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

SheHAAhbE PLU6S. The Great Tobacco Antldo
valley He goeth on to meet the armed
men. The quiver rattleth against him,
the glittering spear and the shield. He
saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he
smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder Of
the captains, and the shouting"
think it is the cavalry of the Christian
hosts, the grand men and women who,
with bold dash and holy recklessness and
spurred on energies, are to take the world
for God. To this army of Christian service
belong the evangelists. 1t ought to be the
business of the regular churches to multi
ply them, to support them, to cheer them,
to clear the way for them. Some of them
you like; some Of them you 40 not like.
You say some are too sensational, and
some of them are not enough learned, and
some Of them are erratic, and some of them.
are too vehement, and some of them pray
too loud Oh, fold up your criticism and
let them do that which we, the pastors, can
| never dol like all the evangelists have
ever seen or heard. They are busy now;
| they are busy every day of the week. While
we, the pastors, serve God by holding the
| fortress Of Righteousness and drilling the
Christian solidery and by marshaling an
thems and sermons and ordinances on the
right side, they are out fighting the forces
Of darkness ship and thigh with great
slaughter" All success to theml The
faster they gallop the better like it. The
keener the lances they fling the more ad-
miro them. We care not what convention.
ality they infract If they only gain the
victory. Moody and Chapman and Mills
and Jones and Harrison and Munhall and
Major Cole and Crittenden and hundred
others are now making the cavalry charge,
and they are this moment taking New
York and Philadelphia and Cincinnati for
God, and wish they might take our ma
tion's capital.
Reason For Courage.
Hear the tremendous facts: There are
now in this country nearly 1866, 900 church
congregations, with nearly 81, 900, 900 COM
municants and seating capacity in church
for more than $4,000, 600 people-in other
words, room in the churches for three
fourths of the population of this country,
and about one-third of the population of
this country already Christian. In other
words, we will have only to average bring
ing two souls to God during the next three
years and our country is redeemed. Who
cannot, under the power of the Holy Ghost,
bring two souls to God in three years? AS
80 many will bring hundreds and thou
sands to God, most of you have to bring
only one soul to God and the gospel cam
paign for this continent will be ended. If
you cannot bring one soul to God, or two
souls, or three souls, in three years, you
are no Christian and deserve yourself to be
shut out of heaven.
The religious pessimists of this country
are all the time depicting the obstacles as
so great and our forces as so small that we
half Of the time feel that we are attempt
ing an impossibility. Take out of your
prayers and preaching some of your stuff
ing of groans and put in something of ac-
clamation and triumph, and the United
States will be gospelized, and If the United
States be gospelized America will be gos-
pelized, and, America gospelized, we will
take Asia from the Pacific beach and Eu.
rope from the Atlantic beach, and not fal
from now the lost star we live on will take
Its place among the consultations that
never fell Let the more than 1,O0O,.
600 communicates, as they lift the
sacramental cup to their lips, take oath
that they will not rest until the other 40,.
100000 are saved. The opportunities are
all saddled and bridled. Where are the
men and women to guide themP "I will
deliver thee 1900 horses if thou be able
to set riders upon them." What two
men can do for good or evil is i'm.
pressed upon me by the fact that, two
1 Scotohmen going to California, each took
something that would remind him of his
native country. The one took thistle
the national emblem of Scotland. The
other took hive of bees. Years went by
and the work of the two Scotchmen Ii
widely seen. The curse of the Pacific SLOPE
is the thistle and the blessing of the Pacific
slope is the honey found everywhere In
woods and fields. In your life are you re-
sponsible for honey or thistles, and, If one
man can do so much good and another &C
much evil, how much could be done fol
the ransom of this country by 81, ,000, 00(
people all conseorated?
Let In the Light.
Get out Of the way with your doiorous
foreboding and change your dirges fol
what we have not done for the granG
march Of what we may do and will do
The woman at Sedan, in whose house Ma
poleon the Last was waiting to make sur
render of himself and his army, said to thu
oyerthrown French emperor, "What can
do for you?" And the despairing ex-mon
arch replied, Nothing but draw down tn,
blind so that cannot be stared att Ii
this gospel campaign we have plenty te
draw down the blinds In Gods name
say pull up the blinds and let the morning
sun of the coming victory shine upon us
What we want in this campaign for God 1,
the self abnegation and courage of thu
men of Sir Colin Campbell, who as Lore
Bishop Cowie Of New Zealand, once chap
lain of his army, told me, said to th,
troops: "Men, no retreat from this place
Die right here" And they shouted, eyes
Sir Colin, we will do itF' And they did.
Temporary defeats ought not to disheart
en-. What is Bunker Fill monument
Monument of defeat. But from that blood.
mount American independence started fol
its grandest achievement, and all the de
feats of the cause Of God are incipient vic
tory.
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die.
They see the triumph from afar
And seize it with their eye.
And now, standing as do, in this ma
tonal capital, let me say that what WI
want in the senate and house of represent
Rtives and the supreme court is pente
Gostal blessing that will shake the CONT
nent with divine mercy. There recently
came into my hands the records of two
congressional prayer meetings, on the roll!
Of which were the names of the most emf
nent senators and representatives who ther
controlled the destinies of this republic
the one congressional prayer meeting II
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