The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-27

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useful. rather than high-hying and
good for nothing but to pick out the
eyes Of carcassea Extraordinary ca
pacity without work is extraordinary
failure. There is no hope for that per
son who begins life resolved tn live bv
his wits, for the probabili is that he
has not any. It was not safe for Adam.
even IN his unfallen state, to have moth.
ing to do, and, therefore, God com
manded him to be farmer and hort.
culturist He was to dress the garlen
and keep it, and had he and his wife
obeyed the divine injunction and been
at work, they would not have been
saunterinH under the trees and banker
ing after that fruit which DESTROYED
them and their prosperity: a proof
positive for all ares to com. that thrse
who do not attend to their business
are sure to get into mischief
d. not know that the prnIi. al in
SCRIPTURE would ever have been re-
claimed had he not given IN his Idle
hab IS and gone to feeding swine for a
living. The devil does not so often at
tack the man who is busv with the
pen. an the book, and the troyel. and
the saw. ami the hammer. He is afrai /
of those weapons. Lat woe to the man
whom this roaring IN meets with MS
hands in his rockets!
Do not demand that your toll always
be elegant and Clearly AMI refine |.
There l. certain amount Of druugery
through VIII ch wa must all pass. what
ever be our OCCUPATION You know
how men are sentenced to certain
number of years 10 prison. and after
they nave suffered and worked out
the time, then they are allowed
TO 20 free. SO it is with all of US God
passed on US the sentence: 'By the
sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread" We must endure our time of
druGgery, and then, after awhile. we
will be allowed to go into com parative
liberty. We must be willing to endure
the sentence. We all know what
drudgery is connected with the begin
ming of any trade or profession; but
this does not continue all our lives, if
1t be the students, or the merchants.
or the mechanics life. I know You
have at the beginniny many hard
time, but afer awhile those things will
become easy. You will be your own
master Gods sentence will lie salts
fed. You will be discharged from
prison.
Bless God that you have brain to
think, and hanis to work, and feet TO
walk with, for in your constant activ-
itv. o youn man, is one IF your
strongest deienses. Put your trust in
God and do your best. That child had
it right when the horse, ran away with
the load OF wood and he sat on it.
When asked if he was frightened, he
said: mo. prayed 20 God and hung
on like beaver
Respect for the Sabbath will be to
the young man another preventative
against evil God has thrust in:O the
toll and fatigue of life a recreation
day, when the soul is especially to be
fed. 1t is no new tangled notion of
wild-brained refOrmer, but an instltu-
ton established at the beginning.
God has made natural and moral laws
SO harmonious that the body as well as
the soul deman ds this institution. Our
bodies are seven-day clocks, that must
be wound up as often as that or they
will run down. Failure must come |
sooner or later to the man who breaks
the Sabbath. Inspiration has called |
it the Lords day, and he who devotrs !
it to the world is guilty of robbery. !
God will not let the sin go unpublished !
either in this world or the world to |
come.
While the Divine frown must rest |
upon him who tramples upon this stat
ute, Gods special favor will be upon |
that young man who scrupulously OBJ
serves it. This dav, properly observed.
will throw hallowed influence over
all the week. The song and sermon
and sanctuary will hold back from pre-
sins. That young man who
begins the duties of life with either
secret or open disrespect to the holy
lay, ] venture to prophecy, will meet
with no permanent success. Gods
curse will fall upon his ship, his store,
MS Office, his studio, his body and his
soul The way of the wicked he turn
eth upside down. In one of the old
'ables it was said that a wonderful
,Hliu was UOTH III Ddgubu. ana a MAIL
ian could hear his footsteps 5000 miles
lwav. But can hear in the footstep
If that young man on his way to the
house of worship to-day the step not
,niy OF lifetime of usefulness, but
,he oncoming step of eternal ages of
yet millions of years away
But if you are resolved TO live life
UGH as God and good men will ap-
'rove, do not let it be vague dream,
N indefinite determination, but, in
our mind or upon paper, sketch it in
IL its minuti8. You cannot know the
hanges to which you may be su oject.
mt you may know what always will
'e right and always will be wrong. Let
'eu tleneSs and charity and veracitv
nd faith stand in the heart of the
ketch. On some still brooks bank
make lamb and lion lie down togsth-
r. Draw two or three of the tres of
lfe, not frost-stricHer, nor ice--lazed, |
or wind-striDped, tut with thick verdi
re waving like the palms OF Heaven.
IN the darkest cloud place the
ain bow, that pillow of the diving