Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-17
SUNDAY souNDlNos.
The Sorrows OF Earth, the City Elec-
ton and the Church and
Immortality.

ocrats and Mugwumps, who congregate upon
the most conspicuous corners to compare
notes and tell how they got there. The soft
air, brothers and sisters, of spring is bur
thened with these hilarious outbursts, which |
curde the sweet-fowing serenity of our
genial life. Put not, therefore, my hearers,
your trust in the result of any election in
which the Mugwump figures. 1t will prove
as uncertain as he who holds the joker in
the seductive game of progressive euchre,
and at last completely bust you up in BUSH
ness. Our prayer this morning of, oh that
Andrew jackson had never been born, and
that George William Curtis had died
comm, availeth us nothing SO long as there
is left to us the sardonic grin of Camobell
and Carey and Smith, and host of them
who know not the pangs of well marked
case of Mugwump collie. 1t doubles one up,
dearly beloved, alas like the freshly digged
grub worm in fishing time and the solemn
thought comes to US DER and DER that there
is no balm Of Gilead nor doctor within
forty miles. We cannot eat, drink and be
merry for the city dads are gobbling the
sour grapes and our children's teeth are set
on edge. We tread the wine press alone.
With these few Introductory remarks, as
is the fashion with other preachers, We dis
miss our text "Ne monkeyes pas avia un
saiv de buzz" which translated from the
original French means. do not monkey with
the saw when it is buzzing, and proceed
with our discourse, which has no connec-
ton with either the Introductory or the text.
We were, my friends, speaking of tine new
city government. The inspiration of all
government is from the Divine Ruler. This
is HIS day, but His people, per Sc, will not
rule Wichita to any alarming extent this
load of poles. The foxes have holes and the
birds of the air nests, and we, beloved, have
our churches and drug stores; therefore,
cast not your pearls before swine
but be ye as wise as doves
and harmless as garter snake; for the hairs
of all your heads-except the bald heads
are numbered, and the tree is known by the
! company it keeps. 1t is easier for camel
| to do the eve and needle trick than fer any
good thing TO come Of Mugwump. The
Sabbath was made for man, but no mention
is made in the bible of the men who beat
our ticket last Tuesday. What God hath
Joined together LET no man put asunder, but
the joining of the Mugwumps and Demo-
Gratis was horse of another color. 1t is
hard to kick against the pricks, but if thine
enemy hunger feed him, if he thirst give
him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap
Goals of fire on his drag-wump head. We
fought good fight, finished the course and
kept the faith, and simply got cleaned out
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, but
we find no promise or provision for those
who everlastingly wiped the earth with all
of us, my beloved, last Tuesday.
And this, brethren, bring us to the third
and last subdivision Of our discourse; for
what is a man profted ii he shall gam the
whole world and be elected TO an Office in
Wichita to boot. if ne lose his own soul?
Obviously he would in thus straining
at knat and swallowing q
camel get left, or be gobbled up in the twin
king of an eye by him who goes roaming
about the earth with a corner on birthstone.
We find it little hard to slide from the sec
ond to the third subdivision of our dis
course as you perceive; still if you resist the
devil he viii flee from you, but you want to
be certain that all your side has been regis
tered and that they are on hand at the polls
or the prince of darkness may forget to fee.
Drink no longer water but use little wine
for the stomsch's sake insures only an in
creased trade tor the drug stores and more
applications for the probate judge to file at
a nickle apiece, therefore, stick to the text
of Colossisn 2nd-21st
Lastly, the law of this world is friendship
it is the highway to universal good, and the
promise of the next world comes ONLY from
one source. Churches are only built anc
worshipped in because Of the hope and faitt
that there is another-a better world, WHERE
there are no strifes either fer bread or Tor {
seat in the city council; no chickering's, envy
ings, or the one side pulling against th'
other. Glimpses of the other life can
IT is perfectly evident, only be caught by
the mind that possesses religious sentiments.
Do not. therefore, dear reader, smother thi:
sentiment which arises in every soul, b,
} consuming all the minutes and hours and
DAYS in wild exciting endeavors TO either get
more money and more property or TO ge
some Office of imaginary honors. Be tn
spiritual world ever so great areality, 1t vii
not impress itself upon the unfriendly mind
/, That is logic and sense. Then go to churcl
: and cultivate that within you which is aboy'
the mere animal. Unless we are willing t.
sit down and calmly mediate over the form
of another life, the universe and its Msste
NAV treat us with the spirit we thus nurture
We are either the children Of God or o
: chance. As no well ordered mind can con
ceive of chance there is left but the con
elusion of God and design. In the creato
Of such universe there cannot possibly b.
any form or kind of weakness, hence VI
; must conclude that there is a great moral
= spiritual and mental outcome for his child
man. All Of this world center
= in man whom We know ]
continually advancing. He is intended t.
be perfect but this earth with its perfec
, birds, perfect flowers, perfect colors and per
feet elements cannot perfect the man. Can i
be that the center.of all and the greatest of al
is the only thing or being on this earth t.
. fail Ct perfection and so die and so end eter
nallys The existence of a God once admit
, ted shows that mind can exist apart from 1
, perishable organism, and the question ono
settled as to the existence of deity it is set
tied for other souls 1t is vain for us to sa,
that earth is .he final arena Of humanity
! while il remains the undisputed arena o
/ death. II is too limited either for the ulti
, mate triumphs of God or the man He hai
} made in His own image.
The conclusion, then, that we draw IRON
this short, rambling sermon is that we ough'
TO 90 to church and endeavor to cultivate
those friendships, those sehtifnehts anu MS
pirations which reach out and beyond to
where the soul secure in an unending exist
ence may smile in compassion over the mis-
takes and frailties of a life which was mere
human and earthly.
"Can il be,
Matter immortal and shall spirit die
Above the nohler shall less nobler rise!
Shall man alone, for whom all else reviyes
No resurrection know? Shall man alone,
Imperial man. be sown in barren ground,
Less privileged than grain, on which he
feedsY"
WICHITA VICTORIOUS.
The closing game between the Wichita
and Newton polo clubs, at the rink last night