Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-07

You need, my 1rlenus, III tho hie'
place. the element OF happiness. Some
Say YOU feel wretched. You do mol
know what Is the matter with YOU
Yoa say: Il did not sleep last night
think that must be the reason OF my
restlessness;" or II have eaten some
thing that did not agree with me, ano
| think that must be the reason" Ano
YOU are unhappy. o, my friends, nap
niness does not depend upon physical
condition. Some OF the happiest .peo'
pie have ever known have been tnose
who have been wrapped in consumption,
or stung with neuralgia, or burning
with the slow fire OF some fever.
never shall forget one man in my first
parish. who. in excruciation OF body,
cried out: MIR. Talmage, | forgot all
my pain in the love and joy OF Jesus
Christ. 4 can't think of my sutferings
when think OF Christ" Why his face
was illumined. There are young men
in this house who would give testimony
to show that there is no happiness out
side OF Christ while there is great JOY
in His service.
THE PLEASURES OF CHRISTIANITY.
There are young men who have not
been Christians more than six months,
who would stand UP tonight. II l should
ask them, and say in those six montns
they have had more Joy and satisiactior
Shan In all the years OF their fr1vollty
and dissipation. Go TO the door OF that
gin shop tonight, and when the gang
n Young men come out. ask them
whether they are happy. They laugh
along the street, and they leer,
and they shout; but nobody has any
idea that they are happy.
1 could call upon the aged men In TINS
house to give testimony. There are
AGED men who tried the world. and they
tried religion, and they are willing to
testify on our side. 1t was not long ago
that an aged man rose in a praying cir
Gle and said: "Brethern, l lost my son
lust as he had graduated from college,
and it broke my heart, but ! am glad
now he is gone. He is at rest, escaped
from all sorrow and from all trouble.
And then, in 1857, lost all my. proper
ty, and you see am getting old, and 1t
is rather hard on me; but l am sure
God will not let me suffer. He has not
taken care OF me for seventy-tive years
now to let me drop out OF his hands," l
went into the room OF an aged man-his
oversight nearly gone. his hearing near
" gone-and what do you suppose he
was talking about? The goodness OF
God and the joys of religion. He said:
Il would like to 60 over and join my
wife on the other side OF the flood, and
| am waiting now until the Lord calls
me. 1 am happy now. l shall be
happy there" What is it that gave
that aged man so much satisfaction and
ueaee? PHYSICAL exuberance? No: 1t
mas all gone. sunshine. ne can not
see it. The voices Of friends. He can
not hear them. 1t is the grace OF God
that is brighter than sunshine and that
is sweeter than music. II q harplst
takes harp and finds that all the
strings are broken but one string ne
does not try to play upon it. Yet here
| will show you an agen mar, the strings
OF whose Joy are all broken save one,
and vet he thrums it with such salts.
faction, such melody, that the angels OF
God stop the swift stroke OF their wings
and hover about the place until the
music ceases. Religions ways are ways
of pleasantuess and all her paths are
peace" And If you have not the salts
faction that is to be found in Jesus
Christ must tell you, with all the con-
centrated emphasis of my soul: lone
thing thou lackest."
LEADING LIVES OF USEFULNESS.
remark again, that you lack the
element of usefulness. Where is your
business? You say it is No. 45 such 9
street, or No. 296 such street, or No.
300 such q street. My friend immortal.
YOUR business is wherever there Is Q
tear to be wiped away or soul to be
saved. You may, before coming tc
Christ, do great many noble things.
You take q loaf of bread to that starv'
ing man in the alley; but he wants i'm.
mortal bread. You take pound Of
candles to that dark shanty. They
want the light that springs from the
throne Of God, and you can not take II
because you have it not in your own
heart. You know that the fight OF an
arrow depends very much upon the
strength OF the bow, and have to tell
YOU that the best bow that was ever
made was made out OF the cross OF
Christ; and when religion takes q soul
and puts it on that, and pulls 1t back
and lets it fly, every time 1t brings down
a Saul or Goliath. There are people
here of high social position, and large
means, and cultured minds, who, Il
they would come into the kingdom Of
God, would set the city on fire with re.
ligious awakening. o, hear you NOT
the more than million voices Of those IN
these two cities who are unconverted:
voices of those who in these two cities
are dying in their sins? They want
light. They want bread. They want
Christ. They want heaven. Q, that
the Lord would make you q flaming
evangel. AS for myself, have sworn
before high heaven that l will preach
this gospel as we'll as I can, in all its
fullness, until every fiber Of my body
and every faculty Of my mind and every
passion Of my soul is exhausted. But
we all have q work to do. I cannot do
your work, nor can you do my work.
- IL