Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-18

strength day after day. and week after
week, and year after year, how little re-
sorting to God for solacel Then people de-
pend upon their tonics and their plasters
and their cordlals rather than upon heav-
emily stimulants. Oh, how few people
there are completely welll Some Of you, BY
dint Of perseverance and care, have kept
living TO this time; but how you have had
TO war against physical ailmentsl Ante
diluvians, without medical college and In
frmary and apothecary shop. multiplied
their years by hundreds; but he who has
gone through the gantlet of disease in our
time, and has come TO seventy years OF age,
is hero worthy Of a palm
THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS.
The world seems to be great hospital,
and you run against rheumatisms and con-
sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias
and scores of old diseases baptized by new
nomenclature. Oh, how heavy a burden
sickness isl It takes the color out Of the
sky, and the sparkle out of the wave, and
the sweetness out of the fruit and the >lus-
ter out Of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when the
mouth is hot. when the ear roars with un-
healthy obstructions, how hard it is to be
patient and cheerful and assiduous! Cast
thy burden upon the Lord" Does your
head achei His wore the thorn. Do your
feet hurti His were crushed of the spikes.
Is your side painful' His was struck by
the spear. Do you feel like giving way un-
der the burdeni His weakness gave way
under a cross
While you are in every possible way to
try to restore your physical vigor, you are
to remember that more soothing than any
anodyne,a and more vitalizing than any stim-
ulant, and more strengthening than any
tonic is the prescription of the text: Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain thee" We hear great deal of
talk now about faith cure, and some people
say it cannot be done and it is failure.
do not know but that the chief advance of
the church is to be in that direction Mar
velous things come to me day by day
which make me think that if the age of
miracles is past it is because the faith of
miracles is past.
A prominent merchant of New York
said to member of my family, "My moth
er wants her case mentioned to Mr.. Tai
mage" This was the case He said: my
mother had dreadful abscess, from which
she had suffered untold agonies, and all
surgery had been exhausted upon her, and
worse and worse she grew until we called
in a few Christian friends and proceeded
to pray about it. We commended her case
to God, and the abscess began Immediately
to be cured. She is entirely well now, and
without knife and without any surgery"
So that case has come to me, and there are
score of other cases coming to our ears
from all parts of the earth. Oh, We who
are sick, go to Christi Oh, We who are
worn out with agonies of body, "Cast thy
burden upon the Lord. and he shall sus-
tain thee"
THE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT.
Another burden some have to carry is
the burden of bereavement. All! these are
the troubles that wear us out. If we lose our
property, by additional industry perhaps
we may bring back the estranged fortune;
if we lose our good name, perhaps by
reformation of morals we may achieve
again reputation for integrity; but who will
bring back the dear departed? Alas mel
for these empty cradles and these trunks
of childish toys that will never be used
again. Alas mel for the empty chair and
the silence in the halls that will never echo
again to those familiar footsteps. Alasl
for the cry of widowhood and orphanage.
What bitter Marahs in the wilderness,
what cities of the dead, what long black
shadow from the wing of death, what eyes
sunken with grief, what hands tremulous
with bereavement, what instruments of
music shut now because there are no fin
gers to play on themI Is there no relief
for such soulsi Aye, let the soul ride into
the harbor of my text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
l will not, will not desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to
shake,
Now, the grave is brighter than the an
cient tomb where the lights were perpetu-
ally kept burning. The SCARED feet of
him who was "the resurrection and the
life" are on the broken grave hillock, while
the voices Of angels ring down the sky at
the coronation of another soul come home
to glory.
THE ONLY CURE FOR SIN.
Then there are many who carry the bur
den of sin. All, we all carry it until in
the appointed way that burden is lifted.
We need no Bible to prove that the whole
race is ruined. What spectacle it would
be if we could tear off the mask of human
deflement, or beat a drum that would
bring up the whole army of the worlds
transgressions-the deception, the fraud,
and the rapine, and the murder, and the
crime of all the centuries Aye, if could
sound the trumpet of resurrection in the
soul of the best men in this audience, and
all the dead sins of the past should come
up, we could not endure the sight. Sin,
grim and dire, has put its clutch upon the
immortal soul, and that clutch will never
relax unless it be under the heel of him
who came to destroy the works of the devil
Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the
soul Is there no way to have the burden
moved? Oh, yes. "Cast thy burden upon
the Lord" The sinless one came to take
the consequences of our sinl And know
he is in earnest. How do know it? BY
the streaming temples and the streaming
hands as he says, "Come unto me all ye
who are weary and heavy laden, and will
give you rest" Why will prodigals live
ON swines' husks when the robe, and the
ring, and the fathers welcome are ready
Why go wandering over the great Sahars
desert of your sin when you are invited tc
the gardens of God, the trees of life and
the fountains of living water? Why bt
houseless and homeless forever when you
may become the sons and daughters of tn,
Lord God Almighty
Fashions in Fans.
There are gauze fans of novel design
hand painted, with flights of butterflies