The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-06

doned. Pardon for all, mercy Tor all,
Heaven for all. Not merely a cupful
of Gospel supply. but 1870 gallons. Aye,
the tears of Cody repentance are gath
cred up into Gods bottle, and some day.
standing before the throne, we will lift
our cup of delight and ask that it be
filled with the wine of Heaven, and
Jesus, from that bottle of tears, will
begin to pour in the cup, and we will
cry "Stop, Jesus! We do not want
to drink our own tears!" And Jesus
will say: know We not that the tears
of earth are the wine of Heaven" Sor-
row may endure for night, but joy
cometh in the morning.
l remark, further, Jesus does not
shadow the joys of others with His
own griefs. He might have sat down in
that wedding and said: 81 have so
much trouble, so much poverty, so
much prosecution, and the cross is com
ing. l shall not rejoice, and the gloom
of my face and of my sorrows shall be
cast over all this group" SO said not
Jesus. He said to Himself: Here are
two persons starting out in married
life. Let it be a joyful occasion. | will
| hide my own griefs. | will kindle their
| joy" There are many not so wise a.
that. | knew a household where there
are many little children. where for two
years the musical instrument has been
kept shut because there has been trou-
BILE in the house. Alas for the folly!
| Parents saying: 1--WE will have no
| Christmas tree this coming holiday be-
/ a. tbgrn L.., trAtl,ln In he
| house. Hush that laughing upstairs!
How can there be any JOY when there
! has been so much troubie?' And so
| they make everything consistently
! doleful and send 9. ,.r sons and daugh-
tiers 20 ruin with ;i.e gloom they throw
around them.
Oh, my dea. f.'cGds. do you not
| know those cE I'm viii have trouble
enough of thee .W1 after awhile?
BE glad they cannot appreciate all
| yours. Keep back the cue o: bitter
ness from your daughters lips. When
| your head - down in the grass of the
tomb. poverty may come to her, be
trayal to her, bereavement to her.
Keep back the sorrows as long as you
can. Do you not know that that son
may after awhile have mis- heart hrok-
en-? Stand between him and all harm.
You may not fight his battles long.
! Fight them while you may. Throw
not the chill of your own dependency
over his soul Rather. be like Jesus,
who came to the wedding hiding His
own grief and kinding the joys of
| others. So ! have seen the sun on a
dark day, struggling amidst clouds.
black, ragged and portentous, but
after awhile the sun, with golden pry,
| heaved back the blackness. And the
sun laughed to the lake, and the lake
laughed to the sun, and from horizon
to horizon, under the saffron sky, the
water was all turned into wine.
| learn from the miracle that Christ
is not impatient with the luXuries of
life. 1t was not necessary that they
should have that wine. Hundreds Of
people have been married without agy
wine. We do not read that any of the
other provisions fell short When
Christ made the wine. il was not a ne
cessity, but a positive luxury. | do
not believe that He wants us to eat
bread and sleep on hard mattresses
unless we like them the best | think.
if circumstances will allow, we have a
right to the Injuries of dress, the lux
uries of diet and the injuries of resi-
deuce. There is no more religion in
an old coat than in new one. We can
serve God drawn 10y golden plated har-
ness as certainly as when we GO
afoot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us
under a fine ceiling as well as under a
thatcEed roof
What is the difference between a
Chinese mud hovel and an American
home? What is the difference be.
tween the rough bear skins of the Rus
sian boor and the outfit of an Ameri.
can gentleman? No difference, eX.
cept that which the Gospel of Christ
directly or indirectly, has caused
When Christ shall have vanquished all
the world, suppose every house will
be mansion and every garment a
robe and every horse an arch necked
courser and every carriage a glittering
vehicle and every man king and
every woman a queen and the whole
earth a Paradise, the glories of the
natural world harmonizing with the
glories of the material world until the
very bells of the horses shall jingle the
praises of the Lord.
Ilearn, further, from this miracle that
Christ has no Impotence with fiesta
Joy; otherwise he would not have ac
cepted the invitation to that wedding
He certainly would not have done
that which increased the hilarity
There may have been many in thai
room who were happy, but there wa'
not one of them that did so much fol-
the JOY of the wedding party as Chris
himself. He was the chief of the ban
queters. When the wine gave out, He
supplied it, and so, l take it, He viii
not deny us the joys that are positive
ly festal.
l think the children of God hav,
more right to laugh than any Other
people, and TO clap their hands al