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

mlHu anu soul, OF De ulSRTdCelully
worsted. Where are the burial places
of men who started life with fortune3
Some of them in a potter's field; some
in the suicides grave. But few of
these men reached 35 years of age.
They drank, they smoked, they gam
bled. In them the beast destroyed the
man. Some of them lived long enough
to get their fortunes and go through
them. The vast majority of them did
not live long enough to get their in
heritance. From the gin shop or house
of infamy they were brought home to
their fathers house, and in delirium
began to pick off loathsome reptiles
from the embroidered pillow and to
fight back imaginary devils And
then they were laid out in a highly
upholstered parlor, the casket covered
with flowers by indulgent parents
flowers suggestive of a resurrection
with no hope.
'How hardly shall they that have
riches enter into the kingdom of Godw
at is easier for a camel to go through
needles eye than for rich man to
enter the kingdom of Heaven" What
grandest blessing God ever bestowed
upon you was to take your money
away from you. Let me here say, in
passing, do not put much stress on the
treasures of this world. Nou cannot
take them along with you. At any
rate, you cannot take them more than
two or three miles; You will have to
leave them at the cemetery. Attila
had three collins SO fond was he of
this life that he dccrced that first hn
should be buried in cofin of golf,
and that then that should b, inclosed
in coffin of silver, and that should be
incIosed in coffin of iron, and then
large amount of treasure shoul Id be
thrown IN over hi, body. And So he
was buried, and the men vino buried
him were slain. SO shat no one might
know where he was buried, aud no one
might there interfere with his treas
ures. OH men of the world, who want
to take your money with you, better
have three collins.
Again, remark, you ought to make
the very best Of your bereavement.
The whole tendency is to brood over
these separations, and to give much
time to the handling of mementoes of
the departed. and to make long vista
tions to the cemetery, and to say, "Oh,
| can never look up again; my hope is
gone; my courage is gone; my religion
is gone; my faith in God is gone. Oh,
the wear and tear and exhaustion of
this loneliness The most frequent
bereavement is the loss of children. If
your departed child had lived as long
as you have lived, do you not suppose
that he would have had about the
same amount of trouble and trial that
you have had? II you could have a
choice for your child between 10 years
of annoyance, loss, veXation, exaspera-
ton and bereaveme nts, and 40 years
in Heaven, would you take the respon-
sibility Of choosing the former? Would
you snatch away the cup of eternal
bliss and put iuto that childs hands
the cup of many bereavements? In
stead of the complete safety into which
that child has been lifted, would Won
like to hold it down to the risk OF this
mortal state? Would you like to kept
out on sea in which there have been
more shipwreclls than safe voyages?
Is it not a comfort to YOU to know that
that child, instead of being besoiled
and flung into the nire of sin, is swung
clear into the skies? Are not those
children to be congratulated that the
point of celestial bliss which you eX-
pect to reach by pilgrimage of 30 or
go or 20 years, they reached at flash?
IL the last 10, 900 children who had en-
tered Heaven had gone through the
average of human life on earth, are
you sure all those 10000 children
would nave finally reached the blissful
terminus? Besides that, my friends,
you are to look at this matter as a self.
denial on your part for their benefit.
If your children want to go off in IA
May-day party; If your children want
to go on a fowery and musical excur-
sion, you consent. You might prefer
to have them with You, but their jubi-
liant absence satisfies you. Well, your
departed children have only gone out
in a May-day party, amid tlowery and
musical entertainment, amid joys and
hilarities forever. That ought to quell
some of your grief, the thought of
their glee,
SO it ought to be that you could make
the best of all bereavements. The fact
that you have so many friends in
Heaven will make your own departure
very cheerful. When you aregoing on u
voyage, everything depends upon where
your friends are-if they are ON the
wharf that You leave or on the wharf
toward which you are going to sail.
In other words, the more friends You
have in Heaven the easier 1t will be to
get away from this world. The more
friends here, the more bitter goodbys;
the more friends there the more glori-
Gus welcomes. Some of you have so
many brothers, sisters, children, friends
in Heaven, that | do not know hardly
how you are going to crowd through.
When the vessel came from foreign
lands, and brought prince to our har-
Dor, the ships were covered with bunt-
ing, and you remember how the men
of.War thundered brondSides: but there