The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-09-09

are SIN, ana ruin, ana ueaJn, on Jne
other side of it pardon aud usefulness,
and happiness, and Heaven. You cross
from the wrong side to the right side.
and your family will cross with you,
and your friends, and your associates.
The way you go they will go. If we
are not saved, we will never save any
one else.
How to get saved? BE willing to ac-
cept Christ, and then accept Him in
simultaneously and forever. Get on the
rock first, and then you will be able to
help others upon the same rock. Men
and women have been saved quicker
than l have been talking about it.
Saved yourselves, how are you to save
othersp by testimony. Tell it to your
family. Tell it TO your business asso-
ciates. Tell it everywhere. We will
successfully preach no more religion,
and will successfully talk no more
religion than we ourselves have.
The most of that which you do
to benefit the souls Of this generation
you will effect through your own
behavior. Go wrong and that will in
duce others to go wrong. Go right
and that will induce others to go
right When the great Centennial ex-
position was being held in Philadel-
phia the question came up among the
directors as to whether they should
keep the exposition open on Sundays,
when director, who was a man of
the world from Nevada, arose and
said, his voice trembling with emo
ton and tears running down his
cheeks: ~ feel like a returned prod
igal. Twenty years ago l went
west and into region where
we had no Sabbath, but to-day old
memories come back to me and l
remember what my glorious mother
taught me about keeping Sunday, and
/ seem to hear her voice again and
feel as / did when every evening l
knelt by her side in prayer. Gentle
men, l vote for the observance of the
Christian Sabbath" and he carried
everything by storm, and when the
question was put, "Shall we open the
exposition on the SABBATH" it was
almost unanimous, No" No" What
one man can do il he does right,
boldly right, emphatically right!
l confess TO you that my one wish is
to serve this generation, not to antag-
onize it, not to damage it, not to rule
| it, but to serve it. l would like to do
something toward helping unstrap its
load, to stop its tears, to balsam its
wounds and to induce it to put foot on
the upward road that has at its termi-
nus reclamation rapturous, and gates
pearline, and garlands amaranthine,
and fountains rainbowed, and domin-
ions enthroned and coroneted, for l
cannot forget that lullaby in the
closing words OF my text: David,
after he had served his own generation
by the will of God, fell asleep" What
a lovely sleep it was. Unfilial Alb
salon did not trouble it. Ambitious
Adonijah did not worry it. Persecut-
ing Saul did not harrow it. Exile did
not fill it with nightmare Since a
red-headed boy, amid his fathers
flocks at night, he had not had such a
good sleep At 10 years of age he laid
down to il. lie had many troubled
sleep, as in the caverns of Adullam, or
in the palace at the time his enemies
were attempting his capture. But
this was peaceful sleep, a calm sleep,
a restful sleep, Il glorious sleep. after
he had served his generation by the
will of God, he fell on sleep"
Away with all your gloomy talk
about departing from this world! II
we have served our generation IL will
not be putting out into the breakers;
| it will not be the fight with the King
of Terrors; it will be going TO sleep.
And | should not wonder IT, after
we have served our generation,
and by the will of God have
fallen on sleep, the deep sleep,
the restful sleep, we should awaken
in blissful bewilderment, ana for lit
tie while say: Where am /? What
palace is this? Why, this looks like
Heaven! 1t is; it is. Why, there is a
building grander than all the castles
of the earth heaved into n mountain OF
| splendor-that must be the palace of
Jesus. And look there, at those walks
lined with foliage more beautiful than
anything | ever saw before, and see
those who are walking down those
aisles of verdure. From what | have
heard of them, those two arm and arm
must be Moses and Joshua, him OF
Mount Sinai and him of the hating
sun over Gideon. And those two walk
ing arm in arm must be John and
Paul, the one so gentle and the other
SO mighty.
But | must not look any longer at
those gardens of beauty, but examine
this building in which | have just
awakened. | look out of the window
this way and that, and up and down,
and / find it is mansion of immense
size in which | am stopping. All its
windows of agate and its colonades OF
porphyry and alabaster. Why, | won
der il this is not the House of many
Mansions, of which ] used to readP
II is; 1t is. There must be many
of my kindred and friends in this
very mansion, Hark! Who are
those voices9 Whose are those
bounding feetP l open the door and
see, and 10! they are coming through
the corridors and up and down all the
stairs, our long-absent kindred. Why,
there is father, there is mother, there
/ tho oh ildran All mall An