Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 May 1899 — Page 2

IN GOD’S BALANCES. Roman Lives and Actions Weighed in the Divine Scales. Sr. Tataatt PreackM •• Hespoasibtl 11 y, Tftkla* HU Text from the HaadwHtlag ox the Wall at Bakrlaa. (Copyright. 1899. by Louis Klopsch.) Washington. May 21. 1b th»— days of moral awakening * this pointed sermon by Dr. Talmage on, personal responsibility before God will be read with a deep and solemn interest. Text, Daniel 5:27: “Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.** Babylon was the paradise of architecture, and driven out from thence the grandest buildings of modern times are only the evidence of her fall. The site having been selected for the city, 2,000,C00 men were employed in the rearing of her walls and the building of her works. It was a city 60 miles in circumference. There was a trench all around the city, from which material for the building'of the city had been digged. There were 25 gates on each side of the city, between every two gates a tower of defense springing into the skies, from each gate on the one side a street running straight through to the corresponding gate on the other side, so that there were 50 streets 15 miles long. Through the city ran a branch of the river Euphrates. This river sometimes overflowed its banks, and to keep it from ruining the city a lake was constructed into which the surplus water of the river would run during the time of freshets, and the water was kept in this artificial lake until time^of drought; and then this water would stream down over the city. At either end of the bridge spanning this Euphrates there was a palace—the one palace a mile and a half around, the other palace 7y.

miles around. The wife of Nebuchadnezzer had been born and brought up in the country and in a mountainous region, and she could not bear this flat district of Babylon, and so, t<5 please his wife, Nebuehadne**ar built in the midst of the city a mountain 400 feet high. This mountain was built out into terraces supported on arches. On the top of these arches a layer of flat stones, on the top of that a layer of reeds and bitumen, on the top of that two layers of bricks closely cemented, on the top of that a heavy sheet of lead and on the top of that the soil placed—the soil so deep that a Lebanon cedar had room" to anchor its roots. There were pumps worked by mighty machinery fetching up the water from the Euphrates to this hanging garden, ns it was called, so that there were fountains spouting into the sky. Standing below and looking up, it must have seemed as if the clouds were in blossom or as though the sky leaned on the shoulder of a cedar. All this Nebuchadnezzar did to please his wife. Well, she ought to have been pleased. I suppose she was pleased. If that would not please her, nothing would. There was in that city also the temple of Bleus, with towers—one tower the eighth of a mile high, in which there was an observatory where astronomers talked to the stars. There wAs in that temple an image, just one image, which* would cost what would be our $52,000.000.

Oh, what a city! The earth never saw anything1 like it, never will see anything like it. And yet I have to tell you that it is going to be destroyed. The king and his princes are at a feast. They are all intoxicated. Pour out the rich wine into the chalices! Drink to the health of the king! Drink to the glory of Babylon! Drink to a great future! A thousand lords reel intoxicated. The king seated upon a chair, with vacant look, as intoxicated men will—with vacant look stared at the wall. But soon that vacant look takes on intensity, and it is an affrighted look, and all the princes begin to look and wonder what is the matter, and they look at the same point on the wall. And then there drops a darkness into the room that puts out the blaze of the golden plate, and out of the sleeve of the darkness there comes a finger— a finger of fiery terror, circling around and circling around as though it would write, and then it comes up, and with sharp tip of flame it inscribes on the plastering of the wall the doom of the king: “Weighed in the balances and found wanting.” The bang of heavy fists against the gates of the palace is followed by the breaking in of the doors. A thousand gleaming knives strike into a thousand quivering hearts. Now death is king, and he is seated upon a throne of corpses. In that hall there is a balance lifted. God swung it. On one side of the balance are put Belshazzar’s opportunities; on the other side of the balance are put Belshazzar’s sins. The sins come down. His opportunities go up. Weighed in the balances—found wanting. There has been a great deal of cheating in our country with false weights and measures and balances, and the government, to change that state of things, appointed commissioners whose business it was to stamp weights and measures and balances, and a great deal of the wrong has been corrected. But still, after all, there is no such thing as a perfect balance on earth. The chain may break, or some of the metal may be clipped, or in some way the equipoise may be disturbed. You cannot always depend upon earthly balances. A pound is not always a pound, and you may pay for one thing and get another, but in the balance which is suspended to the throne of God a pound is a pound, and right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a soul is a soul, and eternity is eternity. God has a perfect bushel and a perfect peck and a perfect gallon. When merchants weigh their goods in the wrong way, then the Lord weighs the -roods acain. If from the imperfect

measure the merchant pours out what pretends to be a gallon of oil and there Is less the n a gallon, God knows It, and He calls upon His recording angel to 'mark it: “So jnueh wanting in that from the .sountry. He has applee to sell. He ha» on imperfect measure. He pours out the apples from this imperfect me* sure. God recognizes it. He says to the recording angel: “Mark down so many apples too few—an imperfect measure." We may cheat ourselves, and we may cheat the world, but we cannot cheat God, and in the great day of judgment it will be found out that what we learned in boyhood at school is correct—that 80 hundredmake a ton and ISO solid feet make a cord of wood. No more, no less. And a religion which does not take hold of this life as well as the life to come is no religion at all. But, :tuy friends, that is not the style of balances I am to speak of to-day; that is not the kind of weights and measures. 1 am to speak of that kind of balances which weigh principles, weigh churches, weigh men, weigh nations and weigh words. .“What! " you say, “is it possible that our world is to be weighed V* Yes. Why, you .would think if God put on one side of the balances suspended from the throne the Alps and the Pyrenees and the Himalayas and Mount Washington, and all the cities of the earth they would crush it. No, no! The time will come when God will sit down on the white throne to see the world weighed, and on one side will be the world’s opportunities and on the other side the world’s sins. Down will go the sins, and away will go the opportunities, and God will say to the messengers with the torch: “Burn t hat world! Weighed and found

wanting’! So God will weigh churches. He takes a great church. That church, great according r to the worldly estimate, must be weighed. He puts it on one side the balances and the minister and the choir and th;: building that cost its hundreds of thousands of dollars. He puts them on one side the balances. On the other side of the scale He puts what that church ought to be, wbat its consecration ought to be, what its sympathy for the poor ought to be, what its devotion to all good ought to be. That is on one side. That side comes down, and the church, not being able to stand the test, rises in the balance. It does not make any difference about your magnificent machinery. A church is built for one thing—to save souls. If it saves a few iaouls when it .night save a multitude c f souls, God will spew it out of His mouth. Weighedand found wanting! So we perceive that God estimates nations. How many times He has put the Spanish monarchy into the scales and found it insufficient and condemned it! The French empire was placed on one side ol! thwscales, and God weighed the Frenc'a empire, and Napoleon said: “Have I not enlarged the boulevards? Did I not kindle the glories of the Cham]>si Ely sees? Have I not adorned the Tuileries? Have I not built the gilded opera house?” Tl^n God weighed the nation, and He put on one side the scales the emperor, and the boulevards, and the Tuileries, and the Cham nsi Elysees, and the gilded opera house and on the other side he puts that man’s abominations, that man’s libert nism, that man’s selfishness, that man’s godless ambition. This last came down, antTall the brilliancy of the scene vanished. What is that voice comir g up from Sedan? Weighed and found vranting! '

But I must become more individual and more personal in my address. Some people stay they do not think clergymen ought to be personal in their religious address, but ought to deal with subjects in the abstract. I do not think that way. What would you think of a hunter who should go to the Adirondacks to shoot deer in the abstract? Ah, no! He loads his gun; he puts the butt of it against his breast, he runs his eye along the barrel, he takes sure aim, and then crash go the antlers on the rocks! And iso, if we want to be hunters for the lord, we must take sure aim and fire. Not in the abstract are we to treat things in religious discussions. If a physician comes into a sick room, does he treat disease in the abstract? No; he feels the pulse, makes the diagnosis, then he writes the prescription. And, if we want to heal souls for this life and the li fe to come, we do not want to treat them in the abstract. The fact is, you and I have a malady which, if uncured by grace, will kill us forever. Where is the bidm ? Where is the physician ? Still the balances are suspended. Are there any others who would like to be weighed or who will be weighed ? Yes; here semes a worldling. He gets into the scales. I can very easily see what his whole life is made up of. Stocks, dividends,, percentages, “buyer ten days,” “buyer 30 days.” “Get in my friend; get into those balances and be weighed—weighed for this life and weighed for the life to come.” He gets in. I find that the two great questions in his life are: “How cheaply can I buy these goods?” and “How dearly can I •sell them?” I find he admires Heaven J>ecau;>e it is a land of gold and money must he “easy.” , I find, from talking with 1dm, that religion and the Sabbath are an interruption, a vulgar interruption, and he hopes on the way to church to dram up a new customer! All the week he has been weighing fruits, weighing meats, weighing ice, weighing cos Is, weighing confections, weighing worldly and perishable commodities, not realizing the fact that he himself has been, weighed. “On your side the balances, O worldling! I will give you f a 11 advantage. I put on your side all tie banking houses, all the storehouses, all the cargoes, all the insurance companies, all the factories, all the elver, all the gold, all the money vaults, all the safe deposits—all on yoar side. Hut it does not add one ounce, for at the very moment we are congratulating you on your fine house and upon your iirincelv income God the

angels are writing in regard to ytmt soul: ‘Weighed and found wanting!’ ** Suddenly the judgment will be here. The angel, with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land, will swear by IQm that liveth forever and ever that time shall be no longer: “Behold, He eometh with clouds, and every eye shall aee Him.” Hark to the jarring of ! the mountains. Why, that ta the netting down of the scales, the balances. And then there is s flash as if from a cloud, but it ia the glitter of the shining balances, and they are hoisted, and all nations are to be weighed. The anforgiven get out on this side the balances. They must have weighed themselves and pronounced a flattering decision. The world may have weighed them and pronounced them moral. Now they are being weighed in God's balances—the balances that can make no mistake. All the property gone, all the titles and distinction gone, all the worldly successes gone, there is a soul, absolutely nothing but a soul, an immortal soul, a dying soul, a soul stripped of all worldly advantages—a soul on one side of the scales. On the other side the balances are wasted Sabbaths, disregarded sermons, 10,000 opport unities of mercy and pardon that were cast aside. They are on the other side of the scales, and there God stands, and, in the presence of men and devils, cherubim and archangel, he announces, while groaning earthquake and crackling conflagration and judgment trumpet and everlasting storm repeat it: “Weighed and found wanting.’1 But say some who are Christians: “Certainly you don’t mean to say that we will have to go into the balances? Our sins are all pardoned; our title to Heaven is secure. Certainly you are

not going to put us in the balances r Yes, my brother, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and on' that day you are going to be weighed. Oh, follower of Christ, you get into the balances! The bell of the judgment is ringing. You must get into the balances. You get in on this side. On the other side the balances we will place all the opportunities of good which you did not improve, all the attainments in piety which you might have had, but which you refused to take. We place them qll on the other side. They go down, and your soul rises in the scale. You cannot weigh against all those imperfections. Well, then, we must give you the advantage, and on your side the scale we will place all the good deeds you have ever done and all the kind words you have ever uttered. Too light yet! Well, wa must [ put on your side all the consecration of j your life, all the holiness of your life, j all the prayers of your life, all the faith ; of your Christian life. Too light j et! j Come, mighty men of the past, and get in on that side of the scales. Come. | Payson and Doddridge and Baxter, get in on that side the scales and make them come down, that this righteous one may be saved. They come and they get in the scales; Too light yet! Come, | the martyrs, the L&timers, the Wycliffs, | the men who suffered at the stake for , Christ. Get in on this side the Christian i balances and see if you cannot help him j weight it aright. They come and get 1 in. Too light! Come, angels of God on ] high. Let not the righteous perish with j the wicked. They get in on this side j the balances. Too light yet! X put on j this side the balances all the scepters of light, all the thrones of power, all the I crowns of glory. Too light yet! But j just at that point Jesus, Son of God, I comes up to the balances, and He puta ! one of His sacred feet on your side, and the balances begin to tremble from top j

to bottom. Then He puts both of His t sacred feet on the balances, and the Christian’s side comes down with a stroke that sets all the bells of Heaven i ringing. That Hock of Ages heavier i than any other weight? But says the Christian: “Am I to be \ allowed to g**t off so easily?** Yea. If! some one should come and put on the j other side of the scales all your imper- | fections, all your envies, all your jeal- j ousies, all your inconsistencies of life,, j they would not budge the scales with i Christ on your side the scales. Go free! j There is ho condemnation to them that i are in Jesus Christ. Chains broken, j prison houses opened, sins pardoned. Go free! Weighed in the balances and j nothing, nothing wanted. Oh, what a glorious hope! Will you accept it this day? Christ making up for what you lack. Christ the atonement for all your sins. Who will accept him? Will not this whole audience say: “I am insufficient, I am a sinner, I am lost by reason of my transgressions, but Christ has paid it all. My Lord and my God, my life, my pardon, my Heaven. Lord Jesus, I hail Thee!** Oh, if you could only understand the worth of that sacrifice which I have represented to you under a figure—if you could understand the worth of that sacrifice, this whole audience would this moment accept -Christ and be saved. We go away off or back into history to get some illustration by which we may set forth what Christ has dene for us. We need not go so far. I saw a vehicle behind a runaway horse dashing through the street, a mother and her two children in the carriage. The horse dashed along as though to hurl them to | death, and a mounted policeman, with a shout clearing the way, and the horse at full run, attempted to seize those runaway horses to save a calamity, when his own horse fell and rolled over Mm. He was picked up half dead. Why were our' sympathies so stirred? Because he was badly hurt, and hurt for others. But I tell you to-day of how Christ, the Son of God, on the bloodred horse of sacrifice, came for our rescue and rode down the sky and rode unto death for our rescue. And are your hearts not touched? That was a sacrifice for you and me. 0 Thou who didst ride on the red horse of sacrifirr, come and ride through rids wo«31 on the white horse of victory! Why is a vote of thanks like a turnstile? Because it must be moved before being pawed

A REPUBLICAN RUMPC i Tktrc Ii Uta of TrooMe t» tkt ■--w-- 0f tke VaitkftK to Ohio. £ * Hon. John Sherman has set i t rest the rumor that he might be the: -epubUcan “harmony” nominee for go- ernor by saying over his own signature that he is not a candidate* does not wish his tisane mentioned in that conn ection and would not accept if nominated. That ought to settle it. Mr. Sherman mentions his advanced age as sufficient reason why he cannot think' of becoming a candidate f >r the position, but that was taken into account by those who set the report going, and it was pointed out that, ;ia the governor of Ohio is not bothered with many things which the governors of other states have to consider, his age would be no serious objection. If his nomination would bring harmony into the now sadly divided and demoralized ranks of the republican party in Ohio, his 76 years would count for gain instead of being an objection. There would be assurance that he would not nae his opportunities in*the office to plan for a second term. In the record of the republican party of Ohio from the beginning there has been nothing to equal the demoralization and disorder of the present time. The prospect is f&r a convention with contesting delegations from all the more important counties and with a probability of an organized bolt whichever faction gains control. Not even the evil influence of republican dissension and consequent disaster this year upon the fortunes of McKinley in the national convention of next year can bring the warring factions to an agreement. Each faction seems to regard the destruction of the others as of greater consequence than its own sue

cess. The present situation in Cuyahoga county is typical. Here are three factions headed by Holcomb, Hanna and McKisson, each determined to send to the state convention a delegation of its own and each with machinery to carry out that purpose. Hamilton county is preparing to send a couple of warring delegations, and other counties are likely to follow the example of these two. Senator Hanna insists on the necessity of the state'being under his control as an assurance to the party in other states that Ohio is loyal to McKinley. The anti-Hanna elements, fighting among themselves for the possession of the state, make common cause against Hanna. Some of them want to show the president that Ohio is safer for him without the Hanna incubus, and others who believe McKinley and Hanna cannot be dissociated at present are against both. The most demoralizing element in the situation is that nobody puts faith in anybody. Hanna supposed that in this county Holcomb was doing his1 work, but found too late that Holcomb has ambitions of his own and that he was “confideneing” the junior senator. McKisson has a lively recollection of the manner in which he,, was knifed by the Hanna faction and is determined to get even, but he is equally bitter against the Holcomb faction for the same reason. Kurtz is on the warpath against Hanna, but is distrustful of McKisson, and McKisson is uncertain how far to play the game of Kurtz. Cox, the oldtime Hamilton county boss, is again taking an active part, but as he has played fast and loose with both sides lately there is distrust on each side as to his real intentions. Senator Foraker is noncommittal. He has of late professed loyalty tathe president, but that deceives nobody, least of all Hanna. To his old allies, Kurtz, Cox and MeKisson, he is seemingly cool, and is probably holding off until he can see better where his interests lie in the next senatorial contest. ■ Among the gubernatorial candidates Daugherty is sure of but one thing at present—the uncompromising hostility of the Hanna faction. Nash thinks he has the Hanna support, but is suspicious that he may be dumped at the last moment for some other more promising candidate among the number of “favorite sons” and “dark horses” that have come into view. Then there is Sam Jones, the “Golden Rule” mayor of Toledo, whose populistic doctrines may not be a serious obstacle if either of the factions should deem him the handiest instrument for its use. As for the principles for which the fight is ostensibly to be made, nobody thinks or cares much. “Any old thing” will do for a platform for the winning candidate for the nomination to stand

upon. The demoralization of the republican party in Ohio can be traced directly to the introduction of bossism. It was the boast of both parties in this state that there was no state boss, either republican or democrat. In an evil hour the boss made his appearance. But the Ohio republican boss was deficient in tact, and instead of a union of the party tinder an all-powerful leader there was revolt-against arrogant dictation. The result is the present division and demoralization.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. -There are apologists for the president who complain that he should not be held responsible for the inoptitudinous secretary of war, having given him repeated hints that his resignation would be acceptable. Alger won’t take hints, they say, and insists he won’t get out till he is kicked out. Well, what then? Would they have us understand that Mr. McKinley is suffering*from locomotor ataxia?—Kansas City Times. -The destruction'of the civil service law has left the federal’patronage of the country a vast engine to be controlled at will by President McKinley, In addition to his standing army. In Indianapolis the law and the rules are flouted with contempt and in the most public manner. The federal offices here have become purely partisan spoils.— Indiananolis Sentinel.

BRYAH STILL HOPfS. Hk Em (term Trip CuvIich Him Thai t lie Cities so Platform* Beaamiitm ta Tatar. The ireturn oi Col. Bryan to his horn*, after his extern led tour in the east has been the signal for much enthusiasm among his polilical friends. To a group oi! them, in explanation of the political situation as he now finds it. Col. Bryan said he was the bearer of good news frcm the eastern country, where, he claimed, nothing stirred up so much enthusiasm as reference to the Chicago platform. He says that New York has four times as many Chicago platform democrats as has Nebraska, and so has Pennsylvania. There are men of great strength and wealth in the opposition, he says, but their influence is manifested through the papers rather than with the voters. There are democrats there quite as j enthusiastic as those here, and they are | entitled to more credit because they | are fighting against greater odds. He ; says the democratic party is in be++er shape now than it was a year before the last national campaign, and the platform is stronger than it was in 1896. “No one man ean assume to speak for the party, but we can have our ideas of what will be done,” said Col. Bryan. “It :is my belief that none of ns will live to see a plank taken out of that platform. New questions will come up and the platform will be | added to, but nothing will be taken

away. “The year 1900 will see more men drawn cut of the republican party than ever before in any one year. Not only that, but we will bring back many who lift us in 18116. Those who knew why they went out and left us when the battle line was drawn up against plutocracy will not and ought not to come back. We cfo not want them to come back, for they would be as leprosy in the side of the party. But I believe that the laige majority of those who went away did not understand, while others were induced to go by those to whom they looked for leadership. They have since si udied the matter for them* selves, and have found that the leaders were wrong and the majority of the party was right. “What ha s there been since the election of 1S96 to make those who left us proud of their action in helping elect the present administration? It has been principally disappointment, and there are some who say t&ey are still against us on the money question, but that other things have arisen that demand correction, and they are coming back for that reason. 'I have not insisted that 1 hey shall accept every part of the platform, but that they shall accept it as a whole. I do insist that if they want to come back into the democratic house it shall not be for the purpose of Ik-owing out those who are in the house, and that they cannot expect the killing of a fatted calf if that is their purpose.” ALGER'S VINDICATION. The Roast Beet Secretary Is Satisfied with the Work ot the Court of Inquiry. Again the re is talk of shipping Alger out of the cabinet as an “embarrassment” to the administration. But it is mere talk. The administration is not embarrassed by Alger or anybody else. The preside nt did not organize two successive vindications of Alger with any notion of shipping him out of the cabinet. lie ciid this with intent to keep Alger. As for Alger himself, he is more than satisfied with himself; he is happy. The court of inquiry has found in face of praetica Uy unanimous testimony to the contrary that Alger’s beef was not only wholesome, but delicious, and it has found at the same time that Gen. Miles did very wrong in that he did not report that the beef was unfit to eat long before he did so report, and with this funnily cross-eyed vindication Alger is delighted.

jl ne otner uay, according to a w asn- | ington correspondent a letter was received at the war department from a military officer in Alaska saying that the command there had partaken of some canned roast beef and found it delicious. Therefore he—the commissary officer—sent his requisition for a vast j quantity of the same sort, “Vindicated again!” cried Alger, and with a smile of triumph he approved the requisition. An irreverent newspaper writer has suggested that the climate of Alaska is different in some respects from that of Cuba, and that a pretty good refrigerate!* could be made any day in Alaska by a man with a pick and shovel by digging a hole in the frozen ground. But Alger rejoices in Ms fresh vindication. By war dess telegraphy the Chronicle learns that Alger has received substantially the following from Florida: “While making an esc ursicn last summer I sampled a lot of your canned roast beef which yovr soldiers had thrown away. They have no idea of what’s good. Think I never tasted anything so delightfully piquant. As I am expecting to entertair, a few hundred friends t,t dinner soon, I would-thank you to send me a ship lead of the goods —bulging cans preferred. Yours affectionately, Carrion luzzard.” “Whoop! Vindicate*! some more! Who says I am going t > get out of the cabinet? Not I. I’ll ? toy as long as Mac does, as sure as :ny name is Alger.’*—Chicago Chronic !e» ——The beef court of inquiry, by the thiek-ani-thin McKlnle y organs, hold it up against Gen. Miles that he did not raise a rumpus about he beef during the war . But, had he done'so, they would have yelled trai or at him, complaining of anything t uring the progress of a war.—Albany Argus. -Time flies, and William Caesar McKinley looks forward to Mark Antony Hanna’s second superficial performance.—Chicasro Democrat. f

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