The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-04
md see them koinx down day BY day.

and see them going down day by day,
and week by week, I must give plain
warning. dare not keep it back lest
risk the salvation of my own soul
Rover, the pirate, pulled down the
warning bell on Inchcape rock. think
ing that he would have a chance to
despoil vessels that were crushed on the
rocks; but one night his own ship crashed
down on this very rock, and he went
down with all his cargo God declares:
sWhen l say to the wicked, thou shalt
surely die, and thou givest him not
warming, that same man shall die in
his iniquity; but his blood will / re-
quire at thy hands"
l learn from this subject what sad
thing it is when the church of God
loses its metal These Philistines saw
that if they could only get all the
metallic weapons out of the hands Of
the Israelites all would he well, and,
therefore, they took the swords and the
spears. They did not want them to
have single metallic weapon. When
the metal of the Israelites was gone
their strength was gone. This is the
trouble with the church of God to-
day. 1t is surrendering its cour-
age. 1t has not got enough metal.
How seldom it is that you see
man taking his position in pew.
or in pulpit, or in religious So
ciety, and holding that position against
all oppression, and all trial, and all
persecution, and all criticism. The
church of God to-day wants more back
bone, more defiance, more concentrated
bravery, more metal. How often you
see a man start out in some good enter
prise, and at the first blast of newspa-
perdom he has collapsed, and all his
courage gone, forgetful of the fact that
if a man be right, all the newspapers
of the earth, with all their columns
pounding away at him, cannot do him
any permanent damage. 1t is only
when man is wrong that he can be
damaged. Why, God is going to vindi-
cath His truth, and He is going to stand
by you, my friends, in every effort you
make for Chr;st's cause and the saliva
ton of men.
/ sometimes say to my wife: There
is something wrong; the newspapers
have not assaulted me for three
months! / have not done my duty
against public iniquities, and l will
stir them up next Sunday" Then l
stir them up, and on the following
week the devil bowls, and bowls, show
ing that l have hit him very hard. Go
forth in the service of Christ and do
your whole duty. You have one sphere.
/ have another sphere. 1.-THE Lord Of
Hosts is with us, and the God of Jacob
is our refuge. Selah."
We want more of the determination
of Jonathan. do not suppose he was
a very wonderful man: but he got on
his knees and clambered up the rock,
and with the help of his armor-bearer
he hewed down the Philistines; and .
man of very ordinary intellectual at
tainments on his knees can storm any
thing for God and for truth. We want
something of the determination of tho
general who went into the war. and as
he entered his first battle his knees
knocked together, his physical courage
not quite up to his moral courage, and
he looked down at his knees and said:
"Ah, if you knew where was going to
take you, you would shake worse than
that" There is only one question for
YOU to ask and for me to ask. What
does God want me to do? Where is the
field? Where is the work? Where is
the anvil? Where is the prayer meet
ing? Where is the pulpit? And, find
ing out what God wants us to do, go
ahead and do it-all the energies of our
body. mind and soul enlisted in the I'M
dertaking. Oh, my brethren, we have
but little time in which to fight for
God. You will be dead soon. Put in
the Christian cause every energy that
God gives you. what thy hand find
eth to do, do it with all thy might, for
there is neither wisdom nor device in
the grave whittier we are all hasten
ing" Oh. is it not high time that we
wake out of sleep? Church of God, lift
ND your head at the coming victory!
The Philistines will go down, and
the Israelites will go up. We
are on the winning side. Hear
that ON the winning side.
think just now the Kings horses are
being hooked up to the chariot, and
when He does ride down the sky there
will be such a hosanna among His
friends, and such wailing among His
enemies. as will make the earth trem-
BILE and the heavens sing. l see now
the plumes of the Lords cavalrymen
tossing in the air. The archa NIGEL be-
fore the throne has already FURNISHED
his trumpet, and then he will put its
golden lips to his own, and he will
blow the long, loud blast that will
make all nations free. Clap your
hands. all We people. Hank! 1 hear
the falling thrones, and the dashing
down of demolished iniauities.