Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-16

rom his horrible dissipation! III was
that one verse: Put We on the Lord Je-
,us Christ, and make no provision for
The flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof"
Do you know what 1t was that saved
Hedley Wears, the celebrated soldier!
Il was the one passage: "Believe In the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" Do you know what 1t was that
brought Jonathan Edwards to Christ!
II was the one passage: Nov unto
Him be glory forever and ever"
Then 60 on and tell you the church
is ready. There are those here who
say: mo one cares for my soul" We
do care for it. You see man bowling
his head in prayer and you saw THAT
man is Indifferent That man bows
his head in prayer that the truth may,
go to every heart. The air Is full OF
prayers. They are going up this morn.
ing from this assembly. Hundreds OF
PRAYERS straight to the throne OF
listening God. The air is full OF pray
ers-prayers ascending noon by noon
from Fulton street prayer meeting, Fri
day night by Friday night all over this
land, going up from praying circles.
Yea, there is not a minute OF an hour oil
any day that there are not supplicatl0ns
ascending to the throne of mercy. The
church is ready. And II you should
this morning start for your Fathers
house, there would be hundreds and
thousands in the assemblage who would
say IL they knew it: MAKE room for
that man, make room for him at the
holy sacrement; bring the silver bowl
for his baptism; give him full right to
all the privileges OF the church oil Jesus
Christ
O.Iknow there are those who say
the church is Il mass Of hypocrites, but
they really do not think 80. 1t is q
glorious church. Christ purchased it.
Christ built it. Christ swung all its
gates. Christ curtained it with up
holstery, crimsoned with cruciiixion
carnage. Come into it. Come into it.
do not pick out this man or that man
and say: You may come" | say all
may come-whosoeve will. Come
with us and we will do you good. The
Lord hath promised good concerning
israel"
u
chosen and u ade peculiar ground.
A little plot enclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild wilderness.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. invite you now 10 the Kings
feast. All! All. But go further and
tell you that the angels are ready.
Some people think when we speak
about angels we are getting into the
region OF fancy. They say lis very
well for man when he has just entered
the ministery to preach about the an
gels of heaven. but after he has gone on
further it is hardly worth while.
Yes. go further and say that your
glorious Kindred are ready. have not
any sympathy with modern spiritualism.
| believe it is born in perdition.
But the bible distinctly teaches that
the glorified in heaven are in sympathy
with our redemption. There is JOY in
heaven among the angels OF God over
one sinner that repenteth, and II the
angels hear it, do not our departed
kindred there hear it? There are those
there who toiled for your salvation, and
when they babe you goodby in the last
hour. and they said, ''Meet me in
heaven" there was lowering over the
pillow the awful possibility that you
might not meet.
Now, my friends, If Christ is ready,
and the Holy Ghost is ready, and the
church is ready. and the angels OF God
are ready, and your glorified kindred are
ready, are you ready? | give with al
the emphasis of my soul the question
1.Are YOU ready" If you DO NOT gel
into the Kings feast it will be because
YOU do not accept the earnest invita-
ton. Arm stretched out soaked with
blood from elbow to fingertip, lips quiv'
ering in mortal anguish. two eyes beaEl
ing everlasting love while he says
''Come, come, come, Tor all things are
now ready"
Old man, God has been waiting fol
thee long years. Would that some
tear of repentance might trickle down
the wrinkled cheek. Has not Christ
done enough in feeding thee and cloth
inc thee all these years to win from
thee one word OF gratitude? Come
all the young. Christ is The fairest o.
the fair. Wait not till thy heart gets
hard. Come, the furthest away iron
Christ. Drunkard, Christ can put ouI
the fire of that thirst. He can restore
thy broken home. He can break thai
shackle. Come now, to-day, and gel
his pardon and his strength. Liher
tine. Christ !.:new where you were last
night. He knows all the story of thy
sin. Come to him this day. He will
wash away thy sin and he will throw
around thee the robe of His pardon
; Harlot, thy feet foul with hell, thy
laughter the horror OF the street, o Mary
Magdalen! Christ waits for thee. And the
one further of, further than have
mentioned, a case not so hopeful as any
| have mentioned, self-righteous man,
feeling thyself all right, having no need
of Christ, no need OF pardon, no need Of
help-O, self-righteous man! does thou
think in those rags thou canst enter the
feast? Thou canst not. Gods servant
at the gate would tear off thy robe and
leave thee naked at the gate. o, self
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