The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-10
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the door of his mansion. The week
after he lost his fortune all the car
riages you could count on one finger.
. The week before financial trouble be-
gan people all took off their hats to
| him as he passed down the street The
week his financial prospects were un-
der discussion people just touched their
hats without otherwise bending the
/ rim.
Now, while the world goes away
/ from man when he is in financial dis
him and says: You are sick, and your
sickness is to be moral publication; you
are bereaved: God wanted in some way
| to take your family to Heaven, and he
must begin somewhere, and so He took
the one that was most beautiful and
was most ready to GO" l do not say
that religion explains everything in
this life, but do say it lays down GER
tain principles which are grandly con-
solatory.
There are hundreds of people in this
house who are walking day by day in
the sublime satisfaction that all is for
the best, all things working together
for good for their soul How a man
can get along through this life without
the explanation is to me a mystery.
What! is that child gone forever? Are
you never to get it back? Isyour prop
erty gone forever? Is your soul to be
bruised and to be tried forever? Have
you no explanation, no Christian eXpla-
nation, and yet not a maniac? But
when you have the religion of Jesus
Christ in your soul, it explains every
thing so far as it is best for you to un-
derstand You look off in life, and
your soul is full of thanksgiving to God
that You are so much better off than
you might BE-.
OH the sunshine! the sunshine of
Christian explanation Here is some
one bending over the grave of the dead
What is going to be the consolation?
The flowers you strew upon the tomb?
Oh, no, The services read at the grave?
Oh, mol The chief consolation on that
grave is what falls from the throne of
God Sunshine, glorious sunshine.
Resurrection sunshine.
Again, find great deal of the sun
shine of this Bible and of our re-
ligion in the climacteric joys that
are to come A man who gets up and
goes out from a concert right after the
opening voluntary has been played, and
before the prima donna sings, or before
the orchestra begins, has better idea
of that concert than that man has who
supposes that the chief joys of religion
are in this world. We here have only
the first note of the eternal orchestra.
We shall in that world have the Joy of
discovery We will in five minutes
catch up with the astronomers, the
geologists, the scientists, the philoso-
pliers of all ages who so far surpassed us
in this world. We can afford to adjourn
astronomy and geology and many of
the sciences to the next world, because
we shall there have better apparatus
and better opportunity. / must study
these sciences so far as to help me in
my work. but beyond that must give
myself to saving nv own soul and saw
the soul OF others, knowing that in one
lash os eternity We will catch it ali.
Oh! what an observatory in which to
study astronomy Heaven will be-not
by power of telescope, but by super
natural vision.
And geology! What place that will
be to study geology, when the world is
being picked to pieces as easily as a
school girl in botanical lessons pulls
the leaf from the corolla, What a place
to study architecture. amid the thrones
and palaces and the cathedrals-St.
Marks and ST. Paul's rookeries in COM
parisOn.
Sometimes you wish you could make
the tour of the whole earth, going
around as others have gone; but you
have not the time; you have not ~
means. You will make that tour yet,
during one musical pause in the eternal
anthem. l say these things for the
comfort of those people who are
abridged in their opportunities-thOse
people to whom life is hum-drum, who
toll and work, and toll and work, and
aspire after knowledge. but have no
time to get it, and say: ''If / had the
opportunities which other people have,
how l would fill my mind and soul with
grand thoughtr' Be not discouraged.
my friends, you are going to the univer-
sity yet Death will only matriculate
you into the royal college OF the uni
verse.
What sublime thing it was that Dr.
Thornwell, of South Carolina, uttered
in his last dying moments. As he
looked up he said, 1T opens; it ex-
pands, it expands" Or as Mr. Toplady,
the author of Rock of Ages" in his
last moment, or during his last hours,
looked up and said, as though he saw
something supernatural. Light" and
then as he came on nearer the dying
moment, his countenance more lumin-
ous, ne cried. Light" and at the very
moment of his departure lifted both
hands, something supernatural in his
countenance as he cried. Light" Only
another name for sunshine.
Besides that. we shall have the pleas
ures of association. We will go right
up in the front Of God without any
fright. All orr sins gone. there viii be
nothing to be frightened about There
our old Christian friends will troop
around US just as now one of your
sick friends goes away to Florida. the
land of flowers, or to the south OF
France, and you do not see him for 4
long while, and after awhile You meet
him. and the hollows under the eyes
are all filed, and the appetite
has come back, and the crutch
has been thrown away. and he is
so changed you hardly knew him; you
say: why. l never saw you look so
WELL He says: Il couldn't help but
be well ! have been sailing these
rivers and climbing these mountains,
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