Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-12

''they shall still bring forth fruit IN OLD
ACE. they shall be fat and hourishing,
to show that the Lord Is upright, He
IL nv rock, and there Is no unrighteous
ness In me-" Come, Isiah, have you any
thing to say out OF your prophecies Tor
these aged people? "Yes," said lsiah,
down TO old age I am with thee, and
to hoary hairs will carry thee"
But | gather all the promises to-day
in group, and ask the shepherds To
drive their focls OF lambs and sheep up
TO the sparkling supply. 'Behold, hap
DIV is the man whom God correcteth.r
Though He cause grief. yet will He
have compassion" ''Many are the at.
Aictions OF the righteous, but the Lord
delivereth him out OF them ALL" Weep
ing may endure for night, but Joy
cometh in the morning" l am de-
termined to-day that no one shall go
away uncontrolled. Yonder Is timid
and shrinking soul who seems to hide
away from the consultations am utter
ing as child with sore hand hides
away from the physician lest he touch
the wound too roughly and the mother
has to 60 and compel the little patient
to come out and see the physician.
So come to your tin i'd and shrink
ing soul to-day and compel you to come
out in the presence OF the Divine Ply
stefan. He will not hurt you. He has
been healing wounds for many years
and He will give you gentle and omnip
otent medicament. But people, when
they have trouble, go anywhere rather
than to God. De Quincy took opium to
get rid OF his troubles. Charles Lamb
took to punch. Theodore Hook took to
something stronger. Edwin Forrest
took to theatrical dissipation. And
men have run all around the earth, hop
ing in the quick transit to get away
from their misfortunes. IL has been a
dead failure. There is only one well
that can slake the thirst OF an afflicted
spirit and that is the deep and mex
haustible we'll OF the gospel.
But some one says in the audience:
Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning | find no alienation for
my troubles" Well, ] am not through
yet. ! have left the most potent con-
sideration for the last. am going to
soothe you with the thought OF heaven.
However talkative We may be, there
will come time when the stoutest and
most emphatic Interrogation will evoke
from us no answer AS soon as we have
closed our lips for the final silence. no
power on earth can break the taciturni-
ty But where, o Christian. will be
your spirit? In a scene OF infinite glad
ness. The spring morning OF heaven
waving its blossoms in the bright air.
Victors fresh from battle SHOWING their
scars. The rain OF earthly sorrow
struck through with the rainbow OF
eternal joy. In one group, God and
angels and the redeemed-Papl and ST.
las. Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah and .Jer-
emiah. Payson and John Milton, Ga
briel and Michael the archangel. Long
line OF choristers reaching across the
hills. Seas OF JOY dashing to the white
beach. Conquerors marching from
gate to gate. You among them.
o, what great flock OF sheep God
will gather around the celestial we'll.
No stone on the wells mouth while the
Shepherd waters the sheep. There ia
cob will recognize Rachel the shepherd
ess. And standing on one side OF the
we'll OF eternal rapture, your children;
anu SItuulHS vi Juc OlhCC oiuS Va shS
we'll OF eternal rapture, your Christian
ancestry, you will be bounded on all
sides by a joy so keen and grand that
no other world hes ever been permitted
to experience it, Out OF that one deep
we'll OF heaven, tho Shepherd will dip
reunion for the bereaved wealth for the
poor, health for the sick, rest for the
weary. And then al the flock OF the
Lords sheep will lie down in the green
pastures. and world without end we
will praise the Lord that on this first
autumnal Sabbath of 1891 we were per-
mitted to study among the bleating
flocks and lowing herds OF this fair
ground the story OF Jacob and Rachel
the shepherdess at the we'll OF Mesopo-
tamia. o, plunge your buckets into
this great gospel we'll and let them
come up dripping with that water OF
which il a man drink he never again
shall thirst.