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

mentS sometimes are very grlyOuS; out
do not complain. The hotter the fire
the better the refining.
There are men before the throne of
God this day in triumph, who on earth
were cheated out of everything but
their coffin. They were sued, they were
imprisoned fer debt, they were throt-
tied by constables with whole pack
of writs, they were sold out by the
sheriffs, they had no compromise with
creditors, they had to make assign
ments. Their dying hours were an
noyed by the sharp ringing of the door
bell by some impesuous creditor, who
thought it was outrageous and impudent
that a man should dare to die before he
paid the last three shillings and six
pence. had a friend who had
many misfortunes. Everything went
against him. He had good business
quality and was of the best of morals,
but he was one of those men such as
you have sometimes seen. for whom
everything seems to go wrong. His
life became to him plague. When l
heard he was dead, l said: Good. got
rid of the sheriffs" Who are those
lustrous souls before the throne? When
the question is asked: "Who are
they?" the angels standing on the sea
of glass respond: "These are they
who came out of great business trouble
aud had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb"
A man arose in Fulton street prayer
meeting and said: Il wish publicly to
acknowledge the goodness of God. l
was in business trouble. l had money
to pay aud l had no means to pay it,
and was in utter despair OF all human
help. and laid the matter before the
Lord, and this morning | went down
among some old business friends | had
not seen in many years, just to make
call. and one said to me, Why, am so
glad to see you; walk in. We have
some money on our books due you
good while, but We didn't know where
you were, and therefore not having
your address we could not send it We
are very glad you have come" And
the man standing in Fulton street
PRAYER meeting said: The amount
they paid me was six times what 1
owed" You say it only happened so?
You are an infideL God answered that
mans prayer.
o, you want business grace. Com
mercial ethics, business honors, laws
of trade, are all very good in their
place, but there are times when you
want something more than this world
will give you. You want God. For
the lack of Him some that you have
known have consented to forge and
maltrreat their friends and to curse
their enemies, and their names have
been bulletined among scoundrels, and
they have been ground to powder,
while other men you have known have
gone through the very same stress OF
circumstances triumphant There are
men here to-day who fought the
battle and gained the victory.
People come out of that mans
store aud they say: well, if
there ever was a christian trader, that
is one" Integrity kept the books and
waited on customers. Light from the
eternal world flashed through the
show windows. Love t. God and love
TO man presided in that sJorehOuse.
Some day people going through the
streets notice that the shutters of the
windows are not down. The bar OF
that store door has not been removed.
People say: what is the NATTER"
You go up a little closer and you see
written on the card of that window:
Closed on account of the death of one
of the firm" That day all through the
circles of business there is talk abou.
how a good man has gone. Boards of
trade pass resolutions of sympathy and
churches of Christ pray: Help, Lord,
for the cody man ceaseth." He has
made his last bargain, he has suffered
his last loss, he has ached with his last
fatigue. His children will get the re-
suit of his industry, or, if through mis-
fortune there be no dollars left. they
will have an estate of prayer aud
Christian example which will be ever
lasting. Heavenly rewards for earthly
discipline. There the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at
rest"