The Delta independent., 1901-05-31

ten in Greek. but both Hebrew and
Greek translated into good English.
he reads Of great farmer like Amos,
= great mechanic like Aholiab. . great
lawyer like Moses. great soldier like
Joshua. q 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 ev-
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 il going to discipline him for
heroics magnificent. have no power
to prophesy that different experiences
OF his announcement 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 1nal victor. l do not know
the intermediate chapters Of the vol
ume Of that young mans life. but
know the first chapter and the last
chapter. The first chapter IL made Of
! high resolves in the strength OF God.
and the last chapter is filled with the
rewards OF q noble ambition. AZ 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 4 part will hear Of 1t In
various places and eulogixe his mem
ory. and God will say to the ascending
spirit. ITO him that overcometh will
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 enforcement there will be
heavenly acclamation, as in the royal
balances '.the Lord weigheth the
spirits.'
Other balances may lack precision
and fail In counterpoise. Scales are
affected by conditions Of atmosphere
and acid vapor. 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 I 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
~
of courage In Joshua during the pro-
longed daylight. and the spirit Of cru
city Of Je1ebel. and the spirit Of grief
In Jeremiah's lamentation. and the
spirit Of evangelism In Paul between
the road to Damascus. where he frst
saw the light. and the road to Ostia,
the place Of his beheadment. 10 weigh
ing still and never yet has varied from
the right one milligram. which 10 the
one six-thouaanth part OF a grain. Tbs.
only perfect Standard OF weights and
measures ever established was estab-
lished in the heavens before the world
was made and will continue to do its
work after the world IL 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 D,vi.e &~aaes.
In the same divine scales the spirit
of nations and civilizations is weighed.
Egyptian civilization did Its work, but
II was cruel and superstitious and
idolatrous and defiant OF the Al
mighty. II was cast out and cast
down. The tourist finds his chief in
terest not in the generation that now
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
Karnak. the museum containing the
mummined forms of the pharaohs. II
is not the Egypt of today that we 20
to see, but the Egypt Of many centuries
ago. Her spirit has departed. Her
doom was sealed. The Lord weighed.
her spirit.
Now cross over the Dardanelles or
Hellespont and see Grecian civilixa-
tion put in the royal balances. Surely
that is an imperishable spirit. A land
that produced Pindar and = Homer
in poetry. q Sophocles and an Aeschy-
ius IN tragedy. Herodotus and Thu
cydides in history. Socrates and
Plato in philosophy. a Strabo in Eeog-
raphy. Hippocrates in medicine. a
xenophon in literature. q Plutarch In
biography. q Miltiades and an Alexan-
der In battle and could build tenn
pie Of Dianna at Ephesus and the
aero Corinthus at Corinth and could