The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-15
TRUMPETS.
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better be spent In scientific experiment
for preventing the drought. ''Oh," you
say, "GOd knows hest what weather 10
send" Why do you put lightning rOd
on your hOusep Does not God know
whether it is best or not for you to be
struck by lightning? Why do you put
a dam across river for mill purpOsesp
Does not God know how to make river?
Why do you wear apparelp God did not
make you so. God has so much in power
and wisdom that he is not afraid of be-
ing robbed. He does not get out pat
ent for anything. He says: Find out
all you can. Pry through every secret
in nature that you can. Meddle with
the land, meddle with the sea, meddle
with the fire, meddle with the water,
with the wind, with the lightning, with
the clouds. Drive your analysis to the
hilt. Experiment with all your batter
les; shock with all your Leyden jars.
Bring the telescopes, microscopes, steth-
OscOpes, telephones, steam power, tele-
| graphic apparatus, and the more you
| find out and the more you can do the
better it pleases Me-" But even with
the drought of this year thrown in, it
has been a year of mighty blessing, and
there is nothing so appropriate as dOX-
OlOgy. Feast of Tabernacles Feast of
| Trumpets When recOunting the pro-
ducts of America had forgotten the
chief of them. | have been preaching
| Thanksgiving sermons for twenty-five
years, and have always forgotten the
| chief products of America, and so all
the ministers to-day will forget the
chief products. All the corn, and all
the wheat, and all the cotton, and all
the apples, and all the crowded hay
racks, and barracks, and granaries are
as nothing compared with them. The
| best products of the United States are
the splendid men and glorious women.
| 1t takes Just such skies as we have,
| just such tonic atmosphere, and just
such free institutions, and just such
magnificent Gospel to make them. l
! walk among Kings and Queens, and
Princes and Princesses every day, and
so do you; they manage our mer-
chandise; they doctor our sick; they
| plead our law; they shingle our roof;
they mason our walls; they mend our
| shoes; they curry our horses. 1t is not
what man does that decides whether
he is King or sculliOn-it is what he
is. l mean imperial men, for their
kindness to those who are in trouble;
for their counsel to those who are in
perplexity; for their help to those who
are in want. Once in while, | admit,
| you find runt of man that amounts
to nothing good or useful; but, for the
| L
know are doing the very best they can
under the circumstances, and thank
God for their hand-shake, for their
smile, for their cOngratulatiOn, for
their cOmpaniOnship. GTeat-hearted
men, genial men, self-sacrificing men,
royal men There are hundreds of
| them in this house to-day. The martyrs
I were no better men. What is the use
of decrying the present for the sake of
| glOrifying the past? There are hun
| dreds of men in the house of God who
would die for the truth if they had the
choice between the scaffOld and the sur
render of their religion. Grand, royal
men And wOmen-what would be-
come of us without them? Indeed, for
sympathy and self-sacrifce, they bear
all their own troubles and ours, too. Do
not let us blow them up if there is a
button off. Do not let us come home
from the store and tell them we are GO
ing to fail in business, when we have
no idea of failing, and never thought of
failing, and never will fail. Do not let
us bear in silence all the irritation
suffered from customers, because we
dare not knock them down, and then
come home to wTeak all the compressed
Indignation of the day on the wife be-
cause she has to stand it. The grandest
blessing that an infinite God knows
how to give man is good wife. She
lay on the side of her face last week, al
most covered with flowers, in the
casket. The dead wife. Beautiful as
on her bridal day, for after decease the
face often takes an earlier and younger
appearance. How the strong man did
bow himself. How the staunch oak
shook in the tempest. If he had ever
uttered harsh word he remembered it,
said TO him: "She seems
too beautiful to bury" She never
will utter a word of encOur-
agement again now. That arm that had
always held him up in the battle of life
will never strengthen him again. 'Till
death do you part" were the words on
the marriage day as the ring was set
and it is on her finger yet. Who could
have thought that the parting would
have come so soon? Never a more
tender, more dreadful, more appalling,
adjective was put before a man than
when l say, "a dead wife" Do not let
us postpone the garlands until the brow
is cold, or the word of praise until the
obituary. If she looks Well-and l sup
pose she dOes-tell her so. If she does
well, applaud her. If you really think
she is the best of all the daughters OF
men, and l suppose you told them sc
right out. Thank God to-day for the
grandest products of AmeTica-gOOG
men and good women. Of what a cTOI
of good men and women this country
has all along been producing! 1 mus
mention only the departed. If l shOulC
mention the living we could not agree
about that. Beside that great men an(
women are never thoroughly appreciated
until after they are gone. There are 81
many rivalries while they live, before
you praise a man in the presence o.
others you must be sure he is good an(
dead; you must be sure that the mOnu
ment is heavy enough to keep him down
lest he comes forth and be your rival
But what a crop of mighty men ant
mighty women in this century! Havt
you thanked God for this American pro
ductiOn? 1 take poets first. As l cal
the roll they will gather to your imagi
nation, and you can see them lowering
above the platform and ranging them
selves along the galleries, and walking
through their fields of corn, and Com
|. ing Through the Rye" Come up, y,
! men and women of the harp and tn,
palm branch. Paulding and Aston, ant
John Howard Payne, of "HOme Swee
] HOme;" and William Cullen Bryant
"White and Pure as the Snow" ant
! ROdman Drake, of the "Culprit Fay;'
, and George P. Morris, of "WOodman
Spare that Tree and George D. Prentice