The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18

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The bigot asceuds with just enough
grace to save him. As he comes up
to the shining gate he sees standing
inside of IL some whom he used to
meet every Sunday morning on the
street going to some other church of
some other denomination, and he
cries out: Are you there| | never
expected to see you in such glorious
place. You were all wrong in your
religious theories on earth and in
your form of church government
How did you get imp Saved by
grace" is the Heavenly reply. Saved
by gracel" The bigot is embarrassed
and feels for his creed and his cate
chism, and, 10, they were left on the
banks of the River Jordan as he
passed through, and he cries out:
4 think / will have to enter on the
same terms. Saved by grace! Saved
by grace!
Again the penurous Christian will
not have an abundant entrance. Per-
haps he was not converted until all his
habits of tight-fstcdness were fixed
beyond recovery. The people who are
generous were taught to be generous
in childhood. You can tell from the
way the boy divides the apple what his
characteristics for generosity or mean
ness will be for the next so years, If he
lives so long. If he eat it all himself
while others look wistfully on, he will
be Shylock; If he give half of it to
some one who has no apple. he Will be
an ordinarily generous man; If he give
three-fourths of it TO another he will
be a Baron Hirsch or George Pea
body.
For 30 years tbi. man has been prac-
ticing an cconom,. which prided itself
on never passing a pin without picking
il I'M. and if ne re,pnndpd nt all in
church would nut on the collection
plate so insignificant a coin that he
held his hand over il so that no one
could discover the smalness of the
denomination. Somewhere in the tif-
ties or sixties of his life. during a re-
vival Of religion he became a Chris
tian. He is very much changed in
most respects, but his all-absorbing ac-
quisitiveness Stili influences him. To
extract from him gift for an orphan
age or a church or poor woman who
has just been burned out is an achieve
ment. You and ! know very good men,
their Christian character beyond dis
pute, and yet they are pronounced by
all as penurious. and they know it
themselves and pray against it. We
all have our bad habits. and yet expect
to get to Heaven. and this skinilint has
his mighty temptation. The passion
of avarice well Illustrated its strength
when in one of the houses of eNhumed
Pompeii was found the skeleton of "A
man who was trying TO escape with GO
coins and silver saucepan. For those
valuables he dared the ashes and
scoria of Nesuvius which overwhelmed
him, and many GOOD man has been
held nightly by ayaricc.
But that brings me TO the other
thought of NV text. that there are
those who will. when they leave this
life. bound into Heaven amid saluta-
lions infinite. For so an entrance
shall be administered unto You album
dautly." Such exultant admission will
await those who enter Heaven after
on earth living a life for others and
without reference to couspicuity. On
the banks of the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa
or the Androscoggin is a large family.
all of whom have been carefully and
reIipiously reared In the earlier
| staues of that family there were many
priyutions. The motber of tbe bouse.
hold never had any nmusements. Per.
| hans once i'm a wear moor theatrical
play WAS epncted I'm the neigbboripo
! scboolbouse or q souovliiro concert in
| the town hall and that was ain thc al.
version afforded for the winter season
| asked tbe MANAGER of an insnne osv.
hm I'm Kentucky. "From what class Of
uersous do Won oct most of yo,r ma.
! fiepts ." and ne said. "Frnm farmers
wives" asked tbc samr o,irsti,n nj
| the manager of AN insane ASYLUM in
PENNSYLVANIA. and the same question
of the MANAGER of nm insane nsylum in
| Massachusetts. and got the same rcplv:
/ I'VE have on our rolls for treatment