The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-04-21
BROKEN PROMISES.
Brotherly Love the Basis Of all Our
Actions.
vox PoPuL1, vox DEL.
copyrighted by Dave & Tabor
BY "NEMo."


fcient to crush leviathan ships, are
turned into harmless ripples by the
sands; they have to break before the
force of little grains cllnglng close to-
gether.
The proud spirit OF man Wanting It.
self to be something great, Is brought
to the dust by invisible creatures that
permeate the system and gradually
weaken the forces preparatory to the
one great universal humbling.
The unrlghteous nation whose guide
is passion, and whose god is gold, whose
spirit setteth Itself like a flint against
mercy and tenderness, has its day. Its
own wllfuIness prepares the way Tor Its
destruction. The small within 1t are
used to confound the mighty.
~
To the sea, to the man, to the nation
goes forth the fiat "Thus far shalt thou
20 and no farther"
~
Thunder is not the voice OF God,
neither is clamor the people. His IS
the still small voice-inaudible to the
world-that holds the planets In their
silent orbits, and the seasons to their
recurrence, that gives the dry-land Its
bounds, and to lives their sphere. The
marshaled hosts of the night skies, and
the dumb ache of the trial-perfected
soul both unite to give tone to his
volce-The voice Of the nation Is heard
in the majestic quiet, which, after much
trial from evil, speaks IN acts that break
down resistance, or 1t may even be heard
in the silent sufferelng that seems to
pass unnoticed, save Tor the attentive
car of the one to- whom the fall Of a
snarrow is known. But, sooner or later,
the silence of effort or suffering becomes
a noise of victory-the oppression ceases
and the voice of the people mingies with
the voice OF God.
Let us apply the thought. Naughty
Spain IS tottering to national doom. l
} has ever oppressed without wisdom, ane
slain without reason. Its hands have
been imbrued in the blood OF its lines
children, from tie persecution OF tne
saints to the expelling OF the Moors
from the confiscation of Jewish prop
erty to the gathering OF wretched gu
hans to starye. The dumb tongue
have been gathering volume all thes'
q ages thew have cried out for vengeance
). and thew have been heard. The brut
IS ality to the helpless and harmless Is tn
last drop in the brimming cup OF wratf
The small and the oppressed are th
i chosen instruments Of punishment ; 10
! if is these non-combatants who hav
IS aroused the thinking world, and
"a mighty nelghbor. 1t is their teeo
pipings, and the stern voice OF thos
who would die for them that shout
y last to proud CASTLE "Thus far and
Dr. farther !"
~ The great deeds of the past in whlt
~ We profess to trace Gods hand and
terference in the affairs OF men, ha
ever been wrouht by mems han(
1o Miracles and men work together. L
he vine influence comes through hum'
mediums, and thus now as we-a n
tion that hath itself been brought
~. through great tribulation-are spen
ing our best, our blood, If need be OF
=, selves for those too srnken to KIN
,,v scarcely what is being wrought i
be them-we, I say, are where the grt
,lv unselfish ones have stood before
or Our deeds and our affections go out
,ch the needy and oppressed, and we
,o, nationally raised thereby. Every de
ept done to bless the unblessed, or to s.
ad- the lost, is an uplift to anatlon tt
the has been too material, and that n
e.; sees clearly that there be things M
mel nrecious than gold, and that ont
$50 them is "Services to the Weak"
***
The great parable OF brotherly
shows us that the neighbor OF the na'
east that fell among thieves does not es
has lisn its neighborliness by being rich
ana by being on the other side OF mar
the the highway, but by tenderly lifting
Q a the wounded, and by fearlessly dri'
con- of the prosecutors. Our attituo'
arrh the attitude of the Good Samarl
Ie. Isaas Our justification Tor interfering
the those who are not blood OF our bi
wing nor flesh of our flesh is simply his
, the if;cation-"I saw need and met
40 I saw suffering and bent to rellev
that saw evil treatment and unolo
r any work of the thieves" And the n
r list ing after the relief he went on his
So shall we. We have neither par
o'' rorcel in Cnba when the deed OF n