The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-06-18
sure Of the Geld, Christ gave the sIgnal

found to be no antagonism between
nature and revelation. The universe
and 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
80 far up as Haman 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 1t Is usually at the
moment of their greatest arrogancy.
III there be man in your community
greatly pulled up with worldly sue
| cess, you have but to stand 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 it.
Haman has not yet got to the top.
Pride is commander, well plumed
and caparisoned, but it leads forth a
dark and frowning host. We have the
best of authority for saying that pride
goeth before destruction and naughty
spirit before fall" The arrows from
the Almighty's culver are apt to strike
a man when on the wing. Goliath
shakes his great spear in defiance, but
the small stone from the brook Elah
makes him stagger and fa ! like an OK
under the butchers bludgeon. He
who is down can not fall. Vessels
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the force Of the storm, but those with
all sails set capsize at the sudden de-
scent of the tempest.
Again: This oriental tale ceminds
| us of the fact that wrongs we prepare
for others return upon ourselves. The
gallows that Hannah 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. SANDERS
come home. Expressions come home.
Cruelties come home.
Again, this Haman history shows us
that outward possessions and circum-
stances can not make 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
"a nd ,at, 10
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. Herod
is in agony because n little child is
| born down in Bethlehem. Great Fell X
| trembles because poor minister will
preach righteousness, temperance and
| judgment to come From the time of
Louis MI. to Louis NVlII. was there
| a straw bottomed chair in France that
did not sit more solidly than the great
throne on which French kings
reigned?
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
a bubble, and it will burst This life
is vision, and it will soon pass away.
Time! 1t is only a ripple, and it break
eth against the throne of Judgment.
Our days! They fly swifter than a
shuttle, weaving for us robe of tri-
umph or a garment of shame. Begin
your life with religion and for it's
greatest trial you will be ready. Every
day will be triumph, and death will
be only n kings servant calling you to
n royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to
receive the honors of knighthood was
required to spend the previous night
fully armed, and with shield and lane
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 corr
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
morning break, and amid the sound of
celestial harpings the soul shall take
the honors of Heaven amind the in
Vulnerable 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
preceding trials to make proper
background for his after successes.
The scaifold built for him makes all
the more imposing and picturesque che
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
fire. Heavy and long-continuea
SHOWS in the winter are signs OF
good crops next summer. &c. many
have yielded wonderful harvests oil
benevolence and energy because they
were for long time showed under.
We must have good many hard falls
before we learn to walk straight. 1t
is on the black anvil of trouble that
men hammer out their fortunes. Sor.
rows take up men on their shouldes