The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-14

nitv. After awhile yOu move into a
larger house and amid more luxuriant
surroundings. and You invite your
friends, but You do not invite THAT man
to whom % times you sent an invi-
tation to the smaller house. Are you
to blame? You would only make your
self ABSURD before God and man to
send that man another invitation For
20 years he has been dee!in ne your Of
fers and sendin insult for your kind
ness anil courtesy, an can he blame
you? Can he come up to your house
on the night of the banquet? Looking
up and seeing it is a finer house, will
he have any right to say: Let me in.
l declined all those other offers, but
this is a larger house, a brighter
house, a more luxuriant abode
Let me in. Give me another
CHANGER God has spread a ban
quet of His grace before US. For 365
days of eve-y vear sine. we knew the
difference brtween our right hand and
our lef: h h - invoked u by his Prov
idence and by his Spirit Suppose we
decline all these offers and all this
Kindness Now the banquet is spread
IN a larrer place. in tue heavenly
palace. Invitations are sent out, tut
10 Invita- on is sent TO us Why? Be-
cause we dec.in, d all those other ban
quets. VIII God be to blame? Win
we have any ri2ht to rap on the door
of Heaven and say: IL QUO hit not to be
shut out of this place; give me another
CHANGER Twelve gates of salvation
standing wide for free admission all
our life and then when the l2 gates
close we rush on the bosses of Jeho-
vah's buekier, saying: Give me au-
other chance"
You see. common sense agrees with
my text in saying that If the tree fell
| toward the south. or toward the north,
| in the pace where the tree falleth,
there it shall be" You see, this idea
| lifts this world from an unimportaut
way station to a platform of stupen-
dous issues, and makes all eternity
whirl around this hour. Oh, my soulI
/ my soull Only on trial, and al the
preparations for that trial to be made
in this world, or never made at all
Oh, my SOUL my soul! You see. this
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climaxes and all the destinies into this
| life. No other chance. Oh. how that in
tensifies the value and the Importance
of this chance. Alexander and his army
used to come around a city, and they
would kinile a great light, with the
under. standing that as long as that
light was burning the city might sur
render,sand all would be well, but If
they let that light go out. then the bat
tering rams would swing against the
! walls and there would come disaster
and demolition. Oh, my friends, all
you and i need to do to prepare for
eternal safety is just to surrender to
the King and COnqueror, Christ Sur
render hearts, surrender life, surrender
everything. The great light keeps.
burning, light kindled by the wood of
the cross, light flaming up against the
dark night of our sin and sorrow. Oh,
let US surrender before the light goes
out, and with it our last opportu-
nifty of making our p ace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
On, NY brother, talk about another
chance; this is the supernal chance.
A dream 1 am in the Furnished
judgment hall On the last day. The
great white throne is lifted, but the
Judge has not yet taken it While we
are waiting for His arrival, l hear the
immOrtals in conversation. What
are you waiting for? says a soul that
went up from Madagascar to a soul
that went up from America The lat
ter responds: Il was in America 40
years ago, and 1 heard the Gospel
preached, and l had plenty of Bibles
in my house. and from the time that 1
knelt at my mothers knee in prayer
until my las. hour, / had great op-
portunities; but I did not improve
them, and l am here to-day
waiting for another chance" Strange.
strange" says the soul Just come.
mp from Madagascar. Strange; WHY,
never heard the Gospel ca but once.
in all my life, and accepted it, and 1
don't want another chance" What
are you waiting for%' SAYS one who on
earth had very feeble intellect to one
who had great brain and whose voice
was silvery, and who had seepters of
power. The latter replies: II had
great power on earth, / must admit:
and l ma>tered languages and 1 mas
tered libraries, and colleges conferred
upon me learned titles, and my name
was a synonym for eloquence and
power; but somehow l neglected the
matters of my soul. and l must confess
TO you am here to-day waiting for
another chance" Now, the ground
with the advancing chariot.
The great doors of the FURNISHED
hall of judgment are thrown open.
Stand back" cry the ushers. and let
the Judge of quick and dead pass
through" He takes the throne. He
looks of upon the throngs of nations
come to the last judgment, come TO the
1nly judgment, and one flash from the
throne reveals each mans history to
himself, and reveals il to all the Others.
And then the Judge says, ''DiVider' and
he FURNISHED walls echo it, ''Divider'
Ind the guides angelic answer, '-Di-
rider and the immortals are rushing
his way and that, until there is an aisle
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