Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-21


earth, and concerning which wrote from
the Sandwich Islands few years ago:
"What kissing, believing, tumbling,
soaring force is Kilaueal Lake Of un-
quenchable fire; convolutions and parox-
ysms OF flame; elements of nature in tor
ture; torridity and luridity; congregation
of breads; molten horrors; sulphurous
abysms; swirling mystery of all time; in
finite turbulence; chimney Of perditiOn;
wallowing terrors; 10 acres of threats;
glooms insufferable and Dantesque; cal
dron stirred by the champion witch of pan.
demonium; campfire of the armies Of Di-
abolus; wrath of the mountains in full
bloom; shimmering incandescenoe; pyro-
technics Of the planet; furnace blast of the
ages; Kilauear' But, my friends, might
Ter, higher, vastar, hotter, more raging is
the volcanic mountain of war. 1t has been
blazing for hundreds of years and will
keep on blazing until, until-but dare
not hazard prophecy. Can it be that its
fires will ever be put outS Can it be that
its roar will ever be silonoed? Can it be
that before our Zerubbabel that blazing
mountain will ever become a plain?
A Long Range.
There is also the long range of noun
tains, longer than Appalachian range, Ion
ger than Caucasian range, longer than
Sierra Nevada range-the piled up opposi-
tion of bad literature, bad homes, bad in
stitutions, bad amusements, bad centuries,
bad religions - Paganism, Hindooism,
Buddhism, Mohammedanism and but
tressed and enthroned godlessness, devoted
to ambition and lust and hydra headed, ar
gus eyed abomination, as it stands with
lifted fist and mocking lips, challenging
Jehovah upon the throne Of the universe to
strike if he dare. Oh, it is great noun
tain, as my text declares There is no use
in denying it. The most authentic statis-
tics declare 1t. The signs of the times
prove 1T. All Christian workers realize 1T.
1t is a mountain. "The mountain can
never be brought down." says worldly
speculation. "The mountain can never be
made a plain, says small faith in the
churches. Well, let us see. Let us look
about for the implements we can lay our
hands ON. Let us count the number on
our side who are willing to dig with a
shovel or bore tunnel or blast rock.
Let us see If there is any foreign help that
will come in to re-enforce us. l do not
want to make myself absurd by attempt.
ing an impossibility. If it is only one
spade at the foot of Mount Blanc, if it is
only one arm, capable of lifting but few
pounds, against mountain that weighs
100, 100000 tons, let us quit before we
make ourselves the travesty and caricature
of the universe. If we are to undertake
this job, first of all we must have COM
petent engineer, one who knows all about
excavations, about embankments, about
tunnels, about mountains. know engi-
neers who have carved up mountains, cut
down mountains, removed mountains. l
will do nothing unless know who Is to
be our engineer. Zerubbabel led at the re-
building of the ancient temple, and Mat
thew Henry, the greatest of commentators,
declares that our Zerubbabel is the Lord
Jesus Christ. The Zerubbabel of my text
was only type of the glorious and om-
nipotent Jesus, and as look up into the
face of this divine engineer and see 1t
glow with all the splendors of the god
head and see that in his arm is the al
mightiness that flung out all the worlds
that glitter in the midnight heavens, and
that to lift the Himalayas would cost him
no more effort than for me to lift an ounce,
my courage begins to rally, and my faith
begins to mount, and my enthusiasm is
all af1ame, and the words of my text this
moment just fit my lips and express the
triumph of my soul, and cry out: "Who
art thou, o great mountainH Before Ze-
rubbabel thou shalt become plain"
/ Use For Shovels.
! Ny experiences with the shovel are that
you cannot do much by one push of that
implement, and that after you have been
digging with it an hour what you have
accomplished seems very little, but just
go along by the place where they are build.
ing a railroad through mountain and
see what a great work 1000 shovels can dc
and know. that while there are 1000 shov.
els at work on this side of the mountain
there are 1000 busy on the other side, and
all have to do is to manage my own par.
ticular shovel. 1t cheers ME to think that
against this old mountain of sin there are
hundreds of thousands and millions oi
shoveIs this moment busy, and we are all
at work under the one engineer who came
down from his throne in heaven to oversee
and help the removal of that mountain
and who has contracted to have it done.
naVe seeli oiie oonIfaou, an" no 40 "oii pa,'
for it. The compensation promised by tht
throne OF heaven IS, II Will give thee ths
heatnen Ior bhlhe lnherloahce anu Che uC
termost parts OF the earth tor thy posses
sion." The reason SO many OF us are lal'
Is that we want bigger shoVei OF WI
would Ike to manage some great nydraui
! 10 engine. NO, brother SUCK TO you
shovel. Dig away in your Sabbath classes
Dig away In your missions Dlg away II
, your homes. Dig away IN your pulplts
: DO the work next TO you. 10 nou spent
!, too much time looking at the great size o
the mountains or at the way others us
their shoveis. All thaty you can acoomphsi
} toward the removing OF tnat mountai,
{ Will be Win your own partioular shoVe,
. Remember little DAVID with oaufs hei
{ met on him, dropping clear DOWN over Ill
ears even unto MS shoulders. Du6 whei
g he got IN ms hana the poy's silng' nov
we'll ne used IL! II you 40 hoG unuersean'