The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-19

sing the contents OF some old bottles
on the top shelf, bottles of medicine
which some doctors and druggists
mixed two hundred or three hun
dred years ago Come, doctors?
Come druggists!7 cry the people, and
help these wounded and dying that are
being brought from beneath the tim
bers of the crushed rail train. In lit
tie while it viii be too late Come, for
Gods sake! Come right away NO"
says a doctor, mot until we have set
tied whether the medicine on that top
shelf was rightly mixed 1 say there
were too many drops OF laudanum in
1t and this other man says there are too
many drops of campfire, and we must
get this question settled before we can
attend to the railroad accident" And
one doctor takes another doctor by the
collar and pushes him back against the
counter, and one of the druggists says:
eff you will not admit that 1 am right
about that one bottle, will smash
every bottle in your apOthecary store,
and he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile,
on the lower shelf, plainly marked and
within easy reach, are all the medicines
needed for the helping OF the sufferers
by the accident, and in that drawer,
easily opened, are bandages and splints,
for the lack of which fifty people are
dying outside the drug store.
Before apply this thought every one
sees its application. Here is this world
and it is off track. Sin and sorrow
have cOllided with it. The grOan of
agony is fourteen hundred million
voiced God has opened for relief and
cure a great sanitarium, a great house
of mercy and all its shelves are filed
with balsams, with cathOlicOns, with
help, glorious help, tremendous help,
so easily administered that you need
M Efay-lndHaV- tn raaCD
it You can reach it on your knees
and then hand it to all the suffering and
the SHINING and the dying. Comfort
for all the troubled Pardon for all the
guilty! Peace for all the dying! But
while the world is needing the relief
and perishing for lack of it, what of the
church? Why, it is full of fighting doc
tors. On the top shelf are some old
bottles which several hundred years
ago Calvin or Arminius, or the mem
bers of the synod of bort, or the franz
ers of the Nicene creed filed with holy
mixtures, and until we get a revision
of these old bottles and find out
whether we must take a teaspOonful or
tablespoonful, and whether before or
after meals, let the nations suffer and
groan and die. Save the bottles by all
means, if you cannot save anything else!
Now, what part shall you and I take
in this controversy which fills all
Christendom with c1angOr? My advice
is: Take no part In time of riot all
mayors of cities advise good citizens TO
stay at home or in their places of bust
ness and in this time of religious riot
advise you to go about your regular
work for God. Leave the bottles on
the higher shelves for others to fight
about and take the two bottles on the
shelf within easy reach, the two bottles
which all this dying world needs; the
one filed with a portion which is for
the cleaning OF all sin, the other filed
with portion which is for the soothing
of all suffering. The gospel bottles!
Christ mixed them out of his own tears
and blood. In them is no human ad-
mixture. Spend no time on the mystic
ries! You, a man only five or six feet
| high, ought not try to wade an ocean a
thousand feet deep.
Creeds have their uses, but just now
the church is creeded to death. The
young men entering the ministry, are
going to be launched in the thiclzest fog
that ever settled on the coasts. AS
am told that in all our services students
| of Princeton and Union and Drew and
| other theological seminaries are pres
ent and as these words will come to
| thousands of young men who are soon
| to enter the ministry, let me say to
such and through them to their associ-
ates, keep out of the bewildering BELT
ting, destroying and angry controver-
sizes abroad. The questions our doctors
of divinity are trying to settle will not
be settled until the day after the day
of judgment It is such a poor ecOnO-
my of time to spend years and years il
| trying to fathom the unfathomable,
when in five minutes in Heaven we will
know all we want to know. Wait till
| we get our throne. Wait until the light
of eternity flashes upon our newly as
! cended spirits.
| You see, God knew as much when He
made the Bible as He knows now. He
| has not learned a thing in six Thousand
years He knew at the start that the
| human race would go wrong and what
| would be the best means of its restora
| ton and redemption. And the Law
| which was Numbered on Mount Sina
is the perfect law. And the gospe
/ which Christ announced while dying or
| that mount and which Paul preached
is the gospel that is going to save the
| world. Young man, put on that Cos