The Penn's Grove record., 1899-11-17

that breeds the maggots of e1yy and jeal.
ousy and hate. There are thcsa 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 and
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, at 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 ip 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 a life insurance whose
illunined faces are induces of illumined
spuls. They wish everybody well. When
the fire bell rings, they do not 60 to the
window at midnight to see II it is theiI
store that is on fire, for they never owned
a store, and when the September equinox
Is abroad they do not worry lest their
ships founder In a gale, for they never
owned II ship, and when the nominatfons
are made for high political office they are
not fearful that their name will be over
looked, for they never applied for office.
There Is so much heartiness and freedom
from care in their laughter that when you
hear 1t you are compelled to laugh in sym
patty, although you know not what they
are laughing about.
When the children of that family assem-
bic in the sitting room of the old home
stead to lear the fathers Will read. they
are not fearful OF being cut off With a mill
ion and n half dollars, for the old man
never owned anything more than the farm
OF seventy-flve acres, which yielded only
| enOupb MAINLY to suDn0rt the household.
They have more happiness in one month
than many have In a whole lifetime.
Would to God 1 had the capacity to ex-
plain to you on how little a mai can be
happy and on how much he may be
wretchedi Get you heart right and all Is
right. Keep your heart wrong and all is
wrong. That is a principle settled In
heaven.
Another thing decided in that high place
Is that this world Is a schoolhouse or col
lego for splendid or disgraceful gradual
tion. We begin In the freshman class OF
good or evil and then pass into the sopho-
more and then into the junior and then
into the senior, and from that 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 philoso-
phy-and it 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 1t. Graduate we all must.
but we decide for ourselves the style of
graduation. tits an elective course. We
can study generosity until our every word
and every act and every contribution OF
money or time will make the world better,
or we may study meanness until our soul
shall shrink up to a smallness unfmagina-
BILE.
We la ,under God, educate ourselves in
to a self control that nothing can anger or
into an Feasibility that will ever and anon
keep our face flushed with wrath and every
nerve a-quiyer. Great old schoolhouse OF
a world In which we are all being educated
for glory or perditioni
Some have wondered Why graduation
day In college Is .called commencement
day" when it is the last day of college e3-
e~rcises, but graduation days are 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. Blu what a day COM
mencement day on earth isl The student
never sees any day like it. At any rate, l
never did.
Old Niblo's theatre in New York comes
back to me. The gowned and t~assel-hatted
professors behind us, and our kindred and
friends before US and above us, and the air
redolent with garlands to be thrown to US.
What a commencement day 1t was for all
OF us about to graduated But mightter
day will 1t be when we graduate from this
world. VIII 1t be Kisses OF condemnation
or handclapping OF approval? Will there
be flung TO us nettles or wreaths? viii 1t
be Il resounding "Comel' or a reverbera-
ting "Depart?"
By the bloody thro es of the mountain
on which Jesus died. and by the sepulcher
where His mutilated DO dy was inciosed in
darkened crypt and by the olivet from
which He arese, while asto nished disciples
clutched for His robes to detain Him In
their companionship, and by the radiant
and omuipotent throne on which He sits
waiting for the coming of all those whose
redemption was settled in heaven, l m
plore You bow your head in immediate and
final submission. Once exercise sorrow
for what you have done and exercise trust
In Him for what He is willing to d. ,and all
10 we'll for both worlds. Then you can
swing out defiance to all opposition. hu-
man and diaboltc. In eonquerlng His Toes
He conquered yours. And have you noticed
that passage In Colossinns that represents
Him "having despoiled principalitAes and
powers, He made a show OF them, openly
triumphing," so bringing before us that
overwhelming spectacle OF q Roman
triumph
When Pompey landed at Br!ndisi, Italy,
A returned from his victories, he disbanded
the brave men who 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 the
names OF battlehelds on which he had
triumphed and rode by columns which
told Of the 1900 cities he had destroyed
and the 10, 00o, 900 people he had con
quered or slain. Then the banquet was
spread, and out of the chalices filled TO
the brim they drank to the health OF tho
%conqueror. Belisarius, the great soldier,
returned from his military a ievements
and was robed in purple, and q the pro.
cession were brought golden thrones and
pillars OF precious stones and the furnt-
ture Of royal fe asts, AZ amid the SPLEEN
doris OF kingdoms overcome he was nailed
to the hippodrome by shouts such as ha d
seldom runs through the capital. Then
also came the eonyivialities. In the year
374 Aurelian made his entrance to Rome In
triumphal car, In which he stood while a
winged figure OF Victory held Il wreath
above his head. Zenobia, captive queen OF
Palmyra, walked behind his chariot, her
person encircled with letters Of gold, un-
: der he weight Of which she nearly tainted,
but still a captive. And there we're In the
procession 200 lions and tigers and beasts
: OF many lands and 1900 gladiators excused
from the cruel amphitheater that they
might decorate the day, and Persian and
Arabian and Ethiopian ambassadors we're
i in the procession and the long lines ofcap.
tiyes, Egyptians, S~yrians, Gauls, Cloths and
1 VGndals.
II was to such scenes that the New Tes-
|, lament refers when it spoke OF Christ
"having despoiled p~rinclpallties and pow
e ers, He made a show OF them, openly trl-
%umphing." But, oh, the difference in
I those trIumphs! The Roman triumph rep
r resented ~rrogance, cruelty, oppression
: and wrong, but Chrlst's triumph meant
emancipation and holiness and Joy. The
. former was a procession OF groans accom-
4 panied by n clank OF chains, the other {
a procession OF hosannas by millions set for
q ever free. The only shaekled ones o
3 Chris.'s triumph will be satan aud his
cohorts tied to our Lords chariot wheel
& with ali the abominations OF all the earti
4 bound for an etsTadfcaptIylty, S-Then vii
come a feast in which the chaliee.
will be oiled with the new. wine oil
e the Kingdom" Under arches commemora'
i tive OF all the battles in which the hammered
+ armies OF the church militant through
Q thousands OF years OF struggle have at las
won the day Jesus Will ride. Conqueror o
earth and hell and heaven. Those armies
! disbabded, will take palaces and thrones
aAnI tbay ahati aoma from the East AM