The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-21


the ruined boy to come home and
giving it up may say: Mother,
come to bed; there's no use sit
ting up any longer" But mother
will not go to bed. It is one o'clock in
the morning. 1t is half-past one. It is
| two o'clock. It is half-past two when he
comes staggering through the hall Do
you say that young man is yet alive?
No; he is dead Dead to his fathers
entreaties Dead to his mothers pray
ers. Dead to the family altar where he
was reared Dead to all the noble am
billions that once inspired him. Twice
dead Only corpse of what he once
was Gibbetted before God and man and
angels and devils. Chained in a death
that will not loosen its cold grasp His
father is asleep, his brothers are asleep,
his sisters are asleep but his mother is
watching him in the night After he
has gone up to bed and fallen into a
drunken sleep his mother will go up to
his room and see that he is properly
covered, and before she turns out the
light will put kiss upon his bloated
lips Mother, why don't you go to
bed?" "Ah% she says, II cannot go to
bed. I am Rizpah watching the slain!'
And what are the political parties OF
this country doing for such cases? They
are taking care not to hurt the feelings
of the jackals and the buzzards that
roost on the shelves OF the grog shops
and boot above the dead. / am often
asked to what political party belong,
and now declare my opinion of the
political parties of to-day. Each one is
worse than the other. and the only con-
ISOLATION in regard to them is that they
have putrefied until they have no more
power to rot o. that com aratively
tame scene upon which Rizpah looked!
She looked upon only seven of the slain.
American motherhood and American
wifehood this moment are looking upon
seventy of the slain, upon 700 of the
slain, upon 70,0 of the slain Woe!
woe. woe! r..a
My only consolation on this subject is
that foreign capitalists are buying up
the American breweries. The present
owners see that the doom Of that bust
ness is coming as surely as that God is
not dead. They are unloading upon
foreign capitalists, and when we can
get these breweries into the hands OF
people living on the other side Of the
sea, our political parties will cease to
be afraid of the liquor traffic, and at
their conventions nominating Presi-
Dental candidates will put in their
platform plank as big as the biggest
plank of the biggest ocean steamer,
saying: Resolved, unanimously, that
we always have been and always will be
opposed to alcoholism.
But l must spur on our Arab steed,
and here we come in sight Of Beeroth,
said to be the place where Joseph and
Mary missed the boy Jesus on the way
from Jerusalem to Nazaret til, going home
now from great National festival
Where is my child, Jesus?" says Mary.
"Where is my child, Jesus?" says Jo-
.seph. Among the thousands that are
returning from Jerusalem, they thought
that certainly He was walking on in the
crowd They described Him, saying:
"He is twelve years old. and Of light COM
plexion and blue eyes. A lost child"
Great excitement in all the crowd.
Nothing so stirs folks as the news that
a child is lost
/ bear down on you to-day with q
mighty comfort Mary and Joseph said:
Where is our Jesus?" and you say,
"Where is John2 or where is Henry? OF
where is George?" Well, should moi
wonder If you found him after awhile.
Where? In the same place where Mary
and Joseph found their boy-in the
temple. What do l mean by that?
mean, you do your duty toward God and
toward your child, and you will find hin
after awhile in the Kingdom of Christ
Well, you say, am clear discouraged
about my son, and l am getting on in
years, and fear I will not live to see
him converted Perhaps not never
theless 1 think you will find him in the
temple, the heavenly temple. There
has not been an hour in Heaven the las
one hundred years when parents il
glory had not had announced to them
the saivation of children whom they
left in this world profligate. We otter
have to say: 81 forgot" but God ha:
never once yet said. II forgot" Cheer
up, Christian father and mother! Cheer
upl Where Joseph and Mary found
their boy you will find yours-in the
temple.
You see, God could not afford to Dc
otherwise. One of the things He ha:
positively promised in the Bible is that
He will answer earnest and believing
prayer. Failing to do that He would
wreck His own throne, and the founda
tions of His palace would give way, and
the Bank Of Heaven would suspend pay
ment and the dark word population
would be written across the sky, anG
the Eternal Government would be dis
banded and God Himself would become
an exile. Keep on with your prayer
and you will yet find your child in the
temple, either the temple here or tht
temple above.
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggage men have been or
dered to pitch our tents for tonight a
Bethel 1t is already getting so dari
that we have to give up all idea of guild
ing the horses and leave them to theil
own sagacity. We ride down amid mud
cabins and into ravines where the
horses leap from depth to depth, rock
below rocks, rocks under rocks Whoa
Whoa! We dismount in this place
memorable for many things in Bibl,
history, the two more prominent (;
theological seminary, where Of old the,
made ministers, and for Jacobs dream
The students of this Bethel theologi
cal seminary were called Sons Of thu
Prophets" Here the young men wer'
fitted for the ministry and those of u
who ever had the advantage of such in
situations will everlastihgly be CRATE