Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-05

his tnroTe In this world. Who shall have
this hemisphere-Christ or satanf Who
shall have the shore of her inland seas, the
silver Of her Nevadi,, the gold Of her Colo
radios, the telescopek1 her observatories,
the brain Of her universities, the wheat Of
her prairies, the rice Of her savannas, the
two great ocean beaches, tho ono reaching
from Baffin's bay to TERRA del Fuego and
the other from Bering strait TO Cape
Horn, and all the moral and temporal and
spiritual and everlasting interests Of a
population vast beyond all human oompu-
tationi Who shall have tho hemisphere
You and will decide that, or help to de-
eide 1t, by conscientious vote, by earnest
prayer, by maintenance OF Christian insti-
tutions, by support of great philanthropies
by putting body, mind and soul on the
right side Of all moral, religious and ma
tional movements.
when the Trump Sounds.
All, it will not be long before it will
not make any difference to you or to me
what becomes Of this continent so far as
earthly comfort is concerned. = All we will
want of it will be z feet by 3, and that
will take in the largest and there will be
room and to spare. That is all Of this
country we will need very soon-the
youngest of us all. But we have an anx-
iety about the welfare and the happiness
of the generations that arc coming on, and
It will be a grand thing if, when the
Rrchangel's trumpet sounds, we find that
our sepulcher, like the one Joseph of Ari-
n-sthea provided for Christ, is in the midst
of ii garden.
One Of the seven v.Nlssg of the world
was the white marco watch tower Of
pharos of Egypt Sostratus, the architect
and sculptor, after building that watch
tower, cut his namc on it, Thcn he COW
cred it with plaster, and to please the
king, he put the monarch's name on the
outside of the plastering, and tho storms
beat and the seas dashed in their fury, and
they washed off the plastering, and they
washed it out and they washed it down,
but the name of Sostratus was deep cut in
the imperishable rock So across the face
of this nation there have been great
many names written-aoross our finances
across our religions, names worthy of re-
membrance, names written on the archi-
lecture of our churches and our schools
and our asylums and our homes of mercy,
but God is the architect of this continent,
and he was the sculptor Of all its gran
deurs, and long after-through the wash Of
tho ages and the tempests of centuries
all other names shall be obIiterated thu
divine signature and divine name will b.
brighter and brighter as the millennium
go by, and the world shall see that tn,
God who made this continent has redeemed
1t by mis- grace from all its sorrows ant
| from all its crimes
Pray For National Welfare.
Have you faith In such thing as that
After all the chariots have been unwheeled
and after all the war chargers have beel
crippled, the chariots which Elisha saw OIL
the morning of his peril will roll on in tri
umph, followed by all the armies of heavel
on white horses. God could do 1t withou
US, but he will not. The weakest of us
the faintest of us, the smallest Drained o
us, shall have part in the triumph. W
may not have our name, like the name O
Sostratus, cut in imperishable rock an
conspicuous for centuries, but we shall b
remembered in better place than that
even in the heart of him who came to re
deem us and redeem the world, and ou
names will be seen close to the signatur
of his wound, for, as today he throws ou
his arms to us, he says, Behold, hay
craven thee ON the palms of my hand.
,, BY the mightiest of oil agencies, the pc
|, tency of prayer, beg you seek our na
. . tional welfare.
Some time ago there were 1900, 900 lei
, ters in the dead letter postoffice in this cit
letters that lost their way-but not on
, prayer ever directed to the heart of Go
miscarried. The way is all clear for tn
ascent of your supplication heavenwar
= : In behalf of this nation. Before the posti
= . communication was SO easy, and long ag
on rock 100 feet high, on the coast
England, there was barrel fastened to
r post, and in great letters on the side
: the rock, so it could be seen far out at SCI
were the words, "Postoffice," and whe
. ships came by, boat put out to take an
: fetch letters. And so sacred were thos
deposits of affection in that barrel that L
!, lock was ever put upon that BARREL a
. though>it eontained-messo1es for Anari'