Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-01-30

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Town Drancn ana put II on his shoulder, I
and let us oil come around these obstinate
iniquities, and then, with this pile kin
died by the fires of a holy zeal and the
flames OF q consecrated life, we will burn
them out. What steel cannot do fire may.
And announce myself in favor Of any
plan of religious attack that succeeds
any plan Of religious attack, however
radical, however odd, however unpopular, |
however hostile to all the conventional |
itics of church and state. II one style Of |
prayer does not do the work, let us try an
other style. II the church music of today |
does not get the victory, then let us make |
the assault with backwoods chorus. II
prayer meeting at half past Z in the
evening docs not succeed, let US have one |
rs early in the morning as when the angel
found wrestling Jacob too much for him. J
IL sermon with the three authorized
heads does not do the work, then let us
have a sermon with 20 heads, or no heads
at all
Gospel Truths.
We want more heart in our song more
heart in our almsgiving, more heart in
our prayers, more heart in our preaching.
! Oh for less Of Abimelech's sword and
more of Abimeloch's s confagraticnl had
often heard
There is a fountain filled with blood
sung artistically by four birds perched on
their Sunday roost in the gallery until
thought of Jenny Lind and Nilsson and
Sontag, and all the other warblers, but
there came not one tear to my eye, nor
one master emotion to my heart. But one
, night went down to the African Metho-
, dist meeting house in Philadelphia, and at
, the close of the service black woman in
, the middle of the audience began to sing
that hymn, and all the audience Joined in,
. and we were f1oated some three or four
miles nearer heaven than have ever been
, since. 1 saw with my own eyes that ''foun-
tain filled with blood''-red, agonizing,
, sacri1cial redemptive-and 1 heard the
, crimson plash of the wave as we oil went
, down under it.
For sinners plunged beneath that food
Lose all their guilty stains
Oh, my friends, the gospel is not a syl-
logism; it Is not oasuistry; it Is not po-
lemics or tho science of squabbles! 1t is
blood red fact; it is warm hearted invita-
} ton; it is leaping, bounding, flying good
} news; it is effiorescent with all light; 1t is
} rubescent with all summery glow; it is
] arborescent with all sweet shade. / have
seen tho sun rise on Mount Washington,
and from the Tiptop House. but there was
no beauty in that compared with the day
: spring from on high when Christ gives
| light to a soul. have heard Parepa sing,
{ | but there was no music in that compared
t with the voice of Christ when he said,
"Thy sins are forgiven thee; go in peace.
Good news Let every one cut down
branch of this tree of life and wave it.
Let all the way from Mount Zalmun to
4 | Shechem be filled with the tossing joy.
! Good news! This bonfire of the gospel
shall consume the last temple of sin and
will illumine the sky with apocalyptic joy,
. that Jesus Christ came into the world to
Q save sinners. Any new plan that makes
2 a man quit his sin and that prostrates
wrong 1 am as, much in favor of as though
I all the doctors, and the bishops, and the
archbishops, and the synods, and the
5 academical gownsmen of Christianity
4 sanctioned it, The temple of Berth must
o come down, and do not care how it
/ comes.
& Power of Example.
: Still further, learn from this subject
Q the power of example. IfaAbimelech had
s sat down on the grass and told his men to
go and get the boughs and go out to the
d battle, they would never have gone at all,
o or if they had, it would have been without
i any spirit or effective result, but when
o Abimelech goes with his own AK and hews
s down a branch, and with Abimeleeh's 8
Q arm puts it on Abimelech's shoulder, and
u marches on, then, my text says, all the
Q people did the same. How natural that
@ was! What made Garibaldi and Stonewall
o jackson the most magnetic commanders
IS of this century? They always rode ahead.
k Oh, the overwhelming power of example!
IS Here is father on the wrong road All his
J, boys 90 on the wrong road. Here is fa-
D ther who enIists for Christ His children
v enlist. ] saw in some of the picture gal
d leries of Europe that before many of the
n great works of the masters-the old mas
/, ters--there would be sometimes four or
II five artists taking copies of the pictures
3 These copies they were going to carry with
/, them, perhaps to distant lands, and have
d thought that your life and character are n
v masterpiece, and it is being copied, and
" long after you are gone it will blosm or
{, blast in the homes of those who knew
you, and be Gorgon or Madonna. Look
out what you say. Look out what you do.
Eternity will hear the echo. The best SER
- - mon ever preached is holy life. The best
= music ever chanted is u consistent walk.
- :. If you want others to serve God, serve him
= yourself. If you want others to shoulder
= their duty, shoulder yours. Where Abim-
- elech goes his troops go. oh, start out
- for heaven today, and your family will
y come after you, and your business associ-
= ates will come after you, and your social
= friends will join you. With one branch OF
= the tree Of life for q baton, marshal just
= = as many as you can gather. Oh, the in
= finite, the semiomnipotent power of a good
!, or bad example!
- saw last summer, near the beach, a
y wrecker's machine 1t was cylinder,
- with some holes at the side, made for the
!, = thrusting in of some long poles with
~ ~ strong leverage and when there is any
- vessel in trouble or going to pieces in the
= offing the wFeckcrs shoot q ropo out to the
u suffering men, They grasp it, and the
- - wreckers turn the cylinder, and the rope
70 winds around the cylinder, and those who
y are shipwreoked are saved. So at your
~ ~ feet today there is an influence with tre-
= mendous leverage. Tho rope attached te
=, 1t swings far out into the billowy future
=. =. Your children, your children's children,
= y and all the generations that are to follow
- will grip that influence and feel the long
), - reaching pull long after the figures on youl
= tombstone are SO near worn out that The
~ y, visitor cannot tell whether it was 1896 O
q ~ 1896 or 1856 chat you died. - H
y, Concerted Action.
"a Still further, learn from this subject
hv the advantage of concerted action. i
Abimelech had merely gone out with {
ny tree branch the work would not have beer
81 accomplished, or If 10, 30 or 80 men hat
in gone, but when all the axes are lifted, ant