The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-05-31

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haps for all Asia and for much Oh
Europe, a living civilization. But ior
her arrogance she was cast out ana
cast down. The Lord weighed hef
spirit.
The Weighing OF Nations
And so the spirit of our American
nation is put into the royal balance,
and 1t 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,
mountainful of this metal and anoth-
er mountainful of another metal. That
is well. 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 well
there is divine Weighing in this
country all the time going on, and |
can tell you our country's destiny IL
you will tell me whether 1t 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 or
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 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 aud
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
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-
uuered 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" ! 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
1885, 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,
sends to us all and to all people a
copy of that standard-the standard
by which 1.-The Lord weigheth the
spirits"
What a 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,
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