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

life will | satisfy him"
Again, practical religion is a friend
of longevity in the fact that it removes
all oorroding care about future exist
ence. Every man wants to know what
is TO become of him. If you get on
board rail train, you want to know at
what depot it is going to stop. If you
get on board ship, you want to know
| into what harbor il is going to run.
AMI If you should tell me you have no
interest in what is to be your future
destiny | would, in as polite way as
know how, tell you | did not believe
you. Before / had this matter settled
with reference to my future existence
the question almost worried me into
ruined health. The anXieties men have
upon this subject, put together. would
make n martyrdom. This is a state Of
awful unhealthiness. There are people
who fret themselves TO death for fear
OF dying. / want to take the strain off
your nerves and the depression off your
soul, and | make two or three expert
ments. Experiment first; When you
go out of this world II does not make
good or bad, whether you believed truth
or error, you will go straight TO glory
Impossible" you say. my common
sense as well as my religion teaches that
the bad and the good cannot live togeth-
er forever. You give me no comfort in
that experiment" Experiment the sec
ond: When you leave this world you
will go into an intermediate state where
you can get converted and prepared for
Heaven. impossible" you say. "As
the tree falleth, so must it lie, and
cannot postpone to an intermediate
state reformation which ought to have
been effected in this state" Expert
ment the third: There is no future
world, When a man dies, that is the
last Of him. Do not worry about what
you are to do in another state of being.
You will not do anything. "lmpossi-
ble," you say. "There is something that
tells me that death is not the appendix.
but the preface, to life. There is some-
thing that tells me that on this side
of the grave | only get started and
that | shall 90 on forever. My power to
think says forever my affections say
forever my capacity to enjoy or suf-
fer, forever"
Well, you defeat me in my three ex-
periments. l have only one more TO
make, and if you defeat me in that am
exhausted. A mighty One on a knoll
back of Jerusalem one day, the skies
filled with forked lightnings and the
earth filled with volcanic disturbances,
turned His pale and agonized face
toward the heavens and said: ~ take
the sins and sorrows of the ages into
my own heart, | am the expiration,
Witness, earth and Heaven and hell,
l am the expiation." And the hammer
struck Him, and the spears punctured
him, and Heaven Numbered: 1.-THE
wages of sin is DEATH" "The soul that
sinneth, it shall diet" 81 will by no
means clear the guilty." Then there
was silence for half an hour, and the
ightnings were drawn back into the
scabbard of the sky, and the earth
ceased TO culver, and all the colors of
the sky began to shift into a rainbow
woven out of the falling tears of Jesus,
and there was red as of the bloodshed-
IL
ing, and there was green as of the
heavenly foliage, and there was orange
as of the day dawn, and along the line
OF the blue | saw the words: 81 was
bruised for their iniquities," and along
the line of red l saw the words: 1.-THE
blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all sin,' and along the line of the green
l saw the words: "rhe leaves of the
Tree of Life for the healing of the ma
tlons,' and along the line of the orange
L saw the Words "The day spring
from on high hath visited us" and
then ] saw the storm was over. and the
rainbow rose higher and higher until il
seemed rctreating to another heaven,
ana, planting one column of its colors
on one side OF the eternal hill, and plant
ing the other column of its culors on
the other side the eternal hill. il rose
upward and upward, "and, behold,
there was rainbow about the throne"
Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying.
Take the tonic, the inspiration. the lou-
gevity, of this truth. Religion is sum
shine; that is health. Religion is fresh
air and pure water; they are healthy.
Religion is warmth; that is healthy.
Ask all the doctors, and they will tell
you that quiet conscience and pleas
ant anticipations are hygienic, | offer
you perfect peace now and hereafter.
What do you want in the future
world? Tell me- and you shall have it.
Orchards? There are trees with ~
manner of fruits, yielding fruit every
month. Water scenery? There is the
river Of Life from under the throne of
God clear as crystal, and the sea of
glass mingled with fire. Do you want
music? There is the oratorio of the
Creation led on by Adam and the ora
torio of the Red sea led on by Moses,
and the oratorio of the Messiah led on
by st. Paul, while the archangel with
swinging baton controls the $4,000 who
make up the orchestra. DO you want
reunion? There are your children wait
ing to kiss YOU waiting to embrace you,
waiting to twist garlands i'm YOUR hair