Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-14
REV. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Fourth Discourse on HIS
Recent Trip.
Promises for Egypt Under tho Influences
Of Chrlstianity--the Grecian Archi-
pelago Eternal Happiness for
True Believers.


morning to hear the fourth sermon VI
the present series. The doctor LOOK
two texts: Acts XXI 3, when we hau
discovered Cyprus we left 1t on the ie''
hand;" and Revelation |, 0, IL 'ohn;
was in the isle that Is called PatmoS'
Goodbye, Egypt. Although inter-
esting and instructive beyond any
country in all the world, excepting the
Holy Land, Egypt was to me somewhat
depressing. 1t was a post mortem eN-
animation OF cities that died 1000 years
ago.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
glow OF life. The Bible promises IL.
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great DR.. Lansing, are sounding q
resurrection trumpet above those slain
empires. There will be some other Jo-
seph at Memphis. There will be some
other Moses on the banks OF the Nile
There will be some other Hypatia to
teach good morals to the degraded.
Instead OF destroying angel to stay
the first born OF Egypt, the Angel OF
the New Testament will shake ever
lasting life from his wings over q ma
ton born in q day. When, soon after
my arrival in Egypt, I took part In the
solemn and tender obsequies OF mis-
sionary from our own land. dying there
far away from the sepulchres OF her
fathers, and l saw around her the dusky
and weeping congregation OF those
whom she had come to save, SAID 10
myself: "Here is self sacrifice OF no.
Bile type. Here Is heroism immortal.
Here is queen unto God forever.
Here is that which thrills the heavens;
Here is a specimen Of that which will
vet save the world"
Goodbye, Egypt! This sermon finds
US on the steamer Minerva in the Gre
clan Archipelago, the Islands OF the New
Testament. and islands Paulinian and
Johannian in their Renaissance. What
Bradshaw's directory Is to travellers in
Europe, and what the railroad guide is
to travellers in America, the book OF
the Acts in the Bible is to voyagers In
the Grecian, or as shall call 1t, the
Gospel Archipelago. The Bible geog-
raphy OF that region is accurate with
out shadow OF mistake. We are sail
ing this morning on the same waters
that Paul sailed. but in the opposite
direction to that which Paul voyaged.
He was sailing southwark and we north
ward. With him it was: Ephesus,
Coos, Rhodes. Cyprus. With us 1t is
reversed and it is: Cyprus, Rhodes,
Coos, Ephesus. There is no book in
the world SO accurate as the divine
book. My text says that Paul left
Cyprus on the left. We, going in the
opposite direction, have it on the right.
On our ship Minerva were only two
or three passengers beside our party, so
we had plenty of room to walk the deck,
and o, what night was Christmas
night Of 1889 in the Grecian archipela-
gO-islands OF light above, islands OF
beauty beneath!
The steamer had stopped during the
night and in the morning the ship was
as Quiet rs this floor when We fastened
I'D TO deck and found that we had an
chored of the island OF Cyprus. In q
boat, which the natives rowed standing
I'M. as Is the custom, instead OF sitting
down as when we row, we were soon
landed in the streets where Paul and
Barnahus walked and preached. Yea,
when at Antioch Paul and Barnabas got
into q fght-as ministers sometimes
did, and sometimes do, tor they all have
imperfections enough to anchor them
to this world till their work Is done, l
say-when because OF that bitter con-
troversy Paul and Barnrbas parted,
Barnabas came back here to Cyprus,
which was his birthplace. Island won
derful for history 1t has been the
prize sometimes won by Persia, by
Greece, by Egypt, by the Saracens, by
the Crusaders, and last OF all, not by
sword but by pen, and that the pen OF
the keenest diplomatist Of the century,
Lork Beaconsfield, who under lease
which was good as purchase, set Cy-
prus among the jewels OF Victorla's
crown.
WHY Is the world 80 stupid that 1t
can not see that nations are prosepred
in temporal things In proportion as they
are prospered in religious things. God
illness is profitable not only for individ-
uals, but for nations. Questions OF tar
i'll, questions OF silver bill, questions Of
republic or monarchy have not so much
to do with nations temporal welfare
as questions of religion. Give Cyprus
to Christ give England to Christ, give
America to Christ, give the world to
Christ, and he will give them all apros-
perity unlimited. Why Is Brooklyn
one Of the queen cities Of the earth?
Because it is the queen city OF churches.
Blindfold me and lead me into any city
OF the earth 80 that I cannot see street
or q warehouse or home and then lead
me into the churches and then remove
the bandage from my eyes and / will
tell you from what see inside the con-
secrated walls, having seen nothing
outside, what Is that city's merchandise,
its literature, its schools, its printing
presses, its government, Its homes, Its
arts, its sciences, Its prosperity, or its
and