The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-06

was left OF original healthsuness, that
much of his time it has been with him like
Aling saws, that his nerves have come 70
be merely q t.ngls of disorders. and that
he is the most pitable object ON earth
who, though he 10 very sick, dues
not look sick, and nobody sympsthixss.
Let me see Did you not say that you
could not he tempted to an eLulliL,on of
temper: Some September you come home
from your summer watering place and
you have inside, away back in your liver
or spleen. what we call in our day malta.
ria, but what the old folks called chills
and fever. You take quinine until you
ears are first buxxins bee-hives aud then
roaring Niagaras. You take roots and
herbs, you take every thing You get
we'll. But the next day you feel uncom-
Portable, and You yawn. aud you stretch,
and you shiver, aud you consume, aud
you suffer. Vexed more than you can tell,
you can not sleep, you can not eat. you
can not bear to see any thing that looks
happy. you go out to kick the cat that is
asleep in the sun. Your children's mirth
was once music to you; now it is deafen.
ing. You say: "Boys, stop tina,
racketw You turn back from June
to March. In the family aud in the neigh.
borhood your popularity is ninety five per
cent. of. The world says: "What is the
matter with that disagreeable man? What
a woe.begone countenance! can't bear
the sight of him." You have got your pay
at last-got your pay. You feel just os
the man felt, that man for whom you had
no mercy, and my text comes in with mar
velous appositeness.
With what measure ys mete. Il shall be
measured to you again.
In the study Of society have come to
this conclusion. that the most of the PEG.
pie want to be good, tut they do not ex.
actly know how to make it out. They
make enough good resolutions to lift then,
into angelhood. The vast majority Of
people who fall are victims of circum.
stances; they are captured by ambuscade.
II their temptations should come out in q
re-: iment and fight them in fair field,
they would 60 out in the strength and the
triumph of David and Goliath. But they
do not see the giants and they do not see
the regiment. Suppose temptation should
come up to man and say: "Here is alco-
hol; take three tablespoonfuls of it day
until you get dependent it; then, after
that take half a glass three times day
until you get dependent upon that amount.
then 60 on increasing the amount until
you are saturated from morning until
night and from night until morning." Do
You suppose any man would become a
drunkard in that way: On, no! Tempta-
ton comes and says: stake these bitters.
take this nervine, take this aid to diges-
ton, take this night cap" The vast ma
j0rity of men and women who are de-
stroyed by opium AMI by rum first take
them as medicines. In making up your
dish of criticism in regard to them, take
from the caster the cruet Of sweet oil and
not the cruet Of cayenne pepper. Be easy
IN them.
Do you know how that physician, that
lawyer, that journalist became the victim
of dissipation?
Why. the physician was kept up night
by night on professional duty. Life and
death lowered in the balance. His nerv-
GUS system was exhausted. There came
time of epidemic, AMI whole families were
Frustrated and his nervous strength was
gone. He was all worn out in the service
of the public. Now he must brace himself
up. Now he stimulates. The life of this
mother, the life of this child, the life of
this father, the life Of this whole family
m0st be saved, and he stimulates, and lie
does it again and again.
You may critfcise his judgment, but re.
member the process. 1t w,as not selfish
ri ocess by which he went down. It was
magnificent generosity through which he
fell.
That attorney at the bar for weeks has
been standing in q poor]y-ventilated
courtroom, listening 10 the testimony and
contesting in the dry technicalities Of the
law, and now the time has come for him
to wind up, and he must plead for the life
OF his client, and his nervous system is al
gone. II he fails in that speech his client
rerishes. Ii he have eloqaence enough in
that hour his client is saved. He stimu.
lates. He must keep up. He says: ~
must keep up" Having large practice
you see how he is enthralled. You may
crilicise his judgment, but remember the
process. Do not be hard.
That journalist has had exhaustinc mid.
night work. He has had to report speeches
and orations that keep him up till very
late hour. He has gone with much ex.
posure working up some case Of crime in
company with detective. He sits
down at midnight to write out
his notes from memorandum scrawled on
q pad under unfavorablc circumstances
His strength is gone. Fidelity to
the public intelligence, fidelityto his own
livelihood demand that he keep up. He
must keep up. He stimulates. Again and
agian be does that, AMI be goes down. You
may criticse his judgment in the matter
but have mercy. Remember the process.
Do not be hard.
My friends. this text will come to fulfill.
ment in s"ms cases in this world. The
huntSinnn in Farmsteen was shot by some
unknown person. Twenty years after the
son of the hunisman was in the same
forest, and he accidentally shot man,
and the man in dying said: "God is just;
l shot your fathor just here twenty years
ago." A bishop said to Louis XII. Of
France: snake an iron cage for all those
who do not think as we do-an
iron cage in which the captive can neither
lie down nor stand straight up" II was
fashionetl-the awful instrument of pun
ishment. After awhile the bishop offend
ed Louis XII, and for fourteen years lie
was in that same cage, and could neither
lie down nor stand up. 1t is u poor rule
I, mill ~ot~ l,csh