The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-26

more than one dizzy with perpetual ver-
| tigo; II muscles with the play Of health in
| them are worth more than those drawn up
in chronic rheumatism; il an eye quick to
catch passing objects is better than one
| with vision dim and uncertain, then God
| viii require of Us efficiency just in proper
ticr 70 what he has given US. Physical
| energy ought to be type of moral power.
We ought to have just as good digestion
of truth rs we have capacity to assimilate
food. Our spiritual hearing ought to be as
good as our physical hearing; our spiritual
taste ought to be IS clear as our tongue.
Samsons in body, we ought to be giants in
moral power. But where you find great
many men who realize that they ought to
use their money Alright and use their in
telligence Alright, how few men
you find aware of the fact that
they ought to use their physical or
ganism light. With every thump of the
heart there is something saying: Work
work" and lest we should complain that
we have no tools to work with, God gives
us our hands and feet, with every knuckle
and with every joint and with every muscle
saying to us: 'Lay hold and do some
thing" But how often it is that men with
physical strength do not serve Christ.
They are like a ship ull-manned and full
rugged capable of vast tonnage, able to en-
dure all stress of weather, vet swinging
idly at the docks when these men ought to
be crossing and recrossins the great ocean
of human suffering and sin with Gods
supplies of mercy. How often it is that
physical strength is used in doing positive
damage or in luxurious ease. when, with
sleeves rolled up and bronzed bosom fear
less of the shafts of opposition, it ought to
be laying hold with ali its might to lift up
this sunken wreck of world. 1t is most
shameful fact that much of the business of
the Church and of the world must be done
by those comparatively invalided.
Richard Baxter, by reason of his diseases,
all his days sitting in the door of the tomb,
vet writing over a hundred volumes and
sending out an influence for good that will
endure as long as the Saints Everlasting
Rest" Edward Payson, never knowing q
well day, yet how he preached and how he
wrote, helping thousands of dying souls like
himself to swim in sea of glory And
Robert McChayne. a walking skeleton, vet
you know what he did in Dundee, and how
he shook Scotland with zeal for God.
Philip Doddridge, advised by his friends
because of his illness not to enter the min
istry, yet you know what he did for the
Rise and Progress OF Religion" in the
Church and in the world. Wilbertorce,
told by his doctors that he could not live q
fortnight, yet at that very time entering
upon philanthropic enterprises that de-
manded the greatest endurance and per-
sistence. Robert Hall, suffering excrucia-
tions so that sometimes while preaching he
would have to stop and rest a little, and
then getting up again would preach about
Heaven until the glories of the celestial
city dropped on the multitude, doing more
work perhaps than almost any well man in
his day. Oh, how often it is that men
with great physical endurance are not so
great in moral and spiritual stature.
While there are achievements for those
VINO are bent all their days with sickness,
achievements of patience, achievements OF
prayer, achievements of self-denial,
achievements of Christian endurance, l
call upon men of health, men of muscle,
men of nerve, men of physical power, to
devote themselves to the Lord. Giants in
body. you ought to be giants in soul.
I. is not the small, weak men of the day
who do the damage. Those small men who
go swearing and loafing about your stores
and shops and banking houses, befouling
the air with their breath and insulting
your floor with their Ubiquitous saliva, as
sailing Christ and the Bible and the
Church: they do not DO the damage. They
have no influence. But it is the giants OF
the day, the misguided saints: giants in
physical power. or giants in mental acu
men, or giants IN social position, sr giants
in wealth who 90 the damage: the men
with sharp pen that stab religion, or who
throw their poison all through our li5era-
ture: the men who use the power Of wealth
to sanction iniquity, and bride justice and
make truth and honor bow to their
golden scepter. Misguided giants,
Look out for them. In the middle of the
latter part of the last century there We're
thousands of men in Paris and Edinburgh
and London who hated God ard bias
phemed the name Of the Almighty. But
they did but little mischief. They We're
small men. But there We're giants in those
days. VINO can calculate the havoc
of Rousseau going on with a very en-
thusiasm of iniquity, with fiery magma
ton seizing upon all the impuisive natures
Of his day: or David Hume, who employed
his life as spider employs his summer in
spinning out siikcn webs 70 trap the I'M
wary: or Vol;aire, narshaling a great
host of skeptics and leading them ont ia
the dark land of infidelity: or Gibbon,
who showed an uncomfortable grudge
against religion in his history of one of the
most fascinating periods of the worlds ex-
istence, the decline and Fail of the Roman
Empire" a book in which, with ali the
splendors of his genius, he magniied the
errors Of Christian disciples, while with a
spareness of voice that never can be fer
given he treated of the Christian heroes of
men of stout physical health, men of
giant mental stature, men Of high social
position. men OF great strength !
IF any sort, I Uaat you to understand |
your power, and I ~aat you to know that
hat power devoted to God will be 4 crown |
IN earth to you typical Of a crown in /
Heaven. But misguided, bedraggied in .
'in, administrative of evil, God will |
thunder against yoE ks condemnation in |
he day when miiIsaaire and pauper, |
master and slave, king and subject, shall !
stand side by side il the Judgment, and |
money bags and judicial ermine and royal |
'obes shall be riven vlta lightning.
Behold how a giant mag be slain of |
! sorceress. Delilah started the train Of /
that pulled down the temple |
If Dagon about Sams01's ears. And tens