The Iola register., 1900-06-15

snip. All you can 90 WIN UTMOST
tension Of body, mind and soul you
are bound to do; but, oh, have Christ
in every enterprise!
There are men who ask Gods help
at the beginning of great enterprises.
He has been with them in the past:
no trouble can overthrow them; the
storms might come down from the
top cf Mount Hermon and lash Cen
nesaret into foam and into agony,
but it could not hurt them. But here
is another man who starts out in
worldly enterprise, and he depends
upon the uncertainties of this life
He has no God to help him. After
awhile the storm comes, tosses off the
masts of the ship; he puts out his life
boat and the long boat; the sheriff
and the auctioneer try to help him
off; they can't help him off; he must
go down; no Christ in the ship. Your
life will be made up of sunshine and
shadows. There may be in it arctic
blasts or tropical tornadoes; ! know
not what is before you, but know if
you have Christ with you all shall be
well. You may seem to get along
without the religion of Christ while
everything goes smoothly, but after
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Did Won ovor roticc tbe end of the
life of tbe onos.Ics nf Jesus Christ ?
Yor vrouId sav 10 oyer mon ought to
have had q smootb life. smooth de-
norture tber those mon. tbc disciples
Of Jesus Christ. ouobt to have had
such n departure and such life. st.
James lost his head. St. Philip was
hung 70 death on a pillar. St. Mat
thew had his life dashed out with a
halbert. ST. Mark was dragged to
death through the streets. st. James
the Less was beaten to death with a
fuller's club. St. Thomas was struck
through with a spear They did not
find following Christ smooth sailing
Oh. how they were all tossed in the
tempest! John Huss in n fire; Hugh
McKail in the hour of martyrdom;
the Albigenses. the Waldenses, the
Scotch Covenanters-did they find it
smooth sailing? But why go into
history when we can draw from our
own memory Illustrations of the truth
of what / say?
a young man in n store trying ia
serve God, while his employer SCOTS
at Christianity; the young men in the
same store, antagonistic TO the Chris
tian religion, teasing him, tormenting
him about his religion, trying to get
him mad. They succeed in getting
him mad and say: you're a pretty
Chrstan!" Does that young man
find it smooth sailing when he tries
to follow Christ? Or you remember
Christian girl. Her father despises
the Christian religion; her mother
despises the Christian religion; heI
brothers and sisters scoff at the Chris
tian religion; she can hardly find a
quiet place in which to say hel
prayers. Did she find il smooth sailing
when she tried to follow Jesus Christ
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