Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-04-22

| the kitchen, Christ for the shop, Christ
for the banking house, a Christ for the
garden, while spading and planting and
| irrigatiDg the territory Oh, of course We
want to see Christ at last In royal robe and
bediamonded, a celestial equestrian mount
ing the white horse, but from this Easter
of 1897 to our last Easter on earth we most
need to see Christ as Mary Magdalene saw
him at the daybreak, ''supposing him tt
be the gardenerl"
| Hope For Great Sinners.
Another thing which the church and the
] world have not noticed in regard to the
resurrection of Christ is that he made his
| first post mortem appearance to one who
had been the seven deviled Mary Magda-
lene. One would have supposed he would
have made his first posthumous appearances
to woman who had always been illustri-
Gus for goodness. There nre sanity women
who have always been sanity, sanity in
girlhood, sanity in infancy, always saint
| ly. In nearly all our families there have
been sanity aunts In my family circle it
l7as sanity Aunt Phebe. In yours sanity
| Aunt Martha or sanity Aunt Ruth. One
always sanity. But not so was the one
spoken of in the text.
While you are not to confound her with
the repentant courtcsan who had made her
long locks do the work of towel at Christ 6
foot washing, you are not to forget that she
was exercised of seven devils. What q
capital of delnonology she must have
beenl What a chorus of all diabolism
Seven devils-two for the eyes and two for
the hands, and two for the feet, and one
| @I,Nt Ill
are extirpated, and now she is as good as
once she was bad, and Christ honors her
with the first posthumous appearance.
| What docs that meanS
| Why, it means for worst sinner greatest
grace. 1t means those lowest down shall
come perhaps highest up. 1t means that
the clock that strikes 10 at midnight may
strike ~ at midnoon. 1t means that the
| grace of God Is seven times stronger than
sin. Mary Magdalene the seven deviled be.
came Mary Magdalene the seven angeled.
1t means that when the Lord meets US al
last he will not throw up to US what we
have been. All he said to her was Maryr'
Many people having met her under such
circumstances would have said: "Let me
see how many devils did you have? One,
| two, three, four, five, six, seven. What a
| terrible piece you were when first met
you" The most Of the Christian women
in our day would have nothing to do with
Mary Magdalene, even after her conversion,
lest somehow'they be compromised. The
only thing have to say against women is
that they have not enough mercy for Mary
Magdalene. Christ put all pathos, and all
reminiscenoe, and all anticipation, and all
| rdn nd oil nd oil bna
into one word of four letters, "Mary p'
Mark you, Christ did not appear to some
| Bible Elizabeth, or Bible Hannah, or Bible
Esther, or Bible Deborah, or Bible Vashti,
but to Mary; not to a Mary against whom
nothing was said, not to Mary, the mother
of Jesus, not to Mary, the mother Of
James, not to Mary, the sister of Lazarus,
but to a seven deviled Mary.
There is a man seven deviled--devil oil
ayarice, devil of pride, devil of hate, devil
of Incidence, devil of falsehood, devil OF
strong drink, devil of impurity. God can
take them all away, or 20. rode over
the new cantalever bridge that spans Nj
agara-a bridge 900 feet long, $50 feet OF
chasm from bluff to bluff passed over il
without any anxiety. Why9 Because 2G
locomotives and 20 cars laden with gravel
had tested the bridge thousands of people
standing on the Canadian side, thousands
standing on the American side to applaud
the achievement. And however long the
train of cur immortal interests may be, we
are to remember that Gods bridge OF
mercy spanning the chasm of sin has beer
fully tested by the awful tonnage of all tbs
pardoned sin of all the ages, church mill
\ CTS hon ahl1 fy.i.
umphant standing on the other bank. Oh
| it was to the seven deviled Mary that
| Christ made his first post mortem appear.
ance.
| There is another thing that the world
and the church have not observed in re
| gard to this resurrection, and that is, il
| was tho morning twilight.
Easter Dawn.
If tho chronometer had been invented
| and Mary had as good watch as some OF
| the Marys of our time have, she would
| have found twas about half-past o'clock
a. IN. Matthew says it was in the dawn.
! Mark says it was at the sunrising. Luke
says it was very early in the morning.
John says it was while it was yet dark.
| In other words, it was twilight. That was
| took Christ for the gardener. What does
that mean? 1t means there are shadows
over the grave unified, shadows of mys.
terry that are lowering. Mary stopped
down and tried to look to the other end OF
the crypt. She gave hysteric outcry. She
could not see to the other end of the crypt.
Neither can you see to the other end OF
the grave of your dead. Neither can we
see to the other end of our own grave. Oh,
If there were shadows over the family plot
belonging to Joseph of Arimathea, is 1t
strange that there should be some shadows
over our family lot? Easter dawn, not
Easter noon.
Shadow of unanswered question! Why
were they taken away from us? Why were
they ever given to us if they were to be
taken SO soon? Why were they taken so
suddenly Why could they not have ut
tered some farewell wordsP WhyP A short
question, but a whole crucifxion of agony
in it. Why? Shadow on the graves of
good men and women who seemed to die
before their work was done. Shadow on
all the graves of children because we ask
ourselves why so beautiful craft launched
at all if 1t was to be wrecked one mile out
oluO VI OllO DuU WllSlU ulu Nlttry
Magdalene have to do in order to get more
light on that gravep She had only to wait.
After awhile the Easter sun rolled up, and
the whole place was flooded with light
What have you and to do in order to get
moro light on our own graves and light
upon the graves of our dear loved ones2
Only to wait.
Charles V of Spain with his servants
and torches went down into the vault of
the metropolis where his ancestors were
buried, and went deeper, farther on until
he came to cross around which were ar
ranged the caskets of his ancestors. He
also found a casket containing the body of
one of his own family. He had that oasket
opened, and there by embalmers art he
found that the body was as perfect as 1s
years before when it was entombed, But