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

hard to believe that two worlds stopped In
Joshua's time, when the astronomers tell
us that 1, 500 worlds have stopped. Even
the moon Is q world In ruins. Stellar, lu-
mar, solar catastrophes innumerable. But
1T seems as II the most sorrows have been
reserved for our world. By one toss Of the
world at Ticuboro Of 1900 inhabitants
only 20 people escaped. By enc shake of
the world at Lisbon in five min utes CO. 900
perished and 300, 900 before the earth
stopped rocking A mountain falls in
Switzerland, burying The village of Col
dau. A mountain falls In Italy in the
night, when 1900 people are asleep, and
they never arouse. By convulsion of the
earth Japan broken off from China. By q
oonvulsion Of the earth the Caribbean is
lands broken off from America. Three is
lands near the mouth Of the Ganges, with
$40, 900 iDhabitants-a great surge Of the
sea breaks over them, and 2l4, 900 perish
that day. Alas, alas, for our poor world.
1t has been recently discovered that a
whole continent has sunk, a continent
that connected Europe and America, part
of the inhabitants Of that continent going
to Europe, part coming to America over
the tablelands Of Mexico, up through the
valleys Of the Mississippi, and we are find
ing now the remains of their mounds and
their cities in Mexico, in Colorado and
the tablelands of the west. 1t is matter
of demonstration that whole continent
has gone down, the Azores off the coast Of
Spain only the highest mountain of that
sunken continent. Plato described that
continent, its grandeur, the multitude of
It's inhabitants, its splendor and its awful
destruction, and the world thought it was
a romance, but aroh@ologists have found
out 1t was history, and the English and
the German and the American fleets have
gone forth with archeologists, and the
Challenger and the Dolphin and the Ga
zelle have dropped anchor, and in deep sea
seundings they have found the contour Of
that sunken continent.
All to Christ.
Oh, there is trouble marked on the
rocks, on the sky, on the sea, ON the fora
and the fauna-astronomical trouble,
geological trouble, oceanic trouble, politi-
cal trouble, domestic trouble-and stand
ing in the presence of all those stupendous
devastations, 1 ask If I am not right in
saying that the great want of this age
and all ages is divine sympathy and ON.
nipotent comfort, and they are found not
in the Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah
of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ
unto whom shall the gathering of the peo-
pie be. Other worlds may fall, but this
morning star will never be blotted from
the heavens. The earth may quake but
this rock of ages will never be shaken
from its foundations. The same Christ
who fed the 5000 will feed all the world Is
hunger. The same Christ who cured Bar
timeus will illumine all blindness. The
same Christ who made the dumb speak
will put on every tongue hosanna. The
same Christ who awoke Lazarus from the
sarcophagus will yet rally all the pious dead
in glorious resurrection. II know that my
Redeemer liyeth, and that Ito him shall
the gathering of the people be-" All, my
friends, when Christ starts thoroughly and
quickly to lift this miserable wreck of q
sunken world, it will not take him long
to lift it.
have thought that this particular age
in which we live may be given UP to dis
coveries and inventions by which through |
quick and instantaneous communication |
all cities and all communities and all
lands will be brought together, and then |
In another period perhaps these inventions
which have been used for worldly purposes
will be brought out for gospel invitation,
and some great prophet of the Lord will
come and snatch the mysterious, SUBJ
lime and miraculous telephone from
the hand of commerce, and, all lands |
and Kingdoms connected by wondrous
wire, this prophet of the Lord may,
through telephone communication, in an |
instant announce to all nations pardon |
and sympathy and life through Jesus
Christ, and then, putting the wondrous |
tube to the ear of the Lords prophet, the |
response shall come back, "I believe in
God, the Father Almighty, Maker of |
heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his |
only begotten Son."
You and may not live to see the day. |
think those of us who are over 40 years of |
age can scarcely expect to see the day. |
expect before that time our bodies will be |
sound asleep in the hammocks of the old |
gospel ship as 1t goes sailing on. But |
Christ will wake us up in time to see the |
achievement. We who have sweated in the |
hot harvest fields will be at the door of |
the garner when the sheaves come in. |
That work for which In this world we |
toiled and wept and struggled and wore
ourselves out shall not come to consum-
nation and we be oblivious of the achieve
ment. We will be allowed to come out
and shake hands with the victors.
The Grcat victory.
We who fought in the earlier battles
will have just as much right to rejoice as
those who Redeemed their feet in the last
ArInageddon. All, yea, those who could
only give cupful of cold water in the
name of disciple, those who could only
scrape handful of lint for a wounded
soldier, those who could only administer
to old age in its decrepitude, those who
could only coax poor waif of the street
to go back home to her God, those who
could only lift little child in the arms of
Christ, will have as much right to take
part in the ovation to the Lord Jesus
Christ as Chrysostom. 1t will be your
victory and mine, as we'll as Christ's. He
the conqueror, we shouting in his train,
Christ the victor will pick out the hum
blest of his disciples in the crowd, and
turning half around on the white horse of
victory he shall point her out for approval
by the multitude as he says, "She did
what she could" Then putting his hand
ON the head of some man, who by his in
dustry made one talent do the work of
ten, he will say, Thou hast been faithful
over few things; l will make thee ruler
over ten cities. Two different theories
about the fulfllment of this promise.
There are people who think Christ will
come in person and sit on throne. Per
haps he may. | should like to see the
SCARED feet going up the stairs of palace
in which all the glories of the Alhambra,
and the Tai Mahal, and st. Marks,
and the Winter palace are gathered. l
should like to see the world pay Christ
in love for what 1t did to him in maltreat.
ment. l should like to be one of the
grooms of the chargers holding the stir
rup as the king mounts. Oh, what glo-
rious time it would he an earth if Christ
From A Findlay Mother.
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