Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-05-20

men. low much wild oats did they sow
between Is years and 30f None, absolute
ly none. God docs not very often honor
with old age those who have in early life
sacrificed swine on the altar of the bodily |
temple. Remember, o young man, that |
while in after life and after years of dissi |
patton you may perhaps have your heart |
changed, religion does not change the liver. |
Trembling and staggering along these |
streets today are men, all bent, and de- |
cayed, and prematurely old for the reason |
that they are paying for liens they put |
upon their physical estate before they were |
80. By carly dissipation they put on their |
body q first mortgage, and a second mort |
gage, and third mortgage to the devil, |
and these mortgages are now being fore |
closed, q nj all that remains of their earth |
" estate ts-a undertaken will soon put out
Il sight. Many years ago, IN fulfillment Of
my text, dart struck through their liver,
and it is there yet. God forgives, but out
ragged physical law never, never, never.
That has Sinai, but no Calvary. Solo
mon in my text knew what he was talk
ing about, and he rises up on his throne of
worldly splendor to shrek out a warning
to all the centuries.
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name Of
"squatter sovereignty" to those who went
out west and took possession Of lands and
held them by right of preoccupation. Let
flock of sins settle on your liver before
you get to % years of age, and they will in
all probability keep possession of it by an
Internal squatter sovereignty. 81 promise
| to pay at the bank $500 six months from
date says the promissory note. 81 prom
isc to pay my life 80 years from date at the
bank of the grave" says every infraction
of the laws of your physical being.
Solomon's Diagnosis.
Whatp Will mans body never COM
pletely recover from early dissipation in
this world? Never How about the world
to Gomez Perhaps God will fix it up in the
resurrection body so that it will not have
to go limping through all eternity. But
get the liver thoroughly damaged, and it
will stay damaged as long as you are here.
Physicians call it cirrhosis of the liver, or
Inflammation of the liver, or fatty degen-
Grafton of the liver but Solomon puts all
these pangs into one figure and says, "Till
q dart strike through his liver. j"
Hesiod seemed to have some hint Of this
when he represented Prometheus, for his
crimes, fastened to pillar and an eagle
feeding on his liver, which was renewed
again each night, SO that the devouring
went on until finally Hercules slew the
eagle and rescued Promethcus. And dis
sipated early life assures ferocity pecking
away and clawing away at the liver year
in and year out, and death is the only
Hercules who can break the power of its
beak or unclench its claw. So also Others
wrote fables about vultures preying upon
the liver Dut there are those here with
whom it is no fable, but terrific reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes and
smoking cigars has no idea that he is get
ting for himself smoked liver. That young
man has no idea that he has by early dis
sipation so depleted his energies that hi
will 90 into the battle only half armed
Here is another young man who, II he pu
all his forces against the regiment O
: youthful temptations, in the strength o
Q God, might drive them back, but he is al
, lowing them to be REINFORCED by the who'll
: army of midlife temptations, and wha
Q but immortal defeat can await. ..himP
Oh, my young brother, do not make tn
!, mistake that thousands are making il
WV ~
Q this world too late, and for the world t.
} come too late. What brings that expires
s train from St. Louis into Jersey City thre
Q hours late? They lost is minutes early OF
4 the route, and that affected them all tn
: way, and they had to be switched off her
e and switched off there, and detained her
o and detained there, and the man VIII
j. loses time and strength in the earlier par
T of the journey of life will suffer for it al
n the way through-the first 20 years of lif
IS damaging the following 30 years.
Some years ago a scientific lecturer wen
: through the country exhibiting on grea
j. canvas different parts Of the human bod
!. when healthy, and the same parts whe
e diseased. And what tho world wants no'
IS is some eloquent scientist to go throug
q the country, showing to our young peopl
), on blazing canvas the drunkard's live
IL the idler's liver, the libertine's liver, til
o gamblers liver. Perhaps the spectacl
II might stop some young man before h
u comes to the catastrophe and the dal
!, strike through his liver.
" A Few Epitaphs.
N My hearer, this is the first sermon 20
" have heard on the gospel Of health, and
' may be the last you will ever hear on thu
subject, and charge you, in the name
God and Christ and usefulness and eterni
" destiny, take better care of your healtl
~ When some Of you die, If your friends pl
W on your tombstone truthful epitaph,
Is will read Here lies the victim of late SUI
1' pers;' or it will be, "Behold what lobstt
j. salad at midnight will do for man," I
~ it will be, "Ten cigars a day closed N
~ earthly existence;" or will be, "Thougl
u I could do at 70 what I did at 2
y and 1 am here;" or it will be, "Here
~ :, the consequence of sitting half day wit
N wet fcet;" or it will be, "This is where
81 have stacked my harvest Of wild OATS" I
1r instead of words the stonecutter will CHS
., for an cpitaph on the tombstone two Fl
~ y, ures-namely, dart and liver.
~ There is a kind Of sickness that is bea
~ tiful when it comes from overwork f
u God, or ones country, or ones own faI
lily. I havo seen wounds that were 81
IS rious. I have seen an empty sleeve tn
AZ was more beautiful than the most muse
~ lar forearm. 1 have seen q green sha
TX over the eye, shot out in battle, that W
n more beautiful than any two eyes tn
sa had passed without injury. I have SCI
at an old missionary worn out with tho m
laria of African jungles, who looked to 1
lt more radiant than rubicund gymnast.
in have seen n mother after six weeks waite