The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-07

Everything COMES from duONI ldI-
don from above, JOY from above, adop- |
ton from above, sanctification from
above.
Would that now God would turn
on the waters of salvation that they
might flow down through His her
itage and that this day we might
each find our places to be Films"
with 12 wells of water and threescore
and ten palm trees.
Hank! | hear the latch of the gar
den gate, and | look to see who is
coming. / hear the voice of Christ.
81 am come into My garttn." / say:
Come in, o Jesusl We have been
waiting for Thee. Walk all through
the paths. Look at the flowers; look
at the fruit; pluck that which Thou
wilt for Thyself." Jesus comes into
the garden and up to that old man
and touches him and says almost
home, father; not many more aches
for thee. | will never leave thee.
Take courage a little longer, and |
will steady thy lettering steps. and
l will soothe thy troubles and give
thee rest. Courage, old man Then
Christ goes up another garden path,
and He comes to soul in trouble
and says: "Peacel All is well. l
have seen thy tears. | have heard
thy prayer. The sun shall not smite
thee by day nor the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve thee from
all evil. He will preserve thy soul.
Courage. o troubled spirit"
Then | see Jesus going up another
| garden path, and ! see great excite
ment among the leaves, and | hasten
up to that garden path to see what
/ Jesus is doing there, and, 10. He is
breaking off flowers sharp and clean,
! from The stem. and | say: stop.
Jesus. Do not kin those beautiful
flowers" He turns to me and says:
81 have come into My garden TO gath
er lilies. and | mean to take these up
to a higher terrace for the garden
around my palace, and there | will
plant them. and in better soil and in
better air they shall put forth bright
or leaves and sweeter redolence, and
no frost shall touch them forever
And | looked up into His face and
said: "Weu il is Thy garden. and
Thou hast a right to DO what Thou
wilt with it. Thy viii he done!'-
the hardest prayer a man ever made
1t has seemed as il Jesus Christ
took the best. From many of yoH
households the best one is gone Nor
know that she was too good for this
world. She was the gentlest in hei
ways. the deepest in her affection
and when at last the sickness came
you had no faith i'm medicines. No'
knew that the hour of parting ha'
> come. and when, through the ricl
, grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, yo'
, surrendered that treasure You said
Lord Jesus. take il. II is the hes
, we have. Take il. Thou art worthy.
, The others in the household may hav
been of grosser mold. She was o
: the finest.
: notice that the fine gardens some
s times have high fences around then
f and I cannot get in. il is so with
kings garden. The only glimpse yo
ever get of such garden is whe
, the king rides out in his splendid car
I riage. II Is not so with this garden
this Kings garden. | throw wild
p open the gate and tell you all T.
>. come in. No monopoly in religion
o Whosocyer win may. Choose now b'
, tween desert and garden. Man
~, of YOU have tried the garden of hi
4 worlds delight You have found
: has been a chagrn. So it was wit
! Theodore Hook. lie made all Nh
= world laugh He makes us laugh no
, when we read his poems. But i
could not make his own heart lnugI
~ While in the midst of his iestiyiti,
- he confronted a looking glass, an
y he saw himself and said: "Ther
that is true. | look just as | am
. done up i'm body, mind and purse
So il was of Shenstone, of whose ga
- den | told you at the beginning
my sermon. He sat down amid tho
y bowers and said: 81 have lost n
road TO happiness. | am angry al
:. envious and frantic and despise ever
. thing around me just as it becomes
mailman to do"
o We weary souls, come into Christ
, garden to-day and pluck a mt
" heartsease. Christ is the only re
:. and the only pardon for perturb'
20 spirit. Do you not think your chan
has almost come? You men al
" women who have been waiting We
- after year for some good opportuni
= in which to accept Christ, but ha
- postponed it 3, TO- 20, 30 years,
" you not feel as if now your hour
), deliverance and pardon and salvati,
:. had come? o man, what grud
- hast thou against thy poor soul tn
- thou wilt not let it be saved?
!, Some years ago a vessel struck
-. the rocks. They had only one Iii
w. boat. In that ffeboat the passenge
49, and crew were getting ashore, T
- vessel had foundcred and was sinki
.a deeper and deeper, and that one DO
could not take the passengers We
bo swiftly. A little girl stood on t
~ deck waiting for her turn to get in