Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-06-11

assumptions OF power There is no won
der about'it. Human has not yet got tt
the top. Pride is commander, wei
plumed and caparisoned, but it lead
forth dark and frowning host. w
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 quivel
IRE apt to strike man when on thu
wing. Goliath shakes his great speal
in defiance, but the small stones from
the brook Elah make him stagger ant
fall like an OK under the butcher.
Lludgeon. He who is down cannot fall
Vessels scudding under bare poles dc
not feel the force of the storm, bllt
those with all sails set capsiZe at the
sudden descent of the tempest.
Again, this oriental tale reminds u.
Of the fact that wrongs we prepare fol
others return upon ourselves The gal
lows that Hannah built for Mortlecai be
came the prime minister's strangula
ton. Robespierre, who sent SO many
: 10 the guillotine, had his own hcat
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 laclley walking be
side the very charger on which you OK
pected to ride others down. Whel
Charles 1, who had destroyed STAFFORD
was about to be beheaded, he said, -
basely ratified an unjust sentence, anC
the similar injustice am now to un
dergo is sensible retribution for the
punishment. I inflicted on an innocen
man. " Lord Jeffreys, after incarcerat
ing many innocent and good people IL
London Tower, was himself imprisoned
in the same place, where the shades Of
those whom he had malrreated seemed
to haunt him, so that he kept crying tt
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 Il gallows from
morning until night in the presence Of
jeering multitudes. Haman's gallowE
came little late, but it came. Oppor'
tunities fly in straight line, and just
touch us as they pass from eternity tt
eternity. but the wrongs we do other:
fly in 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 llick
Fortune Quickly Turns.
Furthermore, let the story of Hamar
teach US how quickly turns the vince
of fortune. One day, excepting the king
Hannah was the mightiest man i'll Per
STA, but the next day a lackey. So We
20 up, and so we come down. You sell
dom find any man 20 years in the same
circumstances. OF those who i'll polit
ical life 20 years ago were the mos
prominent how few remain i'll conspi
Guilty! Political parties make certain
men do their hard work, and then, after
using them as hacks, turn Them out OF
the commons to die. Every four year:
there is complete revolution, anc
about 5, 900 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 anC
the spoils of office. Oh, how quickly
the wheel turns Ballot boxes are the
steps on which men come down as Otter
as they go up. Of those who were long
ago successful i'll the accumulation o.
property how few have not met with
rcverses, while many of those who then
were straitened III circumstances now
hold the bends and the bank keys of tho
nation. OF Ill 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 or proposes. She cheer;
when you go up, and she laughs wher
YOU come down. Oh, trust not mo-
ment your hearts affections to thi:
changeful world Anchor your soul IL
God. From Christ's companionshiI
gather your satisfaction. Then,come sor-
row or gladness, success or defeat, riches
OF poverty, honor OF disgrace, health OF
sickness, life or death, time or eternity
all is yours, and yc are Christ's, and
Christ is Gods.
Sorrows Under Crowns.
Again, this Hannah S history shows u:
that outward possessions and circum
stances cannot make man happy
While yet fully vested in authority and
the chief adviser of the Persian monarch
and everything that equipase and pomT
and splendor of residence could do was
bis he is an object lesson Of wretched-
ness. There are today more aching sor'
rows under crowns of royalty than un.
der the ragged caps of the houseless.
Much of the worlds affluence and gay
ETY. 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 arc
covered with perpetual SNOW. Tanner
lane conquered half the world, bet
could not subdue his own fears. Aha b
goes to bed sick because Naboth will
not sell him his vineyard. Herod is in
agony because a little child is born
down in Bethlehem. Great Felix trem-
bles because poor minister will preach
righteousness, temperance and judgment
to come. From the time of Louis XII
to Louis XVIII was there straw bot
tosed chair in France that did not sit
more solidly than the great throne on
which the French kings reigned?
Were I called to sketch misery in its
worst form I would not 60 up to the
dark alley of the poor, but up the high,
way 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 pewter mug. Il
there are young people here who are
looking for this position and that cir