The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-21

And said % esAsrs:
swAsa did yoa give yow Assss -
esd"
And they said.
'To.night."
And said 70 SIN others.
"Whsn did you resolve to ssrvs the Lord
al the days Of your Lief"
And they said:
"To-nighs."
Isaw BY their apparel that when the
grace Of God struck them they were Dc.
vouring the prey; but saw also in the Aood
Of joyful tears and in the kindling rap.
lures ON their brow, and IN their exhil.
arant and transporting uttsrances, that
they were dividing the spoil. At night,
with one touch Of electricity, all these
lights bIass. Oh, would to CID that
the darkness Of your souls might b
broken mp, and that BY one quick. over.
whelming, instantaneous fash Of inum-
ination you might b hrougt into the
light and the liberty Of the sons Of God!
You So that religion 10 different thing
from what some Of you people supposed.
You thought IL was decadence; you
thought religion was emaciation; you
thought it was highway robbery; that it
struck one down and left him half dead:
that IL plucked out the eyes; that il
plucked out the plumes Of the soul; that it
broke the wing and crushed the beak a. IL
came clawing with its black talons through
the air. No, that ID not religion. What il
religion! 1t 10 dividing the spoil. 1t 10
taking . defenseless soul and panoplying
It for eternal conquest. Il is the distribu-
ton Of prizes by the kings hand. every
medal stamped with . coronation. 1t 10
an exhilara ton, an expansion. 1t 10 inn
paradisation. It Il enforcement. Re-
ligion makes . man master of earth, and
death, and hell. II goes forth 20 gather
the medals Of victory won by Prince EN-
manuel, and the diadems Of heaven and
the glories of realms terrestrial and celes.
tial, and then, after ranging all worlds for
everything that is Respondent, it divides
the spoil.
What was IL that James Turner, the
famous English evangelist, was doing when
in his dying moment he said: "Christ is
all! Christ is ally Why, he was enter.
ing into light; he was rounding the Caps
Of Good Hope; he was dividing the spoil.
What was the aged Christian Quakeress
doing when at eighty years of age she
arose in the meeting one day and said:
"The time of my departure is come. Ny
grave-clothes are falling or" She was
dividing the spoil.
She longed with wings TO fly away.
And mix with that eternal day.
What is Daniel now doing, the lion.
tanner? and Elijah, who was drawn by the
flaming coursers: and Paul, the rafting Of
whose chains made kings quake: and all
the other victims Of flood, and fire, and
wreck, and guillotine? Where are theyi
Dividing the spoil.
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
In sparkling raiment bright.
The armies Of the ransOmed saints
Throng up the sleeps OF light
IT'S finished, all is finished.
Their fight with death and sin:
Lit high your golden gates
And let the vict0rs in.
Oh, what . grand thing il Il to be .
Christianl We begin ON earth to divide
the spoil, but the distribution will not b
completed to all eternity. There il . pow
erty-struck soul, there is . business.de-
spoiled soul, there is q sin struck soul, there
is a bereaved soul-why do you not come
and get the spoils Of Christian character,
the comfort, the joy, the peace, the saliva
ton that am sent to Offer you in my
name? Though your knees
knock together in weakness, though
your hand trsmble in fear, though your
eyes rain tears of uncomfortable weeping
come and get the spoils. Rest for all the
weary. Pardon for all the guilty. Labor
for all the bestormed. Life for all the
dead. l verify believe that there are some
who have come in here outcast because tho
world is against them, and because they
feel God is against them, who will 60
away to-day saying:
came to Jesus a. I was,
- WEAR, and worn. and sad;
found in him . resting place,
And He has made me glad.
Though you came in children Of the
world, you may 60 away heirs Of Heaven.
Though you were devouring the prey, now,
all worlds witnessing, you may divide the
spoil.