The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-03

probation of the blessings that have
gone: it will yet give you greater APP
probation of the blessings that will
come.
o, it is good that the Lord sometimes
halts us David says: at is good that
have been afflicted Before was af-
fiicted l went astray, but now have L
kept thy word" Indeed, we must not
stop Scientists have improved human
longevity, but none of them have pro
posed to make terrene life perpetual
But the Gospel makes death only a
Selah between two Observation-Disclosures
dying triumph on the one side of the
grave and celestial escort on the other
side of the grave Going out of this
life, to the unprepared, is a great horror.
give me more laudanum," said dying
Mirabeau; ''give me more laudanum,
that I may not think of eternity and
what is to come" And dying Hobbies
said: 81 leave my body to the grave,
and my soul to the great perhaps 1t
was the discord of an infidels life
breaking down into the jargon of de
spair; but the Gospel makes the death
of the Christian a Selah between re-
demption and enhancement sAlmoSt
WE'LL said dying Richard Baxter; 'al
most we'll" "Piay those notes over
again-those notes which have been so
great delight and solace to me- said
the dying Christian Mozart ''None
but Christ, none but Christ" exclaimed
dying Lambert
oh ~ Nhn ~
nanter, went into the battle three times
praying; Lord spare the green and take
the ripe. This is the day have longed
for. This is the day / shall get my
crown Come, let US fight to the last
Forwardr' So you see there is only
short pause, Selah of intermisSiOn, be-
tween dying consolation on the one side
and overlapping raptures on the other.
NV flesh shall sIutnber in the ground
TIL the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise
And in my Saviours image rise
l next speak of the Selah of empha-
sis. Ewald, the German orientalist and
theologian, says that this word means
TO ascend; and wherever you find it, he
says You must look after the modula-
ton of the voice, and you must put
more force into Your utterance II is
Selah of emphasis All! my friends,
you and l need to correct our emphasis
We put too much emphasis on this
world, and not enough on God and the
next world People think these things
around us are 50 important, the things
of the next are not worthy of our con-
sideration-
The first need for some of US is to
change our emphasis Look at wretched-
ness on throne. Napoleon, while yet
emperor of France, sat down detected,
his hands over his face A lad came in
with tray of food and saids EAT, 1t
will do you good The emperor looked
up and said; You are from the coun-
try?- The lad replied, YES Your
father has a cottage and a few acres OF
ground?7 "Yes-n There is happi-
ness" said the detected emperor ALL
Napoleon never put the emphasis in the
right place until he was expir-
ing at St Helena. On the other
hand, look at satisfaction amid
the worst earthly disadvantage. II
never saw until was blind said o
Christian man. 81 never knew what
contentment was while had my eye
sight, as ! know what content is now
that have lost my CyesiCht l affirm,
though few would credit it. that
would not exchange my present posi-
ton and circumstances for my circum-
stances before I lost my eyesight--
That man put the emphasis in the right
place. We want to put less stress upon
this world and more stress upon our
God as an everlasting portion David
had found out thS nothingness of this
world and the all Suficiency of God No
tice how he interjects the Selahs. Trust
in the Lord at all times; We people, pour
out your heart before Him. God is a
refuge for us. Selah.- blessed be the
Lord who daily loads us with benefits,
even the God of our salvation Selah. "
THE Lord shall count, when He writeth
up the people, that this man was born
| there. Selah-~ Let the world have its
honors and its riches and its po!np Let
me have the Lord for my light my
peace, my fortress, my pardon, my hope,
my Heaven.
! What sinners value resign.
Lord! It's enough that Thou art nina
! shall behold Thy blissful face,
And stand complete in righteousness
This world is all al empty show,
But the bright world 10 which so
Ha;h joys substantial and sincere;
When shall wake and find ne theTet
| o glorious houri o blcst abodeI
1 shall be near and like my God
And sin and sense no more control
The endless pleasures OF nv soul
But when speak of the Selah of en-
phasis must notice il is 4 startling, q
dramatic, emphasis 1t has in it the
bark, the hist of the drama That
Weakening and arousing emphasis we
who preach or instruct need to usS
more frequently. The sleepiest audi
ences in the world are religious audi
enceS
You Sabbath school teachers ought Il
have more of the dramatic element II
your instructions By graphic Scrip
ture scene, by anecdote, By descriptive
gesture, by impersonation, urge your
classes to right action We want in al
our schools and colleges and prayer
meetings, and in AL our attempts at re
form, and in all our churches to han
less of the style didactic and more Of
the style dramatic
o. we want in all our different de
partments of usefulness-anj address:
hundreds of people who are trying t
do good-we want more OF the dramatic
clement and less of the didGctic- The
tendency in this day is to drone reli9
ion, to whine religion, to cant religion
to moan religion, to croak religion, K
sepulchrize religion, when we ought Il