The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-26

hungry, and people would pour in by
the millions to this Worldwide table,
bnt the door is blocked up by con-
troversies, and men with whole
libraries on their backs are disputing
as to what proportion of sweet oil and
cayenne pepper would make up the
creed. / cry, Get out of the way and
let the hungry world come in"
The Christian church will have to
change its tack, or it will run on the
rocks of demolition. The worlds pop
ulation annually increases $1,000, 600.
No one pretends that half that number
of people are converted to God. There
are more than twice as many Buddhists
as Protestants; more than twice as
many Buddhists as Roman Catholics.
Protestants, 135, ZOO. 600; Catholics, 1885,
900, 600: Buddhists, 400 600, 900. There
are 175, 900, 900 Mohammedans and 220,-
600, 900 Brahmins. Meanwhile many
of the churches are only religious club
houses where few people 60 on Sun
day morning, averaging one person to
pew or one person to a half dozen
Dews. and leaving the minister at night
TO sweat through a sermon with here
and there a lone traveller
Did | say there would have to be
change? | correct that and say, there
will be a change. If there be Is, 000,-
600 persons added every year to the
worlds population, then, there will be
30, 900, 900 added to the church and 40,-
900, coo and $4,000, 600 and 10000. 900.
How will it be done? 1t will be done
when the church will meet Christ on
the plain. Come down out of the
mountain of exclusiveness. Come down
out of tine mountain of pride Come
down out of the mountain of formal
ISM Come down out of the mountain
of freezing Indifference.
The full charge will have to come
from the rising ministry. We now in
the field are too set in our ways. We
are numbered up with technicalities
We have too many concordances and
dictionaries and and encyclopedias
and systems of theology on our head
to get down on the plain.
Come on, young men of the ministry.
Take this pulpit, take ali the pulpits
and in the language of the street and
the market place and the family circle
preach God on the plain. As soon as
the church says by its attitude, not
necessarily by its words, my one mis-
sion is to help for this life and help for
the life Co come all the people" and it
proves its earhestness in the matter,
people on foot and on horseb back and
in wagons and in carriages will come
to the churches in such mum bers that
they will have to be met at the door
by ushers saying: "You were here last
Sunday; you cannot come in to-day.
Gentlemen and ladies, you must take
your turn"
Astronomers have been busy measur-
ing worlds, and they have told us how
great is the circumference of this world
and how great is its diameter, yea,
they have kept on until they have
weighed our planet and found its
weight to be six sextillion tons. But
by no science has the weight of this
worlds trouble been weighed. Now,
Christ standing on the level of our hui
mauity stands in sympathy with every
trouble. There are so many aching
heads; His ached under the thorns.
There are so many weary feet; His
were worn with the long journey up
and down the land that received him
not There are so many prosecuted
souls; every hour of His life was under
human outrage. The earth had no bet
ter place to receive Him than a cattle
pen, and its farewell was slap on the
cheek and a spear in his side. So in
tensely human was He that there has
not been in all our race a grief or
infirmity or exhaustion or pang that
did not touch him now. The universal
trouble of the world is bereavement
One may escape all the other troubles,
but that no soul escapes Out of that
bitter cup every one must take drink.
For instance. that all may know how
He sympathizes who have lost daugh
ter, Christ comes to the house of Jairus.
There is such big crowd around the
door, He and His disciples have to push
their way in From the throng of peo-
pie, l conclude that this girl must have
been very popular: she was one of
those children whom everybody likes.
After Christ got in the house there was
such loud weeping that the ordinary
tones of voice could not be heard. l
do not wonder. The dead daughter
was twelve years of age. 1t is about
the happiest time in most lives.
But now she is dead, and the grief at
her departure is as violent as her pres
ence had been vivacious and inspiriting.
o! the bereavment was so sharp, so
overwhelming! How could they give
her upl o, if they had been more
patient with her hilarities and, instead
of hushing her play, had participated
in it, You know there are so many
things that parents always blame them
selves for at such times So fair, so
promising, so full of life a few days
ago, and now so still! All eyes in that
room are on the face of this girl Christ
stepped forward and took hold of that
hand and said, with tone and accentu-
alton charged with tenderness and COM
mand: 'Damsel, say uuto thee, ariser
And without a moments delay she
arose, her eyes wide open, her cheeks
turning from white lily to red rose,
and the parents cry, ''She lives! She
lives" Will not all those who have
lost daughter feel that such Christ
as Il at can sympathize?
On another occasion he showed how
he felt about the loss of a son. Here
are the obsequies. A long procession,
a widowed mother following her only
son. know not how long the husband
and father had been gone, but upon
this son, who had now come to be a
young man, the leadership of that
household had fallen.
But that young man had fallen life
less under accident or disaster, and he