Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-12

ed out ON the world, accursed with stigma =,
of a debauched ancestry? Until the worm
of the distillery becomes the worm that
never dies, and the smoke Of the heated
wine yats becomes the smoke Of the tor
ment that ascendeth up forever and eyerl
Alcoholism, swearing-not with hand up
lifted toward heaven, for from that direc-
tion it can get no help, but with right |
hand stretched down toward the perdition |
from which 1t came up-swearing that 1t |
will not cease as long as there are any !
homesteads to despoil, any magnificent
men and women to destroy, any immortal
souls TO damn, any more nations to balk, !
any more civilizations to extinguish.
Wicked and Lazy.
Then there Is what In America we call |
socialism, in France communism, and in !
Russia nihilism-the three names for one
and the same thing-<and having but two
doctrines in its creed: First, there Is no
God second, there shall be no rights of
property. One Of their chief journals
printed this sentiment, Dynamite can be
made out of the dead bodies of capitalists
as we'll as out of hogs" One of the lead
ers Of communism left inscribed on his
prison wall, where he had been Justly in
caroerated, these words: "When once you
are dead, there Is an end of everything.
| Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever
| you can, only don't let yourselves be
| grabbed. Amenp' There are in this
country hundreds of thousands of these
| lazy scoundrels. Honest men deplore 1t
when they cannot get work, but those of
| whom speak will not do work when they
| can get 1t. I tried to employ one who
asked me for money. l said, "Down In
| my cellar 1 have some wood to saw, and I
| will pay you for it." For little while I
heard the saw going, and then heard it
| no more. / went down stairs and found
| the wood, but the workman had disap-
peared, taking for company both buck and
saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean "too wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy to earn living" and among
the mightiest obstacles to be overcome are
those organized elements Of domestic, So
cial and political ruin.
There also are the fastnesses of infdeli-
ty, and atheism, and fraud, and political
corruption, and multiform, hydra headed,
million armed denominations all over the
land While the mightiest agencies for
righteousness on earth are good and health
full newspapers and good and healthful
books, and our chief dependence for intel
ligence and Christian achievement is upon
them, what word among the more than
100, 600 words In our vocabulary can de-
scribe the work of that archangel of mis-
chief, corrupt literatureP What man, at
tempting anything for God and humanity,
has escaped stroke of its filthy wingP
What good cause has escaped its hinder
mentp What other obstacle in all the land
so appallingp But I cannot name more
than one-half the battlements, the bas-
tions, the intrenohments, the redoubts,
the fortifcations to be stormed and over
come If this country is ever taken for
God. The statistics are so awful that If
, we had nothing but the multiplication ta-
BILE and the arithmetic, the attempt to
evangelize America would be an absurd
| | ity higher than the tower of Babel before
i 1t dropped on the plain of Shinar. Where
, are the drilled troops to march against
/ those Notifications as long as the oonti-
J nentp Where are the batteries that can be
, unlimbered against these wallsP Where
] are the guns of large enough caliber to
storm these gates2 Well, let us look around
, and see, the first of all, who is our leader
| and will be our leader until the work is
done.
A Great Leader.
, Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians, could dc
, more than another commander with 10, ,00(
Italians. General Sherman, on one side
, and Stonewall jackson, on the other, eaef
| with 10000 troops, could do more thar
!, some other generals with 10000 troops
! The rough boat in which Washington
crossed the Icy Delaware with few hal
! frozen troops was mightier than the shiI
q of war that during the American Revolu
tion, came through the Narrows, gun a
, each portfolio, and sank in He'll Gate. Oul
! leader, like most great leaders, was borI
! In an obscure place, and it was humble
! home, about five miles from Jerusalem
. Those who were out of doors that nigh
: said that there was stellar commotion ant
! music that came out of the clouds, a
3 though the front door of heaven had beer
: set open, and that the camels heard hi
: first infantile cry. Then he came to th
r fairest boyhood that mother was eve
q proud Of, and from 10 to 30 years of ag
! was off in India, If traditions there are ao
!, curate, and then returned to his nativ
: land. and for three years had his pathwa
i. surrounded by blind eyes that he illumin
. ed, and epileptic patients to whom b
:. gave rubicund health, and tongues tina
= he loosed from silence into song, and thos
] whose funerals he stopped that he Nigh
give back to bereaved mothers their onl
a boys, and those whose fevered pulses
!, had restored into rhythmic throb, an
y whose paralytic limbs he had warmed int
a healthful circulation-pastor at Caperna
r. um, but flaming evangelist everywhere
!. hushing crying tempests and turning roll
, ing seas into solid sapphire, and for th
= rescue Of race submitted to courtroom
= filed with bowling miscreants, and to
i martyrdom at the sight of which the SUI
: : tainted and fell back in the heavens, an
!, then treading the clouds homeward, Hk
=, snowy mountain peaks, till heaven too
I, him back again, more favorite than h
\ had ever been; but, coming again, he
!, on earth now, and the nations are gather
a ing to his standard.
a Following him were the Scotch cove
n nanters, the Theban legion, the victims {
j the London Haymarket, the Piedmontes
"a sufferers, the pilgrim fathers, the Hi
j, guenots and uncounted multitudes or til
: past, Joined by about 100000, 900 of tf
!. present, and with the certainty that a
:, nations shall huzza at his chariot whee
:. he goes forth, the moon under his feet an
. the stars Of heaven for his tiara-tt
j, mighty leader he of Drumclog, and Boil
- - well Bridge, and Bannockburn, and I'll
- one who whelmed Spanish armada
~ 'sComing up from Edom, with dyed ga
is T. ments from Bozrah, travelling in the grea
~ ness Of his strength, mighty to save, an
:. - behind whom we fall into line today an
: march in the campaign that is to tai
. America for God. Hosannal Hosanni
i'll Wave oil the palm branchesl At his fe
Id put down your silver and your gold, as
az heaven youwill cast before him your cor
a, nets
" A Stupendous Issue.
10 With such leader do you not think v
or can do ita Say, do you think we cal
ed Why, many ramparts have already bee