Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-01-23

ments or torture, anu Is5o unarnyruas Va
all earth and he'll would not make them
blanch. Martyrs are made ola OF such
Ltuff ns they are But let them not wait
for such days, as pray to Gcd may never
come. Drawn by the sense u fairness and
Justice and obligation, let them show their
oolors. Let the redeemed OF the Lord say
sol
This chapter from which take my text
mentions several classes Of persons who
ought to bo outspoken. Among them all
those who go on journey. What an or-
portunity yvu have, you who spend SO
much Of your time on rail trains or OH
shipboard, whether on lake or rlvor or sea!
Spread the story of Gods goodness and
your own redemption wherever you CO.
You will have many long ride beside
some one whom you will never see again,
some one who is waiting for one word of
rescue or consolation. Make every rail
train and steamer moving palace of saved
souls. Casuxi conversations have harvest
cd great host for God.
There are many Christian workers in
pulpits, in mission stations, in Sabbath
schools, in unhenrd Of places who are do
ing their best for God and without any
recognition. They go, end come, and no
one cheers them. PcrSSps all the reward
they get is harsh criticism, or repulse, or
their own fatigue. If you have eyer beard
Of any good they have done, lot them know
about it. If you lnd some one benefited
by their aims or their prayers, or their
cheering word, go and tell them. They
may be almost ready to give up their mis-
sion. They may be almost in despair be-
cause Of the seeming lack of results One
word from you may be an ordination that
will start them on the chief work of their
lifetime. A Christian woman said to her
pastor: My usefulness is done. do not
know why my life is spared any longer,
because l can do no good" Then the
pastor replied, "You do me great good ev-
cry Sabbath" She asked, "How do do
you any goodp" and he replied, "In the
first place you are always in your seat in
the church, and that helps me, and in the
second place you arc always wide awake
and alert, looking right up into my face,
and that helps me; and in the third place
often see tears running down your
cheeks, and that helps me-" What good
ohihB Ao ulu uOo Wulu uutl1 bu6 WAS ueau
before he said so!
Helpfulness of Appreciation.
There are hundreds of ministers who
have hard work to make sermons because
no one expresses any appreciation. They
are afraid of making him vain. The mo-
ment the benediction is pronounced they
turn on their heels and go out. Perhaps it
was subject on which he had put especial
pains. He sought for the right text, and
then did his best to put the old thought
into some new shape. He had prayed that
it might go to the hearts Of the people.
He had added to the argument the most
vivid Illustrations he could think of. He
had delivered all with a power that left
him nervously exhauzsd. Fivo hundred
people may have beeh blessed by it, and
upon higher life aud nobler pur-
poses Yot all he hears is tho clank of the
pew door, or the shuffling of feet in the
aisle, or some remark about the weather,
the last resort of inanity. 8Why did not
that man come up and say frankly, "You
have done me goodP" Why did not some
woman como up and say, 81 shall 60 home
to take up the burden of life more cheer
fully" Why did not some professional
man come up and say: "Thank you, DOM
inie, for that good advicep l will take it.
God bless you" Why did they not tell
him SOP have known ministers, in the
nervous reaction that comes to some after
the delivery Of sermon with no seeming
result, to go home and roll on the floor in
agony.
But to make up for this lack of out
spoken religion there needs to be and will
be great day when, amid the solemnities
and grandeurs Of listening universe,
God will "say So" No statistics can state
how many mothers have rocked cradles
and lowered over infantile sicknesses and
brought up their families to manhood and
womanhood and launched them upon use
full and successful lives and yet never re-
oeived one "Thank you'll" that amounted
to anything. Tho daughters became
queens in social life or were affianced in
highest realms Of prosperity; the sons took
the first honors Of the university and be-
came radiant In monetary or professional
spheres Now the secret of all that up
lifted maternal influence must come out.
Society did not say so, the church did not
say SO, the world did not say so but on
that day Of all other days. the last day,
God will say SO.
Z There are men to whom life is grind
and a conflict, hereditary tendencies to be
overcome, accidental environments to be
endured, appalling opposition to be met
and conquered, and they never so much
as had rose pinned to their coat lapel in
admiration. They never had song dedi-
Gated to their name. They never had
book presented to them with compli-
mentary word on the fly leaf. All they
have to show for their lifetime battle is
scars But In the last dny the story will
come out, and that life will be put in holy
and transcendent rhythm, and their cour-
age and persistence and faith and victory
will not only be announced, but rewarded
"These are they that came out Of great
tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the Lamb"
God will say SO!
Last Judgment.
We miss one Of the chief ideas of last
Judgment. We put into the picture the
fire, and the smoke, and the earthquake,
and the descending angels, and the upris
ing dead, but we omit to put into the pic
turo that which makes the last Judgment
a magnificent opportunity. We omit the
fact that it is to be day of glorious OK
PLANTATION and commendation. The first
justice that millions of unrewardcd and
unreoognlzed and unappreciated men and
women get will be on that day when serv-
ices that never called forth SO much as
newspaper line Of finest pearl or diamond
type, as tho printers term it, shall be
called up for coronation. That will be the
day of enthronement for those whom the
world called "nobodies.' Joshua who
commanded the sun and moon to stand
STILL needs no last Judgment to get Justice
done him, but those men do need last
Judgment who at times, in all armies, un
der the most violent assault, in obedience
to command, themselves stood still. Deb