The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-13


worth one Zipporah.
There needs to be peaceful yet radi-
cal revolution among most Of the pros
porous homes of America, by which
the elegant do-nothings may be trans
formed into practical do-somethings,
Let useless women go TO work and
gather the hocks Come, Zipporah,
let me introduce you To Moses! But
you do not mean that this man aiiiauced
to his country girl was the great Moses
of history, do you? You do not mean
that he was the man who afterward
wrought such wonders? Surely you
do not mean the man whose staff
dropped, wriggled into a serpent, and
then, clutched, stiffened again into a
staff? You do not mean the chal-
lenger of Egyptian thrones and pal
aces? You do not mean him who
struck the rock so hard 1t wept in a
| stream for thirsty hostsP Surely you
do not mean the man who stood alone
with God on the quaking Sinaitic
ranges; not him to whom the Red sea
was surrenderedP Yes, the same
Moses defending the seven daughters
of the Midianitish sheik; who after
ward rescued nation.
See also in this call of Moses that
God has great memory. Four hun
dred years before he had promised the
deliverance of the oppressed lsraelites
of Egypt. The clock of time has
struck the hour and now Moses is
called to the work of rescue. Four
hundred years is a very long time, but
/ LODI 1,ar 80
400 years as well rs YOU can remember
400 minutes Four hundred years in.
cludes all your ancestry that you
know anything about and all the
promises made to them, and we may
expect fultillment in our heart and life
of all the blessings predicted to our
ancestry centuries ago. You have a
dim remembrance, if any remembrance
at all, of your great grandfather, but
God sees those who were on their
knees in 1898 as well as those on their
knees in 1895, and the blessings he
promised the former and their de-
scendants have arrived or will arrive.
What are we doing by prayer and by
n holy life for the redemption of the
next 400 years? Our work is not only
with the people of the latter part of
the nineteenth century, but with those
in the closing of the twentie tn CEN
fury, and the closing of the twenty
third century. For 400 years, IL the
world continues to swing until that
time, or if 1t drops, then, notwith-
standing, the influence will go on in
other ATTITUDES and longitudes of Gods
universe.
No one realizes how great He is for
good or for evil There are branch
ings out, and rebounds, and reverbera-
tions, and Celebrations Of influence
that cannot be estimated The so or
100 years of our earthly stay is only a
small part of our sphere. The flap of
the wing of the destroying angel that
smote the Egyptian oppressors, the
wash of the Red sea over the heads OF
the drowned Egyptians, were all full
ailments of promises four centuries
old. And things occur in your life and
in mine that we cannot account for.
They may be the echoes of what was
promised in the sixteenth or eighteenth
century. Oh, the prolongation of the
divine memory!
Notice, also, that Moses was so years
of age when he got this call To become
the Israelitish deliverer. Forty year:
he had lived in palaces as a prince
another 40 years he had lived in the
wilderness of Arabia. Like Moses
you may have your chief work to de
after 80. 1t may not be in the high
places of the field, it may not be where
a strong arm and an athletic foot anC
a clear vision are required, but Their,
is something for you yet to do. l
aged men do not feel strong enough
for anything else, let them sit arounc
in our churches and pray, and perhaps
in that way they may accomplish more
good than they ever did in the meridi
an of their life. 1t makes us feel stronI
to see aged men and women all up anC
down the pews, their faces showing
they have been on mountains of trans
figurations. We want in all on
churches more men like Moses, men wh'
have been through the deeps an,
|, climbed up the shelled beach on tn
other side. We want aged Jacobs
who havo seen ladders which let dow
Heaven into their dreams. We wan
] uReu lclGIht NllO HdNG bGtn at 4 tu u
costs, and aged Pauls, who have mad
Felix tremble.
= There lies dying at lIawarden, Eng.
( one of the most wonderful men tina
, ever lived since the ages of time bega
their roll. lie is the chief citizen o
the world. Three times has he praC
) tically been king of Great Britain
, Again and again coming from tn
house of commons, which he ha
thrilled and overawed by his eloquenc
on Saturday, on Sunday morning read
ing prayers for the people with illr
mined countenance and trimming eve
; and resounding voice, saying: II bc
| lieve in God the Father Almighty
| maker of Heaven and earth, and i
r Jesus Christ His only son, our Lord.
a The world has no other such man t
lose as Gladstone; the church has n
/ other such champion TO mourn over
( | shall never cease to thank God tina
4 on Mr. Gladstone's invitation visite