Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-29

be llebauehed and anarchism and atheism
have full sway and our American Sab
bath becomes a Partisan Sabbath and in
famous laws get place on our statute
books and the marriage relation becomes
a joke instead OF sanctity and the God
whom Columhus 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 insalted and blaSphemcd. 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 ii viii not be another case OF
destruction by the Goths and Huns and
Tartars and Tamerlanes and Attilas OF
foreign opposition and hate. hut it will
be 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 ana aluminium and set in earth
ly storehousas; that the spirit is the most
important part Of us; that the scales
which weigh your body are not as impor-
taAs as the scales which weigh your soul.
IepAnd not too much for happiness upon
the .sible. Pyrrhus was king and had
large dominion, but was determined to
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 TO
Africa and take Carthage, which cannot
long withstand u.s. When these are
conquered, what win you next attempt?"
"Then we will fall upon Greece and
Macedonia and recover what we have lost
there We'll, when all are subdued,
what fruit do you expect from all your
victoriesY' Then" said the king, ~we
will sit down and enjoy ourselves" Sir,
said Cineas, may We not do 1t nogT
Have you not ALREADY a kingdom of your
own, and he that cannot enjoy himself
with a kingdom cannot with the whole
world" | say to you who love the Lord.
the kingdom is within you; make more or
the invisible conquests. Study peace
which the world has no bushel to meas
ure. no steelyards to weigh. As far as
possible we should make our balances like
to the divine balances.
The Uuiform Standard.
T Joint r, solution of Congress, in 1890.
the treasurer of the United States was
ordered to send a complete set Of the
standard weights and measures adopted
by the national government to the Gov
al tatA fb0Fa
might be uniformity and accuracy, and
that distribution was made. So, now,
The Huler of earth and heaven, having es-
tablshed forever the right standard.
sends to us all and to Al people a copy Of
that standard-the standard by which
1.-The Lord weigheth the spirits"
What a world this will be when it is
weighed after its regeneration shall have
taken place. Scientists now guess at the
number of tons our world weighs, and
they put the Apennines and the Sierra
Nevadas and Chimborazo and the Hima
layas in the scales. But il weighed as to
its morals at the present time In the royal
balance the heaviest things would be the
wars. the international hatreds, the
crimes mountain high the moral disas-
-ars that stagger the hemispheres on their
way through immensely. But when the
gospel has gardenized the earth, as it will
vet gardenze 1t, and the atmosphere
shall be universal balm and the soil will
produce uniyers i harvest and fruitage
and the last cavalry horse shall be unsad-
died and the last gun carriage unwheel-
ed and the last fortress turned into a nu-
scum to show nations in peace what a
horrid thing war once was, then the
| world will be weighed, and as the oppo-
| site side of the scales lifts a. though Ii
| was light as a feather the right side of
| the scales will come down, weighing more
| than all else those tremendous values
| that ST. Peter enumerated-faith, virtue,
knowledge, temperance. patience, god!.-
| ness. brotherly kindness, charity.
God forbid that it should ever be writ
fen concerning US as individuals or com
munities or nations as it was written on
the wall of Belshazzar's banqueting hall
the hour when Daniel impeached the
monarch and translated the fiery words
which banehed the cheeks of the reyelers
and made them drop their chalices Urim-
ming with wine. Thou art weighed in
the balances and found wanting"