The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-17

| how many of Us hide under the
church pew or the communion table?
There Is so much invested in it we
are afraid TO assault IL. Millions of
dollars in barrels, in watts, in spigots,
In corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables
and chased ice coolers, and in the
strychnine and the logwood and the
tartaric acid and the nuE vomica that
go TO make up our pure" American
drinks. looked with wondering eyes
on the heidelberg tun." It is the
great liquor vat of Germany, which is
said TO hold 500 hogsheads of wine,
and only three times in 100 years IL
has been filled. But as | stood and
looked az il I said TO myself; THAT
is nothing-sO0 hogsheads. Why, our
American vat holds 100000 barrels
of strong drinks and we keep 100000
men with nothing to do but to see
that 10 Is filed"
Oh, to attack the great monster Of
incompetence and tho kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanliness re-
quires you TO rally all yUur Christian
courage. Through the press. through
the pulpit, through the platform you
must assault II. Would 60 God that
all our American Christians would
band together, NOT for crack-brained
fanaticlsm, but fos holy Christian re-
forml l think il was in 1893 that
there went out from Lucknow. India,
under the sovereign, the greatest
hunting party that was ever project
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that hunting party. There were cam
els and horses and elephants. On
some princes rode, and royal ladies
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, aud
the desolato places of India were in
vaded by this excursion, and the rhi-
noceros and deer and elephant fell
under the stroke Of the saber and
bullet After awhile the party
brought back trophies worth 10000
rupees, having left the wilderness Of
India CHASTITY with tho slain bodies Of
Wild boasts. Would to God that in
stead of here and there straggler
going out 60 fght these great mon
sters of iniQuity In our country the
millions of membership in our
churches would band together and
hev Ia twain these great crimes that
make the land frightfNll with their
roar and are fattenlng upon the
bodies and souls OF immortal men!
Who is ready for such a party as
that? Who VIII be a mighty hunter
for the LordP
remark, again, Il you want to be
successful in spiritual archery you
need not only to bring down game,
but bring il in. l think one of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen is his Autumn" 1t represents a
sportsman coming home and stand
ing under a grapevine. He has a
staff over his shoulder, and on the
other end of that staff nre hung a
rabbit and brace of birds. Every
hunter brings home the game. No
one would think of bringing down q
roebuck or whipping up a stream for
trout and letting them lie in the
woods. At eventide the camp is
adorned with the treasures of the
forest-beak and fin and antler.
If you go out TO hunt for immortal
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der the arrow of the Gospel, but bring
them into the church of God, the
grand home and encampment we have
pitched this side the skies Fetch
them in; do not let them lie out in
the open field. They need our
prayers and sympathies and help.
That ia the meaning of the church of
God-help. o We hunters for the
Lord, not only bring down the game,
but bring IL in.
II Mthridates liked hunting so we'll
that for seven years he never went
! indoors, what enthusiasm ought we
to have who are hunting for immor-
tai soulsl If Domitian practiced arch
cry until he could stand boy down
in the Roman amphitheater with a
hand out, the fingers spread apart,
and then the king could shoot an ar
row between the fingers without
wounding them, to what drill and
what practice ought we TO subject
ourselves In order to become spirit
ual archers and mighty hunters be-
fore the Lord" But let me say you
will never work any better than you
pray. The OLD archers took the bow
put one end of IL down beside the
foot, elevated the other end, and it
was the rule that the bow should be
just the size OF the archer. If it were
just his size, then he would 90 into
the battle with confidence Let me
say that your power TO project good
in the world Will correspond exactly
to your own spiritual stature. In
other words, the first thing in prep
aration for Christian work is person
al conservation.
on, for q closer walk with God,
calm and heavenly frame,
a light to shine upon the road
That leads mo TO the Lamb!
There is In forest in Germany a
place they call the deer leap"-two
crags, about IS yards apart; between
them a fearful chasm. This is called
the deer leap" because once hunt
er was on the track of deer. II
came TO one of these crags. There
was no escape LOT it from the pur-
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