The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-25

| 10 OSiuR 50 QuIeJiy al Ju>Ieu bOdJ no one
knows just how it is being settled.
may be mis-: AIKEN. but l hope that
the last war between Christian nations
is ended. Barbarians NAV mix their
warpaint, and Chinese aud Japanese
go into wholesale massacres, and
Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows,
but / think Christian nations have
gradually learned that war is disaster
to victor as we'll as vanquished, AMI
that almost anything bought by blood
is bought at too dear a price. wish
to God this nation might be a model of
willingness for arbitration. No need
of killing another Indian No need Of
sacrificing any more brave Gen. Gus
tiers. Stop exaspersting the red
man, and there will be no more
arrows shot out from the ambush
ments A general of the United States
army in high repute throughout this
land, and who, perhaps, had been in
more Indian wars than any other Off
Ger, and who had been wounded again
and again in behalf of our government
in battle against the Indians, told me
that all the wars that had ever oc-
CURED between Indians and white men
had been provoked by white men, and
that there was no exception to the
rule. While we are arbitrating with
Christian nations, let US toward bar
barians carry ourselves in a manner
unprovocative of contest
find another ray of dawn in the
compression of the worlds distances
What a slow, snail-like aim ost impossi-
BILE thing would have been the worlds
rectiication with 1.4O0, 900, 600 of popu-
lation and no facile means of commu-
nication: but now, through telegraphy
for the eye and telephone intimacy
for the ear, and through steam boating
and railroading, the $4,000 miles of the
worlds circumference are shriveling
up into insignificant brevity! Hong
Kong is nearer to New York than
few years ago New Haven was; Bonn
bay. Moscow. Madras, Melbourne with
in speaking distance Purchase tele-
graphic chart. and by the blue lines
see the telegraphs of the land, and by
the red lines the cables under the
ocean. You see what opportunity this
is going to give for the final move
ments of Christianity.
One more ray of dawn see in facts
chronological and mathematical Come
now, do not let US do another stroke of
work until we have settled one matter.
What is going to be the final issue of
this great contest between sin and
righteousness? Which is goin to
prove himself the stronger, God or
Diabolus? Is this world going to be
all garden or all desert? Now let us
have that matter settled. If we be-
lieve Isaiah, and Ezekiel. and Hosea,
and Micah, and Malachi, ami John, and
Peter, and Paul, and the Lord Himself,
we believe that it is going to be all
garden. But let US have it settled.
Let US know whether we are working
on toward a success or toward a dead
failure. If there is a child in your
house sick, and you are sure he is
going to get we'll, you sympathize
with present pains, but all the fore
boding is gone. If you are in a cyclone
off the Florida coast, and the captain
assures you the vessel is staunch and
the winds are changing for better
quarter, and he is sure he will bring
you safe into the harbor, you patiently
submit to present distress with the
thought of safe arrival. Now l want
to know whether we are coming on
toward dismav, darkness and defeat,
or on toward light and blessedness.
You and 1 believe the latter, and if 50,
every year we spend is one year SUBJ
tracted from the worlds woe, and
every event that passes, whether
bright or dark. brings US one event
nearer a happy contamination,
and by all that is inexorable in
chronology and mathematics 1 COM
mend you 10 good cheer and courage.
If there is anything in arithmetic, if
you substract two from FIVE and leave
three, then by every rolling sun We are
coming on toward a magnificent ter
minus. Then every winter passed is
one severity less for our poor world.
Then every summer gone by brings
us nearer unfading arborescence- Put
your algebra down on the TOP of vour
Bible and rejoice If it is nearer morn
ing at three o'clock than it is at two.
if it is nearer morning at four o'clock
than it is at three, then we are nearer
the dawn of the worlds deliverauce.
Gods clock seems to 90 very Slowly,
but the pendulum swings, and the
hands move, and it will yet strike
noon. The sun and moon stood still
once; they will never stand still again
until they stop forever. If you believe
arithmetic as well as your Bible. you
must believe we are carer the dawn. |
THE day is at hand"
Beloved people, preach this sermon
because l want you to toll with the |
sunlight in your faces. Iwant you old !
men 20 understand before you die that !
all the work you did for COD while vet |
your ear was alert ard your feet fleet |
is going to be counted up in |
the final victories
Brotherl brother! all l am afraid of /
is, not that Christ will lose the battle. |
but that you and l will not get into it /
quick enough to do something worthy |
of our blood-bought immortality. o, |
Christ, how shall meet Thee. Thou of /
the SCARED brow and the Scared back