Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-06-05

the Canaries, of the Ladrones, of the
Carolines. of the Fijis, of the Barba-
does, of the Cape Verdes, of the Society
islands, as I have in the salvation Of
America.
The continents themselves are only
larger islands, and the world in which
we live is only still larger island, and
the solar system is group of islands,
and the universe is an archipelago stud
ded with islands of worlds, surrounded
by the great ocean of infnitude and
immensely. So you see when God plan
ned the universe he diagrammed it into
islands, and he will look after the in
terest of each of those islands, however
small, and England and Holland and
France and Germany and America
must not treat the smallest and weak
est island that comes under their sway
any different from the way they treat
the strongest nation of all the earth.
God may chiefly deal with individuals
in the next world, but he deals with
nations only in this world, and when
persistently nation practices injustice
against other people it is only a ques
tion of time when the offender will find
his doom. The path of time is strewn
with the carcasses of nations that be-
cause Of their maltreatment of other
nations persisted. The higher such
offending empires rise. the harder will
be their fall
Perpetuity of Our Government.
believe the United States govern
ment will last as long as the world lasts.
I believe the fires of the Judgment day
will leap on the domes of our state and
national capitals while yet they are in
their full power. I believe the last
earthquake will put it's explosion under
our national foundations while yet they
stand firm. / believe that Republican
and Democratic form of government
will be the universal form Of govern
ment for all nations when they have
been evangelical, for then the nations
will be capable of self government and
will have demanded and secured that
right. It will be either that or a the
ocracy, which will be the direct govern
ment of Christ in his personal reign on
earth, as many Bible students believe.
Yet that jubilant expectation is found
ed not on the skill of human statesman
the belief that this nation will submit
to divine guidance and obey the divine
law and carry out its divinely imposed
mission. But if we defy the God of ma
tions our doom is fixed.
1t required the pen of an Edward
Gibbon, through four great volumes of
more than 500 pages each, to tell the
story of ''The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, !" concluding his monu-
mental work with the words, cit was
among the ruins of the capital that 1
first conceived the idea of work which
has amused and exercised near 20 years
Of my life, and which, however made
quate to my own wishes, l finally de-
liver to the curiosity and candor of the
public. What, the Roman empire
dead Did she lack warriors? No Be
hold her Pompey and her julius Caesar.
Did she lack lawmakers and Iawgivers?
No. Think of the masters of Roman
jurisprudence, our American attorneys
today quoting those laws in our court
rooms more than 10 centuries after
they were enacted. In poetry did she
not have her Virgil and Ovid? In his
tory did she not have her Sallust and
her Livy? In eloquence did she not
have her Scipio and Cicero? In satire
did she not have Juvenal and a Hor-
ace? What pens were welded by her
Cato and her Terence and her Pliny
All nations heard the cry of her war
eagles, the voices of her oratory and the
chime of her cantos. But the day of
Judgment came for that nation, and
Hannibal crossed the Apennines, and
the Cloths and Vandals swooped, and
the Carthaginian fleet assaulted and
Numidian horsemen galloped, and ma
tions combined, and Rome sank The
tourist now on the banks of the Tiber
sees the ruins of her forum, the ruins
of her coliseum, the ruins of her art,
the ruins CT her aqueducts, the ruins
of her catacombs, the ruins of her pal
aces.
If our nation forgets its duty to other
nations and practices injustice against
other people, however insignificant, it
will net take another Edward Gibbon
30 years and through four great vol
umes to tell the story of the decline and
fall of American institutions. By so
much as our opportunities have been
greater Inau any udt1OH lHdt over ANeuj
and the mission to which she has been
ordained is more stupendous than any
bestowed by the Almighty upon any
people, if we forget our God and enact
wickedness our overthrow will be quick
er and more tremendous, and yonder
hill, with it's architectural
will become a heap of
gigantic ruins, to be visited by the peo-
pie of other times and other nations,
who will read in letters of crushed and
crumbled marble that which David
wrote many hundred years ago upon
parchment, "The way of the wicked he
9th inside down -