Milford chronicle., 1901-05-31

But look into the dream Of that school
boy who, without saying anything about
it, is planning his lifetime career. From
an old book partly written in Hebrew
and partly written in Greek, but both
Hebrew and Greek translated into good
English. he reads of a great farmer like
Amos, a great mechanic like Aholiab. a
great lawyer like Moses, a great soldier
like Joshua. a great king like Hezekiah,
a great poet like David. a great cleaner
like Ruth, a great physician like Luke,
a great preacher like Paul. great Christ
like no one on earth or in heaven because
the superior of all beings terrestrial OF
celestial He has learned by heart the
Ten Commandments and the sermon on
the mount and has splendid theories
about everything. Between that fair
haired boy and the achievement Of what
he wants and expects there are obstacles
and hindrances known only to the God
who is going to discipline him for heroics
magnificent. have no power to prophe-
sy that different experiences Of his en-
enlargement and disappointment, of his
struggle Or his triumph, but as sure as
God lives to make his word come true
that boy who will sleep tonight nine
hours without waking will be final victor.
/ do not know the intermediate chapters
Of the volume of that young mans life,
but know the first chapter and the last
chapter. The first chapter is made of
high resolve in the strength of God, and
the last chapter is filed with the rewards
of a noble ambition. As his obseduies
pass out to the cemetery the poor will
weep because they will lose their best
friend. Many in whose temporal welfare
and eternal salvation he bore a part will
hear of it in various places and eulogizc
his memory, and God will say to the as
cending spirit, ITO him that oyercometh
will give to eat of the tree of life which
is in the midst of the paradise of God"
In the hour of that souls release and en-
thronement there will be heavenly accla-
nation, as in the royal balances 1.-The
Lord weigheth the spirits"
Other balances may lack precision and
fail in counterpOise. Scales are affected
| by conditions of atmosphere and acid
vapOrs. After all that the nations have
done to establish an invariable standard,
perfection has never yet been reached,
and never will be reached. But the royal
balances of which l speak are the same
in heat and cold, in all weathers, in all
lands and in all the heavens-just and
true to the last point of justice and truth.
The same balance that weighed the
tempted spirit of Adam under the fruit
tree, and the spirit of Cain in the first as
sassination, and the spirit of courage in
Joshua during the prolonged daylight,
and the spirit of cruelty in Jezebel, and
the spirit of grief in Jeremiah's lamenta-
ton, and the spirit of evangelism in
Paul between the road to Damascus,
where he first saw the light, and the road
to Ostia, the place of his beheadment, is
weighing still and never yet has varied
from the right one milligram, which is
the one-siX-thOusandth part Of a grain
The only perfect standard of weights anC
measures ever established was established
in the heavens before the world was
made and will continue to do its worI
: after the world is burned up. To meas
! ure the time we have calendars. X
measure the lightning we have the cleo
trOmeters. To measure the heat we hav,
the thermometers. To measure the at
: mospheric pressure we have the baron
l eters. To measure souls we have tn
royal balances. ''The Lord weigheth tn
4 spirits"
T Weighed In Divine Scales.
I In the same divine scales the spirit O
G nations and civilizations is weighed
It Egyptian civilization did its work, but /
o was cruel and superstitious and idolatrou
# and defiant of the Almighty. 1t was cas-
d out and cast down. The tourist finds hi
p chief interest not in the generation tina
IT now inhabits the regions watered by tn
% Nile and sprinkled by her cascades, bu
IT in the temples that are the skeletons G
II ancient pride and pOmp and power-he
81 obelsks, her catacombs, her mosques, til
le colossus Of Rameses. the dead cities q
p Memphis and Thebes, the temples q
:. Luxor and Karnak. the museum contain