Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-15

D redeom- That iS . seeOnd fact .ns
SSsst e 49, vi r usSsIcn s S % Ss q Il u me- Me-
ent Now, what Is tho coumon soass thing
for 10 to do N view Of khess three feetsa
You wiz all agFes with mo to qth sin. taks
Christ and take Him now. SzppoSe coma
business man in whose skin you had pericct
conhdenos should tell you that tomorrow
Monday morning betvean II and 10 o'clock
you could by q certain 1napeil treps.
notion mako i've thousand dollars, but
thst On Tuesday perhaps you -misht
mako It, but there would not bo any posi-
tiveness about II, and on Wednesday thars
would hot be 50 much, and .Thnrsdny laSs,
Friday les, and so ON, less and leGs--when
would you attend TO the matter? Why, your
common sense would dictate: "Immediateiy;
win attand TO that matter betWeen IL and
l2 O'Clock tomorrow (Anudayl morn
ing, for then ! can sS1ely 40
nav not, and on wednesday there is less
prospect ] win attend to It tomorrow
Now let us bring our common sanss In this
matter of religion Here arc the hopes OF
the Gospel We may get them now. To
morrow me may get them and wo may not.
Next day we may and V2p may not. The
prospect less and less and less and less.
The only sure time now-now. would
not talk to you in this way IL did not know
that Christ was able to gave all the people,
and save thousands as easily as save one.
would not go into hospital and tear or the
bandages from the wounds il I had
no ba1m to apply. would not have
the face to tell man he is q sinner unless
/ had at tho same time the authority
of saying he may be saved. Suppose In
Venice thareis Raphael, faded picture.
great in its time, bearing some marks OF It's
greatness History describes that picture 10
isgnearly faded away. You say; "Oh, what
apity that 50 wonderful picture by Raphael
should be nearly defacedp After awhile q
man comes up, very unskilKul in art, and he
proposes to retouch it. You say: "Stand
off Iwould rather have it just as it is; you
will only make it worse" After q while
there comes an artist who was tha
equal Of Raphael. Ho says: 81 will re-
touch that picture and bring out all its orig
inal powern You have full confidence In his
ability. He touches it here and there.
he is done with the picture it is complete in
an its original power. Now God TN
pressed His image on our race, but
that image has been defaced for hun
drcls and for thousands Of years, get
ting fainter and fainter. Hero comes
upa divine Raphael. He says: " can restore
that picture" He has all power in heaven
and ON 6areh. de lS The equal OF the OA0
who made the picture, the image Of the One
who drew the image Of God in our soul. He
touches this sin and it is gonO that trans,
gression and it disappears, and all the dsfacs-
ment vanishes, and where sin abounded
grace doth much more abound"
VIII you have the defacemant or
will you have the restoration
I, am well persuaded that If / could by q
touch Of heavenly pathos in two minutes pnt
before you what has been doue to save your
soul, there would be an emotional tide over-
whahuing. Mamma" said a little child TO
her mother when shs was being put TO bod Nt
night, '.mamma, what makes your hand
so SCARED and twisted and unlike
other peoples handsp swell" said the
mother, 'tmy child, when you were
younger than you are Nv, years ago, one
night after I had put you to bed heard a
cry, shriek upstairs ca1no up and found
the bed was on fire, and you were ON fire,
and1 took hold Of you and tore of the
burning garments and while was tearing
them of and trying to get YOU away ] burned
my hand, and il has been burned and SCARED
ever since and hardly looks any
more like hand; but got thai,
my child, in trying to save you" o mani
O,womanl ! wish to-day I could show you
the burned hand Of Christ-burned in pluck
ing you out of the fire, burned in snatching you
away from the fame. Aye, also the burned
foot, and the burned brow, and the burned
heart-burned for you. By His stripes ye are
healed. r.- -.r.