Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-06-01

SplHs OA, ana can Tell you our CoHiI-
try's destiny If you will tell me whether
it shall be q God houoring nation, rever-
entail to the only book of his authorship.
observing the shalt nots" OF the law of
right given on Mcunt Sinai and the law
of love given on the Mount of Beuti.udes,
one day out Of the week observed not in
reyelry, but in holy convention. mar
riage honorcd in ceremony and in fact,
blasphemy silenced in all the streets high
toned systems Of morals in all parts Of
our land, then our institutions VIII live,
and all the wondrous properties Of the
present are only faint hint Of the great
or properties to come. Richer harvesis
will rustic in the fields. higher Style
of literature will turn its leaves in our,
libraries, nohler men will adOrr orr State
and national legislatures, and there viii
be Washingtons and Hamiltons and Pat
rick Henrys and John Marshalls and Abs
raham Lincolns in the future quite equal
10 those OF the past And the last day
of the worlds existence will find our.
free American institutions permanent as
the mountains before they begin to faif
and glorious as the seas before they be-
gin TO die.
Keep the National Life Pure.
But If our character and behavior as
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
he debauched and anarChism and atheism
have full sway and our American Sab
bath becomes "A Partisan Sabbath and I'M
famous laws get place on our statute
books ana the marriage relation becomes
a joke instead of II sanctity and the God
whom Columbus prayed 10 on the day of
his landing from stormy seas and whom
Ber{amn Franklin publicly reyereneed
when he moved amid derSive cries the
regular opening Of the American Com
gress with prayer shall in our national
future be insulted and hlasphem"d, then
it will not be long before we viii need.
another Edward Gihbon to write the de-
cline and fall Of the United States re-
public, and il VIII not lee another ease of
destruction by the Golhs and iluns and.
Tartars and Tamerlancs and Attjlas of
foreign opposition and hate, but il viii
be a case Of world astounding national
suicide.
The wish Of this sermon is 90 enpha-
size the invisihIe.-to show that there are
other balances besides those OF brass and
platinum and aluminium and set in earth
IT, storehouses; that the spirit is the most
important part Of MS; that the scales
which weigh your body are not us impor-
tant rs the scales which weigh your souls
Depend not too much for happiness upon
the visible. Pyrrhus was king and had
large dominion, but was determined TO
make war against the Romans. and Gin
cas-, the friend OF the king, said Ia him,
Sir, when YOU have conquered them.
what will You do nextT Then Sicily
is near ut hand and easy to master"
And what when you have conquered
Sicily Then we viii pass over to
Africa and take Carthage, which cannot
long withstand us" When these are
conquered, what will you next attemptE
Then we will fan upon Greece and
Macedonia and recover what we have lost
there" We'll, when all are suhdued,
what fruit do YOU expect from all your
victories z" Then" said the king. we
will sit down and enjoy ourselves. Sir,
said Cineas, MAY We not do il now!
Have YOU not already kingdom OF your
own, and he that cannot enjoy himself
with a kingdom caunot with The Whol"
world 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 bushcl 60 meas
IRE, no stcrlyardS to weigh. AZ far az
possible we should make our balances Ike
to the divine balances
The Uniform standard.
by joint resolution Of Congress in 1876,
the treasurer of the United States was
ordered to send complete set of the
standard weights aud measures adopted
by the national government to- the Gov
crnors Of all the States, so that there
might be uniformity and accuracy. and
that distribution was made. 50. now,
the Ruler of earth and heaven. having rs
tablshod forever the right standard,
sends TO Us all and 10 all people copy Of
that standard the standard 10y which
the Lord wcgheth the spirits
What world this viii 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 Apennlnes and the Sierra
Ncvadas and Chimborazo and the lima
layas in the scales. But If weighed rs to
it's morals ut the present time in the royal
balance the heaviest things would be the
wars. The international hatred>, the
crimes mountain high, the moral diSas-
tcrs that staggcr the hcmjspbore~ on their
way through immensely. But when the
gospel has enrdpnized the earth, as it will
yet gardonizc it, and the atmosphere
shall he universal balm and the soil viii
produce universal harvest ana fruitagc
and the last cavalry horse shall be- unsad-
died ana the last gun carrag" unwheel-
Cd and the last fortress turned into "a mn
scum to show nations in peace what IA
hnrrid thing war once was, then the
world will he weighed, and n the oppo-
site side Of the scales lifts rs though IL
was light rs feather the right side OF
the scales will come down, weighing moro
than all else those tremendous values
that St Peter cnumerated-faith, virtue.
knowledge temperance, patience, godli-
ness, hrotherly Kindness. charity.
God forbid that IL should ever be writ
ten concerning us as individuals or com
munitics or nations as it was written on