Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-27
mechanic like Aho1iab, a great lawyer

! Ruth, great physician like Luke,
great preacher like Paul, great Christ
like no one on earth or in heaven, be-
cause the superior Of all beings ter
restrial or celestial He has learned by
heart the Ten Commandments and the
sermon on the mount and has splendid
! theories about everything. Between
that fair haired boy and the achieve
ment 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 the diff
ferent experiences of his encourage
ment and disappointment, of his strug-
| gle or his triumph, but as sure as God
| lives to make his word come true that
! boy, who will sleep tonight nine hours
without waking, will be final victor I
do not know the intermediate chapters
of the volume of that young mans life,
but 1 know the first chapter and the
last chapter. The first chapter is made
of high resolve in the strength of God,
and the last chapter is filed 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 tenn
poral welfare and eternal salvation he
bore a part will hear of it in various
places and eulogize his memory, and
God will say to the ascending 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 release and en-
thrOnement there will be heavenly ac-
clamation as in the royal balances
'@the Lord weigheth the spirits"
Other balances may lack precision
and fail in cOunterpoise. Scales are af-
fected by conditions of atmosphere and
acid vapors. After all that the nations
have done to establish an invariable
standard perfection has never yet been
reached and never will be reached.
But the royal balances of which l
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 spir-
it of Adam under the fruit tree, and
the spirit of Cain in the first assassina-
ton, and the spirit of courage in Josh
VA during the prolonged daylight, and
the spirit of cruelty in Jezebel, and the
spirit of grief in JeremiahS lamenta-
ton, 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 behead-
ment, is weighing still and never yet
has varied from the right one milli-
gram, which is the one SiX-thOuSandth
part of a grain. The only perfect
standard of weights and measures ever
established was established in the
heavens before the world was made
and will continue to do it's work after
the world is burned up. To measure
the time we have calendars. To meas
ure the lightning we have the electrom-
eters. To measure the atmospheric
pressure we have the barometers. To
measure souls we have the royal bal
ances. 'The Lord weigheth the spir-
it's"
Weighed by the Lord.
In the same divine scales the spirit
of nations and civilizations is weighed
Egyptian civilization did it's work, but
it was cruel and superstitious and idol
atrous and defiant of the Almighty. It |
was cast out and cast down. The tour
list finds his chief interest not in the
generation that now inhabits the re-
giOns Watered by the Nile and sprin-
killed. by her cascades, but in the tenn
pies that are the skeletons of ancient
pride and pomp and power-her ODE |
lisks, her catacombs, her mosques, the
colossus of RameseS, the dead cities of /
Memphis and Thebes, the temples of |
Luxor and Karnak the museum con-
tanning the mummifed forms of the |
pharaohs. 1t is not the Egypt of today |
that we go to see, but the Egypt OF /,
many centuries ago. Her spirit has de- !
parted. Her doom was sealed. The /
Lord weighed her spirit.
Now cross over the DardanelleS or |
Hellespont and see Grecian civilization |
put in the royal balances. Surely that |
is an imperishable spirit. A land that |
produced Pindar and a Homer in po-
etry, a Sophocles and an EschyIus in |
tragedy, a Herodotus and Thucydides
in history, Socrates and Plato in phi
losophy, Strabo in geography, a Hip
pocrates in medicine, a Xenophon in |
literature, a Plutarch in biography a
Miltiades and an Alexander in battle, |
and could build a temple of Diana at |
EphesuS and the acro-Corinthus at Cor
inth, and could crown the AcropoliS
with a Parthenon-surely such a land,
with more genius compressed in small
space than in any of the nations of all
the ages, will stand forever triumphant
among surrounding nations. No. Her
pride of heroics, her pride of literature,
her pride of architecture, must be
brought down lower and lower, and hui
initiation must follow humiliation until
in the latter part of the nineteenth cen
fury she is compelled to submit to the