hut and national
| library. The frivolities Of life cannot, with
! their piddy laugh, echoing from heart 70
| heart entirely drown the voice of ire
mendous conscience which says: Il am I'M
/ mortal The stars shall die, but am lmmor-
! tai One wave OF eternity shall drown time
| in its depths. but 1 am immortal. The earth
shall have a shroud of fame and the heavens
| fee at the glance OF the Lord, but l am I'M
MORTAL From all the heights and depths OF
INV nature rings down, and rings up, and
] rings out the world immortal A good
conscience. and assurance of life eternal
through the Lord Jesus Christ are the only
securities.
The souls happiness is too large 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. Timel 1t is only a ripple, and 1t
breaketh against the throne Of Judgment.
| Our daysl They fly swifter than shuttle,
weaving for us a robe of triumon or a gar
ment of shame. Begin your life with re-
hgion and for its greatest trial you Yil be
ready. Every day will be a triumph and
death will be only a Kings servant calling
you TO a royal banquet.
In 9lden time the man who was to receive
the Ronors of knighthood was required to
spend-the previous night fully armed, and
with shie2lSnd lance to walk uD and down