Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-25

But September, 1870 arrived, and Sedan
unrolled its crimson scroll. The EN-
peror surrenders with SO, 600 troops, 419
field guns, 5000 horses and 10000 mus
kets. From that day the ballot box was
up and the throne was down. Free in
stitutions have been substituted for an
Infamous monarchy. Thank God! The
crooked has been made straight.
In many q domestic life are difficulties
to be removed. There are thousands Of
matches that were not made in Heaven.
Some of the lOveliest women have been
united to some Of the meanest men, and
some of the grandest men to the most
worthless women. There may be no
sufficient cause of enforcement, but there
has never been any accord. For them
the wedding march ought never to have
been played. The twain divergent in
sentiment, the north pole and the south
pole might just as well have been mar
ried. A twist of nettles would have
been more appropriate than garland of
orange blossoms. The unutterable mis-
take was made to please parents, or for
the acquisition of estate, or for height
ening of social position, or from thorough
thoughtlessneSS. l call the attention Of
such to the rapid dissolution of families.
This thought which is o sadness to o
happy marital state, might be consola-
tory to those unequally yoked. A very
short path is the path of life. The roll
ing years will give quick emancipation.
Ever ybody for discipline must have some
kind of trouble, aud that is your trouble.
Put in a song now and then to cheer
your spirit. Make the best of things.
Find in God that peace which no one
else can bestow. The days and months
and years are crowding past, and the
last of the procession so far as you are
concerned will soon have gone by. Re-
member that some of the best men and
women who have ever lived have had the
same lifetime misfortune. They bore
up under it, and so can you. The ex-
piration Of the life of one Of you will
after while remove the aff1iction. Let
the one that remains make no hypocriti-
cal mourning at the obsequies of the one
that goes, or initiate those whom we have
all noticed who fought like cats and dogs
all their married state and then could
not get organs to sound dirges doleful
enough, or furnishing stores to prepare
weeds black enough, or tombstone
cutters to chisel epitaphs eulogistic
enough.
1t is a matter of congratuation that
the unhappiest conjugal relation will
terminate. The crooked shall be made
straight In the ages of the world when
people lived five or six or eight or nine
hundred years such consolation for any
kind of trouble would have been inapt.
1t would have brought no relief to some
of those old patriarchs to say ''you will
have only seven hundred more years of
this" But life has been abbreviated by
the cutting off of century after century
until we can console people, whether
their trouble be financial or social or do
nestle, by saying it will not be long be-
fore the crooked shall be made straight.
But to those who were once happily
united on earth, but are now separated,
the same thought comes in good cheer.
Not long separated! Tradition says that
two bells were nodded and sent from
Spain for distant land to chime in a
church tower. But while in storm at
sea one of these bells was wrecked, and
only one reached the shore and was hung
in the church tower. And some people
thought that when, standing on the land,
they heard that bell ringing for worship
or in wedding peal they could at the
same time hear from the sea the lost
bell ringing as if in response. Some of
our friends and kindred have crossed the
stormy sea and are in the tower of God
on high. But we are still in the tempest,
and sometimes the surges beat over us,
but our souls are still in accord with
those who are gone, and they ring down
to us and we ring up to them, and there
is sympathy between US that cannot
die.
"Oh," says some one, ''the crook in my
lot you have not mentioned, and I sit
clear outside of all the consultations you
have offered" Well, I will take after
you with gospel comfort and reach you
before l close. Do you think your
wound is so deep the divine surgeon can
not treat it? Have you a trouble that
oyermasters God? Is your annoyance of
such nature that you must suppress it?
All, that is what is killing you. Trouble
must be told, or it stings to death the
one who carries it. If there is no man or
woman you can trust with the secret you
can trust God. HE away to Him. Tell
Him all about it. Lock your door and
tell Him aloud, and if you do not get re-
lief you will be the first soul in the six
thousand years of the worlds existence
and the only one of the hundreds of mill
ions of the human race who ever called
on God for help and did not get it. In
all the universe, in all eternity, there is
not an exception. Stop brooding and
commence praying.
l bless my God that, while there are
so many crooked things in life, there are
some things so straight God Himself
could not make them straighter. Divine
help comes straight to those who will
have it. The angels of mercy fly straight
when they undertake a rescue. The
hour of your final deliverance marches
straight out of the eternities. And as
the carpenter puts down his rule on a
piece Of timber, and with his axe hews
away until the last inequality and irreg-
ularity disappears, so when God in the
last great day shall put down his unfail-
ing measuring rule beside that event
, which seemed the most twisted in our
lives or in the world, it will be found out
that the last discrepancy has vanished
and the last wrong has been righted, and
the last crooked thing has been made
, straight.
A Generous widow.
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