The Yale expositor., 1898-06-10

or eternity. all are yours, and We are
Christ's and Christ's is Gods.
Again this Haman's history shows
us that outward possessions and cir
cumstances cannot make man happy.
While yet fully vested in authority and
arch, and everything that equipage and
pomp and splendor of residence could
do were his, he is an object lesson OF
wretchedness. There are today more
aching SORROWS under crowns Of royalty
than under the ragged caps Of the
houseless. Much of the worlds af-
fiuence and gaiety is only misery in
colors. Many a woman seated in the
street at her apple-stand Is happier
than the great bankers. The noun
tains Of worldly honor are covered
with perpetual snow. Tamerlane con-
quered half the world, but could not
subdue his own fears. Ahab goes to
bed, sick, because Naboth will not
sell him his vineyard. Herod is in
agony because a little child Is born
down in Bethlehem. Great Felix
trembles because a poor minister will
preach Righteousness. temperance and
judgment to come. From the time OF
Louis the Twelfth to Louis the Eight
eenth was there a straw-bottomed
chair in France that did not sit more
solidly than the great throne on which
the French kings reigned?
In olden time the man who was to re-
ceive the honors of knighthood was
required 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 be-
slowed. Thus 1t shall be with the good
mans soul in the night before heaven.
Fully armed with shield and sword
and helmet, he shall watch and wait
until the darkness fly and the morning
break, and amid the sound Of celestial
harpings the soul shall take the honors
of heaven amid the innumerable throng
with robes snowy white streaming over
seas of sapphire.
Mordecai will only have to wait for
his day Of triumph. 1t took all the
preceding trials to make proper back
ground for his ter-successes. 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, to strike fire. Heavy and
long-continued SHOWS in the winter are
signs Of good crops next summer. So,
many have yielded wonderful harvests
Of benevolence and energy because
they were for a long while showed I'M
der. We must have good many hard
falls before we learn to walk straight.
II is on the black anvil of trouble that
men hammer out their fortunes. Sor-
rows take up men on their shoulders
and enthrone them. TONES are nearly
always bitter. Men, like fruit-trees,
are barren. unless trimmed with sharp
knives. They are like wheat-all the
better for the failing. 1t required the
prison darkness and chill to make
John Bunyan dream. 1t took Delaware
fee and cold feet at Valley Forge, and
the whiz OF bullets, to make Wash
ington. Paul, when he climbed up on
the beach at Melita. shivering in his
wet clothes, was more of a Christian
than when the ship struck the break,
ers. Prescott, the historian, saw bet
ter without his eyes than he could ever
have seen with them. Mordecai, de-
spised at the gate, is only predecessor
of Mordecai, grandly mounted.