The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

mission. Suffering all ended now. With
respect to that invalid the words Of my
text have been fulfilled:
Thou shalt be missed, because thy scat viii
be empty.
4. Ipass on and I ind one moro vacant
chair. 1t Is . high chair. It II the child's
chair. II that chair be occupied, think IL
IL the most potent chair in all the house.
hold. All the chairs wait on 1t; and the
chairs are turned toward It. It means
more than David's chair at Saul's banquet.
At any rate, II makes more racquet. That
IL strange house that can be dull with Q
child in it How that child breaks up the
hard worldliness Of the place, and keeps
you young to sixty, seventy and eighty
years of agel II you have mo child OF
your own, adopt one; It will open
Heaven to your soul. It will pay
it's way. Its Growing in the morning will
give the day . cheerful starting, and
its glee at night will give the day a
cheerful close. You do not like children?
Then you had better stay out of Heaven,
for there are so many there they would
fairly make you crazy! Only about &c.,.
900, coo of them! The old crusiy disciples
told the mothers to keep the children
away from Christ.
"You bother Him." they said, you
trouble the Master"
Trouble Him! He had filled Heaven
with that kind of trouble.
A pioneer in California says that for the
hrst year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada County there was not q
single child in all the reach of a hundred
miles. But the Fourth of July came,
and the miners were gathered to.
gether, and they were celebrating the
Fourth with grafton and poem and q
boisterous brass brand; and while the
band YVES playing, an infants voice
was heard crying, and all the miners
We're startled, and the swarthy men
began to think Of their homes
on the Eastern coast and Of their
wives and children far away, and their
hearts were filed with inconsistencies as
they heard the babe cry. But the music
went on, and the child cried louder and
louder, and the brass bnnd played louder
and louder, trying to drown out the in
fantile interruption, when a swarthy
miner, the tears rolling down his face, got
up and shook his fist, and said:
"Stop that noisy band, and give the
bal y a chance"
Oh, there was pathos in it as well as
good cheer in it! There is nothing to
arouse, and melt, and subdue the soul like
a chill's voice.
But when it goes away from you, the
high chair becomes a higher chair, and
there is desolation all about you. In
three-fourths of the homes of my congr O.
CATION there is vacant nigh chair. SoDls-
how you never get over it. There is no
one to put to bed at night; no one to ask
strange questions about God and
Heaven. Oh, what is the use of that
high chair? 1t is to clll you higher. What
drawing upward it is to have children
in Heaven. And then it is such pre-.
ventive against sin. II father is going
away into sin he leaves his living chill
dren with their mother; but il a father is
going away into sin what is he going to
do with bis deal children floating about
him and lowering over his every hayward
step? Oh, speak out, vacant high chair,
and say:
PdtueF, COIu0 DdCk HUH SluS uObuctS
come back from worldline<s. am watch.
ing you. am waiting for you"
With respect to your child the words OF
my text have been fulfilled:
Thou shalt be missed, because thy scat
will DO empty.
My hearers, I have gathered up the
voices of your departed friends, and tried
to intone them into one invitation up-
ward. Iset in array all the vacant chairs
in your homes, and Of your social circle,
and hid them cry out:
"Time is short. Eternity is near. Take
my Saviour. Be at peace with my God.
Come up where am. We lived together
on earth; come, let Us live together in
heaven"
We answer that invitation. We como.
Keep a seat for US, as Saul kept a seat for
David; but that seat shall not be empty.
When we are all through with this world,
and ve have shaken hands all around for
the last time, and all our chairs in the
home circle, and in the outside world,
shall be vacant, may we be worshiping
God in that place from which we shall go
ont no more forever. thank God there
will la no vacant chairs in hoayoc.