The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-12

1pou me. l tell nobody, but N ve-y
much sunk ia'ieed, and l wis could
nave the relief OF weeping as u>ei 10.
Ny days are exceedingly DARK All dis
tresSiny. In a word. Almighty Cod
seems 10 hide His face, and l intrust
the secret hardly 10 any earthly being.
i know not what will become OF me-
There = dou Ltle,s a vooi deal OF b ~
iiy atlictinn MIN RE with this, but II
is not Al 30. l bless God. however
that never lost s.-nt o. the cross. an'-
though I should die without seeing
any personal interest IN the Redeemer's
merits, hope shall be found az His
feet vii thank you for Z word at
your ieasure. NJ door Is boiied a. the
time am writing this. for l am full OF
tears"
What was the matter with the dean
of Carlis 9? Had he got to Ue worse
man? No. The physician said that
;he state ot his pulse would not war
rant his living a minute Oh. If the
east wind If cts the spleen. and
affects the lunEs. and affects the liver,
it viii affect your immortal soul APP
pealing 10 God for help. brace your
self against these whitening blasts and
destroying influences, lest that which
the Psaimist said broke the ships of
Tarshish, shipwreck you.
But notice in my text that the Lord
controls the east wind: The Lord
brought the east wind" He brings 1t
for especial purpose; it must some
times blow from that quarter; the east
wind is just as important as the
north wind. or the south wind. or the
west wind. but not so pleasant
Trial must come. The text does not
say you will escape the cutting blast
Whoever did escape it? Especially who
that accomplished anything for church
or state ever escaped il?
Keats wrote his famous poem, and
the hard criticism .of the poem killed
him-literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem entitled, Jerusalem Deiiv-
cred" and 1t had such cold reception
it turned him into a raving maniac
Sitting fleet was slain by his literary
enemies. The frown of Henry Will
slew Cardinal Wolsey. The duke of
around his house, which had been de-
stroyed by an excited mob, rebuilt, be-
cause he wanted the fence TO remain
as it was. a reminder of the mutabili,y
and uncertainty Of the popular favor.
And you will have trial of some sort
You have had it already. Why need
prophesy? might better mention an
historical fact in your history. You
are a merchant What a time you
had with that old business partner!
How hard it was to get rid of him!
Before you brought him out, or he
ruined both of you, what magnitude
of annoyance! Then after you had
paid him down certain sum of money
to have him go out, and TO promise he
would not open a store of the same
kind of business IN your street, did he
not open the very same kind of bust
ness as near to you as possible, and
take all your customers as far as he
could take them? And then, knowing
all your frailities and weaknesses
after being in your business firm for
so many years, is he not now spending
his time in making a commentary on
what you furnished as text? You
are a physician, and in your sickness,
or in your absence, you get a neigh
boring doctor to take your place in the
sick-room, and he ingratiates himself
into the favor, of that family, so that
you forever lose their patronage Or,
to take patient through the serious
stages of a fever, and some day
the impatient father or husband of
the sick one rushes out and
gets another medical practitioner,
who comes in just in time to get
the credit of the cure. Or, you are
lawyer, and you come in contact with
a trickster in your profession, and in
your absence he moves a nonsuit or
the dismissal of the case; or, the judge
on the bench, remem bering an old po-
litical grudge, rules against you every
time he gets chance, and says with
snarl, ''If you don't like NY decision,
take an exception" Or, you are a
farmer, and the curculio stings the
fruit. or the weevil gets into the wheat,
or the drought stints the corn, or the
long-continued rains give you no op-
portunity for gathering the harvest.
Your best COW gets the hollow-horn,
your best horse gets foundered. 4
French proverb said that trouble comes
in on horseback and gets away on foot.
So trouble dashed in on you suddenly,
but oh, how long it was in getting
away Came on horsebacK, goes away
Cd foot Rapid in coming, slow in
going. This is the history of nearly
all your troubles Again and again
and again you have experienced the
power of the east wind 1t may be
blowing from that direction now.
Ny friends, God intended these trou-
bles and trials for some particular pur-
pose. They do not come at random.
Here is the promise: He stayeth His
rough wind in the day of the east
wind" In the tower of London the
swords and the guns of other ages are
FURNISHED aud arranged into huge pas
sion flowers, and sunfowers, and
bridal cakes, and you wonder how
anything so hard as steel could be put
into such floral shapes have to tell
you that the hardest, sharpest, most