The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-06-17
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ScuOuln5 unUer pare poles 90 not feel
the force of the storm, but those with
all sails set capsize at the sudden de-
scent of the tempest.
Again: This oriental tale reminds
us of the fact that wrongs we prepare
for others return upon ourselves. The
gallows that Uaman built for Mordecai
became the prime minister's strangula-
ton. Robespierre, who sent SO many
to the guillOtine, has his own head
chopped off by the horrid instrument.
The evil you practice on others will
recoil upon your own pate. ISLANDERS
come home. Expressions come home.
Cruelties come home.
You will yet be lacky walking be-
side the very charger on which you ex-
pected to ride others down. When
Charles the First, who had destroyed
Stanford, was about to be beheaded,
he said: Il basely ratified an unjust
sentence, and the similar injustice /
am now to undergo is sensible retri-
bdtion for the punishment l inflicted
on an innocent man." Lord Jeffries,
after incarcerating many innocent and
good people in London tower, was him
Selfimprisoned in the same place, here
the shades of those whom he had NAL
treated seemed to haunt him, so that
he kept crying to his attendants:
Keep them Off, gentlemen, for Gods
sake, keep them OFF, The chickens
had come home to roost. The body of
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 a gallows from morning until
night in the presence of jeering multi
tudes. HamanS gallows came a little
late, but it came. Opportunities fly in
a straight line, and just touch as they
pass from eternity to eternity, but the
wrongs we do others fly in a 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 Ole day, excepting the
king, Hannah was the mightest man in
Persia; but the next day a lacGey. So
we go up, and SO we come down. You
seldom find any man 20 years in the
same circumstances. OfthoSe who in po-
litical life p 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 n 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 at
admiration and the spoiIs 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
90 up, and she laughs when you come
down. Oh, trust not moment yoLr
hearts affections to this changeful
world! Anchor your souI in God. From
Christ's compauionship 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.
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
Il bubble, and it will burst. This life
is vision, and it will soon pass away.
Time. 1t Is only ripple, and it break
eth against the throne of Judgment.
Our days! They fly swifter than a
weaving for US robe of tri-
umph or garment OF shame. Begin
your life with religion and for it's
greatest trial you will be ready. Every
day will be a triumph, and death will
be only a kings servant calling you to
a royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to
receive the honors of l1nighthood 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 the morning dawned,
amid grand parade and the sound of cor
nets, the honors of knighthood were
bestowed. Thus it 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
break, and amid the sound of
celestial harpingS the soul shall take
the honors of Heaven amind the in
throng with robes snowy
white streauting over seas of sapphire.
Mordecai will only have to wait for
his day Of triumph. 1t took all the
preceding trials to make proper
for his after successes.
the more imposing and picturesque the
horse into whose long white name he |
twisted his fingers at the mounting. |
You want at least two misfor- |
tunes, hard as flint, to strike |
lire. 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 time showed under. |
We must have good many hard falls |
ps fore wa lear0 tn walk STRAIGHT If L
IS on the black anvil OF trouble that |
men hammer out their fortunes. Sor- |
rows take up men on their shouldes |