The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-07-16

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age me. Count me into the service. / can
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All through that mans experience there
runs faith that will keep him cheerful
and busy, and triumphant l like the
watchword OF Cromwelts "Ironsides /" the
men who feared nothing and dared every.
thing. going into the battle with the shout
The Lord of hosts is with us The God
Of Jacob is our refuge. Selahl" No bal.
ance that human brain ever planned or
human hand ever constructed is worthy
OF weighing such = spirit. Gold and pre-
cious stones are measured by the carat
which is four grains. The dealer puts the
diamond or the pearl on one side OF the
scales and the carat on the other, and tells
YOU the weight. But we need something
more dchcatelv constructed 10 weigh that
wonderful Quality of faith which / am glad
to know will he recognized and rewarded
tor all time and all eternity
The earthly weighman counterroiscs on
metallic balances the iron, the coal the ar
ticles OF human food the solids of earthly
merchandise, but he cannot test or an
nounce the amount of things spiritual.
Put also into those roval scales the am
bltlous spirit Every healthy man and
woman has ambition. The lack of it is a
sure sign OF ldiocy or immortality The
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vestments; he is director in enough banks
and trustee in enough institutions and
president OF enough companies TO bring on
paresls, OF which he il now diving. The
royal balances are lifted to weigh the am
hltion which has controlled him a lifetime
w hat was the worth of that ambition?
How much did IT yield for usefulness and
heaven? Less than a scruple, less than a
grain of sand, less than an atom. less than
nothing. Have funeral a mile long with
carriages; let the richest robes of ecclesi-
astics rustic about the casket; caricature
the scene by choSrs which chant Blessed
are the dead that die in the Lord" That
man 5 life IS failure. and if his heirs
scuttie IN the Surroyate's court about the
lncapacity of the testator to make a last
will and testament it will only be a pro-
longaton OF the failure. The son, through
dissipation spent his share of the fortune
before the father died. and so was cut off
with dollar; the daughter married against
his will. and she is disinherited; relatives
whom he could never bear the sight Of
will put in their claim, and after years of
litigation so much of the estate az the law
yers have not appropriated TO themselves
will so into hands which the testator
never once thought of when in his last
days he babe fearful farewells TO the
houses and lands and government securi-
ties he could not take along with him into
the sepulcher.
do not know the intermediate chapters
OF the volume of that young mans life.
but / know the fret 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 obseduies pass out
20 the cemetery the poor will weep because
they will lose their best friend.
Many in whose temporal welfare and
eternal salvation he bore a part will hear of
1t II various places and eulogize his mem
orv. and God will say to the ascending
spirit. To him that overcometh will
give IN eat of the tree of life which is in
the midst OF the paradise of God" In the
mcnt there will be heavenly acclamaton
as in the royal balances "the Lord weigh
eth the spirits"
But if our character and behavior as a
nation are reversed and good morals give
place to loose living and God il put away
iron our hearts, and our schools and our
mes and our people and our literature
be deOauched, and anarchism and athe-
ism have full sway. o1d our American
sabbath becomes q rarisian Sabbath. and
.niamous laws get a place on our statute
books, and the marriage relation becomes
joke instead OF a sanctity, and the God
to 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 Congress
with prayer shall in our national future
BE- insulted and blasphemed then it will
not be long before we viii need another
Edward Gibbon TO write the decline and
fan OF the United States republic, and it
VIII not be another case NJ destruction by
the Coths and Huns and .Tartars and Tam
erIones and Attlas or foreign opposition
and hate but II will be case of word as
national suicide.
The wish of this sermon is to emDha-
size the invisible 10 show that there are
other balances besides those made Of brass
and platinum and aluminium and set in
earthly storehouses that the spirit is the
most important part of rs; that the scales
which weigh your body are not as impOr-
t1nt as the scales which weigh your soul
Depend not too much for happiness unon
Che visible. Pyrrhus was king and had
lar-c dominion hut was determined TO
make war against the Romans. and Cine1s,
the friend Of the king, said to him "Sir,
wF en- YOU have conquered them what viii
YOU do uext2' Then Sicily is near at
hand and easy TO master" "And what
when Won have conquered Sicity?' "Then
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