Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-06

on retreat, but when all the opposers
of God and truth had joined in the pur-
Su.s and were sure of the field Christ
] gave the signal to his church, and, turn
ing, they drove back their foes in shame
! There was 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 author
! ship the same God
/ Pride Goeth Before Fall.
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 de
struction When God humbles proud
men, it is usually at the moment Of
their greatest arrogancy. If there be a
man in your community greatly pulled
up with worldly success, you have but
to stand little while and you will see
him come down. You say, wonder
| that God allows that man to go on rid
ing over others heads and making great
assumptions of power. There is no Won
der about it. Hannah has not yet got to
the top Pride is q 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 a naughty spirit before a 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 stones from
the brook Elah make him stagger and
fall like an OK under the butchers
bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall
Vessels scudding under bare poles do
not feel the force of the storm, but
those with all sails set capsize at the
sudden descent of the tempest.
Again, this oriental tale reminds us
of the fact that wrongs we prepare for
others return upon ourselves. The gal
lows that Hannah built for Mordecai be-
came the prime minister's strangula-
ton. Robespierre, who sent so many
to the guillotine, had his own head
chopped off by the horrid instrument.
The evil you practice on others will re-
coil upon your own pate. ISLANDERS come
home. Expressions come home. Cruel
ties come home.
You will yet be a lackey walking be-
side the very charger on which you ex-
pected to ride others down. When
Charles I, who had destroyed STAFFORD,
was about to be beheaded he said, 81
basely ratified an unjust sentence, and
the similar injustice am now to un-
dergo is a sensible retribution for the
punishment I inflicted on an innocent
man." Lord Jeffreys, after incarcerat-
ing many innocent and good people in
London Tower, was himself imprisoned
in the same place, where the shades of
those whom he had maltreated seemed
to haunt him, SO that he kept crying to
his attendants, keep them off, gentle
men, for Gods sake, keep them off p
The chickens had come home to roost.
The body of Bradshaw, the English
judge, who had been ruthless and cruel
in his decisions, was taken from his
splendid tomb in Westminster abbey,
and at Tyburn hung on a gallows from
morning until night in the presence of
jeering multitudes. Haman's gallows
came a little late, but it came. Oppor-
tunities fly in a straight line, and just
touch us as they pass from eternity to
eternity, but the wrongs we do others
may widen out, they are sure to come
back to the point from which they
started. There are guns that kick
Fortune Quickly Turns.
Furthermore, let the story of Hannah
teach us how quickly turns the wheel
of fortune. One day, excepting the king
Hannah was the mightiest man in Per
STA, but the next day lackey. So we
go up, and SO we come down. You sell
dom find any man 90 years in the same
circumstances. Of those who in polit-
ical life 20 years ago were the most
prominent how few remain in conspi-
Guilty! 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 revolution, and
about 5000 men who ought certainly
to be the next president 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. Oh, 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
property how few have not met with
reverses, 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 OF proposes. She cheers
when you go up, and she laughs when
YOU come down. Oh trust not a mo-