Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-15
DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST, NAPOLEON o. DECEMBER 49, 1892

tumult Of 'c6uJendIhg clemens I00a-R
through q glass upon the wreck and the
nine wretched sufferers. She proposes 10
her father to take boat and put out across
the wild sea TO rescue them. The father
says: 1T cannot be donel Just look at the
tumbling surfI' But she persisted, and
with her father bounds into the boat
Though never accustomed to plying the
oar, she takes one and her father the other.
Steady now! Pull away! Pull awayl
The sea tossed up the boat as though it
were a bubble, but amid the foam and the
wrath Of the sea the wreck was reached,
the exhausted people picked up and saved.
Humane societies rendered their thanks.
Wealth poured into the lap Of the poor
girl. Visitors from all lands came to look
On her sweet face, and when soon after she
launched forth ON a dark sea, and Death
was the oarsman, dukes and duchesses and
mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwick
castle to think they never again might see
the face of Grace Darling.
No such deeds of daring will probably be
asked Of you, but hear you not the howl Of
that awful storm of trouble and sin that
hath tossed ten thousand shivered hulks
into the breakersl Know you not that the
whole earth is strewn with the ship
wrecked-that there are wounds to be
healed, and broken hearts to be bound, and
drowning souls to be rescued2 Some have
gone down, and you come too late, but 9TH
ers are clinging to the wreck, are shivering
with the cold, are strangling in the wave,
are crying to you for deliverance. Will you
not, oar in hand, put out today from the
lighthouse?
When the last ships timber shall have
been rent, and the last Longstone beacon
shall have zen thundered down in the
hurricane, and the last tempest shall have
folded its wings, and the seq itself shall
have been licked up by the tongue of all
consuming fire, the crowns OF eternal re
ward shall be kindling into brighter glory
on the brow of the faithful. And Christ,
pointing to the inebriate that you re-
formed, and the dying sinner whom you
taught to pray, and the outcast whom you
| pointed to God for shelter, will say: "You
| did it to theml You did it to mer'
ENDURANCE OF MATERNAL LOVE.
Again, the scene Of the text impresses
upon us the strength of maternal attach
ment. Not many men would have had
| courage or endurance for the awful mis-
sion of Rizpah. To dare the rage of wild
beasts, and sit from May to October un.
| sheltered, and to watch tDa corpses of un.
buried children, was n work that nothing
| but the maternal heart could have accom-.
| plished. 1t needed more strength than to
stand before opened batteries or to walk iu
calmness the deck of a laundering steamer
There is no emotion so completely un-
selfish as maternal affection. Conjugal
love expects the return of many kiudnesscs
and attentions. Filial love expects pa
rental care or is helped by the memory OF
past watchfulness. But the strength of q
mothers love is entirely independent Of the
| past and the future, and is, Of all emotions
the purest. The child has done nothing in
the past to earn kindness, and ia the future
it may grow up to maltreat It's parent; hut
still from the mothers heart there goes
forth inconsumable affection.
Abuse cannot offend it; neglect cannot
chill il; time cannot efface it; death cannot
destroy it. For harsh words IL has gentle
chiding; for the blow it has bcneficent
ministry; for neglect it has increasing
watchfulness. 1t weeps at the prison dool
over the incarcerated proiigal, and plead:
for pardon at the governors feet, and il
forced away by compassionate friends from
witnessing the struggles of the gallows
Other lights go out, but this burns OF
without extinguishment, as in a Gloon
struck night you may see a single star
one of Gods pickets-with cleaning bayo
net Of light guarding the outposts O
heaven.
The marchioness of Spadara, when tn,
earthquake at Messina occurred, was car
ried out insensible from the falling houses
On coming to her senses she found tina
her infant had not been rescued. She wen
back and perished in the ruins. Illustration
of ten thousand mothers who in as man.
different ways have sacrificed themselve
for their children.
Oh, despise not a mothers love! Tfhere
tofore you have been negligent of such III
one and you still have opportunity for rep
aration, make haste. If you could onl,
Just look in for an hours visit to her