The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-01-14
wages are Just as happy as those who have
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an income CI vcvV,VuV yCohs
Sometimes happiness Is seated on foot.
stool and sometimes misery on the throne.
All the gold OF earth in one chunk cannot
nurchase five minutes Of complete salts
faction. Worldly success Is an atmosphere
that breeds the maggots OF envy and leal.
ousy and hate. There are those who Will
never forgive you II YOU nave emo more so em0'o
TO take YOU down is the dominant wish
of most Of those who are not as high IS 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 diving President OF the United States
said many years ago in regard to MS ne
time Of experience, "It doesn't pay" Tho
leading statesmen of America In letters o!
advice warn young men TO Keep ,e css
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
good name and a life insurance whose
illumined faces are induces OF illumined
souls. They wish everybody we'll. Wnen
the fire pell rings, they do not go to the
window at midnight to see II 1t Is the.r
store that Is on fire, for they never owned
store, and wheel the September equinox
Is abroad they do not worry lest their
ships founder In gale, for they never
owned ship, and when the nominations
are made for high political ONCE they are
not fearful that their name viii De over
looked, for they never applied for ONCE.
There is so much heartiness and freedom
from care In their laughter that when you
hear II you are compelled to laugh 10 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 oil With mill
ion and a half dollars, for the old man
never owned anything moro than the farm
Of seventy-lve acres, which yielded only
enough plainly to support the household.
Fhey have more happiness In one month
than many have IN a whole lifetime.
Would to God had the capacity to ex.
plain to you on how little man can pc pc
happy and on how much he may be
| wretchedi Get you heart right and I'll -
right. Keep your heart wrong and all Is
wrong. That Is q principle settled In
| heaven,
Another thing decided In The. high place
| ts that this world is schoolhouse or col
| lego for splendid or disgracefal gradua.
tion. We begin In the freshman class Oh
| 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 "slecttve course" where the student
| selects what he will study-mathematfcs
| or the languages or chemistry Or phiioso.
| phy-and 1t Is an elective course we az
| 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. It is 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 mennness until our soul
/ shall shrink up to q smauness unimaRina-
| BILE.
We may under God, educate ourselves in
| to self control that nothing can anger or
| into an Feasibility that viii ever and anon
keep our face flushed with wrath and every
| nerve a-quiver. Great old schoolhouse OF
| world In which we are all being educated
| for glory or perdttfont
Some have wondered Why graduation
! day in college isrcalled commencement
day" when 1t is the last day OF college ez-
ercises, 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. But what day COM
| mencement day on earth isl The student
never sees any day like 1t. At any rate, /
never did.
| When Pompey landed at Brindisi, Italy,
| 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
RAn 49, IL L. hal, -
| 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 battlefelds on which he had
triumphed aud rode by columns which
told OF the 1900 cities he had destroyed
and the $4,000, 600 people he had con-
spread, and out OF the chalices Oiled to
the brim they drank to the health of the
! conqueror. Belisarius, the great soldier,
returned from his military achievements
and was robed In purple, and in the pro-
| cessfon were brought golden thrones and
| pillars OF precious stones and the furni.
ture OF royal fe asts, and amid the splen.
doris OF Kingdoms overcome he was hailed
to the hippodrome by shouts such as ha d
| seldom rung through the capital. Then
also came the convivialities. In the year
| 374 Aurelian made his eatrance to Rome In
triumphai car, In which he stood whilo
| winged figure OF Victory held wreath
| above his head. Zenobia, captive queen oil
Palmyra. walked behind his chariot, bel
| person encircled with letters of gold, un,
| der the weight OF which she nearly tainted
I but still q captive. And there were 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 were
| in the procession and the long lines of cap.
tIves, Egyptians, Syrians, Gauls. Cloths and
| Yandals.
II was to such scenes that the New Tss-
| lament refers when 1t spoke OF Christ
"having despoiled principalities and pow
| ers, He made show of them. openly tri-
| umphing." But, oh, the difference In
| those trinmphsl The Roman triumph rep
resented arrogance, cruelty, oppression
| and wrong, but Chrlst's triumph meant
| emancipation and holiness and Joy. The
former was a procession OF groans accom-
| panied by a clank OF chains, the other q
| procession OF hosannas by millions set for
| ever free. The only shackled ones oil
| Christ's triumph will be satan aud his
cohorts tied to our Lords chariot wheel.
! with nll the denominations OF all the earth
bound for an eternal captivity. Then will
come a feast in which the chalices
| will be filled with the new wine OF
the kingdom" Under arches commemora
| tive of all the battles In which the hammered
armies OF the church militant through
| thousands OF years Of struggle have at last
| won the day Jesus will ride. CoDqueror o
| earth and hell and heaven. Those armies
| J;,h.nd.d will fuka ratpeaS and thrones