The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-06-16

there. Now. any one of the nuumera-
bile evangelical denominations. if YOU
practice its teaching. although some of
their trains run on a broad gauge and
some on narrow gauge. will bring you
out at the city of New Jerusalem.
II being evident that you will be safe
in any of the evangelical denomina-
lions. | proceed to remark. first. II one
of the married couple be "A Christian
and the other not. the one a Christian
is bound to 20 anywhere to church
where the unconverted companion is
willing TO go, If he or she will go 10
no other. You of the connubial part
nership are a Christian. You are safe
for the skies. Then il is your first
duty TO secure the eternal safety of
your lifetime associate. Is not the ever
lasting welfare of your wife impenitent
or your husband impenitent of more
Importance than your church relation
ship? Is not the condition of your
companion for the next quadrilion of
years mightier consideration to you
than the qualification of your ecclesi-
astical taste for 40 or so years? A man
or woman who would stop half min
ute to weigh preferences as to whether
he or she had better go with the uncon-
verted companion to this or that church
or denomination has no religion at all,
and never has had, and fear never will
have. You are loaded up with what
you suppose TO he religion, but you are
like Capt. Frobisher, who brought back
from his voyage of discovery a ship
load of what he supposed valuable min
erals, yet, instead of being silver and
gold, were nothing but common stones
of the field, TO be hurled out as finally
useless.
Mighty God, in all Thy realm is there
one man or woman protesting religion,
yet so stolid, so untitled. 80 far gone
unto death that there would be any
hesitancy in surrendering all prefer
ences before such an opportunity Of
salvation and heavenly reunion? If
you, a Christian wifg. are an attend
ant upon any church and your uncon-
verted husband does not 20 there be-
cause he does not like it's preacher, or
its music, or its architecture. or It's un-
comfortable crowdjng, and goes not TO
amy house of worship. bat would 90 IT
you would accompany him somewhere
else, change your church rela atoms.
Take your hymn book home with You
to-day. Say good-hy 10 your friends M
the ucighburiug psvs and go with him
to- any one of hundred churches tin
his soul is saved and lac joins you in the
march to Heaven. More important
than that ring ON the third finger of
your left hand it is that your Heaven
ly Father command the angel Of mercy
concerning your husband at his con
version, a. in the parable of old; PUT
ring on his hand"
NO letter of more Importance ever
came to the great city Of Curiuth. situ-
ated on what was called the Bridge OF
the Sea" aud gIistening with sculpture.
and gated with a style of brass the mag
nifcence of which the following ages
have not been able 10 successfully ini.
tate, and o!yeEsLaa!9wes hy the Scro.
Corinthus, fortress OF rock 1000 feet
high say no letter ever came 90 that
great city of more importance than that
letter in which Paul puts the two
startling questions: "What knowest
thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save
thy husband? Or how knowest thou,
o man. whether thou shalt save thy
wife?" The dearest sacrifice on the
part of the one is cheap if it rescue the
other. Better 60 to the smallest, weak
agf iV,g 81. oh Vph /,
and be copartners in eternal bliss than
pass your earthly membership in most
gorgeously attractive church while
your companion stays outside Of evan
gelical privilege. Better have the
drowning saved by scow or sloor
than let him or her go down while you
sail by in the gilded cabins of Majestic
or Campania.
Second remark: If both of the mar
ried couple be Christians, but one is SC
naturally constructed that il is impos
sible to enjoy the services of a particu-
lar denomination and the other is not |
so sectarian or punctilious, let the one
less particular go with the other, who |
is very particular. As for myself. feel |
as much at home i'm one denomination |
of evangelical Christians as another.
and think must have been born very |
near the line. | like the solemn roll of |
the Episcopal liturgy, and like the
spontaneity of the Methodists, and | |
like the importance given 10 the ordi-
nance of baptism by the Baptists, and |
like the freedom Of the Congrega.
tionalsts, and like the government
and the sublime doctrine Of the Presuy. |
terians, and ! like many of the Others 1
just as much as any have mentioned.
and could happily live and preach and
die and be buried from any Of them.
But others are born with liking so
stout, so unbending, so memorable for
some denomination that il is positive
necessity they have the advantage Of
that one. What they were intended to
be in ecelesiasticism was written in the
sides Of their cradle, if the father and
mother had eyes keen enough 10 see il.
! hey would not StOD CRYING until theV