The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

government we uuSL pay DdCk III pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents in their good exam
pie and their hard work wrought for
us in our journey from cradle to man
hood OF womanhood for all the ages to
come we ought to be paying back. The
hallelujahs of heaven will be returned
for crucifixion agony.
Furthermore, let lis admire these
young men of Elisha's theological sem
mary for the fact that they were earn
ing their own way. Those are the kind
OF men who know what education is
worth and know how to use it.
Those students in the valley of
palms by the Jordan had a physical
strength and hardihood that would
help them in their mental and spirit
ual achievements. We who are toiling
for the worlds betterinent need Drawn
as we'll as brain, strong bodies as we'll
as illnmined minds and consecrated
souls.
Let all those who toll for their edu-
cation remember they are especially
favored. and if things go against them
and the AK head should fly the helve
mat very Underwent may some time
tur! out advantageously, as the acct
dent by the river Jordan, which SEEM
cd 20 finish the young Students capac-
| lty TO help build the new seminary.
resulted in a splendid demonstration
of The power OF Elisha's God to hello
any one who helps himself Nc ak that
was ever welded has wrought SO we'll
as that ak, the handle and head of
which parted.
Notice also, how God is superior to
every law that he has made even the
strongest law of nature. the law of
sraNitation. What a rebuke to those
VINO reject miracles on the ground that
they are contrary to nature, as though
the law were stronger than the God
VINO made the law. Again and again
In Bible times was that law revoked.
There Christ stood by his disciples
on the Mount Of Olives after his com
ing out OF the sepulcher. No ladders
let down for his ascension, but his feet
lift from the hill, and he goes up until
the curtain of cloud drops, and he is
invisible. Law of gravitation again
embarrassed. Enoch, Methuselah S
father. escaping death, went up bodily
and will have no need of resurrection
So will all the good who shall be still
alive at the end of the world They
will not need wings. Every one of the
millions OF our planet who loved and
served the Lord, if then alive. will "be
caught up" as the Bible says, body as
we'll as soul, the law of gravitatior
paralyzed. Gcd rnightier than any law
he ever created. Oh, like the mir.
acles because they show God independ
ent of everything.
Notice also the divine power in The
backwoods. Wonderful things wer,
done at the cities of Jericho and Jeru
salem and Babylon and Nineveh, ant
the great cities of our time have seer
the divine power, but this miracle o
my text was in the backwoods, ia
| away from the city, in the lumber dis
{ tricts, where the students had gone t.
, cut timber for the new theological
seminary. And if this sermon shall
come, as it will come, like my othe
sermons for the last thirty years. with
out missing week, let ME say t,
, those far away from the house Of Got
| and in the mountain districts that m,
text shows the divine power in tn
> backwoods. The Lord by every stream
: as he certainly was by the Jordan, OF
every mountain as surely as he was OF
/ Mount Zion, on every lake as On I'll
; beras, Dy every rock as by the on
! whose gushing waters slaked the thirs
: of the marching Israelites.
3 Do not feel lonely because your near
t est neighbor may be miles away, be
S cause the width of the continent ma
] separate you from the place wher
t your cradle was rocked and your faith
f ers grave was dug. Take your Bibl
K out under the trees. if the weathe
X will permit, and after you have lis
tened 10 the solo of bird in the tree
e tops or the long meter psalm of til
!. thunder, read those words of the Bible
!. which must have been written out G
e doors: The trees of the Lord are ful
: Of sap the cedars of Lebanon whic
). he hath planted. where the birds max
h their nests; as for the stork, the fl
: trees are her house. The high hills ar
!; a refuge for the wild goats and tn
S rocks for the comics. Thou makes
o darkness, and il is night, wherein a
: the beasts of the forest do creep fortl
The young lions roar after their pre-
t and seek their meat from God Tn
Il sun ariseth, they gather themselves to
# gether and lay them down in thei
e dens. Man goeth forth unto his wor
G and to his labor until the evening.
i Lord. how manifold are thy works! l
/ wisdom hast thou made them all. TIL
Y earth is full of thy riches. How d
S you like that sublime pastoral?
$. My subject also reminds us of til
It Importance of keeping our chief i'm
: plement for work in good order.
e think that young theological studen
o on the banks of Jordan was to blam
IS for not examining the ak before h