The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-07


mental culture. Get all these you can.
But do say to those who were brought up
in the day Of poor school-houses and ig-
norant school masters, and no oppor-
tunity, you may have so much good in
your soul and so much of heaven in your
every day life that you will be mightier
for good than any who went through the
curriculum of Harvard or Yale, or Ok
ford, yet never graduated in the school
of Christ. When you get up to the gate
OF Heaven no one will ask you whether
you can parse the first chapter Of Genesis,
but whether you have learned the fear OF
the Lord, which is the beginning of wis
dom; nor whether you know how to square
the circle, but whether you have lived
square life In a round world. Mount Zion
is higher than Mount Parnassus.
4. But what other mul attitudes there are
under other disadvantages! Here is the
Christian woman whose husband thinks
religion a sham, and while the wife prays
the children one way the husband swears
them another. Or here is Christian man
who is trying to do his best for God aud
the Church, and his wife holds him hack
and says ON the way home from prayer
meeting, where he gave testimony for
Chr ist:
"What fool you make of yourself! I
hope hereafter you will keep still"
And when he would be benevolent and
give fifty dollars, she criticises him for
giving fifty cents. must do justice, and
publicly thank God thai never proposed
at home to give anything for any cause Of
humanity or religion but the other part
ner in the domestic firm approved it. And
when it seemed beyond my ability and
faith in God was necessary, she had three
fourths of the faith. But l know men
who, when they contribute to charitable
objects, are afraid that the wife hall find
it out. What a withering curse such a
wife must be to a good mani
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapestP You say those who
have little means. But they pay more.
You buy coal by the ton, they buy it by
the bucket. You buy -four by the barrel,
they buy it by the pound. You get ap-
parel cheap because you pay cash. They
pay dear because they have to get trust
ed. And the Bible was right when it said:
The destruction OF the poor Is their power
ty.
Then there are those who made mis-
take in early life, and that overshadows
all there days. "Do you not know that
that man was once in prison" is Whisper
ed. Or. ADO you know that that man once
attempted suicide~ Or, "Do you know
that that man once absconded?" Or. "Do
you know that that man was once dis.
charged for dishonesty" Perhaps there
was only one wrong deed in the mans
life, and that one act haunts the subse-
quent half-century of his existence.
Others have unfortunate predominance
of some mental faculty, and their RASH
ness throws them into wild enterprises, or
their trepidation makes them decline
great opportunity, or there is vein of
melancholy in their disposition that dee
feats them, or they have an endowment of
over-mirth that causes the impression Of
insincerity.
Others have mighty obstacle In their
personal appearsce, for which they are
not responsible They forget that God
fashioned their features and their COM
plexion, and their stature, the size Of their
nose and mouth, and hands and feet, and
gave them the gait and the general
appearance; and they forget that much
of the worlds best work, and the
church's best work, has been
done by homely people; and that Paul the
Apostle is said to have been hump backed,
and his eyesight weakened by ophthalmia,
while many of the finest in appearance
have passed their time before fiattering-
looking glasses, or in studying killing at
titudes, and in displaying the richness Of
wardrobes-not one ribbon, or vest, or
sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring Of
which they have had brains enough 20
earn for themselves.
Oh, this world Is an over -burdened world,
an overworked worldl 1t is an awfully
tired world. 1t Is a dreadfully unfortu-
nate world. Scientists are trying to find
out the cause Of these earthquakes in all
lands, cisatlantic and Transatlantic. Some
say this and some say that. Ihave taken
the diagnosis of what is the matter with
the earth. It has so many burdens on it
and so many fires within it, It has ft.
1t can not stand such a circumference and
such diameter. Some new Cotopaxi, or
Stromboli, or Vesuvius, will open, and
then all will be at peace for the natural
world. But what abour the moral woes Of
the world, that have rocked all nations,
and for six thousand years science pro-
9th hrt Ia1o
people that know the most are the most
uncontrolled?
In the way of practical relief for all dis
advantages and all woes, the only voice
that is worth listening to on this subject
Is the voice of Christianity, which
is the voice of Almighty God. Whether
have mentioned the particular dis.
advantage under which you labor OF
not, l distinctly declare, in the name Of
my God, that there Is way out and way
up for all Of you. You can not be any
worse of than that Christian young
woman who was In the Pemberton mills
when they fell some years ago, and from
under the fallen timbers she was heard
singing:
lam going home to de no mora
Take good courage from that Bible, all
of whose promises are for those in bad
predicament There are better days for
you, either on earth or in Heaven. put
my hand under your chin and lift your
face into the light of the coming dawn.
Have God on your side, and then you
have for reserve troops all the armies OF
Heaven, the smallest company of which Is
10000 chariots, and the smallest battalion
144,0OO, the lightnings of Heaven their
drawn swords.
An ancient warrior saw an overpower-
ing host come down upon his small COM
pany Of armed men, and, mounting his
horse with handful of sand, he threw 10