The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-11-25


the supernal society, we would cry out:
"Let us stay! We are coming here any
how. Why take the trouble OF going
back again to that old world? We are
here now. Let us stayl" And II would
take angelic violence to put us out of
that world II once we got there. but az
people who cannot afford TO pay for an
entertainment sometimes come around
II and look through the door aisr. or
through the openings in the fence, so
we come and look through the crevices
into that good land which God hns pro
vided for us. We can just catch a
glimpse Of Il. We come near enough 20
hear the rumbling of the eternal or.
chestra, though not near enough TO
know who blows the cornet or who fin.
gers the harp, My soul spreads out
both wings and claps them in triumph
at the thought Of those upper springs
One of them breaks from beneath the
throne. Another breaks forth from be.
meath the altar Of the temple. Another
at the door Of 1.-THE house OF many man.
sions." Upper springs of gladnessl tip
per springs Of light! Upper springs ~
lovel II is no fancy of mine. "Ths
Lamb which Is in the midst OF the
throne shall lead them to living foun.
tains of water"
o Saviour Divine. roll in upon our
souls one of those anticipated raptures!
Pour around the roots of the parchcd
tongue one drop OF that liquid lifel
Toss before our vision those fountains
of God. rainbowed with eternal victory
Hear IT, They are never sick there:
not so much as n headache or twingc
rheumatic or thrust neuralgia. The in.
habitant never says: IL am sick" They
are never tired there Flight 10 farthest
world is only the play of n holiday
They never sin there. II is as easy for
them TO he holy as il is for us TO sin
They never die there. You might go
through all the outskirts of the great
city and find not one place where the
ground was broken for n grave. The
eyesight of the redeemed ia never
blurred with tears There is health IL
every cheek. There is spring in every
foot. There Is majesty on every brow
There Is JOY in every heart There is
hosnnna on every lip How they must
pity us ms they look over and look
down and see MS and say; Poor thiugs
away down i'm that world" And when
some Christian j. hurled into n fatal
accident they cry; Good! lie is com.
inE!" And when we stand around the
couch Of some loved one whose strength
Is going away and we shake our heads
forebodingly they cry; I'm glad he
is worse. He has been down there long
enough There. he is dead! Como
home! Come home!" Oh. il we could
only get our ideas about that future
world UNFINISHED, our thought Of trans
fer from here to there would be as
pleasant to MS as II was TO little child
that was dying She said: Papa.
when will | go home?" And he said
To-day. Florence" To-day? So soon
am so glud."
! wish | could stimulate you with
these thoughts. o Christian man. to the
highest possible exhilaration! The day
of your deliverance Is coming--is COM
ing, rolling on with the shining wheels
of the day. and the Jet wheels of the
night. Every thump of the heart is
only hammer stroke striking Off an.
other chain of clay. BETTER scour the
deck and coil the rope, for hHrbor is
only sin miles away. Jesus will come
down The Narrows TO meet you. "Now
Is your salvation nearer than when you
believed"
Man of the world will you not ~
day make n choice between these two
portions, between the south land" OF
this world which slopes to the desert.
and this glorious land which thy Fa.
Their offers thee, running with eternal
water courses? Why let your tongue
be consumed OF thirst when there are
the neither springs and the upper
springs-comfort here and glory here
after?
You and need something better
than this world can give us. The fGct
is that it cannot give us anything after
awhile. 1t is a changing world. DO
you knew that even the mountains on
the back OF a thousand streams are
leaping into the valley? The ALLIE.
ghenies are dying The dews with
cry sAullne Hldllel are nammerlng away
the rocks Frosts and showers and
lightnings are sculpturing Mount
Washington and the Catskills. Niagara
every year is digging for itself a
quicker plunge. The sea all around the
earth on its shifting shores is making
mighty changes in bar and bay and
firth and promontory. Some OF the old
seacoasts are midland now. OF Nan.
tucket, eight feet below low-water
mark, are found now the stumps OF
trees, showing that the waves are con-
quering the land. Parts OF Nova Scotia
are sinking. Ships to-day sail over
what, only little while ago, was solid
ground. Near the mouth of the ST.
Croix river is an island which, in the
movements of the earth, is slowly but
certainly rotating. All the face Of the
earth is changing-changing. In 1881
an island springs up in the Mediter-
ranean sea. In 1866 another island