Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-04-01

worms or dry doctors OF law and science
and theology there would have been no
Apocalyptio angel They are the Greeks of
our country and time, and your obliga-
>tion to them is infinite
wey to Pay the Debt.
But there is better way to pay them,
and that is by their personal salvation,
which will never come TO them through
books or through learned presentation, be-
cause in literature and intellectual realms
they are masters. They can outargue, out
quote, OutdogmatiZe you. Not through the
gate Of the head, but through the gate of
the heart, you may capture them. When
men of learning and might are brought to
God, they are brought by the simplest
story of what religion can do for a soul
They have lost children. Oh, tell them
how Christ Co,ufortcd you when you lost
your bright boy or blue eyed grill They
have found life struggle. Oh, tell them
how Christ has helped you all the way
through They are in bewildermcnt. Oh,
tell them with how many hands of JOY
heaven beckons you upward "When
Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of
meets man who needs pardon and SYM
pathy and comfort and eternal life then
! comes victory. If you can, by some Incl
dent of self sacrifice, bring to such schol-
arly men and women what Christ has done
for their eternal rescue you may bring
| them in. Where Demosthenic eloquence
and Homeric imagery would fail kindly
| heart throb may succeed A gentleman of
| this city sends me the statement of what
occurred q few days ago among the mines
of British Columbia. 1t seems that Frank
Conson and Jem Smith were down in the
narrow shaft of mine They had loaded
an iron bucket with coal, and Jim Hens
WORTH standing above ground was haul
! ing the bucket up by windlass when the
windlass broke, and the loaded bucket was
descending upon the two miners. Then
Jim Hemsworth seeing what must be GER
tain death to the miners beneath, threw
himself against the cogs of the whirling
windlass, and though his flesh was torn
and his bones were broken be stopped the
whirling windlass and arrested the de-
scending bucket and saved the lives of the
two miners beneath. The superintendent
of the mine flew to the rescue and blocked
the machinery. When Jim Hemsworth's g
bleeding and broken body was put on q
litter and carried homeward and some one
exclaimed, Jim, this is awfull'' he re-
piled, "Oh. what's the difference so long
as l saved the boys?''
What an illustration it was of suffering
for others, and what q text from which to
illustrate the behavior of our Christ, limp
ing and lacerated and broken and torn
and crushed in the work of stopping the
descending ruin that would have destroy
ed our souls! Try such scene of vicarious
suffering as this on that man capable Of
overthrowing all your arguments for the
truth, and he will sit down and weep
Draw your illustrations from the classics,
and it is to him an old story, but Leyden
jars and electric batteries and telescopes
and Greek drama will all surrender to the
story of Jim Hemsworth's "Oh, what s
the difference so long as I saved the boysP"
Then, if your illustration Of Christ
self sacrifice, drawn from some scene of
today, and your story Of what Christ has
done for you do not quite fetch him into
the right way, just say to him, Profess
Observation-Disclosures, why was it that Paul
declared he was debtor to the Greeks?'
And ask your learned friend to take his
| NICCh LCSIullShu elliNl LOI yOuj Al
his own way, from Greek into English,
the splendid peroration of Paul's sermon
on Mars hill, under the power of which
the scholarly Dionysius surrendered
namely, "The times of this ignorance God
winked at, but now commandeth all men
everywhere to repent, because he hath ap-
, pointed day in the which he will judge
, the world in righteousness, by that man
whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath
given assurance unto all men in that he
| hath raised him from the dead" BY the
time he has got through the translation
t from the Greek l think you will see his
t lip tremble, and there will come pallor
ON his face like the pallor on the sky OF
daybreak. BY the eternal salvation of that
scholar, that great thinker, that splendid
!, man, you will have done something to hell
.. pay your indebtedness to the Greeks. AND
= now to God the Father, God the Son ant
God the Holy Ghost be honor and glory
! and dominion and victory and song, worlt
without end. Amen.