Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-07

sense. Through that AMI that alone
the inner germ was awakened in her
mind; il must have otherwise. So
hereafter. To have consciousness we
must he in the exercise of senses OF
some kind. But how can We be in
the exercise of senses, unless there is
to sense ? How feel unless
there is something to touch ? And so
on.
And so, that is real world, far
more real than this, because more
perfect. Not that person is going
to do there just what he does here.
Certainly we are not so foolish as to
believe that because man has been a
grave-digger or undertaken here, he is
to be the same there, for in that
world there is no death. Because
man has sold drugs or been a physi-
clan here, he will not be the same
there. for there is no sickness. But
what we do believe is, that by per-
sons environment and occupation
here he developes certain character;
he forms certain bent; he acquires a
certain aptitude for some special spir-
itual use, and he goes into the other
world to put that character, bent and
aptitude into practice; we don't pre-
tend to know just what that bent will
be-
For this reason, DIR. Shoemaker and
all of us who believe with him, would
nave no badge of mourning on his
door, least of all the color black, the
emblem of the dark, the sorrowful,
the false, the evil. Instead of it is the
evergreen. appropriately denoting
that he lives on. And could he have
printed his own funeral notices, /
think it would have been like him to
have printed them not with black
lines but in crimson or gold.
4. The last word of eternal life
which will mention is, that God Is
Iove. will not allude to that which
will harrow the feelings, but to that
which will give hope. There is no
sorrow; it is but disguised benificance.
The Lord loves those whom in his
providence he takes away. This is
the reason why he takes them just
when he does. Can his providence be
wrong? Are not people born into the
world at just the right time ? And
are they not born into the next life
at just the right time ?
If choice plant is in your flower
garden, will you not let it remain as
long as it can receive benefit in the
open air and sunshine? And will
you not take it to the more genial at
mosphere of the conservatory just as
soon as it is in danger of the frosts ?
You will, ifyou know just the right
time. But God does know Who
makes the bee build its wonderful
hexagonal cells What is it makes
the mighty worlds revoIve so regular
ly, and which exhibits such design in
everything Is there any intelli-
gence about 1t? Whose intelligence?
And will not, does not, that same in
telligence operate in the removal of
our friends :?
| And not only because he loves them
but because he loves US, does the Lord
remove them. ''Are they not all
ministering spirits, etc. 2 Perhaps,
nay it is perfectly logical to hold that,
a dear friend is needed there to do a
work for US which that one could not
do here. From that world he can act
back into this, and do work without
which we could not be saved from our
evils and sins. Will not the Lord
then take him?
L know of a man who was wicked
aud willful. His wife was taken in
to the other life. The funeral affected
him, but its effects soon passed away.
But sometime after, though alone by
himself, he began to have serious
thoughts. 1t seemed as though a
voice was speaking to him which new
er spoke before. He repented, surren-
dered his will to the divine; in other
words, gave his heart to God, and
became different man, and led diff
ferent lffe-not perfect all at once,
for the force of old habit was upon
him, but life increasing in perfec-
ton. Now, is it not reasonable to be-
lieve that his departed wife was an in
strument in working this change
We believe such things. They are
reasonable and right.
In short, with all the postivity pos
sible to NEON the authority OF Gods
Holy Word rightfully interpretation
the authority of onliehtened reason
a
Jesus Christ, the only God Of Heaven
and Earth-and in the light of the
deepest religious experience of the
centuries, l solemnly testify that
have no evil report to bring. The nat
ural man suffers in seasons like this
We often cannot help it because We
are natural and human, but the spirit
ual man rises triumphant. Sense caI
not see, but faith ascends with cleal
vision. | have no gloomy prospect uo
unfold. When we come to look al
things Alright, we find that all is well
The God of infinite love and wisdom
and power can make no mistake. Tt
hold otherwise is Atheism.
DIR. John Shoemaker, whose passing
away has brought US together, was
born in Columbiana County, o., Feb
IL, 1884; and passed away last Sunday
at 3 O'Clock a. M, and was therefore
81 years and little over 10 months Of
age at his decease. He graduated
from the medical department of the
Ann Arbor University, and after prac
ticing short time i'm other places, To-
Gated in Napoleon in 1861, and here in
this community he practiced medicine
continuously for thirty years. HI
was faithful to, and assduous In, hi
practice.
Many years ago, remember reading
in one of the medical works of old DR.
Warren, of Boston, his ideal of what 6
true physician should be. He
comes into most intimate relations
with the families among whom ht
practices, and is more than doctor
He is, in sense, father, q conf
dant and friend. AS nearly as car
learn, think that DIR. Shoemaker
came near to that ideal. Indeed, / an
told that no one i'm the county could
be more generally missed, or more sin
cerely mourned.
About twenty years ago he embraced
the doctrinal faith of the New Church
which has ever since been his. Blu