The Washington weekly post., 1900-08-14

or defeat riches or poverty. honor or dis
grace, health or sickness, life or death.
time or eternity. all are yours, and ye are
Christs. and Christ Is Gods
Fate l. Ever FiekIe.
Again: This Haman's history shows us
that outward possessions and cirCum-
stances cannot make a man happy While
yet fully vested In authority and the chief
adviser Of the Persian monarch. and ev-
erything that equipage and ponp and
splendor OF residence could do were his.
he Is an object lesson Of wTetchedness.
There are to-day more aching sorrows un-
der crowns Of royalty than under the rag
Eed caps OF the hOuseless. Much of the
worlds affluenCe and gayety is only mis-
cry in CClOTs. Many a woman seated in
the street az her apple stand Is happier
than the great bankers. The mountains
Of worldly honor are covered with per
petuaI snow Tamerlane conquered half
the world. but could not subdue his own
fears. Ahab goes 20 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
trembles because a poor minister will
preach righteousness. temperance, and
Judgment TO come. From the time of
Louis the Twelfth To- Louis the Eight;
eenth was there "A straw-OOttomed chair
IN France that did not sit more solidly
than the great throne on which the French
Kings reigned2
Were / called to sketch misery in its
worst form, / wO;lld not go up to the dark
alley OF the poor, but up the highway over
which pranCinC Bucephali strike the
sparks with their hoofs and between stat
uary and parks Of stalking deer. Wretch
CdneSS Is more bitter when swallowed
from gemmed gOblets than from earthen
pitcher or pewter mug. II there are young
people here who are looking for this posi-
ton and that circumstance, thinking that
worldly success will bring peace of the
SOUL let them shatter the dclusiOn. 1t is
not what We get. il Is what we are. Dan
lei among the lions is happier than King
Darius on his throne. And when life is
closing, brillianCy of worldly surroundings
will be no sOlace. Death Is blind, and sees
no difference between a King and his
clown. between the NaZarene and the
Athenian, between bOokless hut and
national library. The friVOlities of life
cannot, with their giddy laugh, echoing
from heart to heart, entirely drown the
voice OF a tremendous conscience which
says. i am immortal The stars shall
die. but ] an immortal. One wave Of
eternity shall drown time in its depths
bur ] am immortal The earth shall have
the glance OF the Lord, but l am i'm
mortal. From all the heights and depths
Of my nature rings down. and rings up,
and rings out the word immortal" A
good conscience, and assurance of life
eternal through the Lord Jesus Christ are
the only securities.
Trials Purify the Spirit.
"The souls happiness is too large a
craft to sail up the stream of worldly
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too much water This earth is a bubble
and it will burst This life is a vision, and
it will soon pass away. Time! It is only
ripple, and it breaketh against the
throne of judgment. Our days! They fly
swifter than a shuttle, weaving for us
robe of triumph or a garment of shame
Begin your life with religion and for its
greatest trial you will be ready. Every
day will be a triumph, and death will De
only a Kings servant calling you to a
royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to re-
ceive the honors of knighthood was re-
quired TO spend the previous night fully
armed, and with shield and lance to walk
up and down among the tombs of the
dead. Through all the hours of that night
his steady step was heard, and, when
morning dawned, amid grand parade and
the sound of comets the hOnOrs of knight
hood were bestowed. Thus 1t shall be
with the good mans soul in the night be-
fore heaven. Fully armed with shield and
sword and helmet, he shall watch and
wait until the darkness fly and the morn
ing break and amid the sound of celestial
harpings the soul shall take the hOnors of
heaven amid the innumerable thrOng with
robes snowy white streaming over seas of
sapphire.
''Mordecai will only have to wait for mis-
day of triumph 1t took all the pr5 ealing
trials to make a proper background for
his after-SuCceSSeS. The Scdffo!d built
for him makes all the more imposing and
picturesque the horse into whose long
white name he twisted his fingers at the
mounting. You want at least two mis-
fOTtuneS-hdrd as tiint-tO strike fire.
Heavy and lOng-cOntinued SHOWS in the
winter are signs of good crops next sum
mer. So, many have yielded wOnGe erful
harvests of benevolence and energy be-
cause they were for a long while showed
under. We must have a good many hard
falls before we learn TO walk straight: II
is on the black anvil of trouble that men
hammer out their fortunes. Sorrows take
up men on their shoulders and enthr5ne
them. TONES are nearly always bitter
Men. like fruit trees, are barren unless
trimmed with sharp knives. They are
like wheat-all the better for the failing
It required the prison darkness and chill
10 make John Bunyan dream. 1t took
Delaware ice and cold feet at Valley
Forge. and the whiZZ of bullets, to make
a Washington. Paul. when he climbed
up on the beach at Melita. shivering in
his wet clothes, was more of Christian
than when the ship struck the breakers
Prescott, the historian, saw better without
his eyes than he could ever have seen
with them. Mordecai. despised at the
gate, Is only predecessor of Mordecai.
grandly mounted"