The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-27

tune goes to pieces and his house !
goes down under the sheriff's ham
mer, aud the banks will not have |
anything to do with his paper.
Suppose those people who were
once elegantly entertained at his
table get so short-sighted that they |
cannot recognize him upon the street.
How then2 Is it so easy to be cheer
full? II is easy to be cheerful in the |
home after the days work is done. and
the gas is turned on and the house is
full of romping little ones But sup
pose the piano is shut because the
fingers that played on it will no more
touch the keys, and the childish
voice that asked so many questions
will ask no more. Then is it so easy?
When a man wakes up and finds that
his resources are all gone he begins to
re bel, and he says: God is hard; God
is outrageous. He had no business to
do this to me-" NY friends, those Of
us who have been through trouble
know what a sinful and rebellious
heart we have, and how much God has
to put up with, and how much we need
pardon. 1t is only in the light of
flaming furnace that we can learn our
own weakness aud our own lack of
moral resource.
There is also a great deal of comfort
in the fact that tu,.yc wtii he a family
reconstruction in Il uc.ter place. From
Scotland, or England. rr lrr.and, a
child emigrates to Amer.c'. 1t is very
hard parting, but he cu.-r>. after
awhile writing home as TO wnat good
land it is Another brother comes, a
sister comes, and another, and after
awhile the mother comes, and after
awhile the father comes, and now
they are all here. and they have time
of great congratulation and II very
pleasant reunion Well, il is just SO
with our families; they are emigrat-
ing toward Il better land. Now, one
goes out Oh, how hard it is to part
with him! Another goes. Ola. how
hard it is to part with her! Aud am
other, and another, and we ourselves
will, after awhile, 20 over, and then
we will be together. Oh, what
reunion! DO you believe that?
Yes you say. Oh! you do not.
You do not believe it as you believe
other things. If you do, and with the
same emphasis, why, it would take
nine.tenths of your trouble off your
heart. The fact is, Heaven to many
of us is a great fog. 1t is away off
somewhere, filed with an uncertain
and indefinite population That is the
kind of Heaven that many of us dream
about; but il is the most tremendous
fact in all this universe-this Heaven
of the gospel. Our departed friends
are not atloat. The residence ia which
you live is not so real as the residence
in which they stay. You are ahoat-
you who do not know in the morning
what will happen before night. They
are housed and safe forever. Do not,
therefore, pity your departed friends
who have died in Christ They do not
need any of your pity. You might
as well send letter of coincidence
to Queen Victoria on her obscurity,
or to the Rothschilds on their
poverty, as to pity those who have won
the palm. Do not say of those who
are departed: Poor childr' Poor
father!" Poor motherw They are
not poor. You are poor-you whose
homes have been shattered, not they.
You do not dwell much with your fam
lilies in the world. All day long you
are off to business. viii it. not be
pleasant when you can be together all
the while? II you have had four chill
dren and one is gone, and anybody
asks how many children YOU have, do
not be so intidel as to say three. Say
four-one in Heaven. Do not think
that the grave is unfriendly. You go
into your room and dress for some
grand entertainment, and you come
forth beautifully appareled; and the
grave is only the place where we go To
dress for the glorious resurrection,
and we will come out radiant. IN r.
tally having become immortal ity.
Oh. how much coincidence there is in
this thought! | expect TO see my kin.
dred in Heaven-l expect to see them
home to-day. Aye, | shall more GER
tainly see them, And your friends
they may be across the SEA, but the
trumpet that sounds here will sound
there. You will cone up ON just the
same day. Some morning you have
oversight yourself, and you open your
eyes and see that the sun is high in
the heavens, and you say: IL have
OVERSIGHT, and must be up and away. "
So YOU will open your eyes on the
morning of the resurrection, in the
full blaze of Gods light, and you will
say: 81 must be up and away Oh,
yes, you will come, and there will be
a reconstruction OF your family!
remark once more: Our troubles in
this world are preparative for glory.
what a transition it was for Paul 90
from the slippery deck of laundering
snip to the calm presence of Jesus!
What a transition il was for Latimer
from the stake to the throne! What
a transition it was for Robert Hall
from insanity to glory! What a transi
ton IT was for Richard Baxter-from
the dropsy to the saints Everlasting
Rest And what transition it will
be for you-from a world of sorrow &c
a world of joy. Oh! ye who are perse-