The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-08

OoioEo udo Deen Olo0pnomer ana
drunkard and . hater OF ali that was good,
he preached the sermon.
That is regeneration, that 10 rsgenera.
tionl II there are any dry husks Of tschni.
cslity in that, where are they? All made
over again by the power Of the grace Of
God. A few years ago . ship captain
came In here and sat yondsr under the
gallery. He came in with Q contempt for
the church Of God and with an especial
dislike for Talmsge. When an opportu.
nifty was given he arose for prayer, and,
a. he was more than six feet high, when
he arose for prayer no one doubted that he
arose. That hour he became Christian.
He went out and told the ship owners and
ship commanders what . great change
had been wrought in him, and scores and
scores have been brought to God through
his fundamentally.
A little while after his conversioa he
was on the ship of Hatteras in thick and
prolonged fog, and they were at their
wits end and knew not what to do, the
ship drifting about hlther and thither,
and they lost their bearings; and the con.
verted sea captain went to his room and
asked God for the salvation of the ship,
and God revealed it to him while he was
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little way of, the fog would lift; and tho
converted sea captain came out on the
deck and told how God heard the prayers.
He said: 1T is all right boys, very soon
the fog will lift, )" mentioning the hour. A
man who stood there laughed aloud in
derision at the idea that God would answer
prayer; but at just the hour when God had
assured the captain the fog would lift
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the fog, and the man who had jeered and
laughed was stunned and fell to the deck.
The fog lifted Yonder was Cape Hatteras
lighthouse The ship was put on the right
course, and sailed on to the harbor Of
safety.
When in seaport the captain spends
most Of his time in evangelical work. He
kneels down by one who has been helpless
in the bed for many months and the next
day she walks forth in streets well. He
kneelsbeside one who has long been decrepit
and he resigns the crutches. He kneels
beside one who had not seen enough to be
able 10 read for ten years, and she reads
the Bible that day. Consumptions go
away and those who had diseases that
were appalling to behold come up to rapid
convalescence and to complete health. I
am not telling you any thing second
handed. I have had the story from the
lips Of the patients in this very house,
those who were brought to health Of body
while at the same time brought to God.
No second hand story this. / have heard
the testimony from men and women who
have been cured. You may call it faith
cure or you may call it the power of God
coming in answer to prayer; do not care
what you call it, it is a fact The scoffing
sea captain, his heart full of hatred for
Christianity, now becomes a follower Of
the meek and lowly Jesus, giving all the
time to evangelical labors, or all the time
he can spare from other occupations. That
is regeneration. that is regeneration. Man
all made over again.
There is your absurd doctrine of vicar.
ious sacrifice" say these men who have
chewed up the little book of creeds and
have the consequent embittered stomach.
"Vicarious sacrifice! Let every man sui.
fer for himself Why do / want Christ to
suffer for me. Pll suffer for myself and
carry my own burdens" They scott at the
idea Of vicarious sacrifice, while they adj
mire it everywhere else except in Christ
People see its beauty when a mother sui.
fers for her child People see its beauty
when a patriot suffers for his country.
People see its beauty when a man denies
himself for friend. They can see the
beauty of vicarious sacrifice in every one
but Christ.
A young lady in one Of the literary in.
situations was a teacher. She was very
reticent and retired in her habits. and she
formed no companionships in the new po-
sition she occupied, and her dress was
very plain-sometimes it was very shabby.
After awhile she was discharged from the
place for that reason, but no reason was
given. In answer to the letter discharg.
ing her from the position she said: swell,
il have failed to please l suppose 1t is
my own fault" She went here and there
for employment and found none, and in
desperation and in dementia she ended
her life by suicide. Investigation was
made and it was found that out of her
small means she had supported her father,
eighty years of age, and was paying theway
for her brother in Yale College on his way
to the ministry. 1t was found that she
had no blanket on the bed that winter, and
she had no fire on the very coolest day Of
all the season. People found it out, and
there was large gathering at the funeral,
the largest ever at any funeral in that
place, and the very people who had scoffed
came and looked upon the pale face Of the
martyr, and all honor was done her: but
it was too late. Vicarious sacrifice. All
are thrilled with such instances as that.
But many are not moved by the fact that
Christ paid His poverty for our riches.
His self-abnegation for our enthronement
and knelt on the sharp edges Of humilia-
ton that we might climb over His lacerated
shoulder into peace and Heaven.
Be it ours to admire and adore these
doctrines at which others jeer. 0, the
depths of the riches both of the wisdom
and knowledge Of God! How unsearch.
able is His wisdom, and His ways are past
finding out! o, the height the depth, the
length, the breadth, the infinity, the i'm
mensity, the eternity Of that love! Let
our earnest prayers go out in behalf Of all
those who scoff at these doctrines of grace
When the London plague was raging in
the year 1868 there was O hotel near the
chief burial place which excited much
comment England was in fright and be.
reavement The dead carts went through
the streets day and night, and the cry,
s.Bring out your deadw was an.
swered by the bringing out Of tho
forms of the loved ones, and they
were put twenty or thirty in cart and
the wagons went on to the cemetery; and
those dead were not buried in graves, but
in great trenches, in great pits, in one pit
LILA burials! The carts would come up
with their great burden of twenty or thirty
to the mouth Of the pit, and the front of
the cart was lifted and the dead shot into
the pit. All the churches in London were
open for prayer day and night and En-.
gland was In greatlanguIsh. At that very
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chief burial-place, there was q group OF
ha ri Al al man who sat dav after dav and