Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-17

nothing and VIII give me great happf-
ness. OF course you will not deuy me.
want you, as an experiment, TO try tne
Christian religion. II 1t does not stand
the test, discard it; II 1t does, receive IL;
II YOU were very sick, and you had
been given up OF the doctors, and came
TO YOU and took bottle OF medicine
from my pocket and said: Here Is
medicine am sure will help you; II mas
cured fifty people" you would say: 20,
II haven't any confidence in 1t; they tell
me all those medicines will fail me-"
"Well," say, twill you not as matter
Of accommodation TO myself, just try it?"
''Well," YOU say, II have no objection to
irving 1t; II it will be any satisfaction TO
YOU will try it." You take 1t. Now
YOU are sick in disquietude, sick In sin.
You are not happy. You laugh some
times when YOU are miserable. There
come surges of unhappiness over your
soul that almost swamp you. You are
unhappy; struck through with unrest.
Now will you not try this solace, this
febrifuge, this anodyne, this gospel
medicine? 90" you say, Il haven't
any faith in it." As matter OF accom-
mediation let me introduce you to the
Lord Jesus Christ, the great physician.
'Why," you say, II haven't any faith in
Him. Well, now, will you not just let
Him come and try His power on your
soul? Just let me introduce Him to you.
I do not ask you to take my word for it.
I do not ask you to take the advice OF
lclergymen. Perhaps the clergymen
may be prejudiced; perhaps we may be
speaking professionally; perhaps we may
give YOU wrong advice; perhaps we are
morbid on that subject, so do not ask
YOU to take the advice of clergymen.
APPEALING TO THE sKEPTICAL.
ask YOU to take the advice Of very
respectable laymen such as William
shakespeare, the dramatist, as Will
liam Wilberforce the statesman, as
Isaac Newton Gthe astronomer, as Rob
ert Boyle the philosopher, as Locke
the metaphysician, as Morse the cleo
Itrician. These men never preached
they never pretended to preach but
they came out, and putting down, one
his telescope and another the cleo
trician's wire, and another the parlia-
mentarian scroll-they come out and
Tcommend Christ as comfort to all the
people, A christ that the world needs.
Now I do not ask you to take the advice
of clergymen. Take the advice OF these
Ilaymen. 1t does not make any differ
ence to me at this juncture how you
may have caricatured religion. Take
the advice of men whom have men
toned, and others who Immediately
occur to lnSur mind. You see do not
scott at skepticism. never scoffOd at
skepticism. / had O good reason Tor
not sccffing. / have been a natural
skeptic. do not know what the first
word was that / uttaraa after entering
this world, but think 1t must have
been "why?" There we're times when l
doubted the existence Of God, when I
doubted the divinity ofsC Christ, when I
doubted the immortality of the soul,
when I doubted my own existence, when
/ doubted everything. / have been
through the whole curriculum Of doubk
and you can tell me nothing new about
lit. have come out from great Sahara
desert into the calm, warm, sunshiny
land of the gospel. l know about the
Iother land. / have been there. You
can tell me nothing new about It, and |
know all about the other condition OF
which you do not know anything-the
peace, the comfort, the joy, the tri-
umph of trusting in God and in Jesus
Christ, whom He has sent. Sol am
not scoffing in regard to it.
There are some things believe that
YOU do not, but there are some things
that believe and you do believe. You
believe in love-a fathers love, moth
er's love, q wife's love, q child's love.
Now, let me tell you, God loves you
more than all OF them together and you
must come in, you will come in. Christ
looks in all tenderness, with the infinite
tenderness of the Gospel, into your soul
and He says, ''This is your time for
Heaven" and then He waves His hand
to the people OF God and He says, "Oth-
er sheep have / which are not OF this
fold"
NO LIMIT TO CHRIST's MERCY.
Again remark, the Heavenly Shop
herd is going to get many OF His sheep
among those who have been flung Of evil
habit. It outrages me to see how soon
Christian people give up the prodigal.
u hear Christian people talk as though
they thought the grace Of God were a
chain of forty or fifty links and when
they had run out then there was nothing
to touch the depth Of q mans iniquity.
| II man were out hunting for deer, and
got off track Of the deer, he would hunt
amid the bushes and the brakes longer
for the lost game than he will look for
lost soul.
They say If q man has had the deliri-
UNI tremens twice he can not be cured.
They say If woman has fallen from
integrity she can not be redeemed. All
of which is an infinite slander on the
gospelof the Son OF God. Men who say
that know nothing about practical re-
ligion in their own hearts. How many
times will God take back man who has
fallen? Well, / can not give you the
exact figures, but can tell you at what