Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-31

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
emory and In fact, blasphemy ST.
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 properties of
the present are only a faint hint Of
the greater properties to come.
Keep the National Life Pure.
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 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
t1onal 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"
"Well, when all are subdued. what
fruit do you expect 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 king
dom Of your own. and he that cannot
enjoy himself with a kingdom cannot
with the whole world" l say to you
who love the Lord. the kingdom is
within you; make more Of the invisi-
BILE conquests. Study a 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 a 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,
-
copy of that standard-the standard
by which "the Lord weigheth The
spirits"
What world this will be when 1t
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 il 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
mosphere shall be universal balm and !
the 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 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 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 trimming
with wine, "Thou art weighed in the
balances and found wanting"