The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

commons. Mother, you are to-day hoist
| ing throne o. forging . chain-you are
kindling . star or digging dungeon
A good many years ago q Christian
mother sat teaching lessons OF religion to
her child; and he drank in those lessons.
She never knew that Lamphier would
come forth and establish the Fulton street
prayer meeting. and by one meeting revo-
| lutionizs the devotions of the whole earth.
and thrill the eternities with his Christian
influence. Lamphier said it was his
mother that brought him to Jesus Christ.
She never had an idea that she was lead
ing forth sucn destinies. But q. when
see mother reckless of her influence,
rafting on toward destruction, garlanded
| for the sacrifice with unseemless mirth
and godlessness, gayly tripping on down
to ruin, taking her children in the same
direction. can not help but say: There
they go. there they go, Hagar and lsh.
mael" 1 tell you there are wider deserts
circles of this day. Dssipated parents
leading dissipated children. Avaricious
parents leading avaricious children.
Prayerless parents leading prayerless
children. They go through every street
|
along every highway. Hagar and Ish-
mael! And while Ipronounce their names
it seems like the moaning of the death
wind-Hagar and Ishmael!
learn one more lesson rom this ORR.
entail scene, and that is, that every wilder.
ness has a well in it Hagar and lshmael
| gave up to die. Hagar's heart sank with.
in her as she heard her child crying:
"Water! water! waterw "Ah," she says,
| "my darling, there is no water. This is q
desert" And then Gods angel said from
the cloud: what aileth thee. Hagari'
And she looked up and saw him pointing
to a well of water where she filled the
bottle for the lad. Blessed be God that
there is in every wilderness a well, IL you
| only know how to find it-fountains for
oil these thirsty souls to-day. "On that
last day, on that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried: II any man thirst,
| let him come to me and drink" All these
other fountains you find are mere mirages
of the desert Paracelsus, you know,
| spent his time in trying to find out the
| elixir of life-a LIQUID which if taken
would keen one perpetually Young in
| this world and would change the
aged back again to youth, OF
| course he WA disanp,inted. he found
not the elixir. But here l tell you to.
day of the elixir of everlasting life
bursting from the "Rock of Ages" and
that drinking that water YOU shall never
| get old and Won will never get sick and
you will never die. '.Ho, every one that
thirstetb. come We to the waters" All,
here is a man who saws: II have been
| looking for that fountain a great while,
| but can't find it.n And here is some one
else who saws: 81 believe all YOU say but
have been trudging along in the wilder
| ness and can't find the Fountain Do Won
know the reason? l will tell YOU. You
never looked in the right direction. 10"
Won saw. II have looked everywhere.
have looked north. south. east and west,
and haven't found the Fountain Why,
YOU are not loo king in the right direction
at all. Lock I'M. where Hagar looked.
| She never could have found the fountain
at all, but when she heard the voice of the
angel she looked up and saw the finger
| pointing to the supply. And O, soul, if to.
| day, with one earnest, intense PRAYER you
would only look up to Christ He would
point YOU down to the supply in the will
| deruess. "LoCk unto Me. all We ends OF
the earth. and he We saved; for am God,
and there is none else" Look look as
Hagar looked.
Yes, there is a we'll for every desert Of
bereavement Looking over the audience
to-day, notice signs of mourning. Have
you found consolation? o man bereft, G
woman bereft, have you found consola.
| ton? Hearse after hearse We step from
one grave hilock to another grave hillock.
We follow corpses, ourselves soon to be
like them. The world is in mourning fol-
its dead Every heart has become the
sepulcher of some buried JOY. But sins
We 10 God, every wilderness has q we'll in
il, and come to that we'll o-day, and
begin 10 draw water from that we'll. Il
YOU have lived in the country you hav.
sometimes taken hold of the rope of the
old well sweep, and you know how the
bucket came up dripping with bright,
cool water. And lay hold of the rope
OF Gods mercy to-day, and l begin to
draw on that Gospel well.sweep and see
the buckets coming up. Thirsty soul
here is one bucket Of life! come and drini
of it. whatsoever will, let him come and
take Of the water of life freely" l pull
away again at the rope, and another
bucket comes up. 1t is this promise:
weeping may endure for a night, but JOY
cometh in the morning." lay hold of the
rope again and pull away with all my
strength, and the bucket comes up bright
and beautiful and cool. Here is the
PROMISE: "Come unto me, all We who are
weary and heavy laden and will give
you rest"
The old astrologers used to cheat the
people with the idea that they could tell
from the position of the stars what would
occur in the future and if cluster Of stars
stood in one relation that would be G
prophecy of evil; if q cluster of star:
stood in another relation that would be q