The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-29

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REV. TALMAGE. no, realize II And
now men see not the bright light
which is in the clouds" In other
words. there are hundred men look
ing for storm where there is one man
looking for sunshine. My object will
be to get you and myself into the de-
lightful habit of making the best of
everything.
You may have wondered at the sta
tistics that in India, in the year 1870
there were over 1900 people slain by
wild beasts, and that in the year 1876
there We're in India over 20, OD0 people
destroyed by wild animals. But there
is monster in our own land which is
year by year destroying more than
that. 1t is the old bear of melancholy,
and with gospel weapons propose to
chase it back to its midnight caverns.
i mean to do two sums-a sum in sub
.straction and sum in additional
subtraction from your days of depres-
sion and an addition to your days of
JOY. If God will help me | will com
pei you to see the bright light that
there is in the clouds, and compel you
to make the best of everything.
In the first place, you ought to make
the very best of all your financial mis-
fortunes. During the panic a few
years ago you all lost money Some of
you lost ii in most unac countable ways
For the question, "How many thou
sands of dollars shall put aside this
year," you substituted the question,
"How shall | pay my butcher. and
baker. and clothier, and landlord?"
You had the sensation of rowing hard
with two oars, and yet all the time
going down stream.
You did not say much about it be-
cause 1t was not polite to speak of
financial embarrassment; but your wife
knew. Less variety of wardrobe, more
economy at the table, self-denial in art
and tapestry. Compression; retrench-
ment. Who did not feel the necessity
of it? My friend, did you make the
best of this? Are you aware of how
narrow an escape you made? Suppose
you had reached the fortune toward
which you were rapidly going? What
then? You would have been as proud
as Lucifer
How few men have succeeded large
ly in financial sense and yet main
tanned their simplicity and religious
conservation! Not one man out of a
hundred. There are glorious eXcep-
tions, but the general rule is that in
proportion as man gets well off for
this world he gets poorly off for the
next. He loses his sense of dependence
on God. lie gets distaste for prayer
meeting. With plenty of bank stocks
and plenty of government securities,
what does that man know of the
prayer "Give me this day my daily
bread?r How few men largely sue
cessful in this world are bringing
souls to Christ, or showing self-denial
for others, or are eminent for piety?
You can count them all upon your
eight fingers and two thumbs.
One of the old covetous souls, when
he was sick, and sick unto death, used
to have basin brought ina basin
filled with gold. aud his only amusc-
ment and the only relief he got for
his inhamed hands was running them
down through the gold and turning il
up in the basin, Oh, what infatua'
ton and what destroying power money
has for many man. Now, you were
sailing at 30 knots the hour toward
these worthless of worldliness a
mercy it was, that honest defalcation
The same divine hand that crushed
your storehouse, your bank, your of
flee, your insurance company. lifted
YOU out OF destruction. The day you
honestly suspended in business made
your fortune for eternity
"Oh," you say. 81 could get along
very well myself, but | am SO disap
pointed that | cannot leave a compe
tence for my children My brother
the same financial misfortune that il
going to save your soul will save youl
children. With the anticipation o
large fortune. how much industry
would your children have?-withou
which habit of industry there is NJ
safety. The young man would say
''Well, there's no need of my working
my father will soon step out ana theI
I'll have just what | want You can
not hide from him how much you ar,
worth. You think you are hiding ii
he knows all about it, lie can tel
YOU almost TO dollar. Perhaps IN
has been to the county office ant
searched the records OF deeds ant
mortgages, and he has added it all up
and he has made an estimate of hoy
long you will probably stay in thi
world, and is not rs much Worried
about your rheumatism and Shortnes
of breath AS you ARE. The only for
tune worth anything that you ca
give your child is the fortune you pu
In his head and ntarr. OF al! tn
young men who started life with sac
900 capital. how many turned out well
do not know half "a dozen.
me best inher.tuncea young man ca
have is the feeling That he has TO Ugh