The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-13

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Maryland" and Dixie" and then all
the southern troops cheered and
cheered. But after awhile one of the
bands struck up Home, Sweet Home, s"
and the band on the opposite
side of the river took up the
strain, and when the tune. was done
the confederates and the federals all
together united, as the tears rolled
down their cheeks, in one great huzzal
huzza! Well, my friends, Heaven comes
very near to-day. 1t is only stream
that divides us-the narrow stream of
death-and the voices there and the
voices here seem to commingle, and we
join trumpets and hosannahs and hal
lelujahs and the chorus of the united
song of earth and Heaven is Home,
Sweet Home" Home of bright do
mestic circle on earth. Home of for
giveness in the great heart of God.
Home of eternal rest in Heaven. Home!
Home! Home.
But suppose you are standing on a
crag of the mountain, and on the edge
of precipice, and all unguarded, and
some one either in joke or hate shall
run up behind you and push you off.
1t is easy enough to push you off. But
who would do so dastardly deed?
Why, that is done every hour of every
day, and every hour of every night.
Men come to the verge of city life and
say: Now we will just look off Come
young man, do not be afraid. Come
near let us look off. He comes to the
edge and looks, and looks until, after
awhile, Satan sneaks up behind him,
and puts hand on each of his shoulders
and pushes him off Society says it is
evil proclivity on the part of the young
man. Oh, no! He was simply an eX-
plorer and sacrificed his life in discov-
cry.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up in the hotel You have had a longer
sleep than usual You say: Where
am l? a thousand miles from home. l
have no family to take to church to-
day. My pastor will not expect my
presence. l think l shall look over my
accounts and study my memorandum
book. Then l will write few bust
ness letters, and talk to that merchant
who came in on the same train with
me-" Stop. you cannot afford to do it.
But" you say, 81 am worth $780,
000" You cannot afford to do it. You
say am worth 81, 900, 900. You cannot
afford to do it All you gain by break
ing the Sabbath you will lose. You
will lose one of three things: your intel
lect, your morals or your property, and
you cannot point in the whole earth to
single exception to this rule. God
gives us six days and keeps one for
himself Now, if we try to get the sew
enth. he will upset the work of the
other six
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lords day away from
home. A great many who are consist
ent on the banks of the st. Lawrence
or the Alabama or the Mississippi are
not consistent when they get so far off
as the East river. l repeat-though it
is putting it on a low ground-you cam
not financially afford to break the
Lords day. 1t is only another way of
tearing up your government securities
and putting down the price of goods
and blowing up your store. l have
friends who are all the time slicing off
pieces of the Sabbath They cut lit
tie of the Sabbath off that end and a
little of the Sabbath off this end. They
do not keep the twenty-four hours.
The Bible says: Remember the Sab.
bath day, to keep it holy"
l have good friends who are quite
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train on Saturday night and
getting home before crurch Now,
there may be occasions when it is
right, but generally it is wrong. How,
if the train should run off the track !
into the North river? 1 hope your
friends will not send to me to preach
your funeral sermon. 1t would be an
awkward thing for me to stand up by |
your side and preach-you a Christian
man, killed on railroad train travel |
ing on Sunday morning. "Remem-
Der the Sabbath day, to keep it holy"
What does that mean? 1t means TWEEN
ty-four hours.
A man owes you dollar. You don't !
want him to pay you 90c-you want .
the dollar. If God demands of us
twentyfour hours out of the week, he !
means twenty-four hours, and not
nineteen Oh, we want to keep vigil.
antly in this country the American
Sabbath, and not have transplanted
here the European Sabbath, which for
the most part is no Sabbath at all. If
any of you have been in Paris, you
know that on Sabbath morning the
vast population rush out toward the
country with baskets and bundles, and
toward night they come back tagged
put, cross and intoxicated. May God
preserve to us our glorious, quiet
American Sabbath.
o, strangers, welcome to the great
,ity. May you find Christ here, and
not any physical or moral damage.
Men coming from inland, from distant
cities, have here found God and found
him in our service. May that be your
,ase to-day. You thought you were
brought to this place merely for the
purpose of sightseeing. Perhaps God
brought you to this roaring city for the
purpose of working out your eternal
'alvation. Go back to your homes and
ell them how you met Christ here
he loving, patient, pardoning and
Christ Who knows but
he city which has been the destruction
If so many may be your eternal re-
lemption.
A goood many years ago Edward
stanley, the English commander, with
lis regiment, took a fort The fort
by some 500 Spaniards. Ed
ward Stanley came close up to the fort,
eading his men, when a Spaniard
hrust at him with a spear, intending
o destroy his life, but Stanley caught
lold of the spear and the Spaniard in