The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-15
ell" What opened all those chapter.

Frosts! For long while the Bibl
seemed lop-sided and disrroportionat
amount of it given up to the consolato
ry. Why. page after page and chaptel
after chapter and book after book in tn
Bible taken up with alleviations. will
paciications, with condolences Tn
book seems like an apothecary stor
with one-half of the shelves occupied
with balsams. Why such superfiuit,
of balsams? But after awhile the mem
braneous Group carries off your child
or your health gives way under tn,
grippe, or your property is swept off by
a bad investment, or perhaps all three
troubles come at once-bankruptcy
sickness and bereavement Now the
consolatcry parts of the Bible do not
seem to be disproportionate. You want
something off almost all the shelves OF
that sacred dispensary. What has un.
covered and exposed to you the useful
ness of so much of the Bible that was
before hidden? The frosts have been
fulfilling their mission.
Mild doses of medicine will do for
mild sickness, but violent pains need
| strong doses, and SO l stand over you
and count out some drops that will al
leviate your worst troubles if you will
only take the medicine, and here it is:
"In the world We shall have tribula-
ton, but be of good cheer: | have
overcome the world" Weeping may
endure for night, but JOY cometh in
the morning." Thank God for frosts.
hof hnl L.,
of poets? The frost of blindness.
What helped make Washington
the greatest of generals? The
frosts of Valley Forge What
made it appropriate for one passing
John Bunyan's grave to exclain: ''Sleep
on, thou prince of dreamers?" The
frosts of imprisonment The greatest
college from which we can graduate is
the college of frosts. Especial trial
fits for especial work. Just now watch,
and You will see that trouble is prepar-
ative and educational. This is the
grindstone on which battle-aXes are
sharpened | have always noticed in
my own case that when the Lord had
some especial work for me to do,
it was preceded by especial at
tack upon me. This is so pro-
thing l say or do | get poured upon
me volley of censure and anathema,
my wife always asks: 81 wonder what
new opportunity of usefulness is about
to open? Something good and grand
is surely coming"
What is true in my case, is true on a
larger or smaller scale in the history
of every man and woman who wants
to serve the Lord. Without complaint
take the hard knocks. You will see
after awhile, though you may not APP
preciate it now, that by the breath of |
good and loving God frost is given. |
Let the corners of your mouth. so long |
drawn down in complaint, be drawn |
up in smiles of content
For many years poets and essayists
have celebrated the grace and swift
ness of the Arabian horses The most
exhibition of Workmanship
hat | ever witnessed was just outside
he city of Jerusalem-an Arab steed
mounted by an Arab. Do YOU know
where these Arab horses get their fleet
less and poetry of motion? Long CEN
,uries ago Mohammed. with 1000 cav
Try on the march, could find for
hem not drop of water for three
lays Coming to the top of hill
liver was in sight. With a wild dash
he $4,000 horses started for the
tream. A minute after an armed host
vas seen advancing, and at Moham-
ned's command 100 bugles blew for the
horses to fall into line. but all the 3d.
90 continued the wild gallop to the
iyer, except five, and they. almost dead
With thirst wheeled into line of battle.
Nothing in human bravery and self
acrifice excels that bravery and self
orses. Those five splendid steeds
lohammed chose for his own use, and d,
rom those five come that race of ,
rabian horses for ages the glory of
he equestrian world. And let me say
hat, in this great war of
ruth against error, of holiness against ,
n, and Heaven against hell, the ,
est war horses are descended from /;
hose who, under pang and self-denial :
nd trouble, answered the gospel trum- r
ct and wheeled into line. Out of
reat tribulation, out of great fires, out :
great frosts, they came. And let me
" it will not take long for God to :
AXE up to you in the next world for =
i you have suffered in this As you
lter Heaven He may say: "Give this =.
an one of those lowered and colon
AIDED palaces on that ridge of gold >
the Sea of Glass Give =
lis woman home among =
lose amaranthine blooms and be- Il
veen those fountains tossing in the =
sunlight. Give her a couch =,
lnopied with rainbows to pay her for =
| the fatigues of wifehood, and moth =
hood, and housekeeping. from which "
e had no rest for forty years. Cup =
'arers of Heaven, give these newly 20
rived souls from earth the costliest y
averages and roll to their door the q
andest chariots, and hang on their "
ais the sweetest harps that ever ~
to fingers seraphic. Give '"
them rapture on rapture, cele- "a
alton on celebration, jubilee on VI ~,
bilee, Heaven on Heaven. They had :"
hard time on earth earning n live
Iood, or nursing sick children, or 'u
iiting on querulous old age, or bat 81 81
ng falsehoods that were told about IN
EN-, or were compelled to work after 3,
ey got short breathed and rheumatic III
e dim-sighted Chamberlains Of I'd
'aven! Keepers of the Kings robesi o'
nqueters of eternal royalty, Make s''
to them hundred-fold, thousand
d, a million-fold for all they suf-
ed from swaddling clothes to
'oud, and let all those who, whether In,
the hills, or in the temples, or on &c