Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-07-04

who owe their eternal damnation 10 what
has been at different times the boldness Of
womanly attire. Show me tho fashion
plates Of any age between this and the
time Of Louis XVI Of Franco and Henry
VIII Of England and will tell you the
type Of morals or immorals Of that age or
that year. No exception to it. Modest ap-
parel means righteous people. Immodest
apparel always means a contaminated and
depraved society. You wonder that the
city Of Tyre was destroyed with such a
terrible destruction. Have you ever seen
the fashion plate Of tho city Of Tyres
will show it TO you:
"Moreoyer, the Lord saith, because the
daughters of Zion arc naughty and walk
with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and miDcing as they go, and
making a tinkling with their feet, in that
day the Lord will take away the bravery Of
their tinkling ornaments about their feet,
and their cauls, and their round tires like
the moon, the rings and nose jewels, the
changeable suits Of apparel, and tho man.
ties, and the wimples, and the crisping
pins"
That Is the fashion plate of ancient Tyre.
And do you wonder that the Lord God In
his Indignation blotted out the city, so
that fishermen today spread their nots
where that city once stoodf
Alcoholic Beverage.
Gate the Fourth. beverage.
Oh, the wine cup is the patron Of impur-
ity. The officers of the law tell us that
nearly all the men who go into the sham
bles of death go in intoxicated, the mental
and the spiritual abolished, that the brute
may triumph. Tell me that young man
drinks, and l know the whole story. If he
becomes a captive of the wine cup, he viii
become a captive Of all other vices. Only
give him time. No one ever runs drunk
enness alone. That Is a carrion crow that
goes in flock, and when you see that
beak ahead, you may know the other beaks
are coming. In other words, the wine cup
unbalances and dethrones ones better
| Judgment and leaves one the prey Of all
evil appetites that may choose to alight
upon his soul. There is not place of any
kind of sin in the United States today that
does not find its chief abettor in the chalice
of inebriety There is either drinking
bar before, or one behind, or one above,
or one underneath. These people escape
legal penalty because they are all licensed
to sell liquor The courts that license the
sale of strong drink license gambling
houses, license libertinism, license disease
license death, license all sufferings, al
crimes, all despoliations, all disasters, al
murders, all woe. 1t is the courts and thu
legislature that are swinging wide oper
this grinding, crealHy, stupendous gate o.
the lost.
But you say: "You have described thcst
gates of hell and shown us how they swing
in to allow the entrance of the doomed
Will you not, please, before you get through
the sermon tell US how these gates of hel
may swing out to allow the escape of th'
penitent?" l reply, but very few escape
OF the thousand that go in 900 perish
Suppose one of these wanderers shoul(
knock at your door, would you admit her
Suppose you knew where she came from
would you ask her to sit down at you
dining table? Would you ask her to be
come the governess of your children
Would you introduce her among your &c
quaintanceshipsP Would you take the re
sponsibility of pulling on the outside of tn
gate of hell while the pusher on the insid
of the gate is trying to get outs
You would not, not one of a thousand o
you would dare to do so. You woul'
write beautiful poetry over her sorrows ant
weep over her misfortunes, but give he
practical help you mover will. But yo'
say, "A1e there no ways by which tn
wanderer may escapeY" oh, yes; three o
four. The one way is the sewing girl
garret, dingy, cold, hunger blasted. Blu
{ you say, SIS there no other way for her +
escapeS" Oh, yes. Another way is tn
street that leads to tho river, at midnight
the end of the city dock, the moon shinin
down on the water making it look S
smooth she wonders If it is deep enough
1t is. No boatlnan near enough to hea
the plunge No watchman near enough t
pick her out before she sinks the thir
time. No other wayp Yes. By the curv
of the railroad at the point where the er
gineer of the lightning express train car
not see hundred yards ahead to the forI
that lies across the track. He may whistl
"down brakes" but not soon enough
disappoint the one who seeks her deatf
But you say, "Isn't God good, and won
, he forgiyeP" Yes, but man will not, won
an will not society will not. The churc
J of God says 1t will, but it will not. on
work, then, must be prevention rathe
than cure
Great Evils of Society.
Those gates of hell are to be prostrate
lust as certainly as God and the Bible al
true, but 1t will not be done until Chri
tian men and women, quitting their prut
} cry and squeamishness in this matte
rally the whole Christian sentiment of tt
church and assail these great evils of SOC
: ETY.. The Bible utters it's denunciation
this direction again and again, and yet I'll
piety of the day is such namby pamh
Z sort Of thing that you cannot even quot
Scripture without making somebody res
. less. AS long as this holy imbecility reig1
! in the church Of God, sin will laugh 20
to scorn. I do not know but that befol
the church wakes up matters Will g
worse and worse, and that there will hay
to be one lamb sacrificed from each of Il
| most carefully guarded folds, and the wa'
7 of uncleanness dash to the spire of the vi
0 lage church and the top of the cathedr
! tower.
t Prophets and patriarchs and apostl
1 and evangelists and Christ himself ha'
: thundered against these sins as against I
. other, and yet there are those who thin
t we ought to take, when we speak of the
4 SUBJECTS tone apologetio. put my TO-
D on all the conventional rhetoric on th
4 subject, and tell you plainly that unle
: you give up that sin your doom is scale
: and world without end you will be chast
by the anathemas of an incensed God.
Q rally you to besiegement of thu gates
Q hell Wo want in this besieging host n
+, soft sentimentalists, but men who a
Y willing to take and give hard knock
q The gates of GAIA were carried of, Il
8 gates of Thebes were battered down, Il
: gates of Babylon were destroyed. and tt
: gates of hell are going to be prostrated.
i The Christianized printing press will
. rolled up as the chief battering ram. The
O there will be long list of aroused pulpit
Q which shall be assailing fortresses, al
y God's 8 redhot truth shall be the flying ar