The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-05-30

cumstance, thinking that worldly sue
cess will bring peace OF the soul, let
them shatter the delusion. 1t Is not
what we get, it is what We are Daniel
among the lions is happier than Nebu-
chadnezzar on his throne. And when
life is closing, brilliancy of worldly sur
roundings will be no solace- Death is
blind and sees no difference between
King and his clown, between the
Nazarene and the Athenian, between
boolxless hut and a national library.
From all the heights and depths OF my
nature rings down and rings up and
rings out the word Immortal" good
conscience and assurance of life eternal
through the Lord Jesus Christ are the
only securities.
The souls happiness is too large a
craft to sail up the stream Of worldly
pleasure AS ship carpenters say, 1t
draws too much water. This earth Is
bubble and it will burst This life is
vision and it will soon pass away.
Timei 1t is only ripple audit breaketh
against the throne of Judgment Our
daysi They fly swifter than shuttle,
weaving for us robe of triumph or a
garment of shame. Begin your life
with rel gion and for its greatest trial
you will be ready. Every day will be a
triumph and death will be only kings
servant calling you to royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to re-
ceive the honors of knighthood was re-
quired 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 of
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 he'll
met, he shall watch and wait until the
darkness fly and the morning break,
and amid the sound of celestial harp
ings the soul shall take the honors OF
Heaven amid the innumerablo throng
with robes snowy white streaming over
seas of sapphire.
Mordecai will only have to wait fol-
his day of TT. umph. 1t took all the pre-
ceding trials to make a proper back
ground for his after success. The
scaffold built for him makes all the
more imposing and picturesque the horse
into whose long white name he twisted
his fingers at the mounting. You want
at least two misfortunes, hard as flint tc
strike fire. Heavy and long continued
SHOWS in the winter are signs of good
crops next summer. So many have
yielded wonderful harvests of benevo
lence and energy because they were {
long while showed under. We must have
a good many hard falls before we learn t.
walk straight. 1t is on the black anvil o.
trouble that men hammer out their for
tunes. Sorrows take up men on theil
shoulders and enthroue them. Tonic'
are nearly always bitter. Men, like
fruit trees, are barren, unless trimmed
with sharp knives. They are like whea
all the better for the failing. It re
quired the prison darkness and chill t.
make John Bunyan dream. 1t tool
Delaware ice and cold feet at VALLEY
Forge, and the whiz of bullets, to make
Washington. Paul, when he climbed VI
on the beach of Melita, shivering in hi
wet clothes, was more of Christian
than when the ship struck the breakers
Prescott the historian, saw better with
out his eyes than he could ever have
seen with them. Mordecai, despised a
the gate, is only predecessor of Morde
cal, grandly mounted