The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-17

! those that touch them On. for
more newspapers that put vir-
tue in what is called great
primer type, and vice in nonpa-
reil or agate, You have all seen
the photographers negative. He took
a picture from it ten or twenty years
ago. You ask him now for a picture
from that same negative. He opens
the great chest containing the black
negatives of 1885, or 1873, and he re-
produces the picture. Young men,
J your memory is made up of the mega
/ tives of an immortal photography. All
] that you see or hear goes into your
soul to make pictures for the future.
You will have with you till the judg-
ment day the negatives of all the bad
! pictures you have ever looked at. and
of all the debaucned scenes you have
read about. Show me the newspapers
/ you take and the books you read, and
l will tell you what are your prospects
/ for well-being in this life, and what
will be your residence a million years
after the star on which we now
/ live shall have dropped out OF
| the constellation. never travel
on Sunday unless it be a case of neces-
/ sity or mercy. But last autumn
was in India in a city plague struck.
BY the hundreds the people were down
with fearful illness We went to the
/ apothecary's to get some preventive of
/ the fever. and the place was crowded
with iuvalids. and we had no conf
dence in the preventive we purchased
| from the Hindoos. The mail train was
to start Sabbath evening. l said:
/ Frank, think the Lord will excuse
us if we get out OF this place with the
/ first train and we took it. not feeling
quite comfortab BILE till we were hun
/ dreds OF miles away. l felt we were
right in flying from the plague. Well.
the air in many Of our cities Is struck
/ through with a worse plague-the
/ plague of corrupt and damnable litera-
| ture. Get away from it as soon as pos
sible. It has already ruined the
| bodies. minds and souls of a multitude
which. if stood in solid column, would
reach from New York battery to Gold
en- Horn. The plague. The plague.
Word the next: Never go to any
|
die. Adopt that plan, and you will
never go to any evil amusement, nor
| Oe found in compromising surround
| ings. How many startling cases with
in the past few years of men called sud-
denly out of this world, and the news
papers surprised US when they mem
toned the locality and the companion
ship. To put it on the least important
ground, you ought not to go to any
such forbidden place, because if you
depart this life in such circumstances,
you put officiating ministers in great
embarrassment. You know that some
of the ministers believe that all who
leave this life go straight to Heaven.
however they have acted in this world.
or whatever they have believed. To
get you through such surroundings
is an appalling theological under
taking. One of the most ardu-
Gus and besweating efforts of
that kind that l ever knew of was at
the obsequies of man who was found
dead in a snow bank with his rum jug
close beside him. But the minister did
the work of happy transference as
well as possible, although it did seem
a little inappropriate when he read:
Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord. They rest from their labors, and
their works do follow them" II YOU
have no mercy upon yourself. have
mercy upon the minister who may be
called upon to oficiate after your de-
mise. Die at home or in some place of
honest business, or where the laughter
Is clean, or amid companionships pure
| and elevating. Remember that any
place we go to NAV become our start
| ing point for the next world. When
we enter the harbor of Heaven. and
the officer of Light comes aboard. let
US be able to show that our clearing
papers were dated at the right port.
Word the next: As soon as you can.
by industry and economy. have a home
of your own What do 1 mean by
home? I mean two rooms and the
blessing of God on both of them; one
| for slumbe-. one for food. its prepare
ton and the partaking thereof. Mark
you, would like you to have home
with thirty rooms. all upholstered,
pictured and statuetted. but I am put
| ting it down at the minimum. A hus-
band and wife who cannot be happy
with a home made up of two rooms
would not be happy in Heaven if they
got there. He who wins and keeps the
affection of a good practical woman
has done rloriously. What do I mean
by a good woman? 1 mean one who
loved God before she loved you. What
do 1 mean by a practical woman? I
mean one who can help you to earn
/ living. for a time comes in al
most every mans life when he
Is flung of hard misfortune, and
YOU do not want a weakling GO
/ ing around the house whining and
shifting about how she had it before
you married her. The simple reason
! why thousands OF men never get on in
/ the world is because they married
nonentities and never got over it The
only thing that Jobs wife proposed for
! his boils was warm poultice OF pro-
| family. saving: Curse God and die"
Il adds to our admiration of John
Wesley the manner in which he con-
ouered domestic unhappiness. His
wife had slandered him all over En-
gland until standing in City Road
chapel he complained TO the people.
saying: i have been charged with
every crime in the catalogue except
drunkenness when his wife arose in
the back part OF the church and
said: John, you know you were
drunk last night" Then Wesley ex-
claimed: Thank God, the catalogue is
! complete" When a man marries, he
narries for Heaven or he'll and il IS