The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13

sweetness of Christian character that
the hounds of temptation, coming on
our track. might lose it and go bowling
back with disappointment!
But. remark again, that the grace OF
God is like the salt in its preservative
quality. You know that salt absorbs
the moisture OF articles of food and i'm
fuses them with brine, which preserves
them for a long while. Salt is the
great antiputrefactor of the world.
Experimenters, in preserving food,
have tried sugar and smoke and air
tight jars and everything else, but as
long as the world stands Christ's words
will be suggestive. and men will admit
that as u great preservative salt is
good" But for the grace of God the
earth would have become n stale car
cass long before this. That grace is the
only preservative of laws and constitu-
lions and literatures. just as soon as
n government loses this salt of divine
grace it perishes. The philosophy of
This day. so far as il is antagonistic to
this religion, putrefies and stinks. The
great want of our schools of learning
and our institutions of science to-day
is, not more Leyden jars and galvanic
batteries and spectroscopes and phil
osophcal apparatus, but more of that
prace that will teach our men OF
science that the God of the universe is
the God of the Bible. How strange il is
that in all their magnificent sweep Of
the telescope they have not seen the
morning star of Jesus and that in all
their experiments with light and heat
they have not seen the light and felt
the warmth of the Sun of Righteous
ness! We want more of the salt OF
Gods grace in our homes, in our
schools. in our colleges, in our social
life. i'm our Christianity. And that
which has it will live; that which has
it not will die. proclaim the tenden-
cy of everything earthly TO putrefac-
ton and death-the religion of Christ
the only preservative.
NV subject is one Of great congratu-
lation to those who have within their
souls this gospel antiseptic. This sa!t
will preserve them through the tempta'
tions and SORROWS of life and through
the ages of eternity. | do not mean &c
say that YOU will have smooth time
because YOU are Christian. On the
contrary, if you do your whole duty,
will promise you a rough time. lot
march through an enemy's country
and they will try to double up boti
hanks and to cut you off from your
source of supplies. The war you wage
will not be with toy arrows. but sworC
plunged to the hilt and squirting Of
your steed over heaps of the slain. Blu
| | think that God omnipotent will SCI
YOU through. think He will. But VIII,
| do | talk like an atheist when | ough
to say know lie will? Kept by thu
power Of God through faith unto con!
pletc salvation"
When Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania
died. years ago. | lost good friend
He impressed me nightly with tn
horrors of war In the eight hour
that we rode together in the cars h
recited to me the scenes throug
which he had passed in the civil wal
He said that there came one battl
upon which everything seemed I
pivot. kilograms from Washingto
said that the life of the nation de
pended on that struggle. He said t
me; 81 went into that battle. sil
with my son. His mother and
thought everything of him. Io
know how father will feel towar
his son who is coming up manly an
brave and good. Well, the battl
opened and concentered, and il wa
awful. Horses and riders bent an
twisted and piled up together. 1t wa
awful, sir. We quit firing and too
to the point of the bayonet Wei
sir. didn't feel like myself that da.
! had prayed to God for strength fc
that particular battle, and | went int
il feeling that | had in my right arr
the strength of ten giants And &
the governor brought his arm dow
on the back of the seat it fairly mad
the car tremble. well" he said, "tf
battle was desperate. but after awhi
we gained a little, and we marche
on little. | turned round to II
troops and shouted; Come o.
boys! and l stepped across a dea
soldier, and, 10, it was my son!
saw at the first glance he was dea
and yet | did not dare to stop mil
ute. for the crisis had come in II
battle. SO | just got down on n
knees. and l threw my arms arour
him, and | gave him one good Xii
p and said. 'Good-by, dear and sprar
up and shouted Come on, boys
So it is in the Christian confetti
a fierce fight. Eternal ages seem d
pending on the strife. Heaven
waiting for the bulletins to announ,
the tremendous issue. Hail of she
cash of saber, fall of battle AK, groa
ing on every side. We cannot ste
for loss or bereavement or anythir
else. With one ardent embrace al
one loving kiss we utter our far
wells and then cry: Come on, boy
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