The Iola register., 1901-06-07

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roundness of characterl Is there any
comparison in usefulness between
that man with the one talent of hon
esty and the dashing operators of the
money market?
The chief work of the people with
many talents is to excite wonderment
and to startle and electrify the world.
What use is there in all that? No use
at all. l have not so much interest in
the one man out of the million as
have in the million. Get the great
masses of the world right and 1t does
not make much difference about what
the exceptional people are doing.
Have all the people with one talent en-
listed for God and righteousness, and
let all those with five or ten talents mi-
crate to the north star or the moon,
and this world would get on splendid
ly. The hardworking, industrious
classes of America are all right and
would give no trouble, but it is the
genius who gives up work and on
big salary goes around to excite dis
satisfaction and embodiment, the
genius who quits work and steps on
Ine SlbRt VI DOllAlGdl BlublOi M Noto
beafsteak and quail on toast and
causes the common laborers, com
PEELED to idleness, to put their hands
into empty pockets and eat gristle and
gnaw bones. The world would be
nightly improved if it could slough
off about 5000 geniuses, for there are
more than that on our planet. Then
the man or woman of one talent would
take possession of the world and rule
it in a common sense and Christian
way. There would be less to amaze
and startle, but more to give equipoise
to church and state and world. TO
another one"
Among the 114OOO words of Noah
| Websters vocabulary and the thou
/ sands of words since then added to our
| English vocabulary there is one out
mastering word the power of which
! cannot be estimated, and it reaches so
/ far up and so far down, and that is the
word come" 1t has drawn more peo-
pie away from the wrong and toward
the right than any word | now think
of. 1t has at times crowded all the
12 gates of Heaven with fresh arriv-
AIS. 1t will yet rob the path of death
Of the last pedestrians. 1t will yet
chime so loudly and gladly that all the
tollng bells of sorrow will be drowned
with the music. 1t is piled up in the
Bibles climax and peroration: "And
the Spirit and the bride say, Come, and
let him that heareth say, Come and let
him that is athirst come" Have it on
the point of your pen, have it on the
tip of your tongue. Monosyllables are
mightier than polysyllables, and that
word "come" is the mightiest of mon
osyllables
After the resurrection day and all
Heaven is made up, resurrected bod
les Joined to ransomed souls, and the
gates which were so long open are
shut there may be some day when
all the redeemed may pass in review
before the great white throne. If so
think the hosts passing before the
King will move in different divisions
With the first division will pass the
mighty ones of earth who were as
good and useful as they were great
In this division will pass before the
throne all the Martin Luthers, tn,
John Knoxes, the Wesleys, the Rich
ard Cecils, the Millions, the Chrysos
toms, the Herschells, the Lenoxes
the George Peabodys, the Abbot Law
rences and all the consecrated Chris
tian men and women who were grea
in literature, in law, in medicine, il
philosophy, in commerce. Thei
genius never spoiled them. The,
were as humble as they were giftet
or opulent. They were great oil
earth, and now they are great il
Heaven. Their surprising and mag
nificent talents were all used for tn
worlds betterment, AS they pass il
review before the King on the grea
white throne to higher and highe
rewards il makes me think of tn
parable of the talents: "To anothe
ten" ! stand and watch the othe
divisions as they go by, division afte
division, until the largest of all tn
divisions comes in sight. 1t is hun
dred to one, thousand to one, tie
thousand to one, larger than tn
other divisions. 1t is made up o
men who never did anything but sur
port their families and give whateve
OF their limited means they coul
spare for the relief of poverty an
sickness and ~ salvation of tn
world, mothers who took good car
of children by example and precep
starting them on the road to Heaver
millions of Sabbath school teacher
who sacrificed an afternoons siest
, for the listening class of yo, lg i'm
mortals, women who declined tn
making of homes for themselves tina
, they might take care of father an
mother in the weaknesses of old ag,
> ministers of the Gospel who on mis-
gardly stipend preached in the bacl
! woods, meeting houses, souls who fo
long years did nothing but suffel
= yet suffered with so much cheerfl
patience that it became helpful LEI
son to all who heard of 1t; those wh
:, served God faithfully all their live
= and whose name never but once al
. peared in print and that time in th
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