The Yale expositor., 1898-06-10

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capacity for wrath, and remain in your
heart an unbearable annoyance. If you
look back upon your life, you will find
that the most OF the vexations and dis"
turbances of spirit, which you felt,
were produced by circumstances that
were not worthy of notice. II you want
to be happy you must not care for
trifies. Do not be too minute in your
inspection of the treatment you receive
from others. Who cares whether Nor
decai bows when you pass, or stands
erect and stiff as a cedar? That wood
man would not make much clearing In
the forest who should stop to bind up
every little bruise and scratch he re-
ceived in the thicket; nor will that
man accomplish much for the world or
the church who is too watchful and
appreciative of petty annoyances.
There are multitudes of people In the
world constantly narrowed because
they pass their lives not in searching
out those things which are attractive
and deserving, but in spying out with
all their powers of vision to see wheth-
er they cannot find a Mordecai.
Again, learn a lesson that pride
goeth before a fall. Was any man
ever so 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. II
there be a man in your community
greatly puffed up with worldly success,
you have but to stand a little while and
you will see him come down. You say,
l wonder that God allows that man to
so on riding over others heads and
making great assumptions OF power.
There is no wonder about II. Haman
has not yet got TO the top. Pride is
commander, we'll plumed and caparis-
oned. but It leads forth a dark and
frowning host. We have the best OF
authority for saying that Pride goeth
before destruction and a naughty spir-
1t before q fall" The arrows from the
Almighty's culver are apt TO strike
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 cap
size at the sudden descent of the tenn
pest.
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. SANDERS
come home. Expressions come home.
Cruelties come home.
You will yet be a lackey walking be-
side the very charger on which you
Charles the First, who had destroyed
STAFFORD, was about to be beheaded, he
said 81 hasely ratified an unjust SEN
tence, and the similar injustice l am
now to undergo is sensible retribution
for the punishment inflicted on an in
nocent man." Lord Jeffries, after in
generating many innocent and good
people in London Tower, was himself
imprisoned in the same place, where
the shades of those whom he had mall
treated seemed to haunt him, so that
he kept crying to his attendants: Keep
them off, gentlemen, for Gods sake,
keep them off," 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 multi
tudes. Humans gallows came little
late, but it came. Opportunities fly in
straight line, and just touch us as
they pass from eternity to enternity,
but the wrongs We do others fly in q
circle, and however the circle may
widen out, they are sure to come back
to the point from which they started.
There are guns that kick!
Furthermore, let the story of Ha-
man teach us how quickly turns the
wheel of fortune. One day, excepting
the king, Hannah 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 TWEEN
ty years in the same circumstances.
OF those who, in political life twenty
years ago, were the most prominent,
how few remain in conspicuity! Po-
litical 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 complete revolution, and
about five thousand 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
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