The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-01

! friend in Nosdscai, who never forgot their
cause; Paul had such . friend IN Onesi.
phorua, who visited him in jail Christ had
such In the NaryS, who adhereA to Him On
the cross; Naomi had such one In Ruth,
who cried out: '.Entreat me not 20 leave
thea or to return from following after the :,
| for whittier thou goest will 20, and where
thou lodgest will lodge; thy people shall
be my people and thy God my God; where
thou diest will die. and there will I be
burned; the Lord do 30 to me an more also,
if aught but death part thee and me'
Third-A9ain: learn from this subject
that paths which open In hardship and
darkness often come out in places OF Joy.
When Ruth started from Moab toward j.
rusalem, to 60 along with her mother-in
law, l suppose the people sail: ''Oh, what
Q foolish creature TO go away from her
fathers house, TO go OK vita poor old
woman toward tn, land OF Judahs They
won't live TO get across tAa desert They
will be dro u, d in the ssa, or the isckals
Of the wilderness will destroy them" 1t
was . very dark morning when Rath start
ed OF VITA Naomi: but behold her in my
text in the harvest Eeid OF Boaz, to b afii-
anced to one OF the lords of the land. and
become one OF the grand mothers CT Jesus
Christ, the Lord Of glory And 50 II often
Is that . path which starts very darby
ends very brightly.
When you started ont for Heaven, oh,
how dark WAS the hour Of convictlon-how
Sinai thundered, and devils tormentei, and
the darkness thickened All the Gins Of
your life pounced upon you, aud 1t was the
darkest hour you ever saw when you first
found out your sins. After awhile you
went into the harvest field of Gois mercy !:
you began to CLEAN in the fields Of divine
promise, and you had more sheaves than
you could carry. as the voice Of God ad.
dressed you, saying: blessed is the man
whose transz.essions ara forgiven and
whose sins are covered" A very dark
starting in conviction, . very bright end
ing in the pardon and the hope and the tri-
umph Of the Gospel!
So. very often in our wcr' diy business or
in our spiritual career. we start OF on .
very dark path. We must 60. The flesh
may snrink back. but there i. Q voice
within, or q vote from above, saying,
you must go:" and We have to drink the
gall, and we hare to carry the cross, and
we have to traverse the dessrt, AMI we are
pounded and failed Of Misrepresentation
and abuse and We have to urge our way
through ten thousand obstacles that must
be slain by our own right arm. We have
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pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves
on either SIDE OF the cross, human nate
smacklng ITS Ups In satisfaction after It
nau ocea DRAINING his last drop OF oloed.
the sneeted dead bursting from the sepul-
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Iethsemane and Golgothal were there
ever darker times than those! Like the
cooming 81 the midniRht sea against the
rock the surzes OF Christs anguish beat
against the gates OK eternity, 70 % echoed
oack oy al the thrones OF heaven ana all the
dungeons OF nell. But the DAY OF reward
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tnrone' crownei neads are 10 DOW De-
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their scepters: "aaiieio1an, LOT the LORD
1ou omnipotent feiRneth! hailelugan, the
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