Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-17

through the fatigling journey from Tirzah
to Shiloh and from Shiloh back to Tirzah
there will be throne of royalty ON which
she shall rest forever. Glory yeiled. Az
fiuence hidden. Eternal raptures hushed
up. A queen in mask. A princess in dis
guise.
The Queen In Disguise.
When you think of queen you do not
think of Catherine of Russia, or Maria
Theresa of Germany, or Mary, queen of
Scots. When you think of a queen, you
think of q plain woman who sat opposite
your father at the table or walked with
him down the path of life arm In arm,
sometimes TO the Thanksgiving banquet,
sometimes to the grave, but always side by
side, soothing your little SORROWS and ad-
justing your little quarrels, listening to
your evening prayer, toiling with the nee
die or at the spinning wheel, and on cold
nights tucking you up snug and warm.
And then on that dark day when she lay
s-dying, putting those thin hands that had
toiled for you so long, putting them to-
gether in dying prayer commencing you
| to that God in whom she had taught you
to trust. Oh, she was the queen, she was
the queenl You cannot think Of her now
without having the deepest emotions of
your soul stirred, and you feel as If you
could cry as though you were now sitting
in infancy on her lap, and If you call her
back to speak your name with the tender
ness with which she once spoke you would
be willing now to throw yourself on the
sod that covers her grave, crying, "Moth-
er, motherp' All, she was the queen Your
father knew it You knew 1t. She was
the queen, but the queen In disguise. The
world did not recognize 1T.
But there was grander Disgusting
The favorite of great house looked out of
the window of his palace, and he saw that
the people were carrying heavy burdens,
and that some of them were hobbling on
crutches. and he saw some lying at the
gate exhibiting their sores, and then he
heard their lainentation, and he said: ~
will Just put ON the clothes of those poor
people, and will go down and see what
their sorrows are and 1 will sympathize
with them, and will be one of them, and
will help them." Well, the day came for
him to start The lords of the land came
to gee him off. All who could sing Joined
in the parting song, which shook the hills
and woke up the shepherds. The first few
nights he has been sleeping with the hos
tiers and the camel drivers, for no one
knew there was King in town. He went
among the doctors of the law, astounding
them, for without any Doctors gown he
knew more law than any doctors. He
fished with the fishermen. he smote with
his own hammer In the carpenters shop
He ate raw corn out of the field. He fried
fish on the banks of Gennesaret He was
howled at by crazy people in the tombs
Ide was splashed of the surf of the sea.
pilgrim without any pillow. A sick mar
without any medicament. A mournel
with no sympathetic bosom in which hi
could pour his tears. Disguise complete
I know that occasionally his divine royalty
flashed out as when in the storm on Cali
lee, as In the red wine at the wedding ban
quet, as when he freed the shackled dc
moniao of Gadara, as when he turned ,
whole school of fish into the net of the dis
oouraged boatmen, as when he throbbes
life into the shriveled arm of the paralytic
but for the most part he was In disguise
No one saw the Kings jewels in his san
dal. No one saw the royal robe in hi
plain coat. No one knew that that shell
terless Christ owned all the mansions ii
which the hierarchs of heaven had thei
habitation None knew that that hun
gered Christ owned all the olive grove
and all the harvests which shook their golt
on the hills of Palestine. No one knew
that he who said ~ thirstp' poured tn
Euphrates out Of his own chalice. No on
knew that the ocean lay in the palm of hi
hand like a dewdrop in the vase of lily
No one knew that the stars and moon
and suns and galaxies and constellation
that marched on age after age were, a
compared with his lifetime, the sparkle Q
a FREELY on a summer night Noone knew
that the sun in midheayen was only th
shadow of his throne. No one knew tina
, his crown of universal dominion was GOV
cred up with bunch of thorns. OmniI
otence sheathed in human body. Omnis
oience hidden in human eye. Inilnit
, love beating in a human heart Everlast
ing harmonies subdued into huma
: voice. Royalty en- masque. Grandeurs G
heaven in earthly disguise.
} Superstition.
My subject also impresses me with hoy
people put on masks and how the Lor
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in the history Of this woman of Tirza
when the prophet accosted her, PRACTICAL
: saying: II know who you are. You car
not cheat me. You cannot impose upo
: me- Why feignest thou thyself to be al
otherP" She had right to ask for th
restoration of her son; she had no right
practice that falsehood. 1t is never rigi
. to do wrong. Sometimes you may be abl
8 to conceal an affair. 1t Is not necessary
, tell everything. There is a natural pre-
3 sure to the lips which seems to indicat
. that silence sometimes Is right, but fe
r double dealing, for moral shuffiing, fc
8 counterfeit and for sham God has nothin
! but anathema and exposure. He will tea
4 off the lie. He will rip up the empiricisn
8 He will scatter the ambuscade. There al
Q people who are just ready to be dupet
0 They seem to be waiting to be deceived
/, They believe in ghosts. They saw or
= themselves once. They heard somethin
Q strange In an uninhabited house. Coin
+ along the road one night, something al
T preached them in white and crossed I'll
: road They would think it very disastror
= to count the number Of carriages at
Q funeral. They heard in neighbours hou!
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+ family They say it is a sure sign of ey
9 If bat fly into the room on summt
u night or they see the moon over the lie
' shoulder. They would not for the worl
{ undertake any enterprise on Friday, forge
9 full of the fact that If they look over I'll
, calendar of the world they will see thu
0 Friday has been the most fortunate day
: all the history of the world.
D As near as can tell, looking over I'll
Q calendar of the worlds history, mo
= grand, bright, beautiful things have hal
Q pened on Friday than any other day of I'll
q week. They would not begin anything c
Friday. They would not for the world s
! back to the house for anything after thu
n had once started Such people are ready
y, be duped. Ignorance comes along, pc
"A haps in the disguise of medical scienc
of and carries them captive, for there are a
w0ys some men who have found son