Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-02-27

when so many are uttering and writing
jeremiads OF disbursement. DR.. Tai
mage took as his text Genesis Xix, 10,
Unto him shall the gathering Of the
people be-"
Through supernatural lens, or what
l might call q prophescope, dying Jacob
looks down through the corridors of the
centuries until he sees Christ the center Of
all popular attraction and the greatest be-
Ing in all the world, so everywhere ac-
knowledged.s 1t was not always SO. The
world tried hard to put him down and to
put him out. In the year 1900, while ex-
cavating for antiquities SO miles northeast
of Rome, copper plate tablet was found
containing the death warrant Of the Lord
Jesus Christ, reading In this wise:
''In the year II of the empire of Tiberi-
us Cesar, and on the 25th of March, I,
Pontius PLATE, governor of the Pratore,
condemn Jesus Of Nazareth to die between
two thieves, Quintius Cornelius to lead him
forth to the place of execution"
scoffers as worshipers.
The death warrant was signed by sever
al names. First, by Daniel, rabbi, Phari-
see; secondly, by Johannes rabbi; third
ly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet pri-
vate citizen. This capital punishment was
executed according to law. The name of
the thief oruoifled on the right hand side
of Christ was Dismas; the name of the
thief cruoifed on the left hand side of
Christ was Gestus. Pontius PLATE, de-
scribing the tragedy, says the whole world
lighted candles from noon until night.
Thirty-three years of maltreatment. They
asoribe his birth to bastardy and his death
to excruciation. A wall of the city, built
about those times and recently exposed by
arch@ologists, shows a caricature of Jesus
Christ, evidenoing tho contempt in which
he was held by many in his day-that
caricature on the wall representing cross
and a donkey nailed to it, and under it
the inscription, "This is the Christ whom
the people worship" But rejoice that
that day Is gone by. Our Christ is coming
out from under the worlds abuse. The
most popular name on earth today Is the
name of Christ. Where he had one friend
Christ has thousand friends The scoff-
ers have become the worshipers. OF the
20 most celebrated infldels in Great Brit
ain in our day 10 have come back to Christ,
trying to undo the blatant mischief of
their lives-16 out of the 90. Every man
who writes a letter or signs document,
Willingly or unwittingly, honors Jesus
Christ. We date everything as B. G. or
A. D.-B c., before Christ; A. D., Ammo
Domini, In the year of our Lord. All the
ages of history on the pivot of the upright
beam of the cross Of the Son of God, B. c.,
A. d. do not care what you call HIM
whether Conqueror, or King or Morning
Star, or Sun Of Righteousness, Or Balm Of
Gilead, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother or
Friend, or take the name used in the verse
from which take my text, and call him
Shiloh, which means his Son, or the Tran
quilator, or the Peaoemaker, Shiloh. on
ly want to tell you that "unto him shall
the gathering of the people be-"
In the first place, the people are gath
cred around Christ for pardon. No sensi-
BILE man or healthfully ambitious man Is
satisfied with his past life. A fool may
think he is all right. A sensible man
knows he is not. do not care who the
thoughtful man is, the review of his life
time behavior before God and man gives
to him no especial satisfaction. "Oh," he
says, "there have been so many things I
have done ought not to have done, there
have been SO many things have said
ought never to have said, there have been
SO many things have written I ought
never to have written, there have been SO
many things have thought ought new
er to have thought must somehow get
things readjusted, must somehow have
the past reconstructed; there are days and
months and years which cry out against
me in horrible vooiferation." All, my
brother, Christ adjusts tho past by oblit-
Grating it. He does not erase the record of
our misdoing with dash Of ink from a
registers pen, but lifting his right hand,
crushed, red at the palm, he puts it
against his bleeding brow, and then
against his pierced side, and with the
crimson accumulation of all those wounds
he rubs out the aocusatory chapter. He
blots out our iniquities. Oh, never be anx-
ious about the future; better be anxious
about the past put it not at the end of
my sermon; I put it at the front--mercy
and pardon through Shiloh, the sin par
doning Christ. "Unto him shall the gath
ering of the people be. - "Ohp' says some
man, II have for 40 years been as bad as
! could be, and is there any mercy for
meS" Mercy for you. "OhP' says some
ono here, 81 had grand ancestry, the
holiest of fathers and the tenderest of
mothers, and for my perfidy there is no
excuse. Do you think there is any mercy
for mef" Mercy for you. "But," says an
other man, 81 fear have committed what
they call the objectionable sin, and the
Bible says If q man commit that sin, he is
neither to be forgiven in this world mon
the world to como. Do you think there is
any mercy for me2'' The fact that you
have any solicitude about the matter at
all proves positively that you have rot
committed the objectionable sin Mercy
foryou? oh, the grace of God which bring
eth salvationl
For the Worst Sinners.
The grace of Godl Let us take the sur
teyor's chain and try to measure Gods
mercy through Jesus Christ. Let one sur
veyor take that chain and go to the north,
md another surveyor take that chain and
60 to the south, and another surveyor take
that chain and go to the east, and another
surveyor take that chain and go to the
west, and then make report Of the square
miles of that vast kingdom of Gods mer-
cy. Aye, you will have to wait to all eter-
nifty for the report Of that measurement.
1t cannot be measured. Paul tried to
climb the height Of it, and he went height
bver height, altitude above altitude, noun
tain above mountain, then sank down in
Encouragement and gave it up, for he
saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and Matter
horns beyond, and waving his hands back
to us in the plains he says, "Past finding
put; unsearchable, that in all things he
might have the pre-eminenoe. You no.
tice that nearly all the sinners mentioned
as pardoned in the Bible were great sin
ners-David great sinner, Paul great
sinner, Rahab great sinner, Magdalene
great sinner, the Prodigal Son great sin
ner. The world easily understood how
Christ could pardon half and half sin