The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-11-22
A LESSON OF HOPE.
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into earthly depression. The text is
Hebrews 6:19, (which hope"
There is an Atlantic ocean Of depth
and fulness in the verse from which
my text is taken, and ! only wade
into the wave at the beach and take
two words. We all have favorite
words expressive of delight or abb
horrence, words that easily find their
way from brain to lip, words that
have i'm them mornings and mid
nights, laughter and tears, thunder
bolts and dewdrops. In all the leXi-
a cons and vocabularies there are few
words that have for me the attrac-
tons of the last word OF my text;
(Which hope
There have in the course OF our
life been many angels Of God that
have looked over our shoulders, or
met us on the road, or chanted the
darkness away, or lifted the curtains
of the great future, or pulled MS back
from the prccipices, or rolled down
upon us the rapturous music of the
heavens, but there is one of these
angels who has done so much Tor us
that we wish throughout all time
and all eternity to celebrate it-the
angel of Hope. st. Paul makes it the
rentcr of group of three, saying:
snow abidcth faith, hope, charity"
And, though he says that charity is
the greatest of the three, he does not
take one plume from the wing, or
Dne ray OF luster from the brow, or
one aurora from the cheek, or one
melody from the voice of the angel
OF my text: (which hope"
That was great night for our
world when in Bethlehem caravan
sary the Infant Royal was born. and
that will be a great night in the
darkness of your soul when Christian
hope is born. There will be chanting
In the skies and a star pointing to
the nativity. ! will not bother you
with the husk of definition and tell
you what hope is. When we sit down
hungry at table, we do not want an
analytical discourse as to what bread
Is. Hand it on; pass il round; give
as n slice of il. John speaks ui
hope as pure hope" Peter calls
Il n ''lively hope" Paul styles it Il
good hope" u "sure hope" ere
Ioicing hope All up and down the
Bible it is spoken of as an anchor,
as harbor, as helmet, as n door.
When we draw check on a bank,
NE must have reference TO the
Amount Of money we have deposited,
but Hope makes a draft on bank
N which for her benefit all Heaven
has been deposited Ilopel May il
sight up every dungeon. stand by
every sick bed. lend a helping hand
TO every orphanage. loosen every
chain, caress every forloru soul and
turn the unpictured room OF the
llmshousc into the vcstibule of
Heaven! How suggestive that my
thology declares that when all other
ieitics fed the earth the goddess
Hope remained
II was hope that revived John
Knox when on shipboard near the
coast of Scotland he was fearfully
III, and he was requested to look
Ihoreward and asked il he knew the
Tllage near the coast, and he an
swered: IF know il well, for | see
the steeple OF that place where God
hrst opened my mouth in public to
His glory, and | am fully persuaded
how weak that ever | now appear I
shall not depart this life till my
tongue shall glorify His holy name
N the same place" His hope was re.
~arded. and for % more years he
preached. That is the hope which
sustained Mr.. Morrell. of Norwich
when departing this life at "a years
Of age he declared 81 should like
to understand the secrets of eternity
before tomorrow morning That
was the kind Of hope that the cor.
Doral had in the battle when, after
several standard bearers had fallen
ne seized the flag and turned to n
lieutenant colonel and said: III |
tall, tell my dear wife that die with
good hope in Christ and that ! am
glad 10 give my life for my country
That was the good hope that DR.
Goodwin had in his last hour when
he said; All is this death? How
have dreaded as an enemy this
smiling friend!"
Philippe de Mornay. prime minister
b Henry w., when asked in his last
hours whether ne was certain NJ
eternal felicity. replied: 81 am as
confident of il from the incontcsta,
oility of the spirit of God as even
was of any mathematical truth
from all the demonstrations of Eu
,lid." That was the hope that
sheered Vara, the converted native
Of the island Of Aimee, when he said
m his last moment: "The canoe
Is ON the sea; sails are spread; she
Is ready for the gale. have a good
pilot to guide me and a good haveT
TO receive me-"
No better medicine did a man ever
take than hope. 1t is stimulant, O
iebrifuge, tonic, catholicon. Thou
sands of people long ago departed
this life would have been living to-
lay but for the reason they let hop,
slip their grasp. l have known peo
pie to live on hope after one lung
was gone and disease had seemed tC