Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-13

everlastIngly 10 grateful, and in the cal
endar OF saints, which / read with espe-
cial affection, are the doctors OF divinity
who blessed me with their care.
Years ago went up to the door Of a
factory In New England. On the out
side door saw the words: ''No Admit
tance." went in and came 10 another
door over which were the words: mo
Admittance." OF course went in, and
came to third door inscribed with the
words: "No Admittance." Having en-
tered this found the people inside max
ing pins, beautiful pins, useful pins, and
nothing but pins. So over the outside
door of many Of the churches has been
practically written the words: mo Ad-
mittance." Some have entered and have
come to the inside door, and found the
words: 'No Admittance." But, per-
sisting, they have come inside, and found
us sounding our little niceties of belief,
pointing out our little differences Of
theological entiment-making pins!
But the most distinguished was Bethel
for that atfamous dream which Jacob had,
his head on q collection of stones. He
had no trouble in this rocky region in
finding a rocky pillow. There is hardly
anything else but stone. Yet the people
of those lands have a way Of drawing
their outer garment up over their head
and face, and such pillow l suppose
Jacob had under his head. The plural
was used in the Bible story, and you find
it was not a pillow of stone, but of stones,
l suppose, so that If one proved to be of
uneven surface he would turn over in
the night and take another stone, for
with such hard bolster he would often
change in the night. Well, that night
God built in Jacobs dream long splen-
did ladder, the feet of it on either side
of the tired pilgrims pillow, and the top
of it morticed in the sky. And bright
immortals came out from the castles of
amber and gold and put their shining
feet on the shining rungs of the ladder,
and they kept coming down and going
up, procession both ways.
suppose they had wings, for the Bible
almost always reports them as having
wings, but this was ladder on which
they used hands and feet to encourage
all those of us who have no wings to
climb, and encouraging US to believe that
if we use what we have God will provide
way, and if we will employ the hand
and foot He will furnish the ladder.
Young man, do not wait for wings. Those
angels folded theirs to show you wings
are not necessary. Let all the people
who have hard pillows, hard for sickness
Tor hard for poverty or hard for persist
ence, know that hard pillow is the
landing place of angels. They seldom
descend to pillows of elder down. They
seldom build dreams in the brain of the
one who sleeps easy.
The greatest dream of all time was
that of st. John. with his head on the
rocks of Patmos, and in that vision he
heard the seven trumpets sounded, and
saw all the pomp of Heaven in process
sion cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.
The next most memorable and glorious
dream was that of John Bunyan, his
pillow the cold stone of the floor of Bed
fory Jail, from which he saw the celestial
city, and so many entering it he cried
out in his dream: 81 wish myself
among them"
The next most wonderful dream was
that of Washington sleeping on the
ground at Valley Forge, his head on a
white pillowcase of snow, where he saw
the vision of a nation emancipated. Co
lumbus slept on weaYer's pillow, bnt
rose on the ladder let down until he could
see a new hemisphere. Demosthenes
slept on cutters pillow, but on the
ladder let down arose to see the mighty
assemblages that were to be swayed by
his oratory. Arkwright slept on a bar
ber's pillow, but went up the ladder till
he could see all England quake with. the
factories he set going. AkeDside slept
on butchers pillow, and took the lad
der up till he saw other generations
helped by his scholarship.
John Ashworth slept on poor mans
pillow, but took the ladder up until he
could see his prayers and exertions
bringing thousands of the destitute in
England to salvation and Heaven.
Nearly all those who are to-day great in
merchandise, in craftsmanship, in law,
in medicine, in art, in literature, were
once at the foot of the ladder, and in
their boyhood had q pillow hard as
Jacobs. They who are born at the top
of the ladder are apt to spend their lives
in coming down, while those who are at
| the foot, and their head on bowlder, If
they have the right kind of dream, are
almost sure to rise.
Inotice that those angels, either in
coming down or going up on Jacobs
ladder, took it rung by rung, They did
not leap to the bottom nor jump to the
| top. So you are to rise. Faith added to
faith, good deed to good deed, industry
to industry, conservation to consecra-
tion, until you reach the top, rung by
rung. Gradual going up from block OF
J granite to pillar of throne.
That night at Bethel stood in front
of my tent and looked up, and the
! heavens were full of ladders, first lad
der of clouds, then a ladder of stars, and
all up and down the heavens were angels
of beauty, angels of consolation, angels
of God, ascending and descending.
''Surely God is in this place, said Jacob,
''and knew it not" But tonight God
! is in this place and I know it!
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| A Peculiar Fowl.
Fred Deppe, butcher, has in his