The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-23
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MILESTONE to sharpen your own battle,
Ak. That which is your own way Will
be more useful than anybody else's way,
though it have 80 per cent more lnge-
nuity. Quote everything. You can quote
10 help you in your work; but do not de-
fraud an author, even though centuries
ago death snatched his pen from him.
David broke own under SauPs armOr,
but as a shepherd boy, being accustOm-
ed to sling, he takes five smooth peO'
bles from the brook and has five times
more ammunition than is necessary to
sIay the giant, for it took only one peb
BILE to crack like an eggshell, GOliath's
Uranium. Above all, saturate yourself
with Seriptural know ledge and Scriptu.
raj style. No copyright on that book OF
books. Daniel Webster said if he had
reached any perspicacity Of style, ne got
ii from lifelong reading of. the Bible.
When Rufus ChOate had wrought up
Judge and jury and court room to the
highest pitch of enthusiasm, he Whelm-
ed them with Scriptural perOratiOn, Do
you want a history? Quote Moses. Do
you want blank veTseP Quote Habbak-
kuk Do you want the spectral? Quote
Ezekiel. Do you want the pastoral!
Quote Ruth. Do you want a battle march!
Quote Joshua. Do you want argument!
Quote Paul. Do you want path0s! quote
John. DO you want tenderness ana ON
impotence and all things mighty and
gOOd2 Quote Christ. Equip yourself
from eyeTy valuable source. Read all
good books and newspapers. Examine
all pictures; attend all OratOriOs; bring
botany and geology and astronomy and
archaeology. Think, digest, plan, pray,
work. Then mass all your troops for
one gospel campaign, and remember the
battle closes at sundOwn.
Many fail in their life-WOrk, either De-
cause they start too late OF because they
make some great mistake, from which
they never recover. For these two rea-
sons Napoleon lost Waterloo. History
tells that on the night before the memo
rable 18th of June, 1915, there came a
deluge of rain and the earth was so sat
urated and soaked, Napoleon could not
move his artillery, and he had TO wait
until the ground was somewhat settled,
so that, instead of opening the battle at
o'clock in the morning, 1t was almost
IL at noon. That gave Blucher, thePrus-
sian General, time to reinforce Yelling
ton, and overthrow the great French
man. Had it not been for the rain, and
had the battle opened at six inthe morn
ing, it might have been ended by noon,
in the rOut of the English army, for Ma
pOlFOn had about 100 guns more than
Wellington. But the difference for Ma
pOleOn between o'clock and II O'Clock,
was the difference between defeat and
victory. That is the way | have seen
men lose the battle of life. They start
too late. They allow the foes against
them to reinforce, and their battallOns
OttemptatiOn to fall into line. They be-
gin at noon, when they ought to have
begun in the morning of life. You have
not time to do i'll the afternoon the work
intended for the whole day. Learn TINS
solemn lesson, all the young! Oh, the
stupendOus difference between and II
o'clock
But after Napoleon did march his army
he made a fatal mistake. The comman-
der, misinfOTmed by the guide that the
plain gradually rose to the hill on which
the English we're entrenched, and that
there were no chasmS which lnIerYoh-
ed, to the sound of bugles thlTty-iye
hundred aTmOTed and helmeted and
mounted hOrsemen moved on with great
impetuOsity to take the hill, when sud
denly the horses and riders vanished 10y
the hundreds in a gulch near the village
of Ohain, a raYine fifteen feet deep with
perpendicular sides, and down to the
death went a hundred horses and their
riders, 200, 400, 1000, 1,5GO men and l.
800 horses, until the chasm was filled |
with struggling and dying men and
ped9LB, anu bllb uOIStS anu lluClo IL eIiC |
rear rude across to the OthOr side of the |
ehasm on this quiVering bridge of man
gled flesh and broken bones. To the IA
tai Iateness If the marching hour was
added this fatal mistake, and so NapOl-
con lost Waterloo. In this last way how
many lose the battle of lifel They start
with great blowing of Ougles, and ex-
pect to gallOp to the top, but somehow
they have been misdirected, or spirit
nal guide has failed in his duty, OF an
unforeseen chasm opens, and before they
know it they are down, taking others
with them in the fatal plunge. Destroy
ed by just one mistake. l wish might
report of the catastrophe that only 1,5OO
have dropped into the awful chasm OF
rnined life. Beware of the one mistake
1t may be only one fraud, only one pla-
giarism, only one evil companion, only
one day of dissipation, only one night
OF wassail, only one experiment in sin,
only one evil. Remember the differ
ence between six and twelve o'clock.
Rem ember the gulch of Ohainl Only
those are safe who are bounded on the
north, on the south, on the east, on the
west, above and beneath, by the cross of
God. Intentions, though good. are of
no avail, unless they have divine up
hOldlng-su7 7pensiOn bridges with but
tresses not strong enough to hold the
strain. Make Christ your ally and you
make heaven an annex of time.