The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-16

| HEkkk LWA3A MHlhatOr. or a member
7"''NfH of the house of rep
REV. TALMAGE- resentatives, or SUI
preme court justice, or secretary of the
cabinet, or representative of foreign
nation enters a public assembly in any
| other city. his coming and going are
remarked upon and unusual Difference
| is paid to him In this capital there
are so many political chieftains in our
| churches. our streets, our halls, that
their coming and going make no ex-
| citement. The Swiss seldom look up
! to the MatterhOrn. or Jungfrau, or
Mont Blanc. because those people are
used to the Alps. So we at this CAPT
| tai are so accustomed to walk among
mountains of official and political
eminence that they are not to
us a great novelty. Morning, noon
and night we meet the giants. But
there is no place on earth where the
! Importance of the Pauline injunction
to prayer for those in eminent place
| ought to be better appreciated. AT
this time, when our public men have
| before them the rescue of our national
treasury from appalling deficits, and
| the Cuban question, and the arbitra
ton question. and in many depart
ments men are taking important posi-
tions which are to them new and I'M
| tried, | would like to quote my text
with a whole tonnage of emphasis
words written by the Scared mission
airy to the young theologian Timothy:
81 exhOrt, therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intereessions,
and giving of thanks be made for all
men; for kings, and for all that are in
authority"
If l have the time. and do not forget
some of them. before | get through |
will give you four or five reasons why
the people of the United States ought
to make earnest and continuous prayer
for those in eminent place.
First, because that will put us in
proper attitude toward the successful
men of the nation. After You have
prayed for a man you will do him jus
tice. There is bad streak in human
nature that demands us to assail those
that are more successful than our
selves. 1t shows itself in boyhOOd,
N4lCH lhC 1dNlS- dAA ~ Rtb NhCAI
ride on the back of a carriage, and one
gets on, those failing to get on shout
to the driver: 'Cut behindr' Unsuc-
cessful men seldom like those who in
any department are successful. The
cry is: He is political accident" or
HE bought his way up or 1T just
happened so,- and there is an impa-
tient waiting for him to come down
more rapidly than he went up. The
best cure for such cynicism is prayer.
After we have risen from our knees
we will be wishing the official good in
stead of evil. We will be hoping for
him benedictiOn rather than maledic-
ton. If he makes a mistake we will
call it mistake instead of malfeasance
in office. And, oh! how much happier
we viii be; for wishing one evil
is diabolic, but wishing one good
is sanity, is angelic, is GOd-like.
When the Lord drops a man
into depths beyond which there is
no lower depth, He allows him to be
put on an investigation committee with
the one hope of finding something
wrong. In general assemblies of the
Presbyterian church, in conference of
the Methodist church, in conventions
of the Episcopal church, in the house
of representatives, and in the senate of
the United States there are men always
glad to be appointed on the committee
of malodors, while there are those who
are glad to be put on the committee of
eulogiums. After you have prayed, in
the words of my text, for all that are
in authority, you will say, Brethren.
Gentlemen, Mr.. Chairman, excuse me
from serving on the committee of NAL
odors, for last night, just before l
prayed for those in eminent position,
read that chapter in Corinthians about
charity which 'hopeth ali things and
.thinketh no evil The committee of
malOdors is an important committee, |
but l here now declare that those are !
incompetent for its work who have. |
not in spirit of conventiOnality, but in |
spirit of earnest importantly, prayed |
for those in high position. L cannot |
help it, but do like q st. Bernard bet
ter than bloodhound, and l would |
rather be a humming bird among
honey-suckles that a crow swoOping |
upon field carcasses."
Another reason why we should pray
for those in eminent place is because
they have such multiplied perplexities-
This city at this time holds hundreds
of men who are expectant of prefer
ment, and United States mail bags, as
never before, are full of applications
Let me say have no sympathy with
either the uttered or printed sheer at
what are called 'office-seekers. If 1
had not already received appointment
as minister plenipotentiary from the
high court of Heaven-as every minis
ter of the gospel has-and had at my
back family for whom ! wished to