Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-03-04

the feeti Ought We not TO 20 into self alb
negation before the an searching, all scru-
tinizing, all trying eye Of God9 The ser
nphs do. How mach more Wet with
twain he covered ths feet" ("
All this talk abozt the dignity Of hu-
man natureis hragzadoeio and sin Our
but it has been pauperized- There is
well in Belgium which once had very pure
water, and it was stoutly masoned with
stone and brick, but that well afterward
became the cenief Of the battle Of Water
loo. At the opsning of the battle the sol
diers, with their sabers, compelled the gar
dener, William von Kylsom, to draw wa
ter out of the well for them, and 1t was
very pure wnter But the battle ragged, and
800 dead and half dead were flung into the
we'll for quioA and easy burial, so that the
we'll of refreshment became the well of
death, and long after people locked down
into the well, and they saw the bleached
skulls, but no water. So the human soul
was a well of good, but the armies Of sin
have fought xrourd it and fought across it
and been shin, and it has become a well
of skeletons. Dead hopes, dead resolutions,
dead opportunities dead ambitions. An
abandoned we'll unless Christ shall reopen
and purify and I'LL it as the well of Bel
GUM never was. Unclean, unclean.
Rsfie vandaIs.
Another seraphic posture in the text,
"With twain he covered the face" That
means reverence Godward. Never so much
irreverence abroad in the world as today.
You see it in the defaced statuary, in the
! cutting out of figures from fine paintings,
| in the chipping of monuments for a me-
mcnto, in the fact that military guard
must stand at the grave of Lincoln and
Garfield. and that old shade trees must be
cut down for flrewood, though so George
| p. Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the
tree, and that calls corpse cadaver, and
that speaks Of death as going over to the
majority and substitutes for the reverend
terms father and mother ''the old man.
/ and "the old woman" and finds nothing
! impressive in the ruins of Baalbec or the
| columns of Karnac, and sees no difference
| in the Sabbath from ether days except it
allows more dissipation, and reads the
Bible in what is called higher criticism,
making it not the word Of God, but a
good book with some fine things in it. r.
reverence never so much abroad. How
many take tho name of God in vain, how
many trivial things said about the AL
mighty Not willing to have God in the
world, they roll up an idea of sentimen-
I tality and humanitarianism and impudence
and imbecility and call it God. No wings
of reverence over the face, no taking off OF
shoes ON holy ground. You can tell from
the way they talk they could have made o
better world than this, and that the God
of the Bible shocks every sense Of propri.
ETY.. They talk of the love of God in way
/ that shows you they believe it does not
make any difference how bad man is
here he will come in at the shining gate.
They talk of the love of God in way
which shows you they think it is gener.
al Jail delivery for all the abandoned and
the seofndrelly of the universe. No pun.
ishment hereafter for any wrong done here
The Bible gives two descriptions Of God
and they are just opposite, and they are
both true. In one place the Bible says Goo
is love. In another place the Bible says
God is consuming fire. The explanation
is plain as plain can be. God through
Christ is love- God out of Christ is fire
To win the one and to escape the other We
have only to throw ourselves, body, mind
and soul, into Christ's keeping. "No,
says irreverence, "I want no atonement;
want no pardon; want no intervention
will go up and face God, and l will chal
lenge him, and will defy him, and will
ask him what he wants to do with me. ,
So the finite confronts the Infinite SO ,
tack hammer tries to break a thunderbolt
SO the breath of human nostrils dedes tn
| .Io1 1fiy xvh n
heaven bow the head and bend the knee a
the Kings chariot goes by, and the arch
angel turns away because he cannot en-
dure the splendor, and the chorus of al
the empires of heaven comes in with full
diapason, "Holy, holy, holy!"
Reverence.
Reverence for sham, reverence for tn
old merely because it is old, reverence fo
: stupidity, however learned, reverence TO
J incapacity, however finely inaugurated,
] have none. But we want more reverenc
J for God, more reverence for the sacraments
} more reverence for the Bible, more rever
ence for the pure, more reverence for tn
good. Reverence a characteristic of al
great natures. You hear it in the roll o
} the master oratorios. You see It'll tn
Raphaels and Titians and Ghirlandaios
3 You study it in the architecture of th
, Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Dor
: be flippant about God. Do not joke abou
. DEATH Do not make fun of the Bible. D
not deride the Eternal. The brightest an
g mightiest seraph cannot look unabashe
upon him. Involuntarily the wings com
: up. with twain he covered his face. /"
Who is this God before whom the arre
CANT and intractalolel refuse reverence
There was an engineer of the name {
i Strasicrates who was in the employ Of Al
! exander the Great, and he offered to hew
|, mountain in the shape of his master, th
emperor, the enormous figure to hold i
:, the left hand a city of 10, 00e inhabitants
while with the right hand it was to hold
; basin large enough TO coilec5 all tne mSur