Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-27
Invisible Scales.

Invisible ScaleS
The wish of this sermon is to empha-
size the invisible, to show that there
are other balances besides those made
of brass and platinum and aluminium
and set in earthly stOrehOuseS; that the
spirit is the most important part of us;
that the scales which weigh your body
are not as important as the scales
which weigh your soul Depend not
too much for happiness upon the visi-
BILE. Pyrrhus was king and had large
dominion, but was determined to make
war against the Romans, and Cineas,
the friend of the king, said to him,
'Sir, when you have conquered them
what will you do neXt?' ''Then Sicily
is near at hand and easy to master"
'And what when you have conquered
Sicily?" Then we will pass over to
Africa and take Carthage, which cam
not long withstand u.s." when these
are conquered, what will you next at
tempt?' 'Then we will fall in upon
Greece and Macedonia and recover
what we have lost there" "Well, when
all are subdued what fruit do you eX-
pect from all your victOries?" Then"
said the king I'VE will sit down and
enjoy ourselves" Sir" said Cineas,
"may we not do it now? Have you not
already a kingdom of your own? And
he that cannot enjoy himself with
kingdom cannot with the whole world"
1 say to you who love the Lord the
kingdom is within you. Make more of
the invisible conquests; study peace
which the world has no bushel to meas
ure, no steelyards to weigh. AS far as
possible we should make our balances
like to the divine balances.
Regeneration.
What q world this will be when it is
weighed after it's regeneration shall
have taken place! Scientists now guess
at the number of tons our world
weighs, and they put the Apennines
and the Sierra Nevadas and Chimbo-
razo and the Himalayas in the scales,
but if weighed as to its morals at the
present time in the royal balance the
heaviest things would be the wars, the
international hatreds, the crimes noun
tain high, the moral disasters that stag
ger the hemispheres on their way
through immensely. But when the Cos
pei has gardenized the earth, as it will
get gsrdenize it, and the atmosphere
shall be universal balm, and the soil
shall produce universal harvest and
fruitago, and the last cavalry horse
shall be Bnsaddled, and the last gun
carriage unwheeled, and the last for
tress turned into a museum to show
nations in peace what a horrid thing
war once was, then the world will be
weighed, and as the opposite side of
the scales lifts as though it was light
as a feather the right side of the scales
will come down, weighing more than
all else, those tremendous values that
st. Peter enumerated - faith, virtue,
knowledge, temperance, patience, god
illness, brotherly kindness. charity.
God forbid that it should ever be
written concerning us as individuals or
communities or nations, as it was writ
ten on the wall of Belshazzar's ban
quoting hall the hour when Daniel i'm
peached the monarch and translated
the fiery words which blanched the
cheeks of the jewellers and made them
drop their chalices trimming with
wine, "Thou art weighed in the bal
anceS and found wanting"
Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. VI