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


and That the Church win Purify Poll
tics and Protect the BallO. Box In the
End.
WASHINGTON, Dec. las tomorrow the
congress Of tho United States assemblies
and many of the members were present ut
the delivery of this sermon, DR.. Talmage
took a most appropriate theme, showing
that in all their work they might realize
that God has always been on the side of
this nation. Text, II Kings vi, H. "And
the Lord opened the eyes of the young
man, and he saw, and, behold, the noun
tain was full of horses and chariots Of fire
round about Elisha"
The American congress is assembling.
Arriving or already arrived are the repre-
sentatives of all sections Of this beloved
land Let us welcome them with prayerc
and benedictions. A nebler group of men
never entered Washington than those who
will tomorrow take their places In the
senate chamber and the house Of repre-
sentatfves. Whether they come alone or
leave their families ut the homestead far
away, may the blessing Of the Eternal God
be upon theml We invite them to our
churches, and together, they in political
spheres and We in religious circles, will
give the coming months to consideration
of the best interests of this country, which
God has blessed so much in the past that
propose to show you and show them, SO
far as may now reach their ear or to-
morrow their eye through the printing
press, that God will be with them TO help
them as In the text he filed the mountains
with help for Elisha.
As 1t cost England many regiments and
SO, 600, 600 year to keep safely trouble
some captive at st. Helena, so the king OF
Syria sends out whole army to capture
one minister Of religion-perhaps 90, 600
men to take Elisha. During the night
the army of Syrians came around the vii
lage of Dothan, where the prophet was
staying. At early daybreak the manserv-
ant of Elisha rushed in and said: "What
shall we dor There is whole army come
to destroy youl We must diei We must
diov' But Elisha was not scared bit,
for no looked up and saw the mountains
all around full of supernatural forces, and
he knew that II there were 90, 600 Syrians
against him there were 100, 900 angels for
him, and In answer to the prophets prayer
in behalf of his affrightcd manscryant the
young man saw it too. Horses OF fire
harnessed to chariots of fire, and drivers
of fire pulling reins of fire ON bits of fire,
and warriors Of fire with brandished
swords of fire, and the brilliance OF that
morning sunrise was oclipsed by the gal
loping splendors of the celestial cayalcade.
"And the Lord opened the eyes of the
young man, and he saw, and, behold, the
mountain was full Of horses and chariots
of fire round about Elisha" l speak OF
the upper forces of the text that are to
fight on our side as a nation. IL all the
low levels are filled with armed threats,
have to tell you that the mountains of our
hope and courage and faith are full of the
horses and chariots of divine rescue.
Tho Divine Equipage.
You will notice that the divine equipage
is always represented as chariot OF fire.
Ezekiel and Isaiah and John, when they
come to describe the divine equipage al
ways represent it as a wheeled, harness
ed, an upholstered confagration. 1t is not
la chariot like kings and conquerors Of
earth mount, but an organized and COM
pressed fire. That means purity, Justice,
chastisement, deliverance through burning
escapes Chariot of rescueP Yes, but q
chariot of fire. All our national Olsen
thralments have been through scorchine
agonies and red disasters. Through trib
Iulation the individual rises. Through
tribulation nations rise. Chariots of res
cue, but chariots of fire. But how do
know that this divine equipage Is on the
side of our institutionsP know 1t by the
history of the last 119 years. The Ameri
can Revolution started from the pen o.
John Hancock in Independence hail. II
l776. The colonies, without ships, with
out ammunition, without guns, without
trained warriors, without money, withou
prestige. On the other side, the mighties
nation of the earth, the largest armies, th'
grandest navies and the most distinguish
ed commanders and resources inexhausti
ble and nearly all nations ready to bacl
them up in the fight. Nothing as agains
limmensity.
The cause of the American colonies
which started at zero, dropped still lowe
through the quarreling of the generals
and through the jealousies at small sue
cesses, and through the winters which sur
passed all predecessors in depth of snow
and horrors of congealment. Elisha sur
rounded by the whole Syrian army did no
seem to be worse off than did the 13 colo
MES encompassed and overshadowed b
foreign assault. What decided the contes
in our favorP The upper forces, the uppe
armies. The Green and White mountain
of New England, the highlands along tn
Hudson, the mountains of Virginia, o.
the Appalachian ranges were full of re-er
forcements which the young man Wasf
ington saw by faith and his men endure
the frozen feet, and the gangrened wounds
and the exhausting hunger, and the Ion
march, because "the Lord opened the eye
of the young man, and he saw, and, b'
hold, the mountain was full of horst
, and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Washington himself was miracle. Wht
Joshua was in sacred history the fir
: American president was in secular histor!
! A thousand other men excelled him
different things but he excelled them a
I in roundness and completeness of chara
} ter. The world never saw his like, an
y probably never will see his like again, b
cause there probably never will be anoth'
J such exigency. He was let down divil
interposition. He was from God direct
Gods Chariot to the Rescue.
4 do not know how many can read IL
history of those times without admittin
the contest was decided by the upper force
Then, in 1861, when our civil war opene
I many at the north and at the south pr
A nounced it national suicide 1t was n
courage against cowardice; it was n
wealth against poverty; it was not lart
, states against small states. 1t was her
! ism against heroisla; it was the resourc
of many generations against the resourc
of generations; it was the prayer of Il
4 north against the prayer Of the south: