The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-06-15

mas, writs you have to write out, pa
pers you have to file, arguments 20,
have to make. 1t is your medical pro
fession, with its broken nights, and the
exhausted anxieties of life hanging
upon your treatment. 1t is your rea
estate office, your business with land
lords and tenants, and the failure o.
men to meet their obligations with you
Ay, with some of those who are here
it is the annoyance of the kitchen, and
the sitting room and the parlor-the
wearing economy of trying to meet
large expenses with a small income
Ten thousand voice of business, bust
ness" drown the voice of the eternal
spirit, silencing the voice of the adj
vancing judgment day, overcoming
the voice of eternity; and they
cannot hear, they cannot listen. They
say: $50 thy way for this time" Some
of you look upon your goods, look upon
yoor profession, you look upon your
memorandum books, and you see the
demands that are made this very week
upon your time and upon your pa
thence and your money; and while i
am entreating you about your soul and
the danger of representation, you say:
go thy way for this time; when have
a convenient season, will call for
thee" Oh, Felix, why be bothered
about the affairs of this world so much
more than about the affairs of eternity?
Do you not know that when death
comes you will have to stop business,
though it be in the most exacting
period of it-between the payment
of the money and the taking of the
receipt? The moment he comes
you will have to go. Death waits
for no man, however high, however
low. Will you put your Office, will you
put your shop in comparison with the
affairs of an eternal world? Affairs
that involve thrones, palaces, domin-
ions eternal? VIII you put 200 acres
of ground against immensely? Will
you put forty or fifty years of your life
against millions of ages? Oh, Felix,
you might better postpone everything
else! For do you not know that the
of Tyrian purple in your
palace will fade, and the marble blocks
of Cesarea will crumble, and the break
water at the beach, made of great
blocks of stone go feet long, must give
way before the perpetual wash of the
sea; but the redemption that Paul Of
fers you will be forever? And yet, and
yet you wave him back to the guard
room, saying: $50 thy way for this
time, when have convenient season,
[ will call for thee
Again, Felix adjourned this subject
Of religion and put off Paurs argument,
because he could not give up the hon.
)rs of the word. He was afraid some
how he would be compromised himself
N this matter. Remarks he made after
ward showed him to be intensely am
bilious. Oh, how he Rugged the favor
IF men!
l never saw the honors of this world
n their hollowness and hypocrisy so
much as in the life and death of that
man, Charles Sumner As
he went toward the place of burial,
wen Independence hall, in Philadel-
ohia, asked that his remains stop there
we're at half-mast, and the minute guns
IN Boston common throbbed after his
heart had ceased to beat. Was it al
ways SO? While he lived, how CEN
,ured of legislative resolutions; how
of the pictorials; how
charged with every motive mean and
'idiculous; how all the urns of scorn
md hatred and billingsgate emptied
lpon his head; how, when struck down
N the senate chamber, there were hun
ireds of thousands of people who said:
Good for him, served him rightr' how
lie had to put the ocean between him
md his maligners, that he might have
! little peace, and how, when he went
IF sick, they said he was broken
hearted because he could not get to be
resident or secretary of state. Oh,
of Massachusetts,! who
S that man that sleeps in your public |
lall, covered with garlands and
in the stars and stripes? |
s that the man who, only a
ew months before, you denounced |
IS the foe of republican and democratic |
Is that the same man? |
Ie American people, We could not, by |
ne week of funeral eulogium and
newspaper leaders, which the. dead |
enator could neither read nor hear,
tone for twenty-five years of NAL
reatment and caricature. When l see |
man like that, pursued by all the |
ounds of the political kennel 50 long
S he lives, and then buried under
reat pile of garlands, and s'amidst |
he lamentations of a whole nation,
say to myself. What an unutter-
bly, hypocritical thing is all. human
pplause and all human favor!f You
ook twenty-five years in trying
o pull down his fame, and then
axe twenty-five years in trying to
uild his monument. My friends, was
here ever better commentary on the
lollowness of all earthly favor? If |
here are young men who read this
Vho are postponing religion in order
hat they may have the favors of this
yorld, let me persuade them of their
folly. If you are looking
onward to gubernatorial, senatorial or
residential chair, let met me. show
GU your great mistake. Can it be
hat there is now any young man say
ng: Let me have political Office, let
lie have some of the high positions of
rust and power, and then will attend
D religion; but not now. Go thy way
Or this time; when have a convenient
eason will call for theer"
And now my subject takes a deeper
one, and it shows what dangerous
hing is this dGferring of religion.
Vhen Pauls chain ratified down the
,arble stairs of Felix, that was Felix's
ast chance of Heaven. Judging from
is character afterward, he was repro
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