Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-02-13

IN Washington than in any other city be-
tween the oceans. OF course there are &C.
,idents In politics, and occasionally there
are men who get into the senate and house
of representatives and other important
places who are fitted for the positions in
neither head nor heart, but this Is excep-
tional and more exceptional now than In
other days. There Is not drunkard In
the national legislature, although there
were times when Kentucky, Virginia,
Illinois, New York and Massa-
had men in senate or house of
who went maudlin and
staggering drunk across those high places.
Never nobler group of men sat in senate
or house Of representatives than sat there
yesterday and will sit there tomorrow,
while the highest Judiciary, without ex.
ception, has now upon its bench men be-
yond criticism for good morals and mental
So in all departments Of
off cial position, with here and there an
exception, are today the brainiest men and
most honorable men of America. Now,
suppose the Holy Ghost power should fall
upon this city and these men from all
parts Of America should suddenly become
SuElbu| bO JOu soy oAAo
effect would be electrical? More than that
1t would be omnipotent! Do you say that
such learned and potent men are not
wrought upon by religious influenceP That
shows that you have not observed what
has been going on. Commodore Foote,
representing the navy; General Grant and
Robert e. Lee, representing the northern
and southern armies; Chief Justice Chase,
representing the supreme court; the Ere
linghuysens, Theodore and Frederick, rep
resenting the United States senate; Will
liam Pennington and scores of others, rep
resenting the house Of representatives,
have surrendered to that gospel which be-
fore this winter is out, will In this capital
of the American nation, IL we are faithful
in our prayers and exertions, turn into the
kingdom of God men of national and In
ternational power their tongues of elo'
quence becoming the tongues OF fire In an
other Pentecost.
There are on yonder hill those who, by
the grace of God, will become John Knoxes
and Chrysostoms and Fenelons and Bour-
deleaus when once regenerated. There is
an illusion have heard in prayer meet
ings and heard in pulpits that soul is q
soul-one soul worth as much as another
deny it. The soul Of man who car
bring 1000 or 10, 600 other souls into the
kingdom of God is worth 1000 or 1910
times more than the soul Of man who
can bring no one into the kingdom. A
great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in thi:
capital, reaching the chief men of Amer
lea, would be of more value to earth anC
heaven than in any other part of the ma
tion, because it would reach all the states
cities, towns and neighborhoods of tht
continent Oh, for the outstretched right
arm of God Almighty in the salvation o.
this capital
A Call to Repentance.
Some of us remember 1857, when, al
the close of the worst monetary distress
this country has ever felt, compared with
which the hard times of the last thre'
years were boom Of prosperity, right on
the heels of that complete prostratioI
came an awakening in which 500, 900 peo
pie were converted in different states O
the Union. Do you know where one o
its chief powers was demonstrated? II
Washington. Do you know on wha
street, This street. Do you know IL
what church, This church. picked W
an old book few days ago and was star
tied and thrilled and enchanted to rea'
some words, written at that time by tn
Washington correspondent of New Yorl
paper He wrote: 1.-The First Presbyterian
church can scarce contain the people
Requests are daily preferred for an interes
in the prayers offered, and the reading O
these forms one of the tenderest and mos
effective features of the meetings. Par
ticular pains are taken to disclaim and ex
clude everything like sectarian feeling
General astonishment is felt at the unex
pected rapidity with which the work ha
thus far proceeded and we are beginning
to anticipate the necessity of opening an
other church." Why, my hearers, no
have that again, and more than that
There are many thousands more of inhah
itants now than then. Besides that, sine
then are the telephone with its semiomni
presence, and the swift cable car, for as
sembling the people. believe that th
mightiest revival of religion that this cit
has ever seen is yet to come, and the cart
will tremble from Capitoline hill to tn
boundaries on all sides with the footster
of God as he comes to awaken and pardo
and save these great populations.
People of Washington, meet us nez
Thursday night at half past O'Clock
pray for this coming of the Holy Ghost
not for pentecostal 5000, that have RI
| ferred to, but $4,000. Such fire as ths
would kindle light that would be see
form the sledges crunching through til
SHOWS of Labrador to the Caribbean SO,
where the whirlwinds are born. Let OF
cry be that of Habakkuk, the blank vers
| poet of the Bible: 30 Lord, revive th
work in the midst of the years; in tt
| midst of the years make known; in wrat
remember mercy" Let the battlecry
Washington for God, the United States fo
| God, America for God, the world for Got
We are all tired of skirmishing, Let |
bring on a general engagement, We al
tired of fishing with hook and line. Wit
one sweep Of the gospel net let us take
many thousands. This vast work mu
begin somewhere Why not here9 Son
one must give the rallying cry. Why ma
not I, one of the Lords servantsS I
providential arrangement am every wee
In sermonic communication with evel
city, town and neighborhood of this coul
try, and I now give the watchword
north and south and east and west. He;
and see it, all people-this call to TO
ward movement, this call to repentan'
and faith, this call to continental awal
ening!
Work For the Nations Salvation.
This generation will soon be out
sight. Where are the mighty men of IL
past who trod your Pennsylvania aven,
and spake in yonder national legislatu
and decided the stupendous questions
the supreme judicatoryP Ask the sleepe
in the Congressional cemetery. Ask ii
mausoleums all over the land. The
tongues are speechless, their eyes close
their arms folded, their opportunjti
gone, their destiny fixed. How soon tin
prorogues parliaments, and adjourns sci
ates, and disbands cabinets, and empti
pulpits, and dismisses generationsl VIII
we would do we must do quickly or nc
do at all. call upon people who cannC