The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-15

~ you need Jesus three times day. o,
do not start out without Him; do not
dare to go out of the front door; do not
dare to go OF the front steps without
having first communed with Him. Be
fore noon there may be perils that will
destroy body, mind and soul forever.
You can not afford to do without Him.
Then. at the apex of the day, at the
tiptop of the hours, equidistant from
morning and night look three ways
Look backward to the forenoon; look
ahead to the afternoon; look up to that
Saviour who presides over all You
want bread at noon You may find no
place in which to kneel amidst the cot
ton bales and the tierces of rice, but if
Jonah could find room to pray in the
whales belly most certainly you will
never be in such a crowded place that
you can not pray. Bread at noon. When
the evening hour comes and your head
Is buzzing with the days engagements,
and your whole nature is sore from the
abrasion of rough life, and you see a
great many duties you have neglected.
then commune with Christ asking His
pardon. thanking Him for His love.
That would be a queer evening repast
at which there was no bread
This is the nutriment and life of the
plain Gospel that l recommend you 1
do not know how some of our ministers
make it so intricate and elaborate and
mystifying thing. 1t seems as if they
had sort of mongrelism in religion
part humanitarianism, part spiritual
ism, part nothingarianism-an some
times you think they are building their
temple out of the Rock of Ages" but
you find there is no rock in 1t all 1t is
stucco The Gospel is plain. 1t is
bread There is no fogs lowering over
this river of life. All the fogs hover
over the marsh of human speculation.
If you can not tell when you hear a
man preach whether or not he believes
in the plenary inspiration of the
Scriptures, it is because he does not
believe in it II, when you hear n man
preach, you can not tell whether or not
he believes that sin is Unborn, it is be-
cause he does not think it is congenital.
II, when you hear a man talk in pulpit
or prayer meeting, you can not make up
your mind whether or not he believes
in regeneration, it is because he does
not believe in it II, when you hear a
man speak on religious themes, you can
not make up your mind whether or not
he thinks the righteous and the wicked
will come out at the same place, then it
is because he really believes their des-
TIMES are conterminoua
Do not talk to me about a man being
doubtful about the doctrines of grace.
He is not doubtful to me at all Bread
is bread and know it the moment see
it had corn field which 1 cultured
with my own hand I did not ask once
in all the summer: SIS this corn?" 1
did not hunt up the Agriculturist to get
a picture of corn. 1 was born in sight
of a corn field, and 1 know all about it
When these Israelites came to Canaan
and looked off upon the fields, the cry
was: Corn! cornP' And if a man has
ohce tasted of this Heavenly bread, he
knows it right away. He can tell this
corn of the Gospel Canaan from ''the
chaff which the wind driveth away"
bless God so many have found this
| Gospel corn. 1t IS the bread of which
If man eat he shall never hunger.
But alas for the famine struck!
Enough corn. yet it seems you have no
sickle to cut it, no mill to grind it, no
fire to bake it, no appetite to eat it.
Starving to death. when the plain is
golden with a magnificent harvest!
rode some thirteen miles to see the
Alexander, a large steamship that was
boached near Southampton, Long Island
1t was 4 splendid vessel. AS l walked
up and down the decks and in the
cabins, said: what pity that this
vessel should go to pieces, or be lying
here idle!'' The coast wreckers had
spent $50, 900 trying to get her off, and
they succeeded once; but she came back
to the old place. While / was walk
ing on deck every part of the
vessel trembled with the beating
of the surf on one side. Since then
1 heard that that vessel, which was
worth hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, was sold for So, 500 and knocked to
pieces. They had given up the idea of
getting her to sail again. How suggest
Two all that IS to me! There are those
here who are aground in religious
| things Once you started for Heaven,
but you are now aground. Several
times it was thought that you had start
ed again heavenward, but you soon got
back to the old place, and there is not
much prospect that you will ever reach
tho harbors of the blessed. Gods rec
ords, fear, will pronounce you hope
less case. Beached for eternity And
| then 1t will be written in Heaven con-
corning some one of your size, and COM
plexion, and age, and name, that he
was invited to be saved, but refused the
offer, and starved to death within sight
of the fields and granaries full of the
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