The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-20
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very scepter over his fellows Many an
education which is now considered COM
plete is made up of smattering of
newspapers and the last page of fash
ionable magazine. The parlor and the
drawing room cannot educate us. They
may give US outward adornments of
manner, but getting valuable knowl-
edge is like sweltering at forge, bel
lows in one hand and hammer in the
other-like digging in mines with crow
bars, prying under the ledge and the
constant bang of blasted rocks. Es-
pecially is it true that no growth in
grace is possible unless, like Daniel, we
are willing to take up the cross, how
ever heavy IL may be and rough with
nails Moses chose affliction with the
! people of God rather than the pleasures
of sin, and il we would be anything
like him, we must be willing sometimes
to chose the hard bread of self denial
rather than the emperial clusters from
royal vineyards.
o, how we want the faith and courage
of Daniel and Paul, but how we
dread the hot atmosphere of trial, in
which their graces ripened. The richest
fruits of religion grow in the sultry
tropics of trial. If you want pearls,
you must dive for them. If you want
gold you must dig for it The richest
parts of California and Australia are
under ground. Depend upon it if no
pruning, no fruit, no climbing, no eleva-
ton, no battle, no victory, no cross, o
~ ~ No ato1 a..
nezzar, there would have been no Dan
iel. Even SO it has been in all ages.
The flames which have flashed up from
the stake have been so many illumina-
tions of Christian triumph. When God
would make a great light of truth and
holiness in the world, he often takes
great prosecutions and with them strikes
fire. The DEVILS hate is Gods glory.
Again, let the story of Daniel teach
us the beauty of that youthful charac-
ter which remains unblemished and up
right when away from home. Had
Daniel, on arriving in Babylon, plunged
into every excess his friends in Jerusa-
lem would never have heard of it. His
dissipation and remuneration of relig-
ion would not have cast one sorrow on
the family hearth where he had lived,
or the old family Bible which he used to
read. But, far away from home, he
knew that Gods eye watched him and
that was enough. 1t is not every young
man who maintains the same character
when absent that was maintained at
home.
probably address young men now
Il RET, 60 nd
others who, still under the parental
roof, look forward to time when they
will depart alone to conflict with the
world and among strangers be called to
build up characters for themselves
Happy for you, o, young man, if you
shall, like Joseph, be the same when
living with wicked Pharoah as with
pious Jacob, or Daniel as pure in Bah
ylon as in Jerusalem. There is no pas
sage in a mans life of more thrilling
interest than the day in which he leaves
home and goes off to seek his fortune.
The novelty and romance connected
with the departure may keep the young
man from any poignant sorrow, but
parents who have seen the destruction
among strangers of those who were con-
sidered promising youths, cannot help
feeling that this step is of momentous
Importance. Before the youth left home
all his conduct was under affectionate
guardianship. Outbursts of folly, care
lessness and improperly of manner and
looseness of speech were kindly re-
proved, and although the restraint
seemed sometimes too severe, yet hours
of sober reflection have convinced him
that it was salutary and righteous.
But behold, how the scene changes
The father, through the interceding of
metropolitan friends, has secured the
son place in some bank or store or
office. Schoolmates on the night before
his departure come to take their fare
well of the young adventurer. That
morning he takes a last walk around
the old place. and going past some loved
spot, sly tear may start, but no one
sees it. The trunk is on the carriage,
and after a warm good-by, away they
speed over the hills Set down amid
excitements and among companions not
over scyupulous as to their words or
deeds, temptations troop around the
stranger. The morning comes, but no
family altar, and the Sabbath, but no
real quiet, and perhaps at the sanctuary
the faces are all strange and no one
cares whether he goes to church or
whether he does not 20. Long
winter evenings arrive, and how
shall they be spent? On his way
home from his place of business he saw
flaming placards announcing rare per-
formances and that this was positively
the last night. At the door of his cheer
less boarding house no one greets him
and the evening meal is insipid. The
room in the third story that evening
seems doleful and repelling. A book
snatched up from the stand proves to be
dull In despair he rushes out reckless
US to where he goes if only he can see
something that will make him stop
thinking. That night may be the turn
ing point in his history. Once within
the fatal CIRCLE of sin and the soul has
no power to repel it.
In many country churchyard is now
the grave of some youthful spirit that
went away 1.-THE and bounding, but
came home diseased and crushed and
| blasted to disgrace the sepulcher of his
fathers Yet this exodus must be made.
As from far distant hills, rivers find
their way through tunnels to great
cities, so from far distant points of the
country it is necessary that a stream of
interrupted population shall pour into
our great thoroughfares and keep
them pure and manage the traffic
of the world Multitudes of such are
constantly making their departure from