The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-10-17

the best when their roots clutch among
the Jagged rocks, and you verify have
but poor soil ia which to develop, but
grace is thorough husbandman and can
raise crop anyvhere. Glassware is
nodded over the i'e. and 10 the same
way you are to be fitted as vessel of
mercy. The best timber must have on
it say and gGuze and bestle. The foun-
dstion stone of yours and every other
house came Gu. only under crowbac and
blast. Files and wcencAes and ham
mers belong to the church. The Chris
tian victory will b bright juit in pro
portion as the battle is hot. Never des
pair being thorough Christian in any
household which is not worse than the
court Of Alssuerus.
Finally our subject illustrates what
religion may be in high worldly position.
TIE last We see in the Bibls of Had assah
is that she has become the queen Ol
Persia. Ptepare now to ses the depar.
ture of her humility and self sacrifice and
religious principle. AS she goes up you
may expect grace to 60 down. It is easier
to be humble in the obscure house of her
adopted father than on thorne of do
mlniop. But you misju5ge this noble
woman. What she was before she is
now-.he myrtle. Applauded for her
neausy and her crown. she forgets not
the cause O! her sufferiag people, and
with ell simplicity of heart still remains
worshiper Of the God of heaven.
Noble example, followed oaly By
very few. I address SONS who, through
the goodness of God, have risen to posi-
tions Of influence in the community
where you live. In laR, II merchandise,
in medicine, in mechanics and in other
useful occupations and professions you
hold an infuence for good or for evil.
Let US see whether, like Hadassah, you
can stand elevation. Have you 80 much
simplicity of character as once you evil
denced? Do you ieel as much depeu.
dence upon God, as much your own
weakness, as much youc accountability
for talents intruste6? Or are you proud
aud overdemandIn9 and ungrateful and
unsympathetic and worldly and sensual
and deviiisb? Then you have been
spoiled by your success, and you shall
not sit on this throne with the heroine oi
my text. Ia the day when Hadasssh
shall come to the graRder coronation in
the presence OF Christ and the hammered
hosts OF the redeemed you will be poor
indeed. o., there are thousands oi
men who can easily endure to be knocked
down of misfortune, who are utterly des'
troyed if lifted uo of success. Satan
takes than to the top of the pinnacle oi
the temple and shoves them of. Their
head begins to whirl, and they lose their
balance, and down they go.
Whlle last autumn all through the for.
ests there were luxuriant trees with
moderate outbrauch and moderate helght
pretending but little, there were foliage
plants that shot fa- up, looking down
with contempt on the whole forest, clap.
ping their hands in the breez,an shout.
irg, AHA, do you not wish you were
as high up as We are?" But las! week
a blast let loose from the north came
rushing along, and graphing the boast
ing oaks hurled them to to the ground,
and as they went down an old tree thai
had besn singing pslams with the thun.
der hundred summers cried out, Pride
goeth before destruction and naughty
spirit before fall" And humble hick.
ory aud pine and chestnut that had never
said their prayers before bowed their
heads as much as to say, "Amen."
Ny friends, "God resisteth the proud,
but gveth grace to humble.' Take from
my subject announcement. Attempt the
service of God whatever your disadvan
tages, and whatever our lot let US seek
that grace which outshone all the splen-
dors of the palaces of Shushan.