The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-06

| the point from which they started. There
| are guns that kick
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 Persia
! but the next day, a lackey. So we 80 up
and so we come down. You seldom find
/ any man twenty years in the same cir
| cumstances. OF those who in political
| life twenty years ago, We're the most
| prominent how few remain in conspicuity
! Political parties make certain men do
! their hard work, and then, after using
! them as hacks, turn them out on the
/ commons 70 die. Every four years
! there is a complete revolution, and
! about five thousand men who ought
/ certainly to be the next President are
! shamefuly disappointed while some
| who this day are obscure and
| poverty-stricken will ride upon the shout
| ders of the people, and take their turn at
| admiration and the spolls Of Office Oh,
| now quickly the wheel turnsi BalOt-boXes
| are the steps on which men come down as
often as they go up. or those who were
long ago successful in the accumula ton
of property, how few have not met with
reVersesi 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 go up,
and she laughs when you come down. Oh,
trust not a moment your hearts affections
TO this changeful world! Anchor your soul
IN God. From Christs companionship
gather your satisfaction. Then, come sor-
row or g.adness. success or defeat riches
or poverty, honor or disgrace. health or
sickness, life or death, time or eternity. all
are yours and We are Christs, and Christ
is Gods.
Again this Humans 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 were his
ne is an object-lesson OF wretchedness.
There are to-day more aching sorrows I'M
der crowns of royalty than under the
ragged caps of the houseless. Much of
the worlds affluence and gaiety is only
misery in coloIs. Many a woman seated
IN the street at her aplpe-stand is hap
pier than the great bankers. The noun
'alns of worldly honor are covered with
perpeiual snow. Tamerlane conquered
half the world. but could not subdue his
own fears. Ahab goes to bed. sick be-
cause Naboth will not sell him his vine
yard. Herod IS in agony because a little
child Is born down in Bethlehem. Great Fe-
lix trembles because poor minister will
preach righteousness. temperance and
Judgment to come From the time of Louis
me Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was
there a straw-bOttomed chair i'm France
that did not SIT more solidly than the great
throne on which the French kings reigned?
Were 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 prancng Bucephal strike the
sparks with their boots and between
statuary and parks of stalking deer
Wretchedness is more bitter when swal-
lowed from gemmed goblets than from
earthen pitcher or pewter mug. If there
are young people here who are looking
for this position and that circumstance,
thinking that worldly success win bring
peace of the soul, let them shatter the de-
fusion. 1t is not what we get, il is what
we are. Daniel among the lions is hap
pier than King Darius on his throne.
And when life is closing brilliancy of
worldly surroundings will be no solace
Death is blind, and sees no difference be-
tween a king and his clown, between the
Nazarene and the Athenian, between
bookIess hut and a national library The
frivoIties of life cannot with their giddy
laugh, echoing from heart to heart, en-
tirely drown the voice of a tremendous
conscience which says: II am immortal.
The stars shall die. but 1 am immortal.
One wave of eternity shall drown time in
its depths, but 1 am immortal. The earth
shall have a shrOud of flame and tie
heavens flee al the glance of the Lord, but
/ am immortal From all the nights and
depths of my nature rings down, and
rings up, and rings out the word immor-
tai A good conscience, 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 bubble,
and 1t win burst. This life is a vision,
and it Will soon pass away. Time! 1t is
only ripple, and II breaketh against the
throne of judgment. Our days! They
fly swifter than a shuttle, weaving for Us
a robe of triumph or a garment of shame.
begin your life with religion and for its
greatest trial you will be ready. Every
day will be triumph and death will be
only a Kings servant calling you to
a royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to re-
ceive the honors of knighthood was re-
quired 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 mora
ing dawned. amid grand parade and the
sound of comets the honors of knight
hood were bestowed. Thus IL shall be
with the good mans soul in the night be-
fore heaven. Fully armed with shield
! and sword and helmet, he shall watch and
wait until the darkness fly and the morn
| ing break, and amid the sound of celes tial
harpings the soul shall take the hOnors Ct
| heaven amid the innumerable throng with
robes snowy white streaming over seas
of sapphire.
Mordecai viii only have TO wait for his
| day of triumph 1t took all the preceding
| trials to make a proper background for
| his after-success. 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 mis-
fortunes, hard as flint, to strike fire
/ Heavy and long-continued SHOWS in the
| winter are signs of good crops next sum
mer So, many have yielded wonderful
! harvests of benevolence and energy be-
| cause they were for long while showed
under. We must have a good many hard
| falls before we learn 10 walk straight. 1t
| il on The black anvil of trouble that men
! hammer out their fortunes. Sorrows take
| up men on their shoulders and enthrone
| them TONES are nearly always bitter
| Men, like fruit-trees, are barren, unless
!