Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-07

up among the good. The reason he does
not divide 1t now is because 1t Is not done.
A kind father will not divide the apple
among his children until the apple Is ripe.
In fulfllment of the New Testament prom.
Use, 1.-THE meek shall inherit the earth"
and the promise of the Old Testament,
HE shall divide the spoil with the
strong" the world will be apportioncd &c
those worthy to possess it
Uplifting ot the Masses.
1t is not so now. In this country, capa.
BILE of holding, feeding, clothing and shell
tering 1900, 900, 900 people and where we
have only 30, 600, 900 inhabitants, we have
1000, 900 who cannot get honest work, and
With their families ah aggregation OF s.
600, 900 that are on the verge of starvation.
Something wrong, most certainly. In
some way there will be a new apportion-
ment. Many of the millionaire estates will
crack to pieces on the designations OF
grandchildren and then dissolve into the
possession of the masses, who now have an
insufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the ex-
pensive and elaborate buildings now de-
voted to debasing gamusementsH They will
become schools, art galleries, museums,
gymnasiums and churches. The world is
already getting disgusted with many OF
these amusementsr and no wonder. What
an importation Of unclean theatrical stuff
we have within the last few years had
brought to our shOresI And professors OF
religion patronizing such things! Having
sold out to the devil why don't you deliver
the goods and go over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw your
name from Christian churches and say,
"Know oil the world by these presents
that I am patron Of uncleanness and
child of hell!' Sworn to be the Lords,
you are perjHrers.
If you think these offenses are to go on
forever, you do not know who the Lord is.
God will not wait for the day Of judgment.
All these palaces Of sin win become pal
aces of Righteousness. They will come
into the possession Of those strong for vir-
tue and strong for God. "He shall divide
the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest por-
tions of the earth by reason Of metals and
rare woods and inexhaustible productive
ness, are not yet divided up among the
good because they are not ready to be di-
vided. Wait until all the doors that Liv-
ingstone opened In Africa shall be entered,
and Bishop Taylor, with his band of self
supporting missionaries, have done their
work, and the Ashantis and Senegambi-
ans shall know Christ as we'll as you know
him, and there shall be on the banks of
the Nile and the Niger higher civilization
than is now to be found on the banks of
the Potomac or the Hudson. Then Christ
will divide up that continent among his
friends. Wait until China, which Is half
as large as all Europe, shall have developed
her capacities for rice and tea and sugar
among edibles, and her amethyst and
sapphire and topaz and opal and jasper
and porphyry among precious stones, and
her rose wood and ebony and camphor and
varnish trees among precious woods, and
turned up from her depths a half dozen
Pennsylvania of coal and iron, and 20
Nevadas of silver, and so CALIFORNIA; of
gold, and her 0,000,0 900 of people shall
be evangelical. Then the Lord will di-
vide it up among the good.
TNe Eternal Truth.
If my text be not a deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time Is coming
when all the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the commerce
controlled by Christian merchants, and all
the authority held by Christian officials,
and all the ships commanded by Christian
captains, and all the universities under the
instruction of Christian professors; Chris
tian kings, Christian presidents, Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
common council. Yet what securing
outl What an upturningl What demoli-
tion! What resurrection must precede
this new apportionment
do not underrate the enemy. Julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully
estimating the vastness of his foes and
prepared his men for their greatest tri-
umph by saying, Tomorrow King Juba
will be here with 10000 horses, 100, 900
skirmishers and 800 elephants. do not
underrate the vast forces of sin and death,
but do you know who commands usP Je-
hovahjireh. And the reserve corps behind
us are all the armies of heaven and earth,
with hurricane and thunderbolt. The good
work of the worlds redemption is going
on every minute. Never SO many splendid
men and glorious women on the side of
right as today. Never SO many good people
as now. Diogenes has been spoken of as
wise man because he went with lantern
at MONDAY, saying he was looking for an
honest man. If he had turned his lantern
toward himself he might have discovered
crank. Honest men by the ten thou
sand Through the international series of
Sunday school lessons the next generation
all through Christendom are going to be
wiser than any generation since the world
stood. The kingdom Is coming. God can
do it. No housewife with chamois cloth
ever polished silver teaspoon with more
ease than Christ will rub off from this
world the tarnish and brighten it up till
it glows like heaven, and then the glorious
apportionment! for my text is REINFORCED
by score of other texts, when it says of
Christ, "He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
But" you say, "this is pleasant to
think of for Others, but before that time
l shall have passed up into another exist
ence, and shall get no advantage from
that new apportionment. All, you have
only driven me to the other more exciting
and transporting consideration, and that
is that Christ is going to divide up heaven
in the same way There Gro old estates in
the celestial world that have been in the
possession of the inhabitants for thousands
of years, and they shall remain as they are.
There are old family mansions in heaven
filled with whole generations of kindred,
and they shall never be driven out. Many
of the victors from earth have already got
their palaces, and they are pointed out to
those newly arrived. Soon after our get
ting there we will ask to be shown the
apostolic residences and ask where does
Paul live and John, and shown the patri-
archal residences and shall say, Where
docs Abraham live OF JacobP" and shown
the martyr residences and say, "Where
does John Huss live and Ridley?" We
will want to see the boulevards where the
chariots of conquerors roll. 1 will want
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