St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-12-16
Ten Commandments but she conspicu-

kingdom that will not serve God shall
perish.
Walk on in the cemetery of nations
and see the long lines of tonsbs-Thebes
and Tyre and Egypt and Babylon and
Medo-Persian and Macedonian and Ro-
man and Saxon heptarchy, great ma
tons, sm1ll nations, nations that lived
q wear and nations that lived 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by the
same moral laws By which all other
nations have been judged. The judg-
ment day for individuals will probably
come far on in the future. Judgment
day for nations is every day, every day
weighed, every day approved or every
day condemned. Never before in the
history of this country has the Amer
lean nation been more surely in the
balances than it is this minute. Do
right, and we 20 up. Do wrong, and
we go down. l am not SO anxious tn
know what this statesman or that war
rior thinks We lad better do with Cuba
and Porto Rico and the Philippines aa
l am anxious to know what God thinks
we had better do. The destiny of this
nation will not he decided on yonder
capitoline hill or at Manila or at the
presidential ballot box, for it will be
settled in Heaven.
Another thing decided in the high
places of the universe is that this world.
with or without us, will be made over
into a scene of nrborescence and purity.
DO not think that such a consummation
depends upon our personal fidelity. 1t
will be done anyhow. Gods cause does
not go a-beggipg. If all the soldiers OF
Jesus Christ now living should become
deserters and 60 over to the enemy, that
would not defeat the cause. A large
part of the Bible is taken up with tell
ing us what the world will be. There is
large army, human and angelic, now
in the field, but Gods reserve forces are
more numerous and more mighty than
hose now at the front, and If He could
in Gideon's time rout the Midianites
with a crash of crockery, and if He
could in Shamgar's time overcome host
with an OK goad, and if in Samson's
time He could defeat an army with q
bleached jawbone, and if the walls OF
jericho went down under blast of
perforated rams horn, and if in Christ's
Gay blind eyes were cured by ONT
ment of Spite. then God can do any
thing He says He will do. AS yet He
has taken only one sword out Of a whole
armory of weapons. Do not get nervous,
as if the Lord were going to be defeat
ed. The redemption of these hem
ispheres was settled in Heaven, and
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Habakkuk and
Malachi and st. John only reported
what the Lord God Almighty had de-
cided upon. My only fear is that our
regiment will not get into the fight to
10 something worthy of the Christ who
redeemed us and we be left in lazy en-
| campment at Tampa when We ought
10 have been at Santiago.
Oh, that coming day of the worlds
perfection! The earth will be so
changed that the sermonology will be
changed. There will be no more calls
10 repentance, for all will have re-
pen;ed; no more gathering Of aims for
The poor, for the poor will have been
enriched; no hospital Sunday. for dis
..ointed bones will have been set and
| the wounds all healed. and the in
durable diseases of other times will
| have been overcome by materia med
lea and pharmacy and dentistry and
therapeutics that have conquered
everything that afflicted the nerve or
lung or tooth or eye or limb-health-
ology complete and universal. The poul-
tice and the ointment and the panacea
and the catholicon and the surgeons
knife and the dentists forceps and the
scientists X ray will havefulfilled their
mission. The social life Of the world
will be perfected. In that millennial age
I imagine ourselves standing in front
Of house lighted for levee. We enter
among groups filled with giadness and
talking good sense and faIlying each
other in pleasantries and gin every pos
sib;e way forwarding good neighbor-
hood; no looking askance, R0. whispered
backbitings, no strut Of pretension, no
oblivion Of some ones presence be-
cause you 60 not want to know him;
each one happy, determined on making
some one else happy; words of honest
appreciation insteadsof hollow flattery;
suavities and genialities instead Of in
flations and composites; equipage
and upholstery and sculpture and paint
ing paid for; two hours of mental and
moral improvement; all the guests able
to walk as steadily down the steps OF
that mansion as when they assembled
them; TO awakening next morning with
aching head and bloodshot eye and in
competent tor the days duties; the
social life as perfect as refinement and
common sense and culture and prosper
'ty and religion can make it; the earth
made better than it was at the start,
and all through gospelizing influences,
directly or indirectly.
Isuppose the greatest tidal wave that
ever rolled the seas was that which in
1868 was started by the Peruvian earth
quake. At Africa, Peru, the wave was
so feet high and swung warships mile
forward on the land. At San Pedro,
CAL, the wave was 60 feet high. 1t
moved on to the Sandwich islands and
submerged some of them and beat
against the shores of New Zealand and
rolled up the beach Of japan and
stopped not until it bad encircled the
entire globe. Oh, what wave! But
the earthquake that shook the noun
tain where our Lord died started a
higher and swifter and mightier tidal
wave that will roll round and round
the earth until all its rebellions and
denominations have gone under.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle of Bosworth, which was fought
between Richard III. and the earl of
Richmond, the king falling and the earl
triumphing. when Lord Stanley
brought the crown and handed it to the
earl, seated on horseback. while the
dying and the dead of the battle were
living all around. But it is more thrill
ing spectacle as we look forward
through the centuries and see the last
armed and imperial iniquity of the
world slain and the crown of universal
victory nut upon the conqueror on the