Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-11-16

All cxtinguishcd. Where are her swords?
The last one broken. Where are her tow
era and long range Of magnificent archi-
lecture? Buried under the sands of the
Bagradas. As ballast of foreign ships
much of her radiant marble has been car
tied away 20 build the walls of transmed-
itcrrancan cathcdrnls, 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
hat the tourist fnds today H. here and
there n broken arch of what was once \
20 mile aqucduct. Our talented and gen
nj friend. Henry NJ. Field. in one of his
matchlcss books of travel. labors hard 70
prove that the slight ruins Of that city
are really worth visiting. Carthage bur
led in the cemetery of dead nations. Not
one altar to the true God did she rear.
Not one of the Ten Commandments but
She conSpicuously violated. Her doom
was settled in heaven when it was dccid-
sd far back in the ctcrnities that the ma
ton and Kingdom that will not serve God
shall perish.
Tennis of Nations.
Walk on in the cemetery Of nations and
see the long lines Of tombs-ThchcS and
Tyre and Egypt and Babylon and Mcdo-
Persian and Macedonian and Roman and
Saxon hcptarchy, great nations, small ma
,ious, nations that lived "A year and ma
tons that lived 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by the
same moral laws by which all other ma
tious have been judged The judgment
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 CON
I dcmncl. Never before in the history OF
this country has the American nation
been more surely in the balances than it
is this minute. DO right. and we go up.
DO wrong, and we go down. | am not so
anxious to know what this statesman or
that warrior thinks we had better do
with Cuba and Porto Rico and the Phil.
ippincs as ! am anxious to know what
God thinks we had better do. The des-
tiny of this nation will not be decided on
yonder capitoline hill or at Manila or 0t
the presidential ballot box, for it will be
settled in heaven.
Another thing decided in the same high
place is that happiness is the result Of
spiritual condition and not of earthly en-.
vironment. IL We who may sometimes
have n thousand dollars to invest find il
such a serplexity to know what to dc
with it and soon after find that we in
vested it where principal and interest
have gone dowr through roguery or pan
ic, what must be the worrimcnt Of those
having millions to invest and whose losses
correspond in magnitude with their re-
sources. People who have their three
or four dollars n day wages are just as
happy as those who have an income OF
100000 a year. Sometimes happiness is
seated on q footStool and sometimes mis-.
cry on the throne. All the gold of earth
in one chunk cannot purchase five min
utes of complete satisfaction. Worldly
success is an atmosphere that breeds the
maggots OF envy and jealousy and hate
There are those who will never forgive
you if you have more emoluments or hon
or or ease than they have. To taxi yor
down is the dominant wish of most OF
those who are not rs high as you are
They will spend hours and days and year.
to entrap yor. They will hover arount
newspaper Offices to get one mean lin,
printed deprcciating you. Your HEAVIER
is their hell.