The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-07-14
xiii Blood letting is pood I'm AugustI |

'Killl Blood letting Is good In August
| Kill Death to the HuguenOtsl KillP'
| When Lady Jane Grey's head rolled from
the executiOner's block; when Calvin
was imprisOnedint the castle; when John
Knox died for the truth when John Bum
yam lay rOtting In Bedford Jail, saying:
IF God will help me, and my physical
hfe continues, 1 will stay here until the
moss grows on my eyebrows, rather than
| give up my faith;" the days of retreat
Tor the church we're days of victory.
| The pilgrim fathers fell back from
the other side of the sea to Plymouth
Rock, but now are maTshaling a cOnti-
nent for the ChristianizatiOn of the
| world. The church of Christ falling
back from Piedmont; falling back from
the Rue st. jacques; falling back from
st. Denis; falling back from Wurtem-
bergCastle failing back from theBrussels
market place, yet all the time triumph
ing, Notwithstanding all the shocking
reverses which the church of Christ euf-
| fers, what do we see tOdayp Three
| thousand missionaries of the cross on
heaLhen ground, 10000 ministers of
Jesus Christ in this land, at least 25O-
100000 OF Christians on the earth. All
nations today kindling the blaze of re-
VlVai. Failing back, yet advancing,
until the old Wesleyan hymn will prove
true:
1.-THE lion OF Judah shall break the chain
And give us the Victory again and again"
But there is a more marked illus
tratiOn of the victorious retreat
In the life of our Joshua, the
Jesus of the ages. First falling back
from an appalling height to an appall-
ing depth, falling from celestial hills to
| terrestrial valleys, from throne to man
ger; yet that did not seem to suffice Him
as retreat. Falling back still further
| from Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Naz-
areth to Jerusalem, back from JerII-
/ salem to GOlgOtha, back from GOlgOtha
to the mausOleum in the rock, back
| down over the precipices of perditiOn
| until He walked amid the caverns of the
| eternal captives and drank of the wine
of the wrath of the Almighty God amid
the Ahabs and the Jezebels and the Bal
thasars Oh, men of the pulpit and men
of thepew, Christ's descent from Heaven
to earth does not measure half the dis
tance. 1t was from glory to perditiOn.
He descended into hell. All the records
/ of earthly retreat are as nothing COM
pared with the falling back. Santa
| Anna, with the fragments of his army
| flying over the plateau Of Mexico, and
Napoleon and his army retreating from
Moscow into the awful SHOWS of Russia
are not worthy to be mentioned with
this retreat when all the powers of dark
ness seem to be pursuing Christ as He
fell back, until the body of Him who
/ came to do such wonderful things lay
pulseless and stripped. Methinks that
the city OF All was not so emptied of its
inhabitants when they went to pursue
Joshua as perditiOn was emptied of
| devils when they started for the pur-
suit of Christ, and He fell back and
back, down lower, down lower, chasm
below chasm, pit below pit, until He
| seemed to strike the bottom Of Obliqua-
tiOn, and scOrn, and torture. o, the
long, loud, jubilant shout of hell at the
| defeat of the Lord God Almighty But
let not the powers of darkness rejoice
quite so soon. Do you hear that disturb
ance In the tomb of Aramatheap hear
the sheet rendingi What means that
stone hurled down the side of the hilIP
Who Is this coming Out2 Push him
backl The dead must not stalk in this
open sunlight Oil 1t is our Joshua!
Let Him come Outl He comes forth and
starts for the city. He takes the spear
OF the Roman guard and points that
way. Church militant marches up on
one side, and the Church triumphant
marches down on the other side. And
the powers of darkness being caught be-
tween these ranks of celestial and ter
restrial ValOr, nothing is lett of them
save just enough to illustrate the dire.
full overthrow of hell and our JOshua's
eternal victory. On His head be all the
crown. In His hand be all the scepters.
At His feet be all the human hearts, and
here, Lord, is one of themI
Lesson the second: The triumph of
the wicked is short. Did you ever see
an army in panicP There is nothing
so uncomfortable. If you had stood at
Long Bridge, Washington, during the
nf nfO 20
would know what it Is to see an army
run. And when those men of All looked
out and saw those men of Joshua in
stampede they expected easy work.
They would scatter them as the equinox
the leaves. Oh, the gleeful and jubilant
descent of the men of All upon the men
of JOshual But their exhileratiOn was
brief, for the tide of battle turned, and
these quOndam cOnquerOrs left their
miserable caTcasses in the wilderness of
Bethayen. SO it always is: the triumph
of the wicked is short. You made $780,
600 at the gaming table. Do you expect
to keep itp You will die in the poor
house. You made fortune by iniQuit-
GUS traffic. Do you expect to keep it?
Your money will scatter, or 1t will stay
long enough to curse your children after
you are dead. Call over the roll of bad
men who prOspered, and see how short
40 ShOlA HuA ~ Wullb, llhb
the men of All, they went from conquest
to conquest; but after while disaster
rolled back upon them and they were
divided into three parts. Misfortune
took their property, the grave took their
body, and the lost world took their souls.
l am always interested in the building
of theaters and the building of dissipat-
ing saloons. like to have them built
Of the best granite, to have the rooms
made large aud to have the pillars made
very firm God Is going to conquer them,
and they will be turned into churches.
These stores in which fraudulent men
do business, these splendid banking in
stitutiOns where the president and
cashier put all their property in their
wives hands and then fail for $200,OOO-
all these institutions are to become the
places where honest Christian men do
business. How long will it take your
boys to get through your ill-gOtten
gainsp The wicked do not live out half
their days. For while they swagger
and strut and make great splash in the
newspapers; but after a while it all
dwindles down into brief paragraph:
"Died suddenly July 8, 1883, at thirty
five years Of age. Relatives and friends
Of the family ara inUifad IN atfand ba