The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-10


dream and every event is searching for
some other event In the ffteenthlcent-
ury (i4e2) the great event was the dis
covery Of America. The art of printing,
born in the same year, goes out to meet
that discovery and make the new world
an intelligent world.
The United States was getting too
large to be managed by one govern
mens and telegraphy was invented to
compress within an hour the whole con-
tinent Armies in the civil war were to
be fitted out with clothing and the sew
ing machine invention came out to
make it possible. Immense farming
acreage is presented in this country,
enough to support millions Of our native
born and millions Of foreigners, but the
old style pillow, and scythe, and reaper,
and thresher can not do the, work, and
there came steam plows steam harr~ws,
steam reapers, steam rakes, steam
threshers, and the work is accom-
plished
So all events are woven together, and
the world is magnificently governed.
We criticise things and think the d.
vine machinery is going wrong. and put
our fingers amid the wheels only to get
them crushed. But, say, hands
off! Things are coming out glori-
ously. Cornelius may be in Cesarea,
and Peter in Joppa, but their
dreams meet It Is one hand that
is managing the world, and that is Gods
hand, and one mind that is planning all
things for good. and that is Gods mind;
and one heart that is filled with love
and pardon, and sympathy. and that is
Gods heart Have faith in II i'm.
Standing here in Joppa I remember
that where we this morning disembarked
the prophet Jonah embarked. For the
first time in my life 1 fully understand
that story. God told Jonah to go to
Nineveh, but the prophet declined that
call and came here to Joppa. l was for
weeks while in the Holy Land consulting
with tourist companies as to how 1
could take Nineveh in my journey.
They did not encourage the undertake
ing 1t is most tedious ride to Nine
veh and desert. Now I see an addi-
tional reason why Jonah did not want
to 90 to Nineveh. He not only revolted
because Of the disagreeable message he
was called to deliver at Nineveh,
but because it was a long way and
tough and bandit infested. so he came
here to Joppa and took ship. But alas,
for the disastrous voyage! He paid his
full fare for the whole voyage, but the
ship company did not fill their part of
the contract To this day they have
not paid back that passage money. Why
people should doubt the story of Jonah
and the whale is more Of mystery than
the Bible event itself. do not heed
the fact that Pliny, the historian, re-
cords that the skeleton of whale forty
feet long and with hide foot and half
thick was brought from Joppa to Rome.
The event recorded in the book of
Jonah has occurred a thousand times.
The Lord always has q whale outside
the harbor for a man who starts in the
wrong direction. Recreant Jonahi lido
not wonder that even the whale was
sick of him. This prophet was put in
the Bible, not as an example, but as a
because the world not only
needs lighthouses but. buoys to show
where the rocks are. The Bible story of
him ends by showing the prophet in a
ft of the sulks He was mad because
Ninevah was not destroyed. and then he
went out to pout, and sat under big
leaf, using 1t for shade from the tropical
sun, and when worm disturbed that
leaf. and it withered and the sun smote
Jonah, he flew into great rage. said:
1T is better for me to die than to live"
A prophet in rage because he had lost
his umbrellal Beware of petulancei
But standing on this Joppa house-top,
look off on the Mediterranean, and
what is that strange sight see? The
waters are black, seemingly for miles.
There seems to be great multitude of
ogs fastened together. o. yes, it is a
great raft of timber. They are cedars
from Lebanon which King Hiram is
King Solomon in exchange
FOR 20, 900 measures of wheat, 20, 600
baths of oil aud 90. coo baths of wine.
These cedars have been cut down and
in the mountains of Lebanon
by the 20. 900 sxmen engaged there, and
with great witbes and iron bolts are
together, and they are floating
Town to Joppa to be taken across the
and for Solomon's temple now building
1t Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold
Of the nineteenth century and are clear
back in the ages The RATS of cedar |
ire guided into what is called the Moon
pool an old harbor south Of Joppa, now |
illed with sand, and useless.
And these rough cedars shall become |
carved pillars and beautiful affairs and |
.ounded bannisters and traceried panels |
md sublime ceilings and exquisite harps |
md kingly chariots.
Our Christian ancestry toiled at 1t
amid sweat and tears, and hundreds Of
generations Of the good and the long |
rain OF Christian workers still moves
IN. and, as in the construction Of Solo
mons temple, some hewed with the axe |
n the far away Lebanon. and some drove |
! wedge, and some twisted a withe, and |
'ome trod the wet and slippery RATS on |
he sea, and some yoked the OK, and some |
pulled at the load, and some showed the
plane, and some fitted the points, and |
some hewed up the rafters, but all |
helped build the temple, though some
Of these never saw it so now let Us all
put our hands, and our shoulders, and
our hearts to the WORK OF building the |
.emple of righteousness that shall fill
,he earth; and one will bind wound,
md another will wipe away tear, and
another will teach class, and another
will speak the encouraging word, and
Ill of us will be ready to pull and lift
Ind in some way help on the work until