The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13


are those paths across the western
prairios? Why, they were made there
by deer ard buffalo going to and com
ing away from the SAT- "licks." Chem
lists and physicians al the world over
tell us that salt is a necessity of life.
And so with the grace of God; you
must have it or die. ] know a great
mary speak of ii as mere adorn-
ment. n sort of shoulder strap adorn-
ing soldier. or light, frothing des-
sert brought in after the greatest
part of the banquet of life is over,
or a medicine TO be taken after pow
ders and mustard plasters have failed
to do their work, but ordinarily
mere superiority, string of bells
around a horses neck while he draws
the load, and in nowise helping him
to draw IL. So far from that, | declare
the grace of God to be the first and
the last necessity. 1t is food we must
take or starve into an eternity OF
famine. II is clothing without which
we freeze to the mast of infinite ter
ror 1t is the plank, and the only
plank, on which we can float shore
ward II is the ladder. and the only
ladder an which we can climb up into
the light, 1t is a positive necessity
for tbe soul You can tell very easily
what tbe effect would be if person
refused IN take salt into the body.
The energies would fail, the lungs
would struggle with the air, slow
fevers vould crawl through the brain.
the beart would dutter. and the life
would he zone Salt n necessity for
tho life Of tbe body: the grace of God
a necessity for the life of the soul.
AGAIN | remark that grace is like
colt In abundance. God has strewn
salt in vast profusion all over the con
tirents Russia seems built on a salt
cellar There +. one rerion of that
country that t,-u. on, ga.c9O tons in
veor Epolar and Russia and Italy
have inexba,..'''r resources in this
resnect No. and Sweden. white
with enoy al y. y.ti.e with salt be-
month Nustfi, welding eco tons
arnuollv Nearly All the nations rich
IN it-rock salt sprinp salt. sea salt.
Christ the Creator of the world. when
lie uttered orr text. knew IL would
become more and more significant as
tbe shafts were sunk and the springs
were bored and the uumps were worked
and the CRYSTALS we're gathered. So
tbe prace Of God. Is abundant. II is for
all lands for all ages. for al condi.
lions II seems IN undergird every.
tbing. Pardon for ,be worst sin. com.
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est light for the thickest darkness
Around about tbe snlt lakes of Sarnto,
,bare are 10 Cr1 men toiling day ant
NIGHT and VET they never exhaust tn,
saline treasures. And If the GOO. 600.
C7o OF orr race should now cry out tC
God for His mercy there would b,
enougb for all-for those farthesi po,l,
in sin. for the murderer standing OF
tho dron NJ the ga,lovs. II is nm ocea1
Of mercy: and II Europe and Asia. Afri
ca North and South America and al
the islands of the sea went down in 1
to-day they would have room enough
10 wash and come nm clean. Let M
man think that his case is too touel
one for God TO act upon. Thougl
vour sin NAV he deem and raging. lie
me foil Won thar Gods grace is n bridg
not built on earthly piers. but sus
pended and spanning the awful chasn
Of your guilt. one end resting upon III,
rock of eternal promises and the othe
on the foundations of Heaven. Demet
rims wore n robe so incrusted wit
Jewels that no one after him ever dare,
70 wear II. hut orr King. Jesus. take
off the robe of His righteousness. rob
hood dyed and Heaven impearled. an,
reaches ont IN the worst wretch i
all the eortb and saws. "Put that on
Weor II nowl Wear II forever"
Aroin the grace Of God is like sal
in the way we come at II. The sal
on the surface is almost always impur
that which incrusts the Rocky NOM
tains and the South American mamma
and in India. but the miners 90 dow
tbrouob the shafts and tbrouph III