St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-10-20

America the razor with which
shaved arrogant. oppressive and Bible
hating Spain. But nations are to re-
pent in q day. May speedy and
worldwide coming to God hinder on
both sides the sea all national calam-
ity. But do not let Us a. nation
either by unrighteous law at Wash
ington or bad lives among ourselves
defy the Almighty.
One would think that our national
symbol of the eagle might sometimes
suggest another eagle-that which an
cient Rome carried. In the talons OF
that eagle were clutched at one time
Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Dalma-
tia, Rhaetia, Noricum. Pannonia, Moe
sia, Dacia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece.
Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenicia. Pales-
tine, Egypt and all northern Africa
and all the islands of the Mediterra-
nean-indeed, all the world that was
worth having, a hundred and twenty
millions of people under the wings OF
that one eagle. Where is she now?
Ask Gibbon, the historian. in his prose
poem, "The Decline and Fall OF the
Roman Empire" Ask her gigantic
ruins, bemoaning their sadness
through the ages, the screech owl at
windows out of which worldwide con-
querors looked. Ask the day of judg-
ment, when her crowned debauchees,
Commodus and Pertinax and Caligula
and Diocletian, shall answer for their
infamy. AS men and as nations let
us repent and have our trust in .
pardoning God rather than depend on
former successes for immunity! Out
of 13 of the greatest battles OF the
world Napoleon had lost but one be-
fore Waterloo. Pride and destruction
often ride in the same saddle.
But notice once more. and more than
all. in nv text, that God is so kind and
loving that when it is necessary for
Him to cut He has to 60 to others for
the sharp-edged weapon. "1n the same
dav shall the Lord shave with razor
that is hired" God is love. God il
pity. God is help. God is shelter.
God is rescue. There are no sharp
edges about Him. no thrusting points,
no instruments of laceration. II you
want balm for wounds, He has that.
If you want Divine salve for eyesight,
He has that. But if there is sharp
and cutting work to do. which re-
quires a razor, that He hires. God
has nothing about Him that hurts,
save when dire necessity demands, and
then He has to 60 clear of to some
one else to get the instrument. This
Divine clemency will be no novelty to
those who have pondered the Cal.
varean massacre, where God sub
merged Himself in human tears and
crimsoned Himself from panctured ar
teries and let the terrestrial and in
fernal worlds maui Him until the chan
deliers of the sky had to be turned
out, because the universe could not en-
dure the outrage. nlustrious for love
he must have been to take all that as
our substitute, paying out Of His own
heart the price of our admission At
the gates of Heaven.
King Henry III. of England crowned
his SON as king and on the day of coro-
nation put on a servants garb and watt
ed, he. the king, at the sons table, to
the astonishment Of all the princes.
But we know Of more wondrous
scene-the King Of Heaven and earth
offering TO put on you. His child. the
crown of life and in the form of a serv-
ant waiting on you with blessing.
Extol that love, all painting. all sculp-
ture, all music. all architecture, all
worship! In Dresdenian gallery let
Raphael hold Him up as child. and in
Antwerp cathedral let Rubens hand
Him down from the cross as mar
tyr, and Handel make all his oratorios
vibrate around that one chord: "He
was wounded for our transgressions,
bruised for our iniquities." But not
until all the redeemed get home, and
from the countenances in all the gal
leries of the ransomed shall be re-
yealed the wonders of redemption,
shall either man or seraph or arch.
angel know the height and depth and
length and breadth Of the love OF
God.
At our national capital monument
in honor of him who did more than any.
one to achieve our American independ-
ence was for scores of years in build
ing. and most Of us were discouraged
and said it never would be completed.
And how glad we all were when in the
presence of the highest officials of the
nation the work was done! But will
the monument to Him who died for the
eternal liberation of the human race
ever be completed? For ages the work
has been going up. Evangelists and
apostles and martyrs have been add
ing to the heavenly pile, and every
one of the millions Of redeemed going
up from earth has made to it contribu-
ton of gladness, and weight of glory
is swung to the top of other weight Of
glory. higher and higher rs the centu-
ries go by, higher and higher as the
whole millenniums roll. sapphire on
the top of jasper, sardonyx on the
top of chalcedony and chrysoprasus
above topaz. until far beneath shall
be the walls and towers and domes of
our earthly capitol. a monument for
ever and forever rising and yet never
done, unto Him who hath loved us
and washes us from our sins in His
blood and made us kings and priests
forever" Alleluia, amen.
Lisst's Narrow Escape.
LISTS love-letters to Princess Caro-
lyme Wittgenstein, recently published,
deal with the narrow escape which
List had of marrying the lady. The
princess imagined that she had per-
suaded the pope to sanction her di-
vorce from the prince, and actually