The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-02-08

TO TOSS IL, or WHIT IL, or shape IL INTO
crowns, or hoist it into columns, or
spring it into arches, or lift it into
stars, or turn ii into crescents, or build
II into temples. You forget you ever
saw the less glorious waters at Chats
worth, England, or Versailles, France,
as you stand in the balcony of the pail
ace overlooking the Finland gulf, be-
wildered and transported as you look
at the one display called the Golden
Stairway fountain. The water rolls
down over "a steps one foot high and
20 feet long. All of these "a steps are
covered with sheets of FURNISHED gold.
Silver step of the water on stairs of
goldl What glee of liquidsl Rolling,
dashing, foaming, enrapturing splen-
dorsl Chorus of hoodsl Poetry of wa
tersl Doxology of torrents But that
which most impressed me there and
elsewhere is the abundance of water,
the fact that there are so many waters
that the continents can afford to throw
them away into the sea, Hudsons and
Ohios, Oregons and Amazons, Rhines
and Danubes and Volgas, and so album
dant that the earth can afford to have
llS OttduS tNdDOIdNt lnAp inc heavens,
Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pa
cifics. How rich the earth is with wa
ters Best beverage of all the nations,
for after the richest banquet with the
richest beverages everyone wants at
least sip of it--water, cool water,
God descended waterl
With still more abundance is the air
distributed. An earth full of il. A sky
full of it. Swiftest and strongest eagle
cannot fly so high as not to have it in
the nostril or under the wing. And
what afiluence of sunlight No one but
the infinite God could dispense so much
of it. The golden candlestick set on
the blue mantel Of the heavensl So
great that the Almighty is compared to
it, the psalmist crying out: "The Lord
God is a sun" 1t is high time that we
recognize in our liturgies and in our
formulas of prayer the three most
abundant blessings of the universe
which come to all
Some scientists are now discussing
the opening of communication be-
tween our earth and the planet Mars.
Experiments are being made, but they
will not succeed. We cannot build a
fire large enough to attract the at
tention Of that world or lift a lens
powerful enough TO see any response
interstellar. We do not positively
know that that world is occupied by
living beings, or that II it is occupied
communication with them would be
desirable. 1t might not be so good a
world fhig unh thtVg ,t,a
ton with it would be debasing. But
/ rejoice to know that Heaven is in
touch with other worlds, for their
improvement and depot for glorious
arrivals. 1t is thoroughfare between
this world and that world and a COM
Ing and going perpetual. Going out Of
this world is as natural as coming in
TO il, but the one is with pang and
the other is with rapture IL we are
fitted for the uplifting process. 1t
shall be well with you. Now, do not
get so frightened about that asthma
or that cough or that influenza or
that threatened pneumonia. The
worst thing that fatal disease can
! do is to usher you into coronation and
| enthronement. 1t shall be well with
| you. Take as good care of your health
as you can. have all the sanitary laws.
| keep in this world as long as Won
are permitted to stay and then when
| the heavenly call comes be glad to go
| | do not care much about what your
"last words" are going to be. People
| put too much emphasis on "last
/ words" / would rather know what
| your words are now, i'm days of health
| and with mental faculties in full play
your words of kindness, your words
/ of sympathy your words of helpful
ness, your words Of prayer. So i've
| that il you do not say a word during
| the last day of your life there will be
no doubt here about the place Of your
| destination. You will go right into
sanity, prophetic, evangelistic. apos-
tolic, cherubic, seraphic, archangolic.
/ deiic presence.
1t shall be we'll with you. Mother,
| you will go right up into the possess
| sion OF the babe that the scarlet fever
| or Group took out of your arms, a
sorrow that still stings you, and YOU
often say she would now be so many
| years old if she had lived. You will
go into the presence of the old folks,
for I hope you are of Christian an
cestry, and you will find that they
have no dimness of sight or hating
gait that requires staff, for they
have taken a draught from the foun-
tain of perpetual youth that springs
from under the throne of God Oh,
the blissful companionship OF Heaven
in which you shall enter! 1t shall be
well with you. ring this bell of
emancipation and triumph. I like the
way the sexton rings the bell of the
old country meeting house. used to
stand and admire him pulling the
rope of that bell. He rings il a good
while, so that every farmhouse within
five miles hears it. He may halt a
moment to take breath and give the
sweet sounds time to stir up all the
echoes of the hills. And when he is
old and not strong enough to pull the
rope any more, then he sits and lis
! tens while his son rings the church