Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-17

Gus to find out how it tasted, and that
curiosity blasted her and blasted all ma
tions. So there are clergymen in this day, |
inspired by unhealthful inquisitiyeness,
who have tried to look through the key
hole of Gods mysteries-mysteries that |
were barred and bOlted from all human |
inspection-and they have wrenched their |
whole moral nature out of joint by trying |
to pluck fruit from branches beyond their |
reach, or have come out on limbs of the
tree from which they have tumbled into |
ruin without remedy. A thousand trees
of religious knowledge from which we
may eat and get advantage, but from GER
tain trees of mystery how many have
plucked their ruinl Election, free agency,
trinity, resurrection-in the discussion of
these subjects hundreds and thousands of
people ruin the soul. There are men who
actually have been kept out of the king
dom of heaven because they could not un-
derstand who Melohisedec was not!
Ike Dead Sea Fruit.
oh, how many have been destroyed by
an unhealthful inquisitivenessl 1t is seen
in all directions. There are those who
stand with the eye stare and mouth cape
of curiosity They are the first to hear a
falsehood, build it another story high and
two wings to it, About other peoples ap-
parel, about other peoples business, about
other peoples financial condition, about
other peoples affairs, they are overanxious.
Every nice piece of gossip stops at their
door, and they fatten and luxurihte in the
endless round of the great world of little
tattle. They invite and 'sumptuously en-
tertain at their house Colonel Twaddle
and Squire Chitchat and Governor Small
talk. Whoever hath an innuendo, who
ever hath scandal, whoever hath valu-
able secret, let him come and sacrifice it
to this goddess of splutter. Thousands
of Adams and Ewes do nothing but eat
fruit that does not belong to them, men
quito woll known as mathematicians fail
ing in this computation of moral algebra
good sense plus good breeding, minus
curiosity, equals minding your own affairs i
Then, how many young men through
curiosity go through the whole realm of
| French novels to see whether they are real
| ly as bad as moralists have pronounced
! them. They come near the verge of the
| precipice Just to look off. They want to
see how far it really is down, but they lose
their balance while they look and fall into
remediless ruin, or, catching themselves,
chamber up, bleeding and ghastly, on the
rock, gibbering with curses or groaning
Intellectual prayer. By all means encour-
age healthful inquisitiveness; by all means
discourage i'll regulated curiosity.
This subject also impresses me with the
feet that fruits that are sweet to the taste
may aftcrward produce great agony. For
hidden fruit for Eve was so pleasant she
invited her husband also to take of it.
But her banishmont from paradise anc
5000 years of sorrow and wretchednes!
and war and woe paid for that luxury
Sin may be very sweet at the start, and Il
may induce great wretchedness afterward
The cup of sin is sparkling at the top, bu
there Is death at the bottom. IntOxicatio1
has great exhilaration for awhile, and i
fillips the blood, and it makes q man SCI
five stars where others can see only ON
star, and it makes the poor man rich, ant
turns cheeks which are white red as roses
But what about the dreams that come after
when he seems falling from great height
or is FRUSTRATED by other fancied disaster
and the perspiration stands on the fore
head-the night dew of everlasting dark
, ness-and he Is ground under the horribl
hoof of Nightmares shrieklng with lip
!, that crackle with all consuming torture
. "Rcjoice, o young man, in thy youth
and let thy heart cheer thee in the days c
', thy youth! But know thou that for a
these things God will bring thee into juda
mentp' Sweet at the start horrible at tn
last. Go into that hall of revelry, wher
! ungodly mirth staggers and blasphemes
Listen to the senseless gable. See the las
,, trace of intelligence dashed out from face
. made in Gods own image AHA, aha!
3 says the roistering inebriate. "This is jo
, for you. Fill high your cups, my boys
, 1 drink to my wife's misery, and my Chi
! dren's rags, and my Gods defiance" An
: he knows not that fend stirs the goblt
in his hand and that adders uncoil frol
the dregs and thrust their forked tongue
kissing through the froth on the rim. III
@ Philistines jeered and laughed and shoute
= at Samson. oh, they wanted him to mai
. sport for them, and he made sport ft
s them How bright and gay was the seer
. for q little while! After awhile the giaI
i puts one hand against this pillar and tt
j. other hand against that pillar and bow
s himself, and 5000 merrymakers a
mashed like grapes In winepress. 81
G rapturous at the start, awful at the last
A Staggering Blow.
That one Edenio transgression did n
= seem to be much, but it struck a bio
y which to this day makes the earth stagge
To find out the consequences of that ol
= sin you would have to compel the wor
= to throw open all its prison doors and di
- - play the crime, and throw open all it's he
" pitals and display the disease, and thro
= open all the insane asylums and show Il
~ wretchedness, and open all the sepulche
- and show the dead, and open all the doc
70 of the lost world and show the damne
:. - That one Edenic transgression stretch'
- chords of misery across the heart of Il
. world and struck them with dolorous wa
ing, and it has seated the plaques upt
~ y. the air, and the shipwrecks upon the tel
~ pest, and fastened, like leech, famine
;, the heart of the sick and dying nation
., Beautiful at the start, horrible at the las
~ ~ Oh, how many have experienced it!
], Are there here those who are votaries
~ y, pleasure? Let me warn you, my brothe
" Your pleasure boat is far from shore, al
- your summer day is ending roughly, (
y the winds and the waves are loud voice
~ :. and the overcoming clouds are all awrit
~ y. and agleam with terror You are past t
~ ~ Narrows, and almost outside the Hoo
~ ~ and if the Atlantic take thee, frail morti
10 y, thou shalt never get to shore again. p
- back row swiftly, swifter, swifter .Ies
., o from the shore casteth a rope. Clasp
" quickly, now or never. Oh, are there II
:; some of you who are freighting all 20
= loves and joys and hopes upon YES!
D. which shall never reach the port of heaye
y y Thou nearest the breakers. One hea
% upon the rocks. Oh, what an awful era
~ y. was that Another lunge may crush tl
. % beneath tho spars or grind thy bones
y powder amid the torn timhers. Overhoa
~ .~MNNONO,