Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-25


is gone, his reputation Is gone, his wit Is |
gone, his clothes are gone, everything is
gone. Why should they stay any longers
have stripped the slain.
There Is another way, however, OF doing
that same work. Here is a man who,
through his sin, Is sprostrate. Heacknowl-
edges that he has done wrong. Now Is
the time for you to go to that man and say,
Thousands Of people have been as far
astray as you are and got hack" Now Is
the time for you to so to that man and
tell him Of the omnipotent grace Of Cod
that Is sufficient for any poor soul Now
Is the time to go to tell him how swearing
John Bunyan, through the grace Of God,
afterward came to the celestial city. Now
In the time to go to that man and tell him
how prohigate Newton came, through con-
version, to be world renowned preacher
of Righteousness. Now Is the time TO tell
that man that multitudes who have been
pounded withan the fails Of sin and drag
eed through all the sewers of pollution at
last have risen to positive dominion of
moral power.
You do not tell him that, do your No.
You say to hin: Loan you money! No.
You are down. You win have to go to
the dogs Lend you a dollarp would not
lend you cents 20 keep you from the gal
lows You arc debauched. Get out Of
my sight now. Down. You will have
TO stay down" And thus those bruised
and battered men are sometimes accosted
by those who ought to lift them up. Thus
the last vestige of hope Is taken from
them. Thus those who ought to go and
lift and save them are guilty Of stripping
the slain.
The point want to make is this: Sin
Is hard, cruel and merciless Instead of
helping a man up it helps him down, and
when, like Saul and his comrades, you lie
on the field it will come and steal your
sword and helmet and shield, leaving you
to the jackai and crow.
satan's Work.
But the world and satan do not do all
their work with the outcast and abandon
ed A respectable impenitent man comes
to die He is flat ON his back. He could
not get up if the house was on fire. Adroit-
est medical skill and gentlest nursing
have been failure. He has come to his
last hour. What does satan do for such
man? Why, he fetches up all the inapt,
disagreeable and narrowing things in his
life. He says: "Do you remember those
chances you had for heaven and missed
themp Do you remember all those lapses
| in conduct? Do you remember all those
opprobrious words and thoughts and ac-
tionsS Don't remember them, ehp III
make you remember them" And then
he takes all the past and e1npties it on
that deathbed, as the mailbags are emp
tied on the postoff1ce floor The man is sick.
He cannot get away from them
Then the man says to satan: "Yop
have deceived me. You told me that al
would be we'll. You said there would bt
no trouble at the last You told me If
did SO and SO you would do SO and so
Now you corner me- and hedge me up
and submerge me in everything evil. ;
"Ha, hap' says satan. "I wasonly foolins
you. 1t Is mirth for me to see you suffer
have been for 80 years plotting to get yoI
just where you are. 1t is hard for you now
1t will be worse for you after awhile I
pleases me. Lie still, sir. Don't finch O
shuddcr Como, now, will tear off from
you the last rag of expectation. / vii
rend away from your soul the last hope
will leave you bare for the beating of tn
storm. 1t my business to strip the slain.
While men are in robust health, an
their digestion Is good, and their nerve
are strong, they think their physica
, strength will get them safely through th
last exigency. They say it is only coward
, / ly women who are afraid at the last an
, cry out for God. "Wait till I come to die
I will show you. You won't hear me pray
! nor call for minister, nor want achapte
! read me from the Bible" But after th
, man has been three weeks In sickrooI
his nerves are not so steady, and hisworlt
ly companions are not anywhere near
, cheer him up, and he Is persuaded that
: must quit life, His physical courage
J | all gone.
Too Late.
y He Jumps at the fall of teaspoon in
/ saucer. He shivers at the idea Of goin
D away. He says: "Wife, don't think m
: infidelity is going to take me through. F'
a Gods sake, don't bring up the childre
to do as have done. If you feel like |
wish you would read a verse or two OF
. of Fannies Sabbath school hymnbook
: New Testament" But satan breaks
! and says: "You have always thought r
: ligion trash and lie. Don't give up
! the last Besides that you cannot, in Il
: hour you have to live, get off on th
= track. Die as you lived With my gre
J : black wings shut out that light. Die
: darkness. / rend away from you that La
vestige Of hope. 1t is my business to str
2 the slain.
A man who had rejected Christiani
= and thought it all trash came to die.
!. was in the sweat of great agony, and /
I wife said, "We had better have sor
!, prayer. (" "Mary, not breath Of that
= he said "The lightest word of pray
= would roll back on me like rocks on
!, drowning man. I have come to the ho
! ! of test. had chance but forfeited
|, = believed in liar, and he has left me
:, l, the lurch. Mary, bring me Tom Pair
y that book that I swore by and lived
3 y and pitch it into the fire, and let 1t bu
I, I, and burn as / myself shall soon burn
= And then, with the foam on his lip a
= his hands tossing wildly in the air.
I. Z, cried outs "Blackness of darknessl c
- - my God, too latel'' And the spirits
i ~ darkness whistled up from the depth a
= wheeled around and round him, strippi
: the slain.
: - Sin is a luxury now. 1t is exhilarati
h, now. 1t is victory now. But after awh
4 4 1t is collision. It is defeat. 1t is ext
- mination. 1t is jackalism. 1t Is robbi
- the dead. 1t is stripping the slain. G.
is 1t up today-give it up. oh, how you hi
20 - been cheated on, my brother, from {
- thing to anotheri ALI these years y
!. s, have been under an evil mastery that )
:. = understood not. What have your comp
- ~ ions done for you? What have they d.
~ ~ for your healthP Nearly ruined it by
~ rousal What have they done for your
= tuner Almost scattered it by spendthl
10 behavior. What have they done for "
q reputation? Almost ruined 1T with G,
g. g. men, What have they done for your
i1 mortal soulf Almost insured its oN
i, throw.
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