The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-02-19

My frlends, 90 you not see tH"t Pl
and ruin ride in the same saddleF
See ACKNOWLEDGMENT on the proudest
throne of all the earth, and then see
him Craze with the sheep and the cat
tie! Pride is commander, well plumed
and caparisoned, but it leads forth
dark and frowning host. The arrows
from the Almighty's culver are apt 10
strike a man when on the wing. Go
Hath shakes his great spear in def
ance, but the smooth stones from the
brook make him stagger and fall like
an OK under the butchers bludgeon. lie
who is down cannot fall. Vessels
scudding under the bare poles do not
feel the force of the storm, while those
with all sails set capsize at the sudden
descent of the tempest.
Remember that we can be as proud
of our humility as OF anything else.
Antisthenes walked the streets or
Athens with a ragged cloak to demon
strate his humility, but Socrates de-
clared he could see the hypocrisy
through the holes in his cloak. We
would all see ourselves smaller than
we are if we were as philosophic as
Severus, the emperor of Rome, who
said at the close of his life: Il have
been everything, and everything is
nothing" And when the urn that was
to contain his ashes was, at his COM
mand, brought to him, he said: Lit
tie urn, thou shalt contain one for
whom the world was too little.
Do you not also learn from the mis-
fortune 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 de-
rangement of intellect; to have the
body of man, and yet to fall even below
the instinct of a brute. In this world
of horrible sights, the most horrible is
| the idiots stare. In this world of hor-
rible sounds, the most horrible is the
maniac's laugh. A vessel driven on
| the rocks, when hundreds go down
never to rise, and other hundreds drag
! their mangled and shivering bodies
upon the Writer'S beach, is nothing
compared to the laundering of intel
lects full of vast hopes and attain
ments and capacities. Christ's heart
went out toward 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
proper working of our mind. We are
apt to take it for granted that the In
tellect which has served us so wei
will always be faithful. We forge
that an engine of such tremendous
power, where the wheels have sucf
vastness of circle and such swiftnes'
of motion, and the least impedimen
might put it out Of gear, can only b'
kept in proper balance by a Divint
hand. No human hand could enginee
the train of immortal faculties. How
strange 1t is that our memory, oil
whose shoulders all the misfortune
and successes and occurrences of life
time are placed, should not oftene
break down, and that the scales o
! judgment, which have been weighin
, so much and so long, should not los
; their adjustment, and that fancy
, for the attainment of its objects. shoul
, not sometimes maliciously wave Il
bringing into the heart forebodings an
, hallucinations the most appalling!
, it not strange that this mind. whic
. hopes so much in its mighty leap
. for the attainment of its objects, shout
q not be dashed to pieces on its disaI
> pointments? Though so delicatel
, tuned, this instrument Of untold hal
mony plays on though fear shakes
o and vexations rack it and sorrow an
= Joy and loss and gain in quick SUI
o cession beat out of it their dirge {
A toss from it their anthem. At mornin
y and at night. when in your prayer 20
Y rehearse the causes Of your thanksgi'
ing, next to the salvation by jest
q Christ, praise the Lord for the prese
q walton of your reason.
n See also IN this story of Nebuchac
r nezzar the use God makes of bad me
@ The actions of the wicked are used I
) instruments for the punishment
n wickedness in others or as the illu
d tration of some principle in the Divil
= government observation-disclosures su
n served both purposes Even so | wi
d go back with you to the history
e every reprobate that the world has ev,
It seen, and | will show you how to
n great extent his wickedness was limitt
IS in its destructive power, and how GC
h glorified himself in the overflow al
IS disgrace of his enemy. Babylon is FL
ir of abomination, and wicked Cyrus
d stroys it. Persia fills the cup of
10 infouity, and vile Alexander puts {
@. end to 1t. Macedon must be chastise
r and bloody Emilius does 1t. The Ba
oil tile is to be destroyed and CORFU
N Napoleon accomplishes it. Even
s. selfish and wicked men are often ma
n to accomplish great and glorious pu
10 poses. Joseph's brethren were gull
h. of superlative perfidy and meanne
ID when they sold him into slavery
at about sever dollars. yet how they mu
10 have been overwhelmed with the tru
Sc that God never forsakes the righteo
ne when they saw that he had become {
prime minister OF Egypt! Pharaoh o
f. presses the Israelites with the me
to diabolical tyranny; yet stand still a
IN see the salvation OF God. The plagu