The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-22

again as the flesh of a little child
"where sin abounded grace much
more aboundeth" With the 10000
unpardoned sins of your life, go and
tell Jesus.
You will never get rid of your sins
in any other way. And remember
that the broad invitation which ! eX-
tend to you will not always be eX-
tended King Alfred before modern
timepieces were invented, used to di-
vide the day into three parts, eight
hours each, and then had three wax
candles. BY the time the first candle
| had burned to the socket eight hours
had gone, and when the second can
die had burned to the socket another
eight hours had gone, and when all
the three candles were gone out then
the day had passed. Oh, that some of
us, instead of calculating our days
and nights and years by any earthly
timepiece, might calculate them by
the numbers of opportunities and mer-
cies which are burning down and
burning out, never to be relighted, lest
ut last we be amid the foolish virgins
who cried: "Our lamps have gone
out!"
Again l commend the behavior of
the disciples to all who are tempted.
| have heard men in midlife say they
had never been led into temptation.
If you have not felt temptation, it is
because you have not tried TO do
right. \ man hoppled and handcuifed,
as long as he lies quietly, does not test
the power of the chain, but when he
rises up and with determination re-
solves to snap the handouts or break
the hopple. then he finds the power of
the iron And there are men who have
been for ten and twenty and thirty
years bound hand ard foot by evil
habits who have rrvsr felt the power
Of the chain because they have never
tried to break f.. :; is very easy to
go on down with he stream and with
the wind lying o your oars hut just
turn around aUl '.N 80 GO against the
wind and the tide. aaC you win find it
is different matter. As .onp MS we
90 down the current of our evil habit
we seem to get along quite smoothly,
but if after awhile we turn around
and head the other way. toward Christ
and pardon and Heaven. oh, then how
we have TO lay to the oars! You will
have your temptation. You have one
kind, you another. you another. not
one person escaping.
1t is al folly for YOU to say to some
one: II could not be tempted as you
are" The lion thinks it is so strange
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hook The fish thinks it is 50
strange that the lion should be caught
with a trap. You see some man with
cold, phlegmatic temperament, and
you say; 81 suppose that man has not
any temptation" Yes, as much as you
have. In his phlegmatic nature he
has temptation to Incidence and
consciousness and overeating and
drinking, a temptation to ignore the
great work of life, a temptation to lay
down an obstacle in the way of al
good enterprises. The Temperament
decides the styles of temptation, hui
sangune or Emphatic, you will have
temptation. Satan has grapplinl
hook just fitted for your soul, A mar
never lives beyond the reach of temp
tation You say when n man gets tC
be 20 or so years of age he is SAT,
from satanic assault. You are very
much mistaken. \ man at So year,
of age has as many temptations as {
man of 25. They are only dilleren
styles of temptation, Ask the ageC
Christian whether he is never assault
ed of the powers of darkness, If YOU
d think you have conquered the powe
of temptation, you are very much mis-
taken.
No man gets through life withou
having pommeling. Some slande
comes after you, horned and huske,
7 and hoofed TO gore and trample you
2 And what are you to do? ! tell yol
t plainly that all who serve Christ mus
S suffer persecution 1t is the wors
t sign in the world for you to be abb
to say: II have not an enemy in tn
e world" A woe is pronounced in tn
= Bible against the one of whom every
!. body speaks well. If you are at peac
y with all the world and everybody like
n you and approves your work it is bt
9 cause you are an idler in the Lord
e vineyard and are not doing your duty
e All those who have served Chris
d however eminent, all have been ma
e treated at some stage of their eXpt
Il rience. You know it was so in tn
l. time of George Whitefield, when h
d stood and invited men into the kin9
= dom of God. What did the learne
l. DR.. Johnson say of him? He pre-
e nounced him a miserable mountebanl
S How was it when Robert Hall stoo
l. and spoke as scarcely any uniI
t spired man ever did speak of til
= glories of Heaven? And as he stoo
It Sabbath after Sabbath preaching O
2. these themes his face kindled wit
e, glory. John Foster, a Christian ma
J. said of this man: Robert Hall
d only acting, and the smile on his fac
IS is a reflection of his own vanity