The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-25

that giant 'ff' hurl Jobs 81 know"
and Paul's 81 know" AZ know
that my Redeemer sliveth" 81 know
in whom have believed" Down
with the 'if' and up with
81 know" o, that giant Doubt is such
a cruel giant! 1t attacks many in the
last hour. 1t could not let my mother
alone even in her dying moments
After life of holiness aud consecra-
tion such as never heard of in anyone
else, she said to my father: Father,
what if, after all, our prayers and
struggles should go for nothing?" Why
could she not, after all the trials and
sicknesses and bereavements of long
life and the infirmities of old age, be
allowed to go without such a cruel
stroke from Doubt the giant? Do you
wonder l have a grudge against the
old monster? II 1 could would give
him bigger bounce than Satan got
when, hurled out of Heaven, the first
thing he struck was the bottom of per-
dition.
Another impression from my subject:
| The march of the church cannot be i'm
peded by gigantic opposition. That
Israelitish host led on by Moses was
the church and when Og, the giant
him of the iron bedstead, came out
against him with another host-a fresh
host against one that seemed worn out
| things must have looked bad for
| Israel No account is given of the bed.
stead of Moses, except that one in
which he first slept-the cradle of
aquatic vegetation on the Nile, where
the wife of Chenephres, the king, found
the floating babe and, having no child
of her own, adopted him. Moses of
ordinary size against Og of eXtraordi-
nary Dimensions. Besides that Og was
backed by sixty fortified cities,
Moses was backed up seemingly
by nothing but the desert that
had worn him and his army into
group of undisciplined and ex-
hausted stragglers But the Israelites
triumphed If you spell the name of
Og backward, you turn it into the word
Go" and Og was turned backward
and made to go. With Og's downfall
all the sixty cities surrendered Moth
ing was left of the giant except his
museum at Rabbath to show how tall
and stout he once was So shall the
last giant of opposition in the church's
march succumb. Not sixty cities cap
tured, but all the cities Not only on
one side of Jordon, but on both sides
of all the rivers The day is coming.
Hear it all We who are doing something
for the conquest of the world for God
and the truth, the time will come when,
as there was nothing left of Og, the
giant but the iron bedstead kept at
Rabbath as a curiosity, there will be
nothing left of the giants of iniquity
except something for the relic hunters
to examine.
Which of the giants will be the last
slain / know not, but there will be q
museum somewhere to hold the relics
of what they once were. A rusted
sword will be hung up-the only relic
of the giant of war. A demijohn-the
only relic of the giant of inebriation
A roulette ball-the only relic of the
giant of hazard. A pictured certificate
of watered stock-the only relic of
stock gam milling. A broken knife-the
only relic of the giant of assassination.
A yellow copy of Tom Paine-the only
relic of the giant of unbelief And
that museum will do for the later ages
of the world what the iron bedstead at
Rabbath did for the earlier ages. Do
you not see it makes all the difference
in the world whether we are fighting
on toward a miserable defeat or to-
ward a final victory? All the Bible
promises prophesy the latter, and
so / cheer you who are the
troops of God, and though many
things are dark now, like Alex
ander, review the army bt torchlight
and 1 give you the watchword which
Martin Luther proclaimed: THE Lord
of hosts" THE Lord of hosts!" and l
cry out exultingly, with Oliver Crom-
well at the battle of Dunbar: Let God
arise; let His enemies be scattered"
Make all the preparations for the
worlds evangelization. Have the faith
of Robert and Mary Moffatt, the mis-
sionaries, who after preaching in
Bechuanaland for ten years without
one convert, were asked what they
would like to have sent them by way
of gift from England, said: 'Send a
communion service for it will surely be
needed" and sure enough the expected
ingathering of many souls was realized
and the communion service arrived in
time to celebrate it Appropriately
did that missionary write in an album
when his autograph was requested:
My album is the savage breast
Where darkness reigns AMI tempests wreSt,
Without one ray OF light,
To write the name of Jesus there,
and point TO worlds both bright and fair,
And see the savage bowed in prayer,
Is my supreme delight.
Whatever your work and wherever
your work for God-forward! You in
your way ard in my way. With holy
pluck fight on with something of the
strength OF Thomas Troubridge, who
at Inkermann had one leg shot off and
the foot of the other leg, and when they
proposed to carry him off the field re-
battle is Won" Whatever be
the rocking of the church or
state, have the calmness of
the aged woman in an earthquake that
frightened everybody else, and who,
when asked if she was not afraid, said:
mo. am glad that have God who
can shake the world" Whether your
work be to teach Sabbath class, or
nurse an invalid, or reform a wanderer,
or print tract, or train a household,
or bear the querulousness of senility,
or cheer the disheartened, or lead a
soul to Christ know that by fidelity
you may help hasten the time when
the world shall be showed under
with white Lily and incardined