Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-11-21


the lamps while IL Is broad daylight, and
am at first surprised, hut l afterward
find that we are about TO enter a tunnel,
and its darkness Is thus Illuminated. Oh,
kindle light for those who arc plunging
into financial or domestic or spiritual mid
night
Plan Out Your Life.
Advice the fifth: Plan out your life
on big scale, whether you are farmers
daughter, or a shepherdess among the hills,
or the flattered pet of a drawing room I'LL
ed with statuary and pictures and bric-a-
brac. Stop where you are and make a
plan for your lifetime. You cannot be
satisfied with life Of friyolity and giggle
and indlrection. Trust the world, and 1t
will cheat you II 1t does not destroy you.
The Redoubtable was the name Of an en-
emy's ship that Lord Nelson spared twice
from demolition, but that same ship after
ward sent the ball that killed him, and
the world on which you smile may aim at
you its deadliest weapon.
Be Gods woman. This moment make
as mighty change as did a college stu
dent of England. He had neglected his
studies, rioting at night with dissipated
companions and sleeping In the classroom
when he ought to have been listening. A
fellow student camc into his room one
morning before the young man 1 am
speaking of had arisen from his pillow and
said to him: "Paley, you are fool. You
are wasting your opportunities. Do not
throw away your life." Paley said: 81
was so struck with what he said that l lay
in bed until had formed my plan for life.
l ordered my FIRE to be always laid over
night. arose at and read steadily all
day-allotted to each portion of the day its
proper branch of study and became the
senior wrangler" What an hour that
was, when q resolution definitely placed
changed young man from a reckless and
time wasting student to aoonsocrated man
who stopped not until oil time and all
eternity shall be debtor to his pen and in
| 0uencel
The New and the True.
Young woman, draw out and decide what
you will be and do, God helping. Write
1t out in plain hand, not like the letters
which Josephine received from Napoleon
In italy, in writing SO serawling and scat
tered that 1t was sometimes taken as maj
of the seat of war Put the plan on th'
wall of your room or write it in tn,
opening of blank book or put 1t wher
you will be compelled often to see 1t. A
thousand questions Of your coming lif
you cannot settle now, but there Is on
question you can settle Independent O
man, woman, angel and devil, and that /
that you will be O God s woman now
henoeforth and forever. Clasp hands witt
the Almighty. Pythagoras represente
life by the letter Y, because 1t early divide
into two ways. Look out for opportunitie
of cheering, inspiring, rescuing and sav
ing all the people you can. Make leagu
with the eternities. seek your presen
and everlasting safety.
: David Brewster said that q comet be
= longing to our system, called Lexell'
. comet, is lost, as it ought to have appeare
13 times and has not appeared at all. Alat
it is not only the lost comets, but the los
stars, and what were considered ixe
stars. Some of the most brilliant an
steady souls have disappeared. The worl
!, wonders at the charge of the Light br
. gade, immortalized by Tennyson. Onl
; a few of the 600 got back from the chargt
under Lord Cardigan, Of the Muscovit
guns, and all the havoc was done in
= = minutes, the charge beginning at te
. . minutes past II O'Clock and closing at
. . minutes past II, and yet nothing left O
the field but dying and dead men, dyin
y and dead horses. But a smaller propo
tion of the men and women who go fnt
. the battle Of life como out unwounde'
y y The slaughter has been and will be terrif
- ~ and we all need God, and we need hi
u now, and we need him all the time. Al
~ ~ let mo say there is a new woman, as the
p is a new man, and that is the regenerat'
;, woman made such by the ransackin
- Transforming, upbuilding, triumpha
70 70 power of the Spirit who is SO superior
- ~ all other spirits that he has been call