The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1899-11-22


Of dead tnations. Not one altar to the
true God did she roar. Not one Of the
Ten Commandments but she conspiou-
ously violated Her doom was settled
in heaven whch 1t was decided far back
in the eternitios that the nation and
kingdom that will not servo God shall
perish.
Walk on in tho cometory OF nations
and see the long lines of tombs -Thebes
and I'yro AMI Egypt and Babylon auG
Medo. Persian anG Macedonian and Ro-
man and Saxon hcptarchy, great ma
tions, small nations, nations that lived
year and nations that livod 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by tho
samo moral laws by which all othor ma
tions have been Judged The judgment
day for individuals will probably como
far on in the future. Judgment day
nations is every day, every day weighed,
every day approved or every day con
dcmned. Never before in the history
Of this country hns tho American nation
been more surely in tho balance than
it is this minute. Do right, and wo go
up. Do wrong, and we so down. |
am not so anxious to know what this
! statesman or that warrior thinks we had
bottcr do with Cuba and Porto Kico
and the Philippines as | am anxious to
know what God thinks wo had bettor
do. The destiny Of this nation will
not bo decided on yondcr napitoline
hill or at Manila or at the pres dental
ballot box, for it will be settled in
heaven.
Another thing decided in tho same
high place is that happiness is the 70.
suit, Of spiritual condition and not of
earthly environment. If wc who may
sometimes have thousand dollars to
invest find it such IL pcrplcxity to know
what to do with it and soon after find
that vic invested it where principal and
interest havo gone down through
roguery or panic, what must tho worri
mort Of thoso having millions to invest
ar1 whose losses correspond in magni-
fade with their rcsourccsl People
who have their threc or four dol
| lars day wages are just as happy
as those who have an income Of
So, 600 a year Sometimes happiness is
misery on tho throne. All the gold Of
earth in one chunk cannot purchase five
minutes Of complete satisfaction.
Worldly success is an atmosphere that
breeds the maggots Of envy and jcal
ousy and hate. There arc those who
will never forgive you if you have moro
cmolumcnts or honor or case than they
have. TO take you down is the domi-
nant wish Of most Of those who arc not
as high as you arc. They will spend
hours and days and years to cntrap you
They Will hover around newspaper Off i
ccs to get one mean line printed de-
prccating you. Your heaven is their
hell.
Oh, that day Of the world 8 pcrfeo-
ton The earth will be so changed
that the sermonology will be changed.
There will be no moro calls to repent
ancc, for all will have lcpcntcd; no
moro gathering Of aims for the poor,
for the poor will have been enriched ;
no hospital Sunday, for disjointcd bones
will have been set and tho wounds all
healed, and the incurablo diseases Of
other times will have been overcome by
a matcrla mcdica and pharmacy and
a dentistry and therapeutics that havc
conquered everything that afflicted
nr.;c or lung or tooth or eye or limb
neallhology complete and universal.
Tho poulticc and the ointment and the
panacca and the catholicon and tho sur
gcon's knife and the dentists forcops
and tho scientists X ray will have full
filed their mission. The social life Of
the world will bo4 perfected. \ Tn that
millcnnial age I imagine ourselves
standing in front Of house lighted for
lcvcc. Wo enter among groups filled
with gladncss and talking good sense
and Tallying each other in plcasantries
and in every possible way forwarding
good ncighborhood; no looking askancc,
no whispered backbitings, no strut Of
prctcnsion, no oblivion of some one S
presence because you do not want to
know him; each ono happy, determined
on making some one else happy; words
Of honest appreciation instead OF hol-
lew ilattery; suavities and genialities
instead of mutations and composites
equipage and upholstery and sculpture
and painting paid for; two hours Of
mental and moral improvement; all the
guests able I, walk rs steadily down
tho steps OF that mansion rs when they
asccnded them; no awaking next morn
ing with aching head and bloodshot eye
and incompetent for the days duties;
the social life as perfect as refinement
and common sense and culture and
prosperity and religion can make it; the
earth made better than it was at the
start, and all through gospclizing in
iluonccs, directly or Indirectly.
suppose tho greatest tidal wavo
that ever rolled the seas was that which
in 1868 was started by the Peruvian
earthquake. At africa, Peru, the rave
was 80 feet high and swung wal :
ships a mile forward on the land. At
San Pedro, CAL, the wave vas 60 feet
| high. 1t moved on to the Sandwich
Islands and submerged somo Of them
and beat against the shores Of New
Zealand and rolled up tho beach Of ia
pan and stopped not until it had cncir-
cled the entire globe. Oh, what a
wave! But tho earthquake that shook
tho mountain where our Lord died
started higher and swifter and
mighticr tidal wave that will roll round
and round The earth until all it's rebel
lions and denominations have gono un-
der.
That was an exciting scene after tho
battle Of Bosworth which was fought
between Richard III and the Earl of
Richmond, the king falling and the
carl, triumphing, when Lord Stanley
brought tho crown and handed it to tho
carl, seated on horseback. while the dy-