The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-01

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measurable curiosity to know what it
is, and how it is, and where it is. Co
lumbus risl1ed his life to find this con-
tinent, and shall we shudder to go Out
on voyage of discovery which shall
reveal a vaster and more brilliant coun-
try? John Franklin risl1ed his life to
find a passage between icebergs, and
shall we dread to find a passage to
eternal summer? Men in Switzerland
travel up the heights of the Matterhorn
with alpenstock and guides, and rockets,
and ropes, and, getting half way up,
stumble and fall down in horrible
massacre. They just wanted to say
they had been on the tops of those high
peaks.
And shall we fear to go out for the
ascent of the eternal hills which start
one thousand miles beyond where stop
the highest peaks of the Alps, when in
that ascent there is no peril? A man
doomed to die stepped on the scaffold
and said in Joy: Now in ten minutes
will know the great secret" One min
ute after the vital functions ceased, the
little child that died last night knew
more than Jonathan Edwards, or st.
Paul himself, before he died. Friends,
the exit from this world, or death, if
you please to call it. TO the Christian is
glorious explanation. 1T is demonstra-
tion. 1t is illumination. ct is sunburst-
1t is the opening of all the windows
1t is shutting up the catechism of doubt
and the unrolling of all the scrolls of
positive and accurate information.
Instead of standing at the foot
of the ladder and looking up,
it is standing at the top of the ladder
and looking down. 1t is the last mys-
terry taken out of botany, and geology,
and astronomy, and theology. o, will
1t not be grand to have all questions
answered? The perpctually recurring
interrogation point changed for the
mark of exclamation. All riddles solved.
Who will fear TO go out on that discov-
cry, when all the questions are to be
decided which we have been discussing
all our lives? Who shall not clap his
hands in the anticipation of hat blessed
country, if it be no better than through
holy curiosity crying: ''The time of my
departure is at hand?"
l remark, again, we ought to have
the joy of this text, because, leaving
this world, we move into the best So
ciety of the universe. You see great
crowd of people in some street, and you
say: ''Who is passing there? What
general, what prince is going up
there?" Well, see great throng in
Heaven. say: "Who is the focus of
all that admiration? Who is the GEN. !
ter of that glittering company?" 1t is |
Jesus, the champion Of all worlds, the !
what is the first question the soul will |
ask when it comes through the gate of /
Heaven? think the first question will |
be: "Where is Jesus, the Saviour that I
pardoned my sins; that carried my sor- /
rows; that fought my battles; that won .
my victories?" o radiant one! how I /
would like to see theei thou of the
but without its humiliations; !
thou of the cross, but without its
pangs; thou of the grave, but without
its darkness.
The Bible intimates that we will talk
with Jesus in Heaven just as brother
talks with a brother. Now, what will
you ask him first? / do not know |
can think what I would ask Paul first
if l saw him in Heaven. / think 1
would like to hear him describe the
storm that came upon The ship when
there Were 275 souls on the vessel, Paul
being the only man on board cool
enough to describe the storm. There is
a fascination about ship and the sea
that never shall get over, and think
l would like to hear him talk about that
first. But when l meet my Lord Jesus
Christ, of what shall ] first delight
to hear him speak? Now 1 think
what it is l shall first want to
hear the tragedy of his last hours;
and then Luke's account of the
and Marks account of the
crucifixion, and Johns account of the
will be nothing, while from
the living lips of Christ the story shall
be told of the gloom that fell, and the
devils that arose, and the fact that
upon his endurance depended the res
cue of race; and there was darkness in
the sky. and there was darkness in the
soul, and the pain became more sharp,
and the burdens became more heavy,
until the mob began to swim away from
the dying vision of Christ, and the curs-
ing of the mob came to his ear more
family. and his hands were fastened
to the horizontsl piece of the cross, and
his feet were fastened 20 the perpen.
dicular piece of the cross, and his
head fell forward in swoon as he
uttered the last moan and cried: ''It is
fnished!' All Heaven will stop to list
en- until the story is done, and every
harp will be put down, and every lip
closed, and all eyes fixed upon the Z
divine narrator, until the story is done;
and then, at the tap of the baton, the
eternal orchestra will rouse up; finger
On string of harp, and lips to the mouth
Of trumpet, there shall roll forth the
oratorio OF the Messiah: Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain to receive bless
ng, and riches, and honor, and glory,
and power, world without end!' +
What He endureth. O. who can tell,
To save our souls from death and hell!
When there was between Paul and
that magnificent Parsonage only one
5hinness of the sharp edge of the sword
If the eXecutioner, do you wonder that
ne wanted TO go? o, my Lord Jesus.
ct one wave of that glory roll over US!
Hark. l hear the wedding bells of
Heaven ringing now. The marriage of
he Lamb has come and the bride hath
made herself ready. And now for a !
little while good-by! have no morbid
feelings for the future. But if any
hing should happen that we never
meet again in this world let us meet ,
where there are no partings. Our