The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-26

Woll1 God that the coroners would be
brave in rendering the right verdict, and
when in q case Of responsibility they
say: while this man was demented he
took his life." In the other case say:
'Gaving read infidel books and attended
infidel lectures, which obliterated from
this mans mind all appreciation of any
thing like future retribution, he committed
self-slaughter!"
All! infidelity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence Of God and
angels and men, stand up, thou monster,
thy lip blasted with blaspheiny, thy cheek
SCARED with lust, thy breath foul with
corruption Of, the ages! Stand up, satyr,
filthy goat, buzzard of the nations, leper
of the centuries! Stand up, thou
monster, xfidelity! Part man, part
up and take thy sentence! Thy hands red
with the blood in which thou hast washed,
thy feet crimson with the human gore
through which thou hast waded, stahd up
and take thy sentence Down with thee
to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans
OF families thou hast LASTED, and roll on
the bed OF knives which thou hast sharp
e2ed for others, and let thy music be the
everlasting misery Of those whom thou
hast damned! brand the forehead of in
fidelity witt the crimes Of self-immolation
for the last century on the part Of those
who had their reason.
My friends, il ever your life through its
abrasions and its molestations should
seem to be unbearable, and you are tempt
ed to quit it by your own behest, do not
consider yourself as worse than others.
Christ Himself was tempted to cast Him
self from the roof Of the temple, but as He
resisted, so resist We. Christ came to
medicine all our wounds. In your trouble
prescribe life instead OF death. People
who have had it worse than you will ever
have it have gone songful on the way
Remember that God keeps the chronology
of your life with as much precision as He
keeps the chronology of nations, your death
as well as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck the
blow that set the Israelites free from bond
age? The four hundred and thirty years
were up at twelve O'Clock that night. The
four hundred and thirty years were not
up at eleven, and ono O'Clock would have
been too tardy and too late. The four
hundred and thirty years were up at
twelve O'Clock and the destroying angel
struck the blow and Israel was free.
And God knows just the hour when it is
time to lead you up from earthly bondage.
By His grace make not the worst of things
but the best Of them. If you must take the
pills do not chew them. Your everlasting
rewards will accord with your earthly
perturbations, just as Caius gave to Ag-
rippa n chain of gold as heavy as had
been a chain of iron. For the asking-and
do not know to whom l speak in this
august assemblage, but the word may be
especially appropriation your asking
you may have the same grace that was
given to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who.
down in the darkest of dungeons, dated
his letter from 1.-The delectable orchard Of
the Leonine prison."
And remember that this brief life of ours
is surrounded by rim, a very thin but
very important rim, and close up to that
rim is great eternity, and you had better
keep out of it until God breaks that rim
and separates this from that. To get rid
of the sorrows of earth, do not rush into
greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarm of
summer insects, leap not into jungle of
Bengal tigers.
1ueTe IS a SOTTOWleSS "pTlu, anu Is 50
radiant that the monday sun is only the
lowest doorstep and the aurora that lights
up our northern heavens, confounding
astronomers as to what it can be, is the
waving of the banners of the procession
come to take the conquerors home from
church militant to church triumphant, and
you and l have ten thousand reasons
for wanting to go there, but we will
never get there either by self-immolation
or inpenitency. All our sins slain by the
Christ who came to do that thing, we want
to go in at just the time divinely arranged.
and from a couch divinely spread, and
then the clang of the sepulchral gates be-
hind us will be overpowered by the clang
of the opening Of the solid pearl before us.
o, God, whatever others may choose. give
me Christians life, Christians death,
a Christians burial, Christians immor.
tality,