Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-11-26

EgwurK rney wnr.d not nave peen sumter
ing under the trees and hAnkering after
that fruit which destroyed them and their
posterity-a proof positive for all ages TO
come that those who do not attend their
business are sure TO get into mischief.
do not know that the prodigal in Scrip
lure would ever have been reclaimed had
he not given up his idle habits and gone to
feeding swine for living. The devil does
not so often attack the man who Is busy
with the pen, and the book, and the trowel,
and the saw, and the hammer. He Is
afraid Of those weapons. But woe to the
man whom this roaring lion meets with
his hands In his pockets
Do notdemand that your toll always be
elegant and cleanly and refined. There Is
a certain amount of drudgery through
which we must all pass whatever be our
occupation. You know how men are SEN
tenced certain number Of years to prison,
and after they have suffered and worked
out the time, then they are allowed to go
free. So 1t is with all of us God passed
on us the sentence, "By the sweat of thy
brow shalt thou eat bread" We must en-
dure our time Of drudgery, and then, after
awhile, we will be allowed to go into COM
parative liberty. We must be willing to
endure the sentence. We all know what
drudgery is connected with the beginning
Of any trade or profession, but this does
not continue all our lives, If it be the
students, or the merchants, or the me.
chanic's life. know You have at the be-
ginning many a hard time, but after
awhile those things will become easy. You
will be your own master. Gods sentence
will be satisfied. You will be discharged
rom prison.
Bless God that you have a brain to
think and hands TO work and feet to
walk with, for in your constant activity,
o young man, is one of your strongest de-
fenses. Put your trust in God and do your
best. That child had it right when the
horses ran away with the load of wood and
he sat on 1t. When asked If he was fright
ened, he said, "No, prayed to God and
hung on like beaver"
A Recreative Day.
Respect for the Sabbath will be to the
young man another preservative against
evil. God has thrust into the toll and
| fatigue of life q recreative day when the
soul is especially to be fed. 1t is no new
tangled notion of a wild Drained reformer,
but an institution established at the be-
| ginning. God has made natural and
moral laws so harmonious that the body
| as we'll as the soul demands this institu-
tion. Our bodies are seven day clocks
| that must be wound up as often as that or
they will run down. Failure must come
| sooner or later to the man who breaks the
| Sabbath. Inspiration has called 1t the
Lords day, and he who devotes 1t to the
world is guilty of robbery. God will not
let the sin go unpunished either In this
world or the world to come
This Is the statement of man who has
| broken this divine enactment: "I was en-
| gagged in manufacturing on the Lehigh
river. On the Sabbath used to rest, but
never regarded God in it One beautiful
| Sabbath when the noise was all hushed,
and the day was all that loveliness could
make it, sat down on my piazza and
| went to work inventing now shuttle
neither stopped to eat nor drink till the
sun went down. By that time had the
invention completed. The next morning
| I exhibited it and boasted Of my days
work, and was applauded. The shuttle
| was tried and worked well, but that Sab
bath days work cost me $4,000 We
branched out and enlarged, and the curse
Of heaven was upon me from that day on
| ward.'
| While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, God S
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it This day,
properly observed, will throw hallowed
influence over all the week. The song and
sermon and sanctuary will hold back from
presumptuous sins That young man who
begins the duties of life with either secret
or open disrespect to the holy day, ven
ture to prophesy, will meet with no per-
manent successes Gods curse will fall
upon his ship, his store, his office, his
studio, his body and his soul. The way OF
the wicked he turneth upside down. In
one of the old fables it was said that a
wonderful child was born in Bagdad, and
| a magician could hear his footsteps G, 900
| miles away. But I can hear in the foot
| step Of that young man on his way to the
| house of worship today the step not only
of lifetime of usefulness, but the oncom-
ing step of eternal ages of happiness yet
millions Of years away.
An Infallib1e Defense.
A noble ideal and confident expectation
of approximating to 1t are an infallible de-
| fense. The artist completes in his mind
the great thought that he wishes to trans
| fer to the canvas or the marble before be
takes up the crayon or the chiseL The
| architect plans out the entire structure be-
| fore he orders the workmen to begin, and,
though there may for long while seem to
be nothing but laundering and rudeness,
he has in his mind every Corinthian
wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine
| capital. The poet arranges the entire plot
before he begins to chime the first canto of
tingling rhythms And yet, strange to
| say, there are men who attempt to build
their character without knowing whether
| in the end 1t shall be rude Tartar's tent
! or St. Mark g of Venice-men who begin
| to write the intricate poem Of their lives
without knowing whether it shall be a
Homer's Odyssey" or rhymester's botch.
| Nine hundred and ninety-ntne men out
of thousand are living without any great
| life plot Booted and spurred and plumed,
and urging their swift courser in the hot
test haste, ask: "Hello, mani Whittier
away LIS IoSpoueo Aos INOWuor6.
Rush into the busy shop or store of many
one and taking the plane out of the
mans hand or laying down the yardstick,
say, "What, man, is all this about-so
much stir and sweat"
The reply will stumble and break down
between teeth and lips. Every days duty
ought only to be the filling up of the main
plan Of existence. Let men be consistent
If they prefer misdeeds to correct courses
of action, then let them draw out the de-
sign Of knavery and cruelty and plumber
Let every days falsehood and wrongdoing
be added as coloring to the picture. Let
bloody deeds red stripe the picture and
| the clouds of wrathful God hang down
heavily over the canvas, ready to break
out in clamorous tempest Let the waters
be ohafed and froth tangled and green
with immeasurable depths. Then take a
torch Of burning pitch and scorch into the