Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-11

Here is Miriam, leading the Israelitish
orchestra on the banks Of the Red Sea
Here is motherly Hannah, with her
own loving hand replenishing the ward
robe OF her son Samuel, the prophet.
Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot o.
the mountain until the 400 wrathful
men, ut the sight OF her beauty and
prowess halt, halt-a hurricane stopped
at the sight OF water lily, dewdr0p
dashing back Niagara. Here is Ruth,
putting TO shame all the modern slang
about mothers-in-law as she turns her
back on her home and her country, and
faces wild beasts and exile and death,
that she may be with Naomi, her hus-
bands mother. Ruth, the queen oil the
harvest fields. Ruth, the grandmother
OF David. Ruth, the ancestress OF Jesus
Christ. The story Of her virtues and
her life sacraiice the most beautiful pas
toral ever written. Here is Vashti, de-
fying the bacchanal of 1000 drunken
lords, and Esther, willing to throw her
life way that she may deliver her peo-
pie. And here is Dorcas. the sunlight
Of eternal fame, gliding her philan-
thropic needle, and the woman with
perfime in IL box made from the hills OF
Alabastron. pouring the holy chrism on
the head OF Christ, the aroma lingering
all down the corridor OF the centuries.
Here is Lydia, the merchantess OF
Tyrian purple, immortalized for her
Christian behavior
Since you put the Bible on the stand
in the sitting room, has the Bible been
to YOU. o woman, curse or blessing!
| Why is it that woman when she is
troubled will 20 to her worst enemy,
the Bible? Why do you not go to some
of the great infidel books, SpinOza's eth
les or Hume's natural history of relig-
ion, or Paine's age OF reason, or Dedre's
dramas, or any OF the 26O volumes OF
Voltaire? So, the silly. deluded wo-
man persists in hanging about the Bible
verses, Let not your heart be troub-
led" "All things work together for
good" Weeping may endure for a
night" II am the resurrection,
peace, be still"
There stands Christianity. There
stands infidelity. Compare what they
have done. Compare their resources.
There is Christianity, prayer on her
lip: benediction on her brow: both
hands full OF help for all who want help;
the mother of thousands of colleges; the
mother of thousands OF asylums Tor the
oppressed. the blind. the sick. the lame,
the imbecile: the mother OF missions for
the bringing back of the outcast; the
mother of thousands Of reformatory in
situations for the saving of the lost: the
mother of innumerable Sabbath schools
bringing millions OF children under a
drill to prepare them for responsibility
and usefulness. 70 say nothing of the
great future. That is Christianity.
Here is infdelity; no prayer on her
Inns. no henediction on her brow, both
hands clenched-what for? To fight
Christianity. That is the entire bust
ness. The complete mission OF lntideli-
ty to fight Christianity. Where are
her schools, her colleges, her asylums
OF mercy.
Get out, you miserable pauper OF the
universe! Crawl into some rat hole o,
everlasting nothingness. Infidelity
standing to-day amid the suffering,
grooming, dying nations and yet doing
absolutely nothing, save trying to i'm
pede those who are toiling until they
fall exhausted into their graves in try
ing to make the world better Gather
up all the work, all the merciful work,
that infdelity has ever done, add 1t all
together. and there is not so much no
bility in it as in the smallest head of
that sister of charity who last night
went up the dark alley OF the town, put
a jar OF jelly for an invalid appetite on
broken stand. and then knelt in the
bare floor. praying the mercy OF Christ
on the dying soul.
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, bakes no bread for the hun
CRY, shakes up no pillow for the sick,
rouses 10 comfort for the bereft, gilds
no grave for the dead. While Christ, |
our Christ, our wounded Christ. our
risen Christ, the Christ OF this old FASH
Toned Bible-blessed be his glorious |
name forever! our Christ stands this |
hour pointing to the hospital, or to the
asylum, saying: II was sick and We |
gave me couch, was lame and We
gave me crutch, was blind and We
physicianed my eyesight, 1 was or
phaned and We mothered my soul, was
lost on the mountains and We brought |
me home: inasmuch as We did it to one
OF the least OF these, We did it to me-"
But thank God that this plague OF
inldelity will be stayed. Many OF those
who hear me now by the Holy Ghost up
on their hearts will cease to be scoffers
and will become diciples, and the day
will arrive when all nations will accept
the scriptures. The book is going to
keep right on until the fires OF the last
day are kindled. some of them will be-
gin on one side and some OF them on the
other side OF the old book. They will
not find bundle OF loose manuscripts
easily consumed like finder thrown in
to the fire. When the fires OF the last
day are kindled, some will burn on this
side, from Genisis toward Revelations,
and others will burn on this side, from
Revelations toward Genesis, and in all
their way will not find single chapter
or q single verse out OF place. That
will by the first time we can afford 10 do