Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-08

lus in tragedy. a Herodotus and Thu
cydides in history, Socrates and
Plato in philosophy, Strabo in geog-
raphy, Hippocrates in medicine, a
Xenophon in literature, a Plutarch in
biography, Miltiades and an Alexan-
der in battle and could build tenn
pie of Dianna at Ephesus and the
acro-Corinthus at Corinth and could
crown the Acropolis with a Parthenon
surely such land with more genius
compressed in small space than in any
of the nations of all the ages. will
stand forever triumphant among sur
rounding nations. No. Her pride of
heroics. her pride of literature. her
pride of architecture, must be brought
down lower and lower, and humilia-
ton must follow humiliation until in
the latter part of the nineteenth cen
tury she is compelled to submit to the
outrages of a sultan whose hands are
red with the blood of $4,000 Arme-
mans. Had Athens prayerfully listened
to Paul's sermon on Mars hill and
adopted his precepts of brotherhood
and divine worship she would have
stood in her old power today, and all
Greece would have stood with her,
and that civilization so long dead un-
der the carved pillars of her shrines
and under the marble of her pentel-
lean mountains would have been. per-
haps for all Asia and for much of
Europe a living civilization But for
her arrogance she was cast out and
cast down. The Lord weighed her
spirit
The Weighing of Nations.
NJ co he ir-i4 ,f A ,-i1,r
nation is put into the royal balance,
and it will be weighed as certainly as
all the nations of the past were
weighed and as all the nations of the
present are being weighed. When we
go to estimate the wealth of this ma
ton, we weigh its gold and silver and
coal and iron and copper and lead,
and all the steel yards and all the bal
ances are kept busy. So many tons of
this and so many tons of that, a
mountainful of this metal and anoth-
er mountainfu1 of another metal. That
is we'll. We want to know our mining
wealth, our manufacturing wealth,
our agricultural wealth, and the bush
ell measure and the scales have an i'm
| portant work. But know right we'll
there is a divine weighing in this
country all the time going on, and l
can tell you our country's destiny if
you will tell me whether it shall be
a God honoring nation, reverential to
/ the only book of his authorship, OBJ
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 GER
emony and in fact. blasphemy si-
| fenced in all the streets, high toned
systems of morals in all parts of our
! land, then our institutions will live
and all the wondrous prosperities of
the present are only a faint hint of
the greater prosperities to come.
| Keep the National Life Pure.
But if our character and behavior
as nation are reversed and good
morals give place to loose living and
I 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 rela-
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 next2" Then ST.
4 ely is near at hand and easy to mas
/ ter And what when you have con-
quered Sicily2" 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
/ well. 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 p
Sir said Cineas. may we not do it
/ now2 Have you not already a king
| dom of your own. and he that cannot
enjoy himself with a kingdom cannot
with the whole world. / say to you
who love the Lord. the kingdom is
within you. make more of the invisi-
BILE conuueSts- Study a peace which