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

know will be recognized and rewarded
for all time and all eternity The
earthly weighman counterpoises on
metallic balances the iron, the coal,
the articles of human food the solids
of earthly merchandise, but he cannot
test or announce the amount of things
spiritual. Here is something which
the Attic and Babylonian weighing
systems of the past and the metric
weighing system of the present can
not manage. "The Lord weigheth the
spirits
Gods Discipline.
But look into the dream of that
schoolboy who, without saying any
thing about it, is planning his life
time career. From an old book part
ly written in Hebrew and partly writ
ten 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. great CLEAN
like Ruth, a great physician like
Luke. great preacher like Paul,
great Christ like no one on earth or
in heaven because the superior of all
beings terrestrial or celestial. He has
learned by heart the Ten Command
ments and the sermon on the mount
and has splendid theories about
erything. 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. l have no power
! to prophesy that different experiences
of his encouragement and disappoint-
| ment, of his struggle or his triumph.
but as sure as God lives to make his
his word come true that boy who will
| sleep tonight nine hours without wax
| ing will be final victor. l do not know
i the intermediate chapters of the vol
ume of that young mans life, but |
know the first chapter and the last
chapter. The first chapter is made of
| high resolves in the strength of God.
and the last chapter is filled with the
rewards of a noble ambition. AS his
obsequies pass out to the cemetery the
poor will weep because they will lose
their best friend. Many in whose
temporal welfare and eternal saliva
ton he bore a part will hear of it in
various places and eulogize his mem
spirit, ITO him that overcometh will
I give to eat of the tree of life which
is in the midst of the paradise of
| God" In the hour of that souls re-
lease and enthronement there will be
| heavenly acclamation. as in the royal
balances 'tthe 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 in
| variable standard, perfection has new
er yet been reached. and never will be
/ reached. But the royal balances of
| which | 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 assassination, and the spirit
/ of courage in Joshua during the pro-
! longed daylight. and the spirit of cru
city of Jezebe1 and the spirit of grief
! in Jeremiah's lamentation. 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 weigh
/ ing still and never yet has varied from
/ the right one milligram. which is the
one six-thousanth part of grain. The
only perfect standard of weights and
measures ever tablished was estab-
/ lished in the heavens before the world
/ was made and will continue to do its
work after the world is burned up
| To measure the time we have calen-
| dars. To measure the lighting we have
| the electrometers. To measure the
heat we have the Thermometers. To
masure the atmospheric pressure we
! have the barometers. To measure
souls we have the royal balance The
Lord weigheth the spirits
! weighed in Divine Scales
In the same divine scales the spirit
| of nations and civilizations is weighed
Egyptian civilization did its work, but
/ it was cruel and superstitioIs and
] idolatrous and defiant of the AL
mighty 1t was cast out and cast
| down. The tourist finds his chief in
i terest not in the generation that Dow
/ inhabits the regions watered by the
Nile and sprinkled by her cascades,
but in the temples that are the skele-
tons of ancient pride and pomp and
power-her obelisks. her catacombs
/ her mosques, the colossus of Rameses
| the dead cities of Memphis and
! Thebes the temples of Luxor and
! fha rnnrorp, -,