Connecticut western news., 1890-05-28

wonder about 1t. Haman has not yet got to the top Pride is commander, we'll plumed and caparisoned,~ but it leads forth dark and drowning host.
 We have the best of authority for say ing that Pride goeth before destruc- ton, and a naughty spirit before a fall" The arrows from the Almighty'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 cannot 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 tempest.
 Again: This oriental tale reminds us of the fact that wrongs we prepare for others return upon ourselves. The gallows that Haman built for Morde- cai became the prime minister's stran- gulation. Robespierre, who sent so many to the guillotine, had his own head chopped off by that horrid in strument. The evil you practice on others will recoil upon your own pate Islanders come home. Oppres- sions. come home. Cruelties come home. You will yet be lackey walking beside the very charger on which you expected to ride others down. When Charles the First, who had destroyed Strafford, was about to be beheaded, he said, II basely rati- fled an unjust sentence, and the simi- lar injustice am now to undergo is sensible retribution for the punish ment inflicted on an innocent man."
 Lord Jeffries, after incarcerating many innocent and good people in London Tower, was himself imprison- ed in the same place, where the shades of those whom he had maltreated seemed to haunt him so that he kept crying to his attendants: ''Keep them off, gentlemen for Gods sake, keep them off" The chickens had come home to roost. The body of Brad shaw, the English judge who had been ruthless and cruel in his decis- ions, was taken from his splendid tomb in Westminster Abbey and at Tyburn hung on gallows from morn ing until night in the presence of jeer- ing multitudes. Haman's gallows came little late, but they came. Op- portunities fly in a straight line 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 they started. There are guns that kickl
 THE TURNS OF FORTUNES WHEEL.
 Furthermore, let the story of Ha- man teach us how quickly turns the wheel of fortune. One day, excepting the king, Haman was the mightiest man in Persia; but the next day, lackey. So we go up, and so we come l down. You seldom find any man twenty years in the same circum- stances. Of those who, in political life twenty years ago, were the most prom inent, how few remain in conspicuity. 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 lbout five thousand men who ought certainly to be the next president are shamefully disappointed; while some, who this day are obscure and poverty stricken, will ride upon the shoulders of the people and take their turn al admiration and the spells of ofice 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 success full in the accumulation of property, how few have not met with reverses, while many of those who then were strengthened in circumstances now hold the bonds and bank keys of the l nation. Of all fckle things in the world, fortune is the most fckle. Every day she changes her mind, and l woe to the man who puts any conf dence in what she promises or pro poses. She cheers when you go up, 1 and she laughs when you come down. Oh, trust not moment your hearts affections to this changeful world Anchor your soul in God. From 1 Christ's companionship gather your satisfaction. Then, come sorrow or gladness, success or defeat, riches or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or sickness, life or death, time or eter- nifty, all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is Gods.
 MISERY IN ITS WORST FORM.
 Again, this Haman's history shows us that outward possessions and cir cumstances cannot make man happy. While yet fully vested in authority, and the chief adviser of the Persian monarch, and everything that equipage and pomp and splendor of residence could do were his, he is an object les son of wretchedness. There are today more aching sorrows under crowns of royalty than under the ragged caps of the houseless: Much of the worlds amuence 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 noun tains of worldly honor are covered with perpetual snow. Tamerlane con quered half the world, but could not subdue his own fears. Ahab goes to
 bed, sick, because Naboth will not sell
 him his vineyard Herod is in agony
 because little child is born down in
 Bethlehem. Great Felix trembles be.
 cause poor minister will preach
 righteousness, temperance and judg
 ment to come. From the time of Louis