Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-05

sunset; roles OF mist on the mountains
and the Grand March" OF God In the
storm.
But for tho soul still higher adaptar
ton; fountain In which IL may wash;
ladder by which 1t n ny climb; song
Oi endless triumph that It may sing; .
crown Of unfading light that 1t may
wear. Christ came 70 save it-came
with cross on his back; came with
spikes In his feet; came when no one
else would come. to do q work which
no one else would do. See how suited
to mans condition Is what God has done
for him. Man Is sinner: here Is par
don. He has lost Gods image; Christ
retraces II. He Is helpless; Almighty
grace Is proifered. He Is lost wan
derer; Jesus brings him home. He 10
blind. aud NJ one touch OF Him who
cured Bartimeus, eternal glories stream
| intohis soul
Jesus, / sing thy grace! Cure OF
worst disease! Hammer to smite on
heaviest chain! Light for thickest dark
ness. Grace divine! Devils soon at 1t,
and men REJECT 1t, but heaven celebrat-
es II!
wish you good cheer for the national
health. Pestilence, that In other years
has come to drive out its thousand
hearses to Greenwood and Laurel hill,
has not visited our nation. 1t is o
glorious thing to be well. How strange
that we should keep our health when
one breath from marsh or the falling
OF tree branch might fatally assault
our life. Regularly the lungs work
and their motion seems to be spirit
within us painting after its immortality.
Our sight fails not, though the air Is so
full OF objects which by one touch could
break out the souls window. What snip
after years tossing on the sea, could
come in with so little damage as our
selves, though we arrive after q years
voyage to-day?
wish you good cheer for the nation
nj harvest. Reaping machines never
swathed thicker rye, and cornhusker'e
peg never ripped out fuller ear, and
NOW poles never bent down under sweet
err hay, and windmill's hopper never
shook out larger wheat. Long trains
OF white covered wagons have brought
the wealth down to the great thorough
fares The gamers are full, the store
houses are overcrowded, the canals are
blocked with freights pressing down
the markets. The cars rumble all
through the darkness and whistle up
the flagman at dead OF night to lot tine
western harvests come down to feed the
mouths OF the great cities. A race OF
kings has taken possession OF this lano
king Cotton. King Corn, King
Wheat, King Rice, King Grass, King
Coal. :,
wish you good cheer for civil and
religious liberty. No official spy
watches our entrance here, nor does an
armed soldier interfere with the honest
utterance Of truth. We stand here to.
day with our arms free to work, and
our tongues free to speak. This Bible
lit is all uuclasped. This pulpit
there is no chair around about 1t. There
is the swapping OF musketry In the
street. Blessed be God that to dav we
are free men, with the prospect and de-
termination OF always being free. NO
established religion: Jew and Gentile--
Arminian and Observation-Disclosures
and Protestant and Roman
Catholic on the same footing.
II persecution should come against
the most unpopular OF all the sects,l be-
lieve that all denominations would band
together and arm themselves, and
hearts would be stout and blood would
he free, and the right OF men to worship
God according to the dictates OF their
consciences would Do contested at the
point OF the bayonet and with blood
flowing up to bits OF the horses brides:
For mercies temporal and spiritual
let conescrated lives be offered.
Wherever Gods light shines and Gods
rain descends and Gods mercy broods,
let the Thanksgiving arise!