The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-28


dred cases they are fabrication. And
in the one case as soon as it is reported
the official is discharged They who
have been sent ''to write up" Russia
and Siberia have done as that man
would do who sent to write up" New
York should write up the slums as
specimen of what New York is or sent
to write up the American congress
should write mp some depraved poll
ticianS as specimen of American states
manship, or sent to write up the sani-
tary condition of this country should
! send kodac picture of all the warts
and carbuncles he could find as a speci-
men of American health.
Yet, must tell you of a picture of
pathos and moral power impressed upon
my mind SO that neither time nor
eternity can efface it The ship Leo
swung to the docks a few miles below
st. Petersburg, loaded with flour from
America. The sailors on board huZzaed
as they came to the wharf. From
yacht on which we had descended the
river to the sea, the prominent citizens
of St Petersburg disembarked. The
bank was crowded by prosperous citi-
zens, who stood ON the wharf, and back
of them by poorfaborers who had come
| down to offer their services free of all
charge for the removal of the bread
stuffs from the ship to the imperial
| freight train that took the flour to
the interior free of charge. While we
stood there the long freight train rum
bled down to the docks, the locomotive
and each car decorated with fiag-the
American flag and the Russian flag al
ternating Though flag to some eyes
is only a floating rag, you ought to see
| how the American flag looks 5000 miles
away from home. 1t looked that day
like a section of Heaven let down 10
cheer mortal vision. Addresses of well
come and responses were made, and
then the work began. the only contest
being who should lift the hardest and
be the most expeditions. From ship to
rail train, from rail train to kneading
board, from kneading board to oven,
from oven to the white and quivering
lips of the dying. Upon all who,
whether by contribution small or large,
helped make that scene possible. may
there come the benediction of Him who
declared: Twas hungry and We fed me"
But must also give word of report
concerning my other errand the
preaching of the gospel in Great Britain
last summer 1t was a tour had for
many years anticipated. With the
themes of the gospel l confronted more
people than ever before in the same
length of time-multitudes after multi
tudes, and beyond anything can de-
scribe. The throngs in all the cities
were so great that they could be con-
trolled only by platoOns of police, so
that none should be hurt by the pres
sure, each service indoors followed by
service for the waiting throngs out
doors, and both by hand shakings to
the last point of physical endurance.
From the day in which | arrived at
noon in Liverpool, and that night adj
dressing two vast assemblages, until |
got through my evangelic journey, it
was a scene of blessing to my own soul
and hope to others. At all the assem-
blages large collections were taken, the
money being given to local charities,
feeble churches, orphan asvlums or
Young Mems Christian association.
1t seems to me that the gospel is MAX
ing mighty strides over there. Only
one thing [ saw in the chapels and
churches | did not like That is a lack
of appreciation of each other, as be-
tween the National church and the Dis
senters. Now, each is doing a great
work that the other cannot do. God
speed them all, they of the Episcopacy
and they of the Dissenters. Some need
the ritual of the National church and
others the spontaneity of the Wesleyan.
In the kingdom of God there is room
for all to work and each in his own way.
Some people are born Episcopalians and
others Methodists and others Baptists
and others Presbyterians, and do not
let us force our notions on others As
for myself, / was born so near the line
that feel as much at home in one de- !
nomination as another, and when in the
Episcopal church the liturgy stirs my
soul so that cannot keep back the tears |
and it overwhelms me with its solemnity |
and its power. When in an old fash |
toned Methodist church the responses |
of Amen and "HallelujahI" lift me |
until like Paul, am in blessed bewilder- |
ment as to whether in the body or out |
of the body God knoweth." And as for |
the Baptists, though have never been
anything but sprinkled, / have inn
mersed hundreds and expect to immense |
hundreds more in the baptistry under 1
this pulpit where l now stand. What /
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thing, except how we shall keep close |
to the cross and do the most for helping !
people for this world and the next? /
May there come in England more
cordialitv between the National church /
and the Dissenters.
If the pessimists would get out of the !
way the people who SWIVEL and groan,
and think everything has gone to the
dogs or is about to 60 l say if these
pessimists would only get out of the
way the world would soon see the sal
walton of God. Christianity is only an
other name for elevated optimism. Was
Isaiah an optimist? See his deserts in
with red roses, and showed
under with white lilies. Was St. John
an optimist? Read the uplifting SPLEEN
doris in the Apocalypse and the Halle
lujah chorus with which the old book,
which they cannot kill, closes The
greatest thing l can think of would be
to have a triple alliance of America,
and Russia in complete har-
and then to have upon all
of them come deluge of the Holy
Ghost Let the defamation Of other
nations cease. Peace and good will to
men. For that glorious contamination,
which may be nearer than we think,