The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-15

verish people Of the world, try this Al
i've wears longer under its soothing
power. It is not choral that you want,
or more time that you want, it 10 the gos-
pei Of Jesus Christ.
Again, practical religion is . friend Of
long life, in the fact that it removes all
corroding care about q future existence.
Every man wants to know what il
to become Of him. II you get IN
board railroad train You want to know
at what depot it is going to stop; il you
get on board . ship you want to know
into what harbor it is going to run; and
II you should tell ms you have no interest
in what is to be your future destiny,
would, in As polite way as know how,
tell you I did not believe you. Before
I had this matter settled with refer
ence to my future existence, the
question almost worried me into ruined
health. The auxie:ies men have upon this
subject, ii put together, would make a
martyrdom. This is a state of awful IN
bealthinesss. There are people who fret
| themselves to death for fear Of dying.
want this morning to take the strain OF
your nerves and the depression or your
soul. and I will make two Or three expert
ments.
Experiment the first: When you go ou.
of the world it does not make any differ
eRce whether you have been good or bad.
or whether you believed truth or error, you
will go straight to glory. "Impossible, "
you say: my common sense, as well as
| my religion, teaches me the bad and tbs
good can not live together forever. You
give me no comfort in that experiment."
Experiment the second-When you leave
this world you will go into an intermediate
state, where you can get converted and
prepared for heaven. impossible" you
| say; las the tree falleth so it must lie, and
can not postpone to an intermediate state
that reformation which ouy ht to have been
effected in this state"
Experiment the .hird--There is no fu-
ture world: when man dies that is the
last of him. Do not worry about what you
are TO do in another state of being; you
| will not do anything. Impossible" you
say; ''there is something tina. tells me that
death is not the appendix but the preface;
side of the grave only get started. and that
shall so on forever. My power to think
says Forever my affections say 'Forev-
err my capacity to enjoy or suffer says
Forever"
Well, you defeat ne in my three expert
ments. have only one more to make, and
if you defeat me in that l am exhausted.
A Mighty One on knoll back of Jeru-
salem one day, the sky filed with forked
| lightnings and the earth filed with vol
canic disturbances, turned his pale and
| agonized face toward the heavens, and
said: II take the sins and sorrows of the
ages into my own heart. l am the expia-
| ton. Witness earth and heaven and hell.
l am the expiation." And the hammer
struck him, and the spears punctured him.
| and heaven Numbered: THE wages Of
sin is DEATH" THE soul that sinneth it
shall die;" Il will by no means clear the
guilty." Then there was silence for half
an hour, and the lightninys were drawn
back into the scabbard of the sky, and The
earth ceased to culver, and all the co,Ors
Of the sky began to shift themselves
| into q rainbow woven out of the
falling tears of Jesus, and there was
red as OF the blood shedding, and
! there was blue as of the bruising, and there
was green as o; the heavenly foliage, and
there was orange as of the day dawn, and
| along the line of the blue saw the words,
81 was bruised for their iniquities;" and
| along the line Of the red I saw the words,
1.-The blood of Jesus Christ cleanse.h from
all SIM" and along the line Of the green
saw the words, THE leaves of the tree Of
lie for the healing of the nations" and
along the line of the orange l saw the
words. 1.-The day spring from on high hath
visited u.s." And thenI saw the storm was
over, and the rainbow rose higher and
higher, until it seemed retreating to ano.h-
er heaven, and planting one column of its
colors on one side the eternal hill, and
planting the other column of its colors on
the other side the eternal hill, it rose up
ward and upward, and behold! there was
a rainbow round about the throne.
Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying.
Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longev-
ity of this truth. Religion is sunshine;
that is healthy. Religion is fresh air and
pure water; they are healthy. Ask all the
doctors and they will tell you that quiet
conscience and pleasant anticipations ara
hygienic. offer you perfect peace now
and hereafter. What do you want in the
future world? Tell me and you shall have
it. Orchards? There are the trees with
twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit
every month. Water? Scenery? There
is the River OF Life from under the throne
of God, clear as crystal, and the seq Of
glass mingled with fire. Do you want
music? There is the oratorio of the Crea-
ton, led on by Adam: and the oratorio Of
the Red Sea, led on by Moses; and the
oratorio of the Messiah, led on by st.
Paul, while the archangel, with swing
ing baton, controls the IH,GG0 who
make up the orchestra. Do you want re-
union. There are your dead children wait
ing to kiss you, waiting to embrace you,
waiting to twis. gariands in your hair.
You have been accustomed to open the
door on this side the sepuicher; this morn
ing open the door on the other side the
sepulcher. You have been accustomed to
walk in wet grass on the top OF the grave;
1 show you the under side Of the grave.
The bottom has fallen out and the long
ropes with which the pall-bearers let down
your dead, let them clear through into
heaven. Glory be to God for this robust,
healthy religion. 1t will have tendency
to make you live long in this worll, and in
the world to come you will have eternal
longevity.
TAR.HEEl SQUIRRELS