The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
outrun, outfit, outwrestle, outsee. out

hear, outdo.
At his all conquering decree the for
est that had stood for ages steps aside
to let him build his cabin and cultivate
his farm. The sea which ragged and
foamed upon the race has become a
crystal pathway for commerce to march
on. The thunder cloud that slept
lazily above the mountain is made to
come down and carry mail bags. Man,
dissatisfied with his slowness of ad-
vancement shouted to the water and
the fire, Come and liftr' Come and
drawn Come and help" And they
answered: "Ay, ay, we come;" and
they joined hands-the fire and the
water-and the shuttles fly, and the
rail train rattles on. and the steamshi p
comes coughing, painting, flaming across
the deep He elevates the telescope to
the heavens, and. as easily as through
the stethoscope the physician heard the
movement of the lung, the astronomer
catches the pulsation of distant systems
of worlds throbbing with life. He
takes the microscope and discovers
that there are hundreds of
thousands of animalcul@ living,
moving, working, dying within a circle
that could be covered with the point of
pin-animals to which rain drop
would be an ocean, rose leaf a hemi-
sphere, and the fash of FREELY last
ing enough to give them light to sever
al generations
l take a step higher, and look at
mans moral nature. Made in the inn
age of God Vast capacity for enjoy
ment, capable at first of eternal joy,
and, though now disordered, still,
through the recuperative force of heav-
enly grace, able to mount up to more
than its original felicity; faculties that
may blossom and bear fruit inexhaust-
IDLY. Immortality written upon every
capacity; soul destined to range in
unlimited spheres of activity long after
the world has put on ashes, and the
solar system shall have snapped its
axle, and the stars that, in their courses,
fought against Sisera, shall have been
slain. and buried amid the toiling
thunders of the last day.
You see that God has adapted every
thing to our comfort and advantage.
Pleasant things for the palate, music
for the ear, beauty for the eye, aroma
for the nostrils, poetry for our taste,
religion for our soul We are put IN a
garden and told that from all the trees
we may eat except here and there one.
| He gives the sun to shine on us, and
the waters to refresh us, and food to
strengthen us; and the herbs yield med.
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| lumb Der when we would build house
or cross the water in a ship. The rocks
are transported for our foundation, and
metals upturned for our currency; and
wild beasts must give us covering; and
| the mountains must be tunneled to let
us pass; and the fish of the sea come up
in our net; and the birds of the air
drop at the fash of our guns; and the
cattle on a thousand hills come down
to give us meat For us the peach
orchards bend down their fruit, and the
vineyards their purple clusters. To feed
and refresh our intellect ten thousand
wonders in nature and providence
wonders of mind and body, wonders of
earth, and air, and deep analogies
and antitheses; all colors and sounds;
lyrics in the air; idyls in the fields;
confagrations in the sunset; robes of
mist on the mountains; and the Grand
March" of God in the storm.
But for the soul still higher adapta-
ton; fountain in which it may wash;
ladder by which it may climb; song
of endless triumph that it may sing; a
crown of unfading light that it may
wear. Christ came to save it-came
with a cross on his back; came with
spikes in his feet; came when no one
else would come, to do a work which
no one else would do. See how suited
to mans condition is what God has
done for him! Man is a sinner; here is
pardon. He has lost Gods image;
| Christ retraces it. He is helpless; AL
mighty grace is proffered. He is lost
wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He
is blind, and at one touch of Him who
cured Bal timeus, eternal glories stream
| into his soul.
Jesus, 1 sing thy grace! Cure of
worst disease! Hammer to smite off
heaviest chain! Light for thickest
darkness! Grace divine. Devils scoff
at it. and men reject it, but Heaven
celebrates it!
l wish you good cheer for the ma.
tional health. Pestilence, that in
other years has come to drive out its
thousand hearses to Greenwood and
Laurel hill, has not visited our nation.
1t is glorious thing to be well. How
strange that we should keep our health
when one breath from a marsh or the
falling of tree branch might fatally
assault our life! Regularly our lungs
work and their motion seems to be a
spirit within US painting after its i'm.
mortality. Our sight fails not though
the air is so full of objects which by
one touch could break out the souls
window. What ship, after a years
tossing on the sea, could come in with
so little damage as ourselves, though
we arrive after years voyage to-day?
wish you good cheer for the nation
al harvest Reaping machines never
swathed thicker rye, and corn husker's
peg never ripened out fuller ear, and
NOW poles never bent down under
sweeter hay, and windmilPs hopper
never shook out larger wheat Long
trains of white covered wagons have
brought the wheat down to the great
thoroughfares The garners are full,
the storehouses are overcrowded, the
canals are blocked with freights press
ing down to the markets. The cars
rumble all through the darkness and
whistle up the hagman at dead of
night to let the western harvest come
down IN feed the mouths of the oyraat
cities A race of kings has taken
possession of this land-King Cotton,
King Corn, King Wheat King Rice,