The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

ments and the sermon on the mount
and has splendid theories about ev-
erything. Between that fair haired
boy and the achievement of what he
wants and expects there are obstacles
and hindrances known only to the God
who is going to discipline him for
heroics magnificent have no power
to prophesy that different experiences
of his encouragement and disappoint-
ment. of his struggle or his triumph
but as sure as God lives to make his
his word come true that boy who will
sleep tonight nine hours without wax
ing will be final victor. do not know
the intermediate chapters of the vol
ume of that young mans life, but
know the first chapter and the last
chapter. The first chapter is made of
high resolves in the strength of God,
and the last chapter is filled with the
rewards of noble ambition. AS his
obsequies pass out to the cemetery the
poor will weep because they will lose
their best friend. Many in whose
temporal welfare and eternal saliva
ton he bore a part will hear of it in
various places and eulogize his mem
DRY, and God will say to 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 re-
lease and enforcement there will be
heavenly reclamation. as in the royal
balances "the Lord weigheth the
spirits"
Other balances may lack precision
and fail in counterpoise. Scales are
affected by conditions of atmosphere
and acid vapors. After all that the
nations have done to establish an in
variable standard, perfection has new
er yet been reached. and never will be
reached. But the royal balances of
which speak are the same in heat
and cold, in all weathers, in all lands
and in all the heavens-just and true
to the last point of justice and truth.
The same balance that weighed the
tempted spirit of Adam under the
fruit tree. and the spirit Of Cain in
of courage in Joshua during the pro-
longed daylight, and the spirit of cru
city of Jezebel, and the spirit of grief
in Jeremiahs lamentation. and the
spirit Of evangelism in Paul between
the road to Damascus, where he first
saw the light. and the road to Ostia,
the place of his beheadment, is weigh
ing still and never yet has varied from
the right one milligram, which is the
one six-thousanth part of grain. The
only perfect standard Of weights and
measures ever established was estab-
lished in the heavens before the world
was made and will continue to do it's
work after the world is burned up.
To measure the time we have calen-
dars. To measure the lighting we have
the electrometers. To measure the
heat we have the thermometers. To
masure the atmospheric pressure we
have the barometers. To measure
souls we have the royal balance. "The
Lord weigheth the spirits
Weighed in Divine Scales.
In the same divine scales the spirit
of nations and civilizations is weighed.
Egyptian civilization did it's work. but
it was cruel and superstitious and
idolahous and defiant of the AL
mighty. 1t was cast out and cast
down. The tourist finds his chief in
terest not in the generation that now
the regions watered by the
Nile and sprinkled by her cascades,
but in the temples that are the skele-
tons Of ancient pride and pomp and
obelisks, her catacombs
her mosques. the colossus of Rameses.
the dead cities of Memphis and
the temples of Luxor and
Karnak, the museum containing the
mummified forms of the pharaohs. 1t
is not the Egypt Of today that we go
to see, but the Egypt of many centuries
ago. Her spirit has departed. Her
doom was sealed. The Lord weighed
her spirit.
Now cross over the Dardanelles or
Hellespont and see Grecian ,civiliza-
ton put in the royal balances. Surely
that is an imperishable spirit. A land
that produced Pindar and Homer
in poetry, sophocles and an Aeschy-
lus in tragedy, Herodotus and Thu
cydides in history, Socrates and
Plato in philosophy, Strabo in geog-
raphy, Hippocrates in medicine. a
Nenophon in literature, Plutarch in
biography, Miltiades and an Alexan-
der in battle and could build tenn
pie Of DIANA at Ephesus and the
-Corinthus at Corinth and could
crown the Acropolis with Parthenon
surely such land, with more genius
compressed in small space than in any
of the nations of all the ages, will
stand forever triumphant among sur
rounding nations. No. Her pride of
heroics, her pride of literature, her
pride of architecture. must be brought
down lower and lower, and humilia-
ton must follow humiliation until in
the latter part Of the nineteenth CEN
fury she is compelled to submit to the
outrages of sultan whose hands are
red with the blood of $4,000 Arme-
mans. Had Athens prayerflllly listened
to Paul's sermon on Mars hill and
adopted his precepts of brotherhood
and divine worship she would have