The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-12-28

children. and they are all spared. The
unfortunates buy at time when the
market is rising and the day after the
market falls. At a time when they need
to feel the best for the discharge OF
some duty they are seized with physical
collapse. Trying TO do a good and hon
resented and belied az II they had
practiced a villainy. These are people
who all their lives have suffered MUS
tees Others Of less talent, with less
conservation, go on and up, while they
go on and down. There are in many
lvesriddles that have never been solved,
mysteries that have never been eN-
planned. heartbreaks that have never
been healed. Go to that man or that
woman with phlosophic explanation,
and you will make matters wors, in
stead of making them better. But let
the oceanic tide of the text roll i'm that
soul, and all its worriments and losses
and disasters will be submerged with
blessing. and the sufferer will say; 81
cannot understand the reason for my
troubles. but | will some day under
stand. And they do not come by acct
dent. God allows them to come, and
God is love-"
But for this divine feeling | think
our world would long ago have been
demolished. Just think of the organ
lied wiclledness of the nations! See
the denominations continental! Behold
the false religions that hoist Moham-
med and Buddha and Confucius! Look
at the Koran and the Shastra and the
Zend-Avesta that would crowd out of
the world the Holy Scriptures! Look
at war, digging its trenches for the
dead across the hemispheres! See the
great cities. with their holocaust of
destroyed manhood and womanhood!
What blasphemieS Gssail the heavens!
What butcherics sicken the centuries!
What professions Of crime aud atrocity
and woe encircle the globe! " justice
had spoken, it would have said; "The
world deserves humiliation. and let
humiliation come" If immutability
had spoken, it would have said: 81 have
| always been opposed to wickedness and
always will be opposed TO it. The world
is TO me an atfront infinite. and away
with it," If omnisciencc had spoken,
il would have said: 81 have watched
that planet with minute and compre-
hensive inspection. and cannot have
the otTense longer continued" Iftruth
| had spoken, it would have said: 81 de-
clare that they who offend the law
must 20 down under the law" But di-
vine love took "A different view OF the
worlds obduracy and pollution. II
said: 81 pity all those woes Of the
| earth. cannot stand here aud see
no Arrangement of those sufferiugs.
will go down and reform the world.
! will medicatc it's wounds. will calm
| its frenzy. will wash Off its pollu-
| tion. | will become incarnuted. | will
take on my shoulders and upon my
brow and into nay heart the couse-
! quences of the worlds misbehayiur.
start now. and between NY arrival at
Bethlehem and my ascent from Oliyet
| will weep their tears and suffer their
griefs and die their death. Farewell
my throne. my crown. my scepter. my
angelic environment. my Heaven. till
have finished the work and com,
! back" God was never conouercd I'm,
once ana mat was when lie was con
quereu by HIS own love God is love.
In this day. when the crceds OF
churches are BEING revised LEI more
emphasis be nut upon the thought OF
my text. Let il appear nj the bepinnino
of every creed and at the close Tbe
ancicnts used TO tell of a GREAT mill.
tary chieftain who. about TO 90 to hat.
| tie. was clad i'm armor. helmet on head
and sword al side. and who mt o,,t
/ his arms to Give farewell embrace r.
| his child. and the child otTrigbfed ot
his appearance. ran. shricI,ino away
/ Then the father nut off the ormor tbot
! caused the alarm and fine child s,,
! VINO ne was ana ran into his arms and
/ S"uHE''u against ms heart Creeds
must not nave too much iron in their
.""Ne up Ierrorl('h" rather than at
.fa'iing' Ihel must not hide the smil.