Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-22

tlO0s tQ0I WltA OF WItuOul u8 Suo :.
:. Oe made over into scene OF arborescence
and purity; that all who are adjoined to
the unparalleled One OF Bethlehem and
Nazareth and Golgotha will be the SUBJ
jects of q supernal felicity without any
taking of.
Do you doubt my first pro position-that
nations which go wrong perish? We have
In this American nation all the elements OF
permanence and destruction. We need not
borrow from others any trowels for up
building or torches for demolition. Ele-
ments Of ruin-nihilism, infidelity, agnostic-
ism, Sabbath dissertation, inebriety, sensu-
ality, extravaganza, fraud; they are all
here. Elements Of safety-God-worship
ing men and women by the scores oil
millions, honesty, benevolence, truthful
ness, self-sacriace, industry, sobriety and
more religion than has characterized any
nation that has ever existed; they ,are all
here. The only question Is as to which OF
the forces will gain dominancy-the one
class ascendant, and this United States
Government, think, will continue as long
a. the world exists; the other class as
cendant, and the United States goes into
such small pieces that other governments
would hardly think them worth picking up.
Have you ever noticed the size OF the
cemetery of dead nations, the vast Green
wood and Pere le Chaise, where mighty
Kingdoms were buried? Open the gate and
epitnphs. Here lies Carthage, born 100
years before Rome, great commercial
metropolis on the bay Of Tunis, a part Of
an empire that gave the alphabet to the
Greeks and their great language to the
Hebrews; her arms the terror of nations,
Commanding at one time 16, 900 miles Of
coast; her Hamilcar leading forth thirty
myriads, or 800, 900 troops; her Hannibal
carrying out in manhood the oath he had
taken In boyhood to preserve eternal en-
nifty to Rome, leaving costly and impos-
ing monuments at Agrigentum ghastly
heap Of ruins; Carthage, her colonies on
every coast, her ships plowing every sea;
Carthage-where are her splendors now?
All extinguislIed. Where are her swords?
The last one broken. Where are her towers
and long ranges Of magnificent archi-
lecture? Buried under the sands of the
Bagradas. As ballast Of foreign ships
much of her radiant marble has been car
ried away to build the walls OF transmedi-
terranean cathedrals, while other blocks
have been blasted In modern times by the
makers of the Tunis railway. And all Of
that great and mighty city and kingdom
that the tourist finds to-day is here and
there a broken arch of what was once o
fifty-'uile aqueduct.
Our talented and genial friend, Henry
NJ. Field, in one of his matchless books of
travel, labors hard to prove that the slight
ruins Of that city are really worth visiting.
Carthage buried In tho cemetery OF dead
nations. Not one altar to the true God
did she rear. Not one OF the Ten Com
mandments but she conspicuously vio-
lated. Her doom was settled in heaven
when 1t was decided far back in the eterni-
ties that the nation and kingdom that will
not serve God shall perish.
Walk on in the cemetery Of nations ana
see the long lines OF tombs-Thebes and
Tyre and Egypt and Babylon and Medo-
Persian and Macedonian and Roman and
Saxon heptarchy, great nations, small ma
tions, nations that lived a year and nations
that lived 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by the
same moral laws by which all other ma
tions have been judged. The judgment
day for individuals will probably come fa I
on In the future. Judgment day for ma
tions is every day. every day weighed,
every day approved or every day con.
demned. Never before in the history ol
this country has the American nation been
minute. Do right, and We go up. Dc
wrong, and we go down.
am not 40 anxious to know what this
statesman or that warrior thinks We had
better do with Cuba and Porto Rico and
the Philippines as am anxious to know
What God thinks we had better do. The
destiny OF. this nation will not be decided
on wonder capt. oline hill or at Manila OF
At the presidential ballot box, for 1t will be
settled in heaven.
Ano. her thing decided in the same high
,lace is that happiness Is the result OF spir-
itual condition and not OF earthly environ.
mont. II We Who may sometimes b ave q