The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-18

Sne passed Dy, out she was Just as
much q queen as though she stood in
the palace. her robes incrusted with
diamonds And so all around about us
there are princesses and queens W. ON
the world does not recognize. They
siI on no throne of royalty, they ride
in no chariot, thew elicit no huzza,
they make no pretense. but by the
grace of God they are princesses and
they are queens Sometimes in their
poverty. sometimes in their self-denial,
sometimes in their hard struggles of
Christian service-G0d knows they are
queens; the world does not recognize
them. Royalty passing in disguise.
Kings without the crown, conquerors
without the palm, expresses without
the jewel You saw her yesterday on
the street. You saw nothing impor-
tant in her appearance, but she is
regnant over a vast realm of virtue and
goodness realm vaster than Jero-
boam ever looked at You went down
into the house of restitution and want
and suffering. You saw the story of
trial written on the wasted hand of the
mother, on the pale cheeks of the chill
dren, on the empty bread tray, on the
fireless hearth. on the broken CHAIR.
You would not have given a dollar for
all the furniture in the house. But iy
the grace of God she is princess. The
Overseers of the poor come there and
discuss the case and say, Its pau
per-" They do not realize that God has
FURNISHED for her a crown, and that
after she has got through the fatiguing
journey from Tirzah to Shiloh and
from Shiloh back to Tirzah there will
be throne of royalty on which she
shall rest forever. Glory yelled. At
fluence hidden. Eternal raptures
hushed up. A queen in mask. A prin-
cess in disguise.
When you think of a queen you do
not think of Catherine of Russia, or
Maria Theresa of Germany, or Mary
Queen of Scots. When you think of
queen you think of plain woman who
sat opposite your father at the table,
or walked with him down the path of
life arm in arm-sOmetimes to the
Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to
the grave. but always side by side,
soothing your little sorrows and ad-
justing your little quarrels, listening
to your evening prayer, toiling with
the needle or at the spinning wheel,
and on cold nights tucking you up snug
and warm. And then on that dark
day when she lay a-dying, putting
those thin hands that had toiled for
you so long, putting them together in
dying prayer commencing you to
that God in whom she had taught you
to trust. Oh, she was the queen--she
was the queen! You cannot think of
her now without having the deepest
emotions of your soul stirred. and you
feel as if you could cry as though you
were now sitting in infancy on her lap,
and if you could call her back to speak
your name with the tenderness with
which she once spoke you would be
willing now to throw yourself on the
sod that covers her grave, crying:
Mother, motherr' Ali she was the
queen. Your father knew it. You
knew it She was the queen. but the
queen in disguise. The world did not
recognize it.
But there was a grander Disgusting.
The favorite of great house looked
out of the window of his palace and he
saw that the people were carrying
heavy burdens. and that some of them
were hObbling on crutches, and he saw
some lying at the gate exhibiting their
sores, and then he heard their lamenta-
ton. and he said: Il will just put on
~ al Of nd I
will go down and see what their sor-
rows are, and l will sympathize with
them, and will be one of them, and l
will help them" Well, the dav came
for him to start. The lords of the land
came to see him off. All who could
sing joined in the parting song. which
shook the hills and woke no the shep-
herds. The first few nights he has
been sleeping with the hostlers and
the camel drivers, for no one knew
there was king in town. He went
among the doctors of the law, astound-
ing them. for without any doctors
gown he knew more law than the doc
tors He fished with the fishermen.
He smote with his own hammer in
the carpenters shop. He ate raw
corn out of the field. He fried fish on
the banks of the Gennesaret. He was
howled at by crazy people in the
tombs. He was splashed of the surf of
the sea. pilgrim without any pill
low. sick man without any medical
ment. A mourner with no sympa-
thetic bosom in which he could pour
his tears. Disguise complete. l know
that occasionally his divine royalty
flashed out, as when in the storm on
Galilee. as in the red wine at the wed
ding banquet, as when he freed the
shackled demoniac of Gadara, as when
he turned a whole school of fish into
the net of the DISCOURAGED boatmen. as
when he thrObbed life into the shriv-
eled arm of the paraly tic; but for the
most part he was in disguise. No one
saw the royal robe in his plain coat.
No one knew that that shelterless
Christ owned all the mansions in which
the hierarchs of Heaven had their
habitation. None knew that that
hungered Christ owned all the
olive groves, and all the harvests which
shook their gold on the hills of Pales-