Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-02

enough for Thee. o. come IN ana Jake
the best seat here. Walk up and down
ali these aisles. Speak through these
organ pipes. Throw Thine arm over
ms in these arches. o King, make this
Tkine audience chamber. Here pro-
claim righteousness and make treaties
we clap our hands, VIC uncover our
heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry Win
multitudinous reclamation until the
place rings and the heavens listen: 20
King. live forever"
Still further You mean by these stones
the salvation OF the people. We did
not build this church for mere worthy
reforms or for an educational institu-
ton. or as q platform on which to read
ESSAYS and philosophical disquisitions,.
hut place for the tremendous work OF
soul saving. o, | had rather be the
means in this church OF having one soul
prepared for joyful eternity than 5,OOO
souls prepared for mere worldly success.
All churches are in two classes, all COM
muuities in two classes, all the race In
two classes-believers and unbelievers.
To augment the number OF the one and
subtract from the number OF the
other we built this church: and toward
that supreme and eternal idea we dedi,
cate all our sermons. all our songs. all
our PRAYERS, all our Sabbath handshad-
ings. We want 10 throw detection
into the enemy's ranks. We want to
make them either surrender uncondi-
tional v TO Christ or else fly in rout.
We want to popularize Christ. We
would like to tell the story OF his love
here until men would feel that they had
rather die than live another hour with
! out his svmyathy and love and mercy.
We want TO rouse up an enthusiasm LOT
: him greater than was felt Tor Nathaniel
LYON when he rode along the ranks
! than was exhibited for Wellington
when he came back from Waterloo
greater than was expressed for Napo-
leon when he stepped ashore from Alba
We really believe in this place Christ
will enact the same scenes that were
enacted by him when he landed in the
Orient: and there will be such an OPEN
ing of blind ewes, and unstopping OF
deaf ears and casting out OF UNI
clean spirits-such silencing bestormed
Cennesarts as shall make the house
memorable after you and / are dead and
forgotten. O, my friends, we want but
one revival in this church, that begin
ming now and running on TO the day
when the chisel of time, that brings
down even st. Paul's and the Pyramids,
shall bring this house into the dust.
Oh that this day of dedication might
be the day of emancipation OF all i'm
prisoned souls. My friends, do not
make the blunder of the ship carpen-
ters in Noahs time. who helped TO
build the ark, but did not get into it.
God forbid that YOU who have been SO
generous in building this church should
not get under its influence. Come
thou and all thy house into the ark. "
Do YOU think man is safe out OF
Christ? Notone day, not one hour. not
one minute, not one second. Three OF
four years ago. YOU remember, a train
broke down bridge on the way to Al
bany. and after the catastrophe they
we're looking around among the tim
bers of the crushed bridge and the fall
len train and found the conductor He
was dying and had only strength to say
one thing, and that was: Hoist the
FLAG for the next train Sothere come
to us tonight, and from the eternal
word. voices OF God. voices OF angels,
voices Of departed spirits, crying:
lift the warning: blow the trumpet;
give the alarm; hoist the flag for the
next train
Oh. that tonight my Lord Jesus
would sweep His arm around this great
audience and take you all TO His holy
heart. You will never see so good Il
time for personal conservation as now
"What mean We by these stones?' We
mean your redemption from sin, and
death, ana hell, by the power OF an ON
nipotert gospel"