Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-11-16

cure. DIllIe INTO us pillars, DuH5 lS.- -
capstone, is your name-either the mama
you have on earth or the name by which
celestials shall call you.
know the Bible says in one place that
God is jealous God, but that refers to the
work Of those who worship some other
god. A true father is not jealous of his
child. With what glee you show the picture
your child penciled, or toy ship your child
hewed out, or recite the noble deed your
child accomplished And GOD never was
Jealous of Joshua, never was jealous of
Paul, never was jealous of Frances
Havergal, never was jealous Of man
or woman who tried to heal wounds and
wipe away tears and lift burdens and
save souls; and while all is of grace, and
your self abnegating utterance will be,
mot unto us. not unto us, but unto thy
name, o Lord, give gloryP' you shall al
ways feel heavenly satisfaction in every
good thing you did on earth, and if icono:
clasm, borne from beneath, should break
through the gates of heaven and efface one
record of your earthly fidelity, methinks
Christ would take one of the nails of his
own cross and write somewhere on the crys-
tai, or the amethyst, or the jacinth, or the
chrysoprasus, your name and just under it
the inscription of my text. 'The righteous
shall be held in everlasting remembrance"
Oh, this character buildingl You and
are every moment busy in that tremendous
occupation. You are making me better OF
worse, and l am making you better OF
worse, and we shall through all eternity
bear the mark of this benediction or blast.
ing.
A MOMENT OF JOY.
Let others have the thrones of heaven
those who have more nightly wrought for
God and the truth-but it will be heaven
enough for you and me If ever and anon we
meet some radiant soul on the boulevards
Of the great city who shall say: "You
helped me once. You encouraged me when
I was in earthly struggle. do not know
that / would have reached this shining
place had 1t not been for you" And we will
laugh with heavenly glee and say: "Hal
hal Do you really remember that talki
Do you remember that warning? Do you
remember that Christian invitation? What
a memory you havel Why, that must have
been down there in Brooklyn or New Or
leans at least ten thousand million years
ago." And the answer will be, ''Yes. it was
as long as that, but remember it as well
as though 1t were yesterday"
Oh, this character buildingl The struc-
ture lasting Independent of passing cen.
turies, independent of crumbling mauso-
leums, independent Of the whole planetary
system. Aye, If the material universe,
which seems all bound together like one
piece of machinery, should some day meet
with an accident that should send worlds
crashing into each other like telescoped rail
way trains, and all the wheels of constella-
tions and galaxies should stop, and down
into one chasm of immensity all the suns
and moons and stars should tumble like
the midnight express at Ashtabula, that
would not touch us and would not hurt
God, for God is a spirit and character and
memory are immortal, and over that grave
of a wrecked material universe might truth
fully be written, "The righteous shall be
held in everlasting remembrance"
o, Time, we defy theel o, Death, we
stamp thee in the dust of thine own sepul-
chersl o, Eternity, roll on till the last
star has stopped rotating, and the last sun
Is extinguished on the sapphire pathway,
and the last moon has illumined the last
night, and as many years have passed as all
the scribes that ever took pen could describe
by as many figures as they could write in
all the centuries of all time, but thou shalt
have no power to efface from any soul In
glory the memory of anything we have
done to bring it to God and heavenl
TATTooED ON GODS HANDS,
There Is another and more complete de-
feat for oblivion, and that is in the heart OF
God himself You have seen sailor roll
up his sleeve and show you his arm tattooed
with the figure of favorite ship-perhaps
the first one in which he ever sailed. You
have seen soldier roll up his sleeve and
show you his arm tattooed with the figure
of fortress where he was garrisoned, or
the face of great general under whom he
fought. You have seen many hand tat
tooed with the face of loved one before or
after marriage,
This tattooing is almost as old as the
world. It is some colored liquid punctured
into the flesh SO indelibly that nothing can
wash 1t out. 1t may have been there 50
years, but when the man goes into his cof-
fin that picture will go with him on hand
or arm. Now, God says that he has tattooed
usupon his hands, There can be no other
meaning In the forty-ninth chapter OF
Isaiah, where God says, Behold, have
craven thee on the palms of my handsl'
It was as much as to say: II cannot open
my hand to help, but think Of you. lean
not spread abroad my hands to bless. but I
think Of you. Wherever go up and down