Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-04-02

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1t takes at least two men to amount
to one man, SO depicting and unnerv-
ing and exhausting Is this metropoli-
tan life. We want more fresh air, more
sunlight, more of the abandon of field
sports. cry out for 1t in behalf Of the
church Of God as we'll as in behalf of
secular interests. wish that our ponds
and our rivers and our capitoline grounds
might be all aquake with the heel and the
shout of the swift skater. l wish that
when the warm weather comes the grace
full oar might dip the stream, and the
evening tide be resonant with boatman's
song, the bright PROV splitting the crystal
line billow.
We shall have the smooth and grassy
lawn, and We will call out people of all
occupations and professions and ask them
to join in the ballplayer's sport. You will
come back from these outdoor exercises
and recreations with strength In your arm
and color in your cheek and flash in your
eye and courage in your heart. In this
great battle that is opening against the
kingdom of darkness, we want not only
consecrated soul, but q strong arm and
stout lungs and mighty muscle. 1 bless
God that there are so many reoreations
that have not on them any taint of in
iquity-recreations in which we may en-
gage for the strengthening of the body fol-
the clearing of the intellect, for the illumi.
nation of the soul.
There is still another form of recreation
which commend to you, and that is the
pleasure of doing good. have seen young
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ling in their disposition, who, by one heav-
emily touch, have Weakened up and become
blessed and buoyant the ground under
their feet and the sky over their heads
breaking forth into music. "Oh," says
some young man in the house today, ~
should like that recreation above all others,
but have not the means" My dear
brother, let us take an account of stock.
You have large estate, If you only real
ize 1t. Two hands, two feet. You will
have, perhaps, during the next year at
least $40 for charitable contribution. You
will have 2, 500 cheerful looks If you want
to employ them. You will have 5000
pleasant words, II you want to speak
them. Now, what an amount that is to
start with!
You go out tomorrow morning, and you
see a case of real destitution by the way
side. You give him cents. The blind
man hears the pennies rattle in his hat
and he says: "Thank you, sirl God bless
you" You pass down the street, trying
to look Indifferent, but you feel from the
very depth of your soul profound salts
faction that you made that man happy
You go on still farther and find poor boy
with wheelbarrow, trying to get it up on
the curbstone. He fails in the attempt
You say: "Stand back, my lad. Let me
try" You push it up on the ourbstone for
him and pass on. He wonders who that
You did kindness to the boy, but you did
great joy to your own soul. You will
not get over it all the week.
On the street tomorrow morning you
will see sick man passing along. "Ah, ;"
you say, "what can do to make this man
happy? He certainly does not want money;
he is not poor, but he is SICK" Give him
one of those 2,500 cheerful looks that you
have garnered up for the whole year.
Look joy and hopefulness into his soul. 1t
will thrill him through, and there will be
a reaction upon your own soul. Going a
little farther on, you will come to the store
of friend who is embarrassed in business
matters. You will go in and say: what
fine store you have! l think business
will brighten up, and you will have more
custom after awhile. l think there is
coming a great prosperity to all the ooun-
try. Good morning" You pass out
You have helped that young man, and you
have helped yourself,
The Greatest Joy.
Colonel Gardiner, who sat with his el-
bow on table spread with all extrava-
CANT viands, looking off at dog on the
rug, saying, "How would like to change
places with him, I be the dog and he be
Colonel Gardiner" or those two Moravian
missionaries who wanted to go into the
lazaretto for the sake of attending the sick,
and they were told: "If you go in there
you will never come out We never allow
any one to come out, for he would bring
the contagion." Then they made their
wills and went in, first to help the sick
and then to die. Which was the happier
Colonel Gardiner or the Moravian mis-
sionaries dying for others2 Was it all sac.
ritoe when the missionaries wanted to
bring the gospel to the negroes at the Bar
bados, and, being denied the privilege,
sold themselves into slavery, standing side
by side and lying side by side down in
the very ditch of suffering, in order that
they might bring those men up to life and
God and heaven? Oh, there is a thrill in
the joy of doing good 1t is the most
magnificent recreation to which man ever
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But before closing want to impress
upon you that mere secular entertain
ments are not fit foundation for your
soul to build on. l was reading Of
woman who had gone all the rounds Of
sinful amusement, and she came to die
She said, "I will die tonight at o'clock" "
"Oh," they said, II guess not You don't
seem to be sick" ~ shall die at clock,
and my soul will be lost. l know it will
be lost. have sinned away my day Of
grace. The noon came. They desired
her to seek religious counsel "Oh," she
said, lit is of no usel My day is gone. l
have been all the rounds of worldly pleas
ire, and it is too late. | shall die tonight
at o'clock" The day wore away, and it
came to o'clock and to o'clock, and
she cried out at o'clock: destroying
spirits, you shall not have me yeti 1t is
not Git is not 6!'' The moments went
by, and the shadows began to gather, and
the clock struck 6, and while it was strik-
ing her soul went. What hour God will
call for us L do not know-whether
o'clock tonight, or 3 o'clock this afternoon,
or Mt l O'Clock, OF at this moment. Sit
ting where you arc, falling forward, or
dropping down, where will you go to?
The last hour of our life will soon be
here, and from that hour we will review
this days proceedings. 1t will be sol
emn hour. If from our death pillow we
have to look back and see life spent in
sinful amusement, there will be dart
that will strike through our soul sharper
than the dagger with which Virginius slew
his child. The memory of the past will
A Baby's Life Saved.
krrrrA n Mav1c 1904 -Dr n Hands