Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-06-10
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assumptions of power There is no Won
der about it, Haman has not yet got to
the top Pride is commander well
plumed and caparisoned, but it leads
forth dark and frowning host. We
have the best of authority for saying
that "Pride goeth before destruction
and a naughty spirit before a fall.
The arrows from the Almighty's quiver
are apt to strike man when on the
wing. Goliath shakes his great spear
in defiance, but the small stones from
the brook Elah make him stagger and
fall like an OK under the butchers
bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall.
Vessels scudding under bare poles do
not feel the force Of the storm, but
those with all sails set capsize at the
sudden descent of the tempest.
Again, this oriental tale reminds Us
Of the fact that wrongs we prepare for
others return upon ourselves The gal
lows that Haman built for Mordecai be-
came the prime minister's strangula-
tion. Robespierre, who sent so many
10 the guillotine, had his own head
chopped OFF by the hOrrid instrument.
The evil you practice on others will re-
coil upon your own pate. ISLANDERS come
home. Expressions come home. Cruel
ties come home.
You will yet be lackey walking be-
side the very charger ON which you ex-
pected TO ride others down. When
Charles l, who had destroyed Strafford,
was about TO be beheaded, he said, II
basely ratified an unjust sentence, and
the similar injustice am now TO IN
dergo is a sensible retributiOn for the
punishment / inflicted on an innocent
man." Lord Jeffreys, after incarcerat-
ing many innocent and good people in
London Tower, was himself imprisoned
in the same place, where the shades Of
those whom he had maltreated seemed
TO haunt him, so that he kept crying to
his attendants, Keep them off, gentle
men, for Gods sake, keep them of ~
The chickens had come home TO roost.
Tue bGdv 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 gallows from
morning until night in the presence Of
ieering multitudes. Haman's gallows
came a little late, but it came. OppOr-
tunities fly in a straight line, and just
touch us as they pass from eternity to
eternity, but the wrongs we do others
fy in a circle, and however the circle
may widen out, they are sure 10 come
back to the point from which they
started. There are guns that kick
Fortune Quickly Turns.
Furthermore, let the story Of Haman
teach US how quickly turns the wheel
of fortune One day, excepting the king,
Haman was the mightiest man in Per
sia, but the next day lackey. So we
20 up, and so we come down. You sell
dom find any man 20 years in the same
circumstances. OF those who in polit-
ical life 20 years ago were the most
prominent how few remain in conspi-
Guilty Political parties make certain
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 complete revolution, and
about 1000 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 spoils Of Office. Oh, how quickly
the wheel turns Ballot boxes are the
steps on which men come down as often
as they 90 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 then
were straitened in circumstances now
hold the bonds and the bank keys OF the
nation. OF all tickle things in the world
fortune is the most tickle Every day
she changes her mind, and woe TO the
man who puts any confidence in what
she promises or proposes. She cheers
when you 60 up, and she laughs when
You come down. Oh, trust not mo-
ment your hearts affections TO this
changeful world! Anchor your soul IN
God. From Christ's companionship
gather your satisfaction. Then, come sor-
row or gladness, success or defeat, riches
or poverty, honor or disgrace, health OF
sickness. life or death, time or eternity,
all is yours, and ye are Christ and
Christ is Gods.
Sorrows Under Crowns.
Again. this Haman's history shows Us
that outward possessions and circum-
stances cannot make man happy
While yet fully vested in authority and
the chief adviser of the Persian monarch
and everything that equipage and pomp
and splendor of residence could do was
bis he is an object lesson Of wretched-
ness. There are today more aching sor-
rows under crowns Of royalty than un-
der the ragged caps Of the honseless-
Much of the worlds af1iuence and gay
ETY. is only misery in colors. Many
woman seated in the street at her apple
stand is happier than the great bankers.
The mountains of worldly honor are
covered with perpetual snow. Tanner
lane conquered half the world, but
could not subdue his own fears. Ahab
goes to bed sick because Naboth VIII
not sell him his vineyard. Herod is in
agony because a little child is born
down in Bethlehem. Great Felix trein-
bles because poor minister will preach
Righteousness. temperance and Judgment
to come. From the time Of Louis XII
10 Louis XVIII was there a straw bot
toned chair in France that did not SIT
more solidly than the great throne on
which the French kings reigned?
Were 1 called to sketch misery In its
worst form / would not go up TO the
dark alley Of the poor, but up the high
way over which prancing Bucephall
strike the sparks with their hoofs and
ra.geen statuary and parks Of stalking
tee. Wretchedness is more bitter when
swallowed from gemmed goblets than
from earthen pitcher or pewter mug. IL
there are young people here who are