Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-11-14

afpenstock, and gnides, and roekets.and
ropes, and, getting half way up, STUN
BILE and fall down in n horrible massacre
They inst wanted to say they had been
on the tops of those high peaks. And
shall we fear to go out for the ascent OF
the eternal hills which start q thousand
miles beyond where stop the highest
peaks Of the Alps, and when IN that
ascent there is no peril? Aman doomed
to die stepped on the seatfold, and SAID
In joy: Now, in ten minutes l viii
know the great secret. One minute
after the vital functions ceased, the
little child that died last night knew
more than Paul himself before he died.
Friends, the exit from this world, or
death, if you please to call il, to the
Christian is glorious explanation. It is
demonstration. II is illumination. 1t
is sunburst. It is the opening Of allthe
windows. Ii is shutting up the cate-
chism of doubt, and the unrolling OF all
the scrolls OF positive and accurate in
formation. Instead of standing at the
foot of the ladder and looking up, it is
standing at the top of the la&1er and
looking down. 1t is the last mystery
taken out of botany and geology and
astronomy and theology. oh, will itnot
be grand to have all questions answered.
The perpetually recurring interrogation
point changed for the mark Of exclana-
tion. All riddles solved. Who will fear
to go out ON that discovery, when allthe
questions are to be decided which we
have been discussing all our liyesY
Who shall not clap his hands in the
anticipation of that blessed country, il
it be no better than through holy Gu
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suppress his curiosity, We need not sup
press ours. Yes, l have an unlimited
| curiosity about all religious things, and
| as this city of Rome was 80 intimately
connected with apostolic times, the in
cidents of which emphasize and explain
and augment the Christian religion,
you will not take it as an evidence of
prying spirit, but as the outbursting OF
Christian curiosity when say must
also see Rome.
Our desire to visit this city is also in
tensifed by the fact that we want to bO
confirmed in the feeling that human life
is brief, but its work lasts for centuries,
indeed forever Therefore, show us the
antiquities of old Rome, about which
we have been reading for lifetime, but
never seen. In our beloved America,
we have no antiquities. A church
eighty years old overawes us with its
age. We have in America some cathe-
drals hundreds and thousands of years
old, but they are in Yellowstone Park,
or Californian canon, and their archl-
lecture and masonary were by the omn1-
potent God. We want to see the build
ings, or ruins of old buildings, TINT
were erected hundreds and thousands
of years ago by human hands. They
lived ferty or seventy years, but the
arches they lifted, the paintings they
penciled, the sculpture they chiseled,
the roads they laid out, l understand,
are yet to be seen, and we want you to
show them to us. / can hardly wait
until Monday morning. must also see
Rome. We want to be impressed with
the fact that what men do on small
scale or large scale lasts thousand
wears, lasts forever, that we build foi
, eternity snd that we do so in very short
space of time. God is the only old living
presence. But; it is an old age without
. any of the infrmlties or limitations OF
old age. There is passage of Scrip
ture which speaks of the birth of the
mountains, for there was time when
the Andes were born, and the Pyrenees
were born, and the Sierra Neyadas were
, born, but before the birth of the
, mountains the Bible tells us, God was
born, aye was never born at all, because
/ He always existed. Psalm &c, 2: Be
a | fore the mountains were brought forth,
, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and
r the world, even from everlasting tc
, everlasting, thou art God" How short
' | is human life, what antiquity attaches
) to its worth! How everlasting is God
Show us the antiquities, the things tha
Q were old when America was discovered
0 old when Paul went up and down thes'
1 streets sight seeing, old when Chris
1 was born. must, I must also see Rome
e Another reason for our visit to this
q city is that we want to see the place.
8 where the mightiest intellects and tn
I greatest natures wrought for our Chris
: tian religion. We have been told II
: America by some people of swollel
n heads that the Christian religion is
!, pusillanimous thing, good for children
: under years of age and small bralne'
!. people, but not for the intelligent an
e swarthy minded. We have heard o
o your Constantine the mighty, VIII
Il pointed his army to tho cross, saying
IS "By this conquer" If there be anythin
|. here connected, with his reign or hi
o military history, show it to us. In
: mightiest intellect of the ages was tn
d author of my text, and, if for the Chris
n tian religion he was willing to labor an
|. suffer and die, there must be somethin
3. exalted and sublime and tremendous
is it; and show me every place he visited
and show me if you can where he wS
-e tried, and which of your roads leads OF
t. to Ostia, that may see where he wei
ID out to die. We expect before we finis
0. this journey to see Lake Galilee and th
i: places where Simon, Peter, and Andre
u fished, and perhaps we may drop q nj
xt or hook and line into those waite
10 ourselves, but when following the trac
X Of those lesser apostles / will leal
10 quite another lesson. Iwant while
ii this city of Rometo study the religic
a of the brainiest of the apostles. Iwal
id to follow, as far as we can trace
er the track of this great intellect Of n
". text who wanted to see Rome also. /
in was logician, he was a met
rs physician, he was an all conqueril
IL orator, he was poet of the hlghe
Ill type. He had nature that cou
at swamp the leading men of his own do
so and, hurled against the Sanhedrim,
ce made it tremble. He learned all
If; could get in the school of his natl
IS village, then he had gone to Q high
W. school, and there had mastered 7
i / Greek and the Hebrew and perfect
ey himself in bellies lettres, until, in AFT
do years, he astounded the Cretans, andt
Oh Corinthians, and the Athenians,
to quotations from their own authors.
u have never found anything In Carly
,ut or Goethe, or Herbert Spencer tf