The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-14

his sisters are asleep but his mother is
watching him in the night After he
has gone up to bed and fallen into
drunken sleep his mother viii go up to
his room and see that he IS properly
covered and before she turns out the
light will put a kiss upon has bloated
lips Mother why don't you go to
bed?" Abr she says. II cannot go to
bed am Rizpih watching the SLANT"
And what are the political parties of
this count try doing for such cases? They
arc taking care not to hurt the feelings
of the iackals and the buzzards that
roost on the shelves of the grog shops
and boot above the dead / am often
asked to what political party belong,
and now declare my opinion of the
political parties of to-day. Each one is
worse than the other and the only con-
ISOLATION in regard to them is that they
have putFefied until they have no more
power to rot. o, that comparatively
tame scene upon which Rizpah looked
She looked upon only seven of the slain
American motherhood and American
wifehood tn S moment are looking upon
seventy of the slain. upon 700 of the
slain, upon 10000 of the slain Woei
-<0@l woei
e by only consolation on this subject is
That foreign capitalists arc buying up
the American breweries- The present
owners see that the doom OF that bust
ness is coming as surely as that God is
not dead They are unloading upon
foreign capitalists, and when we can
get these breweries into tho bands of
people living on the other slde of the
sea, our pol teal parties will cease to
be afraid of the liquor traffic, and at
their conventions nominating Presi-
Dental candidates will put in their
platform plank as big the biggest
plank of the biggest ocean steamer,
| saying: Resolved, unanimously, that
we always have been and always Will be
opposed to alcoholism"
But must spur on our Arab steed,
and here we come in sight of Beeroth,
said to be the place where Joseph and
Mary missed the boy Jesus on the way
from Jerusalem to Nazareth, going home
now from a great National festival.
Where is my child, Jesus?" says Mary.
where is my child, Jesus?" says Jo-
seph. Among the thousands that are
! returning from Jerusalem, they thought
that Ger tainly He was walking on in the
crowd. They described Him, saying:
she is twelve years old. and of light COM
plexion and b ne eyes A lost child!'
Great excitement in all the crowd
a child is lost
bear down you to-day with 4
mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph said:
Where is our Jesus?" and you say,
'Where is John? or where is Henry? or
where is George?" Well, / should not
wonder if you found him after awhile.
Where? In the same place where Mary
and Joseph found their boy-in the
temple. What do / mean by that? 1
moan, you do your duty toward God and
toward your child, and you will find him
after awhile in the Kingdom of Christ
Well, you say, / am clear discouraged
about my son, and l am getting on in
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him converted. Perhaps not never
theless l think you will find him in the
| temple, the heavenly temple. There
has not been an hour in Heaven the last
one hundred years when parents in
glory had not had announced to them
the sa walton of children whom they
left in this world profigate. We often
have to say: II forgot" but God has
never once yet said, II forgot" Cheer
up Christian father and mother! Cheer
up! Where Joseph and Mary found
their boy you will find yovrs--in the
temple.
otherwise. One of the things He has
positively promised in the Bible is that
He will answer earnest and believing
| prayer. Failing to do that He would
wreck His own throne, and the founda-
tions OF His palace would give way, and
the Bank OF Heaven would suspend pay
nenE ana the uaEk MOEu
| would be written across the sky, and
| the Eternal Government would be dis
banded and God Himself would become
| an exile. Keep on with your prayer
and you Will yet find your child in the
| temple, either the temple here or the
| temple above.
| But we must hurry on for the mule
| teers and baggage men have been or
dered to pitch our tents for tonight at
Bethel 1t is already getting SO dark
that we have to give up all idea of guild
ing the horses and leave them to their
| own sagacity. We ride down amid mud
cabins and into ravines where the
horses leap from depth to depth, rocks
/ below rocks, rocks under rocks Whoai
Whoa! We dismount in this place,
memorable for many things in Bible
history, the two more prominent
| theological seminary, where of old they
made ministers, and for Jacobs dream
The students of this Bethel theolog:
cal seminary were called Sons of the
Prophets" Hero the young men were
| fitted for the ministry. and those of us
who ever had the advantage of such in
| stitutions Will everlasthgly be CRATE
full. and in the calendar of saints, win CHI
1 read with especial affection, are the
\ doctors of divinity who blessed me with
l their care. / thank God that from these
theological seminGries there is now
|
OF min sters who are taking the pulpits
in all parts of the land. L hail their
coming and tell these young brothers
| to shake off the Somnolence of
centuries and get out from under
the dusty shelves of theological discus
sions which have no practical bearing
on this age, whioh needs to get rid of
its sins and have its sorrows comforted-
Many of our pulpits are dying of hum
drum. People do not go to church. be-
cause they can not endure the techni-
caiities. and profound explanations of
nothing. and sermons about the 'teter-
mai generation of the Son." and the diff
ference between sublapsarianism and
supralapsarianism, and about who Mel
chisidek wasn't There ought to be as
much difference between the modes of
presenting truth now and in olden time
as between lightning express rail train
/ and a canal boat
But most distinguished was Bethel
/ for that famous dream which Jacob had.
his head on "a collection of stones He