The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-23

by unforeseen circumstances have been in
generated. thus nberating kings More
hymn.book and less razor.
Especially ought we to b apologize and
merciful toward those who, while they
have great faults. have also great vir-
tues. No weeds, verify, but no flowers.
l must not be too much enrag ed at .
nettle along the fence il IL be in fsld
containing forty acres of ripe Michigan
wheat. At the present time nssuralists
tell us there is ON the sun . spot 5000
miles long, but from the brightness and
warmth conclude It is . good deal Of .
sun yet
Again. when read in my text that the
lord shaves with the hired razor Of As.
syria the land Of Judea, bsthink myself
Of the precision Of Gods providence. A
razor swung the tenth par OF an inch out
OF the right line means either failure or
liberation. but Gods dealings n yer slip,
and they do not miss by the thousandth
part Of an inch the right direction. PEG.
pie talk as though things in this world
were at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles ami Madrid and Palermo, and
we watch anxiously. Shall the epidemic
sweep Europe and America? People say:
"That will depend entirely on whether
the incubation is . successful experiment;
tina viii depsn1 entirely on quarantine
regulations; rhas will depend on the early
or late appearance OF frost; that epidemic
is pitched into the world and it goes blum
dering across the continents. and it is all
guesswork and al appalling perhaps"
My friends, l think perhaps that God had
something to do with it, ami that his
mercy may have in some way protected
us, tina. he may have done as much for
us as the quarantine and the health
officers. 1t was right and necessity
that all caution should be used, but there
has come enough maccaroni from Italy,
and enough grapes from the South Of
F.ance, and enough rags from tatIerdsma.
Gans, and hidden in these articles of
transportation enough choleric germ, to
have left by this time all Brooklyn mourn.
ing al Greenwood, and all Philadelphia a.
Laurel Hill, and ali Boston at Mount Au-
burn. thank all the doctors and quaran-
tines, but more than all and frs. Of all and
last of all and all the time. Ithank God.
In all the 5000 years of the worlds exist.
ence there has not one thing merely ''hap-
pened So" God is not an anarchist, but
king, father. When little Todd, the son
OF President Lincoln, died, all the land
sympathized with the sorrow n the White
House. He used to rush into the room
where the Cabinet was in session, and
while the most eminent mea of the land
were discussing the questions of National
existence; but the child had no care about
those questions. Now, God the Father and
God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are
in perpetual session in regard 70
this world and kindred worlds. Shall
you, his child, rush in to criticise
or arraign or condemn the Divine
government: No, the cab ne o. the
eternal three can govern and will govern
in the wisest and best way. and there
never viii be mistake. AMI like razor
skilliully swung shall cut that which
ough, to be cut and avoid thai which ought
10 avoided. Precision to tn. very har-
breadth. Earthly timep:eces may get out
OF order and strike wrong, saying it is one
o'cioca VIII n 1t is two, or two when it is
three. Gods clock is always right, and
when it is one it strikes one, ami when it
IS twelve it strikes twelve, and the
second hand is as accurate as the minute
hand.
Further, my text tells us that God
sometimes shaves nations. SIN the same
day shall the Lord shave with the razor
eh,. -, - r.
went across Judah. and down went its
PRIDE and its power. In SCI God
shaved our Nation. We had al.
lowed to grow Sabbath decoration
and oppression and blasphemy ami fraud
and in,purity and all sorts OF turpitude.
The South had its sins, and tee North its
sins, and the East its sins, and the West
its sins. We had been warned again and
again, and we did not heed. Atlensth the
sword OF war cut rom the ST. Law ence TO
the Gulf, ana from Atlantic seaboari to
Pa~ifie seaboard- The pride of tine land
not the towards, bat the herces-on both
SIDES went down. And that which we took
for the sword OF war was the Lori's razor
In 1872 aga i: went across the Land. In
1866 agsin. In 1864 again. Then the sharp
instrument was encased and put away.
Never in the history OF the ages was any
land more thoroughly shaved than du ing
those four years OF civil com at, and, nv
brethren. il we do not quit some o: our
individual and National sins, the
Lord will again take US in hand.
He has o.he: razors within reach
besides war. epidemics, drouths, del ges.
/. :. So N Nd
or our overpowe ing success may so fa-
excite the jealousy of other lands that,
unde: some pretsxt, the great nations of
Europe and Asia may combine 20 put US
down. This Nation, SO easily approached
on north and south and from both oceans,
N ght have on hand at once more hos.iii.
ties than were ever arrayed against any
one power. We have receu ly been told
by skillful engineers that all our for:resses
around New York harbor could not pre-
vent the shell from being hurled from the
sea into the heart of these grea. cities.
Insultej China. the wealthiest of all ma
tions, as viii be realized when her re-
sources are developed, will have adopted
all the modes OF modern warfare, and ~
the Golden Gate may be discussing
whether Americans must go II the
combined jealousies of Europe AMI
Asia SHOULD come upon Us we should
have more WORK on hama :han would
be pleasant. l hope no such combina-
ton against us will ever be formed, bu.
want TO show that, as Assyris was the
hired razor against Judah, and Cyrus
the hired razor against Babylon, and the
Huns the hired razor against the Goths,
there are now many razors that the Lord
could hire if, because Of our National
sins. ne should undertake to shave Us.
In 1879 Germany WAS the razor wi b
which tn Lord shaved France. England
is the razo- with which very shortly he