The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01
GOD SENT THE WHEEL
The Theme for DR.. Talmage's
Thanksgiving Sermon.
The wheel ms n symbol of Prosperity
Some Reasons for National
GrntItude-Benefits of In
ventive Genius.
copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington, Nov. &C.

usual way calls for the gratitude of the
people: the text, Ezekiah 1913: AS
| for the wheels, it was cried unto them
in my hearing, o WHEEL"
Next Thursday will, by proclamation
! of president and governors, be OBJ
served in Thanksgiving for temporal
mercies. With what spirit shall we en-
ter upon it? For nearly year and a
half this nation has been celebrating
the triumph of sword and gun and bat
terry. We have sung martial airs and
cheered returning heroes and sounded
the requiem for the slain in battle. Me-
thinks it will be healthful change if
this Thanksgiving week, in church and
homestead, we celebrate the victories
of peace, for nothing was done at San
tiago or Manila that was of more inn
portance than that which in the last
year has been done in farmers field
and mechanics shop and authors
study by those who never wore an epau-
let or shot a Spaniard or went a hun
dred miles from their own doorsill. And
now / call your attention 10 the wheel
of the text.
Man, a small speck in the universe,
was set down in n big world, high
mountains rising before him, deep seas
arresting his pathway and wild beasts
capable Of his destruction, yet he was
to conquer. 1t could not be by physical
force, for compare his arm with the
ox's horn and the elephants tusk, and
how weak he isl 1t could not be by
physical speed, for compare him TO the
antelope's foot and ptarmigap's wing,
and how slow he is! 1t could not he
by physical capacity to soar or plunge,
for the condor heats him in one direc-
tion and the porpoise in the other. Yet
he was to conquer the world. Two ewes,
two hands, and two feet were INSULT
cient. He must be reinforced, SO God
sent the wheel.
Twenty-Five times is the wheel men
toned in the Bible, sometimes, as in
Ezekiel, illustrating providential move
ment; sometimes, as in the Psalms,
crushing the bad; sometimes, as in
Judges, representing Gods charioted
progress. The wheel that started in
Exodus rolls on through Proverbs,
, through Isaiah, through jeremiah,
through Daniel, through Nahum,
through the centuries, all the time
gathering momentum and splendor,
until, seeing what it has done for the
worlds progress and happiness, we
clap our hands in Thanksgiving and en-
. ploy the apostrophe of the text, crying:
30, wheel"
call on you in this Thanksgiving
week to praise God for the triumphs
of machinery, which have revolution
! izeG the world and multiplied its at
fractions. Even Paradise, though very
, picturesque, must have been compare
lively dull, hardly anything going on,
no agriculture needed, for the harvest
was spontaneous; no architecture re-
qured, for they slept under the trees;
> no manufacturers loom necessary for
the weaving Of apparel for the fashions
: were exceedingly simple. TO dress the
, garden would not have required ten
minutes a day.
Having nothing to do, they got into
, mischief and ruined themselves and the
race. 1t was a sad thing to be turned
out of Paradise, but, once turned out, a
heneficent thing to be compelled to
work. TO help man up and on God sent
: the wheel 1t turned ahead, the race
advances; if turned back, the race re-
treats. To arouse your gratitude and
+ exalt your praise | would show you
what the wheel has done for the domes-
tic world, for the agricultural world,
for the travelling world, for the literary
world. "As for the wheels, it was cried
unto them in my hearing; WHEEL!
In domestic life the wheel has wrought
, revolution. Behold the sewing ma
t chine. II has shattered the house
wife's bondage and prolonged woman's
, life and added unreasonable advan-
tages. The needle for ages had pune
tured the eyes and pierced the side and
made terrible massacre. 10 prepare the
garments of a whole household in the
spring for summer and in the autumn
for winter was an eXhausting process
r "Stitch, stitch, stitch" Thomas Hood
1 set ii to poetry, but millions of persons
a have found it agouizing prose.
q Slain by the sword, we buried the
, hero with Dead March" in saul" and
flags at half mast. Slain by the needle
! no que klltN u bul llV hbuoSHblA ina
D watched her health giving way. The
4 winter after that the children were
a ragged and cold and hungry or in the
o almshouse. The hand that welded the
needle had forgotten its cunning. Sou
q and body had parted at the seam. Tit
thimble had dropped from the palsiet
' finger. The thread Of life had snapped
and let suffering human drop into
the grave. The spool was all unwound
Her sepulcher was digged not with sex
toms spade, but with a sharper ant
shorter implement-a needle. Fedora
8 and confederate dead have ornamenteC
o graves at Arlington Heights and Rich
: mond and Gettysburg, thousands by
: thousands, but it villa take the arch
4 angels trumpet to find the milNor
. graves of the vaster army Of womeT
y needle slain.