Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-03
WINDS THAT HINDER.
REV. DR.. TALMAeE TO THE WEARY
AND DISCOURAGED.

Labor Under Adverse Circumstances,
Both Physical and Mental-The Over
burdened and Overworked.
WASHINGTON, May 30.-Dr. Talmage's
ermon this week is ono Of good cheer. II
will give encouragement to many strug-
fling souls The subject is Contrary
Winds, 4" and the text Mathew xiv, "a, "Tho
rsind was contrary"
AS we'll know by experience on Lake
5alilee, one hour all may be calm and the
next hour the winds and waves will be SO
boisterous that you are in doubt as TO
whether you will land on the shore or on
,he bottom Of the deep. The disciples In
she text wero caught in such stress OF
weather and the sails bent and the ship
plunged, for "the wind was contrary"
There is in one of the European straits
place, where, whichever way you sail, the
winds are opposing. There are people who
al their life seem sailing In the teeth of
the wind. All things seem against them.
It may be said of their condition as of that
,f the disciples in my text, 1.-THE wind was
contrary"
This Divine Physician.
A great multitude of people are under
seeming disadvantage, and l will today, in
the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that l can
manage, treat their cases. not as nurse
counts out eight or ten drops of prescrip-
lion and stirs them in half glass of wa
ter, but as whom man has by mistake
taken a large amount of strychnine or
paris green or belladonna, and the patient
is walked rapidly round the room and
shaken up until he gets wide awake. Many
If you have taken large draft of the
poison of discouragement, and come out
by the order of the divine Physician to
rouse you out of that lethargy.
First, many people are under the disad-
vantage of an unfortunate name given
them by parents who thought they were
doing o good thing. Sometimes at the
baptism of children while have held up
one hand in prayer have held up the 9th
er hand in amazement that parents should
have weighted the babc with such dis
sonant and repulsivc nomenclature.
have not SO much wondered that some
children should cry out at the christening
| font as that others with such smiling face
should take title that will be the burden
of their lifetime. 1t is outrageous to hf
| lict children with an undesirable name
because it happened to be possessed by 0
parent or q rich uncle from whom favors
are expected Or some prominent man o.
the day who may end his life in disgrace
It is no excuse, because they are Scripture
| names, to cali child Jehoiakim or Zig
hath Pileser. l baptized one by the nam'
Bathsheba! Why, under all the ciroum
ambient heaven, any parent should WANT tx
| give to child the name of that loose crea
| sure of Scripture times cannot imagine
| have often felt at the baptismal altar
| when names were announced to me, likt
| saving, as did the Rev. DR.. Richards o
| Norristown, N. j., when child was hand
| ed him for baptism and the name given
Hadn't you better call its9methlng elsep'
Impose not upon that babe q name sug
gestive of flippancy or meanness. There
no excuse for such assault and battery OF
she cradle when our language is opulen
with names musical and suggestive il
| meaning, such as John, meaning 18th
gracious gift Of God," or Henry, meaning
''thc chief Of household" or Alfred
meaning "good counselor" or Joshua
meaning "God, our salvation," or Am
brose, meaning Immortal; or Andrew
meaning manly" or Esther, meanin
"star," or Abigail, meaning my father
JOY" or Anna, meaning grace" or Viz
toria, meaning ''yictory," or Rosalit
meaning beautiful as rose," or Maj
garet, meaning "a pearl" or Ida, mean
ing "godlike,f' or Clara, meaning "illu:
trious," or Amelia, meaning busy" @
Bertha, meaning beautiful" and hur
dreds of other names just as good that ar
help rather than hindrance.
The Family Name.
But sometimes tho great hindrance j
life is not in the given name, but in th
family name. While legislatures are will
ing to lift such incubuses, there are familie
that keep name which mortgages all th
generations with q great disadvantage
You say, II wonder If he Is any relatio
to So-and-so," meaning some family celt
brated for crime or deception. 1t is
wonder to me that In all such familie
some spirited young man does not rist
saying to his brothers and sisters, 'If 20
want to keep this nuisance or soandalizf
ton of name, will keep it no longe
than until by quickest course of law ca
slough off this gangrene" The city d
rectory has hundreds of names the mer
pronunciation of which has been a lii
long obstacle. If you have started lii
under d name which, either through ride
ulous photography or vicious suggestion
has been an incumbrance, resolve that tn
next generation shall not be so weighted
1t is not deIneaning to change q name
Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle
Hadassah, ''the myrtle" became Esther
i. "the star" We have in America, and
suppose it Is SO In all countries, name
which ought to be abolished, and can
| and will be abolished for the reason thG
they are libel and SANDER. But if fc
any reason you are submerged either by
given name or by family name that 20
must bear. God will help you to overcom
the outrage by life consecrated to tt
good and useful. You may erase the ours
from the name If it once stood for NEAR
| ness, you can make it stand for generosity
If once it stood for pride, you can make
stand for humility. II it once stood fc
fraud, you can make 1t stand for honest,
If once it stood for wiokedness, you ca
make it stand for purity. There have bee
| multitudes of instances where men an
women have. magnificently conquered I'll
disasters of the names inflicted upon then
Again, many people labor under tt
misfortune of incomplete physical equiI
ment. We are by our Creator so econon
ically built that we cannot afford the ol
liberation of any physical faculty. "
| want our two eyes, our two ears, our tw
hands, our two feet, our eight fingers an
two thumbs Yet what multitudes of pei
pie have but one eye, or but one foot III
ordinary casualties of life have been quat
rupled, quintupled, sextupled, aye, ceI
tupled, in our time by the civil war, an
at the north and south great multitu6
+ are fighting the battle of life with half, {
less than half. the needed physical arm,
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