Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-01

the hairs Of your head. Well, that Is along
and tedious count II the head have the
average endowment. II has been found
that II the hairs Of the head be black there
are about 10000. or II they be haxen there
are about 10000. But God knows the ex-
act number: The hairs OF your head are
all numbered" Would Christ impress us
with the divine watehfulness and care. he
speaks OF the sparrows. that were nuis-
anee in those times. They were caught by
the thousands in the net They were thin
and scrawny. and had comparatively no
meat on their bones. They seemed almost
yalueless. whether living or dead. Now.
argues Christ, II my Father takes care OF
them will He not take care Of your Christ
would have the Christian despondent over
his slowness of religious development to go
TO his corn field for alesson. He watches
first the green shoot pressing up through
the clods, gradually ystrengthing into stalk,
and last OF all the husk swelling out with the
pressure OF the corn: First the blade. then
the ear. after that the full corn in the ear"
Would David set forth the freshness and
beauty Of genuine Christian characterize
sees an eagle starting from its nest just
after the moulting season. its old feathers
shed. and its wings and breast decked with
new down and plumes, its body as finely
feathered as that of her young ones Just be-
ginning to try the speed of their wings.
Thus rejuvenated and replumed is the
Christians faith and hope by every season
Of communion with God, "Thy youth is re-
newed like the eagles" Would Solomon
represent the annoyances of contentious
woman's tongue, he points to a leakage in
the top OF his house or tent, where, through
out the stormy day. the water comes
through. falling upon the floor-dripl dripl
dripl and he says, "a continual dripping in
a very rainy day and contentious woman
are alike" Would Christ set forth the char
aeter Of those who make great profession of
piety, but have no fruit, he compares them
to barren fig trees, which have very large
and snowy leaves, and nothing but leaves.
Would Job Illustrate deceitful friendships,
he speaks of brooks in those climes, that
wind about in different directions, and dry
up when you want to drink out of them:
MY brethren have dealt deceitfully as q
brook, and as the stream of brooks they
pass away" David, when he would impress
us with the dependency into which he had
sunk, compares it to quagmire OF those
regions, through which he had doubtless
tried to walk, but sunk in up to his neck,
and he cried, Il sink in deep mire where
there is no standing" Would Habakkuk
set forth the capacity which God gives the
good man to walk safely amid the widest
perils, he points to the wild animal called
the hind walking over the slippery rocks,
andleaping from wild crag towild crag. by the
peculiar make of its hoofs able calmly to
sustain itself in the most dangerous places:
1.-THE Lord God is my strength, and he will
make nv feet like hind's feet"
Job makes all natural objects pay trib-
ute to the royalty Of his book. AS you go
go through some chapters of Job you feel as
If it were bright spring morning. and you
see the glittering drops from the grass un-
der your feet, you say with that patriarch,
Who hath begotten the drops ofthe dew?"
And now, as you read on. you seem in the
silent midnight to behold the waving of q
great light upon your path, and you look up
to find it the aurora borealis. which Job de-
scribed so long ago as -the bright light in
| the clouds and the splendor that cometh
| out of the north" As you read on there is
darkness hurtling in the heavens, and the
showers break loose till the birds fly for
| hiding place and the mountain torrents in
red fury foam over the rocky shelving; and
with the same poet you exclaim, Who can
number the clouds in wisdom, or who can
stay the bottles of .Heaven?" As you read
| on you feel yourself coming in frosty climes,
| and in fancy, wading through the snow,
you say. with that same inspired writer,
Hast thou entered into the treasures of the
snow?" And while the sharp sleet drives
in your face, and the hail stings your cheek
| you quote Him again; Hast thou seen the
treasures Of the hail?" In the Psalmists s
writings hear the voices of the sea: "DeeI
ealleth unto Deep" and the roar of forests
"The Lord shaketh the wilderness o1
Kadesh;" and the loud peal of the black
tempest: The God of glory thundereth;
and the rustic of the long silk on the well
filed husks: "The valleys are covered with
corn;" and the cry of wild beasts: THE
young lions roar after their prey the hum
of palm trees and cedars: "The righteous
shall flourish like palm tree; he shall grow
like cedar in Lebanon" the sough o.
wings and the swirl of fins: Dominion
over the fowl of the air and the fish of the
sea-"
The truths of the gospel might have beer
presented in, technical terms, and by the
means of dry definitions, but under thest
the world would not have listened or felt
How could the safety of trusting upoI
Christ have been presented, were it not fo
the figure of rock2 How could the glad
dening effect of the gospel have been Sc
forth, had not Zacharias thought Of tn,
dawn of the morning, exclaiming: 1.-THE da.
spring from on high hath visited us to Civ
light to them that sit in darkness" How
could the souls intense longing for Chris
have been presented so well as by the EN-
blem of natural hunger and natural thirst
As the lake gathers into its bosom th'
shadow of hills around, and the gleam o
stars above, so, in these great deeps OF di
vine truth, all objects in nature are grandl
reflected. We walk forth in the spring time
and everything breathes of Resurrection
Bright blossoms and springing grass speal
to us of the coming up of those whom w
! have loved. when in the white robes of thei
joy and coronation they shall appear.
And when in the autumn of the year ma
ture breaches thousands of funeral sermon
from the text, 1--WE all do fade as q leaf,
and scatters her elegies in our path, we can
not help but think of sickness and the tomb
Even winter. "being dead, yet speaketh.
The world will not be argued into the right
Tell them what religion is like. When tn
mother tried to tell her dying child wha
heaven was she compared it to light. "Bu
that hurts my eyes," said the dying gir
; Then the mother compared heaven to music
But any sound hurts me- am so weak.
said the dying child. Then she was tol
that Heaven was like mothers arms. "Ot
take me therel" she said. IF 1t is hk
mothers arms, take me therep' The appro
, PIRATE simile had been found at last.
, Another contribution which the natura
world is making to the kingdom Of Christ
the defense and aid which the elements ar
compelled to give to the Christian person
ally. There is no law in nature butts sWor
, for the Christians defense. In Job thi
{ thought is presented as O. bargain made be
/ tween the inanimate creation and the right
, eous man: Thou shalt be in league wit
| the stones Of the field" What a gran
| thought that the lightnings. and the tenn
, pests. and the hail and the frosts. whic
t are the enemies Of unrighte are a
marshaled as the Christians body guart
; They fight for him. They strike with q
! arm of fire. or clutch with the fingers Of ict
Everlasting peace is declared between th
| f1eroest elements Of nature and good mar
They may in their fury seem to be indis
l criminate. shifting down the righteous wit
t the wicked. yet they cannot damage th