The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-28

Even the moon is world in ruins
Stellar. lunar, solar catastrophes in
Vulnerable. But it seems as if the
most sorrows have been reserved for
our world. By one toss of the world
at Ticuboro. of $4,000 inhabitants only
PC people escaped. By one shake Of
the world at Lisbon in five minutes
so. 900 persisted, and 2OO,O 900 before the
earth stopped rocking. mountain
fails in Switzerland. burying the viii
lage of Goldau. mountain falls in
1 Italy in the night, when 1000 people
are asleep, and they never arose. By
a convulsion of the earth Japan broken
off from China By CONFUSION of the
earth the Caribbean islands broken of
/ from America. Three islands near the
mouth of the Ganges, with $4,000 in
habitants-a great surge of the sea
breaks over them and PA, perish
that day. Alas, alas. for our poor
world.
/ OH there is trouble marked on the
rocks, on the sky, on the sea, on the
| flora and the fauna. Astronomical trou-
| BILE, geological trouble, oceanic trou-
bic, political trouble, domestic trouble,
and standing in the presence of all
those stupendous devastations, | ask
/ if l am not right in saying that the
great want of this age and all ages is
divine sympathy and omnipotent COM
/ fort, and they are found not in the
Brahma of the Hindoo, or the Allah of
the Mohammedan, but in the Christ
unto whom shall the gathering of the
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but this Morning Star will
never be blotted from the
| heavens The earth may quake, bu5
| this Rock of Ages will never be shaken
| from its foundations. The same Christ
who fed the 5000 will feed all the
worlds hunger. The same Christ who
cured Bartimeus will illumine all
/ blindness. The same Christ who made
the dumb speak will put on every
tongue a hosauna. The same Christ
who awoke Lazarus from the sar-
cophagus will yet rally all the piOus
dead in glorious resurrection. ~ know
that my Redeemer liveth," and that
ito Him shall the gathering of the
people be-" All! my friends, when
Christ starts thoroughly and quickly
to lift this miserable wreck of sunken
world, it will not take Him long to
lift it.
l have thought that this particular
age in which we live may be given up
to discoveries and inventions by which
through quick and instantaneous COM
munication all cities and all communi-
ties and all lands will be brought to-
gether, and then in another period,
perhaps, these inventions which have
been used for worldly purposes will
be brought out for gospel invitation,
and some great prophet of the Lord
will come and snatch the mystic
rious, sublime and miraculous tele-
phone from the hands of commerce,
and all lands and Kingdoms con-
nected by wondrous wire, this
prophet of the Lord may, through
telephone communication, in an in
slant announce to all nations pardou
and sympathy and life through Jesus
Christ, and then, putting the wondrous
tube to the ear of the Lords prophet,
and response shall come back: 81 be-
lieve in God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of Heaven and earth, and in
Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son."
You and 1 may not live to see the day.
l think those of US who are over 40
years of age can scarcely expect to see
the day. l expect before that time our
bodies will be found asleep in the ham,
moclzs of the old Gospel ship as it goes
sailing on But Christ will wake us
up n time to see the achievement We
who have aweated in the hot harvest
fields will be at the door of the garner
when the sheaves come in. That
work for which in this world we
toiled and wspt and struggled and
wore ourselves out shall not come
to consummatIon and we be oblivious
of the achievement We will be al
lowed to come out and shake hands
with the victors. We who fought in
the earlier battles will have just as
much right to rejoice as those who
Redeemed their feet in the last Arma-
geddOn.
There are people who think Christ
will come in person and sit on the
throne. Perhaps He may. 1 should
like to see the Scared feet going up
the stairs of palace in which all the
glOries of the Alham bra, and the Tai
Mahal, and the st. Marks, and the
Winter palace are gathered. | should
like 20 see the world pay Christ in love
for what it did to him in maltreat-
ment. l should like to be one of the
grooms of the chargers, holding the
stirruu as the King mounts. o. what
a glorious time it would be on earth il
Christ would break through the heav-
ems. and right here where He has
suffered and died have this proph-
ecy fulfilled: Unto Him shall the
gathering of the people be-" But fail
ing in that. l bargain to meet you at
the ponderous gate of Heaven on the
day when our Lord comes back. Gar
lands of all nations on His brOw-of
the bronzed nations of the north-Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa, North and South
Ambrica, and the other continent
that may arise from the seas,
to take the places of their
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