The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-17

he thought he would steal them. No.
body would know it He drove these
stolen sheep and oxen toward home,
but stopped to report to the prophet
how he had executed his mission. when
in the distance the sheep began to
bleat and the oxen to below. The Sc
cret was out, and Samuel said to the
blushing and confused Saul: what
meaneth the bleating of the sheep that
] hear and the believing of the cat
tle?''
Ali my nearer, you cannot keep IN
iniquity still At just the wrong time
the sheep will bleat and the oxen will
below. Achan cannot steal the Baby
lonish garment without being stoned
to death, nor Arnold betray his coun-
try without having his neck stretched.
Look over the police arrests. These
thieves, these burglars, these counter
feiters, these highwaymen, these as
sassins, they all thought they could
bury their iniquity so deep down, it
would never come to resurrection; but
there was some shoe that answered TO
the print in the soil, some false keys
found in their possession, some bloody
knife that whispered of the death, and
the public indignation and the anathe-
ma of outraged law hurled them into
the dungeon or hoisted them on the
gallows.
Francis l., king of France, stood
counseling with his officers. how he
would take his army into Italy, when
Ameril, the fool of the court, leaped
out from the corner of the room and
said: you had better be consulting
how you will get your army back"
and it was found that Francis l., and
not Ameril, was the fool Instead Of
consulting as to the best way of get
ting into sin, you had better consult
as to whether you will be able to get
out of it If the world does
MOI expose you, you will tell it
yourself. There is an awful power
in an aroused conscience. A highway
man plunged out upon Whitefield as he
rode along on horseback, a sack of
money on the horse-money that he
had raised for orphan asylums, and
the highwayman put his hand on the
gold and Whitefield turned to him and
said: Touch that if you dare; that
belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ
And the ruffian skunk into the forest.
Conscience! Conscience! The ruff
fan had a pistol, but Whitefeld
shook at him the finger of doom.
Do not think that you can hide
any great and protracted sin in your
heart, my brother. In an unguarded
moment it will slip eff the lip, or some
slight action may for the moment set
ajar this door that you wanted to keep
closed. But suppose that in this life
you hide it, and you get along with
this transgression burning in your
heart, as ship on fire within for days
binders the flames from bursting
out by keeping down the matches, yet
at last in the judgment that iniquity
will blaze out before God and the
universe.
Learn also from this subject that
there is an inseparable connection
between all events however remote.
The universe is only one thought Of
God. Those things which seemed
fragmentary and isolated are only
different parts of that great thought
How far apart seemed these two events
Joseph sold to the Arabian mer-
chants and his rulership of Egypt, yet
you see in what mysterious way God
connected the two into one plan. So
the events are linked together You
who are aged men look back and group
together a thousand things in your life
that once seemed isolated. One
chain of undivided events reached
from that old Garden of Eden
to the Cross of Calvary, and thus up to
lation between the smallest insect that
huns in the summer air and the arch
angle on his throne. God can trace a
direct ancestral line from the bluejay
that this spring will build its nest in
the tree behind the house to some of
the hocks of birds which, when Noah
hoisted the ark window, with a whirr
and dash of bright wings went out to
sing over Mount Ararat The
tulips that bloom in the garden
this spring were procured by the
snowfskes The furthest star on
one side of the universe could
not look towards the furthest star
on the other side of the universe and
say: "You are no relation to me-" for
from the bright orb the voice of light
would ring across the heavens respond
ing, Eyes, yes, we are sisters" Moth
ing in Gods universe swings at loose
ends Accidents are only Gods way of
turning a leaf in the book of his
eternal DEGREES From our cradle 20
to our grave there is path all marked
out Each event in our life is con-
neeted with every other event
in our life. Our losses may be
the most direct road to our gain.
Our defeat and our victory are
twin brothers. The whole direction OF
our life was changed by something
which at the time seemed to US trifling,
while some occurrence which seemed
to us tremendous affected US but little.
Gods plans are magnificent beyond all
He molds Us, and
turns and directs US, and we know it
not Thousands of years are to Him
as the fight of shuttle. The most ter