The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-10

up, and she laughs when you come
down. oh. trust not a moment your
hearts affections to this changeful
world, Anchor your sou in God.
From Christ's companionship gather
your satisfaction. Then, ON sorrow
or gladness, success or defeat, riches
or poverty. honor or disgrace. health
or sickness, life OF death, time or
enternity, all is yours. n We are
Christs and Christ is Gods
SORROWS UNDER CROWNS.
Again, this Humans history shows
sds that outward possessions n cir
cumstanees cannot make a man hap
py- While Yet fully vested in authori-
~ and the chief adviser OF the Per-
sian monarch and everything that
equippage and pomp and splendor OF
residence could do was his he is an OBJ
ject lesson OF Indebtedness. There are
today more aching SORROWS under
crowns of royalty tina under the rog-
ged caps OF the houseless. Much OF the
worlds affiuence and gayety is only
misery in colors. Many a woman seat
ed in the street at her apple stand
is happier than the great bankers. The
mountains Of worldly honor are yer
ed with perpetual 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. Herod is in
agony because a little child is born
down in Bethlehem. Great Felix trem-
bleS because a poor minister Will
preach righteousness, temperance and
of Louis XII to Louis XVIII was there
a Crra W hntrnnna1 choir in Eroraa shot
did not sit more solidly han the great
throne on which the French kings
reigned?
Were / called TO sketch misery IN it's
worst form 1 would not go up to the
dark alley of the poor, but UP the high
way over which prancing Bucephali
strike the sparks with their hoofs and
between statuary and parks of stalk
ing deer. Wretchedness is more bitter
When swallowed from gemmed goblets
than from earthen pitcher or pewter
mug. If there are young people here
who are looking for this position and
that circumstances, thinking that
worldly success Will bring peace of the
soul, let them shatter the delusion. 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
IOulIullSS VIII De no SOIdcb. Dtdln Is
blind and sees no difference between
a king and his clown, between the
NaZarene and the Athenian, between
a boOkless hut and a national library.
The ~frivolities of life cannot, with their
giddy laugh echoing from heart to
heart, entirely drown the voice Of a
tremendous conscience which says: Il
am immortal. The stars shall die, but
[ am immortal. One wave of eternity
shall drown time in it's depths, but
I am immortal. The earth shall have
a ShrOud of flame and the heavens fee
at the glance of the Lord, but l am
Immortal. From all the heights and
depths of my nature rings down and
rings up and rings out the word i'm
MORTAL" "A good conscience and as
sucance of life eternal through the
Lord Jesus Christ are the only Sc
curit;es.
HAPPINESS FOR THE SOUL.
The souls happiness is too large a
Graf. to sail up the stream of worldly
pleasure. AS ship carpenters say, it
draws too much water. This earth is
4 bubble, and it will burst This life is
a vision, and it will soon pass away.
Time! 1T is only a ripple n it break
eth against the throne Of judgment.
Our days! They fly swifter than a
shuttle, weaving for us a robe of tri-
umph or a garment Of shame. Begin
your life with religion n for it's great
est trial you will be ready. Every day
VIII be a triumph, and death will he
only a kings servant calling you to
a royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to
I receive the honors of knighthood was
| required ITO spend the previous night
fully armed 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 morning dawned, amid
| grand parade and sound of comets
| the honors Of knighthood was bestowed.
| Thus it shall he with the good mans
soul in the night before heaven. Fully
| armed with shield n sword and he'll
| met, he shall watch and wait until the
darkness fly and the morning break,
| and amid the sound of celestial harp
ings the soul shall take the honors Of
heaven amid the innumerable throng
| with robes snowy white streaming
over seas Of sapphire.
Mordecai will only have to wait for
his day Of triumph. 1t took all the pre-
ceding trials to make a proper back
ground 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 MS Un6SrS at Inc mounting.
You want at least two misfOrtunes,
hard As flint, to strike fire. 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 while showed under.
We must ave a good many hard falls
| before we learn to walk straight. 1t Is
on the black anvil of trouble that men
hammer out their fortunes. Sorrows
| take up men on their and
enthrone them. TONES are nearly al
ways bitter. Men, like fruit trees, are
| barren, unless trimmed with sharp
knives. They are like wheat-all the
better for the failing. 1t required the
prison darkness and chill to make John
| Bunyan dream. Tt took Delaware Ice
| and cold feet at Valley Forge, and the
| whiz of bullets, to make a Washington.
| Paul when he climbed up on the beach
| at Melita, shivering in his wet clothes,
was more of a Christian then when the
ship struck the breakers. Prescott,
/ the historian. saw ihpfter without his