The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-14


sa4ion? o, no! The world does not
like sick and dying people, and leaves
them in the Irrch 1t ruined this man
and then Left him. He had mageifi-
cent funeral All the ministers wore
scars. and there were fcrty-three car
riages In a row; but the departed man
appreciated not the obSequies-
I want TO persuade my audience that
this world Is a poor Investment; that it
does not pay ninety per cent OF salts
faction, nor eighty per cent, nor
twenty per cent, nor two per cent
nor one; that it gives no solace when
dead babe lies on your lap; that 1t gives
no peace when conscience rings an
alarm; that it gives no explanation in
the Cay of dire trouble; and at the time
of your decease it takes hold of the
pillow case, and shakes out the festh-
ers, and then jolts down in the
place thereof signs, and grOans,
aud excavations, and then makes you
put your head on it o, We who have
tried this world, is it a satisfactory por-
ton? Would you advise your friends
to make the investment? No. I'VE
have sold yourselves for nought" Your
conscience went Your hope went.
Your Bible went. Your Heaven went
Your God went When n sheriff under
q writ sells a man out, the officer gem
orally leaves a few chairs and a bed
ana q Few cups anu Knives Out TINS
awful vendue in which you have been
| engaged the auctiOneer's mailet has
come down upon body, mind and soul:
Goingi Gone! ''Ye have sold your
selves for nought."
How could you do SO? Did you
/ think that your soul was a mere trinl1et
which for a few pennies you could buy
IN toy shop? Did You think that your
soul, il once lost might be found again
/ if you went out with torches and Ian
/ ternsP Did you thi k that your soul
was too short lived and that painting,
/ it would soon lie down for extinction?
/ Or had you no idea what your soul was
| worth? o, my brother, what possessed
/ you that you should part with your
| soul so cheap? I've have sold your
| selves for nOught."
| But I have some good news to tell
| you. I want to engage in Il litigation
| for the recovery of that soul of yours
| 1 want to show that you have been
cheated out of it. I want to prove, as
1 will, that you were crazy on that sub
ject, and that the world, under such
circumstances, had no right to take the
title deed from you; and if you will
| join me 1 shall get a decree from the
! High Court of Heaven reinstating you
into the possession of your soul.
Money is good for a good many
| things, but it cannot do anything in
| this matter of the soul You cannot
| buy your way through. Dollars and
| pounds sterling mean nothing at the
| gate Of mercy If you could buy your
| salvation, Heaven would be a great
| speculation, an extension of Wall
street. Bad men would go up and buy
/ out the place, and leave us to shift for
ourselves. But, if money is not the
| lawful tender, what is? will answer:
| Blood Whose? Are we to go through
the slaughter? 0, nos it was a richer
blood than ours. 1t wants a kings
| blood 1t must be poured from royal
| arteries. 1t must be a sinless torrent
| But where is the king? I see a
| great many thrones and great many
| occupants, yet none seem to be coming
down to the rescue. But after awhile
| the clock of night in Bethlehem strikes
twelve, and the silver pendulum of n
| star swings across the sky, and / see
/ the King of Heaven rising up, and he
| descends, and steps down from star to
/ star, and from cloud to cloud, lower
and lower. until he touches the sheep
covered hills, and then on to another
hill, this last szull-shaPed, and there at
| the sharp stroke of persecution a rill
| incarnadine triclKles down, and VIC who
could not be redeemed by money are
redeemed by precious and imperial
blood.
We have in this day professed Chris
]
lied that they do not want religion OF
blood. What do you want? You seem
to want religion of brains. The Bible
says; I'm the blood is the life" Nc
atonement without blo0d. Ought not
the apostle to know? What did he say
Eye are redeemed not with corruptible
things, such as silver and gold, but by
the precious blood OF Christ" Nc
blood, no atonement
think that God intends to impress
us with vividness of that color. The
green of the grass, the blue OF the sky,
would not have startled and aroused
Us like this deep crimson. It is as il
! God had said; Now, sinner. wake VI
and see what the Saviour did for you
This is not water This is not wine. 1t j:
blood IL is the blood of My own Son
1t is the blood of the Immaculate. i
is the blood of Cod Without the shed
ding OF blood there is no re
mission. There has been many
a man who in courts of Law
has blended mot guilty, who neverthe
/ less has been condemned because there
was blood found on his hands. or blood
found in his room. and what shall we
do in the last day If il be found that we
have recrucified the Lord of Glory and
have never repented OF it? You mus
believe in the blood or die No escape
Unless you let the sacrifice of Jesus Sc
! IN your sScatu you yourself must s-AAiS1
| It is either Christ's blood or your blood
Guilty of this homicide, and this regi
eide, and this decide, confess your gull
to-day. Ten thousand voices of HEAVIER
bring in the verdict against you o
/ guilty, guilty. Prepare to die or be
lieve in that blood Stretch yourse1
out for the sacrifice or accept the Sa
viour's sacrifice. Do not fling away
your one chance
1t seems to me as if all Heaven ver,
trying 70 bid in your soul The frs
; bid it makes is the tears of Christ anS
. the tomb OF Lazarus, but that is not
nigh enough price. The next biz