The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-13

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into which they sink. Then there is
alcoholism. its piled up demijohns and
beer barrels, and hogsheads of fiery
death, a barricade high and long as
the Alleghenies and Rockies and Sierra
Nevadas, pouring fourth day and night
their ammunition of wretchedness and
woe. When German wants to take
a drink, he takes beer. When an
Englishman wants to take drink, he
takes ale. When a Scotchman wants
| to take drink, he takes whisky. But
when an American wants to take
drink, he takes anything he can lay
his hands on.
| Plenty of statistics to tell how much
money is spent in this country for
rum, and low many drunkards diei
But who will give us the statistics of
how many hearts are crushed under
the heel of this worst demon of the
centuries? How many hopes blasted?
How many children turned out on the
world, accursed with stigma of de-
bauched ancestry
| Then there is what in America we
call socialism, in France communism,
and in Russia nihilis1n, the three names
for one and the same thing-and hav-
| ing but two doctrines in its creed:
First, there is no God; second, there
shall be no rights of property. One of
their chief journals printed this senti-
ment: Dynamite can be made out of
the dead bodies of capitalists as we'll
as out of hogs"
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mean, too wicked to acknowledge
God, and too lazy to earn living" and
among the mightiest obstacles to be
overcome are those organized elements
of domestic, social and political ruin.
There also are the Businesses of inf
deity, and atheism, and fraud, and po-
litical corruption, and multiform,
hydra-headed, million-armed abomina-
tions all over the land. While the
mightiest agencies for righteousness
on earth are good and healthful news
papers and good and healthful books,
and our chief dependence for intelli-
gence and Christian achievement is
upon them, what word among the
more than 100000 words in our vocab-
ulary can describe the work of that
archangel of mischief, a corrupt litera-
ture? What man, attempting anything
for God and humanity, has escaped a
stroke of its filthy wing? What good
cause has escaped it's Underwent?
What other obstacle in all the land so
appalling? But 1 cannot name more
than one-haf the battlements, the
bastions, the intrenchments, the re-
doubts, the Notifications to be stormed
and overcome if this country is ever
taken for God. The statistics are so
awful that if we had nothing but the
multiplication table and the arith-
metic, the attempt to evangelize
America would be an absurdity
higher than the tower of Babel before
it dropped on the plain of Shinar
Our Leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, and it
was an humble home, about five miles,
from Jerusalem. Those who were out
of doors that night said that there was
stellar comnotion, and music that
came out of the clouds, as though the
front door of Heaven had been SET
open, and that the camels heard His
first infantile cry. Then He came to
the fairest boyhood that mother was
ever proud of. and from IL to 80 years
of age was off in India, if traditions
there are accurate, and then returned
to His native land, and for three years
had His pathway surrounded by blind
eyes that He illumined, and epileptic
patients to whom He gave rubicund
health, and tongues that He loosed
from silence into song, and those
whose funerals He stopped that He
might give back to bereaved mothers
their only boys, and those whose
fevered pulses he Had restored into
rhythmic throb. and whose paralytic
limbs He had warmed into healthful
circulation-pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere, hush
ing crying tempests and turning
rolling seas into solid sapphire,
and for the rescue of race
submitted to court room filed with
bowling miscreants, and to a martyr
dom at the sight of which the sun
tainted and fell back in the heavens,
and then treading the clouds home
ward, like snowy mountain peaks, till
Heaven took Him back again, more a
favorite than He had ever been; but,
coming again, He is on earth now, and
the nations are gathering to Hisstand-
ard. Follow Him where the Scotch
Covenanters, the Theban legion, the
victims of the London Haymarket, the
Piedmontese sufferers, the Pilgrim
fathers, the Huguenots and uncounted
multitudes of the past. joined by bout
400, 100000 of the present, and with the
certainty that all nations shall huzzah
at His chariot wheel, He goes forth,
the moon under His feet and the stars
of heaven for His tiara-tbe mighty
Leader, he of Drumciog, and Boutwell,
Bridge, and Bannock burn, and the One
who overwhelmed Spanish Armada,
coming up from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah, travelling in
the greatness of His strength, mighty
to save" and behind whom we fall into
line to-day and march in the campaign
that is to take America for God Ho-
sauna! Hosanna! Wave all the palm
branches! At His feet put down your
silver and your gold, as in Heaven you