The Iola register., 1902-01-24

me-" But that same man died at
PoughlSeepsie drunken pauper. Bet
ter underrate than overrate our
selves.
Notice also my text takes it for
granted that you must put on the har-
ness. else how can you take it of? Life
is battle--a 80 years, a 40 years or
60 wears war. Helmet you must have,
for the battleaNes Of skepticism and
agnosticism are aimed at your head.
Every possible effort will be made to
make YOU think wrong. The young
man who gets his head filed with
wrong notions about God, about Christ,
about the soul. about the great beyond,
is already captured. Put on the helmet,
the latchet well adjusted under the
chin. Think right and you will act
right. Yes. breastpiate for the h, art.
That is the most important part to be
defended. That decides what you love
and what you hate, what you hope for
and what you despise. That decides
earthly happiness and eternal destiny.
Keep the heart pure and the life will
be pure. Have the heart corrupt and
YOUR actions will be corrupt. Oh, that
all of us might have a new heart COW
cred with a divinely wrought breast
plate! Yes, greaves for the feet. So
many dangerous roads are we COM
PEELED to walk. So many people tread
on sharp prongs Of temptation and go
! lame and limping all the rest of their
days. Iron mailed shoes for the feet.
Young man. see that you have on a
complete armor. 1t looks bright now,
and it seems as If you could march
right on without opposition or attack,
but be not deceived. There are hidden
foes ready to halt you on your way.
The same cup that Benhadad drank out
of just before his defeat will be offered
TO effect your defeat. His intoxicated
brain saw victory when there was
nothing but rout and ruin. What work
Benhadad's cup made for Benhadad's
army! What shipwrecks on the sea,
what disasters on the land. caused by
infaming liquids put upon the tongue
to set seething the brain! How many
kings of thought and influence, with
crowns brighter than the one Ben
hadad wore, have by strong drink been
put into flight as base as that in which
Benhadad rode! GIVE them to me"
says the demon of inebriacy. Give
them to me: hand them down--the
brightest legislators of the land.
will thicken their tongue; | will bloat
their cheeks: | will stagger their
steps; | will damn their soul. Hand
them down to me-the physician out
of his laboratory. the attorney from
the courtroom, the minister of the
Gospel from the affairs of God. Hand
them down to me, the queens of the
| drawing-room, and l will disgrace
, their names and blast their homes and
throw them down farther than Jezebel
! fell to the dogs that crunched her car
cass."
We hold our breath in horror as once
= in awhile we hear of some one, either
, by accident or suicide, going over Nj
5 agara falls, but the tides, the depths.
the awful surges of intemperance are
= every hour of the day rushing scores
{ of immortals dawn into the unfath-
= omed abysm. Suicides by the hundred :
: of thousands! Suicides by the milliGn {.
p Beware of the cup out OF which Ben
, hadad drank personal and national
. demolition.
0 congratulate all those who are
$ now in the thickest OF life's battle
e that the time is coming when the
a struggle will end ana you will put the
Il harness off, helmet and greayes and
y breastplate having fulfilled their mis-
10 sion. You cannot in oGe visit to Lon
@ don Tower see all. You must go again
= and again to that place which is as
L 3 ]. 1 fIR# Iap
i Grey and Anne Boleyn and Walter
= Raleigh and Sir Thomas More. You
= will see the crowns of kings and
= queens, the robe worn by the Black
!. Prince, and silver baptsmal fonts
y from which royal infants were chris
- tened, and the block on which Loro
= Lovat was beheaded. But no part oi
Il London Tower will more interest you
Il than the armory, in which is skillful
# ly and impressvely arranged collec
Il tion of all styles of armor worn be
/, tween the thirteenth and eighteenth
"a centuries, suggesting 500 years oi
\ conflict-cuiras and neck guard ant
chin piece and lance rest and gauntlet
and girdle and mailed apron. You see
lust how from head to heel those old
time warriors were defended agains
sharp weapons that would cut OF
= thrust or bruise and allowing then
10 to come out of battle unhurt wheI
II otherwise they would have been slain
- o we soldiers of Jesus Christ, wheI
~ the war of life is over and the victor
% rest in the soldiers home on tn,
- heavenly heights, perhaps there ma.
y be in the city of the sun a tower o
- spiritual armor such as incased tn
- warriors for Christ in earthly com
- bat. Some day we may be in tha
v armory and hear the heroes talk o
~ how they fought the good fight o
~ faith and see them with the scars o
10 wounds forever healed and look a
II @ba Nvaonons Of offense and defens