The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22
os ANGELES. Cal, October 1S.-

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 1 That ingratitude may be one or the - meanest of sins and fruitful or 'i'o worst results is shown in th's sernloh' the preacher taking his text from GeheS's Xl, 2S But forgat him.
 How soon the plowman can over take the reaper" as the ancient prophet said! How soon after the harvest hei" 1 glows with it's crop of ripening grain ready for cutting and garnerins' does 1 the blow come to tear up the rlch soii with Its ruthless sharel How soon tue l midnight frosts cover the fruits with | their cold. clammy death sweat The Ia vorites of fortune are sometimes rapidly lifted to success, but not so quickly as the victims of misfortune are dragged down to ruin. The stone drops from inc highest cliff to the bottom or the deep canyon more swiftly than the powerfully winged eagle scars up and up until ne dyes his feathers with the golden pig ments of the rising sun. The king IS frown and the kings smile may follow each other even more rapidly than the changes of the fickle weather of the spring, which King Solomon described when he said And the clouds return after the ram. Could any lark with broken pinicn | fall to the ground more suddenly than Napoleon III. fell from his throne? In | 1859 he was considered the most powerful ruler of all Europe. His great uncle name his brilliant coup etat, when placed him upon the French throne after l he had been elected president Tor ten | years his fostering of the arts in his kingdom. his past military rcccId' circies | halo around his personality ana made l him "the man of the hour. When the | Suez canal was opened November l0, lS65' | all Europe came to participate Tn tha marriage of the waters of the Medittf- | ranean with the waters of the Red Scd. Many kings and queens, princes and pria- l cesses were there, but the royal yacnt, which carried on board the beautiful l Empress Eugenie, was the center or all 1 eyes At that gathering she was the 1 ruler of kings and the queen of queens. 1 No black cloud darkened her horizon. Yes | in a little over one year the franc)- l Prussian war broke out. Napoleon Ill. 1 in a short time was an ex-emperor, Sedan | had been fought, the Tuileries was ex- l changed for Chiselhurst. Then the only | crown of Eugenie was a crown of thorns pressed into her agonzed brain. With | one mighty crash the Napoleonic dynasty l fell into heap of ruins
 | Poor Empress Eugenie' you say. Why poor Eugene? She had no monopoly | of trouble. To be hurled in few months l from throne into exile was startling l fate, but to how many have misfortunes comes as swiftly and as poignantly? They l bounce upon us as swiftly as q hawk darts for his prey. They come upon us l as quickly as they came to Joseph and | to the chief baker and the chief butler in | the Egyptian prison. But though they have come to us quickly In the past, 41.~ ,l.t tAFl fI., | of Pharaohs court. As soon as our trou- bles leave us we forget all about them and their wounds. We forget that the same kind of troubles may afflct us | again. Thus we go on practicing the | same sins that flung us into our past | difficulties. Let me draw from this simple Bible story some plain. practical posgel | lessons. May you and 1 not be like the forgetful butler, but like the unforgetful Joseph, whoin his prosperity remembered his old father Jacob and his brethren and who in his beautiful. forgiving nature will | always remain as one of the Old Testa- ments pure and noble types of the life of Jesus Christ.
 Promises of Youth.
 | Like the restored butler are we be cause, in the first place, we have for gotten the promises we made when ga- ing through the struggles of youth. When
 
 we were working during the day anl studying during the night for an educa- ton, when we had to wear shabby clothes and had to hear the sneers and the taunts of the world, what did we ther 1 say? "Ah, If l ever succeed in life I vii help all the young men ond women can who are in the same predicent as I am." We have succeeded. Are we full filling our promises? As successful min isters have we sympathy with young min
 isters? As successful doctors have WI sympathy with young physicians? A. successful merchants have we sympath, with young merchants? As successful contractors have we sympathy with young contractors? No. That Is not the gen eral rule When the doors of Pharaoh's | court were opened for us and success was ours, like the chief butler we forgot all about our past promises and tn. Josephs whom we left behind in prison We forgot our troubles almost imme diately. This statement Is true not onl, of one but of many departments of life
 How was it in reference to your col. lege days? Who was the meanest and the | most contemptibe man on your faculty Was the great brained and world hon. ored Mark Hopkins or Eliphalet Mott ol | Timothy Dwight or, as the boys used tt | lovingly call him, Jimmy McCosh, who | though the ablest of theologians anc metaphysicans. with his north of Ireland brogue, always talked about me col lege?" Was he the man who, in a word had the whole university at his feet? No the meanest and most contemptible edu
 cator in your college faculty was q young tutor. He was just out of college himself He ought to have had sympathy with the struggles of college life if any one should have had. He was dislked by his own classmates You learned thai from your older brother. who graduated the year before you entered the univer
 sty. But though that young tutor was just out of college himself and ought tc have had sympathy with the boys, vel he spent most of his time spying upor them. He conditioned as many as he could at examinations. He asked the mos
 unfair kind of questions in the class room
 He had a perfect genius for saying bit.
 ter things. He seemed to feel that tho chief end of every college tutor was tc make the lives of the students just as miserable as possible. Not only that. but outside of the class room he was always roaming around the halls and the grounds and the town to find some delinquent and to report some breaking of the college rules. The chief butler of Pharaoh's court in college life forgets the Josephs whom he has left behind in prison.
 The Worst Taskmaster
 What is true in reference to schoo life is equally true in reference to thu factory and the department store. Tn, head of the department who is most crue
 and hard hearted and remorseless tt those under him is the man who, only 2