Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-17

would read like this: II believe In
nothing, the maker OF heaven and earth,
and In nothing which II hath sent
which nothing was born OF nothing.
and which nothing was dead and buried
and assembled to nothing and now sit
teth at the right hand OF nothing, from
which It will come to judge nothing. ]
believe In the holy agn0stic church and
In the communion OF nothingarians, and
in the forgiveness OF nothing. and the
resurrection OF nothing, and In the life
that shall never be, Amen"
This IL the creed OF tens OF thousands
OF people in this day. II you have o
mind to adopt such theory, will not.
IT believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker OF heaven and earth, and In Je-
sus Christ, and In the holy Catholic
church, and in the communion OF saints,
and in the life everlasting, Amen!" o,
when I see Eleazar taking such a stout
grip OF the sword in the battle against
sin aud for righteousness, come to tho
conclusion that we ought to take stout
er grip OF Gods eternal truth, the swodr
OF Righteousness.
o, it is not strange that with the mu-
sic OF the gospel OF Jesus Christ and
with this grand murch OF the church
militant on the way to become the
church triumphant, we cannot forget
ourselves and forget all pang and all
sorrow and all persecution and all per-
turbation. We know what men accom-
plish under worldly opposition. Men
do not shrink back for antagonism or
for hardship. You have admired Pres
colts Conquest OF Mexico" as brill
liant and beautiful history as was
ever written, but some OF you may not
know under what disadvantages 1t was
written-that Conquest OF Mexico
for Prescott was totally blind, and he
had two pieces OF wood parallel to each
other fastened, and, totally blind, with
his pen between those pieces OF wood
he wrote, the stroke against one piece
Of wood telling how far the pen must
60 in one way, the stroke against the
other piece OF wood tell how far the pen
must go in the other way.
o, how mu b men will endure for
worldly knowledge and for worldly sue
cess, and yet how little we endure for
Jesus Christ. How many Christians
there are that go around saying, 10 my
hand, my hand, my hurt hand, and
there is blood on the sword?" while
Eleazar. with the hilt imbedded in the
flesh of his right hand, does not know
IL.
Must he carried TO the skies
On fiow-ry beds Of ease.
While others fought to win the prize
Or sailed through bloody seas!
Then they were dashed down to
death. o, how much others have en-
dured for Christ, and how little we
endure for Christ. We want to ride to
heaven in a Pullman sleeping car. our
feet on soft plush. the bed made up
early so we can sleep all the way. the
black porter OF death to wake Il, up
only in time to enter the golden city.
We want all the surgeons to fix our
hand up. Let them bring on all the
lint, and all the bandages, and all the
salve, for our hand hurt, while Eleazar
does not know his hand Is hurt. His
hand clave unto the sword"
AS / look at Eleazar's hand / come to
the conclusion that he has done great
deal of hard hitting. am not surprised
when l see that these four men-Elea-
Ear and his three companions-drove
back the army OF Philistines, that Flea
zar's sword clave to his hand, for every
time he struck an enemy with one end
Of the sword the other end OF the sword
wounded him. When he took hold OF
the sword the sword took hold OF him.
o, we have found an enemy that can
not be conquered by rosewater and soft
speeches. 1t must be sharp strokes and
straight thrusts. There Is intemper-
ance and there is fraud and there is
gambling and there is lust and there
are ten Thousand batalions of lniquity,
armed Philistine iniquity. How are
they to be captured and Overthrown?
Soft sermons in morocco cases laid
down in front OF an exquisite audience
will not do it. You have got to call
things by their right names.
We have got to expel from our church
es Christians who eat the sacrament on
Sunday and devOur widows houses all
the week. We have got to stop our in
dignatiOn against the Hittites and the
Jebusites and the Gergishites, and let
those poor wretches go, and apply our
Indignation to the modern transgres-
siOns which need to be dragged out and
slain. Ahabs here. HerOlds here.
Jezebels here. The massacre OF the in
fants here. Strike for God SO hard that
while you slay the sin the sword will
adhere to your own hand. l tell you,
my friend, we want few John Knoxes
and John Wesleys in the Christian
church to-day. The whole tendency is
TO refine on Christian work. We keep
on refining on II until we send apologet-
ic word to iniquity we are about to cap
ture it. And we must 60 with sword
silver chased and presented by the la
dies, and we must ride on white palfrey
under embroidered housing, putting the
spurs in only just enough to make the
charger dance gracefully, and then we
must send missive, delicate as a we'd
ding card, to ask the old black giant OF
sin II he will not surrender.
had in my parish in Philadelphia q
very a0ed man. who in his early life