The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-27

limited monarchy After while the
limited monarchy is given up, and the
republican form of government will bt
everywhere dominant and recognized
Then the world will get tired of the re
publican form of government, and il
will have an anarchy, which is no gov
eminent at all And then, all nations,
finding out that man is not capable
of righteously governing man, will
cry out again for a sheocracy
and say: Let God come back and
conduct the affairs of the world Ev.
cry step-monarchy, limited monarchy.
republicanism, anarchy, only different
steps between the first theocracy and
the last theocracy. or segments of the
/ great circle of the earth on which God
sits But do not become impatient be-
cause you cannot see the curve of events,
and therefore conclude that Gods gov
eminent is going to break down. His
tory tells us that in the making of the
| Pyramids it took 1000 men two years
| to drag one great stone from the quarry
and put it into the Pyramids. Well
now, if men shOrt-iived can afford to
work so slowly as that, cannot God in
the building of the eternities afford to
wait? What though God should take
| 5000 years to draw a circle? Shall we
take our little watch, which we have to
wind up every night lest it run down,
and hold it up beside the clock of eter-
nal ages? II, according to the Bible, a
thousand years are in Gods sight as
lov 20 haf In,
lation the 5000 years of the worlds
existence have been only to God from
Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the re-
bound is quicker, and the circle is
sooner completed. You resolve that
You will do what good you can. In one
week YOU pat a word of counsel in the
heart of ! Sabbath school child. Dur
ing that same week you give letter of
introduction to young man struggling
in business During the same week
you make an celebration in PRAYER
meeting. 1t is all gone; You will never
hear of it perhaps, You think. A few
years after a man comes up to you and
says: "You don't know me, do you?r
You say: No l don't remember ever
to have seen YOU" WHY" he saws. 81
was in the Sabbath school class over
which you were the teacher
one Sunday you invited me to Christ; |
accepted the offer; you see that church
with the two towers yonder?' YES"
you say. He says: That is where l
preach, " or, ''Do you see the governors
house? That is where l live" One
day a man comes TO you and says:
Good morning" You look at him and
say: "Why you have the advantage of
me; 1 cannot place you" He says:
Don't you remember thirty years ago
giving a letter of introduction to a
young mana letter of introduction
to Moses H. Grinnell?" YES, yes,
1 do" He says: 81 am the
man; that was my first step toward
from business now and am giving my
time to- philanthropics and public in
terests. Come up and see me-" Or
man comes to you and says: 81 want
to introduce myself to you. l went into
a prayer meeting in Atlanta some years
ago; l sat back by the door; you arose
to make an eHhortation; that talk
changed the whole course of my life
and if | ever get to Heaven, under God
l will owe my salvation TO you" In
only ten, twenty or thirty years the cir
Gle swept out and swept back again to
your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is a wider circle
and does not return for great while.
l saw a bill of expenses for burning
Latimer and Ridley. The bill of ex-
penses says:
Carriage for four loads of wood. ............2s
Item. post. ..........ls I'D
Item, two chains ......................3 IS 4d
Item, two staples. Observation-Disclosures, cd
Item, four laborers. ....... ............. IS Sd
That was cheap fire. considering all
the circumstances; but it kindled
light that shone all around the world
and aroused the martyr spirit, and out
from that burning of Latimer and Rid
ley rolled the circle wider and wider,
starting other circles, convoluting, over
running, circumscribing, overarching
all heaven-a circle.
But what is true of the good is Just as |
true of the bad. You utter SANDER |
against your neighbor. 1t has gone |
forth from your teeth; it will nevercome |
back you think. You have done the |
man all the mischief you can. You re- /
ioice to see him vince. You say, |
Didn't give it to him. That word |
has gone out, that slanderous word, on
its poisonous and blasted way. You
think it will never do you any harm.
But l am watching that word, and l |
see 1T beginning to curve, and it curves
around, and it is aiming at your heart.
You had better dodge it You cannot |
lodge it 1t rolls into your bosom, and |
after it rolls in word of an old book
which says: with what measure We
nete, it shall be measured to you
again"
You maltreat an aged parent You
him the room in your house.
You are impatient of his whimsicalities
md garrulity. 1t makes you mad to
lear him tell the same story twice.
You give him food he cannot masticate.
You wish he were away. You wonder
f he is going to live forever He viii
,e gone very soon. His stepsare shorter
Ind shorter. He is going to stop. But
Tod has an account to settle with Won
IN that subject After awhile your eye
will be dim and your gait will halt,
md the sound of the grinding will be
ow, and you will tell the same
tory twice, and your children
will wonder if you are going to live
orever, and wonder if YOU will never
'e taken away. They called you
father" once; now they call you the
old man" If You live few years
onger they will call you the ''old
hap,' What are those rough words