Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-08-08

Or were depraved. Eernaps your cradle
was rocked by sin and shame, and it is .
wonder TINT from such q astarting you have
come 70 respectability. Then don't call
upon the God Of either Of your parents,
beg Of you.
But you have children. You know God
kindled those bright eyes aud rounded
those healthy limbs and set beating with
in their breast an Immortality. Perhaps
in the belief that somehow 1t would be for
the best you have taught them to say an
evening prayer, and when they kneel beside
you, and fold their little hands, and look
up, their faces all Innocence and love, you
know that there is q God somewhere about
In the room.
think am ON the right track at last
Awake, o sleeper, and call upon the God
Of thy children! May he set these little
ones to pulling at thy heart until they
charm thee to the same God to whom to-
night they will say their little prayersl
But alasl alas some Of these men and
women are unmoved by the fact that their
father had God, that their mother had
a God, and their children have a God, but
they have no God. All pious example to
them for nothing. All the divine good
ness for nothing All warning for moth
ing. They are sound asleep in the side of
the ship, though the sea and sky are in
mad wrestle.
Home at Last.
Many years ago a man, leaving his fam
lily in Massachusetts, sailed from Boston to
China to trade there. On the coast of
China, In the midst of night Of storm,
he made shipwreck. The adventurer was
washed up ON the beach senseless-all his
money gone. He had TO beg in the streets
Of Canton to keep from starving. For two
years there was no communication between
himself and family. They supposed him
dead. He knew not but that his family
were dead. He had goneout as a captain.
He was too proud to come back as pri-
vate sailor. But after awhile he choked
down his pride and sailed for Boston. Ar
riving there he took an evening train for
the center Of the state, where he had left
his family. Taking the stage from the
depot and riding u score Of miles, he got
home. He says that, going up in front of
the cottage in the bright moonlight, the
place looked to him like heaven. He rap
ped on the window, and the affrighted
servant let him in. He went to the room
where his wife and child were sleeping. He
did not dare to wake them for fear of the
shock. Bending over to kiss his child's
cheek, tear fell upon the wife's face and
she wakened, and he said, "Maryp' and
she knew his voice, and there was an in
describable scene Of welcome and joy and
thanksgiving to God.
Today know that many of you are sea
tossed and driven by sin in worse storm
than that which came down on the coast
Of China, and yet pray God that you
may, like the sailor, live to get home. In
the house Of many mansions your friends
are waiting TO meet you. They are Won
dering why you do not come. Escaped
from the shipwrecks Of earth may you at
last go in 1t will be bright night-a
very bright night as you put your thumb
on the latch Of that door. Once in, you
will find the old family faces sweeter than
when you last saw them, and there it will
be found that he who was your fathers
God and your mothers God and your chill
dren's God Is your own most blessed Re-
deemer, to whom be glory and dominion
throughout all ages, world without end.
men,