The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

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working for us. "All are yours" The
Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the gal
leries of Naples, and Rome, and Venice
they are all to come into the posses
sion of the church of Jesus Christ We
may not now have them on our walls,
but the time will come when the writ
of ejectment will be served and the
church possess everything. All parks,
all fish-ponds, all colors, all harvests-
all, ''all are yours.
Secondly, l remark that the right to
full temporal support is in the Chris
tian's name. 1t is great affair to feed
the world Just think of the fact that,
this morning, 1,G0O, 100000 of our race
/ breakfasted at Gods table! The COM
missary department of 100000 men in
an army will engage scores of people;
but just think of commissary depart
/ ment of world! Think of the gather
| ing up from the rice swamps, and the
| tea fields and the orchards and the fish
eriesl No one but God could tell how
many bushels it would take to feed five
continents.
Then to clothe all these people how
many furs must be captured, and how
much flax broken and how much cotton
picked. Just think of the infinite ward
robe where 1,6OO, 900, 900 people get their
clothes God spreads the table first of
all for His own children. Of course that
would be a very selfish man who would
not allow other people to come and sit
at his table sometimes; but, first of all,
the right is given to Christian people,
and therefore it is extreme folly for
them ever to fret about food or raiment:
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Out of
whose hand did the cormorant
pick its food? Whose loom
wove the butterfy's wing? Who
hears the hawks cry? If God takes
care of walrus, and a Siberian dog,
and wasp, will He not take care of you?
viii father have more regard for rep
tiles than for his sons and daughters?
If God clothes the grizzly bear, and the
panther. and the hyena, will He not
clOthe His own children? Come, then,
this morning and get the key of the in
finite storehouse. Come and get the
key of the infinite wardrobe Here
they are-all the keys. "All are
yours" So all the vicissitudes of this
life. SO far as they have any relig-
ious profit, are in the right of the Chris
tian. If you should stand along the
Allegheny mountains, especially near
what is called the Horseshoe" you
would have a train of cars almost
doubling on itself, and sitting in the
back car you see u locomotive coming
as you look out of the window, and you
think it is another train when it is only
the front of the train in which you are
riding; and sometimes you can hardly
tell whether the train is going toward
Pittsburgh or toward Philadelphia, but
it is on the track, and it will reach the
depot for which it started, and all the
passengers will be discharged at the
right place,
Now, there are a great many sharp
curves in life. Sometimes we seem to
be going this way, and sometimes we
seem to be going that way; but if we
are Christians we are on the right track
and we are going to come out at the
right place. Do not get worried, then,
about the sharp curve.
A sailing vessel starts from New York
for Glasgow. Does it go in straight
line? o. no. 1t changes its track every
little while. Now, you say: This YES
sci, instead of going to Glasgow, must
be going to Havre, or it is going to
Hamburg, or it is going to Marseilles."
No no. 1t is going to Glasgow. And
in this voyage of life we often have to
change our track. One storm blows us
this way, and another storm blows us
that way; but He who holds the winds
in his fist will bring us into haven of
everlasting rest just at the right time.
Do not worry, then, if you have to
change tack.
One of the best things that ever hap
pened to Paul was being thrown off his
horse. One of the best things that ever
to Joseph was being thrown
into the pit. The losing of his physical
eyesight helped John Milton to see the |
battle of the angels. One of the best |
things that ever happened to Ignatius
was being thrown to the wild beasts in
the Coliseum, and while $4,000 people |
were jeering at his religion he walked |
up to the tiercest of all the lions and |
looked him in the eye, as much as to
say: Here l am, ready to be devoured |
for Christ's sake" All things work to- |
gether for your good. Ii you walk |
the desert the mamma will fall and the |
sea viii part. If the feverish torch of |
is kindled over your pillow by |
its light you can read the promises. If |
the waves of trouble dash high above !
your girdle, across the blast and across |
the surge you can hear the promise, |
when thou passest through the waters |
l will be with thee" You never owned |
a glove, or a shoe, or hat, or a coat |
more certainly than you own all the |
frets, and annoyances. and exaspera-
tions of this life and they are bound to |
work out your present and eternal good. |
They are the saws, the hammers, the files |
by which You are to be hewn, and cut, /
and smoothed for your eternal well be-
ing.
Here is vessel that goes along the |
coast; it hugs the coast The captain
of that vessel seems chiefly anxious to
keep the paint on his ship from being
marred, or the sails from being torn.
When that vessel comes to port nobody |
looks on it with any interest. But here
is vessel that went across the sea with
vast product, and comes in with vast
mportation-sails patched, masts
spliced, pumps all working to keep out
the water; it has come through the hur-
ricane which has sunk twenty steam
ers The bronzed men are cheering
among among the rigging. Now the
men of war anchored in the harbor