Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-30

no compromise and hesitation.
While our nation lives these prin-
ciples. incorporates them into its
laws and institutions, builds them
into its code by which it governs
its international relations, makes
them part of its foreign policy, and
so far as it has in its power, insists
on other nations honoring them
and administering their affairs by
them, it will always win the day
and rule as a mighty influence
among all the nations of the world
and lift them up to the level of its
high civilization" We have proved
that this cannot be done by COM
prise, by a magnificent Indifference
or by cowardly neutrality, moth
ing secures and establishes per
manent helpful friendship among
the nations of the earth and en-.
thrones permanent peace but a
coming near to God and his prln
ciples. A nation in covenant with
God is what the world needs for
true peace. progress and the good
of all nations: When a nation is
such, then, like Israel of old it
blesses the whole earth. Let us
remember that national morality
and individual morality acts and
reacts on each other. National
morality, and what the nation does,
the Individual naturally feels he can
afford to initiate. National wrong
doing must cause irreparable injury
to private morals. We assent to
the truth that the balances of God
swing even at the last. We feel in
our deepest souls the truth of that
proverb, Though justice has feet
of wool and we can not hear her
tread, her hands are IRON" We
are sure that no nation, even
though it be Gods chosen one;
that even though it be the city of
His habitation, can persistently lay
grip to the wrong, without sooner
or later feeling the swing and blow
of the penalty which belongs to
wrong.
Another says. Roman power
which crushed the feeble resources
of Judea, as against might crush a
mosquito in his grasp, in its turn
became honeycombed with abomi-
nations and immoralities, and then
down from the frozen north came
the fierce Gothic tribe, swooping
over the Roman territory-one of
them calls himself a scourge of God
and he was right.
A government has no more right
to do a diabolical wrong, than an
individual has, and other govern
ments, as onlookers, have no right
to permit it to so do if in their
power, to dare to say mo" This
is the teaching of the grandest of
all OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
whose leadership civilization is
crossing over the line of progress
into the twentieth century.
Our God is marching Oh; work
ing out His glorious purpose in,
and through, the nations. God
reigns and reigns successfully.
Nations are great things to us,
but to Him they are only as the
fine dust that falls upon the balance
which the weigher easily blows off
before beginning to weigh" We
can see the evidences of this in the
rise and fall of the nations accord
to the principals upon which they
built. God is In history as in ma
ture, ruling by forces and opera
tons of great principles. Look!
and what do you see? God walking
among the nations, sending His
truth to the nations, vindicating
His principles and giving them
the final victory. We know there
are some who discredit Biblical
truths. Suppose" as Edward
Young suggests, Scripture said
six of Israers war ships smashed