Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10

! the wing. Goliath shakes his great
spear in defiance, but the smooth stones
from the brook make him stagger and
fall like an OK under butchers
budgeon. He who is down cannot 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 miserable
hotel in Warsaw, Poland, on the cold
night of December the 10th, 1912? Who
are they, who from these sleds have en-
tered, and the servant is trying to build
for them fire with some green wood?
Napoleon, with six attendants, 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 Their
mometer 26 degrees below zero, he dis
! appears in the darkness He who a.
! little before had an army under his com
mand, together with other troops offered
! by other nations, in all 1,1S7, 900 men,
now retreating through that Decem Der
night with three sleds, and those of his
army not dead under the snow, reduced
| for food to a handful of rye dough, sea-
Soned with gunpowder for lack of salt,
and mouthful of horsefesh. From what
height to what a depth! Nebuchad
nezzar in the palace; Nebuchadnezzar
| forsa1en in the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune of
| the King of Babylon what terrible
thing is the loss of reason. There is no
calamity that can possibly befall us in
| this world great as the arrangement of
| lntellect-tO have the body of a man and
| yet to fall even below the instincts of a
| brute. In this world of sad sights the
! &c +Ia A. SC,
! world of awful sounds the most awful is
| the maniac's 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
| laundering of intellects full of vast hopes
and attachments and capacities. Christ's
heart went out to those who were cpl
! leptic, falling into the fire, or maniacS
cutting themselves among the tombs.
We are accustomed to be more CRATE
| full for physical health than for the prop
er working of our mind. We are apt
| to take it for granted that the intellect
! which has served us so we'll will always
| be faithful We forget that an engine
| with such tremendous power, when the
/ wheels have such vastness of circle and
such SwiftnesS of motion and the least
! impeachment might put 1t out of gear,
could only be kept in proper balance by
a divine hand. No human power could
| engineer this train of immortal faculties.
How strange it is that our memory, on
| whose shoulders all the successes and
| misfOrtunes and occurrences of a life
| time are placed, should not ottener
break down, and that the scales Of judg-
ment, which have been weighing so
|
| adjustment, and that fancy which holds
dangerous wand, should not sometimes
maliciouslY wave it, bringing into the
| heart fCrebodings and Authorizations the
most appalling. Is it not strange that
| the expectations Of this intellect should
not be dashed to pieces on its diSappOint-
ments?
Though so delicately attuned, this in
strument 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 an
them, At morning and at night when
in your prayer, you rehearse the~Objects
OF your thanksgiving, next to your saliva
ton by Jesus Christ, praise the Lord for
the preservation of your reason.
How many fine intellects are being de-
Stroyed by anodynes and an9sthetics,
which were given by Providence for oc-
casional use in alienation of pain or in
somnia, but by being employed continu-
ously after awhile capture and destroy.
| Choral, cocaine, bromide of potassium,
opium and whole shelves of seductive
| etceteras that help turn Nebuchadnez-
Ears into imbecility or madness. Do not
| trife with opiates that benumb the brain.
| If you cannot live without the perpetual
and enslavlng use of them, you had bet
| ter die. Better die sane man than live
! a fool. What right have you to kill your
brain and put in wild jangle your nerv
Gus system? But rum is the cause of
more insanity than anything else. There
| IS nothing like rum to put man, like
| NebuchadneZzar, down on all tours.
Again, learn how quickly turns the
wheel of fortune, from how high up to
| how far down went acknowledgements.
| Those now in places of position and
power, even though they should live,
will in a few years be disregarded,
while some, who this day are obscure
and poverty stricken, will ride up on the
shoulders of the people to take their
turn at admiration and the SpOils of office.
| 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 few years ago successful in
| the accumulation of property how few
have not met with reverses of fortune,
while many of those who then were
! straitened IN circumstances now hold the
| bonds and the bank keys of the Nation
and win the most bows on the exchange.
Of all tickle people in the world For
| tune is the most tickle. Every day she
| changes her mind, and woe to that man
who puts any confidence in what she
promises or proposes She cheers when
you go up and she laughs when you
come down. Oh, trust not moment
your hearts affections to this changaable
world. Anchor your soul in God. From
CRISIS love gather your joy. Then come
sorrow Or gladness, success or defeat,
riches or poverty, honor or disgrace,
| health or sickness, life or death, time or
eternity, all are yours and we are
! ChriSt's and Christ is Gods.
Learn also from my subject the COM
fOrting truth that affections are arrested
| hox oh hot,