The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-21

Did you ever put your forefngers on it
eternal pulses? Have you not felt thu
CULVER of its peerless wingp Have w,
not known that, after leaving the body
the first step OF your soul reaches to tn,
stars, and the next step to the far thes
outpost of Gods universe, and that i
will not die until the day when the ev
erlasting Jehovah expires? o, my
brother, what possessed you that yot
should part with your soul 80 cheap!
I'VE have sold yourselves for nought.
But have some good news to tel
you. 1want to engage in litigation
for the recovery of that soul of yours.
want to show that you have been cheat
ed out of it. want to prove, as l will
that you were crazy on that subject
and that the world, under such circum
stances, had no right to take the title
deed from you: and if you will join me
will get a decree from the high
chancery court of heaven reinstating
you into the possession of your soul
90" you say, 81 am afraid of law suits
they are so expensive, and l can no,
pay the COSTS Then have you forgot
ten the last half of my text? "Ye have
sold yourselves for nought; and We shall
be redeemed without money"
think that God intended to impress
us with vividness of that color. The
green of the grass, the blue of the sky,
would not have startled and aroused us
like this deep crimson. 1t is as If God
had said: Now, sinner, wake up and
see what the Saviour endured for you.
This is not water. This is not wine 1t
is blood. It is the blood of nv own Son.
1t is the blood of the Immaculate. It is
the blood of God" Without the she'd
ding of blood is no remission. There
has been many a man who in courts of
law has pleaded mot guilty." who nev-
has been condemned because
there was blood found on his hands, or
blood found in his room, and what shall
we do in the last day if it be found that
we have crucited the Lord OF Glory,
must believe in the blood or die. No
escape. Unless you let the sacrifice of
Jesus go in your stead you yourself
must suffer. 1t is either Christ's blood
or your blood. oh" says some one,
1.-The thought of blood sickeus me. {"
Good. God intended it to sicken you
with your sin. Do not act as though
you had nothing to do with that Calva-
Ran massacre. You had. Your sins
we're the implements OF torture. Those
were not made OF steel, and
ron, and wood, SO much as out OF your
sins.
The highest price that was ever paid
or anything was paid for your soul.
could buy it but blood! The
property is bought back.
Take it. "You have sold yourselves
or nought; and We shall be redeemed
without money" o atoning blood,
cleansing blood, life giving blood, sane
flying blood, glrorifying blood of Je-
'us. Why not burst into tears at the
he hard hearted, for thee the lost?
NO" says someone; 81 will have
nothing to do with it except that, like
The enemies of Christ, 1 put both Of my
hands into that carnage and scoop up
both palms full and throw it on my
head and cry: His blood be on US and
On our childrenr
Can you do such a shocking thing as
hat? Just rub your handkerchief across
your brow and look at it 1t is the
blood of the Son of God whom you have
lespised and driven back all these years.
D, do not do that any longer. Come out
boldly and frankly and honestly, and
ell Christ you are sorry. You cannot
.fford TO so roughly treat him upon
whom everything depends.
do not know how you will get away
rom this subject. You see that you
ire sold out, and that Christ wants to
my you back. There are three persons
Who come after you to-day: God the
ather, God the Son, and God the Holy
Ghost. They unite their three omnipO-
ences in one movement for your saliva
ion. You will not take up arms against
he triune God, will you? Is there
nough muscle in your arm for such a
combat? BY the highest throne in
heaven, and by the deepest chasm in
lell beg you look out Unless you al
ow Christ to carry away your sins they
will carry you away.
Would you not like to be free? Here
5 the price of your liberation-notl
money, but blood. l tremble from head
o fool. not because fear your presence
ut because fear you will miss your
nance for immortal rescue. This is
he alternative divinely put: "He that
elieveth on the Son shall have ever
,sting life, and he that believeth not
n the Son shall not see life, but the
-rath of God abideth on him." In the
sst day, If you now reject Christ, every |
rop of that sacrificial blood, instead of
leading for your release, as it would |
ave pleaded If you had repented, will
lead against you.
o Lord God of the judgement day!
vert that calamity! Let us see the |
uick fash Of the cimeter that Stays |
ne sin but saves the sinner. Strike, |
mnipotent God, for the souls deliver |
nee! Beat. o eternal sea! with all thy |
aves against the barren beach of that !
,cky soul and make it tremble. o! the |
Dpressiveness Of the hour, the minute,
lie second and this is that hour, that |
mute, that second.
Same years ago there came down a
cree storm on the sea coast, and a YES
j got in the breakers and was going to |
eces. They threw up some signal OF
stress, and the people on shore saw
lem. They put out in q life boat.
hey came on and saw the poor sailors,
most exhausted. clinging TO raft; and
afraid were the boatmen that the
en- would give up before they got to
lem, they cave them three rounds of
,eers, and cried: Hold On there!
old on! Well save you~ After
while the boat came up. One man
as saved by having the boat-hook put
the collar of his coat; and some in
he way and some in another; but they
/ got into the boat Now" says the
sptain, ''for the shore. Pull away
Ow, pull!" The people on the land
ere afraid the life boat had gone
own. They said: "How long the
pat stays. Why, it must have been
and they have all persisted to-
ether" And there were men and wo-
on nm tha mar heads and nm the