The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-29


deface the temple of the Holy Ghost q?
What is the ear? 1t is the whispering
gallery of the soul. What is the eye? 1t
is the observatory God constructed, its
telescope sweeping the heavens. What
is the hand? An instrument so wonder
full that, when the earl of Bridgewater
bequeathed in his will $4,000 for
treatises to be written on the wisdom,
power and goodness of God. Sir Charles
Bell. the great English anatomist and
surgeon, found his greatest illustration
in the construction of the human hand,
devoting his whole book to that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after different
parts of them. His omnscience-it is
Gods eye; His omnipresence-it is
Gods ear; His omnipotence IL is
Gods arm; the upholstery of the mid
night heavens-it is the work of Gods
fingers; His life-giving power-it is
the breath of the Almighty; his domin-
ion-"the government shall be upon his
shoulder"
But" you say, professors of religion
have fallen, professors of religion have
got drunk, professors of religion have
Incorporated trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If man on
White Star line steamer, bound for
Liverpool, in midAtlantic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star lines capacity
to take the man across the ocean? And
If a man jumps over the gunwale of his
religion and goes down never to rise !,
is that any reason for your believing
that religion has no capacity to take
the man clear through? In the one
case, if he had kept TO the steamer,
his body would have been saved; in
the other case, if he had kept to his re-
ligion, his morals would have been
saved.
There are aged people who would
have been dead % years ago but for the
defenses and the equipoise of religion.
You have no more natural resistance
than hundreds of people who lie in
the cemeteries to-day slain by their own
vices. The doctors made their case as
kind and pleasant as they could. and it
was called congestion of the brain or
something else, but the snakes and the
bluefiies that seemed to crawl over the
pillow in. the sight of the delirious pa
tient showed what was the matter with
him. You, the aged Christian man.
walked along by that unhappy one I'M
I'll you came to the golden pillar of a
Christian life. You went to the right,
he went to the left. That is all the
difference between you. If this reli-
gion is protest against all forms of
dissipation, then it is an illustrious
friend of longevity. with long life
will satisfy Him"
Suppose you had supernatural
neighbor who came in and said: "Sir,
| want you to call on me in every ext
gency. l am your fast friend. / could
fall back on $20,000,000. | can foresee
a panic ten years. ! hold the controll-
ing stock in 30 of the best monetary in
stitutions of New York. Whenever YOU
are in trouble call on me, and | will
help you. You can have my money,
and you can have my influence. Here
is my hand in pledge for it," How
much would you worry about business?
Why, you would say: I'm do the best
can, and then I'll depend on my
friends generosity for the rest"
Now, more than that is promised IN
every Christian business man. God
says to him: 81 own New York and
London and ST. Petersburg and peking
and Australia and California orc mine
| can foresee a panic "A hundred wears
/ have all the resources of the universe
and am your fast friend. Whom YIN
get in business trouble or any other
trouble. call ON me. and win
help. Here is my hand in plcdpe of
omnipotcpt dcliyeronce." How much
should that man worry9 Not much
What lion will dare 70 uut his nav nm
that Danielo Is there mot rc.t IN tI,i.o
Is there not an eternal vacation in tIisa
oh" Won say. "brrc is "a r,,n v.Lo
asked God for q blrssi,o. Fl, - cort,i,,