The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-06-18

/ spheres, and consultations, and galax-
les that blaze on in the march of God.
Healthful curiosity has stood by the
inventor until forces that were hidden
for ages came to wheels, and levers,
and shafts and shuttles-forces that
| fly the air. or swim the sea. or cleave
the mountain, until the earth Jars, and
roars. and rings, and crackles. and
booms, with strange mechanism, and
ships with nostrils of hot steam and
yokes of fire, draw the continents to-
gether.
say nothing against healthful curl
osity. May it have other Leyden jars,
and other electric batteries. and other
voltaic piles. and other magnifying
glasses, ~ith which to storm the
barred castles of the natural world I'M
til it shall surrender its last secret
We thank God for the geological curl
osity of Prof Hitchcock, and the me-
chanical curiosity of Liebig, and the
geological curiosity of Cuvier, and the
inventive curiosity of Edison; but we
must admit that unhealthful and ir-
regular inquisitiveness has rushed
thousands and tens of thousands into
ruin.
Eve just tasted the fruit. She was
curious to find out how il tasted, and
that curiosity blasted her and blasted
all nations. So there are clergymen
in this day inspired by unhealthful in
quisitiveness who have tried to look
through the keyhole of Gods mystic
haf hnr a
bolted from all human inspection, and
they have wrenched their whole moral
nature out of joint by trying to pluck
fruit from branches beyond their
reach. or have come out on limbs of
the tree from which they have tumbled
into ruin without remedy. A thou
sand trees of religious knowledge
from which we may eat and get adj
vantage; but from certain trees of
mystery how many have plucked their
ruin, Election. free agency, trinity,
resurrectiOn-in the discussion of these
subjects hundreds and thousands of
people ruin the soul There are men
who actually have been kept out of
the Kingdom of Heaven because they
could not understand who Melchisedec
was mott
Oh. how many have been destroyed
by an unhealthful inquisitiveness! 1t
is seen in all directions. There are
those who stand with the eve-stare
and mouth-gap of curiosity. They are
the first to hear a falsehOod. build it
another story high and put two wings
to it. About other peoples business,
about other peoples financial condi-
ton, about other peoples affairs, they
are over anxious. Every nice piece of
gossip stops at their door. and they
fatten and luxuriate in the endless
round of the great world OF tittle-tat-
tie. They invite and sumptuously en-
terrain at their house Col. Twadtile and
Esquire Chitchat and Gov. Smalltalk.
Whoever hath an innuendO. whoever
hath a scandal, whoever hath a valua-
BILE secret. let him come and sacrifice it
to this goddess Of splutter. Thousands
of Adams and Ewes do nothing but eat
fruit that does not belong to them.
Men quite well known as mathemati-
clans failing in this computation Of
moral algebra: good sense plus good
breeding, minus curiosity, equals
minding your own affairs.
This subject also impresses me with
the fact that fruits that are sweet to
the taste may afterward produce gre at
agony. Forbidden fruit for Eve was
SO pleasant she invited her husband
also to take of it; but her Punishment
from Paradise and 5000 years of sor-
row au1 vy-rotoboIn mas opI vr-or ord
woe. paid for that luxury. Sin may be
very sweet at the start. and it may IN
duce great wretchedness afterward.
The cup of sin is sparkling at the top,
but there is death at the bottom. In
tOxicatiOn has great eXhilaratiOn for
awhile, and it fllips the blood, and it
makes a man see five stars where others
can see only one star. and it makes the
poor man rich. and turns cheeks which
are white red as roses; but what about
the dreams that come after. when it
seems falling from great heights, or
is Frustrated by other fancied disas-
tiers, and the perspiratiOn stands on
the forehead-the night dew of ever
lasting darkness-and he is ground
under the horrible hoOf of Nightmares
shrieking with lips that crackle with
aIl-cOnsuming torture? Rejoice, o
young man, in thy youth, and let thy
heart cheer thee in the days of thy
youth; but know thou that for all
these things God will bring thee into
Judgment Sweet at the start, horri-
BILE at the last. Go into that hall of
revelry, where ungodly mirth staggers
and blasphemes- Listen to the sense /
less gable, see the last trace of intelli-
gence dashed out from the faces made
in Gods own image. Aha. aha" says
the registering inebriate; this is joy
for you; fill high your cups, my boys
1 drink to my wife's misery and my
rags and my Gods defiance"
And he knows not that a fend stirs
the goblet in his hand and that adders
uncoil from the dregs and thrust their
forked tongues kissing through the
froth on the rim. The Philistines
jeered and laughed and shouted at
Samson. Oh, they wanted him to |
make sport for them, and he made sport |
for them! How bright and gay was
the scene for a little while. After |
awhile the giant puts one hand against |