Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-31
Full Of Speed.

The cavalry suggests speed. When once
the reins are gathered into tie hands of
the soldiery horseman and the spurs are
struck into the lanks, you hear the rata
plan of the hoofs "Velocity" Is the word
that describes the movement-accelera
momentum-and what We want In get
ting into the kingdom Of God is oelerity,
You see, the years are SO swift, and the
days are SO swift, and the hours are so
swift, and the minutes are so swift, we
need to be swift. For lack of this appro-
pirate speed many do not get into heaven
at all. Here we are in the last Sabbath of
the year. Did you ever know a twelfth
month quicker to be gone? The golden
rod Of one autumn speaks to the golden
rod of the next autumn, and the orocus Of
one springtime to the crocus Of another
springtime, and the snowbanks Of adjoin-
ing years almost reach each other in un-
broken curve. We are In too much hurry
about most things. Business men in too
much hurry rush into speculations that
ruin them and ruin Others. People move
from place to place in too great haste, and
they wear out their nerves and weaken
the hearts action. But the only thing in
which they are afraid of being too hasty is
the matter of the souls salvation. Yet did
any one ever get damaged by too quick re-
pentance or too quick pardon or too quick
emancipationP The Bible recommends tar
diness, deliberation and snaillike move
ment in some things, as when it enjoins
us to be slow to speak and slow to wrath
and slow to do evil, but it tells us, 1.-THE
kings business requireth haste, and that
our days are as the flight of weavers
shuttle, aud calculates: Escape for thy
life. Look not behind thee; neither stay
thou in all the plain" Other cavalry
troops may fall back, but mounted years
never retreat. They are always going
ahead, not on an easy canter, but at full
run. Other regiments hear the command
of "HaltP' and pitch their tents for the
night The regiments of the years never
hear the command of "Haltl and never
pitch tent for the night.
The Cavalry Procession.
The century leads on its troop Of 100
years, and the year leads on it's troop of
365 days, and the day leads on its troop of
"a hours, and the hour leads on its troop
of go minutes, and all are dashing out Of
sight. Perhaps there are two years in
which we are most interested-our first
and our last. Held up in our mothers
arms, we watched the flight Of the first
With wondering eyes we all watch the
coming of the last The name of that ad-
vancing year we cannot call. 1t may be in
the nineties of this century, it may be in
the tens or twenties or thirties of the next
century, but it is coming at full gallop.
With what mood will we meet itf In jo-
costly, as did Thomas Hood in his last
moment, saying, ~ am dying out Of char
ity to the undertaken, who wishes to earn
lively Hood" Or in fear, as did Thomas
Paine, saying in his last moment, "Oh,
how dread this mysterious leap in the
dark!' Or in boastfulness as did Vespa-
sian, saying in his last moment, "Ah,
methinks l am becoming god" Or in
| frivolity, as did Demonax, the infdel phi
losopher, saying In his last moment, "You
| may go home; the show is over" Or CON-
science stricken, as did Charles TX OF
France, saying in his last moment: "Nurse,
nursel What murder! What bloodp' Or
shall we meet it in gladness of Christian
| hope, like that of Julius Charles Hare, who
| said In his last moment, "Upward, up
wardP' Or like that of Richard Baxter in
his last moment, saying, "Almost we'll. % Or
like that of Martin of Tours, saying in his
last moment, 81 go to Abraham's bosom. u
| Or like that of polished Addison, who said
| in his last moment, "See with what ease q
Christian can die" Or like that of George
Whitefeld, who felt that he had said all
that he could of Christ, declaring in his
last moment, "I shall die silent" Or like
that of Mrs. Sehimmelpennich, who said
| in her last moment: "Do you not hear the
| voicesf And the children g are the loudest u
| Or like that of Dragonnatti, saying in his
| last moment: "Stand aside! see my ia
ther and mother coming to kiss me-" Oh
as did the dying girl who, having few
evenings before sat on a bench in Lon
| don mission, was seen to have tears of con
triton rolling down her cheek, and who
departing from the room, had put in hel
hand by Christian woman Bible, with
the passage marked, "The blood Of Jesus
| Christ cleanseth from all sin." Though
having promised to be at the next meet
ing, she did not come.
The Christian woman who gave her the
Bible was visiting the hospital, and the
nurse said to her: "I wish you had beer
here little while ago. We had a young
woman who had been run over by wag
on. Poor thing. She was fearfully crushed
and died almost at once. She had Biblt
in her hand, with your name in it, ant
she said when she was brought in: Thanh
God! found Christ as my Saviour las
night. The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son
cleanseth us from all sin.'" Oh, my
friends, If all right for the next world, tht
years can not gallop past too rapidly. L
| 1t were possible for the centuries to taxi
the speed of the years, and the years tht
speed of the days, and the days the speed
of the hours, they could do us no harm
The shorter our life the longer our heaven
The sooner we get out of the perils of this
| life, if our work be done, the better. NJ
man is safe till he is dead. Better mer
than we have been wrecked, and at al
ages. Lord and Lady Napier were on horse
back on a road in India. Lord Napier sud
/ denly said to Lady Napier, ride on, ant
fetch assistance, and do not ask me why. ,
She sped on and was soon out of sight
The fact was, a tiger eyes glared on then
from the thicket, and he did not dare tt
tell her, lest, affrighted, she fall in tht
danger and perhaps lose her life. From al
sides of us on this road of life there art
perils glaring on us, from tigers of temp
tation, and tigers of accident, and tiger
of death, and the sooner we get out Of tht
perils of this life the better. Let 1897 TAXI
the place of 1896, and 1898 the place O
1897, and our souls will be landed where
there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy
in all Gods holy mount" "No lion shal
be there, nor any ravenous beast shall g
up thereon; it shall not be found there
but the redeemed shall walk there. Ant
the ransomed of the Lord shall return ant
come to Zion with songs and everlasting
JOY upon their heads. They shall Obtain
JOY and gladness, and sorrow and signing
shall flee away"
Oh, will it not be grand when from thu
windows and doors of the "house of many
mansions" we look out and see passing
along the golden boulevards of heaven tn,
white horse cavalry that st. John describes
in Revelation John Wesley said he thought
horcoc had oo,,ic. h,1t tnHa tho otS "