The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-17

| am willing to sell medicines on the
Lords day, for l think that is right
and necessary, but / can't sell this
patent backing" He was discharged
from the place. A Christian man hear
ing of il took him into his employ,
and he went on from one success to
another until he was known all over
the land for his faith in God and his
good works as for his worldly suceess,
When a man has sacrificed any tenn
poral, financial good for the sake OF
his spiritual interests the Lord IL on
his side, and one with God is a major
ity.
But II you have been much among
the cities you have also noticed that
they are fun of temptations of a polit-
zeal character. 1t is not so more In
one city than in all the cities. Hun
dreds of men going down in our cities
every year through the pressure of
politics. Once in awhile man will
come out in a sort of missionary spirit
and say: 81 am going into politics
now to reform them, and | am going
to reform the ballot box, and am 60
ing to reform all the people 1 come in
contact with" That man in the fear
and love Of God goes into politics with
that idea and with the resolution that
he will come out uncontaminated and
as good as when he went in. But gem
orally the case is when a man steps
into politics many of the newspapers
try to hlacken his character and to
distort all his past history, and after
a little while has gone by instead of
considering himself an honorable citi-
zen he is lost i'm contemplation and in
admiration of the fact that he has so
long been kept out of iail If a man
shall go into politics to reform politics
and with tne right spirit. he will come
out with the right spirit and uuhurt.
That was Theodore Frelinghuysen, OF
New Jersey. That was George Briggs
Of Massachusetts,. That was Judge Nc
Lean. of Ohio.
Then look around and see the al.
lurements to dissipated life. Bad
books, unknown to father and mother
vile as the reptiles of Egypt, crawling
| into some of the best families of tho
community; and boys read them while
the teacher is looking the other way
or at recess, or on the corner OF the
street when the groups are gathered
These books are read late at night
Satan finds them a smooth plank OF
which he can slide down into perdi
ton some of your sons and daughters
Reading bad books-one never get,
over it. The books may be burned
but there is not enough power in al
the apothecary's preparations TO wasl
out the stain from the soul. Fathers
hands, mothers hands. sisters hand
will not wash IT out; none but tn
hand of the Lord can wash il out.
And what is more perilous In regarc
TO some of these temptations we ma.
not mention them. While God In Hi
Bible from chapter to chapter thun
dered His denunciations ageins
these crimes people expect the pulpit
and the printing press to be silent O,
the subject, and just in proportion n
people are impure are they fastidiou
on this theme. They are so fun Of de
cay and death they do not want thei
sepulchers opened. God will turn in
W uAA VIC hnClchu. anu II
splendors of surrounding con make d,
cent that which He has smitten. Go
will not excuse sin merely because
/ has costly array and beautiful tapes
try and palatial residence any NOR
than He will excuse that which crawl
a blotch of sores through the loves
cellar. Ever and anon through som
lntsygrtff tharn naehag 40
, of our great cities what is transpil
! ing in seemingly respectable circle
, You call it high life" you call
! fast living" you call it peoples e,
centricity." And while we kick o
, the sidewalk the poor wretch who h,
: not the means to garnish his iniquit
these lords and ladies', wrapped
, purple and in linen, go unwhipped.
public justice. All, the most drea,
full part of the whole thing is thu
=. there are persons abroad whose who
business IL is to despoil the youn
What an eternity such a man wi
;, havel As the door opens TO recei,
9 him thousands OF voices will cry gu
=. See here, what have you done?" M
:. the wretch will wrap himself wit
+ fiercer fame and leap into deep,
Il darkness, and the multitude he III
n destroyed will pursue him and hurl
4 him the long, bitter, relentless, eve
D. lasting curse of their own angus
y If there he one cup of eternal dar
@ ness more bitter than another, tn,
q will have to drink it to the dregs.
, in all the ocean of the lost world tn
# comes billowing up there be one wa
T. more fierce than another, it will da
~ over them. But there is hope for
IS who will turn.
n l stood one day at Niagara falls n
IS l saw what you may have seen the
N six rainbows bending over that II
p mendous plunge. / never saw an
q. thing like it before or since.
r. beautiful rainbows arching that gre
q. cataract And so over the rapids a
n. angry precipices of sin, where
,e many have been dashed down, GoC