Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-11

ger will Cash under tho gaslight But,
oh, the brightness when the great gate Of
heaven swings struck through and drip
ping with the light of eternal noondAyl
Some Fine Pearls.
Julius Caesar paid l25, 600 crowns for
one pearl The government Of Portugal
boasted Of having pearl larger than a
pear Cleopatra and Philip ii dazzled
the worlds vision with precious stones
hut gather all these together. and lift
them. and add to them all the wealth OF
the pearl fisheries, and set them In the
panel of one door, and IL does not equal
this magnificent gateway. An almighty
hand hewed this. swung this, polished
this Against this gateway, on the one
side dash all the splendors of earthly beau
ty Against this gate. on the other side
beat the surges of eternal glory. oh, the
gats, the gatel 1t strikes, an infinite
charm through overy one that passes It.
One step this side OF the gate, and we are
paupers. One step the other size OF the
gate, and we arc kings. The pilgrim OF
earth going through sees in the one huge
pearl all his earthly tears in crystal. o
gate of light, gate of pearl, gate Of heaven,
for our weary souls at last swing openl
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold;
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong
And streets of shining goldf
oh, heaven is not dull placei Heaven Is
not a contracted place. Heaven is not a
stupid place. Il saw the IL gates, and
they were l2 pearls.
In the second place, want you to count
the number of those gates. Imperial
parks and lordly manors are apt to have
one expensive gateway, and the Others
are ordinary, but look around at these
entrances to heaven and count them
One, two, three, four five, six, seven,
eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve Hear 1t
all the earth and all the heavens. Twelve
gates!
admit this is rather hard on sharp sec
tarianisms, If Presbyterian is bigoted,
he brings his Westminster assembly cate
ohism, and he makes a gateway out OF
that. and he says to the world, You GO
through there or stay out" II member
If the Reformed church is bigoted, he
makes gate out of the Heidelberg cate
,hism, and he says, "You go through
there or stay out" If Methodist is big
,ted, he plants two posts, and he says,
Now, you crowd in between those two
)osts or stay out. :" Or perhaps an Episco-
palian may say, "Here is a liturgy out OF
| which mean to make gate; go through
it or stay out" Or Baptist may say
Here is q water gate; you go through that
| you must stay out" And SO in all oul
| churches and in all our denominations
| there are men who make one gate fol
themselves and then demand that the
whole world go through it. l abhor this
contractedness in religious views. Oh
small souled man, when did God give
you the contract for making gatesf / tel
you plainly will not go in that gate.
will go in at any one of the IL gates
choose Here is man who says, Il car
more easily and more closely approach Goo
through a prayer book" l say, M
brother, then use the prayer book" Herr
| is a man who says,"I believe there is onl.
| one mode of baptism, and that is immer
sion. . Then l say, Let me plunge you. ;
| Anyhow, say, away with the gate o
| rough panel and rotten posts and rustet
latch when there.are 10 gates and the.
are l2 pearls.
Doctrined to Death.
The fact is that great many Of tn
churches in this day are being doctrine'
to death They have been trying to flint
out all about Gods DEGREES, and the,
want to know who are elected to be saves
and who are reprobated to be damned
and they are keeping on discussing tina
subject when there are millions of soul
who neod to have the truth put straight a
them. They sit counting the number 0
teeth in the jawbone with which Samson
slew the Philistines. They sit on tn
beach and see vessel going to pieces il
the offing, and instead of getting int
boat and pulling away for the wrecl
they sit discussing the different styles O
oarlocks God intended us to know SOM
things and intended us not to know 9th
ers l have heard scores of sermons ex
planatory of Gods DEGREES, but cam
away moro perplexed than when went
Tho only result of such discussion is
great fog Here are two truths which ar
to conquer the world--man, sinner
Christ, Saviour Any man who adopt
those two theories in his religious belle
shall have my right hand in warm grip o
Christian brotherhood.
A man comes down to river in tim
Of freshet He wants to get across. III
has to swim. What does he do? The frs
thing is to put off his heavy apparel AM
drop everything he has in his hands. H
must go empty handed if he is going t
the other bank And tell you when "
have come down to the river of death AM
find 1t swift and raging We will have t
put off all our sectarianism and lay dow
all our brous creed and empty hande
put out for the other shore. What, sa
you, would you resolve all the Christial
church into one kind of church, Woul
you make all Christendom worship in th
same way, by the same formsf" Oh, nc
You might as well decide that all peopl
shall eat the same kind of food withou
reference to appetite or wear the sam
kind of apparel without reference to th
shape of their body. Your ancestry, you
temperament, your surroundings, will dc
eide whether you go to this or that churol
and adopt this or that church polity. On
church will best get one man to heave
and another church another man. d
not care which one of the gates you g
through If you only 60 through one of th
10 gates that Jesus lifted.
The Twelfth Gate.
Well, now. see all the redeemed @
earth coming up toward heaven. Do yo1
think they will all get. ini Yes. CAT
the first, the Mo-avians come up; the
believed in the Lord Jesus; they pas
through. Gate the second, the Quaker
come up; they have received the inwar
light; they have trusted in the Lord; the
pass through Gate the third, the Lu
therans come up; they had the same grac
that made Luther what he was, and the
pass through. Gate the fourth, the Bar
lists pass through. Gate the fifth, tn
Free Will Baptists pass through. Cat
the sixth, the Reformed church passe
through. Gate the seventh, the Congre
gationalists pass through. Gate the eighth
the German Reformed church passe
through Gate the ninth, the Metho
dists pass through. Gate the tenth, tn