The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-05

himself up and he takes stimulants 70
keep himself up until the stimulants
keep him down, or man has been going
along for 30 or 40 years in unsuccessful
business, and here is an opening where
by one dishonora Die action ne can lift
himself and lift his family from all
financial embarrassment He attempts
to leap the chasm, and he falls into it
Then it is in after life that the great
temptation of success comes If man
make fortune before so years of age,
he generally loses it before 40 The
solid and the permanent fortunes for
the most part do not come to their
climax until rnidlife or in old age The
most of the bank presidents have
white hair. Many of those who have
been largely successful have been full
of arrogance or worldhness or dissipa-
ton in old age. They may not have
lost their integrity, but they have be-
come so worldly and SO selfish under
the influence of large success that it is
evident to everybody that their success
has been temporal calamity and an
eternal damage.
Concerning many people it may be
said it seems as Il it would have been
better if they could have embarked
from this life at 90 or 80 years of age.
Do you know the reason why the vast
majority of people die before So? II
is because they have not the moral
endurance for that which is beyond
the 30, and a merciful God will not
allow them to be put to the fearful
strain
Again, there is blessing in abbre-
waited earthly existence in the fact
that one is the sooner taken off the de-
fensive- As soon as one is old enough
to take care of himself, he is put on his
guard. Bolts on the door to keep out
the robbers Fireproof safes to keep
off the flames Life insurance and fire
insurance against accidents. Receipts
iest you have to pay debt twice Life
boat against shipwreck. Westing-
house air brake against railroad col
lision. There are many ready to over
reach you and take all you have. De-
tense against cold. defense against
against the worlds abuse, defense all
the way down to the grave, and even
the tombstone sometimes is not suffi-
Gent barricade.
If a soldier who has been on guard,
shivering and stung with the cold, pac-
ing up and down the parapet with
musket, is glad when some
opa corr,aS = n ,-aliaya cruar II Nd ba oap ro
inside the fortress, ought not that man
to shout for joy who can put down his
weapon of earthly defense and go into
the kings castle? Who is the more
fortunate, the soldier who has to stand
guard Il hours, or the man who has to
stand guard six hours? We have COM
mon sense about everything but relig-
ion, common sense about everything
but transference from this world
Again, there is blessing in an alb
breviated earthly existence in the fact
that one escapes SO many bereave-
nents The longer we live the more
and the more kindred, the
more chords TO be wounded, or rasped,
or sundered If a man live on to seven
~ or eighty years of age, how many
graves are cleft at his feet? In that
long reach of time father and mother
90, brothers and sisters go, children 90,
go. personal friends out
side the family circle whom they had
loved with love like that of David
and Jonathan.
Besides that, some men have a nat
il II
ever and anon during forty or fifty or
sixty years this horror of their dissolu-
ton shudders through soul and body.
Now, suppose the lad goes at 1G years
Of age He escapes fifty funerals, fifty
baskets, fifty Obsequies, fifty awful
of the heart 1t is hard
enough for US to bear their departure,
but is it not easier for US to bear their
departure than for them to stay and
bear fifty departures? Shall we not,
by the grace of God. rouse ourselves
nto a generosity of bereavement which
will practically say. 1T is hard enough
FOR me to go through this bereavement,
out how glad l am that ne will never
nave to go through it,
So 1 reason with myself, and so you
Will find it helpful to reason with your
selves. David lost his SON Though |
David was king, he lay on the earth |
and inconsolable for some |
line. At this distance of time, which |
10 you really think was the one to be |
the short lived child or |
he long lived father? Had David died |
IS early as that child died, he would in /
he first place have escaped that particu- |
ar bereavement, then he would have es-
.aped the worse bereavement of Absa-
ON, his recreant son, and the pur-
nit of the Phillistines, and the /
atigue of his military campaign, and |
he jealousy of Saul, and the perfdy
f Ahithophel, and the curse OF Shimei.
nd the destruction of his family at
.iklag. and, above all, he would have
scaped the two great calamities of his
ife, the great sins of uncleanness and
murder. David lived to be of vast use
o the church and the world, but so far
S his own happiness was concerned,
oes it not seem to you that it would
ave been better for him to have gone
arly?
Now, this, my friends. explains some
hings that to you have been inexplic-
bic. This shows you why when God
axes little children from a household
e is very apt to take the brightest, the
most genial, the most sympathetic, the
lost talented Why? 1t is because
hat kind of nature suffers the most
rhen it does suffer and is most liable
D temptation God saw the tempest
up from the Caribbean. and
e put the delicate craft into the first
arbor. Taken away from the evil to
ONE"
Again, my friends. there is a blessing
! an abbreviated earthly existence in