The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-10-05

was hot, ard with nanus tnat many
years ago turned to dust soothed away
your pain and with voice that you will
never hear again, unless you join her
in the better country, told you to never
mind, for you would feel better by and
by, and by that dying couch where she
looked so pale and talked so slowly,
catching her breath between the words,
and YOU felt an awful loneliness COM
ing over your soul. BY all that beg
you to come back and take the same
religion. 1t was good enough for her.
1t is good enough for you. Nay, |
have a better plan than that. plead
by all the wounds and tears and blood
and groans and agonies and death
throes of the Son of God. who APP
proaches you at this moment with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back and saying: "Come unto me, all
We who are weary and heavy laden,
and | will give you rest"
Again. there is field of usefulness
but little touched. occupied by those
who are astray in their habits. All
northern nations. ike those of North
America and England and Scotland
that is, in the colder climates-are dew
astated by alcoholism. They take the
fire to keep up the warmth. In south
ern countries. like Arabia and Spain,
the blood Is so warm they are not
tempted to fiery liquids. The great
Roman armies never drank anything
stronger than water tinged with vine
gar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants
is most mighty. and millions succumb.
When a mans habits go wrong the
church drops him. the social circle
drops him. good influences drop him,
we all drop him. OF all the men who
get off the track but few ever get on
again. Near my summer residence
there is a life-saving station on the
beach. There are all the ropes and
rockets. the boats. the machinery for
getting people off shipwreck>. One
summer | saw there 10 or 20 men who
were hreakfasting after having just es-
capped with their lives and nothing
more. Up and down. our coasts are
built these useful structures. and the
mariners know IT, and they feel that
if they are driven to the breakers there
will be apt from shore 20 come q rescue.
The churches OF God ought to be sc
many life-saving stations. not SC
much to help those who are i'm smooth
waters. but those who have been ship.
| wrocked' Come let us run out the
/ lifeboats! And who will man them
We do not preach enough to such
men; we have not enough faith in
! their release. Alas. if when they
come to hear us we are laboriously
| trying to show the difference between
subapsarianism and supralapsarian'
ism, while they have a hundred yipers
of remorse and despair coiling
around and biting their immortal spir
| its. The church is not chiefly fol
! goodish sort of men, whose proclivi
ties are all right and who could get &c
Heaven praying and singing in theil
own homes II Is on the beach tC
help the drowning. Those bad cases
are the cases that God likes to tax,
hold of. He can save a Dig sinner al
well as a small sinner, and when {
man calls earnestly TO God for hell
he will go out to deliver such a one
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down from the sky, followed by al
the artillery of Heaven and million
angels with drawn swords. Get 10
such redeemed men in your churche
and nothing could stana before them
for such men are generally warn
hearted and enthusiastic. No forma
prayers then, No heartless singing
then. No cold conventionalisms then
Destitute children of the street of
fer field Of work comparatively un
occupied. The uncared for childrel
are in the majority in most of on
cities. When they grow up, if I'm
reformed, hey will outvote your chill
dren, and they will govern your chill
dren. The whisky ring will hatch on
other whisky rings, and grog shop
will kill with their horrid stencil pull
lie sobriety unless the church of Go
rises up with outstretched arms an
infolds this dying population in he
bosom Public schools cannot do il
Art cannot do it. Blackwelrs islam
cannot do it. Almshouses cannot d
it. Jails canont do it. Church of Goo
wake up to your magnificent mission
You can do it.! Get somewhere, som,
how to work!
The Prussan cavalry mount by put
ting their right foot into the stil
rup, while the American cavalr
mount by putting their left foot int
the stirrup. | do not care how 20
mount your war charger if you onl
get into this battle for God and &c
there soon, right stirrup or left stil
rup or no stirrup at all. The unoccr
pied fields are all around us, and VIII
should we build on another man
foundation? | have heard of wha
was called the "thundering legion.
1t was in 179, a part of the Roma
army to which some Christians b,
longed, and their prayers, it was saiC
were answered by thunder and ligh
ming and hail and tempest whic
overthrow an invading army an