The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-01

SnaCOw on the cradle? There ar,
hundreds of hands to help, and man,
who weary not through the long night
watching, and hundreds of prayers go
ing up that God would restore the sick
is there burning, trimming cup o
calamity placed on the pastors table
are there not many to help him drinl
of that cup and who will not be com
forted because he is stricken? Oh, fol
somebody to write a book about the
rewards of the Christian ministry
about his surroundings of Christian
sympathy
This woman of the text was only q
type of thousands of men and women
who come down from the mansion and
from the cot to do kindness to the
Lords servants. l suppose the men OF
Shunem had to pay the bills, but it was
the large-hearted, Christian sympathies
of the women of Shunem that looked
after the Lords messenger
Again, this woman in the text was
great in her behavior under trouble.
Her only son had died on her lap. A
very bright light went out in that
household. The sacred writer puts it
very tersely when he says: ''He sat on
her knees until noon, and then he died. -
Yet the writer goes on to say that she
exclaimed: at is we'll" Great in
prosperity, this woman was great in
trouble.
Navigators tell us about the rivers.
and the Amazon and the Danube and
the Mississippi have been explored. but
who can tell the depth or length of the
great river of sorrow made up of tears
and blood rolling through all landsand
all ages, bearing the wreck of families
and of communities and of empires
foaming, writhing, boiling with the
agonies of 5000 years. Etna and Coto-
paxi and Vesuvius have been described.
but who has ever skeUched the volcano
of suffering retching up from its depths
the lava and the scoria and pouring
them down the sides to whelm the ma
tions? Oh, if | could gather all the
heart strings, the broken heart strings
into harp would play on it dirge
such as was never sounded.
Mythologists tell us of Gorgon and
Centaur and Titan, and biologists tell
us of extinct species of monsters; but
greater than Gorgon or Megathereum,
and not belonging to the realm of fable,
and not of an extinct species, is a mon
ster with iron jaw and iron hoofs walk
ing across the nations and history and
poetry and sculptor in their attempts
to sketch it and describe il have seemed
to sweat great drops of blood.
But, thank God, there are those who
can conquer as this woman of the text
conquered. and say: cit is well, though
my property be gone, though my chill
dren be gone, though my home be
broken up, though my health be sacri-
feed, it is well, it is welll'' There is no
storm on the sea but Christ is ready to
rise in the hinder part of the ship and
hush it. There is no darkness but the
of Gods eternal love can
illuminate it, and though the winter
comes out OF the northern sky, YOU
have sometimes seen the northern sky
all ablaze with auroras that seem to
say: Come up this way; up this way
are thrones of light and seas of sap
phire, and the splendor of an eternal
heaven. Come up this way"
We may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed
On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost;
Though Satan enrage, the wind and the tide
The promise assures US the Lord will provide. |
Again, this woman of my text was |
great in her application to domestic |
duties. Every picture is home picture,
she is entertaining an Elisha, |
Or whether she is giving careful atten-
ton to her sick boy, or whether she is
for the restoration of her |
picture in her case is n |
nome picture. Those are not disciples
If this Shunemite woman who, going
out to attend to outside charities. neg
ect the duty of home-the duty of wife.
If mother, of daughter. No faithful
hess in public benefaction can ever
atone for domestic negligence.
There has been many a mother who
~ indefatiga BILE toll has reared a large
,amily of children, equipped them for
he duties of life with good manners
md large intelligence and Christian
principle, starting them out, who has
lone more for the world than many an
'ther woman whose name has sounded
through all the lands and through all
centuries
l remember when Kossuth was in
his country there were some ladies
Who got reputation, honora bic reputa-
ion, by presenting him very gracefully
With boquets of flowers on public oc-
asions; but what was all that COM
Jared with the work of the plain Hun
-arian mother who gave to truth and
utilization and the cause of universal
liberty Kossuth? Yes, this woman
f my text was great in her simple
ty.
When this prophet wanted to re-
Yard her for her hospitality by asking
ONE preferment from the king, what
id she say? She said: 81 dwell
mong my own people," as much as to
ay, 81 am satisfied with my lot; all l
7ant is my family and my friends
round me. / dwell among my own
eople." Oh, what a rebuke to the !
trife for precedence in all ages.
How many there are who want to
ct great architecture, and homes fur
ished with all art, all painting, all
who have not enough taste
D distinguish between Gothic and By
antine, and who could not tell figure '
l plaster of paris from Palmer's
White Captive" and would not know I
boys penciling from Bierstadt's |
Yosemite" Men who buy large libra '
es by the square foot, buying these
braries when they have hardly enough a
iucation to pick out the day of the
Imanac! Oh, how many there are c
irving to have things as well as their |
eighbors, or better than their neigh {
ors, and in the struggle vast fortunes I
"a exhanSfad ond h,,c;paec 1,.,,,. |