The Iola register., 1891-10-16

ing done, yet on a small scale" but if
you 60 into a factory covering many
acres, and you find thousands Of bands
pulling on thousands of wheels, and
shuttles flying, and the whole scene be-
wildering With activities, driven by
water or steam, or electric power, you
conclude that the factory was put up to
do great work and on a vast scale. Now,
| look at you, and il should find that
you had only one faculty of body, and
one muscle, only one nerve, If you could
see but could not hear, or could hear
and not see, if you had the use
of only one foot or hand,
and as to your higher ma
ture, if you had only one mental faculty
and you had memory but no judgement.
t, or Judgment but no will. and If you had
soul with only one capacity. l would
say not much is expected of you. But
stand up, o, man. and let me look you
squarely in the face. Eyes capable of
seeing everything. Ears capable of
hearing everything. Hands capable of
grasping everything. Mind with more
wheels than any factory ever t;rned,
more power than Corliss engine eyer,
moved. A soul that will outlive all the
universe except heaven, and would out
live all heaven If the life OF other i'm
mortals were moment short OF the
eternal.
Now, what has the world a right to
expect Of you? What has God a night
to demand OF you? God is the greatest
of economists in the universe and he
makes nothing uselessly, and for what
purpose did he build your body. mind
and soul as they are built? There are
only two beings ia the universe who can
answer that question. The angels do
not know. The schools do not know.
Your kindred cannot certainly, know.
Coo knows. and you ought TO know. A
factory running at an expense of 500,
O0O a year, and turning cut goods worth
30 cents year would not be such an
incongruitv as you. o. man, with such
semi-infinite equipment doing moth
ing, or next to nothing,
in the way of usefulness.
What shall do:" you ask. NV breth-
ren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask
God. There's scme path of Christian
usefulness open, II may be roagh
path or it may be a smooth path. a long
path or a short path. IL NAV be on
a mount OF conspicuity, or in a valley
uncbserved, but it is path on which
YOU can starr with such faith and such
satisfaction and such certainty that you
can cry oRG in the face of earth and hell
and heaven: ''To'thi end was | born"
Do not wait for extraordinary Gualifi-
cations. Philip. the COneuerer. gained
his greatest victories seated on a mule,
and If NOu wait for some caparisOned
Bucephalus to ride into The conflict YOU
will never get into the worldwide fight
at all. Samson slew The Lords enc
mics with the jawbone of the stupidest
beast created. Shamgar slew 600 OF the
Lords enemies with an OK goad. Under
God, spittie cured the blind mans eyes
in the New Testament story Take all
the faculty you have and say: oh,
Lord Here is what / have: show me
the field and back me APP by omniuoienf
power. Anywhere, anyhow. any time
for Gpd.'
BY the advancement OF medical sci
cnce and the wider acquaintance with
the laws at health. and the fact that
people know batter how to take care Of
themselves. human life is proIonged
But do you rsasizr what, after all. is
the brevity Of our earthly state? IN
the times when people lived 400 and
500 years, She patriarch .lacOb said ghat
his years We're few. Looking at the
life of the Youngest person in this as
Sembiy aud suppOsin@ he lived to Be 4
mOnageHarian, how short the time and
soon gone, while banked up in front
of us is an eternity 50 vast that Srith-
metlc has not figures enough TO express
ais length. 'GT breadth or deufh, or
height For happy eternity you were
bora Qnle-s YOU run yourself against the
divine intentions. II standing in yo rr.
presence. Dy eye should fall unsn the
feehiest sORi here as that soul will al
pear when the world lets IL up ard hea-
ven entrances it. | suppose | w0ald bs
80 orerpogered that should drop down
as one dead. You hare examined the
iaiRily Billie and explored The family
records aid you may have daguerrO-
types OF some of the kindred OF Previuls
generations. YOU have Lad photographs
1aEcn OF what you were In b0yhood or
girlhood, and what you were ten Years
later. and ii is very Interesting 10 any
one to &c able to look baeE upor
psctureS OF what he wi.S
ten. or twenty or thirty years ago: brs;
have you ever had picture taken OF
what you NAV be and what you will be
If you seeE after God and feel the Spir-
its regeBerating pOwcr2 Where shall
plant the camera to take the picturee
plant item this platform. direct II
toward you. Sit still ar stand still
while | take the picture. It shall be al
instantaneous picture. There, nave
1T 1t Is Gone. You can see the pict-
ure in its imperfect state. and get some
idea OF what it will be when thGroE ghlv
developed. There is your resurrected
BODY, so brilliant that the MONDAY sun
is patch az midnight COMPARED with
it
There your soul, SO pure that all
the forces OF diabolism could not
spot il with an imperfection. There is
your being, 80 mighty and Sc swift that
flight from heaven to Mercury or Mars
or Jupiter and back TO heaven again
would not worry you. and world oa
each shoulder would not crush YOU
An eye that shall never shed tear. !
An energy that shall never feel Il
fatigue. A brow that shall never |
throb with pain. You are
young again. though You died OF
decrepitude. 1oG are well again though /
you cOughed or shivered yourself into !!
the tomb. Your everyday associates /,
are the apostles and prophets and mar
tyrs, and most exaulted souls. mascu-
line and feminine. of all the centuries. |
The archangel to you no embarrass- !
ment. God Himself your present and /
everlasting Joy. This is ar instanta-
neous picture of what you may be, and
what l am sure some of you will be. If
you realize that it is an imperfect pic
ture, my apology is what the apostle
John said: 1T doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" TO this end was I