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

take no STOCK IL that company. do not
believe that Il will ever be done in that
way, by any mechanical force or by any
machinery that the human mind can put
into play. It Is to be done by the gospel
Of the Son Of God-the omnipotent ma
chinery of love and grace and pardon and
salvation. This is to emparadise the ma
tions. Archimedes destroyed a fleet of
ships coming up the harbor. You know
how he did it. He lifted great sunglass,
history tells US, and when the fleet Of ships
came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought
to bear this sunglass, and he focused the
suns rays upon those ships Now the sails
are wings of fire. the masts fall, the vessels
sink. Oh, my friends, by the sunglass of
the gospel converging' the rays of the sun
of righteousness upon the sins, the wicked
ness of the world, we will make them
blaze and expirel
The Changed City.
In that day of which I speak do you be-
lieve there will be. any midnight carousap
Will there be any kicking off from the
marble steps of shivering mendicants? Will
there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed
children Will there be any blasphemies In
the streets? Will there be any inebriates
staggering pasts No. No wine stores No
lager beer saloons. No distilleries, where
they make the three KS. No bloodshot
eye No bloated cheek. No instruments
of ruin and destruction. No fist pounded
forehead. The grandchildren of that wom-
an who goes down the street with q curse,
stoned by the boys that follow her, will be
the reformers and philanthropists and
the Christian men and the honest mer-
chants of our cities.
Then what municipal governments, too,
we will have In all the cities Some cities
are worse than others, but In many of our
cities you just walk down by the city halls
and look In at some of the rooms occupied
by politicians and see to what sensual,
loathsome, ignorant besotted crew city
politics Is often abandoned Or they stand
around the city hall picking their teeth,
waiting for some emoluments of crumbs to
fall to their feet waiting all day long and
waiting all night long.
Who are those wretched women taken
up for drunkenness and carried up to the
courts and put in prison. Of course? What
will you do with the grogshops that make
them drink? Nothing. Who are those pris-
oners in jail9 One of them stole pair of
shoes That boy stole dollar This girl
snatched purse. All of them crimes
damaging society less than $40 or $50.
But what will you do with the gambler
who last night robbed the young man of
$1,000? Nothing. What shall be done
with that one who breaks through and de-
stroys the purity of Christian home, and,
with an adroitness and perf1dy that beat
the strategy of hell, filings a shrinking,
shrieking soul into ruin? Nothing. What
will you do with those who feeced that
young man, getting him to purloin large
sums of money from his employer-the
church and told the story and frantically
asked what he should do? Nothing.
All, we do well to punish small crimes,
but have sometimes thought 1t would be
better in some of our cities If the officials
would only turn out from the jalis the pet
ty criminals, the little offenders, $40 des-
peradoes, and put in their places some of
the monsters of iniquity who drive their
roam span through the streets so swiftly
that honest mem have to leap to get out of
the way of being run over. Oh, the damha-
BILE schemes that professed Christian men
will sometimes engage in until God puts
the finger of his retribution into the collar
of their robe Of hypocrisy and rips 1t clear
to the bottoml But all these wrongs will
be righted. expect to live to see the day.
think hear in the distance the rumbling
of the Kings chariot Not always in the
minority is the church of God going to be
or are good men going to be- The streets
are going to be filled with regenerated pop
ulations. Three hundred and sixty bells
rang in Moscow when one prince was mar
ried, but when righteousness and peace
kiss each other in all the earth, ten thou
sand times ten thousand bells shall strike
the jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger
fed. Crime banished. Ignorance en-.
lightened. All the cities saved. Is not
this cause worth working IMP
Wheel Into Line.
Oh, you think sometimes 1t does not
amount to muchl You toll on In your
different spheres, sometimes with great
discouragement. People have no faith
and say: 1T does not amount to anything.
You might as well quit that" Why, when
Moses stretched his hand over the Red sea
1t did not seem to mean anything especial
ly. People came out, suppose and said,
"Ahar' Some of them found out what he
wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted.
1t did not amount to anything, this stretch
ing out of his hand over the sea- But after
awhile the wind blew all night from the
east, and the waters were gathered into O
glittering palisade on either side, and the
billows reared as God pulled back on theil
crystal bits. Wheel into line, o Israel
Marchl march, Pearls crashed under
feet. Flying spray gathers into rainbow
arch of victory for the conquerors to march
under. Shout of hosts ON the beach an.
swering the shout of hosts amid sea. And
when the last line of Israelites reach the
beach the cymbals clap, and the shields
clang, and the waters rush over the pur.
suers, and the swift fingered winds on the
white keys of the foam play the grand
march of Israel delivered and the awful
dirge of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and go forth, and all the people
of God go forth, and they stretch forth
their hand over the sea, the boiling sea OF
crime and sin and wretchedness. "It
doesn't amount to anything" people say
Doesn't it9 Gods winds of help will after
cleared for the army of Christian philan,
thropists. The path will be lined with the
treasures of Christian benefcence, and We
shall be greeted to the other beach by the
clapping of all heavens cymbals, while
those who pursued us and derided us and
tried to destroy us will go down under the
sea, and all that will be left of them Will
be cast high and dry upon the beach, the
splintered wheel of q chariot, or thrust out
from the foam, the breathless nostril of q
riderless charger.