The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-08

ed, ready for the most sudden emer-
gency.
Well, my brethren, life is 80 steep and
90 perilous and 30 exposed to sudden sur
prises that none but the Lord Almighty
can guide and engineer 1t, and our disas-
ters come from the fact that we want to
get up and help the Lord to manage the
train.
Keep off the engine Be willing to
let God pull you where he wants to pull
you. You have no right for an instant
to surrender your sanity and manhood,
as David surrendered his. Put your
trust in God, and he will put you through
and over the mountains, very much
suspect that all enterprises men ever car
ried on, and all the successful lives that
have ever been lived, have been fully
surrendered to God. When the girl Vic
toria was awakened in the night and told
that the throne of Great Britain was hers,
she said to the prelate informing her, VI
ask your prayers" and then and there
they knelt down and prayed. Do you
wonder that-though since that time all
the thrones of Europe have fallen or been
fearfully shaken, hers stands as firm as
the day she ascended it, and in every
country under the sun wherever an En-
glishmen hears that name pronounced,
he feels like waving his hat and crying,
"God.Save the Queen"
That man, that woman, who put their
trust in God will go through in triumph;
while those who attempt to gather under
their own inspiration the intricate and
elaborate affairs of their life, are misera'
bly, playing the fool. Herbert, the great
est thinker, philosophical about himself,
philosophical about this world, philoso'
phized about everything and then in
his dying moments asked that only one
word might be cut upon his tombstone,
and that word, Iufelicissimus "-most
unhappy-descriptive of the state of the
lives and the death of those who take
their case out of the hands of God. The
only appropriate inscription for their
banqueting hall and their equipage and
their grave and the wall of their eternal
prison" Infelicissimus." In driveling
moral idiocy they are scrabbling at the
door of their happiness which never
opens; miserably playing the fool.
Again, remark that all those persons
play the fool as certainly as did this man
of the text who allow the technicalities
of religion to stop their salvation. David
was wise about great many things, but
his cuttings up in the text for little
while eclipsed his character, and 1 know
wise men and great men, competent for
all other stations, who are acting silly
and foolish part in regard to the techni.
calities of religion. They ask us some
questions which we cannot answer cate
gorically, and so they burst into broad |
gauff, as though it is of any more interest
to us than it ought to be to them.
About the Atonement, about Gods de.
crees, about mans destiny, they ask a
great many questions which we cannot
answer, and so they deride us, as though |
we could not ask them thousand ques
tions that they can not answer. 0, you
caviling men 0, you profound men! 0,
you learned men! do please admit some
thing. You have a soul? Yes. Will it
live forever Yes. Where? You say
that Jesus Christ is not a divine Savior.
Who is He? Where will you, after you
leave your law books, and your medical
prescriptions, and your club.room, and
your newspaper Office, where will you go?
Your body will be six feet under ground.
Where will your soul be? The black
coat will be off, the shroud on. Those
spectaCles will be removed from your
vision, for the sod will press your eye.
lids. Have you any idea that an earthly
almanac describes the years of your life
timer Of what stuff shall ] gather the
material for the letters of that word
which describes your eternal home?
Shall it be iron chain or amarantine gar
land? The air that stirs the besWeated
locks of your dying pillow, will it come
off garden or off desert? o, quit the
puzzling questions and try the momen.
tous questions. Quit the small questions
and try the great questions. Instead of
discussing whether the serpent of Eden
was fguratiVe or literal, whether the
Mediterranean fish did or did not swal.
low the reCreant prophet, whether this
and tLat and the other thing is right or
wrong. Come and discuss one question,
How shall get rid of my sins and win
HeaVen?' That is the question for you.
Yea, there have been men who have ac-
f",.y lost their souls because they
thought there was discrepancy between
Moses and Prof. Silliman, because they
could not understand how there could be
light before the sun rose--the light ap.
pearing in the third verse of Genesis, {
and the sun appearing not until the six. 6
teenth verse-and because they do not {
know how the moon could stand still |
without upsetting the universe, and be-
cause they had decided upon the theory {
Of natural selection. A German philos. I
opher in dying had for his chief sorrow {
that he had not devoted his whole life I
20 the study of the dative case. Oh, s
when your Immortality is in peril, why 7
bubble! Quit these non essentials, my Q
lear brother. In the name of God, l s
lsk you in regard to these matters of the
immortal soul, that you did not play the f
ool. l.
What is that man doing over in Bowl. h
ng Green, New York; Well, he is going f
n for a ticket for transatlantic voy- v
ge. He is quarreling with the clerk o
bout the spots, the red spots on the 4
Icket, and he is quarreling about the pc c
uliar signature of the President of the b
teamship Company, and he is quarrel Il
lg about the manner of the clerk who v
ands him the ticket. O
How long has he been standing there2 u
wo weeks. Meanwhile, perhaps twenty b