The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-17

producing the immortal Cosmos" at &c
years; William Blake at 81 learning
Italian so as to read Dante in the origi-
nal; Lord Cockburn at 81 writing his
treatise. John Wesley stirring great
audiences at IS. William C. Bryant,
without spectacles, reading in my
house ''Thanatopsis, at So years of
age. Christian men and women in all
departments serving God after becom-
ing septuagenarians and octogenarians
and nonagenarians prove that there
are possibilities of work for the aged,
but l think you who are past the seven
ties are near being through. How do
you feel about it? You ought to be jul
bilant because life is 4 tremendous
struggle, and if you have got through
respectfully and usefully, you ought to
feel like people toward the close of a
summer day seated on the rocks watch
ing the sunset at Bar Harbor or Cape
May or Lookout Mountain. am glad
to say that most old Christians are
cheerful. The young have their
troubles before them. The old
have their troubles behind
them. You have got about
all out of this earth that there is in it.
Be glad that you, an aged servant of
| God, are going to try another life and
amid better Surroundings. Stop look
ing back and look ahead Oh, We in the
seventies and eighties and the nineties,
your best days are yet to come, your
grandest associations are yet to be
formed, your best evesight is yet to be
kindled, your best hearing is yet to be
awakened, your greatest speed is yet to
be travelled, your gladdest song is yet to
be sung. The most of your friends have
gone over the border, and you are going
to join them very soon. They are wait
ing for you. They are watching
the golden shore to see you
land. They are watching the
shining gate to see you come
through. They are standing by the
throne to see you mount What glad
hour when you drop the staff and take
the scepter, when you quit the stiffened
joints and become an immortal athlete
But hear! hear. remark pertinent to
all people, whether in the twentieS, the
thirties, the forties, the fifties, the six
ties, the seventies or beyond. What
we all need is to take the supernatural
into our lives Do not let us depend on
brain and muscle and nerve. We want
mighty supply of the super
natural. OH Take this super
natural into all your lives. How to
get it? Just as you get anything you
want. BY application. If you want
anything you apply for it. By prayer
apply for the supernatural. Take it
into your daily business Many a man
has been able to pay only so cents on
the dollar who if he had called in the
supernatural could have paid 100 cents
on the dollar. Why do ninety-eight
men out of hundred fail in business?
Because there are not more than two
men out of a hundred who take God
into their worldly affairs. Behind the
great unknown standeth God within
the shadows, keeping watch upon his
own"
A man got up in New York prayer
meeting and said: God is my partner.
did business without him for twenty
years, and failed every two or three
years l have been doing business with
him for twenty years and have not
failed once" OH take the supernatural
into all your affairs. l had such an
evidence of the goodness of God in
temporal things when | entered active
life, must testify. Called to preach at
lovely Belleville, in New Jersey, l en-
tered upon my work. But there stood
the empty parsonage, and not a cent had
l with which to furnish it. After
preaching three or four weeks the Off
GERS of my church asked me if did not
want to take two or three weeks vaca-
ton. / said, '.yes!" for had preached
about all l knew, but l feared they
must be getting tired of me. When
returned to the village after the brief
vacation, they handed me the key of
the parsonage and asked me if did not
want to go and look at it. Not sus-
pecting anything had happened,
put the key into the parsonage door
and opened it, and there was the
hall completely furnished with carpet |
and pictures and hat-rack, and
turned into the parlors, and they
were furnished, the softest sofas ever
sat on, and into the study, and found it !
furnished with book cases, and l went |
to the bed rooms and they were fur |
nished, and into the pantry, and that |
was furnished with every culinary arti !
Gle, and the spice boxes were filled, and |
a flour barrel stood there ready to be |
opened, and l went down into the din
ing room, and the table was set and |
beautifully furnished, and into the |
kitchen, and the stove was full of fuel, |
and match lay on the top of the |
stove. and all / had to do in starting |
housekeeping was to strike the match. |
God inspired the whole thing, and if |
ever doubt his goodness, all up and |
down the world, call me an migrate. |
testify that l have been in many |
tight places, and God always got me |
out, and he will get you out of the |
tight places.
But the most of this audience will |
never reach the eighties. or the seven
ties, or the sixties, or the forties. He |
who passes into the forties has gone far |
beyond the average of human life. |
Amid the uncertainties take God |
through Jesus Christ as your present |
and eternal safety. The longest life is
only a small fragment of the great |
eternity. We will all of us soon be
there.
Eternity how near it rolls,
Count the vast value of your souls
Beware and count the awful cost
What they have gained, whose souls are lott |
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Royal TInts.
The purple veil seems to have jumped
into favor. 1t is not a distinctive color !