Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-09-03

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panto at 25, Grotius was attorney general
at "a, and have noticed amid all classes
of MN that some of the severest battles
and the toughest work come before 80
Therefore we must have our sermons and
our exhortations In prayer meeting all
sympathetic with the young. And so with
these people further on In life What do
these doctors and lawyers and merchants
and mechanics care about the distractions
of religion? What they want is help &c
bear the whimsicalities OF patients, the
browbeating of legal opponents, the un.
fairness of customers, who have plenty Of
fault finding for every imperfection OF
handiwork, but no praise for 90 excellences
What does that brain racked, hand bills
tered man care for Zwingli's Doctrine OF
Original Sin" or Augustin's "Anthro-
pologyS" You might as well 60 to man
who has the pleurisy and put on his side a
plaster made out of DR.. PARIS Treatise
on Medical Jurisprudence
In all our sermons there must be helI
for every one somewhere. You go into an
apothecary store We see others being
waited on. We do not complain because
we do not Immediately get the medicine.
We know our turn will come after awhile.
And SO while all parts Of a sermon may
not be appropriate to our case, If we wait
prayerfully before the sermon is through
we shall have the divine prescription.
say to these young men who are going tc
preach the gospel, these theological stu
DENTS 1 say to them, We want in our ser
mons not more metaphysics, nor mort
imagination, nor more logic, nor more pro
fundity.
Lend q Helping Hand.
What we want In our sermons and Chris.
tian exhortations is more sympathy. When
Father Taylor preached in the Sailors
Bethel at Boston, the jack tars felt they
had help for their duties among the rat
lines and the forecastles When Richard
Weaver preached to the operatives In Old.
ham, England all the workingmen felt
they had more grace for the spindles. When
DR.. South preached to kings and princes
and princesses all the mighty men and
women who heard him felt preparation fol-
their high station.
Do you not know that this simple story
Of Saviour's kindness Is to redeem all
nations2 The hard heart of this worlds
obduracy Is to be broken before that story.
There is in Antwerp, BELGIUM, one of the
| most remarkable pictures ever saw. II
Is "The Descent of Christ From the
Cross" 1t is one of Rubens' pictures. Nc
man can stand and look at that Descent
From the Cross" as Rubens pictured it,
without having his eyes flooded with tears
if he have any sensibility at all 1t is al
| overmastering picture-one that stuns yor
and staggers you and haunts your dreams
One afternoon man stood In that cathe
dral looking at Rubens Descent From
the Cross" He was all absorbed in thai
scene of Saviour's sufferings, when tht
janitor came in and said SIT is time Il
close up the cathedral for the night.
wish you would depart The pilgrim
| looking at that Descent From the Cross,
turned around to the janitor and said
"No, no; not yet Wait until they ge
him down. Oh, it is the story of
Saviour's suffering kindness that is to cap
ture the world. When the bones of tina
great behemoth of iniquity which ha
trampled all nations shall be broken ant
shattered, 1t will be found out that th
work was not done by the hammer of th
iconoclast, or by the sword of the conquer
or, or by the torch of persecution, but b.
the plain, simple, overwhelming force o
"the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.
Our Eternal Heritance.
Kindnessl We all need more of it in ou
hearts, our words and our behavior. Tn
chief characteristic of our Lord was kind
ness. A gentleman in England died leay
ing his fortune by will to two sons. Th
son that staid at home destroyed the fa
theirs will and pretended that the brothe
who was absent was dead and buried Tn
absent brother after awhile returned ant
claimed his part of the property. Judge
and jurors were to be bribed to say tina
the returned brother and son was no Sol
at all, but only an impostor. The tria
came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride O
the English courtroom and for 20 year
the pride of jurisprudence, heard that tina
injustice was about to be practiced. II
put off his official robe. He put on tn
garb of miller. He went to the villag
where that trial was to take place. Ell
entered the courtroom. He somehow 90
impaneled as one of the jurors Th
bribes came around, and the man gave ter
pieces of gold to the other jurors, but a
this was only poor miller the briber CAV
to him only five pieces of gold. A verdic
was brought in rejecting the right of 6hi
returned brother. He was to have no shar
in the inheritance. "Hold my lordI' sal
the miller "Hold! We are not all agree
on this verdict. These other men have re
ceived ten pieces of gold in bribery and
have received only FIVE" "Who are you
J Where do you come from" said the judg
on the bench. The response was: II az
from Westminster hall My name Is Mat
thew Hale lord chief justice Of the king
bench. Off of that place, thou william
And so the injustice was balked, and 6
the young man got his Inheritance.
4 Il was all for another that Sir Matthey
Hale took off his robe and put on the gar
of miller. And SO Christ took off hi
robe of royalty and put on the attire Of ou
; humanity, and In that disguise he won ou
eternal portion. Now are we the sons G
God--joint heirs We went off from HON
sure enough, but we got back in time t
receive our eternal inheritance. And
Christ was SO kind to us, surely we ca
afford to be kind to each other.