The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-22

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forget that they are walking to-day
over the fallen strength of an industri-
GUS and honored parentage. A little
ashamed, are you, at their ungrammat-
ical utterance? It was through their
sacrifices that you learned accuracy of
speech. Do you lose patience with
them because they are little querulous
and complaining? L guess you have
forgotten how querulous and complain
ing you were when you were getting
over that whooping cough or that in
termittent fever. A little annoyed, are
you. because her hearing is poor and
you have to tell her something twice?
She was not always hard of hearing.
When you were two years old your first
call for drink at midnight woke her
from a sound sleep as quick as anyone
will waken at the trumpet call of the
resurrection.
o. my young lady, what is that under
the sole of your fine shoe? 1t is palm
leaf which was torn off the tree of
maternal fidelity. Young merchant,
young lawyer, young journalist, young
mechanic, with good salary and fine
clothes and refined surroundings, have
you forgotten what a time your father
had that winter, after the summers
crops had failed through droughts or
floods or locusts, and how he wore his
old coat too long and made his old hat
do that he might keep you at school or
college? What is that, my young man,
under your fine boot to-day, the boot
that so well fits your foot, such n boot
as your father could never afford to
wear? 1t must be 4 leaf from the palm
tree of your fathers self-sacrifces. Do
not be ashamed OF him when he comes
to town, and because his manners are
little old fashioned try to smuggle him
in and smugglc him out, but call in your
best friends and take him to the house
of God and introduce him to your
pastor, and say: This is my father"
If he had kept for himself the advan-
tages which he gave you, he would be
as well educated and as well gotten up
as you.
Never be ashamed of your early sur
roundings. Yes, YES, all the green
leaves we walk over were torn off some
palm tree. have cultivated the habit
of forgetting the unpleasant things of
life. and chiefly remember the smooth
things, and as far as ! remember now
my life has for the most part moved on
road soft with green leaves. They
were torn off two palm trees that stood
at the start of the road. The prayers,
the Christian example, the good advice,
the hard work of my father and mother.
They long ago went into slumber
among their kindred and friends on the
banks of the Raritan, but the influences
they threw in the way of their children
are yet green as leaves the moment they
are plucked from a palm tree and we
feel them on our brow and under our
feet and they will strew all the way un-
til we lie down in the same slumber.
Self sacrifice. What a thrilling word.
Glad am l that our world has so many
specimens of it. The sailor boy on ship
board was derided because he would not
fight or gamble and they called him
coward. But when child fell over
board and no one else was ready to help
the derided sailor lesped into the sea,
and though the waves were rough, the
sailor swimming with one arm, carried
the child in the other arm till rescued
and rescuer were lifted into safety, and
the cry of coward ceased and all huzzaed
ut the scene of daring and self sacrifice.
How much are we willing to sacrifice
for others? Christ is again on the
march, not from Bethpage to JerITsa-
lum, but for the conquest of the world.
He will surely take it, but who will
furnish the palm branches for the tri-
u1nphant way? Self sacrifice is the
word. There is more money paid to de-
stroy the world than to save 1t. There
is more depraved literature to blast
men than good literature to elevate
them o, for power to descend
upon us all like that which
whelmed Charles G. Finney with mercy,
when lneeling in his law office, and be-
fore he entered upon his apostolic
career of evangelization he said: 1.-The
Holy Ghost descended upon me IL a
manner that seemed to go through me,
body and soul. could feal the impress
sion like wave of electricity going
through and through me. Indeed it
liquid love. 1t seemed like the breath
of God. can recollect distinctly thas
it seemed to fan me like immense
wings. / wept aloud with joy and love
These waves came over me and over mR,
one after another, and until, recoIlect,
cried out: L shall die if these waves
continue to pass over me- l said:
Lord, 1 cannot bear any more" And
when a gentleman came into the office
and said: ''Mr. Finney, you are in pain2'
he replied: NO, but SO happy that l
cannot live"
My hearers, the time will come when
upon the whole church of God will de
scend such an avalanche of blessing,
and then the bringing of the world to
God will be matter of a few years,
perhaps a few days, or few hours.
Ride on, o Christ. for the evangelical
ton of all nations. Thou, Christ, who
didst ride on the unbrolSen colt down
the sides of Olivet, on the white horse
of eternal victory ride through ali na-
| tions, and may we, by our prayers and
our self-sacrifices and our contributions
and our consecrations, throw palm
branches in the way.
clap my hands at the coming victory.
feel this morning as did the Israel
ties when, on their march to Canaan,
they came not under the shadow of one
palm tree, but of seventy palm trees,
standing in an oasis among a dozen
gushing fountains, or, as the Bible puts
it: Twelve wells of water and three
score and ten palm trees Surely there
are more than seventy such great and
glorious souls present to-day. Indeed
it is mighty grove Of palm trees, and
| feel something of the rslntureS which I