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

IN dldfln. ln0 Culiurcn sCftdln. Auo
wife faints. The pulses fail The heart
stops. The soul flies. Dead, and outside
the arkl'
have no coubt that derislon kept many
people out Of the ark The world laughed
60 see a man go in and snid: "Here Is
man starting for the ark. Why. there will
be no deluge. II there is one, that mis-
erable ship will not weather it. Aha, go.
ing into tho ark Well, that Is too good
to keep Here fellows, have you heard the
newsi This man Is going into the ark. =
Under this artillery Of seorn the mans
good resolution perished.
Fear Of DerisIon.
And SO there are hundreds kept out by
the fear Of derision. The young man asks
himself: What would they say at the
store tomorrow morning IL l should be-
como Christiani When / go down to
the clubhouse, they will shout: Here
comes that new Christian. Suppose you
will not have anything to do with us now.
Suppose you are praying now. Get down
on your knees and let us hear you pray.
Come now, give us a touch. Will not do
1t, 'eha Pretty Christian you are.' +" Is
it not the fear of being laughed at that
keeps you out Of the kingdom of God?
| Which of these scorners will help you at
| the last? When you lie down ON a dying
pillow, which of them will be theree In
the day of eternity will they bail you outf
| My friends and neighbors come in right
away. Come in through Christ, the wide
door-the door that swingsout toward you.
| Come in and be saved. Come and be
happy. "The Spirit and the Bride say,
| Come /" Room in the ark. Room in
the ark.
| But do not come alone. The text In
vites you to bring your family. 1t says,
Thou and thy sons and thy wife" You
cannot drive them in. II Noah had tried
to drive the pigeons and the doves into
the ark, he would only have scattered
them. Some parents are not wise about
these things They make iron rules about
Sabbaths and they force the catechism
down the throat as they would hold the
child's nose and force down dose of rhu-
barb and calomel You cannot drive your
children into the ark. You can draw your
children to Christ, but you cannot coerce
them The cross was lifted not to drive,
but to draw. "If l be lifted up, will
draw all men unto me-" AS tho sun
draws up the drops of morning dew SO the
sun of righteousness exhales the tears of
repentance.
Be sure that you bring your husband
and wife with you. How would Noah
have felt If when he heard the rain pat
tering ON the roof of the ark he knew that
his wife was outside in the stormS No;
she went with him. And yet some of you
are on the ship 'outward bound" for
| It,t ic nm hall tar-
ed. You remember the day when the
marriage ring was set Nothing has yet
been able to break it. Sickness came, and
the finger shrank, but the ring staid on.
The twain stood alone above a child's
grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb
swallowed up thousand hopes, but the
ring dropped not into the open grave.
Days of poverty came, and the hand did
many hard days work, but the rubbing
of the work against the ring only made it
shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be
lostp Will the iron clang of the sepulchre
gate crush it forever? l pray God that
you who have been married on earth may
be together in heaven. Oh, by the quiet
bliss of your earthly home, by the babes
cradle, by all the vows of that day when
you started life together beg you to see
J to 1t that you both get into the ark.
Bring Your Loved Ones.
Como in and bring your wife or youl
husband with you-not by fretting about
religion or dingdonging them about re-
iieion, but by consistent life and by q
compelling prayer that shall bring the
throne of God down into your room. &c
home, and take up the Bible, and read II
, together, and then kneel down and com
mend your souls to him who has watched
you all these years, and before you rise
there will be q futtering of wings ovel
your head, angel crying to angel Be
hold, they prayH'
: But this does not include all your fam
lily. Bring the children too. God bless
the dear ohildrenl What would our homel
be without them2 We may have don't
: much for them. They have done more fol
us. What salve for wounded hear
there is in the soft palm of child's hand
. Did harp or flute ever have such must,
as there is in a child's "good nightp
4 From our coarse, rough life the angels O
e God are often driven back. But whit
comes into the nursery without feeling
that angels are lowering aroundp The.
/, who die in infancy go straight into glory
i but you are expecting your children tt
! grow up in this world. Is 1t not a ques
| tion, then, that rings through all the cor
I ridors and windings and heights ant
2 depths Of your soul, what is to become o
i your SONS and daughters for time and TO
8 eternity? "Oh,' you say, II mean to SCI
o that they have good manners!' Yer.
/ WE'LL II mean to dress them well, if
have myself to 60 shabby" Very good
a II shall give them an education. I shal
leave them fortune" Very WELL Blu
r is that ALP Don't you mean to take then
4 into the ark: Don't you know that tn
: storm is coming and that out of Chris
Q there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, n
heaven? @
' How to get them in2 Go in yourself
|, If Noah had staid out, do you not suppos
/ that his sons-Shem, Ham and Japhetl
b would have staid out9 Your sons an
i, daughters will be apt to do just as you dc
!. Reject Christ yourself, and the probabil
l. ity is that your children will reject him,
I An account was taken Of the religion
q condition Of families In a certain district
9 In the families Of pious parents two
il thirds of the children were Christians /
it the families where the parents were ur
Il godly only one e-twelfth of the children wer
n Christians. Which way will you take you
d children? Out into the deluge or int
b the arks Have you ever made one earnes
> prayer for their immortal souls? Wha
will you say in the Judgment when Go
asks: Where is George or Henry or Fran
!. Or Mary or Anna2 Where are those prt
|. oious souls whose interests conmitte
h into your handsf,
n How to Die.
l. A dying son said to his father, "Fathel
Il you gave me an education, and good mai
!. ners, and everything that the world coul
j. do for me; but, father you never told n
b. how to die, and now my soul is going OF
it in the darkness.
Oh, ye who have taught your childre