The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-12-07

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has patience" The English proverb |
declares: "When one door shuts, an
other opens" All these proverbs only
put in another way Paul's terseness
when he says. aye have need of pa
tience."
First, patience with the faults OF
others. No one keeps the Ten Com
mandments equally WELL Ones tenn
permanent decides which command
ments he shall come nearest to keep
ing. If we break some of the com
mandments ourselves, why be so hard
on those who break others OF the tenY
II You and l run against one verse
| Of the twentieth chapter OF ENodus'
why should we so severely excoriate
| those who run against another verse
of the same chapter? Until we are
| perfect ourselves we ought TO be
| lenient with our neighbours imperfec-
| tons Yet IL is often the case that
the man most vulnerable is the most
| hypercritical. Perhaps he is profane,
and yet has no tolerance for theft,
when profanity is worse than theft.
for while the latter is robbery of a
man, the former is robbery of God
Perhaps he is given to defamation and
detraction, and yet feels himself bet
ter than some one who is guilty OF
manslaughter, not realizing that the
assassination Of character is the worst
kind of assassination. The LAYER for
washing in the ancient tabernacle was
at its side FURNISHED like looking
glass, so that those that approached
that laver might see their need OF
washing, and IL by the Gospel looking
glass we discovered our own need OF
moral cleansing we would be more
economic of denunciation.
Again, this grace is needed to help
in time of physical ailments. What
vast multitudes are in perpetual pain
while others are subject to occasional
paroNysml Almost everyone has some
disorder to which he is occasionally
subjected 1t is rheumatism or neu-
ralgia or sick headache or indigestion.
A draft from an open window or
hasty mastication or overwork brings
on that old spell, and you think you
would rather have almost anything
else, but that is because you have not
tried the other. Almost everyone has
something which he wishes he had
not There are scores of diseases ever
ready to attack the human frame.
They have been in pursuit of our
race ever since Adam and Eve re-
signed their innocence as well as the
, worlds health. II is amazing how per-
sistent and methodic those disorders
are in their attack on the world and
how regular is the harvest which
! with the sharp scythe of pain they
I NOW down for the grave. No such
r disciplined and courageous army ever
! marched as the army of physical suf-
; fering. They do their work in the or
= der name, and you may depend upon
? their keeping on in that same order
for good while yet; first Of all tu-
berculosis, next organic heart dis
! ease, next pneumonia, next in number
I Of its victims is apopleXy, next
e Bright's disease, next cancer, next
4 typhoid fever, next paralysis. Those
n eight diseases are the worst despoil
v ers Of human life. The doctors with
/ solutions and lancets and anodyne:
r and cataplasms are in brave fight
!, against the physiological devils that
a try to possess the human race. But
k after all the scientists can do there
! is demand for patience. Nothing
n can take the place Of that 1t is need
o ed this moment in every sick room
j. and along the streets and in business
J. places and shops where breadwinner'
# are compelled to toll when physical
L., to pa1
V culate n column of figures or contro
o shovel. But every pastor coulc
V show you instances of complete hap
IL piness under physical suffering III
/: could take you to that garnet or Il
II that hospital or TO some room in hi
d parish where sits in rocking chair o.
Is lies upon a pillow some one who ha
h not seen well day in ten years ant
4 vet has never been heard to utter
(. word of complaint, The grace of Coz
d has triumphed in her soul as it neve
Q triumphs in the soul of one who i
i vigorous and athletic.
,e That grace helped the soldier dur
al ing the American civil war. His arr
II. had been amputated, and he said TO
r delegate of the Christian commission
T. at seems to me ! cannot be eratefu
p enough for losing my arm. II mad
't me thoughtful and opened the wa
he for your delegates to visit me-" Thi
ne grace was well demonstrated by
" prominent Christian man who wa
d. laid aside by a severe illness durin
10 a revival when his services we're mos
E. needed, and when some one deplore
this he said cheerfuly: MY part
N to lie here and cough" My frienC
I'd do not give up useful activities b,
At cause you are in pain. Some OF til
e. worlds best work has been don
W while in physical distress. Waite
We Scott was in agony of pain while wri
es ing "Ivanhoe." Oh, beautiful grace {
s. patience! 1t takes discords and turr
e them into harmony. 1t smooths tn
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