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

the canals needed, and will change the
course of rivers and open new lakes,
and the great Sahara desert will be cut
up into farms with an astounding yield
of bushels to the acre. The marsh will
be drained of its waters and cured OF
its malaria. The God who wastes moth
ing, / think, means that this world, from
pole to pole. has come TO perfection OF
foliage and fruitage. For that reason
He keeps the earth running through
space, though so many fires are blazing
down in it's timbers and so many
meteoric terrors have threatened to
dash it to pieces. AS soon as the earth
is completed Christ will divide it up
among the good. The reason He does
not divide it now is because it is not
done. A kind father will not divide
the apple among his children until the
apple is ripe The fulfillment of the
New Testament promise, 1.-The meek
shall inherit the EARTH" and the prom
Use of the Old Testament, He shall
divide the spoil with the strong" the
world will be apportioned to those
worthy to possess it
It is not so now. In this country,
capable of holding, feeding, clothing
and sheltering 200 OOO. 600 people, and
where we have only 60, 000, 900 inhablt-
ants, we have 2.O0O, 600 who cannot get
honest work, and with their families,
an aggregation of 5000, 900 that are on
the verge of starvation. Something
wrong, most certainly. In some way
there will be a new superintendent
MANY of the millionaire estates will
crack to pieces on the designations OF
grandchildren, and then dissolve into
the possession of the masses who now
have an insufficiency. What, you
say, will become of the expensive
and elaborate buildings now devoted
to debasing amusements? They Will
become schools, art galleries, museums,
gymnasiums and churches The world
is already getting disguised with many
of these amusements, and no wonder.
What an importation of unclean theat-
rical stuff we have within the last few
wears had brought to our shores! And
professors of religion patrOnizing such
things! Having sold out to the devil,
why don't you deliver the goods and
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and soul, and withdraw your name
from Christian churches and say:
know all the world by these presents
that 1 am a patron of uncleanliness
and child of hellr' Sworn to be the
Lords, you are perjnrers If you think
these offenses are to go on forever, you
do not know who the Lord is. God
will not wait for the day of judgment
All these palaces of sin will become
palaces of righteousness. They will
come into the possession of those strong
for virtue and strong for God. HE
shall divide the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest
portions of the earth by reason of
metals and rare woods, and inexhausti-
BILE productiveness, are not yet divided
up among the good because they are
not ready to be divided Wait until
all the doors that Livingston opened
in Africa shall be entered, and Bishop
Taylor, with his band of self-support-
ing missionaries, have done their
work, and the Ashantees and Sene-
gambians shall know Christ as we'll as
you know Him, and there shall be on
the banks of the Nile and the Niger
a higher civilization than is now to
be found on the banks of the
Potomac or the Hudson, then Christ
will divide up that continent
among His friends. Wait until China,
which is half as large as all Europe,
shall have developed her capacities for
rice and tea and sugar among edibles;
and her amethyst and sapphire and
topaz and opal and jasper and por-
phyry, among precious stones; and her
rosewood and ebony and camphor and
varnish trees, among precious woods;
and turned up from her depths half
dozen of Pennsylvania of coal and
iron, and 20 Nevadas of silver, and so
CALIFORNIA; of gold, and 100000, 600 of
people shall be evangelical; then the
Lord will divide it up among the
good
If my text be not a deception, but
the eternal truth, then the time is COM
ing when all the farms will be owned
by Christian farmers, and all the COM
meree controlled by Christian mer-
chants, and all the authority held by
Christian officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captains. and
all the universities under the instruc-
ton of Christian professors; Christian
kings, Christian presidents, Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
common council. Yet, what a scour-
| ing out! what an upturning! what
demolitioni what a resurrection must
precede the new apportionment!
But" you say, this is pleasant
to think of for others, but before
that time / shall have passed up into
another existence, and l shall get no
advantage from that new apportion-
ment." All, you have only driven me
to the other more exciting and trans
porting consideration, and that is that
Christ is going to divide up Heaven in
the same way. There are old estates
in the celestial world that have been
in the possession of the inhabitants for
thousands of years, and they shall re-
main as they are There are old
family mansions in Heaven filed with
whole generations of kindred, and