Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

tOrer. lie mas been, ana IS now con-
fusimg evil doers. Nebuchadnezzar,
when building the toner Of his great
ness, was terribly confused, his brain
whirled, reason toppled and fell from
it's throne.
France, when building the tower of
monarchieal strength and glory, one
day felt peculiar sensation the
throne began to totter and heaue, poor
Napoleon fell off, his sceptre was bro
ken, his crown was destroyed, conster-
nation and madness seized the capitol,
commotion spread like wild fire Git was
kindled by the Prussians, } throughout
the empire.
Some Of our neighbors have been
building a touer the last eighteen hun
dred years down in Rome. They sup
posed it ,cas and woutd continue to be
supported by the civil and religious
power Of the nations but they have
discovered their mistake the poor old
Pope is terribly confused because the
more sensible ones wont acknowledge
his infallibility,
At the building Of the tover Of a
southern confederacy there was great
confusion. At first it was confined to
localities, here and there, but it became
more intense when Grant took Nicks-
burg, when Sherman cut his way from
Atlanta to Georgia, when Petersburg
surrenderhd and when Richmond fell.
Oh . it was intense when the chief
spirit of the confederacy tried to con-
ceal himself In female attire and HE
away, to be lost to sight torerer, if
possible.
There has been confusion at the
building Of the Tammany toner, at
the building of the Erie r. r. tower.
There has been confusion, and confusion
has resulted in downfall and calumny
the world over.
31r. We are taught the lesson Of
dispersion If we gather, which | be-
lieve to be right in certain sense, it
must be, not as an end, but as means
gather that we may scatter abroad
There is that scattereth yet increas-
eth" God has been teaching humani-
ty lesson for ages. lie gamers for
diffusion The forest is a collection to
be sure, but for the purpose of being
scattered into the construction Of
houses, churches, bridges, cars, ships
aud ten thousand other forms to do hu-
manity good. Mineral wealth is found
in large collections and deposits, that
it may be the more available to man.
God has been doing what man would
not do, ut2. : collecting the wealth,
and then SAYS take this and scatter it :;
make the millions Of people glad, bridge
the oceans, tunnel the mountain,
stretch the highway across the plains,
enrich the homes, make glad all hearts,
in all lands.
God gathers from a thousand oceans,
lakes, rivers, brooks and riyulets into
the great cloud i,s-thosc grand
distilleries from whence come the pre-
cio;ts dews, the refreshing showers.
4th. 1t teaches the absurdity Of
attempting to save ourselves by our
devices. The children of Shinar, in
their blindness and folly, supposed
they could buill a torer-a great hiyh-
uay. from earth to heaven, and ask no
odds of God, of Christ or any Of hca
vens fraternity. Futh error,-repeat-
ed in these days, by men who suppose
that their own morality is going to save
them, by their own good works reach
heayen-it is written There is no other
name given under heaven, among men,
whereby we can be saved except
Christi Babel's lofty tower will not,
can not do it. Hear what the Saviour
saith, We children of men "whosoeyer
climbeth up any other way, the same
is thief and robbcr.
God confused the children of Shinar.
So shall every one be confused, sooner
or later, who rejects him that is sent
our rock, our fortress, our high tower
our only way of Salvation.
ia The corner in Northwestern
railroad stocks, of which we made men
tion last week, resulted in loss to
Daniel Drew, our favorite Methodist
brother. of nearly two millions of dol
lars. We lift our warning cry to
Brother DAM j. What would the New
Yrok .Uethodast do without him? and
what would we do without the New
Y ork Methodist We believe he has
some thirty millions left; but these
two million sweepstakes are liable to
r,cx,l Tho of tha min and