The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-18

her. practically saying: II know who
sou are; YOU cannot cheat me; you can
not impose upon me; whv feignest thou
myself to be auother?' Sne had a
right 10 ask for the restoration of her
son; she had no right TO practice that
falsehood. 1t is never right to do
wrong. Sometimes you may be able
to conceal an affair; it is not necessary
to tell everything. There is natural
pressure to the lips which seems to in
iicate that silence sometimes is right;
but. for double dealing, for moral
shuffling, for counterfeit, and for
sham, God has nothing but anathema
and exposure. He will tear off the
lie. He will rip up the empiricism-
He will scatter the ambuScade. There
are people who are just ready to be
duped. They believe in ghosts; thew
saw one themselves. They heard some
thing strange in an uninhabited house.
Going along the road one night, some
thing approached them in white and
crossed the road. They would think
il very disastrous to count the NUMBER
of carriages at funeral They heard in
a neighbours house something that pOr-
tended death in the family. They say
it is sure sign of evil if bat fly into
the room on a summer night. or thew
see the moon over their left shoulder.
They would not for the world under
take any enterprise on Friday, forget
full of the fact that if they look over
the calendar of the world they will see
that Friday has been the most fortu-
nate day IN all the history of the
world
As near as can tell, looking over
the calendar of the worlds history,
more grand, bright. beautiful things
have happened on Friday than any
other day of the week. They would
not begin anything on Friday. They
would not for the world go back to the
house for anything after they had once
started. Such people are ready TO be
duped Ignorance comes along, per-
maps in the disguise of medical science,
and carries them captive; for there are
always some men who have found
some strange and mysterious weed in
some strange place, and plucking 1T in
the moonshine, and then they cover
the board fences with the adver-
tisements of elixir" and 'pana-
ceas," and Indian mixtures" and
''ineffable cataplasms," and ''un-
failing disinfectants," and lightning
salves," and instantaneous ONT
ments," enough to stun and scarify and
poultice and kill half the race. They
are already to be wrought upon by
such impositions. All! my friends, do
not be among such dupes. Do not act
the part of such persons as have been
describing. Stand back from all
chicanery, from all imposition. They
who practice such imposition shall be
exposed in the day of Gods indigna-
ton. They may rear great fortunes
but their dapple grays will be arrested
on the road some day, as was the ass
by the angel of God with drawn
sword. The light of the last day
will shine through all such sub
terfuges, and with a voice louder
than that which accosted this impOsi-
ton of the text: Come in, thou wife
of JerobOam; why feignest thou thy
self TO be another?'-with a voice
louder than that. God will thunder
uOWu iuAO dho
doom and death all two-faced men,
and all charlatans and all knaves, and
all Jockeys. and all swindlers. Behold
how the people put on the masks and
behold how the Lord tears them off!
My subject also impresses me with
how precise and accurate and particu-
lar are Gods providences- Just at the
moment that woman entered the city,
the child died. Just as it was prophe-
sled, so it turned out, so it al
ways turns out. The event Oc-
ours, the death takes place,
the nation is born, the despotism
is overthrown at the appointed
time God drives the universe
with stiff rein. Events do not just
happen so. Things do not go slipshod.
In all the book of Gods providences
there is not one If" Gods provi-
dences are never caught in dishabille.
To God there are no surprises, no dis
appointments and no accidents. The
most insignificant event flung out in
the ages is the connecting link be-
tween two great chains-the chain of
eternity past and the chain of eternity
to come. am no fatalist, but should
be completely wretched if l did not
feel that all the affairs of my life are
in Gods hand, aud all that pertains to
me and mine. just as certainly as all
the affairs of this woman OF the text,
as this child of the text, as this
king of the text, were in Gods
hand. You may ask me a hundred
questions 1 cannot answer, but /
shall until the day of nv death
believe that am under the unerring
care of God; and the heavens may fall,
and the world may burn, and the judg-
ment may thunder, and eternal ages
may roll. but not hair shall fall from
my head. not a sorrow shall transfx
my heart without being divinely ar
ranged-arranged by a loving, SYM
pathetic Father. He bottles our tears,
he catches our sorrows, and to the
orphan he viii be father, and to the
widow he will be husband, and to
the outcast ne will be home. and to
the most miserable wretch that this
day crawls up out of his abomination
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