The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-10

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
dark and frowning host. We have the
best of authority for saying that
pride goeth before destruction and
naughty spirit before a fall" The arr
rows from the Almighty's culver are
apt to strike man when on the wing.
Again: This Oriental tale reminds us
of the fact that wrongs we perpetrate
for Others return upon ourselves. The
gallows that lianan bIilt for Morde
cal became the prime minister's stran-
gulatiou. Robesplerre, who sent so
many to the guillotine, had his own
head chopped off By the horrid instru-
menL The evil you practice on others
Will recoil upon your own pate. SLAM
ders come home. Expressions come
home. Cruelties come home.
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 lackey.
So we go up, and so we come down.
You seldom find any man 20 wears in
the same circumstance. O; hose who
in political life % years ago were 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 to die. Every
four years there is "A complete revolu-
ton, and about 5000 men who ought
certainly to be the next presi-
dent 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. o, how quickly the wheel
turns! Ballot-boXes are the steps on
which men come down as often as they
| go up. OF those Who were long ago
successful in the accumulation of prop.
erty, how few have not met with re.
verses! 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 conf.
| dence in what she promises or pro.
| poses! She cheers when you 90 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 sorrow or
| gladness, success or defeat, riches or
| poverty, honor or disgrace, health or
sickness, life or death, time or eter.
nifty, all are yours, and we are Christ's
and Christ is Gods.
Again, this Haman history shows us
that outward possessions and circum.
stances cannot make a man happy.
While yet fully vested in authority
and the chief adviser of the Persian
monarch and everything that equi.
page and pomp and splendor of resi-
dence could do were his, he is an OBJ
ject lesson 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 affluence and gayety is
only misery in colors. Many a 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 will
not sell him his vineyard. Herod is in
agony because little child is born
| down in Bethlehem. Great Felix
trembles because a poor minister will
preach Righteousness, temperance and
| judgment to come. From the time
Louis MI. to Louis XVIII. was there
straw bottomed chair in France that
did not sit more solidly than the great
throne on which the French kings
reigned?
Were | 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 prancing
Bucephali strike the sparks with their
hoofs and between statuary and parks
of stalking deer. Wretchedness is more
bitter when swallowed from gemmed
goblets than from earthen pitcher or
pie here who are looking for this posi-.
tion and that circumstance, thinking
that worldly success will bring peace
of the soul, let them shatter the de-
fusion. 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
roundings will be no solace.
Death is blind, and sees no differ
ence between a king and his clown
between the Nazarene and the Athe.
nian, between a bookless hut and n a.
tional library, The frivolities of life
cannot, with their giddy laugh, echo
ing from heart to heart, entirely drown
the voice of a tremendous conscience
which says: 81 am immortal. The
stars shall die, but / am immortal.
One wave of eternity shall drown them
in its depths, but am immortal The
earth shall have shroud of flame and