The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-03

years been digging, ana Juggling away
but they can never be delivered unless
they will hoist some signal of distress.
However weak and feeble it may be,
Christ will see it, and bear down upon
the helpless craft and take them on
board; and it will be known on earth
and in Heaven how narrowly they es-
as with the skin of
their teeth"
There are others who, in attempting
to come to God, must run between
great many business perplexities- If
man go over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and come away at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, he has some
time for religion. but how shall you
find time for religious contemplation
when you are driven from sunrise until
sunset, and have been for five years
going behind in business, and are fire.
ouently dunned by creditors whom you
cannot pay, and when, from Mon
day morning until Saturday night,
you are lodging bills that you can
not meet? You walk day by day in
uncertainties that have kept your
brain on fire for the past three years.
Some. with less business troubles than
you, have gone crazy. The clerk has
heard a noise in the bank counting
room, and gone in, and found the chief
man of the firm a raving maniac; or the
wife has heard the bang of a pistol in
the back parlor, and gone in, stumbling
over the dead body of her husband-a
suicide. There are in this house to-
day three hundred men pursued, har-
assed, trodden down and scalped of
business perplexities, and which way
to turn next they do not know. Now,
God will not be hard on you. He
knows what obstacles are in the way
of your being Christian, and your
first effort in the right direc-
ton He will crown with success.
Do not let Satan, with cotton
bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and
counters, and stocks of unstable goods,
block up your way to Heaven. Gather
up all your energies. Tighten the
girdle about your loins. Take an
agonizing look into the face of God,
and then say: Here goes one great eff
fort for life eternal" and then bound
away for Heaven, escaping ''as with
the skin of your teeth"
In the last days it will be found that
Hugh Latimer, and John Knox. and
Huss, and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, but Christian men who went
up incorrupt from the concentrations
and perplexities of Wall street, Water
street. Pearl street, Broad street, State
street, Third street, Lombard street
and the bourse. On earth they were
called brokers, or stock jobbers, or re-
tailers, or importers; but in Heaven
Christian heroes.
find in the community large class
of men who have been so cheated, sc
lied about, so outrageously wronged,
that they have lost faith in everything.
In world where everything seems sc
topsy-turvey they do not see how there
can be any God. They are COMPOUNDED
and frenZied. and misanthropic. Elab
crate argument to prove to them the
truth of Christianity, or the truth OF
ANYTHING else, touches them nowhere.
Hear me, all such men, l preach to
YOU no rounded periods, no ornamental
discourse; but put my hand on your
shoulder, and invite you into the
peace of the gospel. Here is the rock
on which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against ii
harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
surf clear above Eddstone light house.
Do not charge upon God all these
troubles of the world. AS long as the
| world stuck to God, God stuck to the
world; but the earth seeded from his
government. and hence all these out
RACES and all these woes. God is good
Try this God, We who have had the
bloodhounds after you, and who have
thought that God has forgotten you.
Try him, and see if He will not help.
Try him, and see if He will not pardon
Try him, and see if He will not save.
The flowers of spring have no bloom
SO sweet as the Towering OF Christi
affections. The sun hath no warmth
compared with the glow of His heart
| The waters have no refreshment like
| the fountain that will Stake the thirst
of thy soul.
This world is poor portion for your
| soul, oh business man! An eastern
king had craven upon his tomb two
| fingers, represented as sounding upon
each other with snap, and under
them the motto: "All is not worth
that" Apicius Coelius hanged himself
because his steward informed him tina,
he had only 100000 left. All of this
worlds riches make but small inner
| itance for the soul.
| Oh, find your peace in God. Make
one strong pull for Heaven. No half
way work will do it. There some
times comes a time on shipboard whe 4
| everything must be sacrificed tC
save the passengers. The cargo
is nothing, the rigging nothing. The
captain puts the trumpet to his lip ano
shouts: ''Cut away the mast" Some
of you have been tossed and driven
i and you have, in your effort to keel
the world, well nigh lost your soul
Until you have decided this matter, lie
everything else go. Overheard will
all those other anxieties and burdens
You will have to drop the sails of YOU
pride and cut away the mast! With
one earnest cry for help, put your cause
into the hand of Him who helped Pau
out of the breakers of Melita
and who, above the shrill bias
of the wrathiest tempest tina
ever blackened the sky or shool
the ocean can hear the faintest i'm
ploration for mercy. shall conclude
feeling that some of you, who have con
sidered your case hopeless, will taxi
heart again, and that with blood-re'
earnestness, such as you have never ex
perienced before, you will start for tn,
good land of the Gospel-at last to lool
back saying: What great risk ran
Almost lost, but saved! Just go
through, and no more! Escaped by tn