The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01

! fight of the first With wondering
eyes we all watch the coming of the
last The name of that advancing
year we cannot call. 1t may be in the
COS of this century, it may be in the
los or EOS or 3Os of the next century. but
it is coming at full gallon With
what mood will we meet it? In
jOeOsity, as did Thomas Hood, IN
his last moment saving: Il am dying
out of charity to the undertaken. who
wishes TO urn lively Hood" Or j.,
fear as did Thomas Paine, saying in
his last moment, "Oh. how dread this
mysterious leap in the darkF' Or like
that of Mrs. Schimmelpennich. who
said in her last moment. DO Won not
hear the voices? And the chiIdren's
are the lOudest." Or like that of Ora
! gonnatti, saying in his last moment.
stand asidel I see my father and nv
| mother coming To kiss ne" o. rs did
/ the dying girl who. having few even
/ ings before sat on .nch in a London
I mission, was seen to have tears of con-
! triton rolling down her cheek, and
/ who. departing from the room. had
/ put in her hand bv Christian woman
Bible. with the passage marked,
The blood of Jesus Christ cleansetk
from all sin"
Though having prom ised to be at the
next meeting she did not come. The
| Christian woman who gave her the
Bible was visiting the hospital and tho
nurse said to her, II wish you had been
here little while ago We had
young women who had been run over
by a wagon. Poor thingl She was
fearfully crushed. and died almost at
once. She had Bible in her hand
with your name in it, and she said
when she was brought in, Thank God,
| found Christ as my Saviour last night.
The blood of Jesus Christ, his son.
cleanseth US from all sim" Oh, nv
friends. if all right for the next world,
the years cannot gallOp past too
rapidly. If it were possible for the
centuries TO take the speed of the
years, and the years the speed of the
days, and the days the speed of the
hours. they could do Us no harm. The
shorter our life, the longer our
Heaven. The sooner we get out OF the
perils of this life. if our work be done,
the better. No man is safe till he is
dead. Better men than we have been
wrecked. and at all ages. Lord and
Lady Napier were on horseback on a
road in India. Lord Napier sudieolv
said to Lady Napier: Ride on and
fetch assistance, and do not ask me
why" She sped on and was soon out of
sight. The fact was tigers eyes glared
on them from the thicket. aud he did
not dare tell her, lest. affrighted, she
fail in the danger and perhaps lose
ner life. From all sides Of US, on
this road of life, there are perils glar-
ing on Us. from tigers Of temptation,
and tigers of accident. and tigers of
death. and the sooner we get out of
the perils of this life the better. Let
1897 take the place of 1896. and 1898
the place of 1897. and our souls will be
landed where there shall be nothing
to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy
mount" No lion shall be there, nor
any ravenOus beast shall go up there
on. it shall not be found there but the
redeemed shall walk there. And the
ransOmed OF the Lord snail return. and
COlLE ~ Il III " ALL ~ anu NTCA tsthh
ing Joy upon their heads; they shall
obtain joy and gl4duess, and sorrow
and signing shall flee away"
OH will it not be grand when from
the windows and doors Of the blouse
of Many Mansions" we look out and
see passing along the golden bOule-
wards of Heaven the white horse cav
airy that Il. John describe in Reveia-
ton? John Wesley said be thought
horses had souls; out take the story in
Revelation as figurative or literal. YOU
must admit that none but cavalrv
horses are mentioned as being in
Heaven. John 1914. The armies
which were in Heaven followed him
upon white horses" You see.
they are mounted troops. Their
leader is in deep crimson attire. His
vesture, we are told, Is dipped in
blood" not blood of human slaughter.
as many other cOnquerors have their
attire, but his own blood, blood of cru
ci6xion agony, the blood by which ne
redeemed you and me. That deep red
of garment is in vivid contrast with the
snowy white charger on which our
Lord Is seated. And no saved sinner
can gaze on that red and that white
without remembering that, though mis-
sins were once red like crimson, they
have become winter than snow.
As from the windows and doors of
the House of Many Mansions" we
look on the passing spectacle some Of
US will wish that on earth we had had
less salary and more hardship, less
comfort and more exposure, less
caution and more courage, less shelter
and more storm, less smooth sailing
and more cyclone, and that we had
dared all at the front instead OF TAX
ing good care of ourselves in the rear.
Forward, mounted troops! Favorites
of Heaven! Cavalrymen and cavalry
women OF the Lord God Al
mighty. No chargers of Heaven too
white. or too arched of neck, or too
pranciug of gait, for those seated on
them. If Jobs war horse while the
battle was going on said. "Ha! ha."
shall not these chargers now that the