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

Dut tnere Is rolief that drops IN mamma
from the throne of God o. lift up your
lacerated soul in prayer and you will
get omnipotent comfort do not know
in what words the soothing influence
may come, but / know that for especial
grief there Is especial deliverence. 1
give you two or three Passages; try them
on; take that which best fits your soul:
Whom the Lord loveth he chasten-
eth" ''AlI things work together for
those who love God" weeping may
endure for a night but joy cometh in
the morning"
But after fourteen thousand six hum
dred consecutive days Of falling man.
na-Sundays excepted-the mama
ceased Some of them were glad
Of it You know they had complained
TO their leader. and wondered that they
had to eat mama instead of onions
Now the fare is changed Those people
in that army under forty years of age
had never seen q cornfield, and now,
when they hear the leaves rustling and
the tassels waving and the pillows of
green flowing over the plain as the wind
touched them. it must have been a new
and lively sensation.
'Cornr' cried the old man, as he
opened an ear ''Corni" cried the chill
dren, as they counted the shining grains
Corn shouted the vanguard OF the
host as they burst open the granaries
Of the affrighted population, the gran
aries that had been left in the posses
sion of the victorious Israelites- Then
the fire was kindled. and the ears of
corn were thrust into 1t. and, fresh and
crisp and tender. were deVoured by the
hungry victors; and bread was prepared,
and many things that can be made out
OF flour RECALLED the appetites that had
been sharpened by the long march.
And the mama ceased on the morning
after they had eaten of the old corn of
the land"
Blessed be God, we stand in just such
field to-day. the luxuriant grain COM
ing above the girdle. the air full of the
odors of the ripe old corn Of the Gospel
Canaan. ''Op you say, ''the fare is too
plain" Then remember you will soon
get tired of fanciful diet. While i
was in Paris, 1 liked for while the rare
and exquisite cookery; but 1 soon
wished 1 was home again. and had the
plain fare of my native land. So it is a
fact that we soon weary of the sirups
and the custards and the whipped foam
of fanciful religionists. and we cry:
Give US plain bread made out of the
old corn of the Gospel Canaan" This
is the only food that can quell the souls
hunger.
There are men here who hardly know
what is the matter with them. They
have tried to get together fortune and
larger account at the bank, and to get
investments yielding larger percent
ages They are trying to satisfy their
soul with diet of mortgages and
stocks There are others here who
have been trying to get famous, and
have succeeded to a greater or less ex-
tent; and they have been trying to
satisfy their soul with the chopped feed
of magazines and newspapers All
these men are no more happy now than
before they made the first thousand dol
lars; no more happy now than when for
the first time they saw their names
favorably mentioned They can not
analyze or define their feelings; but l
will tell them what is the matter-they
are hungry for the old corn of the
Gospel.
The infidel scientists of this day are
offering us a different kind of soul food,
but they are OF all men the most miser-
able. have known many of them, but
! never knew one of them who came
within thousand miles of being happy.
The great John Stuart Mill provided for
himself a new kind of porridge. but yet,
when he comes to die, he acknowledges
that his philosophy never gave him
any comfort in days of bereave-
ment and in roundabout way
he admits that his life was q failure.
So 1t is with all infidel scientists. They
are trying to live on telescopes and
crucibles and protoplasms, and they
charge us with cant, not realizing that
there is no such intolerable cant in all
the world as this perpetual talk we are
hearing about positive philosophy"
and ''the absolute" and ''the great to
be, and the everlasting no." and ''the
higher unity" and "the latent poten-
tialities," and ''the cathedral of the i'm
mensities-" 1 have been translating
what they have been doing. and will
tell you what it all means-it means
that they want to kill Godi And my
only wonder is that God has not killed
them. 1 have in other days tasted of
their confections, and come back and
tell you to-day that there is no nutri-
ment or life or health in any thing but
tho bread made out of the old corn of
the Gospel. What do mean by that?
mean that Christ is the bread OF life,
and taking Him. you live and live for
ever.
You say: THAT is such a simple Cos
pelr' know it is You say you thought
religion was a strange mixture of elab-
crate compounds No; it is so plain
that any abecedarian may understand
it In its simplicity is its power If
you could. this morning, realize that
Christ died to save from sin and death
and hell, not only your minister and
your neighbor and your father and your
child, but you, it would make this hour
like the Judgment day for agitations,
and, no longer able to keep your seat
you would leap up crying: ''For mel
For me!'
You have noticed that invalids can
not take all kinds of food. The food
that will do for one will not do for an
other. There are kinds of food which
will produce, in cases of invalidism.
very speedy death But you have no.
ticed that all persons, however weak
they may be, can take bread. o. soul
sick with sin, invalid in your transgres-
sions, think the Gospel will agree
with you! l think II you can not take
any thing else, you can take this Lost
-foundl Sunken-raisedl Condemned
-pardonetu Cast out-invited ini That
is the old corn of the Gospel.
There is another characteristic about
bread, and that is you never get tired
OF it There are people here seventy
years Of age who find 1t just as appro-
pirate for their appetite as they did
when. in boyhood, their mother cut