The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21

Let us be careful how we shoot at
others lest we take down the wrong
one, remembering the servant OF
King William Rutus, wno shot at
deer. but the arrow glanced against
tree and killed the king. Instead OF
going out with shafts to pierce ana
razors to cut we had better initiate
the friend of Richard Occur de Lion
Richard, in the war of the Crusades
was captured and imprisoned, but
none of his friends knew where, so
| his loyal friend went around the land
| from stronghold to stronghold and
| sang at each window a snatch OF
song that Richard Occur de Lion had
taught him in other days. And one
day, coming before Jail where he
suspected his king might be incar-
cerated, he sang TWO lines OF song
and Immediately King Richard re-
sponded from his cell with the other
two lines. and so his whereabouts
were discovered and successful
movement was at once made for his
| liberation. SO let us go up and down
| the world with the music of kind
words and sympathetic hearts, sere-
nading the unfortunate and trying to
get out of trouble men who had noble
natures, but by unforeseen circum-
stances have been incarcerated, thus
liberatng kings. More hymn book
and less razor.
Especially ought we to be apollo
getic and mercful toward those who,
while they have great faults, have
also great virtues. No weeds verify,
! but no flowers. | must not be too
much enraged at uettle along the
fence if it be in field containing 40
acres of ripe Michigan wheat. Some
time ago natura,,ts told us there
was on the sun "a spot 10000 miles
long. but from -hc brightness and
warmth I conc ID il was good
deal of sun g.. The sun can af-
ford to have wy large spot upon
it. though It be ~. % miles iCug, and
am very apologize 10. those men
who have great faults, Vie at the
same time they have magnificent vr-
tues.
Again, when I read in my text that
the Lord shaves with the hired razor
of Assyria the land Of Judea. | think
myself of the precision of Gods provi-
denca. \ razor swung the tenth part
of an inch out of the right line
means either failure or liberation, but
Gods dealings never slip and they do
not miss by the thousaudth part of an
inch the right direction. People talk
as though things in this world were
at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo,
and we watch anNiously VIII the
epidemic sweep Europe and America
People say; THAT will entirely de-
pend on whether the incubation is
a successful experiment; that will de-
pend entirely on quarantine regula-
tions; that will depend on the early
or late appearance of frost. That ep-
idemic is pitched into the world, and
it goes laundering across the con-
tinents. and ii is all guesswork and
an appalling perhaps" l think, per
haps, that God had something to do
with it, and that His mercy may have
in some way protected us; that lie
may have done as much for us as the
quarantine and the health officers. il
was right and necessity that all
caution should be used. but there have
, come enough macaroni from Italy
and enough grapes from the south
of France. and enough rags from tat.
terdemalions. and hidden i'm these ar.
ticles of transportation enough chol
} eraic germs to have left by this time
! all the cities mourning in the Gene
teries. | thank all the doctors anC
guarantees. but more than all. and
first of all, and last Of all, and al
the time, I thank God. In all the 5000
, years of the worlds existence Their,
. has not one thing merely "happenet
p So" God is not an anarchist, but
2 a king, n father.
When little Tad, the son of Pres
S dent Lincoln. died. all America sym
e pathized with the sorrow i'm the white
( house. He used to rush into the room
a where the cabinet was in session ant
= while the most eminent men of tn,
T. land were discussing the questions O
4 national existence. But the child haC
e no care about those questions. Now
k God the Father and God the Son ant
e God the Holy Ghost are in perpetua
b session in regard to this world and
d kindred worlds. Shall you. His child
a rush in to critcise or arraign or con
i denim the Divine government? No
e the cabinet of the Eternal Three car
- govern and will govern in the wises
r and best way, and there never will h,
y a mistake, and, like razor skillfull,
; |
{ to be cut and avoid that which ough
n to be avoided. Precision to the yer,
n hairbreadth. Earthly timepieces ma,
n get out of order and strike wrong
Il saying II is one o'clock when it is two
IS or two when it is three, Gods clocl
e is always right and when it is on
i it strikes one, and when it is 10 /
d strikes 10, and the second hand is a
p accurate as the minute hand.
81 Further nv text tells rs that CO.