Milford chronicle., 1907-02-08
Arnola as a Eiahter.

Study the life of Benedict Arnold
We deride and excoriate that name.
We say: ARNOLD? Oh, yes, there is
one ArnOld's name which we all hate,
and that is the name of Arnold the
! traitor" But Benedict Arnold did not
attempt to betray West Point until
1879, or until the Revolutionary war
was half over During all the prelim-
mary struggle and during the three
years Of carnage his was a name to
conjure with, and no man was drawer,
no man truer, to the American flag
than he. We find the same apparent
incongruity in the character of Cath
crime the Great of Russia, whom his
tory regards as one of the greatest
and wisest rulers Russia ever had, al
though her own heart was a selfish
heart of stone and her evil domestic
life the symbol Of all that is base and
impure.
Study the life of Napoleon Bona
parte. Who will say that even his
cruel, selfish life was not used by God
as a means of ultimate good? Nine.
de Stael denounced his inhumanities in
these words: Far from gaining assur-
ance in meeting Bonaparte oftener, he |
intimidated me daily more and more. |
confusedly felt that no emotion of !
the heart could possibly take effect up
on him. He looks upon human being
as a fact or as a thing, but not as a
fellow creature. He does not hate any
more than he loves. There is nothing
for him but himself. All other beings
are so many ciphers. The force of his
will lies in the imperturbable calcula-
ton of his selfishness." And yet this
man, thus characterized by the far
sighted Frenchwoman, this selfish
this human Frankenstein, who
and betrayed millions Of
homes with no more conjunction than
4 cook would break a few eggs to
make an omelet for breakfast, was the
nan who stopped the horrors of the
French revolution and demolished the
;uillotine with one stroke of his sword.
Dare we state that God does not at {
lines use even the sins of his Jehus |
or a good purpose? I
In your life and mine we may be do
ng good in a way. We may be helping {
ONE men. We may be giving employ I
nent to the poor. We may be kind to
ONE people. But a good deed here ]
nd there does not make us children of
iod Jehu was able to avenge the
cath Of Naboth. In the rumbling Of C
is chariot wheels we can see the tall, "
aunt form of Elijah the Tishbite A
ending over a bleeding corpse and n
Ointing his condemning finger at the n
ringing and covering king and queen s
lille he says, "Thus saith the Lord, n,
l the place where dogs licked the II
ood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy q,
ood-even thine" And of Jezebel n,
so spake the Lord, saying, "The dogs q
lall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jez- MS
ell" But because Jehu was COM to
issioned to fulfill Elijah's prophecy FL
at did not make Jehu a child of in
ID. Do not deceive yourselves. Not oh
Gods instruments are his children. IA
licked men, to serve their own in W.
rests, may do things which fulfill Je
DDS purposes, but he does not re- m,
ard them by making them his chill r;
en-. Let no man think that he is m,
cessarily a child of God because he tbI
S done him service. Jehu executed in,
ngeance on Ahab, but he was a MUIR wi
rer. inI
A Bad Mans Usefulness. wi
We can find helpful lessons from a ye
d mans life as well as from the life fro
a good man. Thus today, as we see ira
, revolving wheels of Jehu's chariot brl
hing on toward Jezreel, we learn POI