Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-15

heaven because ths superior ol All ue~
ings terrestrisi or celestial. He has
learned by heart the Ten Command
ments and the sermon on the mount
and has splendid theories about every
hing. Between that fair-hsired boy
and the achievement of what he wants,
and expects there are obstacles anE
hindrancss known only TO the God
who is going TO discipline him for
heroics magnificent. ! have no power
TO prophecy the different experiences
of his encouragement and dissppoint-
ment, of his struggle OF 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. do not know the
intermediate chapters of the volume
of that young mans life, but know
the frst chapter and the last chap
ter. The frst chapter Is made OF high
resolve In the strength OF God, and the
last chapter Is hiled with the rewards
OF a noble ambition. As his ObSeQuies
pass out to the cemetery the poor will
weep because they will lose THEN best
friend. Many in whose temporal>rek
fare and eternal salvation he bore .
part will hear of II in various places
and eulogize his memory. and God will
say 10 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 release and enthronement
there viii be Heavenly exclamation.
as in the royal balances 1.-The Lord
weigheth the spirits"
In the same divine scales the spirit
| Of nations and civilizations il weighed.
Egyptian civilization did Its work. but
IL was cruel and superstitious aud
| idolatrous and defiant of the Almighty.
Ii was cast out and cast down. The
tourist finds his chief interest not in
the generation that now inbabits the
regions wRtered by the Nile and
Sprinkled by her cascades. but In the
temples that are the skeletons Of an
cient pride and Pomp and power-her
obelisks. her cRtscombs. her mosques,
the colossus OF RsmeseS, the dead cit
| les of Memphis and Karnak. the mu-
scum containing the mummified forms
| OF the pharaohs. II is not the Egypt
| Of to-day that We 60 to see. but the
| Egypt of many centuries ago. Her
| spirit has departed. Her doom VAS
sealed. The Lord weighed her spirit.
And so the spirit of our American
nation is put into the royal balance.
and IL will be weighed as certainly as
all the nations OF the past were
weighed and as all the nations OF the
J present are being weighed. When We
| 70 20 estimate the wealth Of this ma
ton, we weigh It's gold and silver and
/ coal and iron and copper and lead. and
al the steelyards and all the balances
| are kept busy. SO many tons OF this
and SO many tons of that. a noun
tainful OF this metal and another
mouDtainful OF another metal THAI
is well. We want 20 know our mining
wealth. our manufacturing wealth. our
| agricultural wealth. and the bushel
measure and the scale have an impor-
tsnt work. But know right well there
Is a Divine weighing in this country all
the time going on. and / can tell YOU
our cOuntry's destiny il You will tell
me whether Il shall be q God honoring
nation, revsrential To the only book
Of His authorship. observing the
shalt nOts" of the law of right
| given on Mount Sinai and the law OF
| love given on the Mount of Beati-
tudcS. one day out of the week OBJ
served not in rSvelry. but in holy
convocatiOn, marriage honOred in
ceremony aud in fact, blasphemy ST.
fenced ia all the streets. high toned
systems of morals in all parts Of our
land. then ouv institutions will live.
and all the wondrous properties of
the present are only a faint hint of
the greater properties TO come.
Richer harvests will rustic in the
fields. a higher style OF literature will
, / turn It's lanVas In our libra rfeS nahlar
men will adOrn our state and nation
al legislature. and there will be Wash
! ingtons and HAmiltOns and Patrick
Henrys and John MarShRlls and Abro-
ham Lineolns in the future quite
! equal TO those of the past. And the
last day Of the worlds existence viii
find our free American institutions
permanent as the mountains before
they begin TO fall and glorious as the
seas before they begin TO die.
What a world this will be when 10
is weighed after It's regeneration
shall have taken place! Scientists
! now guess at the number of tons our
world weighs, and they put the Apo
mines and the Sierra Nevadss aud
ChimborazO aud the HimalAyas in the
scales. But IL weighed as 10 its NOR
ais at the present time in the royal
balance the heaviest things would be
: the wars. the international hatreds,
the crimes mountain high. she. moral
disasters that stagger the hez2S
spheres on their way through inn
mensity. But when the Gospel has
gardenixed the earth. as il will yet
gardenize il. and the atmosphere
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