Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-16

ment You admit it. Now, be wise enough
70 apply IL In religion Eminent Christian
character Is only gained by the Jordanic
passage; no man just happened 70 get good.
Why does that man know 50 much about
the Scrptures' Hewas studying the Bible
while you were reading novel He was
on fire with the sublimities OF the Bible
while you were sound asleep. Bytug, tussle,
pushing and running in the Christian life
that man got SO strong for God; in hun
dred solferinos he learned how to fight; in
hundred shipwrecks he learned how to
SWIM Tears over sin, tears over Zion's
desolation, tears over the impenitent, tears
over the graves made, are the Jordan which
that man had passed. Sorrow pales the
cheek, and ladies' the eye, and wrinkles the
prov, ana withers the hands There are
incur @Ouanns ,h gsiGn.s IN tae wardrobe and
srornd arc tha ,,ai;os of.ha daos ''--
Tho Christ;an hos nosseJ Az pod 90. 90
tronble and vet he tbinLs tbero ;s @ Iordan 80 =,
nf death between him and basvan Ia
comes down To that Jordan ~ deatb and
thinks how many have been lost tbero
When Molyneux was ernlorino the Jordan
in Palestine. he had his boats ali knocked
10 pieces in Che ranids of that river AnJ
there are a great many men who have rome
down in the river of death. the Atlantic
and Pacific have not swallowed 40 many
Il Is an awful thing tn make sbinurecLs on
the rock of ruin: masts falling hurricanes
fiying, death coming. Qroanin9s in the wa
ter, meanings in the wind. thunder in the
sky. while God with the finger of the Noht-
ming writes all over the sky. ''I will. tread
them in nv wrath. and / will tramnle
them in nv fury"
The Christian comes dovn to tbis ro,;no
torrent and be knoUs he rnnst moss o,,t
and as he comes toward the t;rne bis & brsotS
rrats eborter and his Ioot brooth loo,,oa h;,-,
es he stens i, so the strear and ~ soona,
does he tonoh the stream than q e Is ,,artad SuS
and ba goes tbro,,ob a., sbod MI III ~ :
waters wave their nJ,, ~, :. :, "a
= -ryhg; ooeatn,
"here IL my stlngf v grave wnere Is tny
victoryr GOD shall wipe away all tears
from Cheir eyes, ana there snail pe no more
weeping, ana there snail pc no more death'
some Oh your cnliuren nave already gone
up tne other bank. You let them down on
tnis sac OF the bank; they Will be on the
other pank TO help you up with supernatu-
raj strengtn. Ihe other morning at my ta-
DE- an my FAMILY present, l Thought to
myself now pleasant 1t would be if could
pue all lnUo poat ana then go In with
tnem' and we could pull across the river to
Gne next world and be there all together.
NO iamily partlng' no gloomy obsequies. 1t
Wouion't take live minutes to go from bank
70 Dank, ana Then III that better world to
be together forever. Wouldn't it be pleas
ant Tor you to take all your family into
that blessed country if you could ell go to-
gether!
! remember my mother IN her dylng hour
saio W NY la1ner, faUher, wouldn't 1t be
pleasant II we coulo all go togetherT But
we cannon all go 1ogetnef. we must go
one Dy one, ana we must pe grateful II we
geo tnere al al. What heaven 1t Will be
IL We nave all our fanl1es there to look
around ana see all the children are PRESENT.
lou "oulo ratner nave tnem all there and
you go WIN pare prov forever, than that
que snoui1 ue missing 10 conplete tne gar
,anus Oh heaven Ior your coronal. The
Loro 1oo OF Josnua' give Them q safe Jor-
uanlc passagel
~, Even chiiuren Will go through dry shod.
Anose OIL US VINO were Drought up In the
country rememoer' when the summer was
coming On III our poyhooo Gays, we always
.ongeo Ior 1he oay when we were TO 60 bare
looteo, ana a1ter teasing our mothers In re-
saru 70 IL ior gooo Wnlie, and they con-
senGeo' we remember tne delicious sensation
oI Gne cooi grass "nen we put our uncov-
sreu looG On IT, -,
ana tne tline Will come when these shoes
we Wear now lesG we Dc cut OF the sharp
piaces :.s ol .nis w9rtu, snail DC takeh OIL and
WIN ensahueieu iooo we VIII step INTO the
Deo ot 1ne RIVER win ieeV untrammeled,
l,ee irom pam aEo lhIlSue, we Will gain
tnaT ias' Journey, WheA' WIN one ioot In
~ .he peu y, Vne river anu inc otnef iooG on
Cne .7, oCn9r oanh' We o s'Tuggie upward. Lhat
WIZ pe heaven. on, pray Ior ali my GEAR
peopAe a saie ooFualic passaRe Inat ls
"naU Slie oyihS Cnristiah husband ielt
MuM.l VIII nI saiu' INV Cne canule hlckers'
Ne,lieI 5uc ~ QUIZ 1 snali steep well TO
Oish' anu "aAe Ia ene mornlng'
~ohp of ooMfohI'
que "oru OIL coinioro on Cnls suo]ect lor
. ~. s1o Dsfe1Veu. Aou see' our oeparteo
.iienus ae US nave noe oeen snDmergeo-naVe
uoe oeen smalnpe" M 'hg w waOeIs' iney
uase only cIosseu over. 1hese tsraehtes
were Jus1 as tnorougnly awe on the west-
erh DtinAs VI Cne 1ofuan as 'ney had peen
on '1e easee,n DALLAS VI sne Joroan' ana
our uepar1eo onris!lan Irienas nave only
crosseo oVer-noe SICK, noS oeao, not ex-
naasOeu, lsu e noC eS.lnsulsneu. no' olotteo OUT
O',ises | ~ on5 % Iannan e opns;eht anu s 'Sou.er S
p,as,,a,ta p 60 orossaS - oJ-sno' Sl, ''nu DeIIeI
pbvs;csI .nd ,,sntoI diso,;at n, I' 1ass Cneir I
th;s Ca an a.orn"I,.- ep,-1; %; iea l.iO eieat
ohst & oIa ha+,,,aer y +ha,, aD% ~ npass@ple
satanic n',rsn;+ Crossad onar, ON anu
SbaLa b.pds ~ ,,.nat,,Ia+; .,,;+,, ~,
haraaveJ ~ IN ~ considarot;nn +%at tn o ~, Cne
nortod rbristio,, f;o,,ds oro aoFa
wi WI, -. taaa - ~ at - s.alo
Wy was Iheie 81 nAuen Joy III certain
LILY elSlee %, . Now III mneh people nearo
hoIntod % Sne e+aas s %no w. "ete e on o1aIu 1naI
peou sS o'.el ~ Was iSt'ieo 'haC Vessei