The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-25

Victory or death!' and when the am
munition was gone, we would take the
captors on the point of the bayonet or
under the breach of the gun. If YOU
would make such struggle for the
getting back of your earthly friends,
will you not make as much struggle for
the gaining of the eternal companion
ship of your heavenly friends?
You say that all this implies that our
departed Christian friends are alive.
Why had you any idea they were dead?
They have only moved. If you should
go on the I'd of May to a house where
one of your friends lived, and find him
gone, you would not think him dead
You would inquire next door where he
had moved to. Our departed Christian
/ friends have only taken another house.
The secret is that they are richer now
than they once were, and can afford a
better residence. They once drank out
of earthenware; they now drink from
the Kings chalice. Joseph is yet
| alive" and Jacob will go up and see
him. Living? are they? Why, if a
man can live in this damp, dark dun
geon of earthly captivity, can he not
live where he breathes the bracing at
mosphere of the mountains of Heaven?
Oh, yes, they are living.
Do you think that Paul is so near
dead now as he was when he was liv-
ing in the Roman dungeon? Do you
think that Frederick Robertson. of
Brighton, is as near dead now as he
was when, year after year, he slept
seated on the floor, his head on the
bottom of chair, because he could
find ease in no other position? No,
Death gave them the few black drops
that cured them. That is all death
does to Christian-cures him. | know
that what / have said implies that they
are living. There is no question about
that. The only question, this morning,
is whether you will ever join them.
But l must not forget those 200
men who tainted by the brook Besor,
They could not take another step
farther. Their feet were sore; their
heads ached; their entire nature was
exhausted. Besides that, they were
broken-hearted because their homes
were gone. Ziklag in ashes! And vet
David, when he comes up to them, di-
vides the spoils among them, He says
they shall have some of the Jewels,
some of the robes, some of the treas
ures. l look over this audience this
morning and 1 find at least 200 who
have tainted by the brook Besor-
the brook of tears. You feel as if you
could not take another step farther,
as though you could never look
up again. But / am going to
initiate David and divide among
you some glorious trophies. Here is
robe: ''All things work together for
good, to those who love God" Wrap |
yourself in that glorious promise. Here /
is for your neck string of pearls, |
made out of crystallized tears: Weep
ing may endure for a night, but Joy |
cometh in the morning." Here is a |
coronet: BE thou faithful unto death, |
and L will give thee crown of life" o |
We fainting ones by the brook Besor,
dip your blistered feet in running
stream of Gods mercy. Battle your
brow at the wells of salvation. Soothe
your wounds with the balsam that ex-
udes from trees of life. God will not
utterly cast you off, o broken-hearted
man, o broken-hearted woman, faint
ing by the brook Besor.
A shepherd finds that his musical
pipe is bruised. He says: II can't get
any more music out of this instrument;
so l will just break it and throw this
reed away. Then 1 will get another
reed. and L will play music on that"
But God says He will not cast you off
because all the music has gone out of
your soul. The bruised reed He will
not break" God will see you all the way
through, o troubled soul, and when you
come down to the Jordan of Death, you
will find it to be as thin brook as
Besor; for DR.. Robinson says that in
April, Besor dries up, and there is no
brook at all. And in your last moment
you will be as placid as the Kentucky
minister who went up to God, saying,
N the dying hour: Write to my sister
Kate, and tell her not to be worried
md frightened about the story of the
leath-bed. Tell her there is not a
word of truth in it, for 1 am there now,
very happy way: not because 1 am a
rood man, for am not; am nothing
put poor, miserable sinner, but L
lave an Almighty Saviour, and both of
lis arms are around me-"
May God Almighty, through the blood
If the everlasting covenant, bring us
nto the companionship of our beloved
mes who have already entered the
land, and into the presence of
'hrist whom, not having seen, we love,
md so David shall recover all, land as
lis part is that goeth down to the bat
lie. so shall his part be that tarrieth by
he stuff"