Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-09-17

depressing is said about the wickedness of
the cities that 1t will cheer Us TO read what
DR.. TalmAge says In this sermon about their
coming redemption- The text Is Zechariah
viii, 5, "And the streets of the city shall
be full of boys and girls playing In the
streets thereof. +"
Glimpses of our cities redeemed Now,
boys and girls who play In the streets run
such risks that multitudes of them end in
ruin But in the coming time spoken OF
our cities will be so moral that lads and
lasses shall be as safe In the public thor
oughfares as In the nursery
Pulpit and printing press for the most
part in our day are busy in discussing the
condition of the cities at this time, but
would it not be healthfully encouraging to
all Christian workers, and to all who are
toiling to make the world better, if we
should for a little while look forward to
the time when our cities shall be revolu-
tionized by the gospel of the Son of God,
and all the darkness of sin trouble and
crime and suffering shi gone from the
worldY
Every man has pride In the city Of his
nativity or residence, if it be city dis
tinguished for any dignity or p=oxess
Caesar boasted of his native Rome, Virgil
of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demos
themes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse
and Paul of Tarsus. l should have sus.
picionof base heartedness in man who
had no especial interest in the city of his
birth or residence-no exhilaration at the
evidence of its prosperity or its artistic en-
bellishments, or its intellectual advance
ment
/ have noticed that man never likes q
city where he has not behaved we'll Peo-
pie who have had free ride in the prison
van never like the city that furnishes the
vehicle. When 1 find Argos and Rhodes
and Smyrna trying to prove themselves
the birthplace of Homer, 1 conclude at
once that Homer behaved weIl. He liked
them, and they liked him. We must not
war ON lAudahle city pride, or, with the
idea of building ourselves up at any time,
try to pull Others down. Boston must con-
tinue to point TO its Faneuil hall and to its
Common and to its superior educational
advantages. Philadelphia must continue
to point to its Independence hall and its
mint and its Girard college. Washington
must continue to point to its wondrous
capitoline buildings. If / should find a
man coming from any city, having no
pride in that city, that city having been
the place of his nativity or now being the
place of his residence, would feel like
asking: "What mean thing have you done
there? What outrageous thing have you
been guilty of that you do not like the
place."
The Road to Victory.
1 think we ought-and I take it for
granted you are interested in this great
work of evsngelizing the cities and saving
the world--we ought to toll with the sun
light in our faces We are not fighting in
miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on
our way to final victory. We are not fol-
lowing the rider on the black horse, lead
ing us down to death and darkness and
doom, but the rider on the white horse,
with the moon under his feet and the stars
of heaven for his tiara. Hail, Conqueror,
hail!
know there are sorrows, and there are
sins, and there are sufferings all around
about us, but as in some bitter, cold win
ter day, when we are thrashing our arms
around us to keep our thumbs from freez-
ing, we think of the warm spring day that
will after awhile come, or in the dark win
ter night we look up and see the northern
lights, the windows of heaven illuminated
by some great victory, just SO we look up
from the night of suffering and sorrow and
wretchedness in our cities, and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side and we know we are on the way to
morning-more than that, on the way to
"a morning without clouds.
want you to understand, all you who
are toiling for Christ, that the castles of sin
are all going to be captured. The victory
for Christ In these great towns is going to
be so complete that not a man on earth or
an angel in heaven or devil in hell will
dispute it. How do know? know just
as certainly as God lives and that this is
holy truth. The old Bible is full of it If
the nation Is to be saved, of course all the
cities are to be saved 1t makes a great
difference with you and with me whether
we are toiling ON toward a defeat or toll
ing on toward victory.
Now, In this municipal elevation OF
which speak, I have to remark there will
be greater financial prosperity than our
cities have ever seen. Some people seem to
have morbid idea of the millennium, and
they think when the better time comes to
our cities and the world people will give
their time up to psalm singing and the
relating Of their religious experience, and
as all social life will be purified there will
be no hilarity, and as all business will be
purified there will be no enterprise There
is no ground for such an absurd anticipa-
ton In the time of which I speak where
now one fortune Is made there will be a
hundred fortunes made. We all know
business prosperity depends upon conf
dence between man and man. Now, when
that time comes of which speak, and
when all double dealing, all dishonesty
and all fraud are gone out of commercial
circles, thorough confidence will be estab-
hshed, and there will be better business
done, and larger fortunes gathered, and
mightier successes achieved.
The great business disasters of this
country have come from the work of god.
less speculators and infamous stock gam
blers The great foe to business is crime
When the right shall have hurled back the
wrong, and shall have purified the COM
mercial code, and shall have thundered
down fraudulent establishments, and shall
have put into the hands of honest men the
keys of business, blessed time for the bar
gain makers. am not talking an abstrac-
ton. Tom not making guess lam tell
ing you Gods eternal truth.
Taxes Will Be Low.
In that day of which speak taxes with
be mere nothing Now our business men
are taxed for everything. City taxes, coun-
ty taxes state taxes. limited States taxas
In recent letter to the manufact-
urers Mr.. W. F. Benjamin, editor of
the Spectator, Rushford, N. Y, says:
1t may be a pleasure to you to
know the high esteem in which