The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-08
q calculation. You got on the track Of

. calculation. You got on the track Of
some financial or social game. With
your pen or pencil you were pursuing
it. That very morning you were de-
vouring the prey; but that very night
you were in different mood. You
found that Heaven was offered you.
You wondered how you could get it
for yourself and for your family. You
wondered what resources it would
give you now and hereafter. You are
dividing peace. and comfort, and salts
soul. You are dividing the spoil.
One Sabbath night at the close of the
service l said to some persons: when
did you first become serious about your
soul?" And they told me: Tonight"
"When did you give your heart to God?"
And they said: Tonight" And L
said to stillothers: "When did you re-
solve to serve the Lord all the days of
your life?" And they said: Tonight"
saw by the gayety of their apparel
that when the grace of God struck
them they were devouring the prey;
but saw also, in the flood of joyful
tears and in the kindling raptures on
their brow and in their exhilarant and
transporting utterances that they were
dividing the spoil If you have been in
this building when the lights are struck
at night you know that with one
touch of electricity they are all blazed.
your souls might be broken up, and
that by one. qui k, overwhelming, in
Simultaneous flash of illumination you
might be brought into the light and
the liberty of the sons of God!
You see that religion is a different
thing from what some of you people
supposed. You thought that it was de-
cadence; you thought religion was
maceration; you thought it was high
way robbery; that it struck one down
and left him half dead; that it plucked
out the eyes; that it plucked out the
plumes of the soul; that it broke the
wing and crushed the beak as it came
clawing with it's black talons through
the air. No, that is not religion. What
is religion? 1t is dividing the spoils.
1t is taking a defenseless soul and pam
oplying it for eternal conquest 1t is
the distribution of prizes by the kings
hand, every medal stamped with a
coronation. 1t is an exhilaration. an
expansion. 1t is imparadisation. 1t is
enforcement. Religion makes man
master of earth, of death, and hell. 1t
goes forth to gather the medals of vic
tory won by Prince Emanuel, and the
diadems of Heaven, and the glories of
realms terrestrial, and celestial, and
then, after ranging all worlds for
everything that is Respondent, it
divides the spoils What was
it that James Turner, the
famous English evangelist. was
doing when in his dying momUnts
he said: "Christ is all! Christ is all!''
Why, he was entering into light he
was rounding the Cape of Good Hope;
he was dividing the spoil What was
the aged Christian Quakeress doing,
when, at so years of age, she arose in
the meeting and said: 1.-The time of
my departure is come. MY grave
clothes are falling off, She was divid-
ing the spoil.
She longed with wings to fly away,
And mix with that eternal day.
What is Daniel now doing. the lion
tanner? And Elijah, who was drawn
by the flaming coursers? And Paul,
the rafting of whose chains made
kings quake? And all the other VIC
Tins of the flood, and fire, and wreck,
viding the spoil.
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
In sparkling raiment bright.
The armies OF the ransome saints
Throng up the sleeps Of light
IT'S finishe ,, all is finished,
Their fight with death and sin:
Lift high your golden gates,
And let The victors in
Oh, what grand thing it is to be a
Chistian! We begin now to divide the
spoil, but the distribution will not be
completed to all eternity. There is
a poverty-struck soul, there is a
business-despoiled soul, there is
sin-struck soul, there is bereaved
soul-why do you not come and get the
spoils of Christian character, the COM
fort, the joy, the peace, the salvation
that am sent to offer you in my Mas
ter's name? Though your knees knock
together in weakness, though your
hand trembles in fear, though your
eyes rain tears of uncomfortable weep
ing-come and get the spoils. Rest for
all the weary. Pardon for all the
guilty. Labor for all the bestormed.
Life for all the dead. / verify believe
that there are some who have come in
here, downcast because the world is
against them, and because they feel
God is against them, who will go away
saying:
1 came to Jesus as was
Wearv and worn and sad:
found in Him resting place,
And He has made me glad
Though you came in children of the
world, You may go away heirs OF
Heaven. Though this very autumnal
morning you were devouring the prey,
now, all worlds witnessing, you may
divide the spoil
Settling an Old Grievance.
81 have come, SIR" exclaimed the
wild-eyed caller, throwing his head
back defantly, ito have it out with
your
The dentist grasped his forceps, there
was a short struggle, and he stood over
his victim in triumph.
''That's all right, SIR" he replied.
looking at the weapon to see if he had
brought away anything besides the
aching molar itself That's all right.
But don't want any of your jaw, you
know."-Chicago Tribune
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