The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-23

shadow, or will you kindle for them
phosphorescence? At this moment there
are more people crying than laughing;
more people on the round world
this moment hungry than well fed;
more households bereft than homes
unbroken. What are you going to do
about it? "Well," says yonder soul, II
would like to do something toward
illumining the great ocean of human
wretchedness, but / cannot do much.
Can you do as much as one of the phos-
phori in the middle of the Atlantic
ocean, creatures smaller than the point
of a sharp pine ''Oh, yes" you say.
Then do that. Shine. Stand before
the looking-glass and experiment to
see if you cannot get that scowl out of
your forehead; that peevish look out of
your lips. Shine! Let your light SO
shine before men that others seeing
your good works may glorify your
Father which is in Heaven"
Make one person happy every day,
and do that for twenty years and you
will have made 1900 happy. You
know a man who has lost all his
property by an unfortunate invest
ment, or by putting his name on the
back of a friends note? After you
have taken brief nap, which every
man and woman is entitled to on Sun
day afternoon, go and cheer up that
man. You can, if God helps you, say
something that will do him good after
both of you have been dead
thousand years. Shine! You know
of family with n bad boy who has
run away from home Go before
night and tell that father and mother
the parable of the prodigal son, and
that some of the illustrious and useful
men now in the church and state had
silly passage in their lives and ran
away from home Oh, for disposition
so charged with sweetness and light
that we cannot help but shine! Re
member if you cannot be leviathan
flashing the ocean into fury, you can be
one of the phosphori, doing your part
toward making path of phosphores-
cence.
Then will tell you what impression
you will leave when you pass through
this life and after you are gone. will
tell you to your face and not leave 1T to
the minister who officiates at your OBJ
seauies The failure in all eulogium of
the departed is that they cannot hear
it. All hear it except the one most in
terested. This, in substance, is what
/ or some one else will say of you on
such an occasion: 1--WE gather for Of
fees of respect to this departed one. 1t
is impossible to tell how many tears he
wiped away; how many burdens he
lifted: or how many souls he was I'M
der God instrumental in saving. His
infleuce will never cease. We are all
better for having known him. That
pillow of flowers on the casket was
presented by his Sabbath school class,
all of whom he brought to Christ. That
cross of flowers at the head was pre-
scented by the orphan asylum which he
befriended. Those three single flowers
one was sent by a poor woman for
whom he bought ton of coal, and one
was bv "a waif of the street whom he
rescued through the midnight mission,
and the other was from prison cell
which he had often visited to encour-
| age repentance In young man WHO
had done wrong. Those three loose
flowers mean quite as much as the
costly garlands now breathing their
aroma through their saddened home,
crowded with sympathizers. Blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord; they
rest from their labor, and their works do
follow them" Or if it should be the
more solemn burial at sea, let it be
after the sun has gone down, and the
captain has read the appropriate litur-
gy, and the ships bell has tolled. and
you are let down from the stern of the
vessel into the Respondent phosphor-
escence at the wake of the ship. Then
let some one say in the words of my
text: He maketh path to shine after
| him"