The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-08

there? You shall have it. An orchard?
There it is; ~ manner of fruits,
and fruit every month. Do you want
river scenery? Take your choice on
the banks of the river. in longer,
wider, deeper roll than Danube or
Amazon or Mississippi if mingled in
one, and emptying into the sea of
glass, mingled with fire. Do YOU
want your kindred back again?
Go out and meet your father
and mother without the staff
or the stoop, and your children
in dance of immortal glee. Do
you want throne? Select it from the
million FURNISHED elevations Do you
want a crown? Pick it out of that
mountain of diamond coronets- Do
you want your old church friends of
earth around your Begin to hum an
old revival tune and they will flock
from all quarters to revel with you in
sacred Renaissance. All the earth for
those who are here on earth at the
time of continental and planetary dis
tribution, and all the Heavens for
those who are there. That heavenly
distribution of spoils will be surprise
to many. Here enters Heaven the
soul of man who took up great deal
of room in the church on earth but
sacrificed little. and among his good
works selfishness was evident He
just crowds through the shining gate,
but it's very tight squeeze, so that
the doorkeeper has to pull hard
to get him in; and this man
expects half of Heaven for his share of
trophies, and he would like q monopoly
of all its splendor, and to purchase lots
in the suburbs, so that he could get
advantage of the growth of the city.
Well, little by little he gets grace of
heart, just enough to get him through,
and to him is given a secondhand
crown, which one of the saints wore at
the start, but exchanged for brighter
one as he went on from glory to glory.
And he is put in an old house once oc-
cupied by an angel who was hurled
out of Heaven at the time of satan's
rebellion.
Right after him comes soul that
makes a great stir among the celes-
tials, and the angels rush to the scene,
each bringing to her a dazzling coro-
net. Who is she? Over what realm
on earth was she queen? In what
| great Dusseldorf festival was she the
cantatrice? Neither. She was an in
valid who never left her room for 20
years; but she was strong in prayer,
and she prayed down revival after re-
vival, and pentecost after pentecost,
upon the churches, and with her pale
hands knit many a mitten or tippet
for the poor, and with her contriv-
ances she added joy to many holiday
festival, and now with those thin
hands, so strong for kindness, and
with those white lips so strong
for supplication she has won
coronation and enforcement and
| jubilee. And Christ said to the
angels who have brought each crown
for the glorifed invalid: mo, not
these; they are not good enough. But
in the jeweled vase at the right hand
side of my throne there is one that 1
have been preparing for her for many
a year, and for her every pang l have
set an amethyst, and for her every
good deed have set pearl. Fetch it
now and fulfill the promise / gave her
long ago in the sick room: BE thou
faithful unto death, and | will give
thee crown"
What a day it will be! This entire
assemblage would rise to its feet if you
could realize it, the day in which Christ
shall, in fulfillment of my text, divide
the spoil. 1t was a great day when
| Queen Victoria, in the midst of the
Crimean war, distributed medals to the
soldiers who had come home sick and
wounded. At the horse guards, in
presence of the royal family, the in
| jured men were carried in or came on
crutches-Col. Trowbridge, who lost
both feet at Inkermann, and Capt.
Sayer. who had the ankle-joint of his
right leg shot off at Alma, and Capt.
Cure, his disabled limb supported by
a soldier, and other manned, and dis
| figured, and exhausted-and with her
own hand the queen gave each the
Crimean medal. And what triumphant
days for those soldiers when, further
on, they received the French medal,
with the imperial eagle and the Turk
ish medal, with its representation of
four hags-France, Turkey, England
and Sardinia-and beneath it a map of
the Crimea spread over gun wheel
And what rewards are suggested to all
readers of history by mere mention of
the Waterloo medal, and the Cape
medal and the Gold Cross medal, and
the medals struck for bravery in our
American wars.
It was great day when Aurelian,
the Roman emperor, came back from
his victories. In the front of the pro-
cession were wild beasts from all lands,
1,6Oo gladiators richly clad, wagon
loads of crowns and trophies presented
by conquered cities; among the cap
tives Syrians, Egyptians, Goths, Van
dals, Sarmatians. Franks; and Zenobia,
the beautiful captive queen, on foot in
chains of gold that slave had to help
her carry, and jewels under the weight
of which she almost tainted. And then
came the chariot of Aurelian, drawn
by four elephants in gorgeous capari-
son, and followed by the Roman sem