Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-03

said. Doctor, can't you save its" and
when told that it was impossible. said,
with tears rolling down his cheeks: "Well,
then, goodby, old hand. hate TO part
with you. You have done me a good serv-
ice for many years, but it seems you must
go. Goodby."
A celebrated surgeon told me Of scene
in the clinical department of one of the
New York hospitals, when a poor man
with wounded leg was brought In before
the students TO be operated on. The sur
geon was pointing out this and that TO the
students and handling the wounded leg,
and was about to proceed to amputatioD
when the poor man leaped from the table
and hobhled 20 the door, and said, "Gen-
tlemen, am sorry to disappoint you, but
by the help of God will die with my leg
on" What a terrific loss is the loss of our
physical facultiesl
The way the battle of Crecywas decided
against the French was by the Welshmen
killing the French horses, and that brought
their riders to the ground. And when you
cripple this body, which is merely the ami
NAL on which the soul rides, you may
sometimes defeat the soul.
Physical Ills.
Yet how many suffer from this physical
taking off, GoOd cheer, my brotherl God
will make it up to you somehow. The
grace, the sympathy of God will be more
to you than anything you have lost II
God allows part of your resources to be cut
off in one place, he will add it on somo-
where else. As Augustus, the emperor,
took off a day from February, making IT
the shortest month in the year, and added
| it to August, tie month named after him
self, so advantages taken from one part of
| your nature will be added ON to another.
But it is amazing how much of the world $
work has been done by men of subtraoted
! physical organization. S. 5. Preston, the
| great orator of the southwest, went limp
ing all his life, but there was no foot put
down upon any platform of his day that
resounded so far as his club foot Bee
| thoyen was so deaf that he could not heai
the crash of the orchestra rendering his
oratorios. Thomas Carlyle, the dyspeptiC
martyr, was given the commission to drive
| cant out of the worlds literature. The
| Rev. Thomas Stockton of Philadelphis
| with one lung raised his audience nearer
heaven than most ministers can raise then
| with two lungs. In the banks, the insur
ance companies, the commercial establish
| ments, tho reformatory associations, the
churches, there are tens of thousands ol
men and women today doubled up witt
rheumatism, OF subject to the neuralgias
or with only fragments of limbs, the res
Of which they leftat Chattanooga, or Soutl
Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they arr
worth moro to the world and more to thu
church and more to God than those of III
who have never SO much as had 1ingel
joint stiffened by felon.
Put to full use all the faculties that re
main and charge ON all opposing circum
stances with the determination of John o
Bohemia, who was totally blind and ye
at a battle cried out, 81 pray and beseecl
you to lead me SO far into the fight that
may strike one good blow with this swor'
of mine.' Do not think so much of wha
faculties you have lost as of what facultie
remain. You have enough left to max
yourself felt in three worlds, while yol
help the earth ard balk hell and vii
heaven. Arise from your discoCragements
o men and women of depleted or cripplet
physical faculties, and see what, by tn
special help of God, you can accomplish!
The skilled horsemen stood aroun
Bucephalus, unable to mount or manag
him, so wild was the steed. But Alexande
noticed that the sight of his own shadoN
seemed to disturb the horse. So Alexar
, der clutched him by the bride and turne
,, his head away from the shadow and tt
ward the sun, and the horses agitatio
was gone, and Alexander mounted hill
and rode off, to the astonishment of a
who stood by. And what you people nee
is to have your sight turned away froI
the shadows of your earthly lot, over whic
you have so long pondered, and your hea
turned toward the sun-the glorious su
of gospel consolation, and Christian hopt
and spiritual triumph.
A Me- Outfit.
And then remember that all physics
disadvantages will after awhile vanisl
Let those who have been rheumatisme
out of foot, or cataracted out of an eyt
or by the perpetual roar of our cities thur
dered out of an ear, look forward to I'll
day when this old tenement house of fies
will come down and better one shall /
builded The resurrection morning wi
provide you with better outfit. Eithe
, the unstrung, wornout, blunted and oril
you will not know them, or an entire me-
set of eyes and ears and feet will be give
you. just what it means by corruptio
putting on interruption we do not know
save that it will be glory ineffable. N
limping in heaven, no straining of the ey
sight to see things little way off, no pu
ting of the hand behind the ear to doubl
; thecapacity of the tympanum, butfacultiC
perfect, all the keys of the instrument Al
: tuned for the sweep of the fingers of ecstasy
: But until that day of resumption come
: let us bear each others burdens and S
/, fulfill the law of Christ.
Another form of disadvantage unde
which many labor is lack of early educs
: tion. There will be no excuse for igno
rance in the next generation. Free school
and illimitable opportunity of educatio
will make ignorance crime. believe
compulsory education, and those parent
who neglect to put their children unde
educational advantages have but one righ
left, and that is tho penitentiary. Bu
there are multitudes of men and women /
midlife who have had no opportunity
Free schools had not yet been established
and vast multitudes had little or no schot
b
men they come to speak or pray in rel
, !, gious assemblies or public occasions, pc
triotic, or political, or educational. The
are silent because they do mot feel CON
petent They owe nothing to Englis
grammar, or geography, or bellies lettres
They would not know participle from
pronoun if they met it many times a day
Many of the most successful merchants {
America and men in high political place
/, cannot write an accurate letter on an
theme. They are completely dependen
: upon clerks and deputies and stenogra
piers to make things right. / knew litel
ary man who in other years in this cit
/, made his fortune by writing speeches fo
congressman or fixing them up for Th
Congressional Record after they were dc
livered. The millionaire illiteracy of thi