The Iola register., 1902-01-24

wrought by natural causes. When |
those infidels graduate from the the
ological seminary and take the pull
pits of America as expounders of the |
Holy Scriptures, what advocates they |
will be of that Gospel for the truth |
of which the martyrs diedl Hail the |
Polycarps and Hugh Latimers and
John Knoxes of the twentieth CEN
tury, believing the Bible is true in
spots! Would to God that some great
revival of religion might sweep
through all the theological semna-
ries of this land, confirming the faith
of the coming expounders of an en-
tire Biblel
Furthermore, in that scene of the
text God sanctions borrowing and sets
forth the importance of returning.
do not think there would have been
any miracle performed If the young
man had owned the ak that slipped
the helve. The young man cried out
in the hearing of the prophet: ALAS,
master, for it is borrowed" He had
a right to borrow. There are times
when we have not only right to bor-
row, but it is a duty to borrow. There
are times when we ought TO lend, for
Christ in His sermon on the Mount de-
clared: From him that would borrow
of thee turn thou not away 1t is
right that one borrow the means OF
getting an education, as the young stu
dent Of my text borrowed the ak. 1t
is right to borrow means for the for
j al lie
If in any assembly it were requested
that those who had never borrowed
hold up their hands, none would be
lifted, or II here and there hand were
lifted we would know that it was a
case Of iuveracity. Borrow. Why,
we are borrowing all the time. We
borrow from the Lord the sunlight
that shows MS he way, our water that
slakes our thirst. The food that re-
freshes as three times a day, the pill
low ON which we sIumber. We borrow
gladucss from our friends; we borrow
all elevated surroundings The church
borroWs AIN It's beauty from the Christ
who founded IL. In our songs and SER
mons we borrow from the raptures of
Heaven.
We borrow time; we will borrow
eternity, and that constant borrowing
implies a return. For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service, in inn
provement Of ourselves and helpful
ness for others. For what we borrow
in the shape Of protection from good
government we must pay back in pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents in their good exam
pie and their hard work wrought foi
us in our journey from cradle to man
hood and womauhood for all the ages
to come we ought to be paying back
Hayden. the painter, said his ruin be
gan the day he began 10 borrow money
and he wrote in his diary: Here be
gan debt and obligation, out Of whicl
| have never been and never shall b,
eNtricated as long as ! live DIR
Johnson said: "Do not accustom your
self TO consider debt only as an in
convenience. You will find it a calam
ity." We have a right to borrow 70
the absolute necessities, expecting Il
pay back again. but we ought never I,
borrow for the luNuries.
In the summer watering place
north, south, east and west, in tn
great hotels, serving at table and i
baggage room, are theological stu
dents who are in preparation for tn
ministry, earning in July and Angus
the means by which they may stud
the other months of the year. ] ha
them; | cheer them; | bless then
They will be the Herschels in the oil
servatories, the DR.. Motts in your meC
icla colleges, the Rufus Choates in you
, courtrooms, the Bishop McIlvaines i
your pulpits. Let them not now b
ashamed Of the AK with which the
: hew the beam for Elisha's seminary.
Let all those who toll for their edl
cation remember that they are e
pecially favored, and if things g
against them and the AK head shoul
fly the helve that every hindermeI
. may some time turn out advantag
? ously, as the accident by the rive
- Jordan, which seemed to finish IL
1 young students capacity to help hui
the new seminary, resulted in
I splendid demonstration of the pow,
t of Elisha's God to help anyone wi
! helped himself. No AK that was ev,
i welded has wrought so well as TIL
. AK, the handle and head of whi'
- parted,
Il Notice. also, how God is superb
to every law that He has made, ev'
u the strongest law of nature, the la
} of gravitation. The stick that Elisl
g threw into the Jordan floated, b
-" the AK head sank. By ineXorable Ia
: il must go down into the depths
- the Jordan, yet without so much
y n touch the hard, heavy metal soug
TIE surface. There It is, the fioati
20 ak head. What rebuke to tho
- who reject miracles on the grou
-, that they are contrary to nature,
- though the law were stronger tn
~ ~ the God who made the law! Aga
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