The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-16
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that breeds the maggots OF envy and jeal-
| ousy and hate. There are those who Will
never forgive you II you have more emolu-
ments or honor or ease than they have.
To take you down is the dominant wish
| of most OF those who are not as high as you
are. They will spend hours and days nnd
| years to entrap you. They will hover
around newspaper Offices to get one mean
| line printed depreciating you. Your heaven
Is their hell.
A dying President OF the United States
said many years ago In regard to his life
time OF experience, 1T doesn't pay" The
leading statesmen OF America Ia letters OF
advice warn young men to keep out OF
politics. Many OF the most successful
have tried In vain to drown their trouble
in strong drink. On the other hand, there
are millions OF people who on departing
this life will have nothing to leave but a
good name and life Insurance whose
illumined faces are indices OF illumined
souls. They wish everybody we'll. When
the fire bell rings, they do not 90 to the
window at midnight to see II It is their
store that is on fire, for they never owned
store, and when tho September equinox
Is abroad they do not worry lest their
ships founder In q gale, for they never
owned ship, and when the nominations
are made for high political ONCE they are
not fearful that their namo Will be over
looked. for they never applied for ofiico.
10 SO UluCI uoNElIutSS anu IT6BuOU
from care In their laughter that when you
hear It you are compelled to laugh in sym
pathy, although you know not what they
are laughing about.
When the children OF that family assem-.
BILE IN the sitting room OF the old home-
stead to hear the fathers will read. they
are not fearful OF being cut Off with mill
ion and haH dollars. ior the old man
never owned anything more than the farm
OF seYenty-tlve acres, which yielded only
enough plainly to support the household.
They have more happiness In one month
than many have In whole lifetime.
Would to God had the capacity TO ex-
plain to you on how little man can bo
happy and on how much he may be
wretchedl Get you heart right aud all is
right Keep your heart wrong and all is
wrong. That Is principle settled In
heaven.
Another thing decided In that high place
is that this world is schoolhouse or coll
lege for splendid or dlsgraceful gradua-
tion. We begin In the freshman class OF
good or evil and then pass into the sopho-
more and then into the junior aud then
Into the senior, and from tnnt we graduate
angels or devils. In many colleges there Is
an elective course" where the student
selects what lie will study-mathematics
or the languages or chemistry or phlloso-
phy-and 1t is an elective course we all
take In the schoolhouse or university OF
this world.
We may study sin until we are saturated
with 1t or righteousness until we are eXem-
Publications. of it. Graduate we all must,
but we decide for ourselves the style OF
| graduation. 1t is an elective course. We
can study generosity until our every word
md every act and every contribution of
| money or time will make the world better
| or we may study me0nness until our soul
shall shrink up to u smalness unlmagina-
| BILE.
We may, under God, educate ourselves in
| to 4 self control that nothing can anger or
into an irascibility that will ever and anon
| keep our face flushed with wrath and every
| nerve a-luiver. Great old schoolhouse OF
| a world In which we are all being educated
| for glory or perdltionl
Somo have wondered Why graduation
| day In college is Scaled commencement
| day. when 1t is the last day OF college ez =
| orcises, but graduation days ure properly
called commencement day. To all the
| graduates 1t Is the commencement of active
| life, and our graduation day from earth
| will be to us commencement OF our chief
| life, our larger life, our more tremendous
| life, our eternal life. But what u day COM
mencement day on earth is! The student
never sees any day like 1t. At any rate,
| never did.
When Pompey landed at Brlndlsi, Italy,
returned from his victories, he disbanded
| the brave men VINO had fought under him
and sent them rejoicing to their homes
and, entering Rome, his emblazoned
chariot was followed by princes In chains
from Kingdoms he had conquered, and
| flowers such as only grew under those
italian skies strewed the way, and he
| came under arches inscribed with tho
names of battleaelds on which he had
trlumphed and rode by columns which
| told of the 1900 cities he had destroyed
and the $4,000 900 people he had con
unara6 Qlain Than I'm
| spread, and out OF the chaices filed to
| the brim they drank to the health OF tho
conqueror. Bellsarius the great soldier,
returned from his military achievements
| and was robed in purple, and In the pro-
cession were brought golden thrones and
| pillars OF precious stones and the furni.
ture OF royal 10 asts, and amid the splen.
dors OF Kingdoms overcome ho was hailed
to the hippodrome by shouts such as had
seldom ruug Through the capital. Then
also came the convlviallties. In the yenr
374 Aurelian made his entrance to Rome In
triumphal car in which he stood while u
winged figure OF Victory held II wreath
above his head. Zenobia, captive queen OF
Palmyra, walked behind his chariot, her
person encircled with fetters OF gold, un-
der the weight OF which she nearly tainted
but still captive. And there were In the
procession 200 lions and tigers and beasts
of many lands and 1000 gladators excused
from the cruel amphitheater that they
might decorate the day, and Persian and
Arabian and Ethiopian ambassadors were
In the procession and the long lines of cap
tives, Egyptians, Syrians, GauIs, Goths and
Vandas.
1t was TO such scenes that the New Tes-
lament refers when It spoke of Christ
"havlng despolled prlnclpaltles and pow
ers, He made n show OF them openly trl-
umphing." But, oh, the difference III
those trlumphs! The Roman triumph rep
resented arrogance, cruelty, oppression
and wrong. but Christ's triumph meant
emancipation and holiness and Joy The
former was procession OF groans accom-
panied by clank OF chains, the other
procession of hosannas by millions set for
aver free. The only shackled ones OF
Chrlst's triumph will be satan aud lis
cohorts tied to our Lords chariot wheel,
with all the denominations of all tho earth
bound for an eternal captivity. Then will
come feust In which the chhlices
will be filed with tho new wine of
the kingdom" Under arches commemora-
tive OF ali the battles In which the hammered
armies Ok ths church militant through
thousands OF years OF struggle have ut last
won the day Jesus will ride. Conqueror OF
earth and hell and heaven. Those armies,
disbanded, will take palaces and thrones
"And they shall come from the East and
the West and the North and tho South and
sit down In the kingdom OF God" And
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