The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
over That pyramid OF De aead, over those

over That pyramid of the dead, over those
walls.
But you remember what happened
The marshal himself, seeing these two
fruitless charges and seeing the failure of
the officer TO enlist for the third assault,
rushed himself before the line, and
snatching the standard from the stand.
ard bearer, turning to the men, he said to
them with his face flashing with the cleo
trio fire of his great personality, SOL
diers, / will show you that marshal of
France was once a grenadierp Snatch
ing a scaling ladder in the other hand, he
rushed toward the walls. Instantly a
hundred brave pen had leaped from the
ranks, snatched the ladder from hishauds
and the standard, and hurrying the mar
shall to the rear with shout they rushed
to the walls, scaled them successfully and
took the town with scarcely the loss of a
single life!
Wealth is power over men-power to
command men. Money may or may not
signify this power. There are hours in
the lives of men that it has no power to
command.
THE CHRISTIAN AND BRUTE WAR,
Let us be sure that no Christian can
engage in the modern brute war of
money for money in itself That strug.
gle and all that it signifies would ar
raign and impeach in the name of the
widow and the orphan; in the name Of
the hungry, and the homeless, and the de-
spairing; in the name of the weak, and
the downtrodden, and the oppressed; in
the name of your potter's field and its
clustering institutions. Christianity
means weakness ruling strength. The
work of the Christian is not to seek money
for itself, Of itself The world may be
mad in its struggle for money in itself.
Men may forget humanity in that strug-
gle. 1t may be impossible for the Chris.
tan today TO convince the world that
the world is wrong. 1t may be impOs-
sible for us to revolutionize at once the
methods of social organization which
makes the seeking Of money and the ac-
cumulation of money in itself the end
and aim of life.
THE DIVINE oRATORIO.
However this may be, it is the duty of
the Christian to live his life, to play his
part, to sing his own song, whatever be
the chaos, the confusion, the disorder
about him. In thus playing his own part
| he will bring the world at last into har-
mony, Just as that singer in the choir
brought order out of disorder, harmony
out of discord. A great musician hap.
pening in church one Sunday found the
choir in discord. He stopped his ears to
keep out the din, and through the dis.
| cord caught the single note of a sweet
soprano voice in that choir, singing the
song in perfect tune. She did not at
tempt to drown the voices of the others,
| either those of the choir ont of tune OF
| the congregation that hOundered help.
lessly in the effort to follow. She sim,
ply sang her own part, in her own time,
in her own way. She was singing it tc
leader unheard by others. She was
keeping time to the harmony of her'OwI
soul.
e So struck was he by the weird effect Of
this voice, singing in the midst Of the
din and roar, that he removed his hanC
from his ear to listen. Sweeter ant
sweeter grew the voice until presently
one of those in the choir nearest caugh
the note from her and joined in perfec
time. In a few moments the whole choil
were il tune and this voice leading, ant
then the congregation were in perfec
harmony, and then the great churcl
building was flooded with a gloriou
melody that swept every soul with re
sistless power.
So the Christian is called upon to pla,
his part. So he is called upon to SIM
his divine Oratorio of the ages. Th
time comes to every man when he mus
choose once in life. The end of life i
must be-self or sacrifice, dirt or dia
monds. worms or immortality.