Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-24

plans ne says, My joy and crown" The
Apostle Peter catches the inspiration and
cries out, aye shall receive a crown of
glory that fadeth not away" and st. John
joins in the rapture and says, Faithful to
death, and l will give thee a crown of
life, 4" and elsewhere exclaims, "Hold fast,
that 10 man take thy crown" Crowns,
crowns, crownsl You did not expect in
coming here today to be invited to n cor
onation. You cun scarcely believe your
own ears, but in the name of pardoning
God, and sacrificing Christ and an ON
nipotent Holy Spirit, and triumphant
heaven l offer each one a crown for the
asking. Crowns, crowns! How to get the
crown? The way Victoria got her CROWN
on her knees. Although eight duchesses
and marquises, all in cloth of silver, car
ried her train, and the windows and arches
and roof of the abbey shook. with the "Te
Deum" of tho organ in full diapason, she
had to kncel, che had to come down. To
get the crown cf pardon and eternal life
you will have TO kneel, You will have to
come down. Veal History says that at
her coronation not only the entire assembly
wept with profound emotion, but Victoria
was in tears. So you will have to have
your dry eyes moistened with tears, in
your case tears of repentance, tears of joy,
| tears of coronation, and you will feel like
crying out with jeremiah, "Oh, that my
head were waters and mine eyes fountains
of tears" Yes, she was during the cere-
Yony seated for awhile on a lowly stone
lalled the Lila Fail, which, as l remember
| It, as l have seen it again and again, was
rough and not foot high, lowly and
humble place in which to be seated, and if
you are to be crowned king or queen to
| God forever, you ISust be seated on the
Lila Fail of profoulTl humiliation.
After all that she was ready for the
throne and let me say that God is not 60
ing to leave your exaltation half done.
There arc thrones as well as crowns await
ing you. st. John shouted, 81 saw
thrones!'' and again he said, "They shall
reign forever and ever" Thrones!
Thronesl Get ready for the coronation.
But invite you not only to your own
coronation, but to a mightier and the
mightiest. In all tho ages of time no one
ever had such hard time as Christ while
he was ON earth. Brambles for his brow,
expectoration for his check, whips for his
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feet, contumely for his name, and even in
our time, how many say he Is no Christ
at all, and there are tens of thousands OF
hands trying to push him back and keep
him down. But, oh, the human and sa-
tanic iinpotencyl Can spider stop an
albatross? Can the hole which the toy
shovel of a child digs in the sand at Cape
May swallow the Atlantic? Can the
breath Of a summer fan drive back the
Mediterranean euroclydonP Yes, when all
the combined forces of earth and hell can
keep Christ from ascending the throne of
universal dominion, David the I55almiisst!
foresaw that coronation, and cried out in
regard to the Messiah, upon himself
shall his crown flourish" From the cave
of black basalt St. John foresaw it, and
cried, "On his head were many crowns" "
Now do not miss the beauty of that fig.
ure. There is no room on any head fol-
more than one crown of silver, gold OF
diamond. Then what does the book mean
when it says, "On his head were many
crowns?" Well, it means twisted and en-.
wreathed flowers. To prepare crown for
your child and mako her tho "queen OF
the May" you might take the white flow
ers out of one parterre and the crimson
flowers out of another parterre and the
blue flowers out of another parterre, and
the pink flowers out of another parterre,
and gracefully and skillfully work these
four or five crowns into one crown of
beauty. So all the splondors Of earth and
heaven are to be enwreathed into one cor
onal for our Lords forehead-one blazing
glory, one dazzling brightness, one over
powering perfume, one down flashing, up
rolling, outspreading magniflcence-and
SO Oh his head shall be many crowns.
Cross and Crown.
The worlds best music will yet be
sounded in his praise, the worlds best ar
chitccture built for his worship, the
worlds best paintings descriptive of his
triumphs the worlds best sculpture per.
petuate the memory of his heroes and
heroines Already the crown woven out
of many crowns Is being put upon his
brow. His SCARED feet are already ascend
ing the throne. A careful statistician es.
Inmates that in 1860 there will be 174,.
100000 people in the United States, and
by the present ratio of uniting with the
church 100 900, ,000 of them will be church
members. What think ye of that, ye
pessimists inspired by the devil? The
deadest failure in the universe is the king
dom of satan. The grandest throne of all
timo and all eternity is the one that Christ
is now mounting. The most of us will
not see the consummation in this world,
but we will gaze on it from the high
heavens. The morning of that consum.
nation will arrive, and what stir in the
holy city! All the towers of gold will ring
its arrival. All the chariots will roll in
to line The armies of heaven which John
saw seated on white horses passing in in,
finite cavalcade. The inhabitants of Eu
rope Asia, Africa, North and South Amer
lea and Of all islands of the sea, and per
haps of other worlds, will join in process
sion, compared with which that Of next
Tuesday will not make one battalion. The
Conqueror ahead, having on his vesture
and on his thigh written "King of Kings
and Lord of Lords" and when he passes
through the chief of the IL uplifted gates
all nations following, may you and l bC
there to hear the combined shout of church
militant and church triumphant. Until
the choirs standing on "the sea of glass
mingled with fire" shall sound the tri
umph in more jubilant strains, accom-
panied by harpers with their harps anG
trumpeters with their trumpets, the hun
dred and forty and four thousand coming
into the chorus, think we will stick tC
Isaac Watts old hymn, which the 5000
natives of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa sans
when they gave up their idolatrics fol
Christianity, and would not be surprised
to see some of you old heroes Of the cross
who for a life time have been toiling il
the service, beating time with your righ
hand, little tremulous with many years
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys rum
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar honors to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud amen.