The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-12
UNHEALTHY WINDS.
Dr.. Telnage Offers Consolation to
Those in Trouble.
The Worst Days for Public Morals N
Gauged by the Blowing Winds,
Whether from the North
or the East.

L. DE Witt Talmage pointed out the
consultations which the religion of
Christ extends to all who are in
trouble, and specially to such as are in
deep misfortune or suffering from be-
reavement He chose as his text Exc
dus x:l6: And the Lord brought an
east wind upon the land all that day
and all that night" Following is the
sermon:
The reference here is not to a cy-
clone, but TO the long-continued blow
ing of the wind from an unhealthful
quarter. The north wind is bracing,
the south wind is relaxing, but the
east wind is irritating and full of
threat Eighteen times does the Bible
speak against the east wind. Moses de-
scribes the thin ears blasted by the east
wind. The psalmist describes the break
ing of the ships of Tarshish by the
east winds The locusts that plagued
Egypt were borne in on the east wind.
The gourd that sheltered Jonah was
shattered by the east wind; and in all
the 5000 summers, autumns, winters,
springs, of the worlds existence, the
wind Now, if God would only give
US climate of perpetual nor'-wester.
how genial and kind and placid and
industrious Christians we would all bel
But it takes almighty grace to be what
we ought to be under the east wind.
Under the chilling and wet wing of
the east wind the most of the worlds
villainies, frauds, outrages, suicides
and murders have been Matched out. 1
think If you should keep a meteoro-
logical history of the days of the
year, and put right beside it the
criminal record of the country, you
would find that those were the best
days for public morals which were IN
der the north or west wind, and that
those were the worst days for public
morals which were under the east
wind The points of the compass have
more to do with the worlds morals
and the church's piety than you have
yet suspected. Rev. DR.. Archibald
Alexander, eminent for learning and
for conservation, when asked by one
of his students at Princeton whether
he always had full assurance of faith,
replied: Yes, except when the wind
blows from the east" DR.. Francia,
dictator of Paraguay, when the wind
was from the east made oppressive en-
actments for the people; but when the
weather changed, repented him of the
cruelties, repealed the enactments, and
was in good humor with all the world.
Before overtake the main thought
of my subject, want to tell Christian
people they ought to be observant of
climatical changes Be on your guard
when the wind blows from the east
There are certain styles of temptations
that you cannot endure under certain
styles of weather. When the wind
blows from the east, if you are of
nervous temperament, go not among
exasperating people, try not to settle
bad debts, do not try TO settle old dis
putes, do not talk with a bigot on re-
ligion, do not go among those people
who delight in saying irritating
things. do not try to collect funds for
a charita BILE institution, do not try to
answer an insulting letter. If these
things must be done, do them when
the wind is from the north, or the
south, or the west, but not when the
wind is from the east
You say that men and women ought
not to be so sensitive and nervous l
admit il, but / am not talking about
what the world ought to be; l am
talking about what the world is
While there are persons whose DISPOSE
tions do not seem TO be affected by
changes 10 the atmo. phere, nine out of
ten are nightly plavei upon by such
influences O, Christian man. under
such circumstances do not write hard
things against yourself, do not get
worried about your fiuctuating expert
ence- You are to remem Der that the
barometer in your soul is only answer
ing the barometer OF the weather. In
stead of sitting down and being dis
couraged and saying, Il am not a
Christian, because don't feel exhilar-
ant" get up and look out OF the win
dow and see the weather vaue point
ing in the wrong quarter, and then
say: Get thee behind me, Satan, thou
prince of the power of the air; get out
of my house! get out of my heart, thou
demon of darkness horsed on the east
wind. Away However good and
great you may be in the Christian life,
your soul will never be independent of
physical condition. l feel am utter
ing a post practical, useful truth here,
one that may give relief to a great
many Christians who are worried and
RESPONDENT at times
DR.. Rush, a monarch in medicine,
curing hundreds of cases of mental
depression, himself fell sick aud
lost his religious hope, and he
would not believe his pastor when the
pastor told him that his spiritual de-
preston was only consequence of
physical depression Andrew Fuller,
Thomas Scott William Cowper,
Thomas Boston, David Brainard,
Philip Melansalthon were mighty men
for God, but all of them illustrations
of the fact that mans soul is not in
dependent of his physical health An
eminent physician gave as his opinion
that no man ever died a greatly trium-
phant death whose disease was below
tha diaphra1m Staekhouse the