The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-20

none would give her help? Had God
forgotten to lie gracious? MOL con-
tending soul The midnight air is full
of wings, coming to the rescue. She
hears it now, in the sough of the night
wind, in the rip e of the brook Jab-
box, the promise made so long
ago. ringing down the sky: Thy
fatherless children, 1 will pre-
serve them alive; and let thy wild
ows trust in me-" Some one said to a
very poor woman: "How is it that
in such distress you keep cheerful?"
She said: II do it by what call cross
prayers When had my rent to pay,
and nothing to pay it with, and bread
to buy. and nothing to buy it with,
used to sit down and cry. But now,
do not get discouraged. If GO along
the street, when 1 come to a corner of
the street say: The Lord help mel
/ then go on until / come TO another
crossing of the street and again / say:
The Lord help mep And so utter
prayer at every crossing; and since
have got into the habit of saying these
'cross-prayers,' l have been able to
keep up my courage"
Learn again from this subject, that
people sometimes are surprised to find
out that what they have been strug-
Cling with in the darkness is really an
"angel of blessing" Jacob found In
the morning that this strange person
age was not an enemy but God-dis-
patched messenger to promise pros
perity for him and for his children.
And so, many q man, at the close OF
his trial. has found out that he has been
trying to throw down his own bless
ing. If you are Christian man, will
go back in your history and find
that the grandest things that
have ever happened to you have been
your trials. Nothing short of scourg-
ing, Imprisonment and shipwreck
could have made Paul what he was
When David was fleeing through the
wilderness, pursued by his own son, he
was being prepared to become the
sweet singer of Israel The pit and
dungeon were the best schools at
which Joseph ever graduated. The
hurricane that upset the tent and
killed Jobs children prepared the man
of Uz to be the subject of the magnifi-
cent poem that has astounded the ages.
There is no way to get the wheat out
of the straw than to thresh it There
is no way to purify the gold than to
burn 1t. Look at the people who
have always had their OWL way.
They are proud. disconnected, useless
and unhappy. If you want TO find
cheerful folks, go among those who
have been purified by the fire. After
Rossini had rendered civilian Tell''
the 5OOth time, a company of musicians
came under his window in Paris and
serenaded him They put upon his
brow a golden crown of laurel leaves!
But, amid all the applause and eRthu-
siasm Rossini turned 70 friend and
said: ~ would give all this brilliant
scene for few days of youth and
love" Contrast the melancholy feel
ing Of Rossini, who had everything
that this world could give him. with
the joyful experience of Isaac Watts,
whose soFrows were great, when he
says
The HiH Of Zion yields
| A Thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heavenly fields
| Or walk the golden streets.
| Then let our songs abound,
| And every tear be dry:
| We're marching through Immanuel'S ground
| To fairer worlds on high
| 1t is prosperity that kills, aud trou'
BILE that saves. While the Isrselites
were on the march, amid great priva.
tions and hardships, they behaved
we'll After awhile they prayed for
meat; and the sky darkened with a
great flock of qusils; and these quails
fell in great muititudes all about them;
and the Israelites ate and ate, and
stuffed themselves until they died Oh,
my friends, 1t is not hardship, or trial.
or starvation that Injuries the soul, but
abundant supply. 1t is not the vulture
of trouble that eats up the Christians
life; it is the quailsl it Is the qusils
You will yet 6nd out that your mid
night wrestle by the - K JabbOk is
with an angel of Gou, come down to
bless and TO save
| Learn again that while our wrestling
with trouble might be triumphant, we
must expect that il will leave its mark
upon us. Jacob prevailed, but the
angel touched him and his thiGh-bon
sprang from its socket, and the good
man went limping on his way. We
must carry through this world the
mark of combat What plowed those
premature wrinkles in your facef
What whitened your hair before il
was time for frost? What silenced for.
ever so much of the hilarity of your
household? Ali 1t is because the an
gel of trouble hath touched you that
you 90 limping on your way. You
need not be surprised that
those who have passed through
the fire do not feel as gay as once
they did. Do not be out of patience
with those who come not out of their
dependency. They may triumph over
their loss, and yet their gait shall tel
you that they have been trouble
touched. Are we stoics, that we car
unmoved see our cradle rifed of the
bright eyes and the sweet lips? Car
we stand unmoved and see our gardens
of earthly delight uprooted? Will
Jesus, who wept himself, be angry