The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-12-06
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Christian reugiOn /,
while. The Biin = ate 'ft
scandal through whicn we S'd-
year or every four wears mu re
buked by the reii ron winch S - S.
from its two great mountaiI>, from
the one mountain intOnIn. the con-
mand, Thou shalt not bear false w.t.
ness against thy nei RI 'or." an from
the other mount making plea for kin i
ness and blessing rather than cur>ihr :.
Do you say this is impracticable? No
The time is coming just as certainly IA
there is a God, and that this is HIS
Book, and that He has the siren rth
and the honesty II fulfil His promises.
One of the ancient emperors used tn
pride himself on performing that which
his counselors said was impossible,
and / have to tell you to-day that
mans impossibles are Gods easies.
Hath He said, and shall He not do il?
| Hath He commanded, AMI will He not
/ bring it to pass?' The Christian re-
, ligion is coming to take possession OF
every ballot box, of every schoolhouse,
of every hom.. of every valley, of
every mountain, of every acre of our
national domain. This nation, not
withstanding all the evil influences
that are trying to destroy it, is going
| to live.
Never since. according to John Mil
| ton, when Satan was hurled headlong
! flaming from the imperial skies in
| hideous ruin and combustion down."
have the powers of darkness been so
determined to win this continent as
now.
Who shall have this hemisphere,
| Christ or Satan? Who shall have the
shore of her inland seas, the silver of
| her Nevadas. the gold of her Colorados,
| the telescopes of her observatories, the
| brain of her universities, the wheat of
! her prairies. the rice of her s1vannas,
! the two great ocean beaches-the one
reaching from Baffin's Bay to Terra
del Fuego. and the other from Behring
| straits to Cape Horn-all the moral
! and temporal and spiritual and ever
lasting interests of a population vast
beyond all human computation? Who
l will decide that, or help to decide it
| by conscientious vote, by earnest
prayer by maintenance of Christian
institutions, by support of great phil
! anthropies, by putting body, mind and
soul on the right side of all moral, re-
ligious and national movements.
One of the seven wonders of the
world was the white marble watch
tower of Pharos of Egypt, Sostratus,
the architect and sculptor, after build
ing that watch-tower, cut his name on
it Then he covered it with plaster,
and to please the king, he put the
monarch's name on the outside of the
plastering; and the storms beat and
the seas dashed their fury, and they
washed it out, and they washed it
down. but the name of Sostratus was
deep cut in the imperishable rock. So
across the face of this nation there
have been a great many names writ
ten, across our finances. across our re-
ligions, names worthy of Remembrance,
names written on the architecture of
our churches and our schools and our
asylums and our homes of mercy; but
y,
and he was the sculptor of all its
grandeurs; and long after-through
the wash of the ages and tempests of
centuries-all other names shall be
obliterated, the divine signature and
divine name will be brighter and
brighter as the milleniums go by, and
the world shall see that the God who
made this continent has redeemed it
by his grace from all its sorrows and
from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such thing as
that? After all the chariots have been
unwheeled, and after all the war
chargers have been crippled, the char
lots which Elisha saw on the morning
of his peril will roll on in triumph, fol-
lowed by all the armies of Heaven on
white horses. God could do it with
out us, but He will not. The weak
est of us, the faintest of us,
the smallest-brained of us, shall
have n part in the triumph. We
may not have our name, like
the name of Sostratus, cut in imperish
able rock and conspicuous for CEN
turtles, but we shall be remem bered in
DeJIef Dldce IMAM Iudb. even III the
heart of Him who came to redeem US
and redeem the world. and our names
will be seen close to the signature of
His wound. for, as to-day He throws
out His arms to us, He says: Behold.
have craven thee on the palms of My
hand
BY the mightiest of all agencies. the
potency of prayer, l beg you seek our
national welfare. Some time ago
there were 1000. 900 letters in the dead
letter post office in this city-letters
that lost their way-but not one
prayer ever directed to the heart of
God miscarried. The way is all clear
for the ascent of your applications
heavenward in behalf of this
nation. Before the postal COM
munication was so easy, and
long ago. on rock 100 feet high. on
the coast of England. there was bar
rel fastened to a post. and in great let
tiers on the side of the rock, so it could !
be seen far ont at sea. were the words |
Post Office: and when ships came by |
a boat put out to take and fetch let |
terS And 81 Saprp1 yvera fhOSa de- !