The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-23


aspirations as that it proves that you
have mistaken your way, and If you
will only look up and see the finger
board above your head you may read
upon it the words. There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man, but the
end thereof is death" Without holi-
ness no man shall see the Lord, and If
you have any idea that you can carry
along your sins, your lusts, your world
illness and yet get to the end OF the
Christian race, you are so awtully mis-
| taken that, in the name of God, shat
ter the delusion.
Still further, the road spoken of is a
plain road. THE wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein. "
That is, if man is three-fourths of an
idiot he can find this road just as well
as if he were philosopher. The imbe-
Gle boy, the laughing stock of the
street, and followed by a mob hooting
at him, has only just to knock once at
the gate of Heaven and it swings open;
while there has been many man who
can lecture about the pneumatics, and
chemistry, and tell the story of Fara-
days theory of electrical polarization,
and yet has been shut out of Heaven.
There has been many a man who stood
in the observatory and swept the
heavens with his telescope, and yet he
has not been able to see the morning
star. Many man has been familiar
with all the higher branches of mathe-
MATES, and yet could not do the
simple sum, What shall it profit
man if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?" Many a
man has been n fine reader of tragedies
and poems, and yet could not read his
title clear to mansions in the skies.
Many a man has botanized across the
continent. and yet did not know the
Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the
Valley" But if one shall come in the
right spirit, asking the way to Heaven,
he will find it in a plain way. The
pardon is plain. The peace is plain.
Everything is plain
He who tries to get on the road to
Heaven through the New Testament
teaching will get on beautifully. He
who goes through philosophical discus
sion will not get on at all. Christ says:
Come to me, and will take all your
sins away. and l will take all your
troubles away" Now what is the use
of my discussing it any more? Is not
this plain? If you wanted to go to
London, and pointed you out high
way thoroughly laid out, would l be
wise in OBTAINING you by a geological
discussion about the gravel you will
pass over, or a physiological discussion
about the muscles you will
have to bring into play? No.
After this Bible has pointed you
the way to Heaven, is it wise for me to
detain you with any discussion about
the nature of the human will or wheth-
err the atonement is limited or unlin-
tied? There is the road-go on it. 1t
is plain way.
This is faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners"
And that is you and that is me. Any
little child here can understand this as
well as | can. Unless you become as
little child, you cannot see the King
dom of God" If you are saved. it will
not be as n philosopher, it will be as a
little child. of such is the Kingdom
of Heaven" Unless you get the spirit
of little children, You will never come
out at their glorious destiny.
Still further: This road to Heaven is a
save road. Sometimes the traveller in
those ancient highways would think
himself perfectly secure, not knowing
there was a lion by the way, burying
his head deep within his paws, and
then, when the last moment came
under the fearful spring, the mans life
was gone and there was a mauled car
cass by the roadside. But, says my
text, mo lion shall be there" l wish
l could make you feel this morning
your security. 1 tell you plainly thai
one minute after man has become {
child of God he is as safe as though hC
had been 10000 years in Heaven. He
may slip, he may slide, he may STUN
BILE, but he cannot be destroyed. Keep
by the power of God, through faith
unto complete salvation. Everlastingly
safe.
The severest trial to which you car
subject Christian man is to kill him
and that is glory In other words, th'
worst thing that can happen a child o
God is Heaven. The body is only tn,
old slippers that he throws aside jus
before putting on the sandals of light
His soul, you cannot hurt it No fire
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it. No devils can capture it.
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their souls on God;
Fixed as the ground where David stood,
Or where the ark abode.
His soul is safe. His reputation i
safe. Everything is safe. But" yol
say, suppose his store burns up?
Why, then, it will only be change o
investments from earthly to heavenl,
securities. But" you say, ''suppos
his name goes down under the hoof o
scorn and eontempt?" The name vii
be so much brighter in glory. Sup
pose his physical health fails?" Goo
will pour into him the floods of ever
lasting health, audit will not make any
difference. Earthly subtraction is heav
enly addition. The tears of earth ar,
the crystals OF Heaven. As they take
rags and tatters aud put them through
the paper mill. so, often, the rags OF
earthly destitution, under the cylinder
of death, come ont a white scroll upol
which shall be written eternal enamel
patton.
There was one passage of scripture
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until one day at Chaumonix, witt
Mount Blanc on one side and Montan
vent ON the other, l opened my Bib,
and read: ''As the mountains ar
around about Jerusalem, so the Lord i