Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-04-16


doom. Do not think you can hide any
great and protraoted sin In your heart, my
brother. In an unguarded moment IL will
slip OIL the lip, or some slight action may
for the moment set ajar this door that you
wanted to keep closed. But suppose shat
in this life you hide it, and you get along
with this transgression burning in your
heart, as a ship ON fire within for days
hinders the flames from bursting out by
Keeping down the matches, yet at last in
the Judgment that iniquity will blaze out
before God and the universe.
One Mighty Plan.
Learn also from this subject that there
is an inseparable connection between all
events, however remote. The universe Is
only one thought of God. TA0se things
which seemed fragmentary and isolated
are only different parts of that great
thought. How far apart seemed these two
events-Joscph sold to the Arabian mer-
chants and his rulership of Egypt, yet you
see in what mysterious way God con-
nected the two into one plan. So the events
are linked together. You who are aged
men look back and group together a thou
sand things in your life that once seemed
Isolated. One undivided chain of events
reaches from the garden of Eden to the
cross of Calvary and thus up to the king
dom of heaven. There is relation be-
tween the smallest insect that huns in tho
summer air and the archangel on his
throne. God can trace direct ancestral
line from the blue jay that this spring will
build its nest in the tree behind the
house to some one of the flock Of birds
which, when Noah hoisted the ark's win
dow, with q whir and dash of bright
wings went out to sing over Mount Ararat
The tulips that bloom in the garden this
spring were nursed by the snowhakes.
The farthest star on one side of the universe
could not look toward the farthest star
ON the other side Of the universe and say,
You are no relation to me" for from
that bright orb voice of light would ring
across the heavens, responding, eyes, yes,
we are sisters" Nothing in Gods uni
verse swings at loose ends. Accidents are
only Gods way of turning a leaf in the
book of his eternal DEGREES. From our era
die to our grave there Is path all marked
out. Each event in our life is connected
with every other event in our life. Our
losses may be the most direct road to our
brothers.
The whole direction of your life was
changed by something which at the time
seemed to you trifiing, while some OCCUR
renee which seemed tremendous affected
you but little. Gods plans are magnif-
cent beyond all comprehension. He molds
us and turns and directs us, and we know
it not. Thousands of years are to him as
the flight of shuttle. The most terrific
occurrence does not make God tremble.
The most triumphant achievement does
not lift him into rapture. That one great
thonght of God goes out through the CEN
turies, and nations rise and fall, and eras
pass, and the world changes, but God still
keeps the undivided mastery, linking
event to event and century to century. To
God they are all one event. one history,
one plan, one development, one system.
Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord
God Almighty! I was years ago in New
Orleans at the exposition rooms, when a
telegram was sent to the president of the
United States, at Washington, and we
waited some 10 OF 90 minutes, and then
the presidents answer came back, and
then the presiding officer waved his hand
ington that we were ready to have the ma
chinery of the exposition started, and the
president put his finger on the electric
button, and instantly the great Corliss
wheel began to move-rumbling, rum
bling, rolling, rolling. 1t was overwhelm-
ing, and 1000 people clapped and shout
ed. Just one finger at Washington started
that vast machinery, hundreds and hun
dreds of miles away, and thought then,
as think now, that men sometimes touch
influences that respond in the far distance,
40 years from now, 80 years from now,
1000 years from now-1, 900, 900 years from
now-one touch sounding through the
ages.
What of the Future9
We also learn from this story the pro.
priety of laying up for the future. During
tho seven years of plenty Joseph prepared
for the famine, and when it came he had
a crowded storehouse. The life of most
men in worldly respect is divided into
years of plenty and famine. 1t is seldom
that any man passes through life without
at least seven years of plenty. During
those seven years your business bears
rich harvest. You scarcely know where
all the money comes from, 1t comes so fast
livery bargain you make seems to turn in
to gold. You contract few bad debts
You are astonished with large dividends
You invest more and more capital. You
wonder how men can be content with a
small business, gathering in only few
hundred dollars, while you reap your
thousands. Those are seven years of
plenty, Now Joseph has time to prepare
for the threatened famine, for to almost
every man there do como seven years of
famine. You will be SICK you will be un-
fortunate, you will be defrauded, there will
bo hard times you will be disappointed,
and If you have no storehouse upon which
to fall back you may be famine struck.
We have no admiration for this denying
oneself all personal comfort and luxury
for the mere pleasure of boarding up, this |
grasping, grasping for the mere pleasure
OF seeing how large apile you can get, this |
always being poor because as soon as q |
dollar comes in it is sent out to see if it |
can find another dollar, so that it can carry
it home on its back. We have contempt |
for all those things, gut there is an intel |
ligent and noble minded forecast which |
wo love to sec in men who have families |
and kindred depending upon them for the
blessings of education and home. God
sends us to tho insects for a lesson, which,
while they do not stint themselves in tho
present, do not forget their duty to fore
cast the future. go to the ant, thou |
sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise,
which, having no guide, overseer or ruler,
provideth her meat in the summer and
gatheroth her food in the harvest"
Now, there are two ways of laying up
money. One of these is to put it in stock |
and deposit it in bank and invest it on
bond and mortgage. The other way to lay
up money is giving it away. He is the SAT-
est who makes both Of these Investments |
An Affidavit.
This is to certify that on May 11tb, I
walked to Melick's drug store on pair OF
crutches and bought bottle of Chamber
lain'S Pain Balm for l. fammatorv rheun A.