Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-05-16

parell or agarel You have all seen the
photographers negative. He took pic
ture from it 10 or 90 years ago. You ask
him now for a picture from that same neg
alive He opens the great chest contain
ing the blnck negatives Of 1855 or 1875,
and he rcproduces the picture. Young
men, your memory Is made up OF the neg
atives Of an immortal photography. All
that you see or hear goes into your soul TO
make pictures for tho future. You will
have with you till the Judgment day the
negatives Of all the bad pictures you have
ever looked at and Of all the debauehed
scenes you have read about. Show me the
newspapers you take and the books you
read, and I will tell you what are your
prospects for well being in. this life, and
what will be your residence l, 900, 900 years
after the star on which we now live shall
have dropped out of the constellation. I
never travel on Sunday unless 1t be case
Of necessity or mercy. But last autumn I
was in India In city plague struck. By
the hundreds the people were down with
fearful Illness We went to the apothe-
cary's to get some preventive of the fever,
and the place was crowded with invalids,
and we had no confidence In the prevent
i've we purchased from the Hindoos The
mail train was to start Sabbath evening.
l said, Frank, / think the Lord will ex-
cuse us IL we get out of this place with the
first train" and we took it, not feeling
quite comfortable till we were hundreds
Of miles away. I felt we were right In
flying from the plague. Well, the air In
many of our cities is struck through with
worse plague-the plague of corrupt and
damnable literature. Get away from it as
soon as possible. 1t has already ruined the
bodies, minds and souls Of a multitude
which, If stood in solid column, would
reach from New York Battery to Golden
Horn. The plagued The plagued
The Fourth Step.
Word the next: Never go to any place
where you would be ashamed to die. Adopt
that plan, and you will never go to any
evil amusement nor be found in compro-
missing surroundings. How many star
tling cases within the past few years of
men called suddenly out Of this world, and
the newspapers surprised US when they
mentioned the locality and the companion
ship. To put it on the least important
ground, you ought not to go to any such
| forbidden place, because If you depart this
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| ing ministers in great embarrassment.
| You know that some of the ministers be-
| lieve that all who leave this life go straight
| to heaven, however they have acted in
this world or whatever they have believed.
To get you through from such surround
ings is an appalling theological undertak-
| ing One of the most arduous and be-
sweating efforts of that kind that / ever
knew of was at the obsequies of man
who was found dead in snowbank with
his rum jug close beside him. But the
minister did the work of happy transfer
ence as we'll as possible, although it did
seem little inappropriate when he read:
blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.
They rest from their labors, and their
works do follow them" If you have no
mercy upon yourself, have mercy upon
the minister who may be called to offciate
after your demise. Die at home, or in some
place of honest business, or where the
laughter is clean, or amid companionships
pure and elevating. Remember that any
place we go to may become our starting
point for tho next world. When we enter
the harbor of heaven and the officer Of
light comes aboard, let us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at the
right port.
The Fifth Step.
Word the next: As soon as you can, by
industry and economy, have home Of
your own. What do mean by home?
mean two rooms and the blessing Of God
on both of them-one room for slumher,
one for food, its preparation and the par
taking thereof Mark you, l would like
you to have home with 80 rooms, all up
holstered, pictured and statuetted, but !
am putting it down at the minimum. A
husband and wife who cannot be happy
with home made up of two rooms would
not be happy in heaven If they got there.
He who wins and keeps the affection Of a
good practical woman has done gloriously.
What do l mean by good woman? I
mean one who loved God before she loved
you. What do mean by practical wom-
anf mean one who can help you to earn
living, for time comes in almost every
lman's life when he Is flung of hard mis-
fortune, and you do not want a weakling
going around the house whining and sniff
ling about how she had it before you mar
ried her. The simple reason why thousands
Of men never get on In the world Is be-
cause they married nonentities, and never
got over 1t. The only thing that Jobs
wife proposed for his boils was warm
poultice of profanity, saying, Course God
and die" 1t adds to our admiration OF
John Wesley the manner in which he con-
quered domestic unhappiness. His wife
had slandered him all over England until,
standing in his pulpit in City Road chapel,
he complained to the people, saying, u
have been charged with every crime In
the catalogue except drunkenness, when
his wife arose in the back part of the
church and said, "John, you know you
were drunk last night" Then Wesley ex-
claimed, "Thank God, the catalogue Il
complete" When man marries, he mar
ries for heaven or hell, and it Is more Sc
when woman marries You six young
men in Fayette, o., had better look out.
The Sixth Step.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself TOT
, high Better rate yourself too low. L
lyou rate yourself too low, the world will
say. "Come up" If you rate yourself toe
high, the world will say "Come down. 7
1t is bad thing when a man gets so ex
! aggerated an idea Of himself as did Earl o.
, Buchan, whose speech Ballantyne, the Ed
, | uDur8H printer, Coulu uot Sob uP lor pun
lication because he had not enough cap
ital rs among his type. Remember thai
the world got along without you nearly
5000 years before you were born, and un
, less some meteor collides with US or some
|, internal explosion occurs the world will
. probably last several thousand years aftel
, lyou are dead.
, The Seventh Step.
, Word the next: Do not postpone tot
long doing something decided for God, hu
manity and yourself. The greatest thing
, have been done before 40 years Of age. Pas
cal at 18 years of age, Grotius at II, Rom
, illus at 20, Pitt at as, Whitefield at "a
Bonaparte ut ~, Ignatius Loyola at 80
Raphael at 81, had made the world fee
. their virtue or their vice, and the bigges
] strokes you will probably make for th