The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-07

opened 1t was found to contain human
blood. The second son, making the
next choice, chose the vase of amber,
inscribed with the word glory" and
when opened it con tanned the ashes of
those who were once called great.
! The third son took the vase of CLAW,
and, opening it, found it empty but
on the bottom of it was iuscribe the
name of God. King N imrod asked his
courters which vase they thought
weighed the most. The avaricious
men of his court said the vase of gold.
The poets said the one of amber. But
the wiscst men said the empty vase.
because one letter of the name of God
outweighed universe
| For Him l thirst; for His grace
beg; on His promise / build NV all.
without Him ] cannot be happy. |
Have tried the world, and it does well
enough as far as it goes, but it is too
uncertain a world, too evanescent &
world. am not preiudiced witness.
have nothing against this world. 1
have been one of the most fortunate,
or to use more Christian word, one
of the most blessed of men-blessed in
my parents blessed in the place of my
nativity, blessed in my health, blessed
in my field of work, blessed in my field
of work, blessed in my natural tenn
permanent, blessed in my family,
blessed in my opportunities, blessed
in comfortable livelihood, blessed
in the hope that my soul. will
20 to Heaven through the pardon
ing mercy of God, and my body,
unless it be lost at sea or cremnt-
ed in some conhagration, will lie down
in the gardens of Greenwood among
my kindred and friends. some already
gone and others to come after me.
Life to many has been disappoint-
ment, but to me it has been u pleasant
surprise, and yet declare that If did
not feel that God was now my friend
and ever-present help, | should be
wretched and terror-stricl1en. But [
want more of Him. | have thought
over this text and preached this SER
mon to myself until with all the
aroused energies of my body, mind and
soul, l can cry out: LAS the heart
panteth after the water brooks, SO
panteth my soul after Thee, o Cod
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God, and you can withstand any,
thing and everything, and that which
affrights Others will inspire YOU. As
in time of an earthquake when an old
Christian woman was asked whether
she was scared, answered: mo, | am
glad that | have a God who can shake
the world;' or, as in financial panic.
when Christian merchant was asked
II he did not fear he would break. an
swered: Yes, l shall break when the
fftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth
verse: Call upon Me in the DAYS of
trouble; l will deliver thee and thou
shalt glorify Me-" Oh, Christian man
and women, pursued of annoyances
and exasperations remember that
this hunt, whether still hunt
or hunt in full cry, will
soon be over! II ever a whelp looks
ashamed and ready to stink out of
sight IL is when in the Adirondacks a
deer by one tremendous plunge into
Big Upper lake gets away from him.
The disappointed canine swims in
little way, bnt, defeated, swims out
again and cringes with Inundated
yawn at the feet of his master. And
how abashed and ashamed will all
your earthly troubles be when you
have dashed into the river from under
the throne of God, and the heights and
depths of Heaven are between you and
your pursuersl We are told in Reve-
lation 22;l5: without our dogs" by |
which | conclude there is a whole |
kennel of hounds outside the gate OF |
Heaven, or, as when master goes in
door, his dog lies on the |
steps waiting for him TO come out, so |
troubles of this life may follow us to |
the shining door, but they cannot get in.
without are dogsr' ! have seen
dogs, and owned dogs, that ! would |
not be chagrined to see in the heaven.
ly city Some of the grand old watch |
dogs who are the consta bulary of the
homes in solitary places, and for years
have been the only protection for wife
and child some of the shepherd dogs
that drive back the wolves and bark
away the fiocks from going too near
the precipice; and some of the dogs
whose neck and paw Landseer, the
painter, has made immortal, would not
lind me shutting them out from the
gate of shining pearl. Some OF those
Did st. Bernard dogs that have
lifted perishing travellers out of the
Alpine snow; the dog that John Brown,
.he Scotch essayist, saw ready to
'pring at the surgeon lest in remov-
ng the cancer he too much hurt the
Door woman whom the dog felt bound
20 protect, and the dogs that we ca
'essed in our childhood days, or that
n later time lay down on the rug in
eeming sympathy when our homes
we're desolated. say, if some soul
'ntering Heaven should happen to
cave the gate ajar, and these
aithful creatures should quietly
walk in, it would not at all dis
urb my Heaven. But all thoss
human or brutal hounds that have
hased and torn and lacerated the
world, yea, that now bite or worry or
ear to pieces, shall be prohibited.
without are dogsv' No place there
or harsh critics or bachbiters or de-
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