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

l by being employed continuously after
awhile capture and destroy. Chloral, Co
cGine. bromide Of potassium. opium and
I whole shelves Of seductive etceteras that
| help turn Nebnchadnezzlrs into imbecility
or madness. DO not trifie with opiates that
benumh the brain. II you cannot live
without the perpetual and enslaying use
OF them, you had better die. Better die a
sane man than live a fool What right
/ have you to kill your brain and put in wild
I iangle your nervous system! But rum is
the enuse OF more insanity than anything
/ else. There is nothing like rum TO put a
man like NebuchadneZZar down on all
/ fours.
Again. learn how quickly turns the
wheel of fortune: from how high up to
how far down went Nebuchadnezzar
I Those now in places Of position and power,
even though they should live. will in
/ few years be disregarded, while some who
this day are obscure and poverty stricken
will ride up on the shoulders Of the people
to take their turn at admiration and the
| spoils of Office Oh, how quickly the wheel
turns! Ballot boxes are the steps on which
men come down rs often Us they go up.
OF those who were few years ago sue
cessful in the accumulation of property
how few have not met with reverses of
fortune, while many of those who then
were straitened in circumstances now hold
the bonds and the bank keys Of the nation
and win the most bows on the exchange
| OF all tickle people in the world Fortune
is the most tickle. Every day she changes
her mind, and woe to that man who puts
any confidence in what she promises or
proposes. She cheers when you go up and
she laughs when you come down. oh,
trust not moment your hearts affections
to this changeable world. Anchor your
soul in God. From Christ's love gather
| your JOY. Then oome sorrow or gladness,
success or defeat, riches or poverty, honor
or disgrace, health or sickness, life or
death, time or eternity, all are yours, and
| ye are Christ's and Christ is Gods.
Learn also from my subject the comfort
ing truth that Affections are arrested as
soon as they have accomplished their mis-
sion. For seven years did Nebuchadnezzar
dwell among the beasts of the field, but at
the expiration of that time his reason re-
turned, and us soon as with proper humility
he acknowledged the God of heaven he was
brought back to his palace and reinstated
in his former affiuence and power. Now
it does seem that when heavy trials come
upon US it is as though they had no limit
We exclaim, "All thy waves and thy bill
lows have gone over me-" but forget that
the depth of that sea and the power of that
billow are definitely determined.
God sees how much our pride is and he
sends just enough adversity to humble it.
He sees just how worldly minded we are
and pulls US just hard enough to detach
US from our follies. He sees how hard our
heart is and smites just hard enough to
break it. He sees how our eyes have been
blinded and he cuts only just enough to
remove the scales from our spiritual vision.
AS soon as Abraham's faith is sufficiently
tried the lamb is provided. AS soon as
Pharaoh consents to let the children of
Israel depart, the plaques pause. AS soon
as the Israelites have been sufficiently dis
ciplined by their wanderings, they find
their way into Canaan. But to some the
limit is not set in this life. Their whole
pilgrimage is through the wilderness and
the world is to them valley of tears.
But perhaps God has a special throne in
heaven that no ordinary saint can occupy.
and by extraordinary trials he has pre-
pared that Christian soul for extraordinary
glory. God will not keep you in the fur
mace one moment too long. Just as soon
as Paul had met with enough imprison-
ment and scourgings he reached up and
plucked his eternal crown. God will keep
us no longer under the hammer and on the
stocks than is necessary to fit us for en-
trance into the haven of eternal rest.
Glory be to the divine grace that, as soon
as our Affections have accomplished their
mission, they are arrested.
SUFFERING EXCITEs THOUGHT.
The defeats and sorrows of life have
sometimes been the greatest advantage.
1t was because Dante failed as states
man that he gave up politics and wrote
his immortal "Divina Commedia." Itwas
a violent thunderstorm that first set Mar
tin Luther seriously thinking, and the
thunder of this worlds disaster has start
ed many a reformation. James Y. Simp-
son went from Il surgeons operating table
to experiment and see if he could not find
something that would alleviate human
pain, and he kept on until he had discov-
cred chleroform as an anHsthetic, and the
story of distress has almost always been
followed by the story of rescue.
For many years after Shakespeare's death
his work was SO little appreciated that in
1865 there was only one edition of his works,
and that of only three hundred copies in ex-
istence, and that edition was nearly all
burned in the egreat London fire. But forty
eight copies had been sold out of the city,
and those forty-eight copies saved Shake
speare for all nations and all time. Your
suppression on a smaller scale may last a
good while, but for all you are worth you
will yet shine out on earth or in heaven.
Again, learn from my subject that con-
nected with the most distressing judgments
of God there are displays of divine mercy.
God might justly have left Nebuchadnez-
Ear in the field, but infinite compassion
brought him back to the palace. No sooner
was Eden blasted than a blessing followed
on the heels of the curse promising the
coming of one who would destroy sin and
make the whola world a paradise. The
deiuge descends, but not until Noah had
invited the people into the ark. The de-
stroying angel comes upon Egypt for the
shifting Of the first born, but left unmo-
Tested every house whose door was
sprinkled with the blood of sacrifice.
Fiery tempests bear down upon Sodom,
but not until two angels have warned Lot
and his family to flee from the destruction.
Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, but not
until Jeremiah had sounded an alarm bid
ding them turn from their denominations.
On the darkest cloud of wrath there is
rainbow of mercy. Zechariah in his pro-
phetic vision beheld four chariots, symbol
ical of Gods government.
The first chariot was drawn by red
horses. They indicated the wars that were
coming. The second chariot was drawn
by black horses. They indicated the COM
ing of a famine and pestilence. The third
chariot was drawn by white horses. They
indicated the spotless purity of his con-
quests. But mark well that the fourth
chariot was drawn by horses ''grisled and
bay" denoting that mercy was mixed with
all the desolating judgments of God.
Sinai cannot thunder so loud as to drown
the invitations of Calvary. The Lord ut
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