Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-11-12


down under the other coin so that 10 might
be, for all that the usher knows, a So gold
piece, and then, after the benediction, 60
quietly home 20 tho biggest repast of all
the week. That is all the majority OF
Christians are doing for the rectihcation of
this planet, and they will do that until, at
the close Of life, the pastor opens black
book at the head Of their casket and reads:
blessed are the dead who die In the Lord
They rest from their labors and their
works do follow them" The sense of the
ludicrous is so thoroughly developed in me
that when / hear these Scripture words
read at the obsequies of one of the religious
do nothings In the churches 1t is too much
for my gravity Their works do follow
Them" What works. And in what direc-
ton do they follow them-up or DOWN
And do they follow on foot or on the wing
And how long will they follow before they
catch upf More appropriate funeral text
for all such religious dead beats would be
the words in Matthew XIV, s: "Our lamps
are gone out" One would think that such
Christians would show at least under
whose banner they are enlisted. In one of
the Napoleonic wars a woman-Jeannette
by name-took her position with the
troops and shouldered broomstick. The
colonel said, "Jeannette, why do you take
such useless weapon into the ranks"
"Well," she said, 81 can show, at least,
which side am on"
Concerning Missionaries.
Now, the object of this sermon is to stir
at least one-fourth of you to an ambition
for that which my text presents in blazing
cabulary-namely, passion for souls
To prove that it is possible to have much
of that spirit, 1 bring the conservation of
1890 foreign missionaries 1t is usually
estimated that there are at least 1000 mis-
sionaries. make a liberal allowance and
admit there may be 10 bad missionaries
out of the 5000, but do not believe there
is one All English and American mer-
chants leave Bombay, Calcutta, Annoy and
Peking as soon as they make their for
tunes. WhyP Because no European or
American in his senses would stay in that
climate after monetary inducements have
ceased Now, the missionaries there are
put down on the barest necessities, and
most of them do not lay up 81 in twenty
years Why, then, do they stay in those
lands of intolerable heat and cobras and
raging fevers, tho thermometer sometimes
playing at 130 and 140 degrees of op-
pressiveness, $4,000 miles from home,
because of the unhealthy climate and tho
prevailing immoraliUies of those regions
compelled to send their children to Eng
land or Scotland or America, probably
never to see them again? o blessed
Christi Can it be anything but a passion
for souls? 1t is easy to understand all this
frequent depreciation Of foreign mission
aries when you know that they are all op-
posed to the opium traffic, and that inter
feres with commerce, and then the mis-
sionaries are moral, and that is an offense
to many of the merchants-not all of
them, but many of them-who, absent
from all home restraint, are so immoral
that we can make only faint allusion to
the monstrosity of their denominations
Oh, would like to be at the gate of heav-
en- when those missionaries go in to see
how they will have the pick of coronets
and thrones and mansions on the best
streets of heaven. We who have had easy
pulpits and loving congregations, enter
ing heaven, will, in my opinion, have to
take our turn and wait for the Christian
workers who, amid physical sufferings
and mental rrivation and environment of
squalor, have done their work, and on the
principle th2t in proportion as one has
been self sacrificing and suffering for
Christ's sake on earth will be their coles
tial prefernent.
River of Life.
Who is that young woman on the worst
street in Washington, New York or Lon
don, Bible in hand and little package in
which are small walls of medicines, and an
other bundle in which are biscuits2 How
dare she risk herself among those
"roughs, and where is she goingP She is
one of the queens Of heaven hunting up
the sick and hungry, and before night she
will have read Christ's "Let not your heart
be troubled in eight or ten places, and
counted out from those vials the right
number of drops to ease pain, and given
food to family that would otherwise have
had nothing to eat today, and taken the
measure of a dead child that she may pre-
pare for it shroud--her every act of kind.
ness for the body accompanied with bene.
diction for the soul. You see nothing but
| the filthy street along which she walks
and the rickety stairs up which she climbs,
but she is accompanied by an unseen CO.
hort of angels with drawn swords to de.
fend her, and with garlands twisted for her
victories all up and down the tenement
house districts. I tell you there was not SO
much excitement when Anne Boleyn, Oh
| her way to her coronation, found the
| Thames stirred by 30 gilded barges, with
brilliant flags, in which hung small bells
rung by each motion Of the wind, noble
men standing in scarlet, and wharf spread
with cloth of gold, and all the gateways
surmounted by huzzaing admirers, and
the streets hung with crimson velvet, and
| trumpets and cannon sounding the iubi-
lee, and Anne, dressed In surcoat Of silver
tissue, and brow cleaning with circlet
| of rubies, and amid fountains that poured
RhenLsh wine passed on to Westminster
hall and rode in on caparisoned palfry,
| its hoofs Gathering on the classic floor, and,
| dismounting, parsed into Westminter alb
bey, and between the choir and high altar
was crowned queen, amid organs and
| choirs chanting the 'Te Deum"-I say
there was not much In all that glory which
dazzles the eyes of history when 1t is com.
| phlCu nAoiA otlO AISLfOAlAJ AoSOpulIb
that ministering spirit of the back alley
shall receive when she goes up to corona.
tion. When she goes IN, what welcome on
the river Of life its banks of pearl lined
with splendors seraphic and in temples OF
eternal worship, whose music is command.
ed by swing OF archangelic scepter and be.
fore thrones where sit those who have reign
W2 thousand years but have just begur
their dominion. Poor Anne Boleyn, IL
two years after that pageant, lost life ant
throne by one stroke of headsnan, bu
those who on earth have divine passion
for souls shall never lose their thrones
"They shall reign forever and ever"
Work For Salvation.
But, after all, the best way to cultivat.
that divine passion for souls is. to work fo
their salvation. Under God save one ant
you will want right away to save two
Save two, and you will want to save ton
| Save ten and voll will waYrt to save twenty