The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-01-26

made for the construction OF half
dozen houses and the owners impa-
tient for occupancy is not TO be pitied,
but give your sympathy to that me
chanic in early acquaintance with
banner aud saw and bit and amid all
the limitations oil a jourueyman.
Go forth to be busy body in othet
msn's matters, so far as you can help
ing them out, and help them on. he
world Is full OF Instances of those who
spend their life 10 such alleviations, but
there is one instance that overtops and
eelipses all others. He bad lived In a
palace. Radiant ones waited upon him.
lie was eharioted along streets yellow
with gold, and stopped at gates glisien'
ing with pearls, aud hosaHbaed 10y i'm
mortals coroneied and in SNOWY white.
Centuries gave him not pain. The
sun that rose on him never sci. His do.
minions could not be enlarged, for they
had no boundaries. and unconiesird
was His reign. Upon all that luster aud
renown and environment of spleudurs
He turned His back and put dowu His
crown at the foot of His throne. aud on
bleak December night trod Ills way
down to stone house in Bethlehem of
our world. Wrapped in what pain
shawl. and pursued with what enemies
on swift camels. and howled at with
what brigands. and thrust with what
sharp lances, and hidden in what sepul-
chral crypt, until the subsequent cen
turtles have tried in vain to tell the story
by sculptured cross. and painted can
vas. and resoundiug doxologies. and
domed cathedral. and redeemed ma
tons.
he could not see a woman doubled up
with rheumatism but He touched her.
and inflamed muscles relaxed, aud she
stood straight up He could not meet a
funeral Of a young man but he broke up
the procession and gave him back to bis
widowed mother. With spittle on the
tip of His finger He turned the mid
night of total blindness into the mid
noon Of perfect sight. lie could not see
n man down on his mattress helpless
with palsy without calling him up to
health and telling him to shoulder the
mattress and walk off. He could not
find man tongue-tied but He gave him
immediate articulation. He could not
see man with the puzzled and inqnir
ing look of the deaf without giving him
capacity to hear the march of life beat
ing on the drum of the ear. He could
not see a crowd of hungry people but
He made enough good bread and a sur
plus that required all the baskets.
He scolded only twice that | remem.
Der, once at the hypocritcs with elon.
gated visage and the other time when
sinful crowd had arraigned an unior-
tunate woman, and the Lord. with the
most superb sarcasm that was ever ut
tered, gave permission to anyone who
felt himself entirely commendabe TO
hurl the first missile. All for Others.
His birth for Others. His ministry for
others. His death for others. His as.
cension for others. His enforcement
for others.
That spirit which leads one to be
busy for the betterment Of others is go.
ing to Edenize the round earth. That
spirit induced John Pound 10 establi
ragged schools" and Father Mathew
TO become a temperance reformtr and
Peter Cooper TO establish his institute
and Slater TO contribute his fund for
schools and Baroness Hirsch TO leave
more than $l00.000,00O for the improve
ment of her race and Cornelius Wander
! bilt 10 flood churches and charita BILE
institutions with his benevolence. And
though our means be limited and our
opportunities circumscribed, we can do
the same Thing on small scale. "Uther
mems matters!" BE busy bodies in i'm.
proving them. With kind words. with
earnest prayers, with self-sacrifcing
deeds, with charging charities, let US
go forth on new mission.
And now my words are to the invis.
ible mullitudes | reach week by week.
but yet will never see in this world, but
whom ! expect 10 meet AT the bar of
God and hope to see in the blessed
Heaven. The last word that Dwight l..
Moody, the great evangelist, said TO me
at Plaintield, n. j., and he repeated the
message for me TO others, was: Never
be tempted under any circumstances
TO give up your weekly publication OF
sermons throughout the world" That
solemn charge | will heed as long as /
have strength TO give them and the
newspaper types desire 10 take them.
Oh, ye people back there in the Sheffield
mines of England and ye in the sheep
pastures of Australia aud ye amid the
pictured terraces of New Zealand and
We among the cinnamon and color in.
hamed groves of Ceylon and We Ar.
menians weeping over the graves of
murdered households in Asia Minor and
ye amid the idolatries of Benares on
the Gauges and ye dwellers on the
banks of the Androscoggin and the
Alabama and the Mississippi and the
Oregon and the Shannon and the Rhine
and the Tiber and the Danube and the
Nile and the Euphrates and the Cas-.
plan and Yellow seas; we of the four
corners of the earth who have greeted
me again and again, accept this point