Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-08-14

OOttlo IIOm ner nuSDanQ'S pocket ana
held ii up before the audience, and cried
out, "There is the cause of my, woel
There are the tears and the life blood Of
drunkard's wife!" And then, looking
up TO Heaven, she said, "How long, o
Lordi how long?n and then, looking down
to the audience, cried, "Do you wonder 1
feel strongly on this subject? Sisters,
will you help me?" And hundreds Of
voices responded, ''Yos, yes, we will help
you" se. F
You stand, some of you, in such o
tragedy to-day. You cannot even ask
him to stop drinking. 1t makes him
cross, and he tells you to mind your own
business. Is there any relief in such q
case? Not such as is found In the rig
marole Of comfort ordinarily given in
such cases. But there is a relief that
drops in mama from the throne of God.
oh, lift up your lacerated soul in prayer,
and you will get omnipotent comfort! l
do not know in what words the soothing
influence may come, but ! know that for
especial grief there is especial deliver
ance. l give you two or three passages;
try them on. Take that which best fits
your soul: "Whom the Lord loveth He
chasteneth. "All things work together
for good to those who love God"
''Weeping may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning." know
there are those who, when they try to
comfort people, always bring the same
stale sentiment about the usefulness of
trial. Instead Of bringing up new
plaster for q new wound, and fresh
mama for fresh hunger, they rummage
their haversack to find some crumb Of
old consolation, when from horizon to
horizon the ground is white with the new
fallen mama of Gods help not five min
uteS old.
But after fourteen thousand six hun
dred consecutive days of falling mamma
Sundays excepted-the mama ceased.
Some OF them were glad of it. You
know they had complained to their
leader, and wondered that they had to
eat mama instead of onions. Now
the fare is changed. Those people
in that army under 40 years of age
had never seen cornfield, and now
when they hear the leaves rustling and
see the tassels waving and the pillows
of green flowing over the plain as the
wind tonched them, it must have been
a new and lively sensation. "Corn."
cried the old man as he opened an ear.
''Corn!" cried the children as they
counted the shining grains. "Cornv
shouted the vanguard of the host as they
burst open the granaries of the af-
frighted population, the granaries that
had been left in the possession Of the
victorious Israelites. Then the fire was
kindled and the ears of corn were thrust
into it, and, fresh and crisp and. tender, were
devoured OF the hungry victors; and
bread was prepared, and many things
that can be made out Of flour regaled the
appetites that had been sharpened by the
long march. "And the mamma ceased on
the morrow after they had eaten of the
old corn Of the land"
Blessed be God, we stand in Just such
field to-day, the luxuriant grain COM
ing above the girdle, the air full of the
odors of the ripe old corn of the Gospel
Canaan. ''Ohw you say, ''the fare is too
plain" Then / remember you will soon
get tired Of fanciful diet, While Twas
in Paris 1 liked for while the rare and
excellent cookery; but / soon wished I
was home again and had the plain fare of
my native land. So it is fact THAT we
soon weary of the sirups, and the Gus
tards, and the whipped foam -of fanciful
religionists, and we cry, "Give us plain
bread made out of the old corn of the Cos
pei of Canaan" This is the only food
that can quell the souls hunger.
But you say corn is of but little prac-
tical use unless it is threshed and ground
and baked. I answer, this gospel corn
has gone through that process. When
on Calvary all the hoofs of human scorn
came down on the heart of Christ, and all
the fails of satanic fury beat him long
and fast, was not the corn threshed ?
When the mills of Gods indignation
against sin caught Christ between the
upper and neither rollers, was not the corn
ground? When Jesus descended into hell,
and the flames of the lost world wrapped
Him all about, was not the corn baked?
Oh, yes! Christ is ready, His pardon all
ready, His peace all ready, everything
ready in Christ. Are you ready for
Him?
You say, t'That is such a simple gos-
pell" knowit is. You say you thought
religion was strange mixture of elabor-
ate compounds. No; it is so plain that
any abecedarian may understand it. Inits
simplicity is its power. If you could this
morning realize that Christ died to save
from sin and death and hell not only your
minister and your neighbor and your
father or your child, but you, it would
make this hour like the judgment day for
agitations, and, no longer able to keep
your seat, you would leap up crying,
For me! for mel" God grant that you,
my brother, may sec this gospel with your
own eyes, and hear with your own ears,
and feel with your own heart that youare
lost soul, but that Christ comes for your
extrication. Can you not take that truth
and digest it, and make it part of your
immortal life? 1t is only bread.
You have noticed that invalids cannot
take all kinds of food The food that
will do for one will not do for another.
There are kinds of food which will pro-
duce, in case Of invalidism, very speedy
death. But you have noticed that all
persons, however weak they may be, can
take bread. Oh, soul sick with sin, in
valid in your transgressions, I think this
gospel will agree with you! I think If
you cannot take anything else you can
take this! Lost--found! Sunken--
raised! Condemned-pardoned! Cast
out-invited in! That is the old corn Of
the Gospel. fb 4G8,
Inotice in regard to this article Of
food you take it three times day. 1t
is on your table morning, noon, and
night; and If it is forgotten you say,
"Where is the bread?" just so GER
tainly you need Jesus three times a day.
oh do NOT tart ont withni1t Him. do not