Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-02-18

many groveiing who ought TO be erect. o
men and women 90 hack to your throuesl
A young man ran away from home and
broke his widowed mothers heart. Four
teen years ps's'ed and he returned. and
came 20 the window at which his old moth
IT was sitting
She looked up and Immediately recog-
nized him ans slid. oh, Robert, ROberti
Come in!'' NO" said he. mother. shall
never come in till / hear you say you for
give me" Heranswer was: Robert. | have
forgiven you long ago. There is nothing
TO forgive now except that you staid away
30 long" Ny hearer, forgiveness has been
ready for you good while. With more
than "A mothers tenderness God will take
you back. They are waiting for you up in
the palace. Nebuchadnezzar was the son
Of Nabopolassar who ruled before him, and
you are the child Of a king
CONVICTION IS NOT CONVERSION.
The next thought that presses into my
mind from the contemplation of this incl
dent is that conviction is not conversion
Who is this monarch that makes the boast
about !3ahylo4 The very man who, under
the revelation of dreams that Daniel made
from heaven, deeply humhed himself,
while he confessed that God is a God of
Gods and ord OF Lords, yet behold that
that humhhg and arousing which he be-
fore felt didnot result in radical change
There is 70 mistake more frequent than
OF supposii Yconviction synonym for con-
version. Ga Eviction is merely a sight Of
sin, convehdbn is a view of pardon. Con-
viction is tIrely alarm; conversion is con-
fidence, q Eviction is dissatisfaction with
depravity; diversion is a turning away
from it. Cd1viction is sword wound;
conversion is the healing. Conviction is
the fever Of thirst; conversion is the slak-
ing Of that thirst. Conviction is the pain
conversion H. the medicine that cures it
Thousands have experienced the former
and never experienced the latter. There
are multituaes who think that as soon as
a man is serious he is fit for profession of
,,
What if man should only think seri-
ously of bel Il merchant; would that
make him al erchants What if man
should only Nd lk seriously of being II law
yer; woul ost make him lawyer'
What if II t. 1hould only think seriously
of being Il sIstian: would that make
him ChristrnS Felix was convicted
but not conveted. The jailer was con-
victed before ha got out of bed, but not
until at the advice Of Paul he
believed in Christ. Are you convicted
but not convertedf | tell you what you
make me think of.
You have made up your mind for proper
to deed away a property
You have drawn the deed. The seal is af-
fixed opposite where you are to write your
name. The commissioner of deeds is pres
ent to witness You have your pen in
hand. There is ink in the pen. There is
only one thing for you to do, and that is to
sign your name Suppose you stop now
without signing your name, what does it
all amount tor Nothing. So you have re-
solved to give yourself up to God. You
propose to sign off to him your body, your
mind, your soul. You have all things nec-
essary for the transfer. The angels of God
are here to witness the eternal transfer
Why do you not. now with your will COM
plete the work. Halt where you are, and
all goes for nothing. Sign your name to
this spiritual transfer.
Professor Arago, the mathematician, got
woefully discouraged in his work and was
about to give up, when he saw some words
on the paper which had been used to stiffen
the cover of his book, and the words being
indistinct he darRpened the cover until he
could take it off Nld see the words plainly,
and he found thY Il were words of advice
given by D'Alemtert to student, and the
words were, go on, sir; go on" o ye
who are convicted go on" You must
take one more step, or all the steps you
have taken will amount to nothing. Go oni
PRIDE THE PRECURSOR OF SORROW.
Learn also frorn my subject that pride
is the precursor OF overthrow. Pride is a
commander well plumed and caparisoned
but it leads forth d dark and frowning
host. pride goeth before destruction,
arrows from the Almighty's quiver are
apt to strike a man when on the wing.
Goliath shakes his great spear In defiance,
but the smooth stones from the brook
make him stagger and fall like an OK un-
der butchers bludgeon. He who is
down cannot fall. Vessels scudding under
bare poles do not feel the force of the
storm.
What are those three sleds thar have
just gone into the yard of Il miserable hotel
in Warsaw, Poland, on the cold night of
December the tenth, 1922 Who are they,
who from these sleds have entered, and
the servant is trying to build for them
fire with some green wood' Napoleon,
with six attendants, on retreat from Mos
cow. The fire amid the green wood has
gone out, and the emperor is walking the
floor to keep from freezing.
Then bounding into his sled, the ther-
twenty-six degrees below Zero he
disappears in the darkness. He whoa little
before had an army under his command,
together with troops offered by other ma
ions, in all 1,1S7, 900 men, now retreating
through that December night with three
'leds, and those of hisarmy not dead under
The snow reduced for food to handful of
'ye dough, seasoned with gunpowder for
ack of salt, and a mouthful of horsefesh.
From what a height to what a depthl
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace; Nebuchad-
lezzar forsaken in the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune of the
King of Babylon what terrible thing is
he loss of reason. There is no calamity
hat can possibly befall US in this world SO
great as the arrangement of intellect-to
lave the body of man and yet to fall even
below the instinct OF brute. In this
world Of sad sights, the saddest is the
dots stare. In this world of awful sounds,
he most awful is the maniac's laugh. A
yessel on the rocks, when hundreds go
Town never to rise, and other hundreds
Tag their mangled and shivering bodies
Up the wintry beach, is nothing compared
% the laundering Of intellects full of vast
lopes and attainments and capacities.
Christ's heart went out to those who
we're epileptic, falling into the fire, or
naniacs cutting themselves among the
ombs. We are accustomed to be more
grateful for physical health than for the
proper working Of our mind. We are apt
% take it for granted that the intellect
which has served us SO well will always be
aithful. We forget that an engine with
uch tremendous power, when the wheels
lave such vastness of circle and such swift
less of motion and the least impediment
night put it out of gear, could only be kept
n nroper balance by a divine hand,