The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-18

is had not been for that help that you had,
what would have been the result whea you
told her Of your financial embarrassment
and misfortune! She was cheerful, she
was sympathetic, she was helpful, she
helped you all through those dark days of
trial, and after the piano went, she could
sing without the accompaniment just IS
well as ever she sang with the accompani-
ment. There have been Christian women
who have SO had their domestic troubles
sanctified that they could get more music
out of q Wheeler & Wilson sewing-ma.
chine than ever in the days of their pros
perity they got out of Chickering Grand
or Steinway.
A Christian minister in England called
upon a home Of great restitution. There
were the husband, the wife, an there were
the children. No comfort in the household.
Everything indicative of want and strug-
gle. The minister Of the gospel said to this
young man: "Your mistake was in mar
rying SO early. Do you not think that was
the mistake of your life?' The man had
BEEN told that that had been the mistake of
his life before. The minister said: at
would have been a great deal better for
you to have gone on and got something Of
a property before you entered into the
marriage state. Don't you think it would
have been better!' And then the young
man looked around, and his eyes filed with
tears, and he looked to his poorly clad
wife and said: mo, sir; she's been the
same to me all through"
All, there are some of you who would
never have known what your homes were
worth. il trouble had not come. Perhaps
your companion in life may have been too
fond of the world and its gayeties: but
one touch of misfortune turned her into a
Miriam, shouting the triumph on the banks
of the Red Sea. If you have spoken Of
frivolity and fondness of display as the
chief characteristic of woman, you may
have to correct your mistake in some bitter
pass of life, when, all other sources having
failed, you are upheld by a wife's hand,
suddenly armed of the Lord God Almighty
for that emergency. Oh, in this tremen-
dous pass of your earthly existence cry
unto God and ask his direction. Make
mistake here and you make it forever.
Walter Scott wrote something, half of
which do not like. for it is sarcastic, but
the other half l do like, for it is SO true:
oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please;
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
ministering angel thou.
Blessed that home in which the newly
married couple dedicate their souls to
Christ. Blessed the family Bible in which
hi
Blessed the hour OF morning and evening
prayer. Blessed the angels of God who
Join wing-tip to wing-tip over that home,
making canopy of light and love and
blessedness. 1t may be only yesterday
that they clasped hands forever. The or
ange blossoms may fall and the fragrance
may die on the air, but they who marry in
Christ shall walk together on that day
when the Church, which is the Lambs
wife, shall take the hand of her Lord and
king amid the swinging of the golden GEN.
sers.
Again, remark: It is a tremendous pass
in life when man comes to his first great
success. You get in the cars some even
ing. Everybody that looks at you knows
there has something glad happened. You
sit down in the car. your face Illuminated,
and a lady comes in. There is no place for
her to sit, and you get up in great cheer
and insist on her taking your place, and
with great courtesy she says, THANK
you," and sits down. You say nothing to
any body, but it is evident from your man
ner and appearance that great good for
tune has happened unto you. Now, that
is a crisis in your life. At such time the
questions will arise: I'm what enterprise
shall invest: What shall be the house
viii live in: What shall be the library:
What shall be my wardrobe: What shall
do with my money!"
At that point hundreds of men make .
final mistake. Some go into dissipation.
Some take on great arrogance, try to
make everybody feel how small they
are: whole caravans Of camels going
through the needles eye of their mean
ness. They walk through the street with
an air, as much as to say: ''Get out of the
way: here comes S3o0.CJ0!" That is the
crisis in life where so many fail, because
they have no God to direct them.
There are men who before their sue
cess. are kind and amiable, and genial
and useful, who after their success are ar
rogant and unbearable and unchristian.
Here is a man who was once very useful
in society, but great success comes, and he
gets in his equipage and he drives on; he
lashes the fiery sseeds; he goes faster
and faster. eight miles the hour, twenty
miles the hour, 100 miles the hour, faster
and faster, until in his last moments hs
rouses up to find that he is drawn by the
fiery hoofs of eternal disaster as they
come racketing down on the pavements
of hell. o. young man or man in mid
life! you want God in your great success,
your first great success.
Another tremendous pass in our life is
when We get our first sorrow. 1t world
be foolish for me to talk to the young men
of this day as though their life was go
ing to be smooth all the way. You might
as well start a sea Captain in q vessel
without a carpenter, and without any
tools, and without any cordage. That
would do very well while the sea was
smooth, but when the ship gets caught
in the teeth of a norsheaster, and
the waves dash clear over the hur-
cane deck, when the Captain cries
out: Where's the carpenter?
Where are the tools: Where are the
ropes:" the young men Of this day would
understand that misrepresented the mat
ter, if told them that their life was al
ways to be smooth. They know better.
They know from what they see of the life
of others that life can not always be
smooth. Many men came home from the
late war without q scratch or a bruise, but
in the conflict of life it is not SO, we all
get wounded-wounded in the head, in the
hands, in the feet, in the heart. Life is
conflict. The Bible over and over again