The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-11-21

make a new departure If it is going to
| conquer the world, this in the direction
Of out and out honesty. The time must
| come when, instead of looking on COM
meTcial books to see if man is A num-
ber |, it will only be necessary to see If
he is a professor of religion, or mem
ber of the Christian church. You all
know that that would be taken as no
| sign of commercial integrity now. do
| not think the church of Christ has kept
pace with the enterprise of the world.
Some years ago it took long time to
make a nail. The blacksmith would
| take the bar of iron, thrust it into the
hot cuals, move the bellows, bring the
| iron out on the anvil, smite it, cleaVe it,
round it, fashion it into nails. 1t was
a long, tedious process; but now the
| iron Is put into machine, and in a mo-
ment hundreds of nails are shOwered
upon the floor of the mandatory. Once
1T required some time to thresh wheat
from the straw. The farmer would take
the sheaf of wheat, tear Off the band,
scatter it on the barn floor, then the
| slow fail would pound the wheat out of
| the straw. Now the horses start or the
| steam engine Kisses, and the machine
rumbles and sheaf Of wheat is thresh-
| ed instantly. In Olden time it was con-
sidered wonderful printing press that
| could make $50 impressions an hour;
now, by our modern steam printing
press, thousands and tens of thousands
are made in the same length of time.
| The pOstOffice was formerly a slow af-
fair. Once in two weeks the mail would
go from London to Edinburgh,
| and at about the same distance
| of time go from New York to Boston !;
but now half dozen times a day you
| must look out or you will be run over
by the wagons that come down Broad
way with whole tons of Uuited States
mails, 700O00,O00 of letters and papers
having passed through the public post
office OF this country in one year. So
there has been an advance in jurispru-
dence. In 1916 the Constitute on of our
State was changed, improvements were
| made in the criminal code, in the civil
cOde-law that would do very well in
| 1777, not doing at all in 1888. Now, L
ask has the church of God kept pace with
worldly enterprise? With the pOstOf-
| fee? With modern railroad transpOr-
tatiOn? With the arts? With the sci
ences? With Opticsp With geology?
With astronomy? "Oh," you say, "there
is no new principle in religion to be de-
Veloped." Well, respond, there is no
new principle in science to be develop
| ed. They are only the old pTinci pies
that have come to light and demOnstra-
tiOn. There was just as much cleo
| tricity in the clouds before Benjamin
| Franklin played kite with the thunder
storm as there has been since. The law
of gravitatiOn did not wait for Newton
to come. There was just as much pow
/ er in steam before Fulton discovered it
as since. The carbOniferOus and jur-
rassic strata of the earth did not wait to
take their position until Hugh Miller
| planted his crOwbar. SO in matters of
religion, if man come and says: 81
a
principle in religion" l say 81 have no
faith in what you are going to say; /
have but one standard and that is the
Bible" But ifhe says: Il have an old
Bible principle that wish to evolve and
demonstrate" then with all the pOssi-
BILE attention of my soul L say, "Hear
Hearp And now we want this Gospel
wheel that has been turning around 80
long and doing so much magnificent
work to have another band, which shall
connect it with all the wheels of bust
ness life. The new departure of the
Christian Church will not be in the ap-
plicatiOn of the Gospel to common and
everyday life.
learn further from this subject that
it is vain to try to defraud God. Here
Saul though he had cheated God out OF
those sheep and oxen; but he lost his
crown, he lost his empire. You cannot
cheat God out of a single farthing
Here Is man who has made $4,000 in
fraud. Before he dies every dollar of ii
will be gone or it will give him violent
unrest. Here is a Christian who has
been largely pTOspered. He has not Civ
en- to God the proportion that is due in
charity and benevOlence. God comes tC
the reckoning and he takes it all away
from you. Do not suppose if man has
and income of $4,000 and he gives only
$500 of it to God that God is going to lei
him keep itP No. Do you suppose that
estate and he gives only $4,000 of it t
the Lord God in year that God is going
to let him keep any? Or, keeping it, ii
will curse him to the bone. You cannot
cheat God. How often it has been thai
Christian men have had large estates anC
it has gone. The Lord God came into thl
counting room and said, 81 have allow
! ed you to have all this property for ter
fifteen or twenty years and have no
done Justice to my poor children. WheI
the beggar calls upon you, you bounded
him off your steps; when my suffering
children appeared to you for help you
had no mercy. | only asked you for 81
much, OF so much, but you did not give
it to me and now will take 1t all. Coz
asks of US one seventh of our time in thu
way of Sabbath. Do you suppose we cal
away from its true ObjectP No, no
God has demanded one seventh of you
: time. If you take one hour of tina
time that is to be devoted to Gods Sab
, bath use 1t for the purpose of writing
up your accounts or making worldly
= gains, God will get that hour from yol
: before you die or afterwards. God say
to Jonah: "You go to NineYeh." H
: says, "NO, won't, I'll go to Tarshish.
, He started for Tarshish. The sea RACES
; the winds blow, and the ship rocks
2 Come, ye whales, and take this passen
l ger for Tarshlshl No man ever got t
Tarshish whom God tells to go to Min
3 eVeh. The sea could not carry him;
4 is Gods sea. The winds would no
watt him; they are Gods winds. Let
y man attempt to do that which God fol
: bids him to do or go into place wher
9 God tells him not to go, the natura
= world as we'll as God is against hin
. The lightnings are ready to strike hin
the fires to burn him, the sun to smit
. him, the waters to drown him, and tn
earth to swallow him. Those who's
y princely robes are woven out of hear