St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-07-09

sake, keep them Oft. The chickens
had come home to roost. The body OIL
Bradshaw, the English Judge, who had
| been ruthless and cruel in his decisions
was taken from his splendid tomb in
| Westminster abbey, and at Tyburn
hung on gallows from morning until
night in the presence of jeering multi
tudes. Humans gallows came little
late, but it came. Opportunities ay in
a straight line. and just touch as they
pass from eternity to eternity, but the
| wrongs we do others fly in q circle, and
however the circle may widen out, they
are sure to come back to the point from
which they started. There are guns
that kick!
Furthermore, let the story Of Hannah
teach us how quickly turns the wheel
of fortune. One day, excepting the
king, Haman was the highest man in
Persia; but the next day lackey. So
we go up, and SO we come down. You
seldom find any man 20 years in the
| same circumstances. OF those who in po-
litical life - years ago were the most
prominent, how few remain in con-
spicuity. Political parties make GER
tain men do their hard work, and then,
after using them as hacks, turn them
out on the commons to die. Every
four years there is q complete revolu-
ton, and about 5000 men who ought
certainly to be the next president are
shamefully disappointed; while some,
who this day are obscure and poverty
stricken, will ride upon the shoulders
of the people, and take their turn 1t
admiration and the spoils of office. Oh.
now quickly the wheel turns! Ballot
boxes are the steps on which men come
down as often as they go up. OF those
who were long ago successful in the
accumulation of property how few
have not met with reverses? while
Many of those who were then
straitened in circumstances now
hold the bonds and the bank
keys of the nation. OF all tickle
things in the world, fortune in the
most tickle. Every day she changes
her mind, and woe to the man who
puts any confidence in what she prom
ises or proposes! She cheers when you
go up, and she laughs when you come
down. Oh, trust not q moment yoLr
hearts affections to this changeful
world! Anchor your sddl in God. From
Christ's companiOnship gather your
satisfaction. Then, come sorrow or
gladness, success or defeat, riches or
poverty, honor or disgrace, health or
sickness, life or death, time or eterni-
ty, all are yours, and We are Christ's
and Christ is Gods.
We're l called to sketch misery in its
worst form, would not go up to the
dark alley of the poor, but up the
highway over which prancing Buce-
phali strike the sparks with their
hoofs and between statuary and parks
of stalking deer. Wretchedness is
more bitter when swallowed from
gemmed goblets than from earthen
pitcher or pewter mug. II there are
young people here who are looking for
this position and that circumstance,
thinking that worldly success will
bring peace of the soul, let them
shatter the delnsion. 1t is not what
we get, it is what we are. Daniel
among the lions is happier than King
Darius on his throne. And when life
is closing, brilliancy Of worldly sur
rOundings will be no solace. Death is
blind, and sees NO difference between
king and his clown, between the
Nazarene and the Athenian, bet ween
bookless hut aud a national library.
The favorites of life can not, with their
giddy laugh, echoing from heart
to heart. entirely drown the
voice of q tremendous conscience
which says: Il am immortal. The
stars shall die, but l am immortal.
One wave of eternity shall drown time
in its depth, but am immortal. The
earth shall have . shroud of flame and
the heavens fee at the glance of the
Lord, but am immortal. From all
the heights and depths OF my nature
rings down, and rings up, and rings out
the word immortal" A good con.
science and assurance of life eternal
through the Lord Jesus Christ are the
only securities.
The souls happiness is too large .
craft to sail up the stream of worldly
pleasure. As ship-carpenters say, it
draws too much water. This earth is
q bubble, and it will burst This life
is vision, and it will soon pass away.
Time! 1t Is only a ripple, and it break
eth against the throne of judgment.
Our days! They fly swifter than q |
weaving for US a robe of tri-
nmph or q garment of shame. Begin |
your life with --eIigion and for its |
greatest trial you will be ready. Every
lay will be a triumph, and death will |
be only . kings servant calling YOU to |
> royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to |
receive the honors of knighthood was
required to spend the previous night |
fully armed, and with shield and lance |
% walk up and down among the |
-ombs of the dead. Through all the |
hours Of that night, his steady step was |
heard, and when the morning dawned, |
amid grand parade and the sound Of cor
nets, the honors of knighthood were |
Thus it shall be with the
rood 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 |
break, and amid the sound of |
harpiags the soul shall take /
The honors of Heaven amind the in
throng with robes snowy
white streaming over seas of sapphire.
Mordecai will only have to wait for
1is day Of triumph. 1t took all tho
preceding trials to make . proper
for his after successes.
The scaffold built for him makes all
The more imposing and picturesque the
horse into whose long white name he
visited his fingers at the mounting. |
You want 1t least two misfor-
unes, hard as flint, to strike
ire. Heavy and long-continued
;nows in the winter arc signs Of
rood crops next summer. So, many
lavc yielded wonderful harvests Of
and energy because they
we're for = long time showed under.
We must have good many hard falls
,efore we learn to walk straight. It
s on the black anvil OF trouble that
men hammer out their fortunes. Sor-
'ows take up men on their shouldes
md enthrOne them Tonnes ars. noarlv |