Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-06-16

the Bible. and for awhile the church
acted as If she were on u retreat; but
when all the opposers OF God and truth
had joined il the pursuit, and ware
sure of the field, Christ gave the signal
TO His church, and turning, they drove
back their foes in shame. There was
found to be no antagonism between
nature and revelation. The universe
aud the Bible were found to be the
work of the same hand, two strokes of
the same pen, their authorship the
sa me God
Again: Learn the lesson that pride
goeth before fall. Was any man ever
so far up as Hannah who tumbled so
far down? Yes, on smaller scale
every day the world sees the same
thing. Against their very advantages
men trip into destruction. When God
humbles proud men it is usually at the
moment of their greatest arrogancy.
IL there be man in your community
greatly pulled up with worldly sue.
cess, You have but to stand u little
while and you will see him come down.
You say, wonder that God allows
that man to go riding over others
heads and making great assumptions OF
power. There is no wonder about IL
llaman has not vet got to the top.
Pride is u 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 n naughty
spirit before fall" The arrows from
the Almghty,s CULVER are apt to strike
u man when on the wing Goliath
shakes his great spear in defiance, but
the small stone from the brook Elah
makes him stagger and fall like an or
under the butchers bludgeon. He
who is down can not fall. Vessels
scudding under bare poles do not feel
the force of the storm, but those with
all sails set capsiAe al the sudden de-
scent of the tempest.
Again: This oriental tale reminds
MS of the fact that wrongs we prepare
for others return upon ourselves. The
gallows that llaman built for Mordccai
became the prime minister's strangula-
ton. RobeSpicrre, who sent SO many
to the gutllotiue, has his own head
chopped off by the horrid instrument
The evil you practice on others will
recoil upon your own pate. Slaudera
come homo. Expressions come homo.
Cruelties come home.
Again, this Hannah history shows us
that outward possessions and circum.
stances can not make Il man happy.
While yet fully vested in authority
and the chief adviser of the Persian
monarch, and everything that equip.
age and pomp and splendor of residence
could do were his, he is an object les.
son of wretchedness There are to- day
more aching SORROWS under crowns OF
royalty than under the ragged caps OF
the houseless Much of the worlds
atiuence and gayety is only misery
in colors. Many woman seated
in the street at her apple stand
is happier than the great bank.
erS. The mountains OF worldly honor
are covered with perpetual snow
Tamerlane conquered half the world.
but could not subdue his own fears
Ahab goes to bed sick, because Naboth
will not sell him his vineyard licrod
is in agony because little child 10
born down in Bethlehem. Great Felix
trembles because Il poor minister will
preach righteousness, temperance and
Judgment to come. From the time OF
Louis NIL to Louis XVllI. was there
IA strawbottomed chair in France that
did not sit more soldly than the great
throne on which French kings
reigned?
The souls happiness is too large q
craft to sal up the stream Of worldly
pleasure. As ship-carpenters say, it
draws too much water. This earth is
u bubble, and it will burst This life
is a vision, and it will soon pass away.
Time! 1t is only IA ripple, and it break.
eth against the throne OF Judgment
Our days! They fly swifttr than
shuttle, weaving for us a robe of tri.
umph or Il garment of shame. Begin
your life with religion and for iti
greatest trial you wlt he ready. Every
day will be a triumph, and death wiz
be only "A king servant calling you to
royal banquet.
In oIdrn time the man who was to
receive the DOHDfS OF kHIrHtnOOu was
required To sp nd the previous night
fully arned. and with shield and lance
TO walk NJ and down among the
toInbs Of lha dead. Through all the
hours Of taat 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 sour 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 breat. and amid the sound OF
celestial harp,n2s the soul shall take
the huuors Oh Heaven amind the in.
Vulnerable throng with robes snow
white streaming over seas Of sapphire.
Mordrcai will only have to wait for
his day Of triumph. /, took all the
preceding trials to make "a proper
background for his after successes.
The scalfold built for him makes all
tue more imposing and picturesque the
horse into whose long white name he
twisted his fingers at tue mounting.