Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-04-20

could get back to the old religion Of their
fathers. Such men are not TO be carica-
tured. but helped. and not through their
heads. but through their hearts. When
these men really do come into the kingdom
OF God, they will be worth far more to the
cause OF Christ than those who never ex-
amined the evidences OF Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers, once skeptic; Robert
Hall, once a skeptic; Christmas Evans, once
a skeptic-but when they 6id lay hold Of
the gospel chariot, how they made it speed
aheadl
II therefore stand this morning before
men and women who have drifted away
into skepticism, throw out no scoff; i
rather implead you by the memory Of those
good old times when youD knelt at your
mothers knee and said your evening pray
er and those other days of sickness when
she watched all night and gave you the
medicines at just the right time and turned
the pillow when it was hot, and with hand
long ago turned to dust soothed yonr pains,
and with that voice you will never hear
again, unless you join her in the better
country, told you never mind-you would
be better by and by-and by that dying
couch where she talked so slowly, catching
her breath between the words-by all those
memories | ask you to come and take the
same religion. It was good enough for her,
it is good enough for you.
Aye, make better plea; by the wounds
and tbs death tbroe of the Son of God. who
annroache. Won thi. morning with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back CRYING. Come unto me, all We who
are weary and heavy laden. andI will give
you rest"
THE VICE OF ILL TEMPER.
Other persons apologize for not entertain
| ing the Christian life because of the incor-
rigibility of their temper. Now, we admit
it is harder for some people to become
! Christians than for others, but the grace OF
God never came toa mountain that it could
not climb or to an abyss that it could not
fathom or to u bondage that it could not
break.
The widest horse that ever trod Arabian
sands has been broken to bit and trace.
The maddest torrent tumbling from noun
tain shelving has been harnessed to the
millwheel and the factory band, setting a
thousand shuttles all a-buzz and a-clatter,
and the widest, the haughtiest, the most
ungovernable man ever created, by the
1
on ministry of kindness as God sends an
August thunderstorm to water the wild
/ flowers down in the grass.
Good resolution, reformatory effort, will
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arm and mightier hand to bend evil hab-
its than the hand that bent the bow of
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TIE IMPETUoCs APOSTLE.
Peter, with nature as tempestuous as the
sea that he once tried to walk, at one look
of Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich
harvests of grace may grow on the tiptoI
of the Jagged steep, and fiocks of Christian
graces may find pasturage in fields of BRAN
BILE and rock. Though your disposition
may be all a-bristle with fretfulness, though
you have a temper a-gleam with quick
} liphtninps though YOUR ayarice be like
that of the horse leech, crying, "Give!'
though damnable impurities have wrapped
you in all consuming fire, God can drive
that devil out of your soul, and over the
chaos and the darkness he can say. ''Let
tnere De lignt.
Oohver'i1s giace nas .lt.eu eae .na uriIhal. az.
tronl tie uiool' anu slaooneu 'uo Anii' y,
lrom the nanu VI one dssassin, anu Uht