The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-19

8O0o oUo ON too neoSSS oAbof ana - N
esy has smptisd its urn into forgetful.
Dess. Then, home Of my childhood, Win
forget thee; the family altar Of father's
importantly and . mothers tsndsf.
ness, the voices Of affection, the funer.
ais Of our dead father and mother, With
interiocked arms like intsrtwining
branches Of trees making perpetual arbor
Of love and peace and kindness-then I
will forget them-and only then. You
know, my brother, that . hundred times
you have been kept out OF sin BY the mems
DRY Of such . scene ~ have been de-
scribing. You have often had raging
temptation, but you know what has held
you with supernatural grasp. tell you .
man who has had such Q home - that
never gets over il, and . man who has had
bad early homo never gets over IL.
Again remark that home II type Of
Heaven. To bring o. to that home Christ
left his home. Far up and far back in the
history Of Heaven there came . period
when its most illustrious citizen was about
to absent Himself. He was not going to
sail from beach to beach; We have often
done that. He was not going to put out
from one hemisphere 70 another hemi.
sphere; many Of a. have done that. But
He was to sail from world to world,
the spaces UNEMPLOYED and the i'm.
mensities untraveled. No world had ever
hailed Heaven, and Heaven had never
hailed any other world. I think that the
windows and balconies were throEged, and
that the pearline beach was crowded with
those who had come to see him sail out Of
the harbor .. hight Ii the oceans beyond.
Out and out and out, and on and on and on,
and down and down and down he sped,
until one night, with only one to greet him,
he arrived. His Decentralization 50 un.
pretending, so quiet, that it was not
known on earth until the excitement in the
cloud gave intimation that something
grand and glorious had happened. Who
comes there: From what port did he sail.
Why was this the place of his destination:
Iquestion the shepherds, question the
camel drivers, question the angels.
have found out. He was an exile. But the
world has had plenty Of exiles. Abraham
an exile of Ur of the Chaldees; John an
exile from Ephesus; Kosciusko an exile
from Poland: Mazzini an exile from Rome;
Emmett an exile from Ireland; Victor Hugo
an exile from France: Kossuth an exile
from Hungary. But this one Of whom I
speak to-day had such resembling farewell
and came into such chilling reception-for
not even hostler went out with his lam
tern to help him in-that he is more to be
celebrated than any other expatriatsd one
of earth or Heaven.
1t is ninety five million miles from here
to the sun, and all astronomers agree in
saving that our solar sy stem is only one Of
the small wheels of the great machineryo
the universe, turning round some one great
center, the center so far distant it is be.
il, as some think. that great center in the
distance is Heaven, Christ came far from
home when he came here. Have you ever
thought of the homesickness of Christ!
Some of you know what homesickness is,
when you have been only few weeks alb.
sent from the domestic circle. Christ was
thirty three years away from home. Some
Of you feel homesickness when you are .
hundred or q thousand miles from the do.
nestle circle. Christ was more millions Of
miles away from home than you could
calculate il all your life you did nothing
but calculate. You know what it is to bs
homesick even amid plessurable surround.
ings; but Christ slept in huts, and he was
athirst, and he was ahungered, and he was
on the way from being born in another
mans barn to being buried in another
mans grave.
At our best estate We are only pilgrims
and strangers here. 'Heaven 10 our
home" Death will never knock at the
door of that mansion, and in all that coun.
try there is not . single grave. How glad
parents are in holiday times to gather
their children home again. But have
noticed that there is almost always . son
or daughter absent-absent from home,
perhaps absent from the country, per.
haps absent from the world. Oh, how glad
our Heavenly Father will be when he gets
all his children home with him in Heaveni
And how delightful it will bs for brothers
and sisters TO meet after long separation!
Once they parted at the door Of the tomb;
now they meet at the door OF Immortality.
Once they saw only through glass dark.
ly, now il is face to face; corruption, in.
corruption; mortality, immortality. Where
are now all their sins and sorrows and
troubles! Overwhelmed in the Red Sea Of
Death while they passed through dry shod.
One night lying on my lounge, when
very tired, my children all around about
me in full romp and hilarity and laughter
on the lounge, half awake and half
asleep, I dreamed this dream: was in .
far country. It was not Persis, although
moro than oriental luxuriancs crowned
the cities. II WAS not the
tropics, although more than trop.
ical fruitfulness filed the gardens. Il
was not Italy, although more than Italian
softness filed the air. And I wandered
around looking for thorns and nettles, but
found that mono Of them grew there, and
saw the sun rise, and watched to see il
set, but it sunk not. And saw the people
in holiday attire, and said: "Whsn win
they put OF this and out on workmen's
garb and again delvs in the mine or swell
ter at the forget" but they never put OF
the holiday attire. And I wandered in
the suburbs Of the city to find the place
where the dead sleep, and looked al
along the line Of the beautiful bills, the
place where the dead might most blissful.
ly sleep, and saw towers and castles, but
not . mausoleum or Q monument or
white slab could see. And
went into the chapel Of the
great town and said: "Wasre do the
poor worship and where are the hard
benches on which they sit:" And the an
swer was made me: 1--WE have no poor in
this country" And then wandered out
to find the novels Of the destitute, and I
found mansions Of amber and ivory and
gold, but not . tear could see, not . sigh
could hear, and I was bewildered and
sat down under the branches of . great
tree and I said: "Where am I: and
whence comes all this scene!" And then
out from among the leaves, and ep the