Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-08-27

kills any one A child will be more apt to
grow up with religion than 1t will be apt
TO grow up without It Length Of DAYS
Is promised to the righteous The religion
Of Christ does not cramp the chest or curve
the spine or weaken the nerves There are
no malartas floating up from the river Of
life The religion Of Christ throws over
the heart and life of child a supernal
beauty. "Her ways are ways Of pleasant
ness, and all her paths are peace"
susceptibility Of Childhood
pass on to consider the susceptibility
of childhood Men pride themselves ON
their unchangeability. They will make an
elaborate argument to prove that they
think now just as they did 20 years ago.
1t is charged to frGilty or fraud when
man changes his sentiments in politics or
in religion, and 1t Is this determination of
soul that so often drives back the gospel
from a mans heart. 1t is 50 hard to make
avarice charitable, and fraud honest, and
pride humble, and skepticism Christian.
The sword of Gods truth seems TO glance
of from those mailed warriors, and the
helmet seems battle proof against Gods
battleax. But childhood-how suscepti-
BILE to example and to instruction! You
are not surprised at the record, Abraham
begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob" " for
when religion starts In family it is apt to
go all through Jezebel murdereSs, you
are not surprised to find her son Jehoram
attempting assassination. Oh, what re-
sponsibility upon the parent and the teach
er The musician touches the keys, and
the response of those keys is away off amid
the pipes and the chords and you wonder
at the distance between the key and the
chord And SO 1t Is In life-tf you touch
child the result will come back from man
hood or old age, telling just the tune play
ed, whether the dirge of a great sorrow or
the anthem of a great joy. The word that
the Sabbath school teacher will this after
noon whisper In the ear of the class will
be echoed back from everlasting ages of
light or darkness The home and the
school decide the republic or the despotism.
| the barbarisn or the civilization, the up
building of an empire or the overthrowing
Of it. Higher than parliament or congress
are the school and the family, and the
sound of child's foot may mean more
than the tramp of host. What, then, are
you doing for the purpose of bringing your
children into the kingdom of God9 If they
are SO susceptible, and if this is the very
best time to act upon their eternal inter
ests, what are you doing by way Of right
impulsion?
There were some harveSters In the fields
of Scotland one hot day, and Hannah Le-
mond was helping them gather the hay
She laid her babe under tree While she
was busy in the field there was q futter of
wings in the air, and a golden eagle
clutched the swaddling band of the babe
and flew away with it to the mountain
eyrie All the harvesters and Hannah Le-
mond started for the cliffs 1t was two
miles before they came to the foot of the
cliffs. Getting there, who dared to mount
| the cliff? No human foot had ever trod 1t,
There were sailors there who had gone up
the mast in the day of terrible tempest.
They did not dare risk It, Hannah Le-
mond sat there for awhile and looked UP
and saw the eagle in the eyrie, and then
she leaped tn her feet, and she started up
where no human foot had ever trod, crag
above crag, catching hold of this root or
that root until she reached the eyrie and
caught her babe, the eagle swooping in
fierceness all around about her Fasten-
ing the child to her back, she started for
her friends and for home Oh, what dizzy
descent, sliding from this Uag to that
crag, catching by that vine and by that
root, coming down farther and farther
to the most dangerous pass, where she
found goat and some kids. She said
"Now I'll follow the goat. The goat vii!
know Just which is the safest way down. u
And she was led by the animal down TO thf
plain When she got there, all the people
cried, Thank God, thank Godr' hen
strength not giving way until the rescu
was effected And they cried: STAND
back, now. Give her airr' Oh, If woman
will do that for the physical life Of hen
child, what will you do for the eternal Hfe
of your boy and your girp Let it not ts
told In the great day of eternity that Han
nah Lemond put forth more exertion fo1
the saving of the physical life of her chilt
than you, o parent, have ever put forth
for the eternal life Of your little one. Goo
help you!
Power of Childhood.
pass on to consider the power which {
child wields over the parental heart WI
often talk about the influence of parent.
upon children. I never hear anything sait
about the influence of children upon thei1
parents You go to school to them. Yo1
no more educate them than they educats
you. With their little hands they have
caught hold of your entire natura and yor
cannot wrench yourself away from theil
grasp. You are different men and womeI
from what you were before they gave yot
the first lesson. They have revolutionizet
your soul There are fountains of joy il
your heart which never would have beer
| nod h<,,
Life Is to you a more stupendous thins
than it was before those little feet started
on the pathway to eternity. Oh, how many
hopes, how many joys, how many solici
tudes that little one has created In you,
soul You 60 to school every day,
school of self denial, school of patience
, in which you are getting wiser day by day
and that influence of the child over yoi
will increase and increase, and, thougl
your children may die, from the yer,
throne Of God they with reach down an in
fuence to your soul, leading you on ant
l. leading you up until you mingle with thei
voices and sit beside their thrones
The grasp which the child has over th
parents heart Is seen In what the paren
will do for the child Storm and darkness
and heat and cold are nothing to you'll
they stand between you and your child
! welfare A great lawyer, when yet un
known, one day stood In the courtroom
and made an eloquent plea before som
men of great legal attainments, and gen
tleman said to him afterward, How coult
: : you be SO calm standing in that angus
!, , presence "Oh," said Erskine, II fel
: my children pulling at my skirts Tyin
7 for bread +" What stream will YOU no
! swim, what cavern will you not enter
what battle will you not fight, wha
hunger will you not endure for your chill
; drenP Your children must have brea
though you starve Your children must b
well clothed though you go in rags Yo
say, My children shall be educated, thoug
s never had any chanca"
t What to you are weary limbs and achin