The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-27

die In that midnight darkness, can youv
If you do not believe in anything else
you believe in love-a fathers love, .
mothers love, . wife's love, a child's love.
Then let me tell you that God loves you
more than them all. Oh! you must come
IN. You will come in. The great neart
of Christ aches to have you come in, and
Jesus this very Observation-Disclosures yos
sit or stand-looks into your eyes and
says:
Other sheep 1 have, which are not Of chs
fold.
Again remark, that the Heavenly
Shepherd is going to find great many
sheep among those who have been flung of
evil habit. 1t makes me mad to sec
Christian people give up q prodigal as
lost. There are those who talk as though
the grace Of God were a chain of forty or
fifty links, and after they run out there
was nothing to touch a very ba 1 case. II
they were hunting and got of the track Of
the deer, they would Ir-ok longer among
the banks and bushes FOR the lost game
than they have been looking for that lost
soul. People tell US that il q man has de.
lirium tremens twice that he can not be
reclaimed; that after a woman has fallen
from her integrity she can not be re-
stored. The Bible has distinctly intimated
that the Lord Almighty is ready to par.
don four hundred and ninety times; that
ia, seventy times seven. There are men
before the throne of God who have wal.
lowed in every kind of sin, Tut. saved by
the grace of Jesus, and washed in his
blood, they stand there radiant now. There
are those who plunged in the very lowest
hell of abomination, who for the tenth
time have been lifted up, and finally, by
the grace of God, they stand in Heaven
obviously rescued by the grace Promised
to the chief of sinners. 1want to tell you
that God loves to take hold of a very bad
case. When the church casts you off, and
when the club-room casts you off, and
when society casts you of, and when busi-
ness associates cast you off, and when
father casts you off, aud when mother
casts you of, and when every body casts
you off, your first cry for help will send the
eternal God clean down into the ditch of
your suffering and shame. The Good
Templars can not save you, although they
are a grand institution. The Sons Of
though they ere mighty for good. Signing
the temperance pledge can not save you,
although believe in it. Nothing but the
grace of the eternal God can save you, and
that will if you will throw yourself OH it.
A man said to me:
"Unless God helps me can not be de.
livered. l have tried every thing, sir;
but now I have got into the habit of
prayer, and when come to drinking sa-
loon pray that God will take me safely
past, and pray until am past He does
help me-"
For every man given to strong drink
there are scores of traps set, and no one
but the everywhere present God can see
that man through. Oh! they talk about
the catacombs of Naples, and the cata-
combs of Rome, and the catacombs Ct
Egypt-the burial places under the city
where the dust of q great multitude lie;
but, l tell you, New York has its cata-
combs, Nashville has its cat. combs, and
New Orleans its catacomhs, and Boston its
caiacombs, and Philadelphia its cata-
combs, and every town and city neighbour
hood its catacombs. They are the UNDER
ground restaurants, full of dead mems
you know it. God help you! There is no
need of going into the art gallery to see In
skillful sculpture that wonderful repre-
sentation of & man and his sons wound
around with serrents. There are families
represented in this audience that are
wrapped in the martyrdOm OF fang and
scale and venom-a living LAGOON Of
ghastliness and horror. What are you to
do: Do you not put your trust in bromide
OF potassium, or i'm Jamaica ginger. or
anything else that apothecaries can mix.
Put your trust only in the Eternal God
and he vii! see you through. Some Of
you do not have temptation every day.
1t is periodic temptation, that comes
every six weeks, or every three months.
when it seems as il the powers of darkness
kindle around about your tongue
the fires of the pit. 1t is well enough at
UGH time, rs some of you do, to seek
medical counsel; but your first and mos;
importunate cry must be to Col. If the
friends will drag you TO the slaughter,
make them do it on your knees. Oh, God,
now that the paroXy SIN of thirst is coming
again upon that man, help him. Fling
back into the rit of hell the !iend that as
saults his soul this moment. Oh my heart
aches to see men 60 On in this fearful
struggle without Christ. There are here
those whose hands so tremble from di>si-
patton that they can hardly hold book.
and yet have to tell you that they will
yet preach the gospel, and on communion
days carry around the consecratcd bread,
acceptable to everybody, because Of their
holy life and their consecrated behavior.
The Lord is going to save you. Your home
has got to be rebuilt. Your physical
health has got 10 he restored. Your
worldly business has got to be recon-
structed. The Church of God is going to
rejoice over your discipleship.
Other sheepI have, which are not of this
fold.
While have hope for all prodigals,
there are some people for whom am not
so hopeful. Imean those who have been
church goers all their life, who have
outward morality, but who,
twenty, thirty, forty
years of Christian advantages, have never
yielded their heart to Christ. They are
gospel hardened. A sermon has no more
effect upon them than the shining Of the
moon on the city pavement As Christ
says: 1.-THE puhlicans and harlots will go
into the kingdom of God before them"
They have resisted all the opportunities
Of divine mercy, and have gone, during
these thirty years, through most powerful!
Of religious feeling, and they