The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
zion that tho crooked has been made

Bonaparte rode down the Champs Elysee
of Paris. and under the hoofs of his
horse Republic was trampled as the
rider went to take a throne. 1t was the
outrage Of the century. For nineteen
long years. the wrong triumphed. The
will OF one man who wanted to remain
Emperor kept down nation who want
ed Republic. But September. 1870,
arrived, and Sedan unrolled its crimson
scroll The Emperor surrenders with
SO, 900 troops, 40 field guns, 5000 horses
and 90, 900 muskets From that day the
ballot box was up and the throne was
down. Free institutions have been sub
stituted for an infamous monarchy.
Thank God! The crooked has been
made straight
But why go so far to find fulfillment
of my text In all our lives there are
crooked things that need to be made
straight and each nearer or reader will
enumerate for himself or herself With
one it is dilapidated physical health and
you are saying: 'Why can not / be in
good health when l have such oppor-
tunities and such responsibilities"
Alas for the sick headaches and the
rheumatic joints, and the neuralgia
thrusts and the lame foot! But you
will be well soon. Life at the longest
Is an abbreviated durance. There is
black doctor that will cure you. Some
people call him Death. No disease was
ever able to stand before his touch. U.s.
all the means afforded for physical re-
cuperation, but If they fail the hour Of
release is not far away. There need be
no incurables There is no sorrow that
Heaven can not cure.
In many domestic life there are Diff
ficulties to be removed. There are
thousands of matches that were not
made in Heaven. Some of the loveliest
women have been united to some Of the
meanest men, and some Of the.grandest
men to the most worthless women.
There may be NO sufficient cause of d.
vorcement but there has never been
any accord For them the wedding
march ought never to have been played.
The twain divergent in sentiment the
North Pole and the South Pole might
just as we'll have been married. A
twist of nettles would have been more
appropriate than garland Of orange
blossoms. The unhtterable mistake
was made to please parents or for the
acquisition of estate. or for frightening
of social position, or through thought
lessness call the attention of such
to the rapid dissolution Of families.
This thought which is sadness to a
happy marital state, might be consol-
atory to those unequally yoked. A very.
years will give quick emancipation.
Every body, for discipline, must have
some kind of trouble, and that
is your trouble. Put in
song now and then to cheer
your spirit Make the best of things
Find in God that peace which no one
else can bestow. The days and months
and years are crowding past and the
last OF the procession so far as you are
concerned will soon have gone by. Re-
member that some of the best men and
women who ever lived have had the
same lifetime misfortune. They bore
up under it and so Can you. 1t is mat
ter Of congratulation that the unhap-
piest conjugal relation will terminate.
The crooked shall be made straight
But to those who were once happily
united on earth. but are now separated,
the same thought comes in good cheer.
Not only separated! Tradition says that
two bells were nodded and sent from
Spain for a distant land to chime in q
church tower. But while in a storm at
sea one of these bells was wrecked and
only one reached the shore and was
hung in the church tower. And some
people thought that, when standing on
the land, they heard that bell ringing
for worship or in wedding peal, they
could at the same time hear from the
sea the lost bell ringing as if in re-
Spouse. Some of our friends and kim
dred have crossed the stormy sea and are
in the tower of God on high. But we
are still in the tempest and sometimes
the surges beat over US, but our souls
are still in accord with those who are
gone, and they ring down to us and we
ring up to them and there is sympathy
between US that can never die.
80" says some one, '.the crook in my
lot you have not mentioned and sit clear
outside of all the consultations you have
offered" Well, 1 will take after you
with gospel comfort and reach you be-
fore l close. Do you think your wound
is so deep the divine Surgeon can not
treat it? Have you Q trouble that over
masters God? Is Iour annoyance of
such nature that you must suppress
it? All, that is what is killing you.
Trouble must b. told or it stings to
death the one who carries it II there
is no man or woman that you can trust
with the secret, you can trust God. HE
away to Him. Tell Him all about it
Lock your door and tell Him aloud, and
if you do not get relief you will be the
first soul N the six thousand years of
the worlds existence, and the only one
of the hundreds of millions of the human
race who ever called on God for help and
did not get it In all the universe, in
all eternity there is not an exception.
Stop brooding and commence praying. I
bless my God that, while there are so
many crooked things in life, there are
some things so straight that God Him
self could not make them straighter.
Divine help comes straight to those who
will have it The angels of mercy fly
straight when they undertake rescue.
The hour of your final deliverance
marches straight out of the eternities
And as the carpenter puts down his
rule on piece of timber, and with his
axe hews away until the last inequality
and irregularity disappears, SO when
God in the last great day shall put down
His unfailing measuring rule beside that
event which seemed the most twisted in
our lives or in the world, it will be
found out that the last discrepancy has