Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-22

ing eucQ 4 STOUT kIlp VI NAe shoIu u bue
battle against sin and for Righteousness, l
come to the conclusion that We ought 10
take a stOuter grip Of Gods eternal truth.
the sword Of righteousness.
As look at Eleazer's hand also notice
his spirit Of self forgetfulness He did not
notice that the hilt Of the swom was eat
ing through the palm OF his hand he did
not know it hurt him As he went out
into the conflict he was SO anxious for the
victory he forgot himself, and that hilt
might go never so deeply into the palm Of
of his hand it could not disturb him.
"His hand claye unto the sword" Oh, my
brothers and sisters, let us go into Chris
tian conflict with the spirit Of self abnega
ton. Who cares whether the world |
praises us or denounces 1usi What do we
care for Misrepresentation, or abuse or per
seoution in a conflict like this3 Let us
forget ourselves. That man who is afraid |
of getting his hand hurt will never kill a |
Philistine. Who cares whether you get |
hurt or not if you get the victoryi Oh, |
how many Christians there are who are all |
the time worrying about the way the world |
treats them. They are so tired, and they |
are SO abused, and they are so tempted,
when Eleazer did not think whether he |
had hand, or an arm or a foot. All he
wanted was victory
We see how men forget themselves in
worldly achievement. We have often seen
men who in order to achieve worldly sue.
cess will forget all physical fatigue and all
annoyance and all obstacles. Just after
the battle of Yorktown, in the American
Ial fnl1
he must have his limbs amputated, and
they were about to fasten him to the sur
geon's table-for it was long before the
merciful discovery of an8sthetics. He
said, mo, don't fasten me to that table;
get me violin" A violin was brought tc
him and he said, Now go to work as be
gin to play" and for forty minutes, during
the awful pangs of amputation, he moved
not muscle nor dropped note while he
played some sweet tune. Oh, is it not
strange that with the music of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and with this grand march
of the church militant on the way to be-
come the church triumphant, we cannot
forget ourselves and forget all pang and
all sorrow and all persecution and all per
turbation2
THE ENDURANCE OF HEROIC MEN.
| We know what men accomplish under
worldly opposition. Men do not shrink
back for antagonism or for hardship You
! have admired Prescott's Conquest of
Mexico" as brilliant and beautiful his
tory as was ever written; but some of you
may not know under what disadvantages
it was written-that Conquest of Mexico"
for Prescott was totally blind, and he had
two pieces of wood parallel to each other
fastened, and totally blind, with his pen
between those pieces of wood he wrote, the
stroke against one piece of wood telling
how far the pen must go in one way, the
stroke against the other piece of wood tell
ing how far the pen must go in the other
way. Oh, how much men will endure for
worldly knowledge and for worldly success,
and yet how little we endure for Jesus
Christ. How many Christians there are
that go around saying, "Oh, my hand, my
hand, my hurt hand; don't you see there
is blood on the hand, and there is blood oI
the sword" while Eleazar, with the hilt
imbedded in the flesh of his right hand
does not know it.
Must be carried to the skies
On fowery beds Of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
Or sailed through bloody seas2
What have we suffered in comparison
with those who expired with suffocation
or were burned, or were chopped to piece
for the truths sakef We talk of the per
secution of olden times. There is just a
much persecution going on now in variou
ways. In 1S49, in Madagascar, eightee
men were put to death for Christ's sake
a They were to be hurled over the rocks, an
, before they were hurled over the rocks, i
order to make their death the more dread
! full in anticipation, they were put In bas
kets and swung to and fro over the prec
pice that they might see how many huI
dred feet they would have to be dashe
down, and while they were swinging i
these baskets over the rocks they sang:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
. Let me to Thy bosom fly,
! While the pillows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high.
= Then they were dashed down to death
: | Oh, how much others have endured fo
Christ, and how little we endure for Chris
= We want to ride to heaven in Pullma
sleeping car, our feet on soft plush, the be
= made up early so we can sleep all the wa!
the black porter of death to wake us u
= w
y want all the surgeons to fix our hand III
Let them bring on all the lint, and all th
bandages, and all the salve, for our hand
:, hurt, while Eleazaf does not know h
hand is hurt. "His hand clave unto tt
= sword"
) AS look at Eleazar's hand come to tt
:, conclusion that he has done great deal (
hard hitting. am not surprised when
I, see that these four men-Eleazar and b
three companions-drove back the army
Philistines that Eleazar's sword clave
J his hand, for every time he struck a
o enemy with one end of the sword the 9TH
, end of the sword wounded him, When
took hold of the sword the sword took no
. of him. Oh, we have found an enemy wi
>, cannot be conquered by rose water and SO
u speeches. 1t must be sharp stroke al
. straight thrust. There is intemperanc
J and there is fraud, and there is gamblin
and there is lust, and there are ten tho
sand battalions of iniquity, armed Phil
tine iniguity. How are they to be capture
u and overthrownP Soft sermons in moro
70 co cases laid down in front of an exquisi
q audience will not do it. You have got
,; call things by their right names.
q IMPERATIVE NEED OF AN AWAKENING.
Is We have got to expel from our church
II Christians who eat the sacrament on Su
n day and devour widows houses all t.
u week. We have got to stop our indign
q tion against the Hittites and the Jebust
70 and the Gergishites, and let those po
u wretches go, and apply our indignation
q the modern transgressions which need
IL be dragged out and slain. Ahabs hel
N Herods here. Jezebels here. The mass
n ere of the infants here. Strike for God
$, hard that while you slay the sin the swo
d will adhere to your own hand tell yo
Ii my friends, we want a few John Knox
s. and John Wesleys in the Christian chur
'e today. The whole tendency is to refine
le Christian work. We keep on refining
IS it until we send apologetie word to iniqui