Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-08

iobbers, or re.ailcrs. on Importers: but In
Heaven, Chr sstiRn heroes. No fagots were
neapeu ap' AT their feet; no inquisltion de-
manoeo foln them recantation; no soldier
aimed :. pike at their heart; but they had
menu tortures compared with which all
phy.dc consuming Is as the breath Of
81 ding morning.
lind in the community q large class OF
| men who have been so cheated, so lied
about. so outrageously wronged. that they
have lost their faith in everything. In q
world where everything seems so topsy-
turvey' they do not see how there can be
any God. They are confounded and fren-
zied and misanthropic. Elaborate argu-
ments to prove 70 them the truth Of Chris
tianity. or the truth Of anything else.
! touch them nowhere. Hear me. all such
men, Ipreach TO you no rounded periods.
| no ornamental discourse, but put my hand
on your shoulder and invite you into the
peace Of the gospel Here is rock on
which you may stand firm. though the
waves dash against it harder than the
Anantic, pitching its surf clear above Eddy
stone lighthouse.
Donot charge upon God all these troubles
OF the world. As long as the world stuck
to God. God stuck 10 the world; but the
earth seeded from his government. and
hence all these outrages and all these woes.
God is good. For many hundreds Of years
back to him; but the more he has coaxed
the more violent have men been In their
resistance, and they have stepped back and
back until they have dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the blood
hounds after you, and who have thought
that God had forgotten you. Try him, and
see if he will not help. Try him. and see
if he win not pardon. Try him. and see il
he will not save. The flowers Of the
spring have no bloom so sweet as the
Towering Of Christs affections. The sun
hath no warmth compared with the glow Of
his heart. The waters have no refreshment
like. the fountain that will slake the thirst Of
thy soul. At the moment thesreindeer
stands with his lip and nostril thrust in
the cool mountain torrent the hunter may
be coming through the thicket. Without
cracking stick under his foot he comes
close by the stag. aims his gun, draws the
trigger and the poor thing rears in its
death agony and falls backward. its ant
lers crashing on the rocks; but the painting
heart that drinks from the water brooks Of
Gods promise shall never be fatally
wounded and shall never die,
The world is poor portion for your soul.
oh business mani An Eastern king had
craven on his tomb two fingers, represented
as sounding upon each other with a snap,
and under them the motto. -An is not worth
that" Apicius CBlius hanged himself be-
only eighty thousand pounds sterling left.
All OF this worlds riches make but q small
inheritance for soul Robespierre at
tempted to win the applause Of the world;
but when he was dying awoman came rush.
ing through the crowd, crying to him, "Mur-
derer of my kindred, descend to hell, COW
cred with the curses of every mother in
Francel" Many who have expected the
plaudits of the world have died under its
Anathema Maranatha
Oh. find your peace in God. Make one
strong pull for heaven. No half way work
will do It, There sometimes comes a time
on shipboard when everything must be
sacrificed to save the passengers. The
cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The
captain puts the trumpet to his lips and
have been tossed and driven. and you have
in your effort to keep the world well nigh
lost your soul. Until you have decided this
matter let everything else go. Overheard
with all those other anxieties and burdensl
You will have to drop the sails Of your
pride. and cut away the mast. With one
earnest cry for help, put your cause into
the hand Of Him who helped Paul out of the
breakers of Melita, and who, above the
shrill blast of'the wrathiest tempest that
ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean.
can hear the faintest imp !oration for mercy.
l shall go home to-day feeling that some
OF you, who have considered your case as,
hopeless, will take heart again, and that,
with a blood-red earnestness, such as you
have never experienced before. you will
start for the good land of the Gospel-at
last to look back, saying: What risk /
ranl Almost lost. but savedl Just got
through, and no morel Escaped by the skin
of my teeth"