The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-27

could sing WITHOUT Ino aOVot' ,,.,,
as well as sne ever sang It, Jesus, lover
of nv soul, lot me to Thy bosom n.y.
There have been Christian women who
have 30 had their domestic troubles
sanctified TO them, that they could get
more music out Of a Wheeler and Will
son sewing machine than ever before In
their life they could out Of Chickering
grand or a Stelnway.
EARLY MARRIAGES.
A minister of the Gospel came into q
home where there was great poverty and
destitution, and 1t was generally sup
posed that the poverty came from the
fact that these people had married toG
early; and after the minister had looked
around upon the utter want and desola
ton, and had rehearsed the mistortunef
that come upon the household, he turn
ed to the poor man and said, Don't you
think it was your great mistake in liier
And the man halted for moment and
his ewes filed with tears, and he looked
up at his poorly clad wife, and said: mo-
sir she has been the same to me all
through" Oh, there are some OF you
who would never have known what
your home was worth if God had not
upset you and your soul had not been
ransacked of trouble. The first touch
of trouble changed that wife who was
too foud of the gayeties and fnyolities OF
the world into soul that could rise In
calm triumph, like Miriam singing the
victory upon the banks Of the Red Sea;
Oh, if you have spoken Of lightness and
friyolity, and fondness of display as the
chief characteristics of women, you know
not of what you speak, and may have to
correct your mistake some bitter day
when all other supports have failed you,
and you are upheld by the hands OF a
Christian wife suddenly armed by the
Lord Almighty for that emergency
Young man, rush not in that relation by
an appeal to God. If you eyer need
this grace you need it there. Is there a
more beautiful spot on earth than new
house in which those just athanced have
begun the service Of God? Blessed the
family bible in which their names have
lust been written. Blessed the hour OF
morning prayer. Blessed the angels OF
God who touch wing.tip to wing tip un-
til the house is all covered with a canopy
of light and love and Joy. 1t may have
been only yesterday when they clasped
their hands at the altar, but they Clasped
those hands forever. The orange bios.
SONS will fade, and their fragrance will
die in the air, but they who marry in
Christ shall walk together in the day
when the Church, which is the Lambs
wife, shall take the hand Of our Lord
and King, amid the swinging OF the
golden Censers,
THE USE OF MONEY.
The third great pass in life in which a
young man wants religion is in the time
of his first success. You will, young
man, after a while, get through with the
drudgery OF business, and some after
noon you will get into street car, your
face shining, and even strangers looking
at you will know something pleasant has
happened and when you are seated in
car lady comes in and you see she
does not find accommodation, and you
rise up and say, Have this seat, madam
and she says, very courteously, II thank
you" What makes you 80 happy that
day? That is the day on which you
haye made your first business success.
You say, "Here, l have money Of my
own. What shall do with it? What
investment shall l make? What ward.
robe shall greater What shall buyP
What charities, what philanthropies
shall l forward?" That is the crisis
where thousands Of men upset. Some
of them rush into dissipation. Others
take on an arrogance intolerable, whole
caravan of camels going through the
needles eye of their meanness. l have
known men before their success, kind
and loving and humble and genial and
useful and obligng, and positively Chris
tian, and who, after their success, became
hard and cruel and overbearing and inf
del. A man wants the grace of Christ
at that crisis to keep him rightly bal
anced. Joseph was as much Christian
in Pharaoh's court as in the dungeon.
Daniel forgot not God amid the royster-
ing excesses of the Babylonian palace.
The Qleen of Sheba bowed down before
the King of Heaven amid the glitter of
gold and the perfume. Of gardens of
A man can be as good
walking upon Administer as though he
lived upon the floor of a shanty. There
has been many man who has ridden
through in magnificent equipage on
earth, but at death got out of his car
riage only to mount the charots of sal
vation in glory sweeping through the |
streets of heaven. 1t is all nonsense for |
men to talk against money as though it |
mad not any uses. l wish / had five
Millions.
ABUSE OF RICHES.
But, my brethren, success in life of |
my sort must be accompanied by the
race of God or it is ruin. Who was it
iaid-I think it was Solomon that said,
The prosperity of fools shall destroy
hem" And where there are over 100
men who can stand trouble, there is not
me man who can stand success. have
Ieen men coming to sudden fortunes get
nto their equipage and dash on faster
md faster; they lashed the steeds; it was
,ight miles an hour, and ten and twenty
niles an hour, ald one thousand miles
IN hour, and then they reused up and
Jaw that they were drawn on by fiery
loofs of eternal disaster, that came clat.
ering down on the pavements of hell,
The Israelite got along tolerably we'll
when they were hungry, and when they
we're thirsty, and when they were smit-
en- in the desert, but after while they