The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-17

IN all those lands there are muItitudes
Of Christians to-day.
But why go SO far to find evidences
of the Gospels power to save a soul?
I'VE are witnesses" We were 50
proud that no man could have humbled
us; we were so hard that no earthly
power could have melted US; angels Of
God were all around about U.S. they
could not overcome US; but one day,
perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat. or
at Presbyterian catechetical lecture,
or at burial, or on hOrseb back, a power
seized us and made us get down and
made us tremble and made US knesl
and made US cry for mercy, and we
tried TO wrench ourselves away from
the grasp, but we could not It flung
US fat and when we arose we were as
much changed as GOurgis, the heather,
who went into a prayer meeting with a
dagger and a gun to disturb the meet
ing and destroy 1t. but the next day
was found crying: 20! my great sins!
o! my great Saviour" and for eleven
years he preached the Gospel of Christ
to his fellow mOuntaineers, the last
words on his dying lips being Free
grace o! it was free grace!
There is a man who was for ten years
hard drinlcer. The dreadful appetite
had sent down its roots around the pal
ate and the tongue, and on down until
they were interlinked with the vitals
| of body, mind and soul; but he has not
taken any stimulants for two years.
What did that? Not temperance sOcie-
ties. Not prohibition laws Not moral
suasiOn. Conversion did il. why"
said one upon whom the great change
had come, ''sir, I feel just as though 1
were some body else" There are thou
sands of people here to-day who are no
more what they once were than a water
| lily is a night-shade, or a morning lark
| is vulture or day is night
Again, remark that I'VE are wit
nesses" of the Gospels power to com
fort. When a man has trouble the
| world comes in and says: Now get
your mind off this; go out and breathe
| the fresh air; plunge deeper into bust
| ness" What poor advice! Get your
| mind off it! when everything is up
| turned with the bereavement and every
| thing reminds you of what you have
| lost. Get your mind off it! They might
| as we'll advise you to stop thinking,
and you can not stop thinking in that
direction. Take a walk in the fresh
air! Why, along that very street or
that very road she once accompanied
/ you. Out of that grass plot she pluclzed
flowers or into that show window she
looked fascinated, saying Come see
the pictures"
Go deeper into businessl Why, she
was associated with all your business
ambition, and since she has gone you
have no ambition left. o, this is 3
clumsy world when 1t tries to comfort
; a broken heart! I can build a Corliss
engine, and can paint RaPhae1's Ma
DONNA" can play Beethoven
r symphony as easily as this world car
comfort n broken heart. And yet yOJ
2 have been comfOrted. How was i
! done? Did Christ come to you and say
l Get your mind off this, go out anC
breathe the fresh air; plunge deepe
t into business9" No; there was a minut,
l when He came to yOu-perhaps in tn,
watches Of the night, perhaps in you
l place of business, perhaps along tn,
5 street-and He breathed something
, into your soul that gave peace, rest, in
finite quiet, so that you could take on
r the photograph of the departed one an,
l look into the eyes and face of the des
1 | one and say: ITS all right; she is bet
S ter of, I would not call her back; Lord
1 I thank Thee that Thou hast comforte,
my poor heart"
? There are Christian parents here VIII
= are willing to testify to the power o
r this Gospel to comfort. Your son ha.
just graduated from school or cOlleg
I | and was going into business and tn
? ! Lord took him. Or your daughter ha
= just graduated from the young ladies
3 | seminary, and you thought she wa
( going to be a useful woman and of lon
, 144Ss BuS Inc 4TJENA LOOK ASE ana yO
S | were tempted TO say: 'sAll this euItur
t of twenty years for nothing!" Or tn
; little child came home from school wit
t the hot fever that stopped not for tn
t agonized prayer or for the slzillfu1 ply
0 stefan, and the little child was tai<eI
q Or the babe was lifted out of you
g arms by some quick epidemic, and 20
i stood wondering why God ever CAV
d you that child at all, il so soon he Wa
r to take It away. And yet you are nc
repining, you are not fretful. you ar
u not fighting against God What eI
I ab1ed you to stand all the trial? 'FOh,
h you say. ~ took the medicine Go
It gave my sick soul In my distress
It threw myself at the feet of a symp'
Z thizing God; and when I was too vyea
a to pray, or TO look up, he breathed int
e me a peace that I think must be tn
L Foretaste of that Heaven where thel
l. is neither tear nor a farewell nor
e grave"