The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-18

vice given by D'Alembert to the
student and the words were: go on,
sir; go ont" Oh, We who are convicted
go on!" You must take one more
step, or all the steps you have taken
will amount to nothing. Go on!
Learn also from my subject that
pride is the precursor of overthrow.
Pride is a commander we'll plumed and
caparisoned, but it leads forth dark
and frowning host pride goeth be-
fore destruction, and naughty spirit
before fall" The arrows from the
Almighty's culver are apt to strike a
man when on the wing. Goliath shakes
his great spear in defiance, but the
smooth stones from the brook made
him stagger and fall like an OK under
butchers bludgeon. He who is down
can not fall Vessels scudding under
bare poles do not feel the force of the
storm. What are those three sleds
that have just gone into the yard of a
miserable hotel in Warsaw, Poland, on
the cold night of December 10, 1912?
Who are they who from these sleds
have entered, and the servant is try
ing to build for them fire with some
green wood? Napoleon, with six at
PENDANTS, on retreat from Moscow. The
fire amid the green wood has gone out
and the emperor is walking the floor to
keep from freezing. Then bounding
into his sled, the thermometer twenty
six degrees below zero, he disappears
in the darkness. He who, little be-
fore, had an army under his command,
together with troops offered by other
nations, in all 1,1S7, 900 men, now re-
treating through that December night
with three sleds, and those of his army
not dead under the snow, reduced for
food to n handful of rye dough, sea-
soned with gunpowder for the lack of
salt, and a mouthful of horse-flesh.
From what a height to what a depth.
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace; Neb-
uchadnezzar forsaken in the fields
Again learn from the misfortune of
the king of Babylon what a terrible
thing is the loss of reason. There is no
calamity that can possibly befall us in
this world SO great as the arrangement
of intellect-to have the body of a man
and yet to fall even below the instinct
of brute In this world of sad sights,
the saddest is the idiots stare. In this
world of awful sounds, the most awful
is the maniacs laugh. A vessel on the
rocks, when hundreds go down never to
rise, and other hundreds drag their
mangled and shivering bodies up the
wintry beach, is nothing compared to
the laundering of intellects full of vast
hopes and attainments and capaci-
ties. Christs heart went out to those
who were epileptic, falling into the
fire, or maniacs cutting themselves
among the tombs. We are accustomed
to be more grateful for physical health
than for the proper working of our
mind. We are apt to take it for granted
that the intellect which has served us
so well will always be faithful We
forget that an engine with such tre-
mendous power, when the wheels have
such vastness of circle and such swift
ness of motion, and the least impede
ment might put it out of gear, could
only be kept in proper balance by a
divine hand. No human power could
engineer this train of immortal facul-
ties. How strange it is that our men,
DRY, on whose shoulders all the sue
cesses and misfortunes and occurrences
of lifetime are placed, should not Oft
ener break down, and that the scales of
Judgment, which have been weighing
so much and so long, should
not lose their adjustment, and
that fancy, which holds dangerous
wand, should not sometimes malicious
ly wave it, bringing into the heart fore
bodings and Authorizations the most APP
palling Is it not strange that the eX-
pectations of this intellect should not
be dashed to pieces on its disappoint-
ments? Though so delicately attuned,
this instrument of untold harmonies
plays on, though fear shocks it, and
vexations rack it, and sorrow and Joy
and loss and gain in quick succession
beat out of it their dirge, or draw from
it their anthem. At morning and at
night, when in your prayer you re-
hearse the objects Of your thanksgiv-
ing, next to your salvation by Jesus
Christ, praise the Lord for the preser-
walton of your reason.
How many intellects are being de-
stroyed by anodynes and anesthetics,
which were given by Providence for oc-
casional use in alienation of pain or
insomnia, but by being employed con-
tinuously after awhile capture and de-
stroy? Choral. cocaine, bromide of
potassium, opium and whole shelves of
seductive etceteras that help turn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS into i'm becility or
madness Do not trifle with opiates |
that benumb the brain. If you can not |
live without the perpetual and enslay-
ing use of them, you had better die.