The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-28
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1t was Saturday night last and large and
iyely was the congregation that had gathered
here. With warmth not unusal had Brol
r. MeQuiston set forth the all-suficient eff
cacy OF saving grace, but unwittingiy his
bright example was given q sectarian color
ing. As spark to train Of powder, so is .
suggested theme to a sympathetic crowd
Methodist views and convictions, Methodist
experiences and victories. and Nc .hodist trl-
umphant glsriss in joyous detail only culmi-
mated in blaze by the experience of an e
erly sister who declared that she expected
asst to be transported away to "a shouting
Methodist heaven. The reaction was SHARP
and decided, being participated in by mem.
bers of other denominations. job the Meth
odist-that's Kirby-who had been skirmish-
g about through the general engagement
making IT hot for thoughtless sinner herr
and encouraging difident convert there, sud
emily became aware of break IN his Ine
nd The sun couldn't have brought UP quicks
r. Joshua than did the surrounding forces
his command. The opportunity for sxalting
the Christian lilo and work, and for illustrat-
upon occasions such as that, was superb, anG
superbly did he acquit himself. We haven't
roomts give his language, nor couldn't if W,
bad, least OF all the manner and the occasion,
but quote few sentences from recollection
''step, viii ye? There are two thousand
people in Wichita going straight to tho devil
and you here and now INDUCING in such
1--WE Ia Whaf's nr. I laft
Queenstown In an Anchor Line steamer, in
fearful storm, bound for America. AT the
same moment a steamer of the Star Line |
started on the same yoyage-for the same |
port. The storm increased and the vessels |
were soon lost TO each other, but, both these |
grand old ships reached Sandy Hook in the |
harbor OF New York within ten minutes OF
each other with every soul on board alive and |
happy. What's in nlmei The pool of |
Bethesda was surrounded by many porches,
each numbered, and it made no kind of diff |
ference whether the invalid occupied No. or
Nc, 3, il was he WHO tumbed into the |
troubled waters that was cured Every man
believes that his own wife is endowed with
many excellencies-at least he dare not hint
20 lne COulIaIN -eteTy true nome IL Z nome
by however many other homes
Religion is like the air we breathe, like the
very sunshine Of heaven, free to all, 10 every
one, and, true Chris tans are TO be found in
every religious organization under the sum-
let's be dismissed,-nO, hold on ; all who de-
sire to be Christians stand up thank you!
Now the singing has been miserable here to-
night, and if the choir don't do better I'll get
up a choir Of my own! Let's go home"
And home they went; went shaking hands
out OF pure good-fellowship, and laughing in
he excess OF overlooking spirits. The SER
non Sunday morning was OF an esthetical
,haracier--ot mental happiness--of pleasures
derived from unselfish Christian acts---the
Offering of the Alabaster box
# ointment. On Monday night be talked
or forty minutes about the spirit world and
Is inhabitants, in which his splendid poetical
md imaginative powers were given full
weep. OF hfs thoughts he made ladder,
whose foot rested near the heart OF each lis
ener, whose top reached the high heavens,
nd upon whose steps the sweetest splrits--
he lost angels of our homes---ascended and