The Iola register., 1901-10-25

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| AT last IL occurred to them to look at
the north star. which was peering
through the night, and by the direction
of that star they got home again.
Those who follow the advice of this
world in time of perpleXity are in a
fearful round, for it is one bewildered
soul following another bewi.Gered
soul, and only those who have in such
time got their eye on the morning star
of our Christian faith can find their
way out or be strong enough to lead
others with an all-persuasive invita-
tion.
But says some one, you Christian
people keep telling us to come yet
you do not tell us how to come That
charge shall not be true on this occa-
sion. Come believing! Come repent
ing! Come praying! After all that God
has been doing for six thousand years,
sometimes through patriarchs and
sometimes through prophets and at
last through the elimination of all the
tragedies on Golgotha, can anyone
think that God will not welcome your
coming? VIII a father at vast outlay
construct a mansion for his son and
lay out parks white with statues and
green with foliage and all a-sparkle
with fountains and then not allow his
son to live in the house or walk in the
parks? Has God built this house Of
Gospel mercy and will lie then refuse
entrance to His children? viii gov
ernment at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast and
boats that can hover unhurt like
petrol over the widest surge and then,
when the lifeboat has reached the
wreck of ship in the oiling, not allow
the drowning to seize the life line or
take the boat for the shore in safety?
Shall God provide at the cost of His
only Sons assassination escape for
sinking world and then turn deaf
ear to the cry that comes up from the
breakers?
But" you say, "thcre are so many
things | have to believe and so many
things in the shape of a creed that
have to adopt that | am kept back"
No, no! You need believe but two
things-namely that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners
and that you are one of them. But"
you say, 81 do believe both of those
things Do you really believe them
with all your heart? YES" Why.
then, you have passed from death into
life. Why, then, you are a son or a
daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why,
then, you are an heir or an heiress of
an inheritance that will declare divi-
dends from now until long after the
stars are dead. Halleluliahl Prince of
God, why do you not come and take
your coronet? Princess of the Lord
Almighty, why do you not mount your
throne? Pass up into the light Your
boat is anchored, why do you not go
ashore? just plant your feet down
hard, and you will feel under them the
Rock of Ages. | challenge the uni
verse for one instance in which man
in the right spirit appealed for the sal
vation of the Gospel and did not get it.
Man alive, are you going TO let all the
years of your life go away with you
without your having this great peace,
this glorious hope, this bright expect
ancy? Are you going to let the pearl
of great price lie in the dust at your
feet because you are too indolent or
too proud to stoop down and pick it
up? Will you wear the chain of evil
habit when near by you is the hammer
that could with one stroke snap the
shackle? viii you stay in the prison OF
sin when here is Gospel key that
could unlock your incarcera ton?
No, no!
As the one word Come" has some
times brought many souls to Christ,
will try the experiment of piling up
into mountain and then send down
in an avalanche of power many Of
these Gospel Comes" Come thou
and all thy house into the ark" Come
unto me all We who labor and are heavy
laden, and will give YOU rest" Come,
for all things are now ready" "Come
with us. and we will do you good"
"Come and see." "Thc Spirit and the
bride say Come, and let him that hear
eth say Come and let him that is
athirst come The stroke of one bell
in tower may be sweet, but score
of bells well tuned and rightly lifted
and sklliully swung in one great
chime fill the heavens with music al
most celestial. And no one who has
heard the mighty chimes in the towers
of Amsterdam or Client or Copenhagen
can forget them. Now, it seems to me
that in this sabbath hour all Heaven
is Ginning, and the voices of depG fted
friends and kindred ring down the sky,
saying: "Cume!" The angels who
never fell, bending from sapphire
thrones, are chanting: "Come!" Yea,
all the towers of Heaven, tower Of
martyrs, tower of prophets, tower of
apostles, tower Of eyangelists, tower
of the temple of the Lord God and the
Lamb, are Ginning; Come! Comet"
Pardon for all and peace for all and
Heaven for all who will come.
When Russia was in one of her great
wars the suffering of the soldiers had
been long and bitter, and they were
waiting for the end of the strife. One
day messenger in great excitement
ran among the tents of the army,