The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

serving the SHALT nots" Of the law Of
right given on Mount Sinai and the
law of love given on the Mount Of
Beatitudes, one day out of the week
observed not in revelry, but in holy
convocation. marriage honored in csr-
emony and in fact, blasphemy 81.
fenced in, all the streets. high tone6
systems of morals in all parts OF cur
land, then our institutions will fiva
and all the wondrous properties OF
the present are only faint hint u
the greater properties to come.
Keep the National Life Pur..
But if our character and behavior
as a nation are reversed and good
morals give place to loose living and
God is put away from our hearts and
our schools and our homes and our
people and OUR literature be de-
bauched and anarchism and atheism
have full sway and the marriage rcla-
ton becomes a joke instead of a
sanctity and the God whom Columbus
prayed to on the day Of his landing
from stormy seas and whom Benja-
min Franklin publicly reverenced
when he moved amid derisive cries
the regular opening of the American
congress with prayer shall in our ma
tional future be insulted and bias
phemed, then it will not be long be-
fore we will need another Edward
Gibbons to write the decline and fall
of the United States republic.
Pyrrhus was king and had large do
minion. 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 ST.
oily is near at hand and easy to mas.
ter" "And what when you have con-
quered sicily?" "Then we will pass
over to Africa and take Carthage.
which cannot long Withstand u.s."
when these are conquered, what will
you next attempt?" Then we will
fall in upon Greece and Macedonia
and recover what we have lost there
We'll, when all are subdued, what
fruit do you expect from all your
victories?" Then" said the king, 1--WE
will sit down and enjoy ourselves. I"
Sir" said Cineas, may we not do it
now? Have you not already king
dom of your own. and he that cannot
enjoy himself with kingdom cannot
with the whole world" say to you
who love the Lord, the kingdom is
within you; make more of the invisi-
BILE conquests. Study peace which
the world has no bushel to measure,
no steel-yards to weigh. AS far as
possible we should make our balances
like to the divine balances.
The Uniform STANDARD.
By joint resolution of congress, in
1886. the treasurer of the United
States was ordered to send complete
set of the standard weights and meas
ures adopted by the national govern
ment to the governors of all the
states, so that there might be uni
formity and accuracy, and that distri-
button was made. So, now, the Ruler
of the earth and heaven. having estab-
lished forever the right standard,
sends to us all and to all people a
copy of that standard-the standard
by which "the Lord weigheth the
spirits"
What world this will be when it
is weighed after its 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 Chimbor-
azo 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
mountain high, the moral disasters
that stagger the hemispheres on their
way through immensely. But when
the gospel has gardenized the earth,
as it will yet gardenize it, and the at
mnsphere shall be universal balm and
tie soil will produce universal harvest
and fruitage and the last cavalry
horse shall be unsaddled and the last
gun carriage unwheeled and the last
fortress turned into a museum to show
nations in peace what 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 feather the right side of the
scales will come down, weighing more
than all else those tremendous values
that St. Peter enumerated-faith, vir-
tue. knowledge, temperance, patience,
goodness, brotherly kindness. charity.
God forbid that it should ever be
written concerning us as individuals
or communities or nations as it was
written on the wall of Belshazzar's
banqueting hall the hour when Daniel
impeached the monarch and trans
lated the fiery words which blanched
the cheeks of the jewellers and made
them drop their chalices brimming
with wine, "Thou art weighed in the
balances and found wanting"
Skill In Throwing or Mall Bags.
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