The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30

is of more Importance to me to answer
that q iestion in gard to myself THAI in
regard to you; anu it is OF more impor-
tance for you to answer it in regard to
yourself than in regard to me. Every
man Tor mself in that day. Every
woman for herself in that day. IF thou
be- wise, thou shalt be wise for
thys II; il thou soonest, thou
alone shall bear it," We are apt to
speak OF the last day as an occasion of
vociferation-a great demonstration of
power an pomp; hut there will be on that
dav, l think, few moments of entire
silence. l think a tremendous an over
wheiming silence. think it will be such
silence as the earth never heard It will
be at the moment when all nations are
listening for their doom.
learn also from this parable Of the text
that our degrees Of happiness in Heaven
will be graduated according to our de-
grees Of usefulness on earth. Several of
the commentators agree in making this
parable the same one as in Luke where
one man was made ruler over five cities
and another made ruler over two cities.
Would 1t be fair and right that the
protested Christian man who has lived
very near the line between the world
and the Church-the man who has
often com 'romised his Christian char.
acter-the man who has never spoken out
for God-the man who has never been
Anown as Christian only on communion
days-the man whose great struggle has
been to see how much of the world lie
could get and yet win Heavens it right
TO suppose that that man will have as
grand and glorious a seat in Heaven as
he man who gave all his energies of body,
mind and SOU to the service of Gods
The dying thief entered Heaven, but not
with the same startling acclaim as that
which greeted Paul, who had gone under
screenings and across dungeons and
through maltreatments into the kingdom
OF glory. One star differs from another
st IT in glory, and they who toll nightly for
Christ on earth shall have far greater
reward than those who have rendered only
half a service
Some of you are fastening on toward
the reward of the righteous. / want to
cheer you up at the thought tina there
will be some nd of reward waiting for
you. There are Christian people in this
house who are very near Heaven. This
week some of you may pass out into the
light of the un Setting sun. 1 saw a blind
man going along the road with his staff,
and he kept pounding the earth and then
stamping with his loot. l said to him:
'What do Won do that for?" O,"he said.
81 can tell by the sound of the ground
when am near dwelling" And some
of you can tell by the sound of your earth
ly pathway that you are coming near to
your fathers house. 1 congratulate you.
U, weather-beaten voyagers, the storms are
driving you into the harbor. just as
when you were looking for friend, you
came up to the gate of his house, and you
were talking with the servant when your
friend hoisted the window and shoutev:
"Come in! come in" Just so, when you
come to the gate of the future world and
you are talking with death, the black
porter at the gate, methinks Christ will
hoist the window and say: "Come in!
come in! l will make thee ruler
over ten cities" In anticipation of
that land l do not wonder that
Augustus Toplady, the author of Crock
of Ages" declared in his last moment:
81 have nothing more to pray for; God
has given me every thing. Surely no man
can live on earth after the glories have
Witnessed" o. my brothers and sisters,
how sweet it will be, after the long wilder
ness march, to get home. That was q
bright moment for the tired dove in the
time of the deluge when it found its way
safely into the window Of the ark.