The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-13

he died upon his knees Then there
have been Others whose names have
been known only in their own family
or neigh borbood, and here and there
you think of one. What JUNCTION they
had in prayerl What power they had
in exhortation. If they walked into
home every member of IL felt holy
thrill, and if they walked into a pray
er meeting the dizziness and stolidity
instantly vanished. One of them would
wake up whole church. One of them
would sometimes electrify a whole city.
But the most wonderful one of that
characterization the world ever saw or
heard or felt was a peasant in the far
east, wearing a plain blouse like an in
verted wheat sack, with three open
| ings, one for the neck. and the other
two for the arms His father was
wheelwright and householder, and
given to various carpentry. His mother
81 first under suspicion because of the
circumstances of his nativity, and he
chased by a Herodic mania out OF
His native land, to live awhile under
the shadows of the sphinx and pyramid
Of Gizeh. afterward confounding the
LII DIS of Jerusalem, then stopping
the paroxysm of tempest and of mad
man. His path Etrewn with slain drop
sizes and catalepsies and Ophthalmias,
TRANSPORTED on one mountain, preach
ing on another mountain, dying on an
other mountain. and ascending from
another mountain-the greatest, the
| loveliest, the mightiest, the kindest, the
most self-sacrifcing, most beautiful
Being whose feet ever touched the
earth. Tell us, We deserts who heard
our Saviour's prayer; tell us, We seas
that drenched Him with your surf;
tell us, We multitudes who heard Him
preach on deck. on beach, on hillside;
tell US, Golgotha who heard the stroke
of the hammer on the spikeheads, and
the dying groan in that midnight that
dropped on midnoon, did anyone like
Jesus have this passion for souls?
But breaking right in upon me is the
question:: How can We get something
of this Pauline and Christly longing
for saved immortatities? / answer:
BY better appreciating the prolonga-
ton of the souls existence compared
| WIN bAlLS oiCoA oho 'eAA'
How l hope that surgeon will sue
cessfullv remove the cataract from
that mans eve! 1t is such a sad thing to
be blind. Let us pray while the doctor
is busy with the delicate operation. But
for how long time will he be able to
| give his patient eyesight? Well, if the
patient be 40 years of age, he will add
to his happiness perhaps so years of
eyesight, and that will bring the man
to 90 years, and it is not probable that
he will live longer than that, or that
he will live so long. But what is good
eyesight for so years more as compared
with clear vision for the soul a billion
of centuries? 1 hope the effort to drive
back the typhoid fever from yonder
home will be successful. God help the
doctors!
We will wait in great anxiety until
the fires of that fever are extinguished,
and when the man rises from his pill
low and walks out, with what hearth
ness we will welcome him into the
fresh air and the church and business
circles. He is 30 years of age, and if
he shall live 60 years more that will
make him 90 But what are 60 years
more of earthly vigor compared with
the souls health for a quadrillion mill
lenniums-a millennium, as you know.
a Thousand years? This world, since
fitted up for mans residence, has eX-
listed about 5000 years How much
longer will it exist? We will
suppose it shall last as much
longer. which is very doubtful. That
will make its existence $4,000 years.
But what are or will be 1900 years
compared with the eternity preceding
those years and the eternity following
them? Time, as compared to eternity,
like the drop of the night dew shaken
from the top of the grassblade by the
cows hoof on its way afeld this morn
ing, as compared with Mediterranean
and Arabian and Atlantic and Pacific
watery dominions.
A stranger desired to purchase a
farm, but the owner would not sell it
would only let it The stranger
hired it by lease for only one crop, but
he sowed acorns and to mature that
crop 800 years were necessary. That
was practiced deception, but l de-
ceive you not when 1 tell you that the
crop of the soul takes hold of amending
ages.
see the author of my text seated in
the house of Gaius, who entertained
him at Corinth, not far from the over
hanging fortress of Acro-Corinthus,
and meditating on the longevity of the
soul, and getting more and more agi-
tated about its value and the awful
risk some of his kindred were
running concerning it. and he
writes the letter containing the text
which Chrysostom admired so much he
had it read to him twice week, and
among other things, he says those
daring and startling words of my text:
81 could wish that myself were ac-
cursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen, according to the flesh"
In this last half of the last decade of
the 10Th century the temperature in
the churches is very low, and most of
the piety would spoil if it were not
kept on ice, and taking things as they
are, ordinary Christians will never
reach the point where the cutlery of
Paul in the text will not seem like ex-