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

Then the sharp instrument was in
cased and put away.
Never in the history of the ages was
any land more thoroughly shaved than
during those four years of civil com
bat, and, my brethren, If we do not
quit some of our individual and ma
tional sins the Lord will again take
MS in hand. He has other razors with
in reach besides war - epidemics,
droughts, deluges, plaques - grass
hopper and locust--or our overtower-
ing success may so far excite the jeal-
ousv of other lands that under some
pretext the great nations may com
bine to put us down. Our nation, so
easily approached on north and south
and from both oceans, might have on
hand at once more hostilities than
were ever arrayed against any one
power. | hope no such combination
against us will ever be formed, but |
want to show that, as Assyria was the
hired razor against Babylon. and the
Huns the hired razor against the
Goths, there are now many razors
that the Lord could hire if, because of
our national sins, He should under
take to shave us. In 1870 Germany
was the razor with which the Lord
shaved France. Japan was the razor
with which He shaved China. and
America the razor with which He
shaved arrogant, oppressive and Bible
hating Spain. But nations are to re-
pent in a day. May n speedy and
worldwide coming to God hinder on
both sides the sea all national calam-
ity. But do not let us as a nation
either by unrighteoUs law al WASH
ington or bad lives among ourselves
defy the Almighty.
One would think that our national
symbol of the eagle might sometimes
suggest another eagle-that wh'c an
cient Rome carried. In the talons of
that eagle were clutched at one time
Britain, France, Spain. Italy Dalma-
tia, Rhaetia. Noricum. Pannonia. Moe
STA, Dacia. Thrace. Macedonia. Greece,
Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenicia, Pales-
tine. Egypt and all northern Africa
and all the islands of the Mediterra-
nenn-indeed. all the world that was
worth having, hundred and twenty
millions of people under the wings OF
that one eagle. Where is she nowI
Ask Gibbon. the historian, in his prose
poem. "The Decline and Fall Of the
Roman Empire" Ask her gigantic
ruins. bemoaning their sadness
through the ages. the screech owl at
windows out of which worldwide con.
ouerors looked. Ask the day of iudg'
ment. when her crowned debauchees
Commodus and PertinaN and Caligula
and Diocletian. shall answer for their
infamv. As men and as nations LET
MS repent and have our trust in a
pardoning God rather than depend on
former successes for immunity! Out
of IL of the greatest battles of the
world Napoleon had lost but one be
fore Waterloo. Pride and destruction
often ride in the same saddle.
But notice once more. and more thar
ALL i'm my text that God is so kind anC
loving that when Il is necessary fo'
Him to cut He has to 90 to others TO
| the sbarp-edged weapon. "In the SAM
day shall the Lore shave Win d ro%o
| that is hired God Is love u"a
pity. God is help GOD Is sheI'er
God is rescue. There are no SharI
edges about Him. no thrustlng points
no instruments OF laceration. II No'
want balm for wounds. lie has tha'
If you want Divine save for eNesl"h'
He has that. But If there rs shAr
and cutting work TO do. which re
! quires a razor. that lie hireS' Eo
has nothing about Him that hurts
save when dire necessity demands an
then He has to 90 clear on to som
one else 10 get the instrument.
King Henry II. OF England croNhe
his son as king and ON the day OF core
nation put on servant garh and wall
ed, he. the king, az th' sons table, I
the establishment of all the princes
But we know of q more wondrou
scene-the King Of Heaven and cart
Offering to put on You, His child. th
crown of life and i'm the form OF a ScrN