Milford chronicle., 1901-05-31

rne Daiances are Kept busy. So many
tons Of this and so many tons of that,
mountainful Of this metal and another
mountainful Of another metal That is
well. We want to know our mining
wealth, our manufacturing wealth, our
agricultural wealth, and the bushel meas
ure and the scales have an important
work. But know right well there is a d.
vine weighing in this country all the time
going on, and ! can tell you our coun-
try's destiny if you viii tell me whether
it shall be God honoring nation ravnr-
entail 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 Beatitudes,
one day out of the week observed not in
revelry, but in holy convocation, mar
rage hORored in ceremony and in fact,
blasphemy silenced in all the streets, high
toned systems of morals in all parts of
our land, then our institutions will live,
and all the wondrous properties of the
present are only a faint hint Of the
greater properties to come. Richer har-
vests will rustic in the fields, a higher
style of literature will turn its leaves in
our libraries, nobler men will adorn our
state and national legislatures, and there
will be Washingtons and Hamiltons and
Patrick Henrys and John Marshalls and
Abraham Lincolns in the future quite
equal to those Of the past. And the last
day of the worlds existence will find
our free American institutions permanent
as the mountains before they begin to
fall and glorious as the seas before they
begin to die.
Keep the National Life Pure.
But if our character and behavior as a
nation are reversed and good morals give
place to loose living and God is put away
/ from our hearts and our schools and our
homes and our people and our literature
be debauched and anarchism and atheism
have full sway and our American Sab
bath becomes a Partisan Sabbath and
infamous laws get place on our statute
I books and the marriage relation becomes
q joke instead of a sanctity and the God
whom Columbus prayed to on the day of
his landing from stormy seas and whom
Benjamin Franklin publicly reverenced
when he moved amid derisive cries the
regular opening of the American con-
gress with prayer shall in our national
future be insulted and blasphemed, then
| it will not be long before we will need
another Edward Gibbon to write the de-
cline and fall of the United States re-
public, and it will not be another case OF
| destruction by the Goths and Huns and
! Tartars and Tamerlanes and Attilas OF
foreign opposition and hate. but it will
be a case of world astounding national
suicide.
The wish Of this sermon is to empha-
size the invisible-tO show that there are
other balances besides those Of brass and
! platinum and aluminium and set in earth
ly storehouses; that the spirit is the most
important part Of us; that the scales
which weigh your body are not as impor
tant as the scales which weigh your soul
! Depend not too much for happiness upor
the visible. Pyrrhus was king and had
| large dominion, but was determined t.
make war against the Romans, and Gin
cas-, the friend Of the king, said to him
"Sir, when you have conquered them
what will you do next?" "Then Sicily
is near at hand and easy to MASTER
"And what when you have conquered
Sicily?" 'Then we will pass over t
/ Africa and take Carthage, which cannot
long Withstand u.s." when these arJ
conquered, what will you next attempt?
Then we will fall in upon Greece and
Macedonia and recover what we have los
there" well, when all are subdued
what fruit do you expect from all you
victories" ''Then," said the king, "wl
will sit down and enjoy ourselves" "Sir,'
said Cineas, may we not do it now
| Have you not already a kingdom Of you
! own, and he that cannot enjoy himself
with a kingdom cannot with the Who'll,