The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-06-25

I the greatest OF Erenchmen TOOK the
diadem of Charlemagne and put it
on his own brow. 1t was a great
| day when, about an eighth of a mile
| from the gate of Jerusalem, under a
sky pallid with thickest darkness, and
on a mountain trammeled of earth
quake, and in the air on fire with the
blasphemies of a mob, a crown of
spikes was put upon the pallid and
agonized brow of our Jesus. But that
particular coronation, amid tears and
blood and grOans and shivering cata-
clysms, made your own coronation pos
sible.
But l invite you not only to your
own coronation, but to a mightier and
the mightiest. In all the ages of time
no one ever had such a hard time as
Christ while he was on earth. Bran
bles for his brow, expectoratiOn for
his cheek, whips for his back, spears
for his side, spikes for his feet, con-
tumely for his name, and even in
our time how many say he is no
Christ at all, and there are tens
of thousands of hands trying to push
him back and keep him down.
But, OH the human and satanic
impotency! Can a spider stop an
albatross? Can the hole which the toy
shovel of a child digs in the sand at
Cape May swallow the Atlantic? Can
the breath of a summer fan drive back
the Mediterranean eurOclydonP Yes,
when all the combined forces of earth
and hell can keep Christ from ascend
he Nhrana of usrarca1 dominion
David the Psalmist foresaw that cOro-
nation, and cried out in regard to the
Messiah, Upon Himself shall His
crown flourish" From the cave of black
basalt st. John foresaw it, and cried,
ION His head were many crowns" Now
! do not miss the beauty of that figure.
There is no room on any head for more
than one crown of silver, gold or dia-
mond. Then what does the book mean
when it says, ION His head were many
crOwns?" Well, it means twisted and
enwreathed flowers. To prepare a
crown for your child and make her the
Queen of the May" you might take
the white flowers out of one parterre,
and the crimson flowers out of another
parterre, and the pink flowers out of
another parterre, and gracefully and
skillfully work these four or five
crowns into one crown of beauty. So
all the splendOrs of earth and Heaven
are to be enwreathed into one corOnal
| for our Lords fOrehead-One blazing
glory, one dazzling brightness, one
overpowering perfume, one down
flashing, up-rolling, Out-spreading
magnifcence-ands so on His head shall
be many crowns.
The worlds best music will yet be
sounded in His praise, the worlds best
architecture built for His worship, the
worlds best paintings descriptive of
His triumphs, the worlds best sculp-
ture perpetuate the memory of His
heroes and herOines. Already the
crown woven out of many crowns is
being put upon His brow. His Scared
| feet are already ascending the throne.
careful statististician estimates that
in 1850 there will be $4,000, 900 people
in the United States, and by the pres
ent ratio of uniting with the church
100, 600, 900 of them will be church
members. What think We of that,
We pessimists inspired by the devel?
The deadest failure in the uni
verse is the kingdom of Satan.
The grandest Throne of all
time and all eternity is the one that
Christ is now mounting. The most of
us will not see the contamination in
this world. But we will gaze on it
from the high heavens. The morning
of that cOnsummatiOn will arrive and
what stir in the holy city. All the
towers of gold will ring its arrival.
All the chariots will roll into line.
The armies of Heaven which John saw
seated on white horses passing in in
finite cavalcade. The inhabitants of
Europe, AsiaAAfrica, North and South
America, and of all islands of the sea,
and perhaps of other worlds will
join in a procession compared with
which that of next Tuesday will
not make one battalion. The Con-
queror ahead, having on His YES
ture and on His thigh written
king of kings and Lord of lords"
and when He passes through the chief
of the IL uplifted gates, all nations fol-
lowing, may you and be there to hear
the combined shout of church militant
and church triumphant. Until the
mightiest musician of Heaven shall
compose an anthem worthy of that
coronation. an anthem chanted by
choirs standing on sea of glass
mingled with fire." accompanied by
harpers with their harps, and trum-
peters with their trumpets, the hum
bred and forty and four thousand join
ing in the chorus, say, until that
'Grand March is composed, we had
better stick to Isaac Watts old hymn,
which the 5000 natives of Tonga, and
Fiji, and Samoa sang when giving up
their idolatries for Christianity, and
would not be surprised if, as Irequest
two verses of that song, some of these
old soldiers of the cross who have been
a lifetime in the service, should be
found beating time with the right
hand, the hand little shakey with the
infrmity of years:
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run