The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-28

bare coat have sometimes been the
shadow of coming robes made white in
the blood of the Lamb. The pearl of
great price is worth more than any gem
you can bring from the ocean, than
Australian or Brazilian mines strung
in one carcanet. Seek after God; find
His Righteousness, and all shall be well
here; all shall be well hereafter.
But have word with those who
during the present commercial calami-
ties have lost heavily. or perhaps lost
all their estate. If man lose his prop
erty at so or 40 years of age, it is only
sharp discipline generally, by which
later he comes to larger success 1t is
all folly for a man to sit down in mid
life discouraged. The marshals of
Napoleon came to their commander and
said: 1--WE have lost the battle and we
are being cut to pieces" Napoleon
took his watch from his pocket and
said: at is only 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. You have lost that bat
tie, but you have time enough
to win another. Charge upon the
foe." Though the meridian of life
has passed with you, and you have
been routed in many conflict, give not
up in Encouragement. There are vic
tories yet for you to gain. But some
times monetary disaster to a man when
there is something in his age, or some
thing in his health, or something in his
surroundings, which make him know
well that he will never get up again.
In 1857 it was estimated that, for many
years previous to that time, annually
there had been thirty thousand failures
in the United States Many of these
persons never recovered from the
misfortune. But let me give a
word of comfort in passing. The
sheriff may sell you out of many
things, but there are some things
of which he cannot sell You out.
He cannot sell out your health. He
cannot sell out your family. lie cam
not sell out your Bible. He cannot sell
out your God. He cannot sell out your
Heaven. You have more than you
have lost. Sons and daughters of God,
children of an eternal and ALLOWING
Father, mourn not when your property
goes. The world is yours, and immor-
tally is yours, and rivers of gladness
are yours. and shining mansions are
yours, and God is yours. The eternal
God has sworn it, and every time you
doubt il you charge the King of Heaven
and earth with perjury. Instead of
complaining how hard you have it, go
A,lr f,rn Of
ises, get down on your knees before
God and thank Him for what you have,
instead of spending SO much time in
complaining about what you have not
Some of you remember the shipwreck
of the Central America. This noble
steamer had, ! think, about five hun
bred passengers aboard. Suddenly the
storm came and the surges trampled the
decks and swung into the matches and
there went up Il hundred-voiced death
Shrek. The foam on the jaw of the
wave. The pitching of the steamer az
though it were leaping a mountain.
The dismal flare of the signal rockets.
The long cough of the steam pipes.
The hiss of the eXtinguished fur
naces. The walking of God on the
wave. The steamer went not down
without struggle As the pas
stationed themselves in rows
to bail out the vessel. bark to the
thump of the buckets, as men unused |
to toll, with blistered hands and |
strained muscle, tug for their lives
There is a sail seen against the sky. |
The flash of the distress gun sounded, |
its voice is heard not for it is choked |
in the louder booming of the sea. A
few passengers escaped; but the |
steamer gave one great lurch and was
gone. So there are some men who sail !
on prosperously in life. AIS well, ais
we'll But at last some financial disas- |
ter comes; a euroclydon. Down they go! |
the bottom of this commercial sea is |
with shattered hulks. But |
because your property goes, do not let |
Your soul go. Though all else perish, |
save that; for | have II tell you r.,lat a |
more stupendous shipwreck than that |
which | have just mentioned. God !
launched this world G.OO0 years ago. !
1t has been going on under freight of |
and immortals; but one day |
it will stagger at the cry OF fire. The |
timbers of rock will burn, the |
flame like masts, and |
the clouds like sails in the /
Judgment hurricane. Then God |
shall take the passengers off the |
deck. and from the berths those who |
have long been asleep in Jesus, and He !
will set them far beyond the reach of
storm and peril. But how many shall |
go down? That will never be known,
until it shall be announced one day in
Heaven; the shipwrecked of the world!
On, my dear hearers, whatever You |
lose; though your houses go, though |
your lands go, though all your earthly |
possessions perish, may God Almighty,
the blood of the everlasting |
save all your souls.