The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-23

that have gone down, or a swindle {
your business partner, or trick on tn
part of those who are in the same kin
OF business that you are, but God ir
tended to overrule for immortal helr
'Oh," you say, there is no need talk
ing that way to mel don't like to b
cheated and outraged. Neither doe
the corn like the -thresher; bu
after it has been threshed and win
moved it has a great deal better opin
ion of winnowing mills and corn
threshers
Again: My subject teaches us tha
God keeps trial on us until we let GO
We hold on to this world with its pleas
ures, and riches, and emoluments, ant
our knuckles are so firmly set that i
seems as if we could hold on forever
God comes along with some threshins
trouble and beats us loose. We started
under the delusion that this was grea
world. Trouble came in after-life, anC
this trouble sliced off one part of the
world, and that trouble sliced off an
other part of the world, and it has got
to be smaller world, and, in some OF
your estimations, very insignificant
world; and it is depreciating all tn,
time as a spiritual property. Ten pei
cent. off, Fifty per cent. off, and there
are those here who would not give ten
| cents for this world-for the entire
world-as soul-possession.
'Well," you say, ''if l could choose
| my troubles l would be willing to be
troubled" All, my brother, then il
would not be trouble. You would
chose something that would not hurt,
and unless it hurts it does not get sane
titled. Everybody has some vexation
or annoyance. or trial, and he or she
thinks it is the one least adapted.
Anything but this" all say. ANY
thing but this"
Oh. my hearer, are you not ashamed
to be complaining all this time against
God? Who manages the affairs of this
world, anyhow? Is it an infinite Mo-
doc? or Sitting Bull savage? or an ON
mpotent Mana Sahib? No: il is the
most merciful and glorious and wise
Being in all the universe. You cannot
teach Omnipotence anything You
enough. Do You not think so? Some
of you are making yourselves ridiculous
in the sight OF the angels. God is al
ways right and in nine cases out of ten
you are wrong. He sends Just the
hardships, just the bankruptcies.j just the
cross that is best for You TO have. lie
knows what kind Of grain You are, and
,n L l., e
machine. 1t viii be a rod. a staff. or
iron wheel, just according as you are
fitcheS, or cummin, or corn.
We thought that friendship was a
great thing. In school we used to write
compositions about friendship: and per-
haps we made our graduating speech
on commencement day on friendship.
Oh! it was a charmed thing; but does
it mean as much to you as it used to?
You have gone on in life, and one
friend has betrayed you, and another
friend has misinterpreted you. and an
other friend has neglected you, and
friendship comes now sometimes to
mean to you merely another ak to
grind.
ii
man had a competency he was safe for
all the future: but we have learned
that mortgage may be defeated by an
unknown previous membranes: that
signing your name on the back of a
note may be your business death war
rant; that new tariff may change the
of trade; that a man may be
rich to-day and poor tomorrow. And
God, by all these misfortunes, is trying
to loosen our grip; but still we hold on.
God smites us with a staff; but we hold |
On. And he strikes us with a rod; but |
we hold on. And he sends over us the |
ron wheel of misfortune; but we hold |
1n.
Oh, let go! Let go! The best for
tunes are in Heaven. There are no alb |
cashiers from that bank, no |
failing in promises to pay. Set your
affections on things above, not on
,hings on the earth. Let go, Depend |
lpon it that God will keep upon you
he staff or the rod or the iron wheel
Until you do let go.
Another thing my text teaches us is
hat Christian sorrow is going to have
/ sure terminus. My text says: Bread
'orn is bruised, because he will not be
'ver threshing it" Blessed be God for
hat! Pound away, o fail! Turn on,
wheel! Your work will soon be done.
He will not be ever threshing it."
Vow the Christian has almost as much
lse in the organ for the stop tremulant
S he has for the trumpet. But after
while he will put the last dirge into
he portfolio forever. So much of us as
5 wheat will be separated from so
much as is chaff, and there will be no
nore need of pounding.
They never cry in Heaven, because
hey have nothing to cry about. There
re no tears of bereavement, for you
hall have your friends all round
bout you. There are no tears of pow !
rty, because each one sits at the Kings
able and has his own chariot of saliva
ion and free access to the wardrobe l
there princes get their array. No tears
f sickness, for there are no pneumonias {
n the air and no malarial exhalations
rom the rolling river of life. and no {
rutch for the lame limb and no splint I
Or the broken arm, but the pulses S
1robbing with the health of the 1
ternal God in climate like our June I
efore the blossoms fall or our gorgeous q
ctober before the leaves scatter
In that land the souls will talk over
ne different modes of threshing. Dan ,
j viii describe the lions, and Jonah
and Paul the elmwood whips
18th which he was scourged, and Eve q
Ill tell how aromatic Eden was the q
~ she left it, and John Rogers will I
III of the smart of the flame, and Eli ,
n of the fiery team that wheeled him
D the SlIV-SteenS. and Christ of the | .