The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-06-18
meet some great loss in business with |

meet some great loss In business with
comparative composure, but you can
think Of petty trickeries inflicted upon
you which arouse all your capacity for
wrath and remain in your heart an un-
bearable annoyance. If you look back
upon your life, you will find that the
most of the vex atoms and disturbances
of spirit which you felt were pro-
duced by circumstances that were
not worthy of notice. If you want to
be happy you must not care for tribes.
Do not be too minute in your inspec-
tion of the treatment you receive from
Others. Who cares whether Mordecai
bows when you pass, or stands erect
and stiff as a cedar? That woodman
would not make much clearing in the
forest who should stop to bind up every
little bruise and scratch he. received in
the thicket, nor will that man accom-
plish much for the world or the church
who is too watchful and appreciative
of petty annoyances. There are null
titudes of people in the world con-
stantly narrowed because they pass
their lives not in searching out those
things which are attractive and deserv-
ing, but in spying out with all their
powers of vision to see whether they
can not find a Mordecai.
Again, learn from the life of the
man under our notice that worldly
vanity and sin are very anxious to have
piety bow before Thorn. Hannah was
fair emblem of entire worldliness, and
Mordecai the representative of un-
flinching godliness. Such were the
usages of society in ancien. times that,
had this Israelite bowed to the prime
minister, it would have been an ac-
acknowledgements Of respect for his char
acter and nation. Mordecai would,
therefore, have sinned against his re-
ligion had he made any obeisance or
dropped his chin half an inch before
Hannah. When, therefore, proud Hannah
attempted to compel an homage which
was not felt, he only did what the
world ever since has tried to do, when
it would force our holy religion in any
way to yield to it's dictates. Daniel,
If he had been man of religious com
promises, would never have been
thrown into the den of lions. He
might have made some arrangements
with King Darius whereby he could
have retained part of his form of reli-
gion without making himself so COM
pletely obnoxious to the idolaters.
Paul might have retained the favor Of
his rulers and escaped martyrdom il
he had only been willing to mix up his
Christian faith with few errors. His
unbending Christian character was
taken as an insult.
Fagot and rack and halter in all ages
have been only the different ways in
which the. world has demanded obei-
sance. 1t was once, away up on the top
of the temple, that Satan comm anded
the Holy One of Nazareth to knecl be-
fore him. But it is not now so much
on the top of churches as down in the
aisle and the pew and the pulpit that
Satan tempts the espousers of the
Christian faith to kneel before him.
Why was it that the Platonic philoso-
pliers of early times, rs we'll as
Toland, Spinoza and Bolingbrolle,
of later days, We're SO madly
opposed to Christianity? Certainly
not because it favored immortalities,
or arrested civilization or dwarfed the
intellect. The genuine reason, whether
admitted or not, was because the re-
ligion of Christ paid no respect to their
intellectual vanitics. Blount and Boyle,
and the host of infdels hatched out by
the vile reign of Charles H., as reptiles
crawl out of marsh of slime, could
not keep their patience, because, as
they passed along, there were sitting
in the gate of the church such men as
Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and
John, who would not bend an inch in
respect to their PHILOSOPHERS.
Satan told our first parents that they
would become as gods if they would
only reach up and take a taste of the
fruit They tried it and failed, but
with the experiment. We have now
many desiring to be as gods reaching
up after yet another apple. Reason,
scornful Of Gods word, may foam and
strut with the proud wrath of n
Haman, and attempt to compel the
homage Of the good, but in the pres
ence of men and angels it shall be con-
founded. God shall smite thee, thou
whited wall" When science began to
make it's brilliant discoveries there
were great facts brought to light that
seemed to overthrow the truth of the
Bible. The arch @ologist with his
crowbar, and the geologist with his
hammer, and the chemist with his bat
teries, charged upon the Bible. Moses
account of the creation seemed denied
by the very structure of the earth. The
astronomer wheeled around his tele-
scope until the heavenly bodies seemed
to marshal themselves against the
Bible as the stars in their courses
fought against Sisera. Observatories
and universities rejoiced at what they
considered the extinction of Christian
ity. They gathered new courage at
what they considered past victory, and
pressed on their contest into the king
dom of nature, until, alas for them,
they discovered too much. Gods word
had only been lying in ambush, that,
in some ungarded moment, with sud-
den bound, it might tear infidelity to
pieces.
1t was as when Joshua attacked the
City of All. He selected 10000 men,
and concealed most of them; then with