The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22


many grains of that, and SO many
drops of this, and so many drops of
that, and the intermixture taken,
though sour or bitter. restores to
health; so Christ. the Divine Physician,
prepares this trouble of our lifetime,
and that disappointment, and this pre-
caution, and that hardship, and that
tear, and we must take the intermix-
ture, yet though it be bitter draught,
under the Divine prescription it admin
listers TO our restoration and spiritual
health, all things working together
for good" Glorious Gospel
And then the royal castle into which
we step out of this life, without so
much as soiling our foot with the up
turned earth of the grave. They
shall reign forever and ever" Does
not that mean that you are. if saved,
to be kings and queens, and do not
kings and queens have castles? But
the one that you are offered was for
thirty-three years an abandoned castle,
though now gloriously inhabited
There is an abandoned royal castle at
Amber, India. One hundred and
seventy years ago king moved out of
it. never to return. But the castle still
stands, an idescribable grandeur, and
you go through brazen doorway after
brazen doorway. and carved room after
carved room, and under cmbellished
ceiling after embellished ceiling, and
through halls preciOus-stoned into
wider halls precious-stoned. and on
that hill are pavilions deeply dyed, and
tasseled. and arched, the fire of colored
gardens cooled by the snow of white
architecture: birds in arabesque so
natural to life that while you cannot
hear their voices you imagine you see
the fiutter of their wings while you are
passing; walls, pictured with triumphal
procession; rooms that were called
''Alcove OF Light" and Hall of Vic
tory" marble. white and black like
mixture of morn and night; alabaster,
and mother-of-pearl. and lacquerworll.
Standing before it the eye climbs from
step to latticed balcony, and from lat
tieed balcony to Oriel: and from oriel to
arch, and from arch to roof, and then
descends on ladder of all cOlors, and
gardens of pomegranate and pineapple.
Seven stories of resplendent architec-
ture! But the royal castle provided for
you, if you will only take it on the pre-
scribed terms. is grander than all that,
and though an abandoned castle while
Christ was here achieving your redemp-
ton, is again occupied by the Chief
among ten thousand" and some of
your own kindred who have gone up
from the balcony. The windows of
that castle look off on the Kings gar
dens, where immortals walk linked in
eternal friendship; and the banqueting
hall of that castle. has, princes and
princesses at the table,: and the wine
is 1.-The new wine of the kingdom" and
the supper is the. marriage. supper OF
the Lamb; and there are fountains
into which no tear ever fell, and
there is music tnat trembles with no
grief, and the light that falls, upon that |
scene is never beclouded, and there is
the kiss of those reunited after long |
More nerve will we have |
there than now, or we would swoOn |
away sunder the raptures. Stronger
vision will we have there than now, or
our eyesight would be blinded by the
brilliancy. Stronger ear will we have
there than now, or under the roll of
that minstrelsy, and the clapping of
and the boom of that hal
Ieluiah we would be deafened. Glori-
0us Gospel, You thought religion was
a strait-jacket, that it put you on
the limits, that thereafter you must
20 cowed down. No, no, no. 1t is
to be castellated. BY the cleansing
power of the shed blood of Golgotha
set your faces toward the shining pin
nacles. Oh, it does not matter much
what becomes of US here-for at the
longest our stay is short-if we can on
" land there. You see there are so
many l do want to meet there. Joshua.
nv favorite prophet; and John among
the evangelists, and Paul among the
apostles, and Wycliffe among the mar
yrs, and Bourdaloue among the preach
ers, and Dante among the poets, and
Havelock among the heroes, and our
owed ones whom we have so much
missed since they left US, so many
larlings of the heart, their absence,
sometimes almost unbearable; and,
mentioned in this sentence last
If all because l want the thought eli
nacteric, our blessed Lord without
whom we could never reach the old
,astle at all. He took our place: He
purchased our ransom. He wept our
woes. He suffered our stripes. He
lied our death. He assured our resur-
'ection. Blessed be His glorious name
brewer, Surging to His ear be all the
Facing Him. be all the
hroneSl
Oh, want to, see it, and L will
zee 1.-THE day of His coronation.
IN a throne. already; methinks- the
lay will come when in some. great
lall of eternity all the. nations, of
.arth whom He has conquered by His
race will assemble again to. crown
md upholstered as with, the. sunrises
md sunsets of a. thousand years, great
audience room of Heaven Like the
caves of an Adirondack forest the ran
Omed multitudes, and Christ standing
m high place surrounded by Worship
RS and subjects. They shall come out
# the farthest past Led on by the
prophets; they shall come out of the
arly Gospel days led on by the apos-
les; they shall come out of the CEN
uries still ahead OF US, led on by cham
lions of the, truth, heroes and heroineS
ret to be born
And then from that vaStest audience
,ver assembled in all the universe