The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-16


the engineer, but God recognized his
heroism and his continuance and his
fidelity, and there will be just as high
reward for the engineer who worked
out of sight, as the captain who stood
on the bridge of the ship in the midst
of the bowling tempest.
A Christian woman was seen going
along the edge of a wood every even
tide, and the neighbors in the country
did not understand how mother with
SO many cares and anxities should
waste SO much time as to be idly saun-
tering out. evening by evening. 1t was
found out afterward that she went
there to pray for her household, and
while there one evening she wrote that
beautiful hymn, famous in all ages for
cheering Christian hearts:
| I love to steal o while away
From every cumb erinz care.
| And spend the hours Of setting day.
| In humble, grateful prayer
Shall there be no reward for such
unpretending, yet everlasting serviceP
We go into long sermons to prove
that we will be able to recognize peo-
pie in Heaven, when there is one reason
we fail to present, and that is better
than all-God will introduce us We
shall have them all pointed out You
would not be guilty of the impolite-
ness of having friends in your parlor
not introduced, and celestial polite
ness will demand that we be
made acquainted with all the
heavenly. household What rehearsal
of old times and recital of stirring
"reminiscences. If others fail to give
introduction, God will take us through,
and before our first twenty-four hours
in Heaven-if it was calculated by
earthly timepieces-have passed, we
shall meet and talk with more heavenly
celebrities than in our entire mortal
state we met with earthly celebrities.
Many who made great noise of useful
ness will sit on the last seat by the
front door of the heavenly temple,
while right up within arms reach OF
the heavenly throne will be many who,
though they could not preach them
selves or do great exploits for God, new
ertheless held the rope.
Come. let us go right up and accost
those on this circle of heavenly thrones.
Surely, they must have killed in battle
a million men. Surely they must have
been buried with all the cathedrals
sounding a dirge and all the towers of
all the cities tolling the national grief.
Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven?
81 lived by choice the unmarried
daughter in a humble home that /
might take care of my parents in their
old age, and l endured without COM
plants all their querulousness and
ministered to all their wants for twenty
years"
Let us pass on round the circle of
| thrones Who art thou, mighty one of
Heaven? 81 was for thirty years a
Christian invalid, and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing a note of
sympathy for those worse off than l.,
| and was general confidant of all those
who had trouble, and once in awhile I
was strong enough to make a garment
| for that poor family in the back lane.
Pass on to another throne. Who are
thou, mighty one of Heaven? 81 was
| the mother who raised a whole family
of children for God, and they are in the
| world, Christian merchants, Christian
mechanics, Christian wives, and have
had full reward of all my toll" Let us
pass on in the circle of thrones. Il
had Sabbath school class, and they
were always on my heart, and they all
entered the kingdom of God, and am
waiting for their arrival
But who art thou, the mighty one of
Heaven on this other throne? I'm
time of bitter persecution l owned a
| house in Damascus, house on the
wall A man who preached Christ was
| bounded from street to street, and
hid him from the assassins, and when
| found them breaking in my house,
and l could no longer keep him safely,
l advised him to flee for his life. and a
basket was let down over the wall with
the maltreated man in it, and 1 was
one who helped hold the rope" And
said: as that alp" and he answered,
THAT is all" And while l was lost in
| amazement heard a strong
voice that sounded as though it
might once have been hoarse from
many exposures and triumphant as
| though it might have belonged to one
of the martyrs, and it said: Not many
| mighty, not many noble are called, but
God hath chosen the weak things of
the world to confound the things which
| are mighty, and base things of the
| world and things which are dispised
| hath God chosen, yea, and things which
| are not, to bring to naught things
| which are, that no flesh should glory
in His presence" And looked to see
from whence the voice came and loi it
was the very one who had said:
Through a window in a basket was I
let down by the wall"
Henceforth think of nothing as in
significant A little thing may decide
your all A Cunarder put out from
England for New York. 1t was we'll
equipped, but in putting up stove in
the pilot box nail was driven too near
the compass You know how that nail
would affect the compass The ships
officer, deceived by that distracted
compass, put the ship 200 miles off her
right course, and suddenly the man on
the lookout cried: Land, hol" and the
ship was halted within few yards of
her demolition on Nantucket shoals.
A six-penny nail came near wrecking a
Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty
destinieS
A minister seated in Boston at his
table, lacking word he puts his hand
behing his head and tits back his
chair to think, and the ceiling falls and
crashes the table and vould hava
crushed him. A minister in Jamaica
at night by the light of an insect
called the candle-fiy, is kept from step.