Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-13

IN muTa- TU1 goto the trader H1u -ssIy,
Here are the orders" and you find every
thing all right You do not stop 10 pay
the money yourself Il Is not your busi-
ness to pay II. The arrangements were
made before you started. So Christ pur-
chases your pardon. He puts the papers
or the promises into your hand. Is 1t
wise to stop and say, "I cannot pay for my
redemptions" God does not ask you 20
pay. Relying on what has been done,
launch out into the deep.
THE BIBLE GIVES COURAGE.
The Bibles promises join hands, and the
circle they make will compass all your
sins, and all your temptations, and all
your sorrows. The round table of King
Arthur and his knights had room for only
thirteen banqueters, but the round table
Of Gods supply is large enough for all the
present inhabitants of earth and heaven to
sit at, and for the still mightier popula-
tions that are yet to be.
Do not sail coastwise along your old
habits and old sins. Keep clear of the
shore. Go ont where the water is deepest.
Oh, for the mid sea of Gods mercyl "Be
it known unto you, men and brethren, that
through this man is preached unto you
much confidence to the eighty-year-
transgressor as to the maiden. Though
your sins were blood red they shall be
snow white. The more ragged the prod
igal, the more compassionate the father.
Do you say that you are too badP The
high water mark of Gods pardon is higher
than Ill your transgressions. "The blood
Of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin."
Do you say that your heart is hard? Sup
pose it were ten times harder. Do you say
that your iniquity is long continuedP Sup
pose it were ten times longer. Do you say
that your crimes are black? Suppose that
they were ten times blacker. Is there any
lion that this Samson cannot slayp Is
there any fortress that this Conqueror can
not takeP Is there any sin this Redeemer
cannot pardon?
1t is said that when Charlemange's host
was overpowered by the three armies Of
the Saracens in the pass of Roncesvalles,
his warrior, Roland, in terrible earnest
ness, seized trumpet and blew it with
such terrific strength that the opposing
army reeled back with terror, but at the
third blast of the trumpet it broke in two.
| see your soul flercely assailed by all the
powers of earth and hell. Iput the mightier
trumpet Of the Gospel to my lips and l
blow it three times. Blast the first
"Whosoever will, let him come" Blast
the second-"Seek ye the Lord while he
may be found" Blast the third-"Now Is
the accepted time; now is the day of saliva
tion."
Does not the host of your sins fall backs
But the trumpet does not, like that of Ro-
land, break in two. As it was handed
down to us from the lips of our fathers,
we hand it down to the lips Of our children
aud tell them to sound it when we are
dead, that all the generations of men may
know that our God is a pardoning Coda
sympathetic Coda loving God-and that
more to him than the anthems of heaven;
more to him than the throne on which he
sits; more to him than are the temples of
celestial worship is the JOY Of seeing the
wanderer putting his hand on the door
latch of his fathers house. Hear it, all
ye nationsl Bread for the worst hunger
Medicine for the worst sickness. Light
for the thickest darkness. Harbor for the
worst storm.
A WONDERFUL TOMB.
DR.. Prime, in his book of wonderful in
terest entitled around the World" de-
scribes tomb in India of marvellous archi-
lecture. Twenty thousand men were
twenty-five years in erecting that and the
buildings around it. Standing in that
tomb, if you speak or sing, after you have
ceased you hear the echo coming from a
height of one hundred and fifty feet. 1t is
not like other echoes. The sound is drawn
out in sweet prolongation, as though the
angels of God were chanting on the wing.
How many souls in the tomb Of sin will
lift up the voice of penitence and prayer2
If now they would cry unto God the echo
would drop from afar-not struck from the
marble cupola of an earthly mausoleum,
but sounding back from the warm heart
of angels, flying with the news, for there
is joy among the angels of God over one
sinner than repenteth