The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-07-31
PULPIT UTTERANOES.
THINGS THAT NEED ROUGH HANDLING,
Terrible Evils Which Ruin Homes and
Wreck Human Llyes - Trenohant
Words which Many Persons
May Apply 20 Themselves.

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Elisha had gone down to lecture 10 the
theological students In the seminary at
Gllgal. IIe found the students very hun
| cry. Students are apt TO be. In order
that he might proceed with his lectures
successfully ho sends out some servants TO
gather food for tho hungry students, The
servants ara somewhat reckless In their
work, and while they gather up some
beautiful herbs, they at tho same time
gather coloquintlda, bitter, poisonous,
deathfnl weed, and they bring all the
herbs TO tho house and put them In cal
dron and stir them up, and then bring the
food TO tho table, where are seated the
students and their professor. One OF the
students takes some Of the mixture and
puts II TO his lips and Immediately tastes
the coloquintida, and ho cries out to tho
| professors "Oh, thou man OF God, there II
death In the potW What CONSERVATION Il
threw upon the groupi What q fortunate
thing 10 was he found out In time 80 as to
save the lives Of his comrades. Well,
there are now In the world u great many
caldrons OF death. The coloquintlda OF
mighty temptations fills them. Some
taste and quit, and are saved; others taste
and eat on, and die, Is not that minister
OF Christ doing No right thing when he
points olt these CT irons of inlqulty, and
cries out tho alarm saying; "BeWare !
there 10 death In tho potp In pal@o In
Florence thOro Ia frosco of Giotto. For
many years that fresco was covered up
/ with tNUp iughaa thl,Iy,.aua 90 ..,Il al
and II has only been In recent times that
the hand of art has restored that fresco.
"What sacrilege," you say, ITO destroy
the work OF such q groat masterW But
there Ia no sadness In that compared with
the fact that tho image Of God In tho soul
has been covered up and almost obllterated
80 that no human hand can restore the
Divine llneaments,
Iniquity Is a coarse, Jagged thing that
needs TO DO roughly handled, You have
no right 10 garland II with fine phrase or
lustrous rhetoric. You can not catch O
buffalo with slkon lasso, Men have no
objections 10 having their sins looked at In
n pleasant light They will bo very glad
TO sit for their photographs II you make O
handsome picture. But every Christian
philanthropist must sometimes 40 forth
and come In violent collision with trans
gression. was In whaling port and saw
q vessel that had boon on whaling cruise
como Into tho harbor and II had patched
sail and spllcod rigging and bcspattoroi
deck, showing hard times and rough work.
And 40 | have seen Christian phllanthro'
pists come back from some crusade against
public iniquitics Thoy havo boen com.
PEELED 10 acknowledge that II has not hgon
yachting over summer lakes, but II has
been out riding compost and harpooning
great behomoths. A company OF emil
grants settled In q wild roglon, Tho worry
first day boast from thomountalns comos
down and carries of ono OF tho children,
and tho next day another bcast comos aud
carries of another child. Forthwith all
the nolghbors band together, and, with
torch In ono hand and gun In tho othor
they so down Into tho oavorns whore
those Wild BOASTS No secroted and slay
thom. Now want ~ go back OF all public
inlquity and find out its hiding placo. |
want 10 know what are tho sources Of its
powcr or, 10 rosumo tho figure Of my text,
want 10 know what are tho caldrons
from which thoso iniquitios aro dipped
out
Flrsti Unhappy and undIsclpllnod homes
are tho source OF much iniquity, A good
homo IL dOathloss In ita influence, Parents
may DO gone. Tho old homestead may bo
sold and havo passed out OF tho possession
OF tho family. Tho house itsof may DO
torn down. Tho meadow brook that ran
In front Of tho house may have changed its
sourso or havo driod up. Tho long limo Of
old-fashionOd mn0owcrs and tho hodges
OF Wild roso may have boon graded, and In
place thor0of are now the boautloa OF mod.
orn gardening. Tho old poplar troo may
have cast down lta crown Of vorduro and
may havc fallen. You say you would like
10 30 back llttlo while aud 500 that home,
and you 90, and, Oh, how changed II IL |
Yct that placo will mover loso lts charm
over your soul. That FIRST earthly homo
WV thrill through your everlasting caroor
Tho dowdrops that you dashed from tho
chlcl.wood M you drove tho COWS allolA
thirty years ago, tho no.1los that flashed
In your fathor'a homo on summer nlghta
whom the evenings woro too short for q
candle, tho tlngod pobbCs that you gath.
orod In your apron on tho margin OF tho
brook, the berries that you strung into a
necklace, aud tho dalslos that you pluctcd
for your hair-all have gono into your
sentiments and tnstoa, and you will mover
gotovor thom, Tho trundlO bod whore you
slcpt, tho chair whore you sat, tho blue.
edged dish out OF which you 0to, your
sisters Jumping rope, your brotbor's ball,
your kite, your hoop, your mothers smile,
your fathers frown-thoy arc oil part Of
tho tlbcr Of your immortal nature. Tho
mother OF Missionary Schwartz throw
light on tho dusky brow Of tho aayngos 10
whom ho preached long after sho was
dead. The mother Of Lord Byron pursued
him, an with Gcnd's fury, into all lands,
stretching gloom and dooth into Childo
Harold aud lowering In darkness over tho
lonely grave Of Mlssolonghl,
Rascally aud yagobond people for tho
most part como forth from unhappy homes.
Parents harsh and oruol on tho ono hand,
or on tho other lonlont 10 perfect loose.
ness, arc raising up generation OF vlpors.
A homo In which scolding and fault llnd.
Ing prodomlnato ID blood relation 10 the
gallows and ponltontiary. Potulanco Ia q
reptile that may crawl up into the family
nest and crush 10. There aro parontsw
disgust their ohlldron oven with roligia
They soold thoir little onea for not lovl,
God. They havo an informal manner o,
hearing tho oateohisn. They 20 about
even their religious duties In an exaspor.
atlng way, as though they woro possessed
Of the dovil Their house IN full OF tho
war.whoop Of contention, and from such
scenes husbands and children dash out In.
10 places OF dissipation 20 flud thoir lost
peace, or tho pence they never had. oh,
n there some mother liko uagar leading
her labmaol Into tho desort 10 bs smittsn
OF tho thirst aud parched In the sandi
In tbe solemn bhthhour voice foil
straight from the skies into that dwelling