The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-12-21

perpetual abode Of barbarians and
mountain lions, and we must not think
OF annexing those rorbidding regions
Many prophecies In regard to ouI
nation failed and many prophecies
concerning it's future will fail be
cause It is travelling new road
Every step IL takes on that road !,
a novelty. The opinion of Mon
roe or n Jefferson in the far past Il
not of as much value as the opinion
of our wisest men now. How coult
men know in 1923 what il would bt
best for this nation to do in 1901
1t is belittling as well rs unwise fol
our statesmen, who are quite equa
to the statesmen of the past and
who have, in addition to the natural
talents of their predecessors, attain
ments in knowledge that were i'm
possible in any decade but our own,
to depend on advice OF men who
have been dead three-quarters of a
century. In all other things the
world has advanced. Can it be that
in craftsmanship it has gone back
and that this opening of the twen-
tieth century must consult the open
ing of the nineteenth century? "Ye
have not passed this way before"
Yea, our entire world is on n new
pathway. 1t may be swinging in the
same old orbit as when by the hand
of the Almighty immensely was
sprinkled with worlds, but it has
| NI.<,t .nIg .v.I
scorched with volcanic fires and
whelmed with tidal waves and
wrought upon by climatic changes
cities sunk, and islands lifted, and
mountains avalanched into valleys.
So it is another world than that
which was first started, in the solar
system. Yet it is all the time chang
ing and will keep changing until the
hour of its demolition. OF this beau
tiful world, this lustrous world, this
glorious world, it may be said: I'VE
have not passed this way before"
What is the practical use of this
subject? Instead of putting so much
stress upon human advice and in
stead of asking of the past what we
| ing as the men of Joshua followed
the golden lidded chest of acacia,
which was the symbol of the divine
presence. Not human, but divine,
leadership, Joshua not consulting
with his colonies and leutenants,
but consulting with God-the God of
individuals, the God of nations, the
God of worlds.
| That three-quarters of n mile dis
tance between the ark or sacred box
and the front column OF Joshua's
troops nightly impresses me. 1t
was forceful way of teaching rever-
encc for the Almighty. They needed
to learn that lesson of reverence, as
we all need to learn 1t. Irreverencc
has cursed all nations, and none
more than our own. Irrevercnce i'm
the use of Gods name. Hear you 1t
not on the streets and in social
groups, and is not n profane word
| sometimes thought necessary to
point jocosity? Irrcverence for the
Scriptures, the phraseology of the
Bible often introduced into the most
| frivolous conversation and made
mirth provoking. Irreverence for
| the oath in courtroom or custom
house or Legislative hall by the con-
ventional and mechanical mode of its
| administration. Irreyerence for the
holy Sabbath by the way 1t is broken
in pleasurable excursion and ca
rousal. Irreverence on the part of
children for their parents. insolence
being substituted for obedience. r.
reverence for rulers, which induces
vile cartoons and assassination. IT.
reverence in church during prayer,
measuring off song and sermon by
cold, artistic or literary criticism,
and in prayer time neither bowling
the head nor bending the knee nor
standing as one does in the presence
of earthly ruler, thus showing more
respect for n man than to the King
of Kings. We ask not for genufex-
ions or circumfcxions or prostra-
tions, but when prayer is offered let
us either bow the head or bend the
knee or let us i'm some way prove
that we are not Indifferent. In how
many places have presumption and
foolhardiness taken the place of rev.
erence. That three-quarters of mile
between the chest of acacia covered
with gold and mounted with wings
n symbol of the divine presence.
and the marching regiments of JOSH
ua suggests reverence that is
woefully lacking in social life, in
Legislative hall and religious assem-
blage. A farmer went to the wheat
field, taking his son with him. The
child said: "These stalks that stand
straight up must have the best grain.
Those stalks that bend over cannot
be worth anything" Then the IA
Their broke off two of the tops of the
stalks and said: 'Child, that one
that bends clear over has the grain"
1t Is the soul that bows In deepest
reverence which is the best soul.
But though Joshua's host observed
the three-quarters of mile COM
mand, they followed the ark. and
you will do well to follow the divine
leading, as the path you tread now
has not yet been trodden. aye have
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