Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-06-06
Krupp guns naxsnot done so much to cap
ture this world Cor God as the oxgoads.
simplg Tools Are Beat


ture this world Cor God as the oxgoads.
sImpls Tools Are Best.
Years ago was to summer in the Adj
rondacks and my wealthy friend, who wns
q great hunter and fisherman, said, "I am
not going to the Adirondacks this season,
and you can take my equipment and will
send It up to Paul Smiths" Well, IL was
there when / arrived In the Adirondacks,
q splendid outfit, that cost many hundreds
Of dollars, a gorgeous tent and such elab.
crate fishing apparatus; such guns of all
styles Of exquisite make and reels and
pouches and bait and torches and lunch
baskets and many more things that could
not oven guess the use Of And my friend
OF the big soul had even written on and
engaged men who should accompany me
into the forest and carry home the deer
and the trout II the mountains could
have seen and understood 1t at the time
there would have been panic among the
antlers and the fins through all tho "John
Browns Tract" Well, / am no hunter
and not roebuck or game fish did in
jure. But there were hunters there that
season who had nothing but plain gun
and rug to sleep on and coil of fishing
line and a box of ammunition and bait,
who came in ever and anon with as many
Of the captiyes of forest and stream as they
and two or three attendants could carry.
Now, fear that many Christian workers
who have most elaborate educational and
theological and professional equipment
and most wonderful weaponry, sufficient,
you would think, to capture whole COM
munity or whole nation for God, will in
the last Gay have but little except their
fine tackling to show, while some who had
no advantages except that which they got
in prayer and conservation will, by the
souls they have brought to the shore of
eternal safety, prove that they have been
gloriously successful as fishers of men and
in taking many who, like the hart, were
painting after the water brooks.
What made the Amalekites run before
Gideon's arrnyP Each one of the army
knew how much racket the breaking of
one pitcher would make. So 800 men that
night took 300 pitchers, and lamp inside
the pitcher, and at given signal the lamps
were lifted, and the pitchers were violent
ly dashed down. The flash of the light
and the racket of the 800 demolished pitch
ers sent the enemy into wild flight. Not
much of a weapon, you would say, is a bro
ken pitcher, but the Lord made that aw-
full crash of crockery the means of triumph
for his people, and there is yet to be a bat
tie with the pitchers The night of the
worlds dissipation may get darker and
darker, but after awhile, in what watch
of the night 1 know not, all the ale pitch
ers and the wine pitchers, and the beer
pitchers, and the whisky pitchers of the
| earth will be hurled into demolition by
converted inobriates and Christian reform
ers, and at that awful crash of informal
| crockery the Amalekltsh host of paupor-
| ism and loafcrdom and domestic quarrel
and cruelty and assassination will fly tho
earth.
Ask God Tor Help.
Take the first weapon you can lay your
hands on. Why did David choose the sling
when he went at Goliath and Goliath went
at him9 Brought up in the country, like
every other boy, he knew how to manage
sling. Saul armor was first put on him,
but the giants armor was too heavy. The
helmet was clapped on him as an extin-
| guisher, and David said, "I cannot go with
these, for 1 have not proved them" And
tho first wise thing David did after putting
on Sauls armor was to put it off. Their
the brook Elah, the bed of which was dry
when saw it and one vast reach of peb
bles, furnished the five smooth stones Of
the brook with which Goliath was pros
trated. Whether it be boys sling, or E
broken pitcher, or an oxgoad, take thai
which you can manage and ask God fol
help, and no power on earth or in hell car
stand before you.
Go out, then, charge you, against th'
PhiliStines. We must admit tho odds ar,
against us-600 to l. In the matter of dol
lars, those devoted to worldlincss and sil
and dissipation, when compared with th'
dollars devoted to holiness and virtue-60t
to L. The houses set apart for vice and dc
spoliation and ruin, as compared will
those dedicated to good, 600 to /. o
printed newspaper sheets scattered abroad
from day to day, those depraying as com
The agencies for making the world wors
compared with the agencies for making
the world better, 900 to l.. But Moses !,
his song chants, "How should one chase
thousand and two put ten thousand
fightP" and in my text one oxgoad con
quors 600 uplifted battleaxes, and the da,
Of universal victory is coming, unless tn
Bible be a fabrication and eternity myth
and the chariOts of God are unwheeled 81
the golden streets, and the last regiment Q
the celestial hosts lies dead on the plain
of heaven. With u.s. or without US, tn
work will be done. Oh, get into the rank
, somewhere, armed somehow; you with a.
needle, you with pen, you with goo
book, you with loaf of bread for the hun
CRY, you with q vial of medicine for tn
sick, you with pair Of shoes for the bare
; footed, you with word of encouragement
for the young man trying to get back froI
evil ways, you with some story of tn
!; Christ who came to heal the worst wound
and pardon the blackest guilt and call tn
farthest wanderer home. say to you a
!, the watchman of London used to say
night to the housoholders, before the tim
Of streets lamps came: Hang out you
, light" Hang out your light"
1t May Do as Much for You.